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oh the ones in the b4kers delight near me are total cranks. every time i go in there after work the girl looks pissed off that i exist.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

she's probably on the Atkins diet

― rainy (rainy), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:30 (eighteen years ago) link

yep that's what they're like in the one near me too. and the one on the way to uni. it takes the shine off my cheese and vegemite scroll.

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link

i had that last night. the little cheesy hot dogs looked like they'd been there a bit long

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link

that's not a nice thing to call cranky teenage girls

― rainy (rainy), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:32 (eighteen years ago) link

ahaha. please bring sheepfuxor humour to this thread more often rainy.

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link

haw

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Must be queensland chain bakeries that are all happy-like. Trust me, it's got to be at least as bad as them being cranky.

― In the springtime of the year / Kate (papa november), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link

they were definitely happier in st kilda

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Still, not really worth moving back for is it? :D

― In the springtime of the year / Kate (papa november), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Qld chain bakery staff: scary, perky automata. Canberra chain bakery staff: inappropriately fanciable.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link

The perkiness increases as you near the gold coast. It's a perkiness meltdown there.

― In the springtime of the year / Kate (papa november), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link

hmmmm i'm sensing a pattern. i wonder if someone would be prepared to fund further research into the influence of weather/coast/geographic topography on interstate differences between chain bakery staff

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm feelin' the cheesymite scroll, they are quite good.

I did a bad, baaad thing this morning. I bought a mcdonalds muffin!

― haitch (haitch), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:44 (eighteen years ago) link

pfft what's baaad about that? if you ask me they're the only thing worth eating at maccas

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:45 (eighteen years ago) link

agreed

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Kate: yes! This is totally true. The ones up at Caboolture and the Sunshine Coast are not really very perky, the ones in Brisbane are quite perky and good grief, I nearly got smiled to death when I bought a loaf at the Robina Town Centre last time I was there.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link

hmm, I tend to associate it with "FAST FOOD BREAKFAST SHAME". but now I feel validated, thanks guys!

― haitch (haitch), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Hi mongs and rainy!

Our local Baker's Delight has a middleaged woman with a bob haircut and a mellifluous voice who uses a proper Italian accent when she says 'Panne di Casa' in a way that implies she's lived a full cosmopolitan life, maybe renovated a Tuscan villa or two and 'made love' in vineyards, etc.: she's annoying.
I used to work in a bakery and it was horrible. Every single customer would ask me how I could work there and stay so skinny, then they'd ask for a Sesame St loaf and expect me to guffaw. It was an un-excelsior as you can get. One time when I got home and looked in the mirror I had a poppy seed stuck to the white of my eye. It looked ghoulish, not perky.

― estela (estela), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:54 (eighteen years ago) link

What the fuck is anyone who knows anything about bread doing running a bakers delight?! It's the shittiest fluff bread on the planet. Give me a nice heavy-like-a-brick pane de champagne from the vegan lesbian hippy girls at sol breads any day.

― In the springtime of the year / Kate (papa november), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:57 (eighteen years ago) link

whuz sesame street loaf?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:58 (eighteen years ago) link

whilst i quite like eating bakers delight i would imagine it would suck sweaty balls to work at one

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 23:59 (eighteen years ago) link

true dat. that's probably why they are usually peopled by teenage girls. apart from lady mellifluous obviously.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm terrible, I actually prefer processed to death fluffy white bread, even though I know it is really bad for me.

BD or Brumbys (one of the two) make this really nice savoury danish with feta and spinach in it. If only theyd make it with normal cheese and spinach and maybe a little onion, it'd be perfect.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Sesame St loaf = sesame seed loaf for jokers.

― estela (estela), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:02 (eighteen years ago) link

brumby's is so awful. i went in one the other day, it's like a mutant cross between BD and a barely-populated bypass town bakery with a couple of week-old pies still heating away their botulism toxins

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:03 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm a bit picky about my bread. I call white bread buttglue. I guess I am a yuppie food snob after all.

― In the springtime of the year / Kate (papa november), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:05 (eighteen years ago) link

The Brumby Bruffins are ok if you get them early in the morning before the egg has gone all weird and crunchy.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:07 (eighteen years ago) link

no that's shell

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:08 (eighteen years ago) link

ahaha ok i don't think i'll ever be able to see brumby's dodge pies &tc in the same light.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't like going to the bakery when they have got a fly trapped in with the custard squares.

― estela (estela), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:12 (eighteen years ago) link

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:14 (eighteen years ago) link

James you were the 666th post, you're now the devilchild till someone starts a new thread.

God, I'm so mature.

― In the springtime of the year / Kate (papa november), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:19 (eighteen years ago) link

waah

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:21 (eighteen years ago) link

hahaha

― In the springtime of the year / Kate (papa november), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:22 (eighteen years ago) link

can anyone think of any songs that use typewriter key hits as percussion?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:36 (eighteen years ago) link

brian eno "china my china"

― haitch (haitch), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:38 (eighteen years ago) link

The start of "Breakout" by the Prodigy? Not really percussion tho :/

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Altho.. maybe some of the noises in the actual song are typing.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:45 (eighteen years ago) link

melvins 'spread eagle beagle'

― Michael B, Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:47 (eighteen years ago) link

ok so not very many.. this is good

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:48 (eighteen years ago) link

The three Gs - girl, geek or gay - are the labels that teenage boys most fear being lumbered with, a study of Australian schoolchildren shows. The most feared tags for girls are slut, frigid or dyke.

damn, boys these days are wusses! is this why there are no credible aussie hip-hop rivalries??

― haitch (haitch), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:49 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.jazzweekly.com/reviews/okura_bject.htm

On the second and longest track, the three mix it up with even more unusual sounds. Turning from straightforward arpeggios, the keyboardist adds unexpected runs that recall some of Sun Ra's outer-space excursions. Morton's door creaking, rumbles and smacks surround all this, resolving themselves as asymmetrical buzzes. But who is it producing what sounds like the clink and clank of manual typewriter keys? Eventually DeChellis gets animated enough to sound out a short theme from the electric piano, that is dependent on trebly, bended notes so higher-pitched that it almost appears as if he's using a toy piano keyboard. In response Hannafin brings various noise makers into play as drumsticks, brushes and mallets are manipulated and moved about on top of drum skins, until the sound dissolves.

― In the springtime of the year / Kate (papa november), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:55 (eighteen years ago) link

i was much more fearful of the 'brain/nerd/dork' tag when i was at highschool. maybe because i was much more likely to be branded with that than 'slut'.

i have always liked that leroy anderson typewriter piece, cliched as it may be. although i can't recall if it has an actual typewriter in it or is just inspired by it.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:56 (eighteen years ago) link

it seems lots of IDM use sounds that are a little typewriterish but rarely are actual typewriter sounds. i think it's a lovely sound, and underused. i imagine it being employed as a slightly attackier shaker or tambourine..

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 00:59 (eighteen years ago) link

you're right, it is a lovely sound. do you know the other sound i like that sounds cool as percussion... i've heard it in a shins song and also a song last year that i've now forgotten - acre maybe? the sound of a bouncing ping pong ball.

― gem (trisk), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 01:04 (eighteen years ago) link

are you after a session typist to put more overdubs on the album? I can do @ 45 wpm!

― haitch (haitch), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 01:05 (eighteen years ago) link

haha

i remember a couple of years ago me & the bexta sat down with a sound effects cd and made all sorts of neat loops with various sounds, like ping pong balls and gunshots (great snare!) and stuff. problem is i don't know what happened to the loops we made and the sound effects cds belong to her ex.

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 01:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I have a royal typewriter from 1914 which makes a fabulous clacky sound and my brother has two from the 1960's. If it weren't so damn heavy I'd post my down for you to use as it just sits under the bed at the moment.

― In the springtime of the year / Kate (papa november), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 01:08 (eighteen years ago) link

hmm actually i wonder if my sister still has the one i bequeathed to her many years ago

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 27 July 2005 01:10 (eighteen years ago) link

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