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55 minutes ago, PerryBarrPet said:

Translation please.

Detached from reality. (I wish we had a similar word in Norwegian...)

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?

5 hours ago, blandy said:

I mostly buy CDs and mostly listen to music through my phone or iPod, on the train or in the car or on my bike. So vinyl (in my world) is mostly for albums that meet 2 criteria: I will want to listen to the whole album in one sitting and the sound of the band/artist isn’t going to be easily beaten by a CD. The other thing to pick a ten, is old LPs that I didn’t lose and or there are tracks on them that aren’t on the later CD release.

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.

On 29/11/2023 at 20:52, MWARLEY2 said:

As a coach you would hang this up in your office wouldn't you. 

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.)

2 hours ago, NurembergVillan said:

There was an amazing photo a few weeks ago of our entire backline in exactly the same body shape and ready for action. I can't remember if I saw it here or on Twitter, but if anyone knows the one I mean and can find it for me, they'll receive a Trophy Like on their post.

2 hours ago, OutByEaster? said:

Also, what's A1 sauce?

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.

1 minute ago, VILLAMARV said:

There better be the punchline here when I log back in after work

Beat me to it.

1 hour ago, Marka Ragnos said:

I eventually did, too -- I think everybody did lol. I do remember how the DX brought percussive, metallic and tubular bell-type sounds to local band scenes. It was quite a revolution. Combined with fat Oberheim-style synths, there was this whole pallette you didn't need >$25,000 to re-produce in a bar. The synth I owned that I wished I'd never sold are my old Moog Taurus pedals. They are absurdly overpriced nowadays. Snobbery for "retro boutique" analog stuff, etc.

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...

1 hour ago, mjmooney said:

The iconic 80s keyboard. 

I hated it. 

 

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...).

1 minute ago, legov said:

Anyone ever tried this?

Yes, even tried the 4x version once.

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@imavillan's link works perfectly. Thanks.

Looking at Northern Norway, this map is laughably inaccurate.

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.

1 hour ago, fightoffyour said:

Some word removed teacher at first year of primary school got us to list fruits and being a clever little clearing in the woods I convinced my new acquaintances that tomato was indeed a fruit (“trust me, trust me”). word removed teacher said it was incorrect. **** word removed.

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...

2 minutes ago, fightoffyour said:

Where a red the veggies at all? Beans are legumes and mushrooms are fungus. Tomato is fruit 

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.

Preventing him for running for President? Unfortunately not. Preventing him from being chosen as the Republican candidate? Possibly, but I wouldn't bet on it.

1 minute ago, Davkaus said:

At best his defence is "I had no idea what was out there..."

Which in a sane society wouldn't be a defence at all.

22 minutes ago, a-k said:

Shooting people running away from your property???

https://www.nbc15.com/2023/05/08/louisiana-man-accused-shooting-teen-in-back-head-while-she-played-hide-seek/

That isn't self-defence, that is revenge. "Unknowingly hitting" someone you knowingly aim for and shoot at when they're running? Yeah, right.

Edit: Davkaus was a tad quicker.

3 hours ago, meregreen said:

Heads of State should take an oath to serve the people, not the other way around. They should also be chosen by the people. And the people should have the right to get rid of them every 4 or 5 years. It’s called Democracy. We should try the full version of it one day, not the gerrymandered Royal bloody family one we have now.

Snip from the current King of Norway's coronation speech (roughly translated):

"I promise and swear thar I will rule the Kingdom of Norway in accordance with its constitution and laws, so help me God.... At this first meeting between the people's elected representatives and me as King of Norway, I would like to express the hope that the good relationship that has existed between the parliament and my father, and before that, my grandfather, can be maintained and then developed in line with the tasks the country will face in the future. The Queen and I want to confirm that we make ourselves available to carry out our work for country and people."

His grandfather (Prince Carl of Denmark, married to English Princess Maud) insisted that he wouldn't accept the throne offered to him unless a referendum accepted him as king. His father famously used public transport to go skiing (and bought a ticket like anyone else) during the 1973 petrol crisis. The king had to wait 7 years until he was allowed to marry the non-noble (albeit upper-class in Norwegian terms) girl his heart was committed to. His son, the current Crown Prince, married a single mom.

Politically I'm leaning very much to the left and should in theory be supportive of a republic with an elected president, but when I consider past and current political potential candidates for presidency with what we currently have as a decent line of purely ceremonial, well-grounded heads of state I'll stick with what we have.

Perhaps we got lucky that our minor branch of the Firm proved to be more down-to-earth?

1 minute ago, MWARLEY2 said:

Saw an interview with JJ sonewhere where he said that was the dream. All 3 of em playing together for Villa.

Yup. I believe JJ and Aaron both have claimed that Cole is the best footballer of the three brothers. Here's hoping...

8 hours ago, AndyM3000 said:

If he ends up as part of the first team next season we're going to start doing that Toure chant for the brothers aren't we?

Just imagine if their younger brother Cole manages to make the step-up as well sometime in the future...

6 minutes ago, Seat68 said:

There is room over on the Blandy Crimes Against Food thread. 

To each their own. I'm aware that I'm posting on an English forum, and that an English Easter lamb Sunday roast probably would be expected to be cooked and served in a traditional manner (I usually make a Greek/Macedonian roast at home in Norway during Easter with *plenty* of garlic), but there are so many delightful lamb recipes around the world.

3 hours ago, Rds1983 said:

I made lamb on Sunday, infused with oranges and served with a chocolate gravy.

Was very, very nice if I say so myself. 

45 minutes ago, Seat68 said:

Depends on the other ingredients in the gravy... A gravy based on stock, chili, star anise, garlic, coriander, red wine and dark chocolate goes amazingly well with lamb.

6 minutes ago, gwi1890 said:

Thanks for that it just looks visually small compared to VP

Ah, yes... The VP pitch is indeed impressive, but the amount of grass outside the touchlines and goallines doesn't count

11 hours ago, gwi1890 said:

This i exactly what happens. I listened to podcasts Evertonians are under the impression that Dyche is a temporary manager then they can go get a marquee head coach . This is exactly the same trap they’ve fallen into before post Allardyce , that small narrow pitch suits Dyche, Moyes, Big Sam ball. But then again that will change soon with the new stadium.

The PL standard pitch size is 105 x 68 m unless the build of of the stadium makes it impossible. The only narrower pitches belong to Chelsea and Fulham. Everton has a shorter pitch. So do Chelsea, Palace, Fulham, Liverpool and Forest. All other PL pitches meet the PL requirements.