KingBollock

I remember my mum sewing me a fluffy, leopard skin print sleeve for the strap of my very first bass.

My wedding ring is ceramic, 8mm wide and very chunky. It did take a little getting used to, but the only time I notice it anymore is when I’m not wearing it (which is basically only when wearing latex gloves while airbrushing (which is like air-guitaring, but you pretend to be Bob Ross…)). My original wedding ring is sitting on the bottom of the river Bure. Where, as it came off, it snapped the bone in the end of my finger in half. That made it rather more difficult to play than wearing a ring…

Often adding more solder will help to reactivate old, stubborn solder. I’ve been using the same 17w Antex since 1988. About three years ago I bought a 25w Antex, just so’s I could have two different sized tips to hand without having to wait for the iron to cool down to change the bit.

A couple of weeks ago I was having no end of problems with my digits. I’d split a thumb nail right the way down one side, which got infected, making using it incredibly painful to touch anything with. I also had several rat bites (got a bunch of new pet rats) one of which got right down in between the bones of the first knuckle of my index finger, which got very infected (which I fixed by injecting 99% isopropyl alcohol into). Then one morning I woke up with a horrible pain in the pad of my other thumb. A few days later I discovered that it was a tiny, metal splinter, I have no idea where it came from. A few days after that I started getting the same pain in the pad of the index finger on the same hand. It was another metal splinter. I suspect that I got both at the same time, but the callous on the index finger meant that it had to bury itself deeper before it started making its presence known. That was a whole heap of fun to dig out!

Sorry, double post.

Made me think of a couple of songs by the utterly bonkers and amazing Oaf: The Terrors, and Eggbound. https://oafmusic.bandcamp.com/album/birth-school-oaf-death

Some money, a voucher for my local commercial fishery, and a book about words by Susie Dent. But the stand out has to be: Bryn Terfel: Carols & Christmas Songs on CD…

I get that. I think I probably misunderstood the thread title. I thought it was suggesting soldering the wires into the terminal, not just adding solder to the wire ends.

If worried about the screws backing out, loosening the connection, then perhaps a threadlocker might be a solution? You can get different strengths, one that makes a connection that can be broken, and a stronger one for a more permanent connection. We have two different types of plug sockets in our living room. There’s the normal one, and then there’re are ones that have round pin holes. Those are for lights and are controlled by switches next to the main light switch.

There are bands that I find incredibly frustrating. They seem like really cool people that I’d happily have a pint with, and they are obviously incredibly talented. The only two that have sprung into my currently addled mind, are Behemoth and the Foo Fighters. I really enjoy Foo Fighters music videos, but the music… other than Monkey Wrench. Blah! Another band is Radiohead. I like the song creep but I can’t stand anything else they’ve done. Again, they had quite cool videos, so I would watch them, but on mute.

Really? I lived in Nuneaton for the best(?) part of thirty years, I can’t say I found the name, nor accent (which I still have) particularly erm… great. The original area was just called Eaton. When it expanded they decided to change the name… there happened to a nunnery there, too… I am glad I got out when I did, the place has completely gone to pot. I’ve noticed comedians, and others on the telly, using the place as a crime riddled hellhole. From what I have seen and heard (have friends still in the area), they’re not wrong. Unfortunately the pun wasn’t deliberate. I’m not feeling quite that witty today.

Really? I don’t… Genuinely curious! ’Ang on… Are you implying a play on words? “None eaten”?

I’d have added: 3: Music that you don’t have an opinion of and don’t really mind if it’s playing in the background. 4: Music that you’d leave a pint in a pub to get far enough away from the building so that you can’t hear the music.

This is something I posted, a few days ago, on a thread about Weatherspoons. The person in the video loves Weatherspoons but refuses to eat there. “Oddly enough, the best cod and chips I have ever had was in a Weatherspoons… in Skegness (not on holiday, we were visiting friends). I only order cod when there is nothing else on the menu that I can stand to put in my mouth. I am a very fussy eater. I have had to order cod too many times, both in very cheap and very expensive places. It has always, at best and without exception, been dry/woolly. But tasteless enough for me to eat. So, in that Weatherspoons, about four years ago, I wasn’t expecting much. It was bloomin’ lovely! I came to the conclusion that it tasted so fresh because we were so close to the sea. Then, last year, we ended up in the Weatherspoons in Carmarthen (nearer to where we actually live), and again cod was the only thing I could eat but I wasn’t holding out much hope for lightening to strike twice, but blimey it did! It was absolutely spot on!” I only discovered that the first place was a Weatherspoons as we were leaving. I think I have been in a Weatherspoons a total of four times, the first two being in Nuneaton.

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