Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on November 25, 2024, 10:47:09 AMNo.

If you want to do it do it yourself. The NHS are already willing to assist people die even if they don't want to, this will only encourage them.

Like, but without the DIY part.

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Twenty seconds.

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Good start. Thirty seconds.

Quote from: Fishy on November 23, 2024, 04:20:30 PMhttps://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/articles/ckgzvlxyvxgo

That's disappointing...

He must love making those pension contributions. Just retire.

Quote from: Slim on November 23, 2024, 04:00:45 PMI saw Sunetra Sarker, "Zoe Hanna" in Holby CIty and "Nisha Batra" in Brookside, in Top Shop on The Strand in 2007. A few years earlier when I lived in London, probably in 2000 or so, I saw Nicola Stephenson (Margaret from Brookside) and Angela Griffin (best remembered as Fiona Middleton from Coronation Street) together in a small basement night club in the West End. I think they were both in Holby City as well, at the time.

I remember seeing the BBC DJ Mark Goodier driving a van emblazoned with Radio 1 branding while out in a car one day in the '90s, but I can't remember where.

I met John Deacon (Queen bass player) at a swanky party given by Reuters to their market data customers at St Catherine's Wharf in December 1995. I was the only person there who recognised him. I wasn't 100% sure it was him, so I went up to a woman he'd just been chatting to and asked her "excuse me .. was that John Deacon you were talking to?" She replied that she had no idea who he was, but he said he played bass in a band. I talked to him for about 20 minutes. He was really humble and friendly. I wanted to talk to him about his bass guitars, he wanted to talk about market data and network protocols. But he did have an anecdote about being trapped in a hotel in Japan because it was surrounded by fans as far as the eye could see.

He also had a few choice words about the prospect of Queen touring with George Michael on vocals, which was being touted as a possibility at the time. He very definitely wasn't keen on the idea.

There was a photographer present at the do, taking photos of people with amusing props. I still have a pic somewhere of myself with one of my colleagues, in which we're both wearing Mexican style sombreros and ponchos. John agreed to have a photo taken with me but annoyingly, the photographer had already left. Wouldn't that have been a nice little memento of a night out in London?

I saw Budgie (Siouxsie and the Banshees drummer) standing around on London Bridge, talking to someone on a mobile phone, about 20 years ago.

That's an amazing John Deacon story. That must count as one of the last, fairly lengthy chats he had with anyone before going off the radar. He's someone I would love to have met to talk bass amongst other things. I'd be quite happy to go along with anything he wanted to chat about. He was a much bigger contributor to Queen than many realise. A bit of an electronic wizard as well.

Wow! Why did they not make it? It's a shame, great band, amazing singer.

Quote from: Thenop on November 23, 2024, 10:54:15 AM

Quote from: Thenop on February 19, 2024, 01:00:59 PMWas asked by one of the guitar players in my old band whether I wanted to help out doing a one off gig later this year for his (even older) band. So listening to demos recorded 35 years ago and figuring out the parts.

The gig is tonight, headlining is an old English NWoBHM leftfield contender: More. Which is fun, I have the LPs they did in the early 80s.

Don't remember them. Must have a look.

On another day I might have put this in the grumpy thread but that wouldn't be accurate. I noticed the date and the fact that it falls on a Saturday this year. I've always remembered that an important first date I had with a special old flame was on Saturday, 23rd November. I remember she didn't like the look of the first two restaurants we went to. She didn't like the lighting. I quietly thought to myself that this was never going to work as I became embarrassed making our excuses for a second time. The third restaurant was ok though and things did work out for quite a long time, until some stupid unnecessary stuff got in the way. It was 31 years ago but an unforgettable time in my life.

About two inches of snow here, six miles north of Glasgow. Quite elevated here so don't know how the city fared. Wind whipping up strongly now with rain hopefully soon. Aircraft now flying into Glasgow from the west so Alfie didn't get to chase A6-EOH, so he stayed in his new bed. Freddie outside leaving bear-sized paw prints all over the garden. I scraped some snow away earlier to get some bird seed out.

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Took three commercial breaks during Grace, so about eight or nine minutes.

Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on November 21, 2024, 09:50:24 PMWhat pisses me off - like it does with most adverts theses days is the:

"Create Exuberant" Create exuberant what?

"Live Vivid" Live vivid what?

"Delete Ordinary" Delete Ordinary what?

Adjectives and Adverbs are separate syntactical parts of grammar. Just because they both start with "Ad" it doesn't mean they are interchangeable. Go a bit further down that road and language becomes complete gibberish.

We had an English teacher in first year who used to step outside of the curriculum to cover general analysis. I remember being quite fascinated by the topic but never got to grips with it properly as he moved along too quickly. This was because he had taught it to a few of the pupils who had moved up from the lower school where he had also taught them. I hadn't, so was a bit lost. I tried to buy a book on the subject recently but couldn't find one. There were books on grammar but I couldn't find any of the expressions that would fly about the classroom, like "governing the verb.......". I'll try again. Maybe my memory is just playing tricks.

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Bit of a slog for some reason. Ten minutes.

1960s gangsters and bookmakers must be spinning in their graves.

Likewise, as Harry Enfield's mate used to say.

This was on my YouTube feed this evening,

https://youtu.be/9dbHLy2z5J0?si=I7utB5jKjtGZKt12

As a lifelong fan of Queen I was stunned to discover this extended version of Lily Of The Valley, one of Freddie's greatest works. I find it quite difficult not to become emotional whenever I hear it. The original is very short so I was intrigued as to why additional verses would end up on the cutting room floor. The new parts took the song in a slightly different direction with the transition from the album version into the new territory slightly clumsy, as were some of the lyrics. I thought perhaps that is why they were discarded, Freddie being the utter perfectionist.

Then it dawned. It's AI. Very, very clever AI, but not from the mind of a genius but rather a piece of software. I find this extremely upsetting. Like trying to capture a human soul in a jar. We are on a dangerous road. No good can come of this.