so my brother just got back from his high school field trip to the bahamas at his school for super smart science kids. they spent a week scuba diving the whole day.

turns out he took a dive in one day and ended up face to face with a 4 foot stingray, 2 inches away from his face. i'm fucking jealous.

southern stingray
[IMG]http://www.richard-seaman.com/Underwater/Belize/FishYouMightNotWantToMeet/SouthernStingray.jpg[/IMG]

Wheres S**ve I*r*n

oh im going to hell for that, i immediatly take it back :(

i shudnt hit post

edit: im removing that myself

the stars on irwin are a little messed up


but lol

[QUOTE=purple_hazer;18229160]sick arse right? ive only gotten to listen through it a couple times but fuck me allan holdsworth is on that shit. ron jarzombek too i think! all stars man[/QUOTE]

Amazing album. I discovered it on Spotify, but I'm going to have a look for the CD.

I haven't checked who's playing on what track yet, but I know Brett Garsed does the (fucking sweet) solo in "Alien Hip Hop".

sup lod.

yeah great weekend, just means today feels even worse than usual.

got some good birthday prezzies, new monitoring headphones for me studio and ipod classic 160 gb among others.

happy bday baz.
I'm already late for work... crap.
cya lod

[QUOTE=Junooni;18229662]so my brother just got back from his high school field trip to the bahamas at his school for super smart science kids. they spent a week scuba diving the whole day.

turns out he took a dive in one day and ended up face to face with a 4 foot stingray, 2 inches away from his face. i'm fucking jealous.

southern stingray
[IMG]http://www.richard-seaman.com/Underwater/Belize/FishYouMightNotWantToMeet/SouthernStingray.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]

The fuck kinda high school takes a "field trip" to the Bahamas?

thats what i said man.

[QUOTE=Blue_Moon;18229729]Wheres S**ve I*r*n

oh im going to hell for that, i immediatly take it back :(

i shudnt hit post

edit: im removing that myself[/QUOTE]

Terrible post. Not for the fact you mentioned a guy that died, but cause you decided to "censor" the dudes name for some fucking reason (and got the asterisks wrong in the process), rather than just deleting the post.

I felt bad, thats pretty much it... But thought it was still rather amusing

It was a way of leaving my conscience clear 8)

[QUOTE=Modern Iconoclast;18230178]The fuck kinda high school takes a "field trip" to the Bahamas?[/QUOTE]

lmfao

Sup Lod,

The news today is bollocks, why dont the Tories just get rid of our entire armed forces and totally fuck up everything our lads have died to achieve.

Pretty deep for this time of the morning.

In other news its my birthday in about a week and a half. Huzzzzaaaaaa!


EDIT: We can say fuck now? I feel liberated!

it's not having a carrier we can land any of our own planes on for 10 years that worries me. being an ex navy chap it just seems ludicrous. we've always had at least 3 with 2 of them being operational at any one time and plenty for them to do as well...

And people wonder why I voted Labour. Torries always have been and always will be money grubbing motherfuckers and the Lib Debs have less backbone than an octopus.

Well coming from a mining village with a mining father/grandfather etc. I have a natural hatred for all that is Tory.
I hope Barrack shows up at No.10 and personally bitch-slaps Cameron and his little tea-boy Clegg until they see some sense.

Also, major props for my local town Mansfield recently for bieng one of the top 3 places to be worst hit by the budget cuts!

[QUOTE=benfan;18231617]Sup Lod,

The news today is bollocks, why dont the Tories just get rid of our entire armed forces and totally fuck up everything our lads have died to achieve.[/QUOTE]

They're cutting the university teaching budget by [B]80%[/B] research by 25% (despite the fact that it brings far more money INTO the country than gets spent on it, and despite the fact nearly every other country having to make austerity measures are increasing research budgets), the fees for students will be going up 100% (in return for 80% less teaching), yah yah, but you're horrified that BAE systems will get one less order for another fucking pointless toy to make the generals feel big and clever?

What exactly have our lads died to achieve? An Afghanistan still ruled by the Taleban and hundreds of thousands of iraqi civilians unable to enjoy the fantastic new country we've built for them (lol) on account of being dead?

yes, it's a shitty job being a soldier and I have respect for them in the same way I do say, paramedics and firemen, but if the MOD would spend their money on shit they'll actually use instead of nukes and aircraft carriers there wouldn't be a problem in the first place.

[QUOTE=benfan;18231643]Well coming from a mining village with a mining father/grandfather etc. I have a natural hatred for all that is Tory.
I hope Barrack shows up at No.10 and personally bitch-slaps Cameron and his little tea-boy Clegg until they see some sense.

Also, major props for my local town Mansfield recently for bieng one of the top 3 places to be worst hit by the budget cuts![/QUOTE]

I'm not too far behind you in Stoke.


[QUOTE=Bruce E Kinesis;18231739]They're cutting the university teaching budget by [B]80%[/B] research by 25% (despite the fact that it brings far more money INTO the country than gets spent on it, and despite the fact nearly every other country having to make austerity measures are increasing research budgets), the fees for students will be going up 100% (in return for 80% less teaching), yah yah, but you're horrified that BAE systems will get one less order for another fucking pointless toy to make the generals feel big and clever?

What exactly have our lads died to achieve? An Afghanistan still ruled by the Taleban and hundreds of thousands of iraqi civilians unable to enjoy the fantastic new country we've built for them (lol) on account of being dead?

yes, it's a shitty job being a soldier and I have respect for them in the same way I do say, paramedics and firemen, but if the MOD would spend their money on shit they'll actually use instead of nukes and aircraft carriers there wouldn't be a problem in the first place.[/QUOTE]
Agreed. There are far more pressing economic priorities that aircraft carriers and nuclear subs that serve only as international and political penis extensions. Besides which, as far as I know, Al Qaeda don't have an air force, or a coast line. So aircraft carriers aren't exactly the best tool for the job.

oh you need the big guns if you ever want to bomb the bastards. from a great distance of course :)

I gotta be honest, I have zero fucking respect for these whiny fuckers that bitch and moan about 'our lads being treated badly'. They should know good and well that they're going to get treated like shit, it's hardly something that's just happened overnight it's been going on for ages. Also, who makes the UK what it is? The MoD? Not by a long shot, reroute the money into a proper education system and proper health service.

Stop treating people for their own stupidity too, smokers, alcoholics, the obese, the list goes on, they all drain the system because of their stupidity to get themselves in such situations. And don't get me started on fucking benefits, minimum wage is one thing but paying people for 'maybe' trying to find a job is bullshit to the n'th degree and promotes nothing but 'black sheep' syndrome in society.

With all this said, I need a sandwich.

I doubt that they will do anything about the benifits system because it would be too easy. Its been a problem for years now yet we still keep giving our taxes to scumbag idiots.

[QUOTE=Papa Shank;18231772]I gotta be honest, I have zero fucking respect for these whiny fuckers that bitch and moan about 'our lads being treated badly'. They should know good and well that they're going to get treated like shit, it's hardly something that's just happened overnight it's been going on for ages. Also, who makes the UK what it is? The MoD? Not by a long shot, reroute the money into a proper education system and proper health service.

Stop treating people for their own stupidity too, smokers, alcoholics, the obese, the list goes on, they all drain the system because of their stupidity to get themselves in such situations. And don't get me started on fucking benefits, minimum wage is one thing but paying people for 'maybe' trying to find a job is bullshit to the n'th degree and promotes nothing but 'black sheep' syndrome in society.

With all this said, I need a sandwich.[/QUOTE]


well...100% agree with the 2nd paragraph, you reap what you sow imho.

the first paragraph, i see why you would think that but the fact that the armed forces are dying in such numbers atm has struck a chord, rightly so. there was a saying when i was in there that "if you can't take a joke you shoudln't have joined" and we knew we were there to be fucked about. that's all part of the job and while it wasn't fun you just got on with it. it was fair enough back then when all we did was ponce around in sunnier places doing the odd exercise and shooting the odd drug smuggler, it's all a bit more serious these days. the lads themselves won't complain (much) but families and opposition politicians will.

I'm sorry, but am I the only one that thinks that there haven't been that many UK soldiers killed in action in whichever middle eastern country we're hating on at the moment? Several hundred in what, 9 years? Now don't get all "respect human life" on me, I'm just trying to look at it objectively.

Agreed, it's a tiny death toll in the grand scheme.

It's also a pointless and hideously expensive campaign that we should have no part of. Every facet of it is just pointless so i've no idea why the fuck we're even bothering with it.

I dont want to get into the Politics of it all cause that wasnt my point. I was merely trying to converse upon a subject i was watching regarding funding. Haha.
We watched everyone shit on Labour for not supplying our troops with what they needed so i dont wanna see it get cut even more by the new budget.

Don't get me wrong I don't want to see any of the soldiers suffer, which is why I agree even more with Squirrel; pull them out and there'll be no more deaths, and we'll save a shedload.

To be honest, as much as I could rant about Iraq/whatever, I'm finding Cameron's proposed university funding cuts to be pretty much the most disgusting thing I've read in a long time.

[url]http://www.tribunemagazine.co.uk/2010/03/economics-101-don%E2%80%99t-cut-education-in-a-recession/[/url]

Yeah it was written about a Labour government, but tbh Labour's cuts were nowhere near as drastic as the ones we're facing at the moment.

I like how we all agree.

I think being a soldier if hard, no doubt, but it's not like they don't get paid well/get the benefits.

Soldiers are soldiers and not martyrs

SUP LOD.

So, after the bass purchase I realised I needed more space for guitars.

So I bought one of those 9-guitar Warwick rockstand guitar racks. Thansk to it, I can now safely store all of my guitars in a SMALLER and more efficient space than before.

Recommended!

I assume it is something like I have. I don't even remember who in the hell made mine. I love how it folds up into a case though.

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[IMG]http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/9650/67362438649451454528966.jpg[/IMG]

That's a fair amount of wood

and rockcase made mine

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Nice axes, but who built them upside down?

i mirror all my guitar picture, same with the steering wheel in my car

So its only the case that was printed backwards?

i c what u did there

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Sup dudes?

Nice guitars.

What's a good guitar brand/model of steel stringed acoustic that plays pretty easy and much more like an electric... if there is any more particular than others... i have an acoustic here but its almost feels unplayable its pretty annoying

You need stronger fingers.

i do indeed, but noticing big differences in feel of different acoustics, especially the one i have, its fckin ridiculous

have enough electrics, think the next one will be a nice acoustic

Acoustics r 4 Pu$$EES

Metal Zone 4 Lyf