My wife is from Winnipeg, Canada, and that country seems so open and pleasant and polite.

Apart from all the murders, I'm sure it is lovely.

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/Manitobas-homicide-rate-highest-among-provinces-236553311.html

they look after their young well too

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/little-boy-left-cold-crying-outside-locked-daycare-83526437.html

(I'm clearly taking the piss here, but it is easy to view one place as better than another until you experience the bad side of things)

and best of all A Town Called Panic

 

That would probably be acceptable, just no pig faces. Although it is noted elsewhere that there is no law governing this, it is just the Malay distributor is touchy about it, even though it is ludicrous.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/8059876/Walter-Potters-Museum-of-Curiosities-bizarre-Victorian-collection-of-stuffed-animals-goes-on-show-again.html

...pigs

http://www.themalaymailonline.com/malaysia/article/pig-faces-blacked-out-in-malaysian-edition-of-new-york-times

I've never driven a car, I'm not sure there is much point in Bristol

If you do shift work or are bank staff in an organisation like the NHS then it's almost essential as the bus service is so appalling.

I cycle: it takes me 8 minutes to get to work and I live just under 2 miles away from it.

Find an industrial/office estate which has car parks that you can drive around in. But you should at least be insured as the police wont be happy if they arrive to find you in it uninsured.

I've never driven a car, I'm not sure there is much point in Bristol, but just be confident with it. 

Not over confident mind 

Wasn't Roni Size involved in a youth music project also? Unless he pushed it down the stairs.

Maybe it disappeared up its own arsehole?

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/01/more-decoy-spiders-philippines/

Or something like that. Interesting nonetheless.


All hail the might spider god.

I also thought Knowle West Media Centre had a music section, but couldn't see it on their website.

http://kwmc.org.uk/

http://www.colstonhall.org/bristol-plays-music/the-remix-academy/

What is wrong with nudity?

It leaves nothing to the imagination.

It does if you don't look.

What is wrong with nudity?

He didn't use a moral compass, either.

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Jonathan Meades has a dim view of him:

Tony Blair needs his head seeing to. I think Blair needs shooting, actually. One hopes that with the Olympics some of the security around him will have to go off and he and Cherie can end up as the Ceausescus of Connaught Square.

Get a 3D model of your unborn fetus now

http://www.fastcodesign.com/3024940/design-crime/it-is-now-possible-to-3-d-print-your-unborn-fetus

 

I can't tell if this is genuine.

What happened to them all? I swear there were loads about 17-23 years ago?

Those Tory bastards banned the pencil. No need for sharpeners now.

Actually Tony Blair tried to make the civil service an all digital environment,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_the_e-Envoy

but it wasn't feasible where I work, because our old guys couldn't cope with it. It then turns out that:

she did not exchange emails or text messages with Mr Blair, because he did not have a mobile phone while he was prime minister, and did not use a computer.

 

... of space aliens since 1945.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/01/13/iranian-news-agency-says-the-u-s-is-secretly-run-by-nazi-space-aliens-really/

 

Check your drawer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLWlqBH9nrU

Watch Wes and friends cook up a piece in 6 minutes of rehearsal and then play it proper. They don't write the tune, but Wes teaches them what to do, a quick run through and then into it.  

edit: 14 minutes in for the bit I'm referring to.

Do you think it might happen this time? I guess if it is started now, when the economy is on a small increase, then it has a chance of being completed. They had better sort out the infrastructure that serves it though, although evening events wont suffer as badly from the traffic.

It is a funny place. I played there years ago when it originally opened, when most of the fixtures and fittings were for sale. There is nothing stopping it from being a successful place, but it just seems to be overlooked. It seems to be some sort of Palestinian Embassy at the moment I note.

I think that was when my mate Jon ran it. Prob 13/14 years ago?

Yes, 2001 or thereabouts.

Don't trust him, he is a psycho 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25747068

It is a funny place. I played there years ago when it originally opened, when most of the fixtures and fittings were for sale. There is nothing stopping it from being a successful place, but it just seems to be overlooked. It seems to be some sort of Palestinian Embassy at the moment I note.

tune my guitar.

That take me more than few minutes.

I think the fastest I have ever made a track was about 40 minutes, including finding a sample and arranging the beat. It tokk extra time to record vocals and mix it, but the basic beat and sample cuts were done very quickly.

http://www.discogs.com/Stealth-MC-Back-To-The-Mothership/release/1314313 the lead track on this, but there is no audio of it on the net that I can find.

I've not watched this, but I'm sure it isn't that hard to make a track in ten minutes using presets or ready made ones, but I don't make music like that, I like to take time to craft the presets for the track I'm working on, which can take more than 10 minutes just for one.

Also mixing your own is significantly cheaper...

...and you don't die a slow painful horrible death

Do they make you immortal? 

Muhammad Muslim

Obviously.

There is some e-cig shop by Broadwalk that has recently opened. I've no idea how they plan to work an entire business on that premise, but it may be worth a look to all you converts.

I was hoping AMA stood for Amateur Martial Arts.

Looks like some kind of dalek dildo.

I've not used under-arm deodorant or anti-perspirant in about ten years. My armpits have no odour and my t-shirts do not get ruined by that white crap which made me sweat more. I barely sweat under the arms as it is.

Black, M and S, cotton. Normal, business like ones, not sports ones.

What about when you get home and are going round the house? do your feet not get cold or wet?

Slippers to avoid the cold. My feet are generally cold unless in trainers.

Yes, just screw it back on. Although I have one which the handle fell off and I've not bothered to put it back on.

Black, M and S, cotton. Normal, business like ones, not sports ones.

Who?

Read the link. He made over 300 films, mostly kung fu, but he also helped bank roll Bladerunner.

Jeru the Damaja name drops him on Come Clean too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y9pTSEM57w

aged 107 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-25618414

The Subway up by me in Knowle, in Broadwalk, has nobody hanging around generally.

When I was growing up in Worle in Weston, one of the places kids would hang out, aside to the parks, was outside a chip shop. I don't think fast food is to blame, it is just an area with lots of people coming and going, so you aren't shooed away like you might be outside someone's house.

loving what I've played so far of Last of Us.

I thought this was a very nice looking game, with an interesting storyline, but not as amazing as many reviews painted it. It is pretty much a zombie shooter with some nice touches.

Still not got it yet.

I keep thinking about it, but I'm just not that fussed at the moment. The last one was such a let down, that it has put me off a bit.

Happy New Year.

I prefer the Tal Elek7ro, the interface is better to work with.

Battery is something I have been using since Battery 1, so about 10 years now. I have a version of Ableton, but don't really use it.

I have a Lexicon Alex which I use often, otherwise I have been using Cubase's built in ones - Reverance and Roomworks recently. I also use the Realverb plug in on UAD.

Most filtering is done on the synths, but I do have a UAD Moog plug in which is very good, but I mainly use that for its gain properties as it works well over drums. I sometimes use the low pass filter on the Cambridge EQ too.

What would be a "different" way to bring in the new year?

Human sacrifice.

 

Build a wicker man up on narroways hill

Brandon Hill. 

What would be a "different" way to bring in the new year?

Human sacrifice.

[outside Subway on Queen Street]

Subway is the cause of violence.

http://www.hijackbristol.co.uk/board/the-forum/shooting-on-stapleton-rd/msg1101114/#msg1101114

gun crime has reached Bristol and in the middle of the day too.

Bout 15 years ago there were 12 shootings (or more) in a 3 month period in St Pauls, its all alot more chilled now dont panic you will be fine. Although if i was you i would be more worried about the gangs of Somalies hanging around Staps with machetes down there pants than this random shooting. 

I think a lot of the trouble in Easton now is due to the Somalies and the Jamaicans scrapping. Every time I go on my lunch break I see big groups of youngers on either side of the road, sometimes it's all cool but sometimes there's clearly tension in the air. More recently I've noticed several instances of police riot vans at the scene talking to kids, and have heard reports of daytime street-fighting. It has coincided with the new Subway by Lebecqs, but I'm not sure whether thats really anything to do with it or not.
It's not exactly hard evidnce but I've definitely noticed an increase in tension recently

Nothing angers up a yoots blood like a footlong steak and cheese with mayo and pickles.

 

How could a sandwich shop be in any way related?

Are you serious? Fast-food outlets are almost always hanging out places for scally yoots...

One trader of a shop near the scene of the shooting, who didn't want to be named, said: "We feel very bad. It's not safe, this area.

"There are fights here every day and the police don't sort it out. A lot of teenage boys come to the Subway."

I assumed everyone knew this - it's one of the Unquestionable Truths: Teenage kids will hang around doing fuck all by US multinational fast food outlets

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-25525861

An amateur footballer has been left needing facial reconstruction surgery after he was kicked and beaten as he lay unconscious following an attack by up to six men in Colchester.

Wivenhoe Town FC goalkeeper Richie Robins is thought to have been set upon after he tried to protect a woman.

The 21-year-old student was attacked outside Subway on Queen Street at about 03:30 GMT on Saturday.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alleged_extraterrestrial_beings

The Alien KKK.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/12/01/secret-space-war/





 

irritating Michael Biehn.

yeah but if he didn't get that part he wouldn't have been in Alien and thus delivering possibly the greatest movie quote ever:

" I wanna introduce you to a personal friend of mine. This is an M41A pulse rifle. Ten millimeter with over-and-under thirty millimeter pump action grenade launcher. "

I could happily live without Aliens, his character in it and his identical character in The Abyss too.

I thought it looked a bit TV movie like, but it was on Channel 5 and their transmission quality is shite. It was never a great film, but has some very good bits in it, interspersed with the irritating Michael Biehn.

Maybe give these guys a call, although I have just noted they are closed for xmas.

http://www.bainsfireplaces.co.uk/