wait, when I played I used to hold the neck like that AFAIK. a bit like (sudden realisation, crosspost with "shockingly old when you learned" thread) I hold a pen too hard and brush my teeth too hard and other things dyspraxic people do, except such words didn't exist when I went to school
maybe that's why I could never play anything more complicated than half-speed Ramones songs
― a passing spacecadet, Sunday, 18 August 2019 16:17 (four years ago) link
microtonal fingering, you love to see it
― mark s, Sunday, 18 August 2019 16:22 (four years ago) link
yeah toothbrushes don't last long with me either and I often injure my hands in the unlikeliest of situations. But wouldn't take unsolicited advice from nay fucker on how to hold a guitar!
― calzino, Sunday, 18 August 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link
Not sure what that chord is he's playing tbf.
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 August 2019 16:40 (four years ago) link
the correct joke is just two posts up tom
― mark s, Sunday, 18 August 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
I think he's going more for an arpeggiated open string shoegaze kinda sound.
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Sunday, 18 August 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link
he's playing ligeti:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EB1cVI1X4AAlS60?format=jpg
― mark s, Sunday, 18 August 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
the cardigans surely
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 18 August 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
Johnson is Nekrotzar and Corbyn Piet the Pot.
xp
― pomenitul, Sunday, 18 August 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
Mayday @jeremycorbyn there’s still time to save the nation if you show statesmanship.Sacrifice short term ambition to be caretaker PM. Let the people genuinely vote you in AFTERWARDS . Meanwhile #hilarybenn #kenclarke #michealhestletine could presided over cross party cabinet.— Mariella Frostrup (@mariellaf1) August 18, 2019
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 19 August 2019 09:56 (four years ago) link
"Mayday"
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 19 August 2019 09:58 (four years ago) link
Justice for #michealhestletine
― gyac, Monday, 19 August 2019 09:59 (four years ago) link
what if we made an actual donky the leader of the GNU, people love donkies
― what's wrong with being centre-y? (Noodle Vague), Monday, 19 August 2019 10:07 (four years ago) link
As we approach no deal I will enjoy all sorts of random tweets begging Corbyn to step aside.
What I won't enjoy: hunger and death on the streets.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 19 August 2019 10:08 (four years ago) link
What about this cunt running obvious trolling?
The Celtic supporter who said he had a pro-IRA sing-a-long with @jeremycorbyn has protected his account... too late. pic.twitter.com/h6DX1Ebq7I— Guido Fawkes (@GuidoFawkes) August 18, 2019
― gyac, Monday, 19 August 2019 10:14 (four years ago) link
the upcoming general election (& subsequent critical years of british politics) is probably going to be decided by how much effort (and money) regular ppl on the ground put into labour's campaign. a test of whether ppl really give a shit or just want to spectate & kvetch
― ogmor, Monday, 19 August 2019 10:15 (four years ago) link
The clip of guido in the Everybody In The Place documentary was very telling, in that he has been both a cunt and a troll for longer than I realised.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 19 August 2019 10:36 (four years ago) link
describe it pls!
― calzino, Monday, 19 August 2019 10:44 (four years ago) link
Jemermy Cromybn,,,,, with your refusal to stand aside in favour of obvious unity choice #michealhestletine, you have made it impossible for me to vote Labour
― gyac, Monday, 19 August 2019 10:52 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/aug/19/brexit-latest-news-jeremy-corbyn-speech-labour-could-be-officially-neutral-in-any-second-referendum-campaign-john-mcdonnell-suggests-live-news
Corbyn refuses to rule out Labour officially remaining neutral in any second referendum on Brexit.
I assume you're all on board with this, barring a (((closet Lib Dem))) poster or two?
― pomenitul, Monday, 19 August 2019 10:52 (four years ago) link
It doesn't really mean anything (an entire party taking an 'official' position) so sure.
― nashwan, Monday, 19 August 2019 10:59 (four years ago) link
> The clip of guido in the Everybody In The Place documentary
he was a rave party organiser back in the day. the rest you probably know.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000777d/everybody-in-the-place-an-incomplete-history-of-britain-19841992
starts about 27m30s in.
― koogs, Monday, 19 August 2019 11:01 (four years ago) link
yep, he was a total stain back then as well!
― calzino, Monday, 19 August 2019 11:07 (four years ago) link
i interviewed him back then, i still have the tape but haven't listened to it since i wrote it up
― mark s, Monday, 19 August 2019 11:09 (four years ago) link
Er, that's not what that notation means, pom.
And yeah, I'm okay with him refusing to rule out being neutral in the referendum - provided Labour supports remain!
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 19 August 2019 11:21 (four years ago) link
What does it mean then? idgi
― pomenitul, Monday, 19 August 2019 11:23 (four years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_parentheses
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 19 August 2019 11:24 (four years ago) link
xpsJeremy Deller is so good, wish there were more like him.
― calzino, Monday, 19 August 2019 11:24 (four years ago) link
Oh I know. I was make a crude joke.
― pomenitul, Monday, 19 August 2019 11:25 (four years ago) link
Like Theodor Adorno, I don't get it.
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Monday, 19 August 2019 11:26 (four years ago) link
You tankies are prone to conspiracy theories of all kinds.
― pomenitul, Monday, 19 August 2019 11:26 (four years ago) link
better when it meant 'cyberhugs' for sure
― nashwan, Monday, 19 August 2019 11:30 (four years ago) link
Normal!I would assume the neutral thing is for yr very vocal contingent of 20-30 MPs in Leave seats who don’t want a referendum and who have behind a lot of the pressure against Labour supporting one.
― gyac, Monday, 19 August 2019 11:34 (four years ago) link
That could very easily backfire. It cuts both ways, though, I suppose.
― pomenitul, Monday, 19 August 2019 11:36 (four years ago) link
I like Bush's use of "cultural halitosis" to describe the tories lack of appeal in the north.
― calzino, Monday, 19 August 2019 11:44 (four years ago) link
I'm not sure there'd be any strategic advantage in the labour leadership declaring the official party position to be remain. lots of ppl get it and a lot of the ones that don't that labour cld try to appease are constitutionally suspicious of the left wing of the labour party and no official line will stop them going on abt the dangerous hard left. and a lot of them were complaining corbyn himself was too divisive recently
― ogmor, Monday, 19 August 2019 11:48 (four years ago) link
Truly, a source of comfort for UK residents who have yet to ascend to citizenship.
― pomenitul, Monday, 19 August 2019 12:10 (four years ago) link
I wld have thought the prospect of a second ref is more comforting for them than it is for lexiters
― ogmor, Monday, 19 August 2019 12:17 (four years ago) link
> Jeremy Deller
facebook reminded me the other day of the time i had a bounce on his inflatable stonehenge (2012). didn't think then that it was a political piece but that documentary pointed out the access thing.
― koogs, Monday, 19 August 2019 12:32 (four years ago) link
Would be considerably more comforting if Corbyn were pulling his weight on that front. But what do I know? I'm just a metic.
― pomenitul, Monday, 19 August 2019 12:49 (four years ago) link
Rapidly descending into Fred territory. Corbyn has whipped Labour to vote for a 2nd ref numerous times!
This isn't hard but let's be clear. Owen Jones is not a journalist - by his own admission. pic.twitter.com/lG6ND2c294— Julia Macfarlane (@juliamacfarlane) August 19, 2019
― gyac, Monday, 19 August 2019 13:32 (four years ago) link
as has been discussed here before despite the febrile imaginations of the centre/right that it's all tankies and mendacious authoritarians, the strength and guiding principle of the movement behind Corbyn has been its [very unusually, for british politics] democratising, consensus-building approach*. even if you think this is a bad approach it doesn't seem like pissing off one chunk of the ppl they are trying to win over to offer some comfort to another is in itself a good enough reason to ditch it
*tempted to call this 'bottom-up' but I know some wld object, but the function and role of the membership has changed as well as the opposition
― ogmor, Monday, 19 August 2019 13:43 (four years ago) link
Not good enough when you're in my shoes and you know it. There's a chance I might have to prolong my stay here so it's slowly becoming a serious issue. Less 5d chess would be welcome.
For the record, almost everything else about Corbyn's platform is perfectly in line with my own beliefs and if I were British I'd likely vote for him.
― pomenitul, Monday, 19 August 2019 13:48 (four years ago) link
Corbyn can't command a majority in the current Commons and I'm sure he knew that when he even suggested this. The thing is, and this is key - *neither can anyone else*.
― Matt DC, Monday, 19 August 2019 14:14 (four years ago) link
Anyway the leaking of the Operation Yellowhammer documents yesterday feels like it should potentially be huge and will likely make no difference to anything whatsoever.
― Matt DC, Monday, 19 August 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link
Gove is already saying that it was worst case and anyway it's an old document that we've done a lot of work since then (though some of the estimates place it as less than a month old IE during Boris's premiership).
James Hookham from the Freight Transport Association is apparently going "wait, WTF do you mean 'fuel shortages'"?
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 19 August 2019 14:29 (four years ago) link
Fuel shortages is the thing that's going to kill it. You can let people starve but you don't fuck around with Middle England's petrol supplies.
― Matt DC, Monday, 19 August 2019 14:31 (four years ago) link
have we talked about the rumours of the tories’ plan to raise the state pension entitlement age to 75? guess now they’re set on no-deal they figure they might as well go full supervillain
― THE FUCKING EMPIRE OF SOUR CREAM (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 19 August 2019 14:59 (four years ago) link
looks like they determined it's better to get this out there before their galvanising brexit election showdown w corbs
― ogmor, Monday, 19 August 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link