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  1. Feel free not to answer this Scott, but how much did the Tom Delonge sig sting you? I'm just curious as I'm a bit of a Gibson afficianado, but in my eyes it's one of the ugliest Gibsons ever (Just my opinion, please don't take offence etc).

    300, not too much. is an epiphone, not a gibbo

    most people dont like it, but i love it! it plays wonderfully and sounds like a beast. and i like the colour too, maybe jus me , but i love it :D

  2. I find Edinburgh to be full of much ruder people. Bus stops involve no queueing etiquette. Holding a door open is a thankless task that is also never returned. Seem to get barged into heaps of times by snobbish looking students and just general cunters. I have much dislike for that place and would happily never go back.

    thank you for being the only other person i've see hate edinburgh in the same way that i do.

    fucking awful, manky, horrible sewer-stained joke of a capital city. and don't get me started on the royal fucking mile.

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  3. go to devices/plug in information, and press update - if that works, then the VSTs themselves are fine. it scans all the VSTs and checks that they're valid and all that.

    also, check if you have moved your VST folder at all? silly question i know, but it might confuse the program enough to crash. Should be in a steinberg folder in Program Files (if you're on windows), or in Macintosh HD/Library/Audio/Plugins on mac.

    another silly question is...you did actually buy the program, yeah? and it isnt a torrent/warez version? no offence meant, just trying to figure out why it keeps packing in.

  4. selling due to a revamp.

    marshall jmp rack unit

    line 6 echo pro rack unit

    line 6 filter pro rack unit

    samson servo 150w power amp

    marshall 1960a 4x12 cab

    behringer fcb1010 midi foot controller

    digitech ips33b intelligent pitch shifter

    gator 12u rack. standard, NOT shallow.

    PM if you're interested in any of this in any way and we can discuss prices.

  5. RIP MJ, fucking uri geller though, what the hell was that on BBC just now? hell of a shock, like. properly out of nowhere, damn shame too :(

    on a slightly more positive note - that was some pretty immense reporting from TMZ.com to get that story an hour and a half before anyone else. It pales in comparison to michael jackson dying, but props where props are most certainly due.

    how long before we have the "faked his own death" conspiracies?

  6. the singing sounds like my chemical romance at points, lol.

    sounds a lot clearer/better produced than your last demo, kick drum sounds like someone tapping a pen against a table though.

    i have no opinion on the music itself, i dont listen to power/battle/dragon metal or whatever its called, but sonically it's a lot more pleasing to hear than previous ascension stuff.

  7. PC World are a pile of cunts. I asked the salesperson that served me if the printer I was about to buy had everything I would need to set it up. "Yes". Fair enough, here are my monies. Get home. No ink. No connector cable. (I forgot to buy paper, but that was my bad).

    Bastards.

    i know your pain. like i'd said, i once worked for the fuckers.

    awful, awful company to work for. avoid at all costs. Me and a mate i had there called Adam were the only two honest ones there, and apparently we didnt make enough money for them. probably because we didnt try to con anyone.

    fucking tosspots.

    The salesman at PC World when I went in to buy my notebook was a textbook sales type: one minute he is going on about how sturdy, well-built and reliable the thing is before I purchase it, then three minutes later at the cash desk he's trying to flog me the extended warrant/cover type bollocks because apparently netbooks can be quite easily broken.

    Nae points!

    If they are not already on, then O2 can go on the list, they are causing me no end of shit just now.

    not :up:

    if anyone here ever gets "offered" that pc performance service, it's a waste of goddamn time and your money. if you do end up taking it, be sure to get as much crap off of them as possible; ie freebies, discount, etc.

  8. I was always suspicious of all that extras nonsense. I could easily imagine some old biddy walking out the shop with warranties, guarentees, insurance, tech support and a shitty laptop when all she was after was an ink cartridge.

    it was disgusting how often that happened.

    i remember one old couple in wanting to buy a laptop for their granddaughter going to uni, and one of the fuckers tried to sell her a 2k vaio laptop with all the insurance and that, saying it was "mandatory". they were about to leave when i stopped them and asked what was wrong, they explained it to me, and i got them away with exactly what they needed. no insurance, no bollocks, i even gave them some goodies for the hassle.

    i wasnt popular there, i actually helped people

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  9. a few people were a bit desperate to keep the managers happy that way. the retention rate across the country was below 10% if i remember right, and aberdeen was the lowest of the lot, apparently.

    pretty funny, i thought

  10. pc world. i used to work there.

    i didnt like how they forced that pc performance insurance bollocks on customers. when i was there i just tended to ignore it...but then the recession opened up a bit, and the company got very paranoid very quickly, and admitted they make fuck all money on most of the laptops, but make about 70 a day off of pc performance, so we had to concentrate on selling that instead of computers in a computer shop. unless we managed to fob off someone with pc performance, it was considered a "poor quality sale". same with them trying to add antivirus/ms office onto deals.

    we were expected to get pcp added onto at least 60% of our daily sales, and

    if we didnt sell it, we had to write down a reason why we didnt sell it, because often the managers would try to contact the customer to find out why they didnt want it, to try and pin the blame on the staff, as opposed to the customer realising that they didnt want to pay 15 a month on an overpriced, shitty, pointless service that they'd probably never use.

    one customer they phoned up apparently told them "it was a fucking scam, and in future i will avoid your bollocks sales patter like the plague".

    then they started on about their 'tech friends', where you take 80 from a customer and give them a fucking phone number and a stupid rubber toy. explains itself, really. we were expected to sell 5 of them a week.

    then i got complained at by managers for not selling laptops they made any money on, so i had to concentrate on trying to sell the big name crap as opposed to maybe something that a customer would actually want.

    naturally, i quit pretty sharpish. fuck that. there wasnt even any commission for that carry on.

    edit: never ever ever work for any dixons company.

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