Anthony

Saw them in FInsbury Park in 1992. They were crap. The only notable bit was when they dedicated Even Flow to one of the girls from L7 whose period was late. Nice.

I said upthread about how sanctions work/don't work. (I don't expect you to scroll back and read everything!) They're not meant to block everything completely, but to make things more expensive, complicated and difficult, and the more complicated and difficult it is for Russia to eg export oil or import high tech bits, the easier it is to disrupt. As a result of sanctions, Russia has less money, things take longer and are easier to disrupt. If things are completely blocked from getting in or out, then that is a bonus.

I don't believe you.

Michael Stipe doesn't know shit. And neither do you.

If you take it in the right spirit, I think REM's Shiny Happy People is OK.

F16s have better radars, amongst other things, so will be able to see further, which means the Russian air force will have to launch their weapons from further away. This means 1) more time for them to be intercepted and 2) what the Russians can hit is somewhat decreased. I'm sure our resident radar expert can correct/expand on this. Additionally, for the past 12 months or so the Ukrainian forces have been concentrating on neutralising Russian air defences, my assumption is to increase the safety of the F16s when they arrive, thereby giving them more flexibility and give them a greater impact. SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defences) is one of the most dangerous jobs for a pilot, but essential for air superiority. The fact that much of it has already been done by ground forces makes things much easier for any air operations. What remains to be seen is how good Ukraine can be at combined arms fighting ( coordinating ground and air forces); this is something NATO spends a good chunk of its time practising as it is so difficult to do well. That said, Ukraine has been doing it for a while and one of their (IMO main) strengths thus far has been the ability to quickly learn from their experiences. Russia is also learning, but nowhere near as quickly as Ukraine.

Cos we're human. We've all done it. I say this just in case you were thinking that it's only you.

Is, is that supposed to make you sleepy? Holy crap, it sends my blood pressure through the roof! Mozart, good. Mozart played on whatever they're using, good god man, that's torture.

I agree, but it hurts.

Sort of... You could upload them to YouTube, but make them private. IIRC there are three settings, 1) Public, 2) not searchable, but if you have the link you can watch it, or 3) it viewable by you and specified individuals. Any of those work for you?

Finished Deadloch. Astonishingly good. Excellent writing, believably real characters, superb performances. So, so good. Possibly the best thing I've watched in a year.

My girlfriend's birthday today. She's just been attacked and bitten by her neighbour's dog for the second time. Second time drawing blood. Thankfully it's not a big dog, but one of those yappy shit dogs. Needless to say, she's really shaken up and I'm **** livid.

Got this booked for Sunday afternoon matineeeeeeee. Looking forward to it.

The one resource you do have, in ever diminishing amounts, is time. Spend your limited time with people you love, doing things you love. Try to live in the moment, not always thinking of the next step.

Well. Economic Left/Right: -6.75 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.28

**** tedious. Is he scuba diving?

Going to the one at South Bank on Friday for my girlfriend's birthday. I'll let you know how great it was.

Happy birthday sir.

No, but the grinder has a doser with a fixed size, so it should be the right amount. It looks about the right amount when it's in the basket, and if nothing else, it's been consistent the entire time I've had it. Might give a few doses a little weigh though...

Yeah, a very solid one actually. Is that a KW?

Well quite, but if it's too hot when running through the ground beans it tastes like burnt shit, with a hint of coffee. Kind of like Costa.

Ha, yeah , at the moment the coffee flows out too quickly AND it tastes bitter. How the fugg does that happen? I use a triple bottomless basket, and extract into a double shot glass, so it shouldn't be too watery. In theory. I'm going to **** about with it this afternoon and see what I can find out.

How dare you! Bloody Palestine.

I have a Rancilio Silvia and a Rancilio Rocky grinder, and have had for years, but the coffee is always bitter. It's clean - backflushing and descaling. I do the temperature surfing thing (due to the machine supposedly getting too hot), where I run water through before extracting a shot, to keep the temperature down. It seems whichever beans I try, the coffee is always bitter. From Basic CoOp Italian beans, to £14 artisan roasted beans, it's still **** bitter. I'm missing something, but what is it?

Gave my grinder a right good seeing to on Thursday. Coffee so much better now. I set them up...