Feels good man, when I got back from uni for summer I rearranged my room and in the process cleared out/threw away SOOO much shite.
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UK/R.O.I GAF - Thread of geopolitical confusion
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Feels good man, when I got back from uni for summer I rearranged my room and in the process cleared out/threw away SOOO much shite.
Take like five ones that are amazing and give them to friends.
Donate the rest to charity shops.
It's so hard letting go of books, but I rarely re-read. Today I had three rules:
1 - Read it? Get rid of it.
2 - Got halfway through it but then put it down? Get rid of it.
3 - Not read it but had it for more than a year? Get rid of it.
Sole exception in novels were a couple of formative books that I do tend to revisit every couple of years. Reference books I wasn't quite so ruthless with, but I still slashed 2/3s of my collection.
Going forward, I want no more than one shelf of unread novels, to be got rid of the moment I am done. I'm through with hoarding books that I think I'll get around to reading at some point, or keeping hold of books I loved but know I'll never read again.
I can always buy something again if I suddenly get the urge to read it.
Should get a Kindle.
Steam has taught me that digital distribution doesn't necessarily curb hoarding habits.
But then you also don't have a bookshelf of games at your parents house you don't want to keep with you but don't really want to get rid of either.
No phone or tablet screen is as good for books as e-ink is.
Little Old Man
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OH MY GOD my room is so empty what have I done?
Turn? Has everyone just been glossing over his previous fanboy fanatic posts?
MarkMclovin
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Yeah I have both and no way does the Kindle get beat as an eReader.
JonathanEx
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It helps to.
Bruce Springsteen's guitarist labelled England a "police state" after their amps/musical equipment got switched off because they went past curfew at Hyde Park.It's a bit silly that the council had to cut them off. Just slap fines on the band instead. UK-GAF thoughts?
phisheep
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As I understand it, it was the event organisers , not the council, that pulled the plug. Sure it was the council that set the curfew in the first place - and that seems reasonable to me, after all there are people who live nearby who might need to get their sleep.
Have absolutely no idea where the "police state" bit comes in - can't see it has anything to do with the police at all.
That'd learn 'em.
Meus Renaissance
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Something tells me this isn't the first time he's called England a "police state"
Our own V ladies and gentleman. I wonder who his Evey will be.
phisheep
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Good on you. Important life lesson - just because everyone else is panicking doesn't mean you have to. Panic is a choice.
Similarly, sometime soon (if you haven't come across it already) you will have a boss who says "your job is to make me happy". The correct, and stinging, response to that is "No. My job is to do X Y and Z and if after that you aren't happy that is your own problem, not mine".
Sometimes it was my own. Jobs I had to do that mentally overwhemled me in concept because I'm inexperienced. I once wasted an entire morning staring at my workload, clicking through it and generally just worrying.
But I don't waste mornings with worry anymore, so progress!
I suspect there's a good anecdote here. Do tell.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18833060
I hope this makes the BPI realise that this was a counter-productive thing to do.
I hope this makes the BPI realise that this was a counter-productive thing to do.
I was at the show and it was just embarrassing. Ashamed to be a Londoner. We call ourselves a cultural city but we have two rock icons on stage and someone decides to fade out Twist and Shout because it is 10.40PM on a summer Saturday night. I didn't queue up and stand around in mud all day for that finale.
Bruce happily pays the fine everywhere he goes, he paid the fine when he played for 'too long' at the Emirates a few years back. It was obviously the last song or penultimate song at worst, they could have kept it going for another five minutes or at least turned his mic back up for him to say 'thanks and goodbye' but nope they couldn't even do that. Awkward as hell and disrespectful to the 75,000 fans not to mention Bruce, the band and Sir Paul. (And the people that live there should just accept they live near a public park used for such events a handful of times a year and get on with their lives).
When's that?
phisheep
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OK, so Bruce happily breaks the regulations and pays the fine. Megamillionaire pays peanuts and that isn't news. Megamillionaire gets cut off that's news. What does that mean to the people who live nearby? Means more noise. Means breaking the rules set well before the event. Means the rich guys get away with what the poor guys don't.
Great image.
Way to go.
[FAKE EDIT] we're not exactly talking the poor in this area, but the rationale is the same
Eh. A nightclub established itself down the road from where I live and let me tell you it's not fun trying to sleep when people are making noise. It's not a matter of when the show ends, but also the time it takes them to leave.
Its the Glasgow fair, scottish bank holiday
That explains why the roads were quiet this morning. I - too - am working today :/
Chili said:
They should rent out one of their rooms and make a freakin' killing instead of bitching about noise.
I understand that if the concert was going to go on for another hour or something. But as I said it was five minutes more at most. How much more inconvenience is that going to cause local residents? Besides, if they fine him they can make some money out of it and give back to the local residents.
It's just the general nimbyism though that people feel so dreadfully inconvenienced by a major event in their area. I went to see the man in Madrid and he finished at 1.30AM on a Monday morning, and that stadium was in much more densely populated residential area (and it was actually loud, unlike at Hyde Park which was far too quiet).
Edit: As for the 'rich guy getting away with it' - he pays it not just so that he can perform longer but also for those that come to see him. He sings about the plight of the working class and the working man so to be silenced in that particular neighbourhood for playing a few minutes too long is pretty ironic.
BGBW said:
If it's a new establishment or indeed a nightclub that goes on all night then you have my sympathies. I'm referring to an open air concert at a public park at 10.40 on a Saturday night. If they allowed it to go on until 11PM it wouldn't have been the end of the world. Also, if they hadn't have closed the majority of exits to the park and the two closest Tube stations I guess people would have dispersed a little quicker although I understand the crowd control reasons for doing even if it it seemed a little counterproductive at times.
Also the folks that live around Hyde Park have to 'put up' with something like 13 concerts a year so it's hardly a daily pain they have to live through.
They pulled a similar stunt when I went to see Rage Against the Machine in Finsbury Park 2 years ago. Closed most exits except one. Police on horseback all over the place. I only just managed to get into the Tube station and catch the last train to my bed by pushing my way in because they had security guards shutting the gates. One second later and I'd have been stranded. Absolutely mental.
It's only noise fellas lol who the fuck is in bed for 11 o'clock at night anyway. We have ears for a reason and that reason is to hear noise. Anyone who is against noise is against the very human race its self. You lot sound like oaps and it makes me sad as fuck.
I'm working seven days in a row this week to pay for my Amsterdam trip. Fuck saving up man two weeks of overtime and I can afford any European holiday. Life's good with no debt.
I'm working seven days in a row this week to pay for my Amsterdam trip. Fuck saving up man two weeks of overtime and I can afford any European holiday. Life's good with no debt.
Oooh. Hardly counts, then.
blahblah...blah
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I'll be in Amsterdam this summer too, Kent. Did somebody say GAF meetup?!
CHEEZMO
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I might be going in November anyway.
zomgbbqftw
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Someone from LOCOG was at the bank today and I overheard a conversation that sales of mascot soft toys and fees from appearances as schools and sports clubs was well behind expectations. Apparently they wanted to generate over £70m worth of revenue from the mascots, right now they are saying they will be lucky to hit half that amount.
What a bunch of James Blunts, should have had a Lion and a Unicorn instead of the two one-eyed dildos.
What a bunch of James Blunts, should have had a Lion and a Unicorn instead of the two one-eyed dildos.
Anybody who thought those mascots were worth shit should be fired.
Make the mascot a fucking animal like everyfuckingwhere else. Kids fucking love fucking animals.
zomgbbqftw
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Yup, the guy was lamenting the design and was saying that animals would have been better, but the decision to have these dildos was a PC one from the government that they couldn't pick an animal in case it upset animal rights groups. D:
Little Old Man
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Awful mascots though. Horribly embarrassing, even Pedo Bear would have been better like in Poland the other year.
For fuck's sake.
This is worse than GAF banning "cunt".
I'd move to Canada but they got worse than us lately HOW DID THEY DO THAT?!
Well I was talking about a nightclub where people are leaving at about 3am in the morning. I need my beauty sleep.
zomgbbqftw
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Dude, I would edit that before you get banned... D:
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