dern wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:31 pm
Tribute bands... there is nothing more tragic.
Years ago we saw a George Michael tribute act. Didnt know he was going to be there, it was just a thing this restaurant did on fridays. Some fat bloke with quiffy hair, a biker jacket and mirrored sunglasses came out and started to sing and sounded nothing like GM. It seemed it was only me that found it side splitingly hilarious as everyone else loved him!
dern wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:31 pm
Tribute bands... there is nothing more tragic.
Years ago we saw a George Michael tribute act. Didnt know he was going to be there, it was just a thing this restaurant did on fridays. Some fat bloke with quiffy hair, a biker jacket and mirrored sunglasses came out and started to sing and sounded nothing like GM. It seemed it was only me that found it side splitingly hilarious as everyone else loved him!
There was a Coldplay tribute act at a campsite my wife booked for us in France a few years back. They managed to be just as insipid and banal as the real thing. Completely baffling.
Pretty sure gremlin mentioned this last year and I'm pretty sure I did too, but...
Those little bastard caterpillars who eat all your box hedge! Just given my front garden it's annual spring haircut. I know the lavender will be in rude health by summer and my front path will be Beethrow airport....but the lovely backdrop, which was just getting to perfect topiary stage, is now a display of sticks.
Bloody immigrants, coming over here and eating my foliage. Its enough to make you vote Brexit.
Noggin wrote: ↑Sat Feb 18, 2023 5:43 pm
I'm teaching myself to drink coffee (in certain places) here, but now also trying to teach myself to drink said coffee without sugar
But I do miss a good cup of tea, but since I got back from rehab in July, I've had about 2 mugs of Yorkshire - it just doesn't taste the same anymore
Tea does have more caffine than coffee, but only by weight raw, not by cup !
Noggin wrote: ↑Wed Mar 08, 2023 7:42 pm
Probably getting done for proper speeding this morning
Totally my own fault. I know the camera is there and that the limit in the tunnel is 70kph
I got distracted. Was probably too tired to be driving anyway TBH, but I was driving to a course and had left resort at 5.45am - just before the tunnel I realised the was not much fuel in the minibus, so I was trying to find the bit of the display that gives an idea of how far the fuel will take me and then trying to work out the next possible quick pit stop point. As I realised I was doing 90kph, I also realised I had gone past the camera.
The only small hope I have is that I didn't see a flash. And that one is proper bright (probably cos its in a tunnel!!!) so I'm certain sure that I would have noticed the flash in the wing mirror. But I won't be sure for a few weeks
Stupid bloody woman!! Mind, at that speed, they'll do everything they can to help me exchange my licence
If it;s the one just outside Moutiers? Then you will not nessaceralily see the flash, I know this, because of..... reasons
Damn
It's the one in the tunnel. I do normally see the flash when other people set it off but hey ho.
Also, the camera just before Albertville and a couple of others were stickered or spray painted around that time, so I'll still keep my fingers crossed!! LOL But I'm resigned to the fact that I'm gonna lose some points
Life is for living. Buy the shoes. Eat the cake. Ride the bikes. Just, ride the bikes!!
Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:57 pm
Pretty sure gremlin mentioned this last year and I'm pretty sure I did too, but...
Those little bastard caterpillars who eat all your box hedge! Just given my front garden it's annual spring haircut. I know the lavender will be in rude health by summer and my front path will be Beethrow airport....but the lovely backdrop, which was just getting to perfect topiary stage, is now a display of sticks.
Bloody immigrants, coming over here and eating my foliage. Its enough to make you vote Brexit.
Talking of hedges I'm fed up with my bamboo. It was meant to form a hedge at the back but two years on the trot it's died back at the end of winter, I'll be buying some laurel then.
dern wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:31 pm
Tribute bands... there is nothing more tragic.
Years ago we saw a George Michael tribute act. Didnt know he was going to be there, it was just a thing this restaurant did on fridays. Some fat bloke with quiffy hair, a biker jacket and mirrored sunglasses came out and started to sing and sounded nothing like GM. It seemed it was only me that found it side splitingly hilarious as everyone else loved him!
dern wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:31 pm
Tribute bands... there is nothing more tragic.
Years ago we saw a George Michael tribute act. Didnt know he was going to be there, it was just a thing this restaurant did on fridays. Some fat bloke with quiffy hair, a biker jacket and mirrored sunglasses came out and started to sing and sounded nothing like GM. It seemed it was only me that found it side splitingly hilarious as everyone else loved him!
There was a Coldplay tribute act at a campsite my wife booked for us in France a few years back. They managed to be just as insipid and banal as the real thing. Completely baffling.
Coldplay in any form is best avoided! Chris Martin is as bad a live singer as Bowie, and that's bad, double bad!
Years ago we saw a George Michael tribute act. Didnt know he was going to be there, it was just a thing this restaurant did on fridays. Some fat bloke with quiffy hair, a biker jacket and mirrored sunglasses came out and started to sing and sounded nothing like GM. It seemed it was only me that found it side splitingly hilarious as everyone else loved him!
There was a Coldplay tribute act at a campsite my wife booked for us in France a few years back. They managed to be just as insipid and banal as the real thing. Completely baffling.
Coldplay in any form is best avoided! Chris Martin is as bad a live singer as Bowie, and that's bad, double bad!
I read that last sentence as Cosplay, that's probably best avoided too.
There was a Coldplay tribute act at a campsite my wife booked for us in France a few years back. They managed to be just as insipid and banal as the real thing. Completely baffling.
Coldplay in any form is best avoided! Chris Martin is as bad a live singer as Bowie, and that's bad, double bad!
I read that last sentence as Cosplay, that's probably best avoided too.
dern wrote: ↑Sat Mar 18, 2023 11:31 pm
Tribute bands... there is nothing more tragic.
We have two SoCal Pink Floyd tribute bands. Which Ones Pink is so close to the original you can't tell the difference (at times there are 10 or 11 people on stage), altho they do have a bass player who can actually sing, unlike that miserable fuck Waters.
The other is The Gilmour Project (4 piece outfit)who apparently have never ever listened to Pink Floyd. I had free tickets to see them a recently & walked out as soon as I finished my drink.
Not one of them could sing a fucking note, couldn't play the music, the keyboard player had the facial hair AND wardrobe of a bloody garden gnome (I really wish I had got a pic, it was hilarious). They didn't know the lyrics, would often just repeat the bits they did know & if someone had burst in to commit a mass shooting it would have improved the evening.
Little % bar charts telling you how much longer you will need to wait for an update to do it's stuff,
FFS, why are they so fxxxing useless. I have no idea what they measure (if anything) but it most certainly is not the time until it is done. I have just watched one that leapt from zero to about 30%, stepped up smartly at 5% intervals to 60%, then crawled at 1% intervals to about 80, and then jumped to 100% and stayed there, still thinking about stuff for an age.
Mr. Dazzle wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 2:57 pm
Pretty sure gremlin mentioned this last year and I'm pretty sure I did too, but...
Those little bastard caterpillars who eat all your box hedge! Just given my front garden it's annual spring haircut. I know the lavender will be in rude health by summer and my front path will be Beethrow airport....but the lovely backdrop, which was just getting to perfect topiary stage, is now a display of sticks.
Bloody immigrants, coming over here and eating my foliage. Its enough to make you vote Brexit.
I left mine over the winter and they seem to be sprouting back to life, so there might be hope yet.
Mussels wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 3:24 pm
Talking of hedges I'm fed up with my bamboo. It was meant to form a hedge at the back but two years on the trot it's died back at the end of winter, I'll be buying some laurel then.
Re bamboo, mine (black bamboo and gold bamboo) is looking very unhealthy at present. I suspect it may have been the really hot weather last year. I reckon a good feed and plenty of rain will perk it up over the next few weeks.
Mussels wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 3:24 pm
Talking of hedges I'm fed up with my bamboo. It was meant to form a hedge at the back but two years on the trot it's died back at the end of winter, I'll be buying some laurel then.
Re bamboo, mine (black bamboo and gold bamboo) is looking very unhealthy at present. I suspect it may have been the really hot weather last year. I reckon a good feed and plenty of rain will perk it up over the next few weeks.
Which bamboo have you got?
Some different types but all fast growers in large planters, I suspect some need dividing and repotting. This was intended to screen our garden from the neighbour up the hill so it isn't going to do that very well if it loses its leaves regularly, even without losing leaves it doesn't grow as thick as I'd like for that job.
I'll keep the bamboo but not as a hedge.
Mussels wrote: ↑Sun Mar 19, 2023 3:24 pm
Talking of hedges I'm fed up with my bamboo. It was meant to form a hedge at the back but two years on the trot it's died back at the end of winter, I'll be buying some laurel then.
Re bamboo, mine (black bamboo and gold bamboo) is looking very unhealthy at present. I suspect it may have been the really hot weather last year. I reckon a good feed and plenty of rain will perk it up over the next few weeks.
Which bamboo have you got?
Some different types but all fast growers in large planters, I suspect some need dividing and repotting. This was intended to screen our garden from the neighbour up the hill so it isn't going to do that very well if it loses its leaves regularly, even without losing leaves it doesn't grow as thick as I'd like for that job.
I'll keep the bamboo but not as a hedge.
Really odd. Mine have never shed leaves nor looked as straggly as they do now. I use mine as screening and I can see my neighbour's garden through them now from the upstairs window which I've never been able to before. Like I said, I reckon the weather knocked them a bit and hopefully they'll come back this year.
gremlin wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 12:22 pm
My back. I herniated a disc a few years back. Had a big ol' injection into the back and I fair skipped out of the hospital. However, Captain Age occasionally likes to remind me that I'm not as mendable as I once was.
Today is one of those days. Circuit class this morning, doing 'rockets', which are innocuous enough, when all of a sudden...POP! There she blows. Fucking agony.
Currently sat in my home office having taken ibuprofen and co-codamol, with an ice pack on my lower back. Pain down the front of my left leg, so I know it's impacting the sciatic nerve. Fuck-sticks.
If it gets worse I'm crying off sick and necking a few Tramadol. Away with the fairies for the rest of the afternoon.
Fuck m, I'm in bits with this. Only relief I can get is walking. Sitting is painful, standing is painful, laying in bed is painful. Fuck all sleep, co-codamol has bunged me up and the Tramadol leaves me dribbling.
gremlin wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 12:22 pm
My back. I herniated a disc a few years back. Had a big ol' injection into the back and I fair skipped out of the hospital. However, Captain Age occasionally likes to remind me that I'm not as mendable as I once was.
Today is one of those days. Circuit class this morning, doing 'rockets', which are innocuous enough, when all of a sudden...POP! There she blows. Fucking agony.
Currently sat in my home office having taken ibuprofen and co-codamol, with an ice pack on my lower back. Pain down the front of my left leg, so I know it's impacting the sciatic nerve. Fuck-sticks.
If it gets worse I'm crying off sick and necking a few Tramadol. Away with the fairies for the rest of the afternoon.
Fuck m, I'm in bits with this. Only relief I can get is walking. Sitting is painful, standing is painful, laying in bed is painful. Fuck all sleep, co-codamol has bunged me up and the Tramadol leaves me dribbling.
I feel your pain. Did mine doing a bit of gentle strimming in the garden, a previous damaged bit kicked off and I could have drawn the sciatic nerve on my body 'cos it hurt all the way down to the toes. 2 weeks of no sleep wasn't fun. The only upside was it seemed to blow a fuse in the nerve*, so now, instead of pain I can't feel much at all in that leg and foot The only other plus is that it did ease up after a couple of weeks of doing the exercises the physio gave me.
* The consultant said I'd 'insulted' the nerve. Insulted it? Cursed it with great frequency and volume more like
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gremlin wrote: ↑Fri Mar 17, 2023 12:22 pm
My back. I herniated a disc a few years back. Had a big ol' injection into the back and I fair skipped out of the hospital. However, Captain Age occasionally likes to remind me that I'm not as mendable as I once was.
Today is one of those days. Circuit class this morning, doing 'rockets', which are innocuous enough, when all of a sudden...POP! There she blows. Fucking agony.
Currently sat in my home office having taken ibuprofen and co-codamol, with an ice pack on my lower back. Pain down the front of my left leg, so I know it's impacting the sciatic nerve. Fuck-sticks.
If it gets worse I'm crying off sick and necking a few Tramadol. Away with the fairies for the rest of the afternoon.
Fuck m, I'm in bits with this. Only relief I can get is walking. Sitting is painful, standing is painful, laying in bed is painful. Fuck all sleep, co-codamol has bunged me up and the Tramadol leaves me dribbling.
New bike for you
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Cousin Jack wrote: ↑Mon Mar 20, 2023 9:36 am
Little % bar charts telling you how much longer you will need to wait for an update to do it's stuff,
FFS, why are they so fxxxing useless. I have no idea what they measure (if anything) but it most certainly is not the time until it is done. I have just watched one that leapt from zero to about 30%, stepped up smartly at 5% intervals to 60%, then crawled at 1% intervals to about 80, and then jumped to 100% and stayed there, still thinking about stuff for an age.
I never put these into websites, they're such a shit user-information element, for precisely the reasons you state.
