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Probably a vox amplug or something like that. Or one of these hand exerciser thingys - http://www.amazon.co.uk/VariGrip-Hand-Exerciser/dp/B00GEACLZC/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1435745962&sr=8-2&keywords=guitarist+exerciserand spend the rest on patch leads or something. xx

Oh yeah, I listened to Tupac - Until the End of Time, too. Loved some of it but I just struggle to really get into it. I think I might be on the same page as Soda here where I'm just more into the modern stuff. As for recommendations LemRas, Scroobius Pip and Childish Gambino got my biggest thumbs up. I did check out Because The Internet too and it's a great record but I still prefer Camp - I was able to get into it a little more, follow the lyrics and it felt like he was telling a story. I enjoyed The Ecstatic, but probably just about as much as Black on Both Sides - I can appreciate that it's a good record, just not something I'd be in a rush to listen to. xx

Yeah really enjoyed that! Good as fuck! xx

Oh yeah, I've also been listening to lots of stuff by Akala and very enjoying it. Since I listened to a big stack of albums in a row it's hard to saw which I enjoyed more than the others, but I don't think there's a bad record out of Thieves Banquet and Knowledge Is Power 1 & 2. xx

Haha, I should note that my interest in hippity hoppity is very much still in its infancy so my opinion is (more so than usual) that of someone who doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about! xx

Yeah the jukebox jury. I enjoyed that. xx

Been listening to lots of hippity hoppity lately. Scroobius Pip - Distraction Pieces Love this record. Thoughtful lyrics, great music with some cool pop-rock influence in there. Amazing. 9/10 Childish Gambino - Camp More great lyrics. Brutally honest stuff, a lot of though-provoking stuff about feeling stuck in the middle ground, too white for the black kids and too black for the white kids. Great, great record. 10/10 Travis Barker + Misc. - Can a Drummer Get Some Pretty shit, really. 2/10 Notorious B.I.G. - Greatest Hits Didn't know where to start with Biggie, so went for Greatest Hits. Really solid stuff, I love the music here. Has a really cool, pop/funk-driven feel. Like Stevie Wonder or Marvin Gaye in places. Bit heavy on the misogyny in places, but some really insightful and interesting stuff here. Will be listening to more. 9/10 Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang-36 Chambers Good, minimal beats, focused energy and really tightly put together. Seems to lack a little substance in some places, but I really enjoyed it. 7/10 Mos Def - Black on Both Sides A little too sound-scapey for my taste. I prefer more minimalism or more aggression. This wasn't my cup of tea stylistically the sort of thing I tend to gravitate towards, really. A great record that I just didn't enjoy 5/10 xx

Boots-on-ground in Iraq I think is almost a given and occupation of Iraq, invasion of Syria or some kind of disproportionate response - I'll be honest, I don't think that this is what's going to happen because it's smart or sensible at all - what I meant was that the words Cameron used about "full spectrum response, at home and abroad" suggests military action/reaction/intervention to me. xx

When I signed up however-many-years ago, it was because I had a new band and I needed a spot to start promoting it, finding out about what gigs were on, who to talk to about getting booked etc... Now that there's a Facebook where that stuff is all handled, if I wasn't a member here I wouldn't feel any real need to sign up. There are even Facebook groups for selling gear and looking for bands/musicians so the main functions that pulled me to the site are obsolete. I'm just here now because, as has been said before, I like teh bantz. xx

To be fair, the only time the forum gets really busy is when everyone is being a sarcastic cunt to everyone else. xx

Cool1 fucked it up. xx

Yeah, I guess full-scale occupation is more in line with what I was meaning. I'm not 100% sure I follow your point - are you saying that part of the blame lies on Tories, Labour and Obama because of a lack of action before? xx

It might just be the hardcore leftie in me, but I can't help but feel like all the anti-Western extremism comes from this same attitude. We're stuck in a chicken-and-egg loop where there are terrorist attacks which cause unrest here, which causes subtle racism and anti-Islamic sentiment, which causes disenfranchisement among non-radical followers of Islam leading to those people being sucked in to an anti-Western rhetoric and so on. It's particularly sad because when you look at the EDL, Britain First, UKIP and all these other mainstream movements condeming "radical Islam", it's exactly the same mob mentality. Dylann Roof is a Christian Extremist in the same way that the gunman here is a Muslim one, but we still see it fit to blame their religion and not ours. Frankie Boyle (I think) made a great point about something similar where some Pakistani men were found to be raping kids (in the UK) and the media said it a "cultural thing" with them, even though the age of consent in Pakistan is the same as it is here.. It's not a cultural thing, it's not a racial or religious thing, it's a "some people are fucking awful" thing and we need to stop trying to draw these big dividing lines that are meant to keep us seperate from the "bad guys" because that attitude just allows evil like this to flourish! xx

Obviously it's absolutely horrible what happened over there - for anyone who wasn't aware, a gunman (or gunmen, it's unclear how many attackers there were) opened fire on a beach in Tunisia killing 38 (confirmed so far) people - full story here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-33307279 David Cameron has responded in a typically Prime-Ministerial fashion - we must fight terrorism etc, but there's a part of his response that sounds a little odious to me: Am I the only one who reads that and thinks there may be another war in the middle-east on the horizon? And that this is pointing towards greater privacy infringements when it comes to social media? I don't want to sound too tinfoil-hat about it, just interested in hearing others' thoughts about what they think our response will/should be? xx

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I think I got caught out by a speed camera last week - how long to tickets usually take to arrive? xx

I enjoyed that. Aliens n shit. xx

LIke a branded off-licence? Or will it be a pub, too? xx

What's a bottledog? xx

Guess that's why she doesn't move around much. xx

The episode where he fights the UFC fighter is fucking epic. Love that show! xx EDIT: Banshee, that is.

Those are my favourite kinds of posts! xx