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At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: FELINEGUITARS on July 24, 2012, 12:32:57 PM
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Something that came up on some recent threads where forum members were trying to suggest shops to try or where to buy stuff revealed that we often don't realise which countries we all live in.
This is especially so now that BKP has a larger international following and user base.
I thought it would be good if we could all fill in on our profiles where we reside - so we can more easily have informed conversations about guitar shopping , and trade gear , join bands, throw BKP get-togethers etc. etc. etc.
What do you all think?
I know some will prefer to remain more enigmatic/incognito, but I see us as all one big family regardless of boundaries - but just feel it would be nice to know where everyone is....
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Sounds sensible - just the city/country should do it?
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My location has always been there anyway, but it'd certainly be helpful for certain discussions.
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Its interesting as well :D
Shall we mention it here as well as our profiles?
In any case, I've been living in London/UK for more than 10 years now and love it.
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I'm a Mancunian by birth, currently living in exile in Stockport.
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Don't need too much detail
town or county is cool and country of course.
On profiles would be best - but happy for discussions here
I'm Croydon - South London/Surrey, UK
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I've got London on my profile, but to be more specific, Streatham, South London.... just a few miles north of Feline Guitars.
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I'm in Northern Ireland, staring out the window at the Mourne Mountains and some sheep :) oh, and a cat
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I'm in Northern Ireland, staring out the window at the Mourne Mountains and some sheep :) oh, and a cat
:)
i'm staring out at an office block! i love these differences.
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I think my profile has my location on, but for the avoidance of doubt I'll list it here... Jarrow, Tyne & Wear.
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I'm a Cheshire-born lad, currently living in South Manchester.
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I'm a Cheshire-born lad, currently living in South Manchester.
What became of the Basingstoke thing?
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It continues ;)
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I'm in Northern Ireland, staring out the window at the Mourne Mountains and some sheep :) oh, and a cat
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i'm staring out at an office block! i love these differences.
i believe it's warm and sunny down there though, isn't it? these sheep are shivering in the rain and fog!
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I'm in Northern Ireland, staring out the window at the Mourne Mountains and some sheep :) oh, and a cat
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i'm staring out at an office block! i love these differences.
i believe it's warm and sunny down there though, isn't it? these sheep are shivering in the rain and fog!
yes, the weathers been grand here the last few days
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yes, the weathers been grand here the last few days
It's bloody horrible!
I can't for the life of me understand what's supposed to be so great about turning pink 5 seconds after stepping out the door and drowning in gallons of sweat if you so much as move a finger.
Oops, off-topic.
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I was reading through this thread thinking, yeah, no probs, my location is on my profile...
Except I've moved!! Not far, admittedly, but... anyway...
It's updated now.
And I'm with Philly - where's all the lovely rain gone?! :lol:
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West Sussex for me- tis on my profile though.
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And I'm with Philly - where's all the lovely rain gone?! :lol:
starting to have concerns about you two
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:lol:
Well I'm holiday, doing some recording stuff, so I have some excuse for this, but I haven't been outside for a couple of days. I hadn't actually noticed the weather (apart from it's nice and bright) until just now.
I'm now running out of tobacco, so I'm thinking "I'll run down the shop". I opened the door and thought "f*ck this!! I'll wait for a bit..." :lol:
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And I'm with Philly - where's all the lovely rain gone?! :lol:
starting to have concerns about you two
Seriously, though, do you honestly like sweating all the time? I just do not get it.
If it was, say, 23 degrees and sunny I could put up with it - but the vast majority of the population seem to think "the hotter the better" even though it utterly defies logic. :?
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And I'm with Philly - where's all the lovely rain gone?! :lol:
starting to have concerns about you two
Seriously, though, do you honestly like sweating all the time? I just do not get it.
If it was, say, 23 degrees and sunny I could put up with it - but the vast majority of the population seem to think "the hotter the better" even though it utterly defies logic. :?
Clearly not, but this weather we're having at the moment is not obnoxiously hot like that.. once you get over 30 degrees you might have a point. Maybe it seems hot because of the bad weather we've been having.
Anyway, I take this weather now over the sh!t we had last week any day :)
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Temperature in London right now is 30 degrees!
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Temperature in London right now is 30 degrees!
I don't want to be pedantic/anal, but the met office says its 28.1 degrees at Heathrow.
Either way, I'm comfortable at the moment, though if it gets much hotter I wouldn't be.
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30 degrees is per the BBC website, but I don't want to keep going on about it.
Let's let it lie. :wink:
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Let's let it lie. :wink:
'k ;)
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Nah, let it not lie... :lol:
Anything over 22 degrees is too hot for me!!
(Anyway, Philly - you've totally derailed the nice man's thread now... :lol:)(with a leetle tiny bit of help from one or two others :D)
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Kettering, Northamptonshire.
I'd much rather live ANYWHERE else though.
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Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
I too prefer a nice steady 18-20 degrees. I hate being sweaty and I've found that being out in the heat causes can cause me to have a hypo too which is NEVER fun.
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I hate being sweaty and I've found that being out in the heat causes can cause me to have a hypo too which is NEVER fun.
I didn't realise that could happen. Never experienced it, but can't be good!
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I live about 12miles outside of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire.
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I hate being sweaty and I've found that being out in the heat causes can cause me to have a hypo too which is NEVER fun.
I didn't realise that could happen. Never experienced it, but can't be good!
At first I thought it was just the heat that was getting to me due to the excessive sweating, headaches and dizziness then when I got in I checked my BS and it was just over 2.5.
After this I thought I could have messed up on my insulin dosage calculations so I monitored it the next time it got really hot and it gradually reduced over time resulting in the same thing.
I contacted my diabetes advisor and she said it does affect some people in this way but it's very rare and it's due to my metabolism raising considerably in hot conditions which depletes my bodies glucose stores.
So yeah I used to dislike hot weather.... now I HATE it!
Now back onto topic. It would be good if we could set up like user groups for locales for people to add themselves into.
I'm not sure whether it's possible on SMF though.
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Im just down the road from HTH.......im in Sunderland
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Wakefield UK here.
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I'm nearly sure i used to have it in my profile, but then there must have been a forum upgrade or something and it disappeared?
I'll put it back in :)
EDIT: yeah i still have "Northern Ireland" as my location, except now it doesn't show up under my avatar. I entered it in my personal text, but it looks a bit weird there, i might remove it again. :lol:
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I'm in Clerkenwell in London.
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Its interesting as well :D
Shall we mention it here as well as our profiles?
It always been on my profile FWIW - and it's where it has to be IMHO to be usefull (sorry, I won't browse the whole forum to find out where someone lives when answering a post <g>)
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Wakefield UK here.
Well, not far off : Leeds ( West Yorkshire ) U.K. here.
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Woking, surrey
i have to agree with Philly, dressing smart for work and walking for a couple of miles in 30 degree heat isnt fun
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Kettering, Northamptonshire.
I'd much rather live ANYWHERE else though.
Corby?
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Kettering, Northamptonshire.
I'd much rather live ANYWHERE else though.
I did a contract job in Kettering for a few weeks. I nearly went out of my mind with boredom, stuck in a hotel in the middle of town every evening.
Not really a reflection on Kettering, sitting in a hotel in any small town is enough to drive anyone to drink. I can see why bands enjoy trashing hotel rooms.
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Woking, surrey
i have to agree with Philly, dressing smart for work and walking for a couple of miles in 30 degree heat isnt fun
you could come here... apparently we have the dubious pleasure of getting the brunt of the record-breakingly cr@ptacular weather when the jet stream moved south, and are still getting it now it's moved north again.
don't get me wrong... it's horrible when it's too hot. But it's a heck of a lot better than this. :lol:
it's actually vaguely decent today, of course. but it's still cloudy and humid and pretty horrible.
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Forest Hill, South East London - I wish there was more forest though, as it is 30c (according to the Weather Aware google chrome extension) - 10 too much for me!
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Sorry to persist with this off-topicness, but it's heartening to see there are other people around who don't like hot weather.
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Im just down the road from HTH.......im in Sunderland
BOOO!!!! :wink: :lol:
Are there any other people from the North East on this forum? (PSY is another from 'the Toon').
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Kettering, Northamptonshire.
I'd much rather live ANYWHERE else though.
Corby?
lmao, I've been there - only once.
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Nah, let it not lie... :lol:
Anything over 22 degrees is too hot for me!!
That's about when it starts to get uncomfortable for me, too. And I'm hoping to work in Azekah (Israel) for a month next Summer :lol:
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Kettering, Northamptonshire.
I'd much rather live ANYWHERE else though.
Corby?
Funnily enough, Kettering is the shitehole now and Corby is becoming A LOT nicer due to regeneration.
Paddy
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Sorry to persist with this off-topicness, but it's heartening to see there are other people around who don't like hot weather.
Add me to the list, I'd rather visit Iceland than Alicante.
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I think I am the first foreigner posting in this thread...anyway, you may have noticed from my spelling and uncanny sense of the english language that I am not a native. Actually never been to a country where english is the native tounge...
Anyway, I am from northern Germany (north of Hamburg that is).
I am close to the ocean, so weather round here is usually not too extreme, but f*ck me I feel like a viking around here. Nearly every bloody person I know is constantly freezing and wishing for hotter weather, seems they donīt care how hot it gets. Wearing a bloody sweater @ 25 degrees...humid 25 (we are @ the ocean after all). I know some who even wear some sort of lady scarfs then. I am sweating my butt of wearing bright, short clothes and they are cold. F*ck them.
I gotta get a job in Sweden and spent the summer in the forest by a lake, great temperature there. Lots of shade and wood....mmhh
Gimme maybe 22 degrees max and I am good.
Enough rambling for now. Back to topic?^^
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Kettering, Northamptonshire.
I'd much rather live ANYWHERE else though.
Corby?
Funnily enough, Kettering is the shiteehole now and Corby is becoming A LOT nicer due to regeneration.
Paddy
You can't polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter.
I live in a tiny winy village in the arse end of nowhere right next to Bosworth Battlefield (near Market Bosworth in Leicestershire). The village has about 30 houses and 4 idiots, giving us a house/idiot rating of 7.5, which has to be some kind of record.
We also have 15 houses per pub which sounds good on the surface, however with an idiot:pub ratio of 2:1 they can afford to take it in shites to make sure there is always one idiot in each pub.
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Sorry to persist with this off-topicness, but it's heartening to see there are other people around who don't like hot weather.
i don't like it too hot either, but given the option of 30 and sun or our usual 14 degrees with rain and wind...
ideally, though, somewhere around 20 (with low humidity and/or a slight cooling breeze) is about perfect. Even here, though, when it's sunny it often gets too hot. :lol: Like 95% of our weather is terrible, and the other 5% is too hot. Not cool.
I also don't like it too cold, either :lol: Our weather is basically high teens in the summer, high single figures in the winter, so it sorta makes you into a bit of a wuss regarding the weather.
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Originally from South London (not too far from Croydon), but living in Oxford at the moment.
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I'm from Basingstoke I am. Originally from the mean streets of Bracknell (Great Hollands).
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- As a further thread hi-jack / crossover comment, add my name to the 'Cooler weather is good' list .
Autumn is the best season, Spring the second - but in the U.K. Summer is somewhat claustrophobic, ill managed and positively Vulgar . 8)
I even ( accidentally ) added a thread hi-jack , Hi-jack - by introducing 'Favourite seasons'. :mrgreen:
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Well, I guess I'm the first North American to post here. Sunny South Florida is where I call home!
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I live near Kettering in Northants as well and it is pretty cr@p with only one good pub in kett town! Thing is all my mates live around the same area though so whilst moving somewhere else would be nice i'd probably hate having no one to go out with. Work in Milton Keynes but not sure about moving here as everyone has said not to as its such a dull city.
I lived in Whistler BC, Canada for last summer and it was amazing, i'd love to live there permanently. Really easy to make friends as everyone's really friendly on the mtb chair lifts, and the girls love the British accent :D
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I live in Winchmore Hill, part of the borough of Enfield. Which is a north London suburb. It's big & busy as its got two M25 junctions.It's easy to get in to central London though, via public transport. We've got a few guitar shops up here but they're not all that.
I like it around 30c. As long as it isn't humid. It's the humidity that makes the summer uncomftable. The hottest I've been in was 43c in Australia. It's unbearable, but 33 in Darwin with high humidity is worse, it saps all your energy.
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^ yeah humidity is the killer. the temperature here in NI is probably what you guys in London would love, but 19 degrees and 100% humidity is more unpleasant than 25 degrees with sun and low humidity. Granted it often gets pretty humid in London too, but I think it's even worse here. You get about 2 hours of sun here before it gets unbearably humid. Maybe I've just been lucky when I've been in the south of england but it didn't seem anywhere near as humid as here. And almost every single time I've been in the south of england it's been in the summer during a heatwave, so...
^ think the worst i've ever been in was 35C- the day i arrived in London in the middle of that superheatwave about 5 years ago. :lol:
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I always think of London as very humid, it certainly is compared to South Wales where I grew up.
I have also lived in Northern Ireland, but it was 1967/68 so I don't remember much about the weather! :lol:
..... so, I'll take your word for it Dave. :wink:
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it was probably raining. i can say that with some authority, having not been alive then. but hey it's northern ireland.
actually london probably is fairly humid. i was maybe more thinking of the south coast which was less so.
EDIT: i'm just pissed off with our weather, in case you guys think i'm annoyed with you, i'm not, lol. But we had the same complete shite weather you had from april through mid-july (i think only wales had it worse), but you've had good weather the past week. it's still been raining here. yesterday late afternoon/evening was nice, and parts of today were decent (though it rained today too), but that's about it.
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Whitehaven, cumbria.
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Essex. By way of Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Devon, West Midlands and Essex.
Did I mention Essex?
+1 to < 22 degrees. London is way to hot. Tee-shirts in Autumn for me, although you'll notice that Tyneside didn't make it into the above list.
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Tulse Hill, London 8)
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Brighton, East Sussex. Wouldn't live anywhere else.
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Aachen, Germany.
'sup, tommies? I think I'm outnumbered, me being a Kraut! :D
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A cheesehead from the southwest delta of Holland. Somewhere between Rotterdam and Antwerpen.
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Hoboken - New Jersey, just across the Hudson from New York (where I work). You guy's don't know what humidity is until you experience New York at 35+, with 90% humidity and have to wait for a subway train. It's like walking in a sauna. We've had those sort of temperatures for the last 6 weeks. If you can dress in shorts and a t-shirt you can just about take it, but I have to wear business clothes and walk about half a mile to the office in it. The one saving grace is the number of days with blue skies. The weather back in England is more moderate but so grey.
btw. I'm originally from Bingley in West Yorkshire and still spend a lot of time over there, so I do know the UK weather has sucked big time this year.
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Hoboken - New Jersey, just across the Hudson from New York (where I work). You guy's don't know what humidity is until you experience New York at 35+, with 90% humidity and have to wait for a subway train. It's like walking in a sauna. We've had those sort of temperatures for the last 6 weeks. If you can dress in shorts and a t-shirt you can just about take it, but I have to wear business clothes and walk about half a mile to the office in it. The one saving grace is the number of days with blue skies. The weather back in England is more moderate but so grey.
btw. I'm originally from Bingley in West Yorkshire and still spend a lot of time over there, so I do know the UK weather has sucked big time this year.
Yeah, I go to NY alot, and the heat there is unbearable more often than not. I was up a few weeks ago to catch a few shows, and was waiting outside of Prudential Center for about 6 hours in the heat with jeans, 2 shirts, and black boots on!
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Oxford. Work in central London and Sutton (Belmont), Surrey.
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Exeter, Devon here. I like it but I am dreaming of moving to Canada at some point. Although I am 31 this year and still carrying huge debt from when I was 19 so I am going to assume I will never get to Canada, heh.
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Hoboken - New Jersey, just across the Hudson from New York (where I work). You guy's don't know what humidity is until you experience New York at 35+, with 90% humidity and have to wait for a subway train. It's like walking in a sauna. We've had those sort of temperatures for the last 6 weeks. If you can dress in shorts and a t-shirt you can just about take it, but I have to wear business clothes and walk about half a mile to the office in it. The one saving grace is the number of days with blue skies. The weather back in England is more moderate but so grey.
btw. I'm originally from Bingley in West Yorkshire and still spend a lot of time over there, so I do know the UK weather has sucked big time this year.
oh yeah i mean when i say the weather here sucks, i want the same temperature but more blue skies and sun :lol: I'd rather have our weather than 35 degrees and high humidity, lol.
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Chelmsford Essex :)
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Edinburgh, but a Belfast lad originally
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I live in Carshalton/Wallington.
The next street along from where Jeff Beck grew up, and very close to Sutton if Roo fancies niping
in for a jam sometime. Got a Baja tele knocking about somewhere.....
I've been working in the Caspian Sea for a few years on a 4 on/4 off rotation so I actually spend slightly more time living on a shiteey smelly dangerous dirty boring cr@ppy gas rig.
I'm originally from Clydebank which means I'm quite used to shiteey smelly dangerous dirty boring and cr@ppy
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I've been working in the Caspian Sea for a few years on a 4 on/4 off rotation so I actually spend slightly more time living on a shiteeey smelly dangerous dirty boring cr@ppy gas rig.
Heard the caspian rigs were a bit rickety, saw pictures of the accomodation on one, wouldn't keep stray dogs in one of those protacabins. The bridge over to the platform looked as if someone had put it together by welding it with a lighter.
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I reside in the mountains of West Virginia. Elkins West Virginia to be exact. About a six hour drive from the east coast of the USA. I would like to visit the UK some day soon,but this is home for now.
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I have the unfortunate pleasure of telling you all I live in Stockport, but it's interesting to see that I'm not the only Stockportian. I grew in Wythenshawe too and consider myself a master of street talk and behaviour
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Oxford. Work in central London and Sutton (Belmont), Surrey.
Just been there. Sooooooo many kids.
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Workington, Cumbria over here! Spent time in Farnborough for a bit though.
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$%&#ing jameater.
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Says the top jameater over here...
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"top jameater" is an oxymoron, jameater.
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wrongs wrong with jam? :?
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wrongs wrong with jam? :?
You may want to look up the Workington/Whitehaven rivalry, it's quite a hilarious deal around these parts. I've seen people from both towns kick ten shades of shite out of each other for calling someone a jam eater.
"top jameater" is an oxymoron, jameater.
Besides, rather an oxymoron than just a moron, stupid jameater
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I have the unfortunate pleasure of telling you all I live in Stockport, but it's interesting to see that I'm not the only Stockportian. I grew in Wythenshawe too and consider myself a master of street talk and behaviour
fix up nuh man, gwan like a key bredren, yuh nah see? Raaaaaaatted.
GO STEAM STOCKERS!
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wrongs wrong with jam? :?
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You may want to look up the Workington/Whitehaven rivalry, it's quite a hilarious deal around these parts. I've seen people from both towns kick ten shades of shitee out of each other for calling someone a jam eater.
"top jameater" is an oxymoron, jameater.
Besides, rather an oxymoron than just a moron, stupid jameater
All that jam has addled your brain. Jam eater.
This explains it, pretty much. Its hilarious in its absurdity. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p8SiCV-GIs
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Ah now I get the jam thing. Not as bad as the Hartlepool "monkey hangers" thing though.
Because they hung the monkey.
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I love that story, its fantastic.
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I have the unfortunate pleasure of telling you all I live in Stockport, but it's interesting to see that I'm not the only Stockportian. I grew in Wythenshawe too and consider myself a master of street talk and behaviour
fix up nuh man, gwan like a key bredren, yuh nah see? Raaaaaaatted.
GO STEAM STOCKERS!
wot?
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wot?
BUMBACLAAAAAART
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I don't know what it means either, I'm just posting "youth speak" from another forum!
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I don't know what it means either, I'm just posting "youth speak" from another forum!
yha gets me braav
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wrongs wrong with jam? :?
Wrong is indeed wrong with jam.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4tDP-yMwXI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4tDP-yMwXI)
Central Pennsylvania.
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wrongs wrong with jam? :?
Wrong is indeed wrong with jam.
Sugar's wrong with jam too. Unfortunately.
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wrongs wrong with jam? :?
Wrong is indeed wrong with jam.
Sugar's wrong with jam too. Unfortunately.
*diabetes high fives*
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:lol:
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wot?
BUMBACLAAAAAART
I think I know that word...thank god for being edjucated by music. There is a Soulfly song of the same name and I recall Bumklaatt being the most powerfull insult in the portugeese language, kinda like "motherf*cker" was before it went mainstream.
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Apparently it's Jamaican slang for "bum cloth".
I think Bumbaclart would be a great band name.
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Well, if it's anything to you lot, I'm based in beautiful Copenhagen, Denmark.
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OK, filled in the profile!
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Apparently it's Jamaican slang for "bum cloth".
I think Bumbaclart would be a great band name.
:D
I think so too.
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That'd make a great name for a Bareknuckle pickup.
Ladies and Gentleman, I give you ... The "Bareknuckle Bumbaclart"
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Jam Eater Blues...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdcrpimoBig&feature=related
BKP could do a made-in-China version of their pickups called the Jam Eater range.
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Canadar, eh. Snowball fight, anyone?
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Just moved to Beijing 6 weeks ago from sleepy Exeter, UK, for 18 months. Pretty exciting!
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Cardiff :-)
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Peterborough. Moving to Surrey soon.
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I was born in Chengdu!
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Hull
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It's pissing down in Tokyo right now.
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It's pissing down in Tokyo right now.
And where in the name of all that's holy have you been, sir? :D
(Don't say Tokyo)
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It's pissing down in Tokyo right now.
And where in the name of all that's holy have you been, sir? :D
(Don't say Tokyo)
Indeed ! :D
Nice to see you materialise after all this time. :)
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^ +1 :)
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Silkeborg, Denmark for me and you're very welcome to pop by :D
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Surrey, UK and happily not too much of a drive to both Feline Guitars and, in the opposite direction, the Surrey Hills and mountain bike country. Alas, nowhere near Whistler which is my 'spiritual home'
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Alas, nowhere near Whistler which is my 'spiritual home'
Still hoping I can go back and live/work in Vancouver or Whistler when I have more experience in my area of work! Amazing riding over there, absolutely nothing I've ridden in the UK compares.
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Alas, nowhere near Whistler which is my 'spiritual home'
Still hoping I can go back and live/work in Vancouver or Whistler when I have more experience in my area of work! Amazing riding over there, absolutely nothing I've ridden in the UK compares.
I spent a season there using redundancy money so basically a 5 month holiday. Awesome time. I go back every Winter and most summers for mogul camp and the mountain biking. Lots of good friends over there now.
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That's awesome. I spent last summer there (guess where my avatar was taken :P ) with a working visa but I couldn't find work anywhere :( Everyone wants experience and I have no experience in the customer service/bar staff work that's so popular over there, and I only had a little video/tv experience at the time. Gonna get my experience where I am now and see about tv jobs in Vancouver or something :D
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They're looking for bar staff/customer service people in Canadia?
Hmmmmmm...
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Yeah the majority of the jobs advertised in Whistler were for bar staff or waiters. I couldn't even get an interview for washing dishes at a pizza place due to lack of experience!
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Right, I'm off!
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haha go for it, Whistler is great if you're into biking, snowboarding (not that I got to experience this part) and easy women :lol: I did find it a bit cliquey though and there are lots of pricks who think they're gods gift because they can rip a lap of A-Line quickly. Kind of like living in a weird but fun bubble. I would probably want to live in Vancouver or something if I was doing it long term.
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A good idea!