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  1. Detached from reality. (I wish we had a similar word in Norwegian...)
  2. Ignore the "150" part for a moment (I don't think that part of the design really works)... But if you were asked to design a symbol integrating "AV", "FC" and "74" in an old-fashioned brush-script style: what would it look like?
  3. That is what I do as well (CDs/phone/FLAC), but with regards to additional tracks on the CD: when I have the original vinyl record at home and the same album (re-issued, remastered, compressed) on CD, I play the LP whenever I'm able to - because I absolutely hate the added "bonus tracks" on the CD that weren't on the original vinyl album. When the final song on the original album ends, that should be it. Playing the CD, I'm sitting anxiously, waiting for the moment I must stop the CD player before the "bonus tracks" starts playing. As an example (showing my age here): after The Journey's End on Strawbs' Grave New World, there should only be silence.
  4. I'm not a coach (ICT tech/teacher in a primary school), but when I saw that photograph online the very first thing I did next day was to print it out and hang it up in my office. (Edit: the local community is football-mad almost to a Bill Shankley-level, but among both staff and pupils the English teams they follow are mainly the usual suspects. As the only Villa fan (that I know of) it's been very nice to have the photograph visible and watch my colleagues grudgingly admire the symmetrical perfection.)
  5. Pretty sure I've read somewhere that A1 sauce is originally an UK mid-1800's brown sauce recipe... Agree with the wider versus higher, burger. All flavours/ingredients in one single bite without having to deconstruct the burger on your plate and having to resort to using cutlery.
  6. I don't miss my DX7 (or the GT-7/Leslie combo), but I regret selling my 60's Farfisa Compact DeLuxe and Vox AC50 tube amp head. And my Roland SH-1000...
  7. I swapped an Ace Tone GT-7 / Leslie 760 combo for the DX7 when it became available - just for the difference in portability. (Our drummer at the time built a single plywood flightcase for his entire double bass drum kit - it required the entire band to lift it...).
  8. . @imavillan's link works perfectly. Thanks.
  9. Looking at Northern Norway, this map is laughably inaccurate.
  10. I think I'm siding with @mjmooney here. Decent acoustic guitars: try different makes of strings and different gauges first. It's amazing how much difference it can make without any further adjustment. I've had three of my guitars set up by professionals: an ESP Frankencaster (some improvement, as I apparently had done a decent job myself beforehand) and an American-bought Applause acoustic-electric which turned out to be an instrument on a wholly different level afterwards. The third (a 335 clone) - well, the guy ruined it. Totally unplayable afterwards. (Three different shops, but all highly recommended). I have an old Squire strat for 'research purposes' - swapping pickups and changing resistors etc, fooling around with bridge height and neck adjustment. It's fun.
  11. I had a similar experience in the Norwegian equivalent of Sixth Form College... An older student who had spent some years as a sailor before returning to school claimed in-class that the people in Brazil spoke Spanish, while the rest of South America spoke Portuguese. Naturally, I protested. The teacher asked me: "Have you actually been there? He has!" Pitying smiles all around...
  12. I was thinking of the half tomato and the tomato sauce accompanying the beans. Yes, tomato is a fruit (banana is a berry, btw). But to quote Miles Kington: "Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.” IMO, tomato should be treated as a vegetable.
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