I'm all for supporting the national team in the world cup.

good for you

I'm English and a football fan. I support a League 1 team. Hopefully soon to be a Championship team.

I couldn't give a rat's arse about the national team, bunch of overpaid prima donnas that they are. Good luck to them but I shall be doing my best to avoid watching any of the FIFA 2010 World Cup

No I don't think it is wonder woman. I believe it's the one from Dances With Wolves, you know, the one who had gone native…

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can't hurt to ask though, can it

I had a mate (lost touch about 5 years ago) at a company where we both worked as permies. I moved on to another permanent role, got made redundant, found another, then another, been there 10 years in October

He got a contract job at Plumb Center, in the IT development team. I think he was there for about 5 years on contract rates. Last contact I had with him, his mortgage was paid off* and the garage contained a Beemer, a Merc and a Ferrari…

* not entirely through his earnings. He had a brush with skin cancer and his critical illness insurance paid out…
AFAIK the cancer was dealt with completely.

I got a whopping 11

but I am mildly obsessive compulsive. Particularly where my wallet, keys & expensive musical instruments are concerned. Is that unusual?

unlikely to see a headphone out on a 100W jobbie

If he's in a band and practicing regularly then yes, he could. But most likely from the drums 😉

I'm 45, been in bands since I was 15. My hearing is not as good as it could be, and that's from practicing once or twice a week
If I was a pro drummer practicing daily I would either be losing my hearing OR using earplugs

And a snare drum is loud enough to damage its owner's hearing after just 2 minutes…

So anyone who has kids that play drums, get your kids some earplugs

TBH 100W is overkill for most applications. If you really really do need to be really loud, chances are you'll be playing a gig where the amp will be miked it up through the PA anyway.

50-65W is usually plenty to cut through all the other noise (ie the drums) in a rehearsal or small venue situation. Bass is a different beast altogether…

our singer uses a Boss FX panel on the floor with more buttons to stomp on than you can actually fit your feet between; he has a Vox AC30 valve amp and a Tech21 powered speaker.

The Tech21 does nothing at all to the sound except make it louder or quieter, all the sounds come from the pedal board. So you can have it as loud or as quiet as you like, and yet the quality of the sound is exactly the same. The Vox actually 'colours' the sound depending on the volume, which is not always ideal

t'other guitarist also has a pedal board thing, but his goes through a Fender deVille (sp?) combo and very nice it sounds too

Napier Road has a BMW and a Merc parked on it on street view….. there must be a worse place than that! they'll be the landlords' cars

you want to try living there. I did, for 8 years. Took me another 12 years to actually sell the thing. Finally got rid of it about 2 weeks ago.

rough? as a bear's arse

I try not to go anywhere in BD3 now, it brings back bad memories

I have a Halfords high mount tailgate rack. Takes 2 bikes, 3 at a pinch, straps onto the tailgate, and holds them high enough to be above the lights on many models, depending how high the lights are. Fiat Punto for example has high mounted taillights so could be a problem.

I don't need it any more as I now have an estate car, so if you're anywhere near Leeds I could let you have it for, say £30

I meant the little Tesco down on the bottom of Sunbridge road, you know, just south of TJ Hughes

not familiar with that one, I live out of town now

the nice houses on Manningham Lane are where the rich merchants lived before the coming of the trains and later the car. As the ability came to move out into the countryside and still get to one's factories, mills & warehouses for a day's overseeing, so they moved out into the Aire valley (for example), and the less well off moved in.

Manningham was already on the slide long before the mass immigration after WWII started…
TBH there are worse parts of town. Thornbury, Bradford Moor, Laisterdyke, Woodside, Dudley Hill, etc. Mostly on the east side, but on the west side there's also Girlington, Allerton, Lidget Green…

I'm not a native of Bradford but I've lived in the district since 1982 – first a student just off campus, then inner city on the Pudsey side of town; moved to the 'burbs in '98, where we are in walking/cycling distance of some fantastic countryside.

TBH it's a dump now. The city council need stringing up for what they've allowed to happen to our once marvellous city centre. Not just the Westfield Hole, but also some of the amazing city centre architecture – e.g. the Wool Exchange – who on earth thought replacing Victorian Gothic with a 50ft high sheet of glass was a good idea?
Having said that, Little Germany is looking better now than it has for a long, long time

And don't get me started on live music in Bradford…

teach him the words to "I'm Henry the Eighth I am"

What's so bad about a council flat in Bradford? I'm sure there are worse places
yeah, Napier Road, Bradford, BD3 8DA

book him a one-off go in a rehearsal room. They'll be on http://www.yell.com under "rehearsal rooms"

Then tell him if he wants to keep it cranked up, he can keep going to the rehearsal room – but that it comes out of his pocket money. At £7.50-£10 per hour he'll soon come round to the idea of headphones 😉

Of course, if he doesn't go off the idea, you might have the next Jimmy Page/Slash/Pete Doherty* on your hands…

*insert his favourite guitarist

or you could use a fatter screw, if you can get one to go through the hole in the handle

I don't know how aesthetic they are but there are some professionally athletic types up there:

if you're thinking of the "ladies of the night" I heard they'd moved

I was going to say something about ernie & engfhthyr but I can't be bothered.
get a room you two

Canal Road or Halifax Road? Must have been Halifax Road, as I occasionally shop in Canal Road one & it's not a pretty sight

BMW 3 series Touring (last model) are not big enough in the boot to get a bike in whole without a great deal of faffing; two bikes would almost certainly need at least the front wheels off.

I know, I had one. Lovely car mind, just not big enough boot for my requirements

below the average Tesco check-out girl anywhere else.

you've obviously not been to Tesco Bradford then 😉

April & May are pretty busy for me too.

tomorrow – Leeds
30th Apr – Bradford
6th May – Leeds
14th May – Newcastle – cancelled, shame
15th May – Leeds (TBC)
21-23 May – Studio
30 May – sister gets married. No gig though.

I'm sure they probably did; but I'm thinking of my first mortgage here, taken out in 1990.

Only just sold that b*stard f*cking house too.

🙄

I'd rather be doing something enjoyable at home

with: Brittany Ferries / P&O / etc
not with: an airline

of course, I'm being facetious.

RyanAir have hardly covered themselves with glory – but then they never do; Jet2 have appeared to be doing more than some other airlines to get people back, but they are reluctant to pay out for hotels etc.

But would I avoid flying? No, of course not.

Not going anywhere this year but simply because (a) I'm still skint from last year's holiday and (b) I really can't be bothered with all the hassle & expense. I'd rather be doing something enjoyable at home

That would suggest though that 40% of the folk who attended were racist surely?

or maybe the undecided or the uninformed.

There definitely were some racist elements at the original Rock Against Racism gigs & festivals, in particular those who thought that "White Riot" was a fascist song. They were soon disabused of that notion, if I remember correctly…

Falklands.
Riots.
Miners' strike. I remember being out on a night out in Wakefield mid 84 and seeing van after van after van of police setting off just before dawn – it was almost military in its scale & coordination.
13% interest rates meaning £300+ repayments on a £30k mortgage.
unemployment – way higher per capita than it is now, or certainly seemed so at the time.
the death of heavy industry, including one that I worked in for a while. I think that particular company's demise was more about biting off more than it could chew in terms of acquiring competitors, than directly as a result of the government, but I could be wrong.
Gulf War I – never finished the job off
Militant Tendency, Scargill & the Socialist Workers' Party, among others. The death of the GLC

I could go on for hours

cheers 🙂

we used to have a system with a pressure pad under the carpet on the stairs. It was a good idea until the cat once got locked upstairs while we were out; the neighbours were not impressed.

probably 60-40 preaching to the converted. But every new convert is a result

Yorkshire first & last & always. But my passport says United Kingdom.

Born in Leeds
Work in t'people's republic o' Baaarnsley
live almost on t'moors north of Bradford

bump

no but they come with free flat cap, travel rug & thermos flask 😉

well I shall be going to work as usual, at my US-owned multinational employer in the People's Republic of Barnsley.

So I doubt very much that St George will even get a look in

1) someone has to say it so let me be the first: Spartacus
2) drums
3) my wife
4) fave what?
5) worst what?
6) oxygen thieves

Is it the seagull who's on acid or the viewer?

Or is it the gay bikers?

my singing voice is so bad, I can actually keep in tune with F&TM 😉

Oh right, you're an attention whore.

molgrips, why do you insist on throwing these insults around about people you don't know? It's getting very tiresome now

And additional costs to wash all the clothes that get covered in diesel every time you fill up.

messy bugger 😉

I'd love to know where these people live & work that get remotely near the manufacturers' claimed MPG. perhaps they live 2 minutes from 1 motorway junction and work at a motorway service station…

I don't listen to music when riding. can't concentrate on the music 😉

i don't tend to buy ice creams very often so i don't really notice. it was a guess