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Ah fuck, not only did I miss that this was the Eurovision thread but I also hadn't realised there was an entry this year that was "Edgar Allen Poe" themed. Imagine the mad cunt will be turning in his grave.

I feel personally attacked here man. I'd like to reiterate that my respiratory health concerns are as genuine as my claims to being a big fan of Wilde. I'm not well versed or educated in either, but both have forced me to seriously reconsider a lot of my life choices, albeit in different ways and at different times.

Calpe always struck me as a poor man's Dumbarton Rock tbh. 😉

Speaking of Bucharest, in an attempt to permanently put an end to the kids incessant "I'm bored, what are we doing tomorrow" demands, we've just decided to drag them all up to Dundee for a two day Poverty Safari to see out the bank holiday weekend and hopefully reign in their expectations for the impending summer holidays.

@sammynb that's bullshit man. Dealing with similar nonsense here. Our good solid wood furniture ended up in a storage unit when we moved because my other half seems to prefer that shitey IKEA flatpack chipboard shite. In slightly related news, I've just been reminded of an old trick I used to pull to get her to deep clean the living room. Just move two or three bits of furniture slightly when she's at work, and sit back when she gets home and watch her maniacally move them back before deciding to completely rearrange the whole room, hoovering every corner that was previously concealed by sofas in the process. I'm gonna leave her to it and head down the pub for a few hours.

I'll be honest, I can only think of that one song off the top of my head. Thankfully mines looks more like a guitar amp than "if Gimli was a homeless mackem". Decent score this last few weeks. Decent guitar and amp for £150 all in, both basically mint. Coincidentally both green though, which unfortunately is quite the statement in these parts.

Wasn't mad on the New Radicals if I'm honest @RobinRobin In other news the V30 loaded HB cab is off the menu. Just lucked out on a 40w solid state Trace Elliott "Tramp" combo from a local recording studio that sadly closed its doors recently that will be both another combo and double as a decent 1x12 cab. Think my missus was quite relieved when I arrived home with a guitar amp after boldly declaring "back in 10, off to meet a bloke in a car park who's selling an old tramp for £50"

Hovering about the house with slippers and an electric blanket?

Those Sawgrass printers look like pretty serious bits of kit. The cheap Epson sublimination printers, give me the fear, they look far too similar to their inkjet range that I've got into regular scraps with over the years.

Ah nice. I've thought about going down that route but my current Inkjet and laser printers test my patience enough as it is, adding a third might just tip me over the edge.

How are you going about applying the graphics @Christmas Tree ? Heat Transfer Vinyl?

Really well put Renton. My own mental health had a bit of a wobble a few weeks ago and I let spiral and was getting increasingly more tunnel-visioned by the minute. @Craig massive kudos to you for confronting this and tackling it head-on. I won't even try to pretend to understand what you're going through, but please know your not alone. There's no shame in admitting you're not okay and given the steps you've already taken you are a far better man than most.

I fucking knew that would be misconstrued as I typed it. Thats on you. Wrong 'un.

@Gemmill it's pretty decent for what it is like. Made me actually want to play a bit more often too and reminded how much I prefer a bound neck, which I've never been able to explain and thought was all in my head, but it's definitely a thing. Also thankfully won't ever need any firmware updates, the catch is replacing hardware in a semi-hollow body guitar is probably more of a ballache.

Stock pickups in this sound good to my ears, if it turns out to be a keeper and I end up upgrading anything it'll be tuning pegs and the toggle switch. Early days but it's more than pleasantly surprised me for an off-brand entry-level axe.

Aye, I'd been eyeing up the Ibanez AM53 for a good while but the prices shot up recently. This came up locally for £100 and was basically unplayed. It's more than decent, I expected to either be a total donkey or need a lot of work but all it needed was a new set of strings and a quick setup. Even the nut is cut surprisingly well. Only slight concern is the wood effect on the back is pretty orange, so it's more than a bit green white and gold. Father in-law saw it and just said "up the ra".

First guitar purchase in well over 3 years. Taking my miserliness to new extremes I've picked up a basically brand new Harley Benton for less than half of what Thomann want for them.

Guy walks into a bar with his pet monkey, and orders a beer. As he's drinking it the monkey jumps up in the pool table, picks up the cue ball and swallows it whole. Barman is raging, shouts at the man "did you see what your monkey just did?" Man shakes his head. "He just swallowed the cueball from the pool table!" Man replies "that doesn't surprise me, he eats nearly everything he sees", quickly finishes his drink and leaves. A week later he comes back to the same bar with the monkey, this time the monkey jumps up on the bar, finds a peanut and proceed to stick the peanut up it's arse, pull it back out and eat it. Barman is disgusted, shouts at the man "did you see what your monkey just did?" The man sighs "no, what did he do this time?" "It just stuck a peanut up it's arse, took it back out and swallowed it!" Man replies "that doesn't surprise me. He eats nearly everything he sees, but ever since the cue-ball he measures everything first"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65318857 Fairly decent synopsis of the Bino's plight over the last 20 years. Wish it delved a bit

Aye man, mostly agree. In this case buying the Marlboro Gold (actually asked for Reds but the useless cunts thankfully didn't stock them) wasn't the wobble, it was few days into it. I'll doubt I'll ever miss it. Still walk past folk who are obviously heavy smokers and think "Jesus fuck, did I really smell like that? That's disgusting. I fucking love it".

My nerves have been shattered this week, if my missus hadn't mentioned the alert test yesterday it might have tipped me over the edge today as I genuinely wasn't aware of it otherwise. In somewhat related news, Im not even ashamed to admit I had a bit of a wobble and finally caved after three and a half months (not that I've been counting) off the fags and bought 20 on Tuesday. Ten smokes later all was well by Friday, which is quite decent since I was a 30-a-day guy until Jan.

What the actual fuck? I just put the telly on at 32 minutes in. 😂

Stag is offside, if it's a Hind it would onside. From what I believe this distinction is how Brora Rangers managed put Hearts out of the Scottish Cup.

Highland league was also an interesting one today. First and second in a decider, glad to see Brechin came out on top but equally glad there now no chance the Bino's will have to deal with lengthy delays in play when the ball get stuck in the legendary Brechin City Hedge next season.

It's a fucking strange town tbf. Half the cunts here will proudly boast about winning battles in 1297 and 1314 while flying massive Union Jacks in their garden. Fan owned club though, which was cool for a while but turned into the shitshow we all should've known it would be from the off.