El Pibe

There was one tale that popped into my head. I had a very long drinking session in a bar in Madrid with a mate of mine. We were befriended by a chap who was a little too pushy and friendly but was generous to a fault. People kept coming up to get his autograph and it turned out he was a retired football player well liked in the city and he had some entertaining stories to tell. BY 4 in the morning we were all best friends ever and we were going to visit him in his London flat, marry his daughters, that sort of thing, but we had to get to Barajas pronto and were going to flag a cab down. "nonsense" he said "I'll drive you". I'm not sure what part of our booze addled brains thought this might in any way shape or form be a good idea, but we got in the car. By this time he was not really making any sense, driving up the Burgos road which was no route I was familiar with to the airport, and suddenly takes a detour into a weird housing estate, out the other side and into a narrow dusty road going through the empty black desert. At this time the adrenalin kicks in and we begin to sober up a little. We're now convinced that the autographs were a ploy to win our trust and the booze was plied on us in order to get us into a desert road where he and his autogrph hunter co-conspirators are going to rape us, murder us and bury us under my native soil. Friend, prone to anxiety on the best of days is in back seat wired disturbinly tight poised to break the chaps neck at the slightest provocation, when the car brakes sharply, and out gets el loco announcing nature's call. we stared at each other in shock with a 'this is it, great knowing you' look passing between us. Our new friend pisses all over himself and some of the road before getting back in and passing out. Noone came to kill us. I have never been more relieved to be in a strange car in the middle of god knows where, with an hour to make my flight, tossing up which one of us, sans driving licence and five times over the limit, is going to try and get us home. Eventually he comes to and carries on, it turned out to be an amazing shortcut and we were about a mile from Barajas where we bade less than fond farewell and rapidly hunted down the airport bar. I didn't marry his daughter.

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Nohthing to report really. I went to Sarajevo before the tourists turned up, but just found a very friendly, hedonistic place, rough around the edges and full of holes. Getting from A to B in Guatemala was certainly unnerving given the ludicrous levels of banditry at the point of an AK, but again it was utterly incident free. I think the most scared I've ever been was walking up the volcano in Gran Canaria in 50 degree heat without nearly enough water, only to find that what we thought were towns turned out to be abandoned half built resorts/hotels. I was very grateful to get to civilisation. Clearly I need to get out a bit more. Does New Cross count?

A teeeeeeny exaggeration is all.

I'm sure the 'button' is purely figurative these days, it's now a command on siri. ALl the more dangerous of course since iOS's adoption of apple maps over google's.

This is doing the rounds. Brilliant!! http://www.afgsc.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123333051

Aside from the "it takes ten good things to make up for one bad thing" axiom, or "quids law" as we could now call it, I think the perceptions of rudeness or not in the area speaks little about the area and volumes about the perceiver's demeanour and prejudices.

We always have Di Canio's 'column' to cheer us up with stuff like "Before Christmas, I also went to Stonehenge for the winter solstice. Swindon had just beaten Tranmere 5-0 and I waited until 4am before going there to see the sunrise. It was raining and I didn't see anything, so I left and went straight to training." who can resist?

why would you rip vinyl?!?!?

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yep same system. Of course 'theoretically/mathematically lossless' doesn't necessarily mean it is. But CD's are on decent mid-range hifi seperate CD player, with quality components and much of that going into the Digital Analog Conversion (DAC). Digital format going from line-out from iPod classic which costs about a fifth as much and I can't imagine the components are that great and the DAC is probably pretty cheap. Both going into top end budget headphone amp into good studio reference headphones, as well as bottom end audiophile amp and good mid-range speakers, which also produce that same bass distortion on the same tracks, so it has to be either the digital source or the conversion. The difference between CD and soft digital format is staggering from mp3 but certainly noticeable from lossless. Will have to go from PC to seperate DAC (which I'm still umming and ahhing about) to be absolutely sure, but will be a pain getting that feeding into hifi in living room whereas the ipod dock into amps is so convenient!

Just get them on to a scooter or balance bike. Mine's being doing the former from about 2 onwards, and progressed to balance bike a couple of months prior to his third b'day. Makes life much easier.

Millwall 1 V Aston Villa 1 -- maxxi syndrome Stoke 0 V Man City 2 Bolton 2 V Everton 2 Brighton 1 V Arsenal 3 Macclesfield 1 V Wigan 2 QPR 2 V MK Dons 0 Reading 1 V Sheff Utd 0 Brentford 1 V Chelsea 3 Leeds United 1 V Tottenham 1 Oldham 0 V Liverpool 2

Of course it does, The Sun will explain everything to them and tell them how to vote.

Are you suggesting he might u-turn over promised policy, are you stark raving mad, good god man?!

Other than that I reckon I'm more with SJ than not.

pull in on narrow street to let oncoming car(s) pass. thanks from first car, about 60% of the time thanks from subsequent cars, about 3% of the time I'm letting you go too you fucking ungrateful fuckers, I hope you end up stuck in shrieking twisted metal under an articulated lorry and you scream as the flames consume you you cunts!!!!

Thinking about it I still haven't ruled out the DAC as to why some stuff sounds worse than the CD on lossless.

normal service has resumed ;)

it's the old Bevan conundrum isn't it, to paraphrase "So, if [bloonoo] is sincere in what he is saying, and he may be, then he is too stupid to be a [troll]"

Hah! :) Actually a playmobile sled dragged by a remote controlled helicopter could do it!!

thirded, if you're going to get rid then make sure you rip well. WAV is big so if space is an issue then try FLAC or apple lossless which does do some compression and struggles sometimes, the bass on Heaven or Las Vegas is constatnly breaking up for instance. adding the usual about high compression algorithms mp3, aac et al making music sound like it's being played by zombies in a swimming pool.

about an inch apart, snow 2-3 inches. As it has melted a bit you can that it's not so much continuous as that some of the depressions are deeper than other slike footsteps masked by a dragging effect. something with two tails then......

Marginally more likely than the unicycles.

no hosepipes. I'll photograph tonight if no melt