chrisp65

For me personally, once kit is good enough not to be actively damaging my records, and sounds good, that's good enough.

Most of my records are 30 years old, I'm playing them whilst also boiling a kettle or doing the dishes or whatever. The room I'm in is not an a shape designed by an acoustic engineer and has hard surfaces and a plastic conservatory roof.

I don't play much classical, a bit, but not much.

So rather than spend £900 on a turntable, I've bought a cheaper turntable and spent money on the actual records.

Later, if the right thing comes up at the right price, I might grab it. But having looked around at the price of old Linn stuff, that might be a while.

By far my best stereo sound is the CD player in my car. The nutjob that bought it new had the stereo upgrade. The big 12" 'vent' on the top of the dashboard is there for show in most, in mine it has a big bass thingy in it. I can move the sound around the car, so it plays from behind me, or from the footwells, or just standard from the door cards and pillars! Match that up with the fact that its a big automatic petrol car and that can really make a CD sing.

Personally, I'd shop in Maplins and e-bay for hifi, rather than Richer Sounds or John Lewis.

go on, start a hi fi equipment thread......go on

go on

It's a mad day in toy town when I like one of Rob's albums! But then I guess even the blindest of squirrels finds the occasional nut. 

If you like J&D you might just like the surf punk album (if I've posted that one up here? can't remember)

My set up is pretty basic right now. It's an ion turntable that was bought with the porpoise of digitising equisting albums. This has spectacularly failed, in a good way.

I've rigged it up, via a few bits n bobs I bought in Maplins so the sound is now coming through a half decent set of 30 year old Panasonic speakers plus some additional little desktop speakers and a bass booster thingy which is deceptively heavy (its about the size and weight of a breeze block!).

So I haven't spend a fortune, about £150 all in, but the sound I can get is more than good enough for the shit I play! Added to that, I can plug it into the laptop at the same time and get a disc run off too.

I have laid the foundations of mentioning a few times that if a 'bargain' decent turntable came up one day, I might come home with it one night as a prezzy to myself. I've mentioned this a few times without being picked up on it, which means legally, I'm covered.

Aye but it seems the majority of parents aren't doing the training these days.

We are currently spending millions on state sponsored parenting and lifestyle coaching through programmes such as Sure Start and Flying Start and all the others.

It would appear people are able to **** and multiply quite easily, but not able to absorb the message that you cannot use the TV as a babysitter and twitter is not a lifestyle coaching app.

Dave, kids bus behaviour always was shocking. I know when it got shocking in my town - about the same time all adults were told not to intervene and they took conductors and child escorts off buses and didn't do anything about the abuse and physical damage.

Back 30 years ago we knew that if we smashed the bus windows our 'punishment' would be no bus the next day. We lived too far away to be obliged to walk - so we had a day off school! Now I wonder what that taught us?

A new headmaster and a new deal with the bus company meant the buses kept running - but we had to leave earlier and get picked up later if we misbehaved. Weirdly, we stopped being shits as it was killing our free time.

It's boring, but it really is about education and training (of all of us).

Yep, I'm agreeing with Tony again.

I grew up in the 70's and had regular whacks at home and school. It's a cliche, but if I had a whack at school and my parents found out, they'd give me a whack for that! But overall, I think I turned out fairly stable in the end (after a small teenage wobble).

But that was then and this is now. 

As for kids these days being shits - really? Or do lazy parents just never back up their threats because they want an instantly easier life? Train 'em young and they'll grow up without the need for physical violence.

parenting rule 1: never make an empty threat

parenting rule 2: be consistent 

parenting rule 3: be fair

the rest is easy

I think that's why the light projection works.

You're right, modern rebuilds are ok, but they are essentially, a modern copy. 

Something else, some modern 'take' on a significant place is preferable in my opinion. Also, funky light show can be tweeked for that U2 concert backdrop or corporate message at an opening ceremony or whatever.

But if a child is too small or stupid to understand a reasoned argument based around enhancing their own safety and development, then it's ok to give them a smacking, yeah?

Seriously, I might have been lucky I guess, but in 17 years I've never ever even got remotely close to hitting either of my kids. It's the lazy fall back of the lazy parent.

I did sign up for a voluntary parenting course which included reasoning and negotiating skills. Bits of that were useful, once filtered through my wet liberal thinking filter.

By local team do you mean Bromsgrove or Kidderminster etc.? Or the nearest 'big' team?

Anyway, that pedantry aside, we are clearly being edged towards that european super league. Eventually we will be a contender of sorts in England, as Chelsea, Man City and Man Utd., will have moved to Swiss holding companies and play from a rota of grounds all over europe and beyond. Not even having a 'home' ground. Just nominally being 'home' on week 2 where the match happens to be in Sydney, New York, Shanghai or wherever.

Entry to the World League will be by bid process, where your national TV franchise will pay to get a 'local' team into the circus.

I'm going for a lie down now.

wasn't really sure where to stick this

You might recall some time ago the Taliban in Afghanistan blowing up cultural icons / religious relics / tourist attractions (delete as suits your personal world view)?

Well, the Buddha is back - but as a light show! Quite a neat idea, I thought.

 

Waiting 20 hours for a 15GB update to download. I hate you tesco broadband. I really do.

That coupled with the fact that my area can't receive super fast internet. Stuck in the dark ages.

**** you Oldbury.

Should move to Newbury.

 

I think Newbury is android?

'gram would be better off with a house that's got windows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhOvrVUoJoY

The value of the limestone for the Great Pyramid of Giza at today's price would be $776million

and B&Q wouldn't be able to guarantee a colour match for the whole batch

I love it when people are nerds and don't care. I just thought of that. Don't know why. It just cheered me up, that's all. Thought I'd share.

you know what, I was scrolling down to post the same thing

love what you love, life's too short to worry about the styles, fashions and trends of the nay saying herd

it's weird isn't it, all those poor games and they kept him on

you look at the stats for the last game of the season and he was CL form

so now they sack him

madness

all you people taking the piss out of the fat squad, ask yourself would you say it to any of their faces, would you ****, you know youd get torn a new arsehole, these are lads whove been all over the country rowing with the best all over the world with england and Villa,

rowing with the best?

not being able to see your cock doesn't make you a shoe in for the coxless fours

Most 'hobby' shops with wool or material should have them. Hobbycraft are sure to have them. John Lewis definitely have them.

Any High Street Saree shop should have them.

Failing that, mid price christmas crackers often have one.

ahh, to think I wasn't going to go because I thought £30 was too pricey

every time they play 'man don't give' I leave convinced that the revolution is just minutes away

Missus dropped out of football a good few years ago which was a shame because she'd been quite a good luck charm.

She was there for a few decent games, Ajax she helped find my shoe after I threw it in the air. Arsenal semi final she got snogged by most of the row behind us once they worked out we'd won on aggregate. Even Man Utd, you'll win nothing with kids she was there, complaining it was too sunny.

Beating Man Utd., complaining it's too sunny.

I appreciate there will be kids on here that haven't racked up enough years to have either of those experiences, but it did happen.

Happily, the kids do come with me and quite enjoy watching comedy stressed out sweary football dad. They got on the pitch with their little ribbon flags after the Blackburn game. That suckered them into a life of misery.

 

 

Stupidly, ridiculously, laughably, mind-blowing (imo).

Enlightening and very interesting and then he lets it down by saying that the 'big goals' [sic] is to eradicate disease &c..

What do we do when disease is eradicated?

 

 

Get high and watch TV?

 

sort out the Villa back four

ha ha!

had to bloody search for that, most versions were 'straight'

couldn't find a shit version sung by a white american southerner with a mullet and cowboy boots sorry, some bloke in Brum had bought them all up off e-bay

zum gali gali

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKfyN5UUfdI