And prehaps at half time we could have 'MULTIBALL!!'. . . .

No. Wait. Sorry, wrong sport . . .

Thats not stalemate. Thats freedom of choice. Don't be around him when he swears and he won't be around you when you don't won't him to swear.

But. Feel free to take the moral highground when you are around someone who swears. That way you can feel righteous, upstanding and proper. But If I find out that you only not swear on a sunday and that the first thing you say to your work colleagues on a monday morning is 'Hell yea!' then i withholde the freedom to call you a hypocrite.

My point being that nobody is perfect. I know saints who swear like troopers and sinners who are preachers. You make your choice and I shall make mine. I have nobody to blame but myself and I hold nobody to blame for you other than yourself.

Yea.Got tunes. not sure if they are ready for human consumtion just yet though. Will see what Friday gives me. Might be able to give the group some rough cuts...and trust me. They will be rough.


Watching Sugar rush now. For some reason.

Quote from TagForce :

Sue them! (or better yet, slip them one of your stories, wait till they make it into a movie, and then sue them for even more money).

Now what the heck does swing the cat mean (other than catching the neighbour's cat steeling fish from your pond, and subsequently tailswinging it back over the fence (and 3 extra for good measure))?

Swing a cat. Cat'o'nine tails. (This is from memory, I'm sure the T'internet will explain all). A Cat'o'nine was a whip that had nine 'tails' to it. Oftern embedded with glass or sharp stones and the like. Men coudn't be flogged under decks because there wasn't room to swing the cat. So men would be dragged up on deck so the cat could be swung.

Hence not enough room to swing a cat . . .

And just for reference:

Keel Hawl. Men used to be tied with a rope that was worked under the boat from one side to the other or under the 'keel'. They would then be thrown overboard and hawled by the rope from one side of the boat to the other under the keel. Ok you might think. Just hold your breath and you'll be fine. On a new boat yes maybe. It wouldn't be pleasant but you might be ok. But on a boat that has been in the water a while like the old man'o'wars and war ships their hulls would be covered in barnicles. You've all seen barnicles on a rocks at the sea side. Would you like to be dragged over them, under water. That is to be Keel Hawled.

Square Meal. With a rolling ship a round plate would slide around the table (which had raised edges to it!) so rather than your meal being served on a plate you would get a square board. This would prevent you from loosing your meal in rough seas. Hence to have a square meal.

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Went to pub. Drank beer with workmates. Workmates went back to work. I was left drinking beer. Oh, and smoking. Got some cash out the hole in wall, first checking it wasn't rigged. Went to another pub to wait for my bus. Drank another beer and smoked another fag. Texted a few mates aboutmy recording session on Friday. Needed my vocal girlie to go though some tunes with me. Got bus. Saw mates car in Local pubs car park. went into pub. Drank more beer and smoked more fags with her and her daughter and ex husband and his girlfriend and my other mate who might/might not be going out with my mate with eh daughter. Who is also my housemate. So. Drank some more, smoked some more. Set the world to rights. Got a lift home and now blogging this forum and watching lost . . .


All in all a failry average day.

Couldhave done with being a bit more chipper. But hey, got a lot on my mind atm.

Quote from Hankstar :

It's strange how agile a headless chook can be - you'd swear they know you're there and are trying to avoid being caught again: "you already got my head you bastard, you'll never take me drumsticks!"

I know. head dragging on the ground. Nothing going on upstairs and yet round and round they go . . . .

First thing I do If I'm driving and find myself on a grass verge . . .

FWD, keep the power on (Moderatly and gauged) power through with the front wheels depending on whether I got and exit or not. If I don't and it's just grass then a brick wall or something then I am ****ed. You cannot stop or steer on grass. Period.

RWD. Been there, done that. Your in it for the ride. Sure, if you are on a good track with open treads and a good car then sure, powersteer your way out of it. If your going from a road to grass then you have no hope in hell. Honest. I have driven enough vehicles in my time that I know what will happen if get on slippery stuff at any kinda speed. Things are going to go wrong, very fast.

Sure. Do all the right things, countersteer, get of the throttle, don't touch the brakes, engine brake. Do all of those things. It ain't gunna help you unless you have the experiance and the skill. And even then you could do a Kimi and park it arsewards into the tyres. Or in my case park your new BMW on it's roof up an embankment. Go find your self an airfield. Get up to racing speed on the runway, then take to the grass. Tell me how you get on.

Actually case in point. Top gear. We all watch that. Cheap car, no power. Who recovers from taking to the grass? Who? Tell me please.

Quote from Becky Rose :

Then you have even less right to free speach! At least Welsh people can use Welsh and say what they like (because nobody can understand them).

Oh. Oh really.

Right. Ok then.

Like. Right. Yes. Fine. Sure. Ok . . . . Then.

Moving on. . ..


Ummmmmm.

Quote from VoiD :

...and its every single penny worth!

. . . . Worth every penny.. . . . .Just for future reference.

Na. it's a just a phrase I know. They got it from me.

Although I do believe it's an old maritime saying. Along with things like 'square meal', 'Keel Hawl', 'Swing a cat' and more stuff.

resistance is futile . .


And I areally am going to the pub. honest.

Come to the pub with me. It's amzing what you can find at the bottom of a pint glass.

Quote from CSU1 :

When I'm not playing I'm chocking my chicken'

is that when you put a brick under each leg?

Or did you mean Choking?

My dad used to do that. . . . . .

Every year. He would kill all our chickens then leave them in the garage to hang. They would flap for ages. And it's true, you can do the deed and they will carry on running around until they hit somehting and fall over . . .

Going to the pub now. See you on the other side.

Kinda racing related. Ish.

You would have thought that Mr Ecclestones Braodcasting company might of fact checked better. Apparently he uses local crews for each race so if it was a turkish production company then I'm not surprised they did that.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

We used to have a girl working at our place who had a masters degree in astrophysics and knockers like beach balls.

Now your getting on to one of my favourite subjects.

Beachballs.

Quote from TagForce :

Damnit, you're good!

Doesn't this one remind you of something?
(looking forward to the blog if it ever happens)

EDIT: Did you see Pirates of the Caribbean? There's a blatant reference to PotC in 2 of your stories, so just wonderin' if that was intentional.

Ok. I get one (The kraken, which was more just topical than actually a reference. But what was the other?)

And no, that wasn't a personal one. but I did serve my time in a kitchen and you really don't wan't to know what really whent into some of the food.

-edit- Dunno. What can I be reminded of . . . . That Crashlanding on Callisto when all I had was a readers Digest from 2308 and half a packet of digestives or that time when I crashed the System Net trying to get my Navi comp to work. Or how about the time I ended up inthe Hareem of Sultan Achtachbadeer, or something. Or my winning of the Titan race trophy.

I dunno.

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Just had to move a car in the car park. The lovely Doctor Procter came in for a chat. Lovely girl, very qieut but very nice. And Brainy. Like silly brainy. Like PHD silly brainy. Thinks she likes me. But I gotta kid and shes too shy to do anything. She is lovely though.

Still not rained again. Although it is slightly damp from the last time.

Do you watch many races?

Grass is not easy to drive on. Not when you have 300-400bhp trying to get out the rear wheels.

Grass, as with ice and water is only any good if your exit is directly in front of you and you don't have to steer. Unless you are at a slow enough speed that gravity can ensure grip then grass is gunna slip you just like everything else . . .

Doesn't RBR what?

Quote from Jakg :

same here, time to break out the crumpets, have some tea and play some jolly old cricket

What what.

Poop Poop.

Oh jolly good show what.

Make everyone a boundary sir!

Yea but with Rally cross (Or any dirt arena) you would change the very surface your driving on every time you pass it. LFS would have to compute degredation of a pristine track into the ones you use as an example every time a trye passed over any particular spot. I don't think there are many programs or even computers out there that could model particle physics to that degree on the fly.

I don't know if LFS has the spare capacity to put in more surface undulations as would reflect RL in a more convincing manner but I'm fairly sure it wouldn't give you surface degredation. Although I could bve completly wrong. I usually am.

Suns shining now.

And lightening.

Time and money. It always comes down to that don't it.

I'm supposed to be recording atm but neither me nor my studio partner can find the time. And it's something I really want to do.

Hold on. Stop press. Text just in. we're good to go on friday. Whooo. Friday recording session. How's that for synchronicity.