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Nothing mechanical or structural is broken. Most of the front end bits will need replacing though. The bumper has been pushed back slightly, bending the bonnet (hood) and the wings (fenders) up and outwards. It's still drivable, though I had to spend a good hour or so smashing the shit out of the bumper to move it out of the way of the bonnet so I could get that closed.
But hey, it's just a load of metal and plastic. It can be repaired or replaced. I just feel terrible about hitting this poor woman. She seemed pretty shaken up by it. I don't think I've ever apologised as many times in such a short period of time.
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We all prisoners, chickee-baby. We all locked in.
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...insert joke about Ringo's sex life here...
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I had a weird experience at my sister's wedding over the weekend, where I found myself at a table with an aspiring writer and her surgeon husband. The aspiring writer was very pleasant, and we had the usual conversation about confidence, the difficulty getting published, and I was able to pass on one or two suggestions based on my current experience. We also swapped descriptions of our premises, and she seemed to liek the idea of the thing I was working on at the moment. When I got back from the loo, she made me tell her husband, the surgeon, what the idea of the book was and what followed was an astonishing thirty minute attack on what he shouted was "A ridiculous folly," "Madness," and about how "if that ever gets published you're just going to make a fool of yourself". At the time, I was pretty calm - nothing he said was a real suprise to me: it was all stuff I'd considered when i was working through the idea in the first place - but it's quite bizarre to have someone you've never met react so aggressively to something that they're not really familiar with, and that's quite personal to you. Like if someone at a wedding suddenly started ranting about your choice of partner, shouting "But this relationship is clearly doomed isn't it? What were you even thinking?". Although, I have to admit that that's exactly the thought that went through my mind when I thought about his friendly wife, and the phlegm-spitting dickhead opposite me.
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Maybe you should have asked him how he would perform a heart bypass, and then spent the next half an hour telling him how he's going to have the mother of all lawsuits on his hands when he butchers some old bint and leaves her dead on the table.
There's probably something about saving lives every day, constantly being told you're a hero, that gives you the impression you've got special dispensation to be an absolute wanksack.
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I did accidentally laugh in his face when we were talking about learning to play guitar and he mentioned that he'd already bought six guitars before settling in to learn the instrument.
That was quite a rich insight into his mindset, actually. He was talking about how he'd packed away his Xbox so he could use his time more productively, and learning guitar was a part of that. He started off on how before you get started there's this deep well of technical stuff you have to wade through in terms of which guitar to buy and what and to pair it with and so on, and so before even learning to play a chord he'd spent hours researching his decision and wound up with these six instruments. Whereas everyone else I know - myself included - just picks one where they like the pattern and then gets stuck in.
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I remember the best guitar I had (out of about three, that is) was a charity shop Spanish guitar which I painted matt black and put steel strings on. I can remember my "guitar teacher" (some freeloader getting paid by my parents for about four lessons) having a right laugh when I showed it to him, but I insisted it was really nice, so he gave it a go, checking that the paint was dry first, and it sounded fantastic, which he had to admit to. I'd probably be really good at guitar if I hadn't lost that one somewhere and ended up with a steady stream of (two) disappointing guitars afterwards.
Actually, I've still got my first electric guitar which I bought here in Paris in about 1983, including a proper case for it, and I've got the receipt. I wonder if the shop's still there and if they'd give me some kind of champagne reception if I went back with it. I might do that. I suspect I'd just get a bored shrug and some fag ash dropped on it though. Fuck 'em.
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It would probably be a really "interesting" thing to do for a blog or for Twitter. Which is another reason for not doing it. Do you see how Twitter and the French are together ruining this world? And we just stand by and watch.
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Twitter is definitely ruining my job. I don't know about the world. It's ruining my course, too. There definitely seems to be a sense in the world of marketing that Twitter is the answer to every problem. Octavia's getting pushed towards Twitter by her bosses at the moment. She works for a law firm. It's hard to think of a product or service less suited to Twitter than that.
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quote:Originally posted by Abby: Are you having a nice time in Paris Dang? I’m sensing some ambivalence...
Well, the work's ok and the people I work with seem fine, but Paris itself... compared with London it's like the Third World. It's astonishingly run down. A lot of it doesn't seem to have been maintained at all since I first came here nearly 30 years ago. I suppose that could be seen as quite charming, but essentially it's just dingy. It's really like stepping back in time for me, unlike places like London and Bristol which I remember having bombsites and crumbling buildings when I was a kid, but are now almost unrecognisable from those times. Paris is still the same.
But it seems silly to moan. I'm just commenting really. Its dinginess does have character, even if it's not particularly pleasant.
quote:Originally posted by Abby: Are you having a nice time in Paris Dang? I’m sensing some ambivalence...
Well, the work's ok and the people I work with seem fine, but Paris itself... compared with London it's like the Third World.
That can't be right. You only have to read Have Your Say to know that everything in Britain is shitter than everything else everywhere else in the world.
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quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: I did accidentally laugh in his face when we were talking about learning to play guitar and he mentioned that he'd already bought six guitars before settling in to learn the instrument.
That must of been quite satisfying. I learned on one bass guitar and during an accident at a gig had to borrow one twice the size of the other. Didn't notice the difference about 5 notes in.
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I was quite hopped up and nervous and wound the string up so tight it snapped and lashed me in the head. Imagine how high that note would have been before it snapped.
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