The Pirate Bay is no more for the time being Ian.
Carl, stuff it on a external hard drive, along with all the Pirate Bay movies :)
I've got Herself a coupla tickets for Laurent Voulzy and Alain Souchon at Lyon Halle Tony Garnier the 5th June 2015. Either I benefit for the second ticket or the other-in-law does :)
Same here Peter. Not a single cassette remains here and any VHS tapes I kept have turned white and powdery so most likely will not work.
Yes Pete, I'm just a bit long getting round to it. Carl, external HDs are great for libraries like that. Filling the HD on this thing would be silly. But it's Christmas every day for me listening to what I want and yellow sacking the ones I don't straight away.
I seem to recall throwing all my cassettes in the bin about 25 years ago !
The only problem with ripping all that music is finding somewhere to put it all :)
I got a nice little cassette to digital player the other day. Also direct from China. €12 inc post. Now I need to be able to go through several hundred cassettes to get my priority ones than get going. It has taken me roughly eight months doing the vinyl so far and I have still have plenty to go. But on the other hand, it is great having the music as I sit here... So don't need any of that stuff in my stocking.
Music on the lawnmower is handled by the only Apple product I like. my trusty iPlod.
I just had a digital rev counter delivered from China this morning Vic.
£4 delivered!!
Woah, me want too. 100m wireless headphones with the power mower, noise the sodding thing makes. I'd be able to have decibels up much higher than my MP3. Geeks certainly have something going for them.
Got 'em already somewhere in among the dust. Nah, more like a rope to hang myself probably.
As a geek I always have something that NEEDS buying for Christmas.
"How's about a competition to guess the pressie ?"
My secret prezzie should be the book 'How to retain your boyish good looks at 60'
Vic - a book entitled 'The Idiot's Guide to Diplomacy'
Brian - 'The Combined Works of Plato & Sartre'
Shirley - 'Calamity Jane'
Norman - 'Growing Old Disgracefully'
Doreen - 'How To Disagree With Everything'
Ian C - 'The Role of the Hippy in the 21st Century'
et al.
Not really in to cross-dressing mate but hey, what the heck, i'll try anything once !
The safe bet for me is jigsaw puzzles, i'm basically a jigaholic. My current challenge is 'Irises' by V v Gogh, a real pain but I won't let it beat me !
The three of them have ganged up and are buying me a surprise. Doh, I thought that was part of the game, used to be when I was young anyway. But that was slightly before dinosaurs died out, so what do I know?
Anyway, no bribes have worked thus far, so I have no idea but from the looks made when taunting me I may have reason to fear what is coming. Secrets is one thing, but wind ups and strange smiles do not bode well.
A hammock down in the cellar between 22 and 27 December roughly would be a good bet but for the fact that it can be taters down there.
Home alone at xmas mate ?
You're most welcome to visit the 87.
Re - presents : just what do you buy someone who has everything ? I suppose socks & knickers are a safe bet !
"She has everything she needs ie. ME" !!!
I would love to hear the good lady's version Vic !
Yup, a crate of a few liquids and the necessary for a full English and a roast ham & spuds would do :)
I am a late convert. Having been a parent (again) for the last 13 years I have the parental duty of giving and receiving. For years everything was closed so I snuggled up with something to drink, a good supply of (normal) food and telly or videos. So, after having forgotten how to play the Christmas game for years, except to a point if we had guests, I relearned it.If I am asked what I want for Christmas I have no answer. I might throw in buying a bottle of malt for my occasional tipple, but given how little I do that now, even that suggestion is more or less last resort. I am still trying to think what her nibs gets, because the girls insist and thus we must play the game which within a month of her birthday where I did lash out is hard anyway.
I agree with you three and if I could have my way the four of us (you three blokes, not my three family meant) could be locked in a room together with our most immediate needs, possibly in liquid form and something for the tum, until 'the' day has slipped past.