OT Yet another attempt to stop smoking.

Simplistic bollocks for a happier Britain.

Trouble with all this Power Of Positive Thinking malarkey is mostly it's
neither positive nor thinking very much.
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"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

Naming a key, or a given note, has nothing to do with tone-deafness,
or lack of. It's very, very definitely a learned skill - there must be
an innate ability, but the naming is putting a learned label on that
skill.

S'funny, but I don't "think" at all. It's just, well, obvious. If it's
a guitar tune I can hear the chord progression and from the strings
being intoned, assuming a standard tuning and fingering, can pretty
much identify the chords. But if you put a capo on, or tuned it down a
tone, I'd not have a clue unless I had a benchmark tone to compare
with.


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Actually, that's wrong. Whether the drain is on your property or not
is irrelevant - the salient point is whether you connect to the drain.
If you do use the drain and it is defective, then you will be partly
liable for the costs of maintenance and repairs, jointly with any
other people also using the drain.

I'd be on to my house insurance provider, too.

This assumes that the drain hasn't been adopted by the council, isn't
a public sewer and wasn't constructed before 1936, in which case
repairs come out of the public purse. Location is not important -
trust me on this one.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Pip

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You know that bit where it says "There's an expert on *everything* in
UKRM"?

God, I love this place.

 

heh. Mate of mine lived in a flat in Aylesbury, the balcony
overlooked a block of garages used by another bunch of flats. There
was a drummer-in-training in one of the garages, who had obviously
been summarily ejected from his domicile for being so crap. For weeks
and weeks we could hear half-rolls and dodgy diddles coming from the
garage, punctuated from time to time by sudden silences, rattles of
sticks hitting concrete and inadvertent rimshots.

High-pitched cries of pain were not uncommon and neither were odd
percussive cracks and rattles, as of stick(s) contacting garage door.
It was a little intrusive, but never lasted more than 10 minutes at a
stretch, which was apparently the proto-percussionist's attention
span.

 

Singing's a bit of a special case - as can be heard every time some
tuneless **** wins a talent show simply because the 'judges' don't know
what a properly sung note sounds like.
--
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
How much more suspenseful can you get?"
- House

 

I watched a programme on Robert Johnson, featuring Eric Clapton
playing Johnson's music, It was most amusing and enlightening to hear
Clapton being puzzled as to how Johnson managed to play what he did -
"The first time I heard it I assumed it was two guitars (being played
by two people) then I was told he was solo. I couldn't understand
how". Ten years later, he can approximate the method, but only on a
good day.

Very self-effacing chap, Mr Clapton.

 

He seems to manage alright on this:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sessions-Ro...=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1219450636&sr=8-5

 

Its that crm bloke, isn't it?

You're a sick man

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Lozzo

Not in this reality, bucko.

"I'm sick, me".

 

A child will mimick actions from birth; simple things like the
clenching of a fist etc. It's a shame that in later life they don't
learn to shut the **** up when everyone else has

 

This album was the inspiration for the programme, or perhaps the
programme was publicity for the album ... oh, it's a DVD as well, and
from the description I watched an hour from the DVD on the telly.
Anyway, the ten years referred to was prolly twenty years ago, iyswim.

If you have the DVD (and it is what I watched) then you'll see the
false starts EC makes. He almost idolises RJ, his music (and the
methods he used to produce it) and the influence he had, not least to
inspire EC.

I just thought it was, err, gratifying in a way that a guitarist of
Clapton's stature would struggle to reproduce techniques - or at
least, struggle to reproduce the sound that RJ had, using every
technique that EC has at his fingertips (and that's prolly quite a
lot) - and that EC happily admits it.

 

Yeah, and just my luck to get the shitty end, right? I used to get
paid to a) know and explain this stuff b) sort this stuff out c) get
peolple to pay for sorting this stuff out.

[I wouldn't have got away with typos like the one above then -
referring to 1936 when I meant 1937 (specifically 1st October 1937)
would deffo constitute an 'informality, defect or error' and render my
Notice invalid.]

Take an infinite number of fuckwits, shut them in a virtual room and
make them discuss stuff. Sooner or later, they'll get something
almost right.

 

It's as simple or as complicated as you want to make it. To give up, at
some point you have to have smoked your last cigarette, and after that
instant you are a non-smoker whether you choose to acknowledge the
fact, or allow yourself to recognise it at the time, or not.

Some people certainly seem to find a victim mentality easier. It's
certainly easier when you fail -- as least it's not your fault then, eh?

 

Yeah, well **** you both, too. You pair of syphilitic cunts.

 

I was thinking exactly the same thing. Incredible.

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What he said. The mains drain that runs behind the houses in our street
is the responsibility of Thames Water (the houses were built in the
1920s).

Our drain that links to this has recently gone phut, and is causing some
slight cracking to the corner of the house as the ground softens.

Insco informed, surveyors and drain bods sent, drain tested, yes, it
needs to be replaced, yes you're insured, yes that includes propping up
the sagging corner of the Chateau. Only slight bummer is the £1000
excess as it's classed as a subsidence claim.

 

It truly is the FOAK.

 

I started smoking cigars (sometimes inhaling, which probably wasn't
wise) aged 16 and smoked them for the next 15 years or so. Gave up as a
New Year' resolution, 20 years ago, and to my surprise found it easy. No
cravings, no pangs, no nothing.

I'd like to say it was because of my incredible willpower, but I'm crap
at that, so I always assumed that it was because cigars lacked the
addictive ingredient of nicotine (or whatever it is).

Then someone else said what you've just said: some people just don't get
the withdrawal pangs.

If you know more about this than I do (which seems to be the case), I'd
love to know which is true. Are cigars addictive or did I just get
lucky?

 

I'm the opposite. It was incredibly easy for me to give up my heavy
drinking - I just stopped and felt no compulsion to start again. Ok, so
I have the odd infrequent drink nowadays, but I was a regular heavy
drinker of vodka to the extent that a litre in an evening wouldn't
render me out of it.

Giving up smoking is difficult for me though, and I've been trying now
and then for the last 20 years. My daily intake is only about 5 or 6
roll-ups a day now from 40 B+H ten years ago, but I just can't manage
to break the habit.