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Recently had Raad and Daad by Brouwerij De Molen. In the very fine Friends of Ham in Leeds.
It is, by a long way, the strangest beer I have tasted. Classed as a Sour beer, it certainley is. I likened it to drinking the juice of a pickeld onion jar with the onions eaten. Not undrinkable but close. If I had been drinking it with bread and a nice strong cheese it would have been good.
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A wasp expert walks into a record shop and asks the assistant, “Do you have ‘European Vespidae accoustics’? Volume 2…it was released this week on vinyl?" “Certainly” replies the assistant, somewhat taken aback. Anxious if this a prank or a mistake, he follows it up with: “Would you like to listen to this before you buy it…?” and offers the expert a pair of headphones. The expert puts the headphones on. A minute later, he calls the assistant back. “I am a expert on European wasps and this is not accurate at all! Are you sure this is the correct recording?”. Flustered, the assistant checks the turntable, and relays that it is indeed European Vespidae accoustics (Volume 2) the assistant apologies and lifts the needle onto the next track. Two minutes later and the expert is fuming with rage. storming up to the counter he demands an explanation from the assistant. “This is unforgivable! No European wasp ever made a sound like this. This is false advertising!”. “I am terribly sorry, sir replies the assistant, mortified and motioning for his manager. The Manager arrives and has the expert conveys his concerns regarding the recording. Looking at the turntable, he immediately realises the problem.
“Many apologies sir, it appears we have been playing you the bee side”.
if you had transposed** Vespidae toHymenoptera **it may havebeen funnier. An album of Vespidae wouldn't have a Bee side.
Or maybe not
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Was walking through Tesco's car park at Seacroft. Car pulls up - driver and passenger - passenger gets out and is talking colours and printing and aligning things. The driver looks absolutely bored to tears and has no reaction to the other guys ramblings. This goes on for the 100yds to Tesco's where I did not follow. The first thing I thought of was GL
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Watched Down Terrace last week............excellent very unusual Brighton gangster flick...
....Made for £8000 in the Directors house.......has the Woman who tries to get Alan Partridge
to do the melted choc thing as the Matriarch of the Family....MJust seen this - superb - the menace just creeps up on you.
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the seat post is part of the correct campagnolo mtb gruppo, and the stem is cinelli mtb with integrated cable guide
mtb's of that era usually had a smaller seatpost tube in comparison to the top tube , hence the use of longer seat posts
so, it's pretty much period correct
what would you use then?My brain a bit more before posting, thought I was in porn thread.
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also now worried as have a medical next week for new job which definitely includes a hearing test - they play various frequencies through headphones at increasing volume and you hit a button when you hear it.....
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I suffer from tinnitus, high frequency, high pitched ringing. It is there constantly worse when tired or a bit run down.
I went to the specialist ENT clinic, basically i'm stuck with it, it is how you manage it. Whilst there, though, I had the full hearing test including the one you describe. Despite the tinnitus it is still possible to carry out the test and it may point to the trouble.
Mine showed a loss of hearing in the lower ranges by damage, almost certainly, by working in heavy industry for over 25years.
If it is tinnitus, for your sake I hope not - I wouldn't wish it on anyone, it is all about coming to terms with it and managing it. Tell yourself straight, "i'll never have a quiet moment again". Any time bemoaning the fact is a waste.
The hardest part is the getting to sleep. A little trick, other than alcohol, that I use is rather like counting sheep. Think of waves rolling onto a beach, the noise they make as they break and roll along the sand all the little bubbles bursting and sand moving and visualise them turning and going back to met by the next breaking and and running onto the beach... ...
If you've had a stressful day, make it more complex, the waves into a corner of beach and harbour walls, meeting at angles against each other, criss crossing, little whirlpools and eddys... ...
See it but also hear it matching into the frequency of your ringing.
Works for me anyway.
Best of luck to you
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