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I'd love to, but all this 'proper' work keeps me busy..
Here's a daft question though, if real life was like Logan's Run and you could only live to a maximum age of say 40 (It's 21 in Logans Run but that's a bit young) do you think you'd live life differently ?
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Is living in Sweden ace, then, London? I find the idea really cool and attractive, but I've never been there or anywhere even remotely Scandinavian.
But I imagine lots of restrained style, lots of architecture, lots of prettiness, very expensive, not very crazy in that slapdash Latin way, but still kind of cool easy-going fun, disappointing food but possibly better than UK, bonkers language, excellent social infrastructure, no real dirt anywhere - like a Nordic San Dimas, politeness, no dangerous crime, a bit boring because you can't afford to be krayzee because everything is expensive, but hey ho there are ways of having fun...
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Age Concern (Registered Charity No.261794.) Should take a leaf out of Nolan's book and when you hit say 60 *BANG! No more old fart smells and lengthy post office queue's... I hate post office queue's*
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quote:Originally posted by mart: Is living in Sweden ace, then, London? I find the idea really cool and attractive, but I've never been there or anywhere even remotely Scandinavian.
But I imagine lots of restrained style, lots of architecture, lots of prettiness, very expensive, not very crazy in that slapdash Latin way, but still kind of cool easy-going fun, disappointing food but possibly better than UK, bonkers language, excellent social infrastructure, no real dirt anywhere - like a Nordic San Dimas, politeness, no dangerous crime, a bit boring because you can't afford to be krayzee because everything is expensive, but hey ho there are ways of having fun...
Am I on the right lines with any of that?
Hm, yeah, pretty much. It's very beautiful and clean. Not many beggars or homeless people. Cute little shops. Children EVERYWHERE, everyone is pregnant or toting a buggy. Dads too pushing prams down street like it ain't no thang. Ridiculously expensive. Everyone seems very healthy. Like if you order a coronation chicken roll it will have cottage cheese in it automatically mixed in. BLEK. It seems to be much harder to get properly wasted, and, though there is a party / drug scene, it seems to be much less predominant than it is in London, which is why 20something Swedes come to London in their droves.
The overall level of design is pretty stunning... they spend a lot of time in their homes, come winter, so the homes are way prettied up with candles and minimalism from tasteful shops like "Granit", which is a kind of Muji for the home. Everything seems clean, tidy, restrained. I like it.
Worklife is annoying. No praise, just criticism - that seems to be the modus operandi. Everyone has to be the same as everyone else, which means that managers pretend they are not managers, then seek to reinforce their managerial status in subtle, quiet, allegedly non-hierarchical ways, by commenting and critiquing every little thing just to get their voice heard. Give me a bullish British boss any day. Difference is not really encouraged... they have a word, "lagom", which means "just enough", and that's how they like things. Nothing really really good or really really bad. Kind of safe, kind of boring, kind of reassuring.
Anyway. For me it is good becuase I was way tired of the party scene in London and was hoping to "retire" in some way. This way I can still see all the bands I want but there is not an expectation to drink lots and take pills and bumrape some cute 17 yr old boy in the front row or whatever, which is good because I am too old for all that now...
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quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: I'd love to, but all this 'proper' work keeps me busy..
Here's a daft question though, if real life was like Logan's Run and you could only live to a maximum age of say 40 (It's 21 in Logans Run but that's a bit young) do you think you'd live life differently ?
Absolutely, no question in my mind it would influence my thinking. At first pass, any "long term investments" would be out (but then again, if everyone had an expiration date of 40, there probably wouldn't be many companies offering long-term obligations or investments, would there). So, on that basis, no retirement savings is an easy one, but what about university? If I had known at age 16 that the clock was ticking down to 40, I almost certainly would not have gone to college (especially considering college loans, there'd be no point). I probably would have gone off and done something entirely different, such as cycling around the world and writing some sort of travelogue about it. Which would also be pointless, as I'd wager there would be about 10 million other people doing exactly the same thing.
So I'm thinking maybe it would be a path of immediate gratification, a spend-now-and-pay-never attitude that today is only seen in such limited instances as the US government and foamy Ibiza style nightclubs.
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I've got a question. After yet another disaster with a tape-based dictaphone, I think the time has come to get digital on my recording ass. Does anyone have any recommendations? Would the voice recorder, rather than 'note taker', variety be better for leaving in the middle of a table while various people drone on?
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quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: Here's a daft question though, if real life was like Logan's Run and you could only live to a maximum age of say 40 (It's 21 in Logans Run but that's a bit young) do you think you'd live life differently ?
No, because I'd do what I do with every bad possibility (or fact): pretend it doesn't exist and go on about my merry way. Poor froop can attest to this.
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Amp. Right, I have an LG DVD-Ram player and it wasn't recognised correctly when installing on my PC (runnning XP SP2) - after a quick search I was advised to upgrade the firmware, so I've flashed it a couple of times now, even though LG provide the software, Ebuyer recommend you don't flash the drive. It wasn't recgnising as a DVD-Ram device before the flash, but now it does. It can play DVDs and even recognised a DVD-RW when it was placed in the drive as a writable source, but when placing two different types of DVD-R into the drive, it doesn't see these as blank media. It can burn CD-Rs though. Basically, what I'm asking is do you know if I can use standard DVD-RAM drivers for this? If so, what do you recommend? I've installed Nero but it crashes the PC at 3% burn. Is this a software issue, or should I try branded discs? Oh and what speed should I be burning at?
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Herbs, I previously used a Belkin device which plugged into my iPod and then turned the recording into a .wav file which would then automatically upload to my iTunes. But then it broke when I was interviewing someone not very important... o, who was it... o yeah JUST NICK CAVE... and it didn't even show it had broken, it looked like it was still recording but it wasnt, so I lost the whole interview... and after that I returned to my 1980s Walkman dictaphone thing because it is totally retro and massive and at least if that fucker breaks you can see it and start taking notes or something.
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You'll be pleased to know that I saw Nick Cave judging at the World Beard Championships 2007, for the handlebar moustache category and he didn't look too pissed off about it, as he tugged on a mans lip-rug and rubbed his chin.
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The other day, though, my tape BROKE, and I didn't have another one, so the man went to find his secretary's dictaphone, and I recorded this interview with FIVE big cheeses, turned over the tape, left it running - Or So I Thought - and it hadn't been going round. Being a spaz I hadn't been looking at it, instead I was pointing the machine around at whoever was talking.
And then even if the tapes do go round, and not break, when I play them back they go at double of half speed.
It could of course be that I am a retard, and would be equally retarded with digital machines as old skool.
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Nick Cave was rubbing his own chin, as if thinking deeply of course! If you touched a mans moustache and rubbed his chin it would be like one great face jack-off. That would be silly.
quote:Originally posted by herbs: The other day, though, my tape BROKE, and I didn't have another one, so the man went to find his secretary's dictaphone, and I recorded this interview with FIVE big cheeses, turned over the tape,
Excellent, for a minute there, I thought you'd got five, actual big cheeses, giant wedges of cheese and made a wheel out of them to feed the tape over. Like some giant dairy-dictapwn. Then I realise you were being serious and meant important people.
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I'm having trouble communicating in any form today as I'm that close --> <-- to getting a ticket for the Led Zeppelin concert.
A friend of mine [recently promoted to My Best Friend Ever] got one of the gold dust emails with a magic code to order tickets, but he couldn't get the website to work last night and is going to try again this evening. If he overcomes this epic final hurdle then I get to go with him, mainly because he doesn't know anyone else who gives a toss about a Led Zeppelin concert. Actually, he used to know loads but I had them all killed several years ago, just in case this very situation arose.
So, I can't move for tension just now.
Mind you, it looks like they might do a full tour next year so it's not that big a deal is it.
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Happy birthday sam and benny. I'd start a new thread but it'd just get lost in the avalanche of threads starting every minute. I cant remember when I last started a thread. Im part of the problem, not the solution.
Someone crashed into my car yesterday.
This isnt a very good birthday reply, is it? Here, have a picture:
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Where do you get the pictures of those cakes? They make me laugh and I sort of imagine you having a stock of cakes which you hurriedly decorate as required. Silly, I know, but it amuses me; especially as I imagine you as a swelte, sexy woman in a twenties style sparkling pink dress with a long string of knotted pearls and long white gloves, brandishing an extra long cigarette holder in one hand and an icing bag in the other.
Rather elaborate, I know. But I like it.
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quote:Originally posted by sam: Where do you get the pictures of those cakes? They make me laugh and I sort of imagine you having a stock of cakes which you hurriedly decorate as required.
Yep, that's exactly what I do, honest.*
quote:Originally posted by sam: I imagine you as a swelte, sexy woman in a twenties style sparkling pink dress with a long string of knotted pearls and long white gloves, brandishing an extra long cigarette holder in one hand and an icing bag in the other.
Yeah, that's pretty accurate too.*
* lies, sadly. If I'd tried to make you a sam cake, it'd probably be about as mad looking as the one I posted, and both me and the kitchen would be completely covered in flour, icing sugar and chocolate.
Flickr is a good place to find pictures of amusing cakes, such as this one which I really want:
quote:I can bake a mean penguin cake, this one has a creme egg concealed between his feet and realistic blood coloured butter cream filling for real authenticity when hacking him to death.
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