Bought an Old Valve Radio Today! (long)
 

"G.S. Nail" wrote in message
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"malcolm" wrote:

I recall prodding about in a live monitor with a wooden spoon. That
was pretty ****ing stupid. The best one was when I electrocuted myself
by pushing a mains plug into a socket with a finger trapped underneath

isnt that normal for the older full metal pin UK Mains plugs......

I don't know.. was it "normal" to electrocute yourself in the old
days? :=)


--
S i g n a l @ l i n e o n e . n e t

Yes it was - lots of things have changed, read and learn :-)

According to today's regulators and bureaucrats,
those of us who were
kids in the 40's 50's, 60's, 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have
survived, because... Our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured
lead-based paint which was promptly chewed and licked. We had no childproof
lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine
to play with pans. When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip
flops and fluorescent 'clackers' on our wheels.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags riding
in the passenger seat was a treat. We drank water from the garden hose and
not from a bottle and it tasted the same. We ate dripping sandwiches, bread
and butter pudding and drank fizzy pop with sugar in it, but we were never
overweight because we were always outside playing. We shared one drink with
four friends, from one bottle or can and no-one actually died from this. We
would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed
down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into
stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were
back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us all day and no one
minded. We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No
99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones,
no personal computers, no Internet chat rooms. We had friends -we went
outside and found them. We played elastics and street rounders, and
sometimes that ball really hurt. We fell out of trees, got cut and broke
bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits. They were accidents. We learnt
not to do the same thing again.
We had fights, punched each other hard and got black and blue we learned
to get over it. We walked to friend's homes. We also, believe it or not,
WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to school,
which was just round the corner. We made up games with sticks and tennis
balls and ate live stuff, and although we were told it would happen, we did
We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood. Our
actions were our own. Consequences were expected. The idea of a parent
bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with
the law. Imagine that!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem
solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of
innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and
responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all. And you're one of
them. Congratulations! Pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow
up as real kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our
own good. For those of you who aren't old enough, thought you might like to
read about us.

This my friends, is surprisingly frightening......and it might put a
smile on your face.
The majority of students in universities today were born in
1983........They are called youth. They have never heard of We are the
World, We are the children, and the Uptown Girl they know is by Westlife not
Billy Joel. They have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena or
Belinda Carlisle. For them, there has always been only one Germany and one
Vietnam. AIDS has existed since they were born. CD's have existed since they
were born. Michael Jackson has always been white. To them John Travolta has
always been round in shape and they can't imagine how this fat guy could be
a god of dance. They believe that Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible
are just new films out last year. They think that N-Trance "set you free" is
an Old Skool song. They can never imagine life before computers. They've
never heard of Pac-Man or Space Invaders or BBC computers that have Bat n
Ball games.

They'll never have thought Jazz was the sexiest aftershave ever. They'll
never have pretended to be the A Team, Red Hand Gang or the Famous Five.
They'll never have applied to be on Jim'll Fix It or Why Don't You. They
can't believe a black and white television ever existed and don't even know
how to switch on a TV without a remote control. And they will never
understand how we could leave the house without a mobile phone. Now let's
check if we're getting old...

1. You understand what was written above and you smile.
2. You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon, after a night
out.
3. Your friends are getting married.
4. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably
with computers.
5. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.
6. You've developed more and more feelings about your work. It's now
your life.
7. You spend less and less time talking on phone with your friends
daily.
8. You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good old
days,repeating again and again all funny stories you have experienced
together

Bought an Old Valve Radio Today! (long)
 

"Mike Gilmour" wrote


snip Mike's 'Yoof Of Today' rant


Mike, I didn't need to see this post today! - I'm having one of *those*
days - I still haven't found my shaving mirror which seems to have gone
missing (a lifetime first!), for no reason at all I became acutely aware
that two of us here have no less than 16 teaspoons in the cutlery drawer (I
actually counted them!), my emails consisted of the usual mile of Yankee
spam plus *yet another* direct reply (emailed to me) to a post in ukrav
(what is it about that group - nobody posts there, any replies I do get
always come direct!??) and I logged in here with an even greater sense of
futility and feeling even more stupid than I normally do! And, sure enough,
there's the inevitable (nowadays) vinyl thread, the usual ludicrous
crossposted crap (cable crimping or summat, this time!!!) a few posts from
obvious kiddies asking, quite frankly, *stupid* questions and one or two
posts from some (very obviously) young smartarse expressing views on 'Jazz'
so alien to me I can't put my arse up to them! Nothing at all from the 'Old
Gang' who all seem to have had a simultaneous Reality Attack and, wisely,
seem to have all ****ed off!

Then I get to your post!

Let me say, first off, I see where you are going and broadly agree with the
sentiments expressed. I don't agree about the lead paint and I can't relate
to your 'flip flops and fluorescent 'clackers' on our wheels' at all - in my
time it was cigarette packets or playing cards and I ain't ever worn 'flip
flops' in my entire life!. (Strange that because, at 56, I thought I was
only 4 years older than you, but this seems to come from at least a decade
later?) Beef dripping on (on bread, with a sprinkle of salt - not in a
'sandwich') I not only *can* relate to - I sometimes lie awake of a night
fekkin' thinking about it! :-)

You have addressed a great many issues that are very close to my own heart
and I would only say that if I could go back in time twice it would be to
1914 and 1939, with a bundle of magazine photos of the mindless, uniformed
sheep, that kids have become today, to try and persuade a few million decent
youngsters not to throw their lives away just so that some gormless little
**** can spend part of his £200 a week pocket money on a new jingle for his
bloody mobile phone!

Having seen a 'University Hairdressing Student' (???) on the telly last
night expressing her opinons on student grants, seen a weather report from a
geezer (whose own garden was apparently underwater) forcasting rain being
followed by some BS about he 'we need to save water' and reservoirs down to
20% of normal or somesuch, then hearing that because a 1,000 people a year
are alleged to die from passive smoking 'they' are trying to get half the
planet decreed 'No Smoking Areas' while selling fags on every street corner,
followed by a 'tough ****' report that 22,000 people did/will die from
hypothermia in the winter, hearing that the Labour Government wants to
become the 'Employers Government too', hearing that some Dago has turned
down an OBE for some fekkin' poetry while some **** gets one for kicking a
ball about and so it goes on.......!!!! (And that's only overnight FFS!)

Then I get on to this group.....

Like I said, a few truly stupid questions which have been asked a hundred
times, the ever-present (thanks to the, er, American connection) ludicrous
crossposted crap, the general view that Jazz (the 'New Rock N Roll'?) is now
deemed (by the aforementioned kiddies, who have instigated *nothing* new in
their entire lives and, most likely, never will) to be virtually *anything*
that is a) performed by persons *without* pierced navels or b) doesn't have
a cello in it. (Let's not mention the use of mics in 'Opera' these days or
the somewaht unrelated fact that Hollywood is entirely capable of coming up
with an original/new idea for a film.....!)

Like I said, The 'Old Hands' in this group appeare to have lost interest and
wandered off and the 'New Wave', to be quite frank, is about as interesting
as watching a turd dry out. Compared with some, this group has much
'community' spirit as the Harrods New Year's Sale and the normal 'tone' here
is that of a school playground at best. My own efforts here, during the last
12 months - Webpages, posting like a demented thing, Show N Tell
'interactivity', new vinyl group - have come to naught. (The best fun I've
had in a long while was smashing Rudi into submission yesterday! :-)

Your post has somehow backlit all of the above and my own feelings of
foolishness, logging on here, are now at the 'it's time to **** on the fire
and call in the dogs' stage! I do believe Mike, you have done what a 1,000
Chicago ****heads cound *never* have achieved - I think you've helped me
realise it's time to move on!

I think what I need is:

To find my shaving mirror.
Cut the number of teaspoons down, round here.
Follow the 'smart money' and jack this ng in.
Get a life.....


More, later (probably).......

Bought an Old Valve Radio Today! (long)
 

"Mike Gilmour" wrote


snip Mike's 'Yoof Of Today' rant


Mike, I didn't need to see this post today! - I'm having one of *those*
days - I still haven't found my shaving mirror which seems to have gone
missing (a lifetime first!), for no reason at all I became acutely aware
that two of us here have no less than 16 teaspoons in the cutlery drawer (I
actually counted them!), my emails consisted of the usual mile of Yankee
spam plus *yet another* direct reply (emailed to me) to a post in ukrav
(what is it about that group - nobody posts there, any replies I do get
always come direct!??) and I logged in here with an even greater sense of
futility and feeling even more stupid than I normally do! And, sure enough,
there's the inevitable (nowadays) vinyl thread, the usual ludicrous
crossposted crap (cable crimping or summat, this time!!!) a few posts from
obvious kiddies asking, quite frankly, *stupid* questions and one or two
posts from some (very obviously) young smartarse expressing views on 'Jazz'
so alien to me I can't put my arse up to them! Nothing at all from the 'Old
Gang' who all seem to have had a simultaneous Reality Attack and, wisely,
seem to have all ****ed off!

Then I get to your post!

Let me say, first off, I see where you are going and broadly agree with the
sentiments expressed. I don't agree about the lead paint and I can't relate
to your 'flip flops and fluorescent 'clackers' on our wheels' at all - in my
time it was cigarette packets or playing cards and I ain't ever worn 'flip
flops' in my entire life!. (Strange that because, at 56, I thought I was
only 4 years older than you, but this seems to come from at least a decade
later?) Beef dripping on (on bread, with a sprinkle of salt - not in a
'sandwich') I not only *can* relate to - I sometimes lie awake of a night
fekkin' thinking about it! :-)

You have addressed a great many issues that are very close to my own heart
and I would only say that if I could go back in time twice it would be to
1914 and 1939, with a bundle of magazine photos of the mindless, uniformed
sheep, that kids have become today, to try and persuade a few million decent
youngsters not to throw their lives away just so that some gormless little
**** can spend part of his £200 a week pocket money on a new jingle for his
bloody mobile phone!

Having seen a 'University Hairdressing Student' (???) on the telly last
night expressing her opinons on student grants, seen a weather report from a
geezer (whose own garden was apparently underwater) forcasting rain being
followed by some BS about he 'we need to save water' and reservoirs down to
20% of normal or somesuch, then hearing that because a 1,000 people a year
are alleged to die from passive smoking 'they' are trying to get half the
planet decreed 'No Smoking Areas' while selling fags on every street corner,
followed by a 'tough ****' report that 22,000 people did/will die from
hypothermia in the winter, hearing that the Labour Government wants to
become the 'Employers Government too', hearing that some Dago has turned
down an OBE for some fekkin' poetry while some **** gets one for kicking a
ball about and so it goes on.......!!!! (And that's only overnight FFS!)

Then I get on to this group.....

Like I said, a few truly stupid questions which have been asked a hundred
times, the ever-present (thanks to the, er, American connection) ludicrous
crossposted crap, the general view that Jazz (the 'New Rock N Roll'?) is now
deemed (by the aforementioned kiddies, who have instigated *nothing* new in
their entire lives and, most likely, never will) to be virtually *anything*
that is a) performed by persons *without* pierced navels or b) doesn't have
a cello in it. (Let's not mention the use of mics in 'Opera' these days or
the somewaht unrelated fact that Hollywood is entirely capable of coming up
with an original/new idea for a film.....!)

Like I said, The 'Old Hands' in this group appeare to have lost interest and
wandered off and the 'New Wave', to be quite frank, is about as interesting
as watching a turd dry out. Compared with some, this group has much
'community' spirit as the Harrods New Year's Sale and the normal 'tone' here
is that of a school playground at best. My own efforts here, during the last
12 months - Webpages, posting like a demented thing, Show N Tell
'interactivity', new vinyl group - have come to naught. (The best fun I've
had in a long while was smashing Rudi into submission yesterday! :-)

Your post has somehow backlit all of the above and my own feelings of
foolishness, logging on here, are now at the 'it's time to **** on the fire
and call in the dogs' stage! I do believe Mike, you have done what a 1,000
Chicago ****heads cound *never* have achieved - I think you've helped me
realise it's time to move on!

I think what I need is:

To find my shaving mirror.
Cut the number of teaspoons down, round here.
Follow the 'smart money' and jack this ng in.
Get a life.....


More, later (probably).......

Bought an Old Valve Radio Today! (long)
 

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 14:06:22 -0000, "Keith G"
wrote:


"Mike Gilmour" wrote


snip Mike's 'Yoof Of Today' rant


Mike, I didn't need to see this post today! - I'm having one of *those*
days - I still haven't found my shaving mirror which seems to have gone
missing (a lifetime first!), for no reason at all I became acutely aware
that two of us here have no less than 16 teaspoons in the cutlery drawer (I
actually counted them!), my emails consisted of the usual mile of Yankee
spam plus *yet another* direct reply (emailed to me) to a post in ukrav
(what is it about that group - nobody posts there, any replies I do get
always come direct!??) and I logged in here with an even greater sense of
futility and feeling even more stupid than I normally do! And, sure enough,
there's the inevitable (nowadays) vinyl thread, the usual ludicrous
crossposted crap (cable crimping or summat, this time!!!) a few posts from
obvious kiddies asking, quite frankly, *stupid* questions and one or two
posts from some (very obviously) young smartarse expressing views on 'Jazz'
so alien to me I can't put my arse up to them! Nothing at all from the 'Old
Gang' who all seem to have had a simultaneous Reality Attack and, wisely,
seem to have all ****ed off!

Then I get to your post!

Let me say, first off, I see where you are going and broadly agree with the
sentiments expressed. I don't agree about the lead paint and I can't relate
to your 'flip flops and fluorescent 'clackers' on our wheels' at all - in my
time it was cigarette packets or playing cards and I ain't ever worn 'flip
flops' in my entire life!. (Strange that because, at 56, I thought I was
only 4 years older than you, but this seems to come from at least a decade
later?) Beef dripping on (on bread, with a sprinkle of salt - not in a
'sandwich') I not only *can* relate to - I sometimes lie awake of a night
fekkin' thinking about it! :-)

You have addressed a great many issues that are very close to my own heart
and I would only say that if I could go back in time twice it would be to
1914 and 1939, with a bundle of magazine photos of the mindless, uniformed
sheep, that kids have become today, to try and persuade a few million decent
youngsters not to throw their lives away just so that some gormless little
**** can spend part of his £200 a week pocket money on a new jingle for his
bloody mobile phone!

Having seen a 'University Hairdressing Student' (???) on the telly last
night expressing her opinons on student grants, seen a weather report from a
geezer (whose own garden was apparently underwater) forcasting rain being
followed by some BS about he 'we need to save water' and reservoirs down to
20% of normal or somesuch, then hearing that because a 1,000 people a year
are alleged to die from passive smoking 'they' are trying to get half the
planet decreed 'No Smoking Areas' while selling fags on every street corner,
followed by a 'tough ****' report that 22,000 people did/will die from
hypothermia in the winter, hearing that the Labour Government wants to
become the 'Employers Government too', hearing that some Dago has turned
down an OBE for some fekkin' poetry while some **** gets one for kicking a
ball about and so it goes on.......!!!! (And that's only overnight FFS!)

Then I get on to this group.....

Like I said, a few truly stupid questions which have been asked a hundred
times, the ever-present (thanks to the, er, American connection) ludicrous
crossposted crap, the general view that Jazz (the 'New Rock N Roll'?) is now
deemed (by the aforementioned kiddies, who have instigated *nothing* new in
their entire lives and, most likely, never will) to be virtually *anything*
that is a) performed by persons *without* pierced navels or b) doesn't have
a cello in it. (Let's not mention the use of mics in 'Opera' these days or
the somewaht unrelated fact that Hollywood is entirely capable of coming up
with an original/new idea for a film.....!)

Like I said, The 'Old Hands' in this group appeare to have lost interest and
wandered off and the 'New Wave', to be quite frank, is about as interesting
as watching a turd dry out. Compared with some, this group has much
'community' spirit as the Harrods New Year's Sale and the normal 'tone' here
is that of a school playground at best. My own efforts here, during the last
12 months - Webpages, posting like a demented thing, Show N Tell
'interactivity', new vinyl group - have come to naught. (The best fun I've
had in a long while was smashing Rudi into submission yesterday! :-)

Your post has somehow backlit all of the above and my own feelings of
foolishness, logging on here, are now at the 'it's time to **** on the fire
and call in the dogs' stage! I do believe Mike, you have done what a 1,000
Chicago ****heads cound *never* have achieved - I think you've helped me
realise it's time to move on!

I think what I need is:

To find my shaving mirror.
Cut the number of teaspoons down, round here.
Follow the 'smart money' and jack this ng in.
Get a life.....


More, later (probably).......



So you can't do Thursdays either?

Sigh...

d

_____________________________

http://www.pearce.uk.com

Bought an Old Valve Radio Today! (long)
 

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 14:06:22 -0000, "Keith G"
wrote:


"Mike Gilmour" wrote


snip Mike's 'Yoof Of Today' rant


Mike, I didn't need to see this post today! - I'm having one of *those*
days - I still haven't found my shaving mirror which seems to have gone
missing (a lifetime first!), for no reason at all I became acutely aware
that two of us here have no less than 16 teaspoons in the cutlery drawer (I
actually counted them!), my emails consisted of the usual mile of Yankee
spam plus *yet another* direct reply (emailed to me) to a post in ukrav
(what is it about that group - nobody posts there, any replies I do get
always come direct!??) and I logged in here with an even greater sense of
futility and feeling even more stupid than I normally do! And, sure enough,
there's the inevitable (nowadays) vinyl thread, the usual ludicrous
crossposted crap (cable crimping or summat, this time!!!) a few posts from
obvious kiddies asking, quite frankly, *stupid* questions and one or two
posts from some (very obviously) young smartarse expressing views on 'Jazz'
so alien to me I can't put my arse up to them! Nothing at all from the 'Old
Gang' who all seem to have had a simultaneous Reality Attack and, wisely,
seem to have all ****ed off!

Then I get to your post!

Let me say, first off, I see where you are going and broadly agree with the
sentiments expressed. I don't agree about the lead paint and I can't relate
to your 'flip flops and fluorescent 'clackers' on our wheels' at all - in my
time it was cigarette packets or playing cards and I ain't ever worn 'flip
flops' in my entire life!. (Strange that because, at 56, I thought I was
only 4 years older than you, but this seems to come from at least a decade
later?) Beef dripping on (on bread, with a sprinkle of salt - not in a
'sandwich') I not only *can* relate to - I sometimes lie awake of a night
fekkin' thinking about it! :-)

You have addressed a great many issues that are very close to my own heart
and I would only say that if I could go back in time twice it would be to
1914 and 1939, with a bundle of magazine photos of the mindless, uniformed
sheep, that kids have become today, to try and persuade a few million decent
youngsters not to throw their lives away just so that some gormless little
**** can spend part of his £200 a week pocket money on a new jingle for his
bloody mobile phone!

Having seen a 'University Hairdressing Student' (???) on the telly last
night expressing her opinons on student grants, seen a weather report from a
geezer (whose own garden was apparently underwater) forcasting rain being
followed by some BS about he 'we need to save water' and reservoirs down to
20% of normal or somesuch, then hearing that because a 1,000 people a year
are alleged to die from passive smoking 'they' are trying to get half the
planet decreed 'No Smoking Areas' while selling fags on every street corner,
followed by a 'tough ****' report that 22,000 people did/will die from
hypothermia in the winter, hearing that the Labour Government wants to
become the 'Employers Government too', hearing that some Dago has turned
down an OBE for some fekkin' poetry while some **** gets one for kicking a
ball about and so it goes on.......!!!! (And that's only overnight FFS!)

Then I get on to this group.....

Like I said, a few truly stupid questions which have been asked a hundred
times, the ever-present (thanks to the, er, American connection) ludicrous
crossposted crap, the general view that Jazz (the 'New Rock N Roll'?) is now
deemed (by the aforementioned kiddies, who have instigated *nothing* new in
their entire lives and, most likely, never will) to be virtually *anything*
that is a) performed by persons *without* pierced navels or b) doesn't have
a cello in it. (Let's not mention the use of mics in 'Opera' these days or
the somewaht unrelated fact that Hollywood is entirely capable of coming up
with an original/new idea for a film.....!)

Like I said, The 'Old Hands' in this group appeare to have lost interest and
wandered off and the 'New Wave', to be quite frank, is about as interesting
as watching a turd dry out. Compared with some, this group has much
'community' spirit as the Harrods New Year's Sale and the normal 'tone' here
is that of a school playground at best. My own efforts here, during the last
12 months - Webpages, posting like a demented thing, Show N Tell
'interactivity', new vinyl group - have come to naught. (The best fun I've
had in a long while was smashing Rudi into submission yesterday! :-)

Your post has somehow backlit all of the above and my own feelings of
foolishness, logging on here, are now at the 'it's time to **** on the fire
and call in the dogs' stage! I do believe Mike, you have done what a 1,000
Chicago ****heads cound *never* have achieved - I think you've helped me
realise it's time to move on!

I think what I need is:

To find my shaving mirror.
Cut the number of teaspoons down, round here.
Follow the 'smart money' and jack this ng in.
Get a life.....


More, later (probably).......



So you can't do Thursdays either?

Sigh...

d

_____________________________

http://www.pearce.uk.com

Bought an Old Valve Radio Today! (long)
 

"Keith G" wrote in message
...

"Mike Gilmour" wrote


snip Mike's 'Yoof Of Today' rant


Mike, I didn't need to see this post today! - I'm having one of *those*
days - 'do ah wanna fly, do ya wanna see me try'
The other day got my foot caught in flex & broke missus's lighted two sided
mirror & broke the non magnifying side, gotta fix it.
Teaspoon concern?? here its 23!!! and god knows how many assorted/chipped
coffee cups.
Change flip flops and replace a pair of dull shoes - not a logo in sight.
Those clackers held with wooden clothes pegs??
Keith I'm 60 already..'University Hairdressing Student' Cheez ... Late
afternoon, sandwich in hand, switched on TV, 'Salon' girl getting colonic
irrigation, shot of exit clear tubing, put sandwich down uneaten ...yes
times have changed.

Not got time for a rant, getting sound gear checked & loaded for a weekend
gig, 12 piece band, Saturday, Inverness, (Falcon Square 11am - 1pm, 2-5pm)

I think what I need is:

To find my shaving mirror.
Cut the number of teaspoons down, round here.
Follow the 'smart money' and jack this ng in.
Get a life.....


More, later (probably).......


'Don't give up'.......

Bought an Old Valve Radio Today! (long)
 

"Keith G" wrote in message
...

"Mike Gilmour" wrote


snip Mike's 'Yoof Of Today' rant


Mike, I didn't need to see this post today! - I'm having one of *those*
days - 'do ah wanna fly, do ya wanna see me try'
The other day got my foot caught in flex & broke missus's lighted two sided
mirror & broke the non magnifying side, gotta fix it.
Teaspoon concern?? here its 23!!! and god knows how many assorted/chipped
coffee cups.
Change flip flops and replace a pair of dull shoes - not a logo in sight.
Those clackers held with wooden clothes pegs??
Keith I'm 60 already..'University Hairdressing Student' Cheez ... Late
afternoon, sandwich in hand, switched on TV, 'Salon' girl getting colonic
irrigation, shot of exit clear tubing, put sandwich down uneaten ...yes
times have changed.

Not got time for a rant, getting sound gear checked & loaded for a weekend
gig, 12 piece band, Saturday, Inverness, (Falcon Square 11am - 1pm, 2-5pm)

I think what I need is:

To find my shaving mirror.
Cut the number of teaspoons down, round here.
Follow the 'smart money' and jack this ng in.
Get a life.....


More, later (probably).......


'Don't give up'.......

Bought an Old Valve Radio Today! (long)
 

"Mike Gilmour" wrote

Keith I'm 60 already..


OK, got the leads in the wrong way round (nothing new there!) - at least I
got the '4 years' bit right!


Not got time for a rant, getting sound gear checked & loaded for a weekend
gig, 12 piece band, Saturday, Inverness, (Falcon Square 11am - 1pm, 2-5pm)


:-)


I think what I need is:

To find my shaving mirror.
Cut the number of teaspoons down, round here.
Follow the 'smart money' and jack this ng in.
Get a life.....


More, later (probably).......


'Don't give up'.......


OK. 'Probably' then.....


Mike, I *never* give up - I actually *invented* the 'wot it takes' and the
'die trying' methodologies and have applied them all my life - there's a big
difference in sticking with something that matters and switching something
off that don't matter when it gets boring!

Anyway, today is a better day (maybe Don's right - maybe I just can't *do*
Thursdays! :-):

The shaving mirror turned up. (Some **** had left it behind the telly,
apparently.........)
A savage cull of the teaspoons *has* been executed. (It's simple - use the
wrong size spoon and yer cup o' tea suffers.....)
I'll mebbe hang around for a while yet and have some 'fun'. (I checked - my
'Year Of Self-Imposed Good Behaviour' has just expired!)
I've also remembered that I *had* a life and it's fekkin' wore me out!

So look for another (Post) post or two in the next few minutes! :-)

(I know *someone* who will be happy.....!! :-)

Bought an Old Valve Radio Today! (long)
 

"Mike Gilmour" wrote

Keith I'm 60 already..


OK, got the leads in the wrong way round (nothing new there!) - at least I
got the '4 years' bit right!


Not got time for a rant, getting sound gear checked & loaded for a weekend
gig, 12 piece band, Saturday, Inverness, (Falcon Square 11am - 1pm, 2-5pm)


:-)


I think what I need is:

To find my shaving mirror.
Cut the number of teaspoons down, round here.
Follow the 'smart money' and jack this ng in.
Get a life.....


More, later (probably).......


'Don't give up'.......


OK. 'Probably' then.....


Mike, I *never* give up - I actually *invented* the 'wot it takes' and the
'die trying' methodologies and have applied them all my life - there's a big
difference in sticking with something that matters and switching something
off that don't matter when it gets boring!

Anyway, today is a better day (maybe Don's right - maybe I just can't *do*
Thursdays! :-):

The shaving mirror turned up. (Some **** had left it behind the telly,
apparently.........)
A savage cull of the teaspoons *has* been executed. (It's simple - use the
wrong size spoon and yer cup o' tea suffers.....)
I'll mebbe hang around for a while yet and have some 'fun'. (I checked - my
'Year Of Self-Imposed Good Behaviour' has just expired!)
I've also remembered that I *had* a life and it's fekkin' wore me out!

So look for another (Post) post or two in the next few minutes! :-)

(I know *someone* who will be happy.....!! :-)