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I had a cheese toastie with few dollops of clotted cream because I'm not a complete animal 😉. I liked it very much as first time for this. Bit indulgent but why not.

On 4/24/2022 at 12:52 AM, KillaKukumba said:

It did work, but it wasn't really fit for purpose. It was a drunken idea that we took too far and once we started we couldn't let it beat us.

I don't mind the pink jacket and shirts. But the pink tools were a solid pitch towards getting more females into trades and it did work because plenty of women and now taking up all manner of trades and it's good to see.

 

There is a lot of myths around batteries and what makes them die prematurely and most of them are exactly that a myth. Most 'cheaper' ones can be a risk but with a little research and following a few simple steps you can be relatively sure about what you're getting. The first two basic steps are just because it's got a brand name on it doesn't mean it's great, and if it doesn't have a traceable name don't trust it there are plenty more choices out there.

I don't mind pink hi Vis really. No issue to me. I wear alot of hi Vis orange at work so the pink stuff is just another colour. 

Ok I gathered as much after I spoke to my dad re the mower with the pickup engine. He was convinced it would have issues. My dad does get things totally wrong sometimes so I was hoping this would be the case

That's good to see more women taking up the trades. In UK I've not seen any women on the sites. I'm not a tradesman but when our sites are done up alot of tradespeople turn up and I can't remember any females doing the work. There's even a Google advert on you tube where a female bricklayer moans to a copresenter why there are not more women in construction. 

On 4/18/2022 at 9:25 PM, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Have you perhaps come across any of my thousands of video posts in the What Are You Listening To thread, Sweets Gobbler? I'm sure there are at least several of my posts to be found on just about every single page of that thread for the last year. Clearly I like the filth, (I'm not an Iron Maiden fan in other words) and the vast majority of what I listen to would fall under the category of 'niche' stuff that most people wouldn't like, if they even knew that it existed. You my friend are a mainstreamer, which is totally fine, but it lets me know that I shouldn't expect you to truly understand.

I would say part of not only being a metalhead or a serious music fan, but even part of just being a grown adult is doing your own thing, thinking for yourself and standing by your convictions regardless of what others might think. I believe the general attitude of 'Fuck you I can consume what I like' goes without saying and should be taken for granted when dealing with all other adults. I am someone who summarily rejects the typical clueless popular mainstream choices in all areas of art & life, not just music. Be it film, television, literature, art, fashion, food, drink, or what have you. Only I am properly equipped to decide what I like best and what best fulfills my needs and I am quite happy to let others to go about their business, do what they may and make up their own minds, assuming that they would much prefer to choose everything for themselves as I do. My taste is the only right taste for me and everyone else's taste is shit, that's the assumption I operate under at all times. It's always cool when I find my tastes aligning or overlaping with someone else's, but I'm totally fine being way out on an island all by myself as well as is more often the case.

I'll tell ya what I think Kuke. Album was FUBAR by the atrocious vox.

At least we agree that listening to what you like is important. It's obvious and I'm too old to care about trends. If I like the music.  That's enough.  

On 4/15/2022 at 9:24 PM, KillaKukumba said:

Ebbs and flows sire, ebbs and flows, because you'll also witnessed Blaze wearing your knickers as a du-rag.

What an honour. Blaze would definitely be called a legend a few times for wearing brown stained undies in that manner 😂

On 4/25/2022 at 1:09 AM, JamesT said:

I've always been a fan of "St. Anger", and I'm not ashamed to say it.  I enjoy the rawness of the sound and appreciate Metallica making the effort to get back to ferocious heavy metal after the utter embarrassments of "Load" and "Reload".  

After speaking to you I decided to wipe my ideas of this album. I just listened to it  with zero expectations and and I too liked the rawness and high energy of the record. I find it bit repetitive and not biggest fan of nu metal sound with those alternative rock/Alice in chains bridges (well that's my opinion)but overall 👍from me. I like it more than load , reload, death magnetic and hardwired. 

On 4/13/2022 at 11:41 PM, blaaacdoommmmfan said:

I'd forgotten about that one. It's called forbidden for a reason. 😉 Hopefully it improves. Let me know how you like 2nd half of album

I listened other day to st anger by Mettalica with zero expectations and I must say I liked it alot more than I was expecting. It was bit repetitive and some songs a bit long but I liked the energy. I used to hate that album. Now I appreciate the energy which reminded me of there glory days of thrash. There were punk, groove metal, nu metal bits but I still liked it somewhat

I listened to forbidden and I don't like it. Good singing and music but bit too much classic rock sound for me. It's forbidden for now from me collection. 😉

On 4/14/2022 at 10:46 PM, KillaKukumba said:

I said it's ok so it's bloody ok and nothing you can say will change that, okay!

 

I think albums ok too. Not amazing but not without merit. That main riff for st anger I've heard very similar from other band.

 I just can't remember where I've heard that before. You get riffs like that. There's a riff megadeth, pantera and machine head all used  that sound almost identical to me anyway. With them they have thrash in there music so guess that figures. Still can't work out what other song st anger riff sounds like 🤔

On 4/14/2022 at 12:30 AM, Karambit said:

Forbidden is definitely the correct word to describe it! It gets worse during the second half, dear lord. Tony Martin's vocals lack finesse. They sound weak on every song which is a crying shame. Ozzy had a booming voice that took control of each track, this is more power ballad than metal.

There's one decent song (Shaking Off the Chains) but everything else is filler. A terrible album indeed. Not even Tommy Iommi could salvage it.

As for St Anger, I found it to be garbage. Only lasted four songs before giving up, but you've convinced me to give it another shot. Surely it has good parts right?

For st anger. Going in with no expectations helped. I switched it off on last track but I was amazed I got that far and enjoyed it overall even with those drums and it's bit repetitive. It's definitely worth another listen. Only one mind you. It was background music when I played it as I was doing some work. Maybe this helped. 

I will have to hear this black Sabbath album. I've heard some others say they like his vocals. It's difficult to follow Ozzy, Dio, Ian gillen. All legendary imo. 

32 minutes ago, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Well the nail gun is of course pneumatic, no batteries required, you plug the hose into an air compressor which plugs into a wall outlet. Little more kick than a staple gun. Plumbers don't usually need framing guns, but they love sawzalls, drills and hole saws, eh?

Yeah, we had some batteries go missing from the jobsite which also happens to be my house. I grabbed some new DeWalt ones off Amazon because they were slightly lower priced than normal, 2 of them for $159, they'd normally be more like $200 or more. But I guess you get what you pay for, and if something seems too good to be true it usually is. They worked for a few weeks and apparently batteries can't be returned unless they're DOA I guess. So we lose. No more buying batteries off Amazon. 

No we don't leave them outside, but the part of my house where we've been keeping the tools is not heated directly and we had an especially cold winter where it never got above freezing for weeks at a time. We'll be putting heat in there at some point, it used to be an L-shaped wrap-around porch but we knocked down a wall to make one side of the L part of the living room. 

Yeah plumbers do like a drill. I'm no plumber but us water maintenance techs like a bit of using power tools to break up the routine of seeing alot of water pumps and pipe and doing a massive amount of samples. We had a guy work for us who was mechanic on quarries. He said it was like like hell at times with the dust and heat. 6 months later after joining us he went back to the quarries. 😉

. It may be just a myth then especially if you leave your battery in an unheated room and they work ok. For me its no issue bringing them in as they fit in a work bag. Also if my van gets broken into at least they won't get the batteries. 

On 4/20/2022 at 12:04 AM, KillaKukumba said:

Yeah picking buy colour is as good as anything else. Not sure if other countries have them but we even have pink tools now. It supposedly encourages women into trades, I'm not sure if that's true but good luck to them the pink tools look alright.

I've never really swapped tool bits around, we've re-made and restored a number of battery packs for people but generally if the tools are dead they are dead. Our silly swaps are usually bigger, things like swapping out the 50cc motor of a chainsaw to a 100cc, or replacing the motor on the air compressor with the biggest motor we can find. Years ago though we did swap out the 15hp ride on lawn mower motor with a Ford motor out of a '77 F series.

Swapping the little engine with that powerful ford motor. Did it work. Was the mower useable or did you have to be careful handling that power. 

Not seen pink tools. The maintenance guys at a site I was at while ago all had pink hi Viz jackets on. Intially I felt sorry for them. 10 mins later I wasn't bothered about the colour. I just wanted to get the job done and home for dinner😋

On 4/14/2022 at 12:58 AM, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Bought a DeWalt compact sawzall last summer and then their compact table saw earlier this year and I love both of them. Milwaukee vs DeWalt seems to be an ongoing debate here that will probably never end and it can transcend generations even, like Ford vs Chevy. Both have their advocates and detractors.

Problem is all the batteries suck. Made the mistake of buying two 5 amp DeWalt batteries off Amazon last year for $159 and they both crapped out within about 6 weeks. Put one on the tool and all the lights start blinking like Christmas lights. Left me wondeing if maybe they were Chinese knock-offs even though they do have what looks to be the legit DeWalt logo on them. Or maybe some unscrupulous cocksucker bought all the rejects from the manufacturing plant that failed quality control and is selling them on Amazon for cheap.

I will say that Milwaukee cordless nail gun is pretty cool once you get used to the weird sound it makes. Main advantage seems to be it's just nice not to have to listen to the compressor growling all day. I don't own one myself but this guy Vince I had working for me last year had one. All his tools and packouts were Milwaukee, everything of his was red from top to bottom including the bluetooth speaker, he was like a walking Milwaukee ad.

I have a Hitachi framing gun, saw it on an end cap display at HD for $99 two years ago and at that price I couldn't resist. It's still going strong. Mitre saw is a Rigid which I probably wouldn't have bought for myself but it was a gift 2 years ago and it's been pretty good actually, no complaints yet.

Goat 🐐 general I'm guessing the dewalt batteries were not covered by warranty. That's rubbish.Do you bring in the power tool batteries in the house over cold months as I read that leaving them out in the cold affects there performance. I bring mine in after I read that. It convinced me at least 

A work mate bought a Makita compact sawzall which made the job easier for sure. The mother in law has one. Think that's her only power tool she has. She finds it very useful for cutting fire wood

I've got an electric staple gun. Useful for upholstery. Not used nail gun before. But staple gun is nearest thing I've used to that. 

On 4/14/2022 at 12:05 AM, KillaKukumba said:

Sometimes remasters come with extra CDs that don't appear anywhere else which makes them worth buying. But it still shits me when bands, or more likely labels release remasters with one or two differences just to sell more.

It doesn't happen here as much as it used to be being one of the last places many bands toured we used to often see an album released, then 12-18 months later when the tour finally made it here they've offer a "Tour" version of the album. The same thing but with a few live tracks, tracks that couldn't be bought anywhere else. It's not so bad these days where the songs will be on the net, but in the 90's that shit couldn't just be downloaded. No one wanted to wait 12-18 months to buy their new favourite album, but they also did want two copies of an album that were essentially the same.

The tour version. I've been bought some of those and none of which were memorable. There must be  some good ones but I'm yet to hear them

There's some extra remix tracks on the version of slayer reign in blood that I own and as far as I'm concerned it's better without them 

On 4/14/2022 at 12:43 AM, KillaKukumba said:

There is only about five factories in the world that make all the leading brands of power tools these days anyway.

AEG, Ryobi and Milwaukee all come out of the same factories, sharing all sorts of things from parts to R&D and they are owned by TTI in Hong Kong

Stanley/Black And Decker own and make brands like Stanley, B&D, Sidchrome, Dewalt and Irwin

Makita is one of the few companies that makes a wide range of tools that is not made by a subsidiary company. Not that that makes them better.

Not every brand uses the same parts as it's sister company just because they are made, assembled, or even designed in the same place, but they do share many similarities. They are all made to a price point but that price point doesn't mean expensive is always better, it means one name is more expensive than the other.

There is an Aussie bloke (and I'm sure he's not the only one), who does pull down videos on YT. He pulls down all the leading, and not so leading brands to compare what's in the case. He started doing it because people kept asking if Aldi Supermarket tools could be trusted, but he moved on to all brands and some of the results he found were quite interesting.

I've seen some you tube videos before I bought the SDS drill and a few tradesmen said most of the power tools be they DeWalt/ Milwaukee/ Makita/ Ryobi etc are very similar. They recommended getting a minimum 18volt in the colour you like the best😉  

Is that how you see it.  

Have you ever joined tools together. My dad added a DeWalt belt sander power unit on to a black and decker belt sander belt unit for a bit of extra oomphh. Also he may have knackered the DeWalt belt sander section so thats another reason for this tool. It was a good tool though. 

On 4/14/2022 at 12:14 AM, zackflag said:

Milwaukee make the best power tools, bar none. Their cordless nailers are a godsend (this coming from a carpenter who uses these things everyday). Makita make some pretty good stuff, my reciprocator saw is a Makita and it's badass. DeWalt are a step down but serviceable, I like their mitre saws. Black and Decker are hot garbage.

The plumber at work uses alot of Milwaukee stuff. He loves the brand as much as you do. That's fantastic you rate them so highly and from a tradesman I respect what your saying. I bought DeWalt as always a brand my dad rated plus it's not so expensive. And bought other tools by DeWalt as they can all use the same batteries.

I work for a water company doing maintenance checks and I occasionally drill concrete and fibre glass and metal to secure doors and bolt plates/cones etc to make areas safe but I'm impressed how good they are these days. Plus if needed I can always get more power but the 18volt have been fine for what I need so far. I know some plumbers who have 54volt gear as 18volt stuff was not powerful enough. 

Iron maiden- virtual 11- remastered version naturally 😁

On 4/14/2022 at 1:31 AM, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Thin Lizzy - Toughest street in town

 

I listened to a little bit of Virtual XI the other night when you said you were going to see Blayze because I had honestly never heard him sing. I was aghast. Vox were so bad I almost wanted to cry in empathy for the band's embarrassment. My disdain for Dickenson is legendary, but in this case I'd hafta say Harris did the right thing by bringing Brucie back into the fold. But don't let me sway you, you do you bruv, you bring those wadded up knickers in your pocket and you lob them up on stage with your head held high!

I'm impressed you gave virtual 11 a listen. I agree bringing back Bruce was best choice for iron maiden commercially as apparently they was selling alot less albums. I still prefer his singing and his albums though even if his singing goes a bit karaoke at times.such power🥊🥊I generally prefer niche bands as most big bands just don't really do it for me. Blaze describes himself as a niche musician.  He has a special talent though as Steve Harris and Rick Rubin gave blaze contracts. 

Out of interest which artist or band do you like which most people don't like. It sounds negative but a certain amount of being a metal fan or serious music fan perhaps I think Is listening to the music you like regardless what others say. A certain fuck you I can listen to what I like 

On 4/14/2022 at 5:09 AM, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Sweets Gobbler has already stated for the record that he's saving his best knickers for when Konvent comes to town.

 

Konvent - Puritan Masochism (Official Video) 

 

Damn right,extra knickers that night in a massive rucksack.😁

On 4/13/2022 at 11:00 PM, KillaKukumba said:

Awe c'mon it will be a birthday to remember

That's true getting knocked out and having all my stuff stolen sounds great😉

On 4/11/2022 at 12:08 AM, KillaKukumba said:

I'm not one for remastered albums, especially given that so many albums these days are labelled as remastered but haven't been done from the original recordings. Too much of the time it's just labels wanting to re-release albums with, or without, the bands consent. Remastering is often also just one knob twiddlers version of what they think is great, look at how many people 'remaster' albums on Youtube with headings like "this is what X should have sounded like". I don't have a problem with labels selling remasters, or people buying them, but to me buying them, especially if I already have them is a waste of money.

Agreed I only buy an album once unless the remastered version is so fantastic I must get it. I will say this has never happened. But I don't want to say never

On 4/11/2022 at 12:08 AM, KillaKukumba said:

I'm not one for remastered albums, especially given that so many albums these days are labelled as remastered but haven't been done from the original recordings. Too much of the time it's just labels wanting to re-release albums with, or without, the bands consent. Remastering is often also just one knob twiddlers version of what they think is great, look at how many people 'remaster' albums on Youtube with headings like "this is what X should have sounded like". I don't have a problem with labels selling remasters, or people buying them, but to me buying them, especially if I already have them is a waste of money.

Agreed I only buy an album once unless the remastered version is so fantastic I must get it. I will say this has never happened. But I don't want to say never

On 4/12/2022 at 12:54 PM, Karambit said:

It's been a long time since, but I've finally given Forbidden a shot. Four songs in and I'm not feeling it. Tommy Iommi carries the album, everything else has been poor so far. Hoping it gets a little better at least!

I'd forgotten about that one. It's called forbidden for a reason. 😉 Hopefully it improves. Let me know how you like 2nd half of album

I listened other day to st anger by Mettalica with zero expectations and I must say I liked it alot more than I was expecting. It was bit repetitive and some songs a bit long but I liked the energy. I used to hate that album. Now I appreciate the energy which reminded me of there glory days of thrash. There were punk, groove metal, nu metal bits but I still liked it somewhat

On 4/12/2022 at 7:49 AM, Dead1 said:

As long as those Senators are sabotaging and delaying government legislation I am ok with them doing it.  

And I don't care that LNP didn't break a promise.  They were promoting a violation of basic human rights. 

 

IMO Australian politics is beyond broken and Australia as a country is edging to beyond fucked with none of the rich elites wanting to fix anything and instead just looking at more ways to get rich off the poor.

 

I wouldn't care if I didn't have a kid...

 

 

At least you have two parties. In the UK we only have 1 who wins most of the time(conservatives) No matter what they do they get voted in because the opposition parties(labour and lib dem) are so weak.  With the cost of living crisis I forsee two possibilities for us. 1 the government gets voted out which would be great☺️ 2 the same political party stays in power with the population turning against themselves as result of all the cuts to services the government makes and price rises 😞 maybe I'm just too pessimistic 

Been using the SDS plus drill at work again. I used the chuck converter so I could use it as a standard drill. I find having the extra weight is handy for drilling through metal compared to the standard combi drill. 

What are other peoples favourite power tools. 

Also what brands do people go for. 

On 4/12/2022 at 2:55 AM, GoatmasterGeneral said:

 

Hey Sweets, have you got all your knickers organized into the ones you'd like to keep and the ones you think you could spare to lob up onto the stage? I hear that Blaze is quite an attractive man. He radiates sex appeal.

In all fairness I'm more concerned about gig location as it's very close to the most dangerous street in that town. Getting mugged on my birthday doesn't sound great. 

Tbh I probably have these comments coming with how much I big up blaze, just a fan of his dramatic style of singing. Honest😂 

Also what program do you use to get pictures small enough to post a picture. I've tried and failed to post pictures alot of times

On 4/11/2022 at 5:19 AM, GoatmasterGeneral said:

Arguably metal. It's like metal for people who hate metal. Whatever this is, it's insufferable. Wish I hadn't looked them up. I have no way to unhear this now.

LOVEBITES - Rising

 

There's some things we agree on and that's letting others listen to this music.😉  What is genre. Is it Powermetal/ nightwishy/ pop music. 

On 4/11/2022 at 4:28 AM, SurgicalBrute said:

Oh, I don't doubt they're some out there, particularly with Japan's obsession with all-girl pop bands. Seems like exactly the kind of situation that would cause some "anti-diva" pushback from the right kind of ladies. I was more curious about the "Japan leads the way" aspect of that comment. A bit of google searching took me to a few different lists, but of the ones I checked out, most sounded like pop-punk or radio rock bands...Nothing wrong with that, but I was wondering what kind of bands we were really talking about here.

Haven't listened to Kovent since their demo. I remember liking it okay, just didn't grab me super hard

Konvent albums I've enjoyed are call down the sun and puritan masochism on recent listens. When they play it live the singer reminds me bit how obituary singer walks round on stage with all the hair in front of them but there alot prettier ☺️. Those albums are Worth a listen if you like death/doom music. The singer is tiny bit different to bloke doing same vocals but I say👍another band asagraum who are a Netherlands all female black metal band I think are very impressive. Worth a listen. 

Once human have a good metal singer. Saw them support fear factory number of years ago. Can't remember her name. She was good enough to convince Logan mader(ex machine head) to come out of retirement 

From my experience most metal fans and musicians are blokes. So no surprising that there are not that many all female metal bands. How do you see it. Have you got any female metal bands you rate well?

On 2/15/2022 at 7:08 PM, H34VYM3T4LD4V3 said:

Overkill - Feel the Fire CD

Venom - Cast In Stone CD

Hello heavy metal Dave. Hope your doing great. I am as I I've got blaze tickets to a gig later this year. Thanks for the tip off he was touring this year. I wouldn't have checked so thanks dude.👍