chrisp65

I don't even feel the need to complete a set by a band. I have the third of the three complete Beatles multi CD boxes. I have no need for the first two. There's a Johnny Cash set of 5 or 6 albums out, I have 1,3 and 5. I have every Jam single, some in multiple formats, but only four of the albums.

Switzerland Good driving, scenery, toblerone. For your favoured temperature, select an altitude. If you drive from UK you can notch up a tick list of 7 or 8 countries without trying too hard.

so the speed selecter, bottom left, operates a lever at 14 which slides the arm 11 up and down so the idler wheel at 1 hits the spindle (silver conne by the 3) at any variable point. The top of the wheel rotates the platter around. The platter weighs an inconceivable amount, maybe 4 or 5 kilos on its own. The solid timber case and electric motor must weigh another 4 or 5 kilos. This is a lump. But mounted on really bouncy springs that self level to an extent. Switched on and rotating, it's absolutely silent. You have to look at it to know it's on.

57% of them probably think its the Foo Fighters

I too got on a tube shortly after the bombings. I flew on a half empty plane shortly after the towers. But I have no faith that the authorities that would be nominally looking after me on a north african holiday would have the ability, desire or wherewithall to genuinely try and protect me. I'm not asking for guarantees, I'm doubting the ability of a north african government to even understand what's needed to competently try and safeguard a north african beach. Go and take a quick look at a map of north africa and tell me you'd be confident people were able to look after you.

well, whilst we're at it, for some reason my parents have taken to calling sandwiches 'sangwiches' they never used to, now they both do it

Well then. Had the interview, offered the job immediately and I accepted haha!!! sucker, now you have to buy us all cakes to celebrate...

something to distract me from my thoroughly gloomy mood spectacularly frustrating day of failed site visits, angry morons and timewasters if I was a drinker, tonight would be a hammering

ok, a few texts later.....and it's mine needs a bit of work, but hey, it's a project it spins and it changes speed - note the speed selecter, it has notches in standard places but is a slider, so you can play at any speed that takes your fancy between low 80's to something less than 16rpm 6 months of pimping my platter ahead!

I only saw the picture of the cover as I scrolled down the page and my brain went NEED THAT

I might......might......have the beginnings of a new turntable tomorrow. I'm off to have a look at one as part of a house clearance! Nothing specially audiophile, just quirky. It looks from the one photo I've seen like it might be a fairly early Lenco idler wheel turntable from about 1970 or so. When they were still made in Switzerland. Not getting my hopes up too much just yet but this might be the pointlessly fussy toy I've been looking for. No belt drive, but a cone shaped spindle so it has totally variable speed from about 80rpm down to about 14rpm. Get some of that original dub going at 14rpm! We'll see....

as a school science project my nipper did blind taste testing of colas Pepsi and Diet Pepsi were top, coke was middling with supermarket brands, Ubuntu was last by a country mile.

My sofa is leather and was £220 from IKEA about 10 years ago. At the current rate of wear, it will out live me.

new Partick Thistle club mascot....

I picked up a bargain bin funk 2 CD set a couple of weeks ago and it has a single solitary James Brown track on, Sex Machine. 7:00am radio 4 news headlines followed by three plays of sex machine gets me from my house to the office car park.

I get the impression that this one could be a bit circular. Many people appear to have guns to prevent the state getting the upper hand over them. The state trying to take these weapons off them, would legitimise keeping them at any cost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=213&v=LFBA3KO0qBc

home now, I can use my own coffee - that tastes of coffee, in a mug that just screams 'class' yeah, local TV is really junk. As far as I can see, our local tv has two programmes there's one programme where two women stand in a kitchen and talk about food the other programme is repeats of some 10 year old driving instructor reality tv crap I have a bad feeling the channel is receiving a grant that if you trace it back, started life as my money

This, but for Red Bull. my theory: if you are drinking monster red bull, then you must be needing to replenish a serious draw on your energy reserves so you must have been having it large so you must be recently back from doing something cool, like a marathon, or a rave, or base jumping, or landing that Hong Kong property deal that is the 'image' of the branding and the message, the modern equivalent of fag advertising whereas, in reality as I drive past the bus stop and see somebody drinking it, I just think 'chav'

never say never

never say never

I wouldn't allow any of those three Nestle products in my house! But free is free. I do find that it means I make a coffee, drink the top of it, then an hour or so later go and tip it away and make another one. I suspect I need the activity of going to make a coffee more than I need the drink.

I can take it or leave it, me. it's mostly about the mug...