What's on your mind?

[RelentlessOblivion]

If one has spent weeks analysing with a fine toothed comb each word of every sentence for grammatical and spelling errors I can understand slackening their approach in their personal time. My own writing has suffered tremendously from the lack of academic writing in my life and I envision quite the struggle to rectify the situation early next year. That is, however, unique to myself and I doubt most find this an issue.

[mindy6158]

So Mindy you opt to refrain from using proper English on our forum simply because you are required to do so as part of your degree? Secondary query: If you are doing so as a means of rebellion would it not make morese sense to reverse the behaviour? Of course I am not in a position to critique spelling and grammar prone as I am to making boneheaded mistakes. I do, at least, have an extremely flimsy excuse to fall back on whereas you are merely being rebellious at best and slothful at worst. Oh also typing this gave me a thinking too much headache so I is gonna jump up and down like a psycho circus clown 'til it goes away.

I use "proper" English when speaking in person.  I do not feel the need to write or type on any social media 100% always on point as I would if I were writing a damn dissertation, damn you guys need to get off my ass for real.

[RelentlessOblivion]

I would have thought the attempt to sound serious would be an indicator to the contrary. I must apologise for this confusion. For future reference though when it is clear people are fishing for a reaction would it not be best to laugh in their face as opposed to biting off their heads?

[mindy6158]

I would have thought the attempt to sound serious would be an indicator to the contrary. I must apologise for this confusion. For future reference though when it is clear people are fishing for a reaction would it not be best to laugh in their face as opposed to biting off their heads?

If it has to do with school, paper writing, and my sucking at both, no....never funny.  Yes, I will bite head off

[Iceni]

So Mindy you opt to refrain from using proper English on our forum simply because you are required to do so as part of your degree? Secondary query: If you are doing so as a means of rebellion would it not make morese sense to reverse the behaviour? Of course I am not in a position to critique spelling and grammar prone as I am to making boneheaded mistakes. I do, at least, have an extremely flimsy excuse to fall back on whereas you are merely being rebellious at best and slothful at worst. Oh also typing this gave me a thinking too much headache so I is gonna jump up and down like a psycho circus clown 'til it goes away.

I don't get that. It's like if I said I went to college for painting, and I work really hard on illustrations, so in my free time I only want to make shitty drawings. It isn't extra work for me to use decent grammar and punctuation. I'm not saying you shouldn't stick with your idiosyncrasies, but the argument that it's somehow harder and less fun to write "well" doesn't make sense to me. And lazy writing often makes for harder reading. 

Aww, how nice! You're all being anal-retentive for me.

I am not Iceni =P

[RelentlessOblivion]

You must be Ozzy Osbourne's role model  seriously though I'm not sure I like fun-hating up tight mindy very much.

 

Well someone had to Iceman you've really dropped the ball lately

[RelentlessOblivion]

Oh and in other news the Dean ML will apparently not take E standard tuning if using 12-56 gauge strings. Not enough action on the tremolo (according to guitar tech) even increasing the number of springs from 2 to 5. I found this odd as I had been told in the past this would not be an issue. So my solution to the problem? ML will be set up in drop A tuning. I'll also get the Razorback done soon and set up in either drop B (BF#BEG#C#) or C (CFBsharpEsharpGC).

[TheDumbOne]

So we have a typhoon warning on my area but there is no class suspension from the uni. Guess this calls for the Led zeppelin playlist. Kashmir while walking in the rain? Why not.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Meanwhile in the Great Southern Wasteland the Bureau of Meteorology can't accurately gauge just how hot it will get over the weekend. All they can say is 35+ degrees celsius over the next 4 days. Those kinds of temperatures in early October normally mean we're in for a savage summer.

[TheDumbOne]

With the El Niño phenomenon over Pacific it will surely cause drought or typhoons over the area.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Well it's Australia so it's pretty much always a drought here.

[FatherAlabaster]

It's been in the fifties, grey and rainy here. I wouldn't mind except my wife is out of town for a few days and it's too crappy to take my son to any of the parks nearby. We're reduced to kicking a soccer ball in the hallway...

[Iceni]

It's been in the fifties, grey and rainy here.

Same here, makes it look very European. I like it, but it is really annoying to have all the rain.

[FatherAlabaster]

I've never been to Europe. I do like the atmosphere, just wish I could either really relax or offer something more in the way of activity for an energetic young man. We're doing laundry today, so there's some excitement...

[Iceni]

I've never been to Europe. I do like the atmosphere, just wish I could either really relax or offer something more in the way of activity for an energetic young man. We're doing laundry today, so there's some excitement...

 

Maybe this will lighten the mood.

 

Edited October 3, 2015 by Iceni

[FatherAlabaster]

He loved it, thanks! What an expressive chin that dude has. 

Edit - as this is my 9,999th post, I'll have to consider carefully what to post next... can't have that be just any old post, you know. Leaving "Grandmaster" status, leaving four digits behind. It's a big move. We see how having such a high post count has treated Iceni and BAN, and obviously it's nearly ruined poor RO, who is no doubt wishing that he had in fact been sucked into the alternate universe that we all assumed he would go to upon his 10,000th post. Indeed, this is a moment for sober reflection, for taking stock, for...

Ah, who gives a shit, I barely noticed in time.  

Edited October 3, 2015 by FatherAlabaster

[RelentlessOblivion]

Remember when I was the one constantly bitching about the weather? Anyway my guitars are ready to be picked up but the shop isn't open today (Sunday) and tomorrow is a public holiday for no reason other then that Australia likes random public holidays so I must wait until Tuesday to get back the Les Paul and my now drop-a tuned ML.

 

FA I can think of only one acceptable topic for your 10,000th post...how great I am in every possible way

[MacabreEternal]

If TapaTalk wants to stop randomly logging me out at any point in the near future it can be my guest and do so pronto. Sent from my HTC One_M8 using Tapatalk

[FatherAlabaster]

Might be a forum issue, that happens with my browser occasionally too. Tapatalk really lost me with their shitty updates, though. 

I guess I should be happy. I found my Moving Pictures cd in the Karelian Isthmus case. My copy of Individual Thought Patterns is gone, which sucks. I shudder to think what else I'll find missing when I finally get around to going through my collection. 

 

[RelentlessOblivion]

Final phase of the big move. Brother has shit strewn from asshole to breakfast. Oh and I no longer have a TV.

[GorboGorboze]

Final phase of the big move. Brother has shit strewn from asshole to breakfast. Oh and I no longer have a TV.

That is some colorful language there dude. Do you mean to say that he is not keeping his belongings well organised? I hope so because my second guess about what that means is not fit for print.

[FatherAlabaster]

That is some colorful language there dude. Do you mean to say that he is not keeping his belongings well organised? I hope so because my second guess about what that means is not fit for print.

And the phrase "shit strewn from asshole to breakfast" is fit for print?

[RelentlessOblivion]

Is that not a common phrase in the States? Yes Gorbo it means clutter was sufficient to prevent entry not only into his room but to the extension generally speaking.

[Midi]

Last night's bass session left me with 3 blisters, a burned finger and a cut in my knuckle and pinky. Time to get some super glue.

[RelentlessOblivion]

Got my guitars back today. Not exactly happy with the job that was done particularly factoring in the time it took. I mean guitars are back in working order and that's fantastic BUT big problem with the tuning of the ML. I asked for it to be drop A tuned and technically at least he has done so using the EBGDAA variant. Unfortunately that's not the configuration I asked for. I wanted the AEADF#B layout. So I have to try and do that myself.