Dad3353

I don't like to be the one that breaks it to you, but you've had that distinction for a very long time. Wear the badge with pride. ...

In France, there is a system whereby one puts a 'Stop Pub' sticker on the letterbox. The postie (and others...) will no longer post flyers, publicity or whatever that doesn't have the specific name and address on it. It's been decades since we last had anything of the sort; it works very well. I'm not sure quite how much of a 'legal obligation' is involved, but any dross that gets through would be up for a hefty fine I think...

What..? And lose all of that street cred..? Oh, OK then, as it's Christmas. Have a great one, @TimR, and everyone else, too...

Three groats..?

Ah..! Soooooo..! Now it's regular dice, is it..? How stupid of me; I thought you meant six-sided dice. Now, if you had made any mention of regular six-sided dice, with no '7' face, you may have had a point (note the 'may'...). Never mind. Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle.

This is what happens when one is so 'pretty sure'. One gets shown up for an arrogant fool, or mad.

These are vacant platitudes, not absolute truths. There's not really much depth to replies of the sort. Still, if posts have to be posted, post away. If some change of folk's opinion is expected, you're mad.

Where was your thumb, though..?

A second-hand Millennium MPS-850 e-drum kit, still boxed, and at a splendid price. A very nice kit.

It makes one regret the good ol' days of Exchange & Mart.

Originally (and still by some...) called a 'tug bar', it helped keep the bass vertical, and anchored the hand for playing with one's thumb. Here's some typical pictures of exponents at the time...

Not a thumb rest, originally, but a finger rest; the strings were plucked with the thumb, principally. Things evolved, however.

Shuffling a pack of cards..?

Err... 'Think'..? ...

When buying new, I have them bring out half-a-dozen or so, and I try 'em each in turn, with a light touch at first, then a bit of a thrashing. However, I'm no longer welcome, apparently, at the Aston Martin works.

You are Winston Churchill and I claim my £5.

... or maybe complete and utter apathy. I'm not sure that folk in general, all around the country, will 'do' anything. Things will just simply evolve of their own accord, following whatever the Future brings. Serendipity, I'd say, is more of a driver than any 'movement'. I may be wrong, of course, as could anyone else be.

Fixed.

Now you tell me..!

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