christianSpaceman

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• Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 hours, 38 minutes

  

  Maybe - or a bic biro?

• EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 23 hours, 6 minutes

  

  i challenge you to find anyone here who wouldn't

  Yes, dodging it is entirely rational. I think the issue is that with this lot it's the subsequent glorification of the event they've dodged.

• Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 day, 2 hours

  

  I remember, a long time ago, a fax arriving in an office I worked in through a phone / photocopier / fax thing.

  It was very exciting, no-one had received one before.

• Guitar Nerds Anonymous

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 day, 22 hours

  

  I've just ordered a ukulele ☹

  I'm thinking of building an electric ukuele after my Les Paul is finished... possibly Explorer shaped...

• Guitar Nerds Anonymous

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 day, 23 hours

  

  Just worth noting that the standard approach of starting off on a nylon-strung classical guitar is a bit questionable.

  I'm sure this is similar to many instruments. When I was at school I quite fancied playing sax (Born to Run inspired I think), but the route to this was through years of clarinet / school orchestra / uninspiring classical stuff which killed my interest eventually.

  I can easily imagine how you could make a fun lesson for a kid with an electric guitar and a few pedals / interesting backing tracks.

• EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days

  

  he can dump the DUP now

  He's going to lose all his seats in Scotland (about 15?), and ten DUPs. They must be very confident about picking up Labour seats in bulk after all this.

• Guitar Nerds Anonymous

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 18 hours

  

  Yep - it's got fairly large chambers.

  The body plus cap was under 5lbs before I smoothed the carve out today, though I don't really know if that's heavy or not to be honest - I should weigh it with the neck and components at some point.

• Guitar Nerds Anonymous

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 4 days, 20 hours

  

  I started the body carve on my Les Paul. I'd promised myself that I wouldn't use any power tools for this step, but the maple is so hard I had to use various sanders in the end!

  With the exception of one nick (bottom right horn) that'll need to be steamed out, it's in good shape.

  This is only the rough carve - it needs a lot of finessing once the binding is fitted, but happy to have got it to here.

• EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 days, 22 hours

  

  Google 'Boris Bridge' there's now not a single returned item...

  £15bn cost, in case you wondered... Or 300ish Garden Bridges.

  https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blo­g/live/2019/sep/12/brexit-latest-news-op­eration-yellowhammer-claims-government-h­as-taken-considerable-steps-to-avert-no-­deal-dangers-in-yellowhammer-live-news?p­age=with:block-5d7a407e8f083106f455a3f6#­block-5d7a407e8f083106f455a3f6

  I wonder where the customs checkpoints would go?

• In the news

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week

  

  I always feel a bit dense suggesting these, like I'm missing something and saying something that's obviously wrong. Using that format, what about:

  1.20.21
  1.21.21
  1.22.21
  1.23.21
  ... etc...