Dakota

could you no add the "e"

It's a printed cheque. :'(

No, your name has to be correctly spelled - or so Santander and RBS say, as my mum and I have both had this issue (Haley instead of Hayley etc...). 

They've left the 'e' off the end of 'Anne' on my double-barrelled name, would that also be an issue? :S Seems more minor than missing out the 'y' in 'Hayley'? I'll probably just phone up the folk who sent it.

If you get sent a cheque and your name is spelled wrong (one letter is missing) will the bank still process it? I'm assuming it will but I've never had this happen before. Dumb question I know.

Aye, that's the one. The walls in my house seem to be pretty thick, never had any complaints from next door when i'm recording.

Lucky! This one's detached and despite that I've still had a complaint. Only once though 'cause they had people viewing their home at the time - still rude banging on my window though! The walls are so, so flimsy/thin in this place. I've been trying to figure out ways to soundproof a couple of the rooms 'cause literally you can't even speak without it being amplified into the next room, but all is expensive and/or ugly.

Think everyone seems pretty nice in this street, shame they avoid each other, haha. Probably happens everywhere.

Ahhh, i know exactly where you are, we're on the opposite side of the cul-de-sac (got a polo on the drive at the moment).

Silver Polo? Totally didn't just search for it like a creeper, hahaha. Strange though! Seen you posting on the forum a number of times, think I replied too, weird to think you're just across the road. If you're there you're lucky you're not gonna hear me practicing my death vocals, lol.

Well I'm in the house at the end in the corner next to the park, the couple may be my family! I've yet to move out and get my shit together, planning on September. Think you may actually be next to me? We've got the white Corsa and shitty jeep here (also not mine, nothing here is mine, haha)? If so that's awesome! Had one of the previous people next door climbing over the fence and banging on the window when I was drumming, swore at me as well so glad you're partial to a bit of metal! Not that I'm gonna intentionally make noise, I like quiet!

I'm in the Boswells.

 

They are nearly finished by the looks of it and they woke me up at 7am today as well.

You are in my street then... Have you just moved in recently? No one here speaks! You may have noticed.

Me and the bf were having a bit of a laugh a while ago now 'cause the folk next to us had a huge party one night. Got home found this guy in his boxers outside. Now the obvious question is... was that you..? Hahahaha! :') If you're next to us I hope you're a death metal fan... Sorry in advance.

I'm sure that the noise issues are only seen as being a problem between the hours of 11pm and 7am (may be wrong though, wouldn't be the firt time) but I have found this page on the Aberdeen council website (if you are Aberdeenshire there should be the same page for them) - http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/planning_environment/environmental/environmental_health/pol_NoiseControl.asp

Thanks for the link. Well they have been starting between 7 and 8am every morning so I can't do anything about it, looked and it's 7am for the 'shire too. They've done it again, this time about 7:45 I think. It's way too early without prior warning. You would think it'd be more like 9am or even 8 when the typical work day starts so the majority of folk would be at work... or at least awake anyway. It's more rude and inconsiderate on their part rather than illegal because they just didn't warn anyone and if I had exams (let's face it accounting isn't very easy going, I need silence), happened to be on nightshift or worked from home (which I have done before) I would have actually been raging right now and at their door since I wouldn't have had time to leave for this week (not that I have the funds for that in the first place). Have been considering doing something that'll piss them off tonight but it's not fair on my other neighbours who haven't done anything wrong. I just don't get people like that. Just waiting for Sunday when there is no noise whatsoever allowed and gonna phone the council up about them if they even bother.

I hope he's not your neighbour with the ugly munt of a face. Actually, I hope he is.

It's not Alkaline's house they're working on though by what he implied... I haven't actually seen those neighbours anyway as they're new (I said it out of anger). Perhaps if they told me what they were going to do this week I would have stayed somewhere else for a bit so I could concentrate, y'know? The construction work just bothered me because there's always someone being an arsehole outside my window (thin walls) and it got to me because I sleep during the day frequently. I'm pretty sure they opened my mail one time then came to the door and threw it at me when it clearly didn't have their name on it. If it wasn't them then it was the ones living there before them.

It's been like that in my cul-de-sac in Porty for the past week. The drive in question would've been finished a lot quicker if the "builders" hadn't spent the last 4 days in some sort of homo-erotic fantasy wrestling shirtless in the kids play park next to the house who's drive they're "working" on.

I'm in Porty too. Are you on the same street as me or something?! If the builders were topless the entire time and there's a yellow kids' house in the park with a purple roof then this is scary! Haha.

I hate my fucking neighbour so much and have been trying not to throw a boulder off his ugly munt of a face for most of this week and murdering his entire family. Everyone in this street seems to be building extensions, driveways, etc and I can't cope anymore. My head is in agony. I've got paperwork, etc to do, as people usually do, and have industrial ear protectors on because the standard foam ones don't do shit for this noise. Is it even acceptable to be drilling concrete outside people's windows from 7am?! It's the same folk who have opened my mail before and then threw it into my face going "DERP MY NAME ISN'T DERPY MCDERP BUT IT SAYS MY HOUSE NUMBER ON IT". Well dumb fuck, if my mail has my name on it, it must be mine AND NOT YOURS. Also cheers asshole for blocking every fucking possible route to my front door so I now have to climb over six trucks, fifteen naked construction workers and a guy mowing his lawn with his screeching child basically inside my arse to get home. GET. FUCKED! Guy can go lick my cat's anus. Anyone got any suggestions that won't get me arrested? I'm also not sure who to contact to complain and to top it off I've got insomnia.

I can't stand it, I've got foam earplugs in most of the time because of other people and I hate it 'cause all I can hear is caffeine-induced tinnitus (again, because of them not letting me sleep when I need to). One old guy living across from me full on threw a huge rock at another neighbour's cat that comes to see my cat every morning and I was raging. All he could say was "control your fucking animal" just because the cat walked over his grass. Such a tragedy, whatever will we do with cats walking over grass. Need to remember and tell all the cats in the neighbourhood to stay off people's property, thanks for the tip, stupid old twat.

Ok, cool. We all have varying influences too. Any reason you don't have a bass as a bassist, if I may ask? We've been frantically looking for a bassist who's into any style of death metal to mesh into our band with no success, so if you'd like to have a go at it let me know. We won't necessarily be sticking with playing just those songs anyway - we want to get our own material going as soon as possible and these have just been learned as a starting point for gigs.

Grim - we practice at Captain Tom's weekly and as far as I remember you can borrow a bass while you're there. Saying that, are you able to play the aforementioned material?

I'm so excited about this nothing else matters right now, actually forgotten what I'm supposed to be doing.

I meant the fact you are being judged on looks - obviously if you've put the pic out there anyone is allowed to look at it. So this means if you're an uglyugly with small boobs you can't have a job? That's upsetting.

So many people could just change the privacy settings on their Facebook pages, i.e. set everything to 'friends only', but don't bother to. I don't understand. To be fair I'd be the same if I was hiring someone though I'm not sure I would really want to look them up in the first place... Seems like it saves time on the other hand.

Not being able to find a bassist.

I do occasionally look them up on Facebook so I can perv on their duckface profile photos while I'm on the phone to them as well.

I wonder how many employers actually do that. Why do people put so much info online these days anyway? I bet just their profile photos swayed you into not interviewing them...

Hey there!

We're a brutal death metal band currently consisting of one guitar, drums and vocals and we do a range of covers including Dying Fetus, Severe Torture and Inveracity along with a few others we've just started to work on. We're hoping to get our own material going soon (which the guitarist has already started on) and also to play some gigs very soon. Our bassist had to leave due to time constraints, which is why we're looking for a new one. All three of us are in our early to late 20s, so if this sounds like a suitable project we're your band!

I realise you specified rock/stoner/prog, but would you consider death metal? As you said you will play just about anything. We all have our own influences, for example myself with The Doors, Zeppelin, Down and Meshuggah, so our musical ideas aren't strictly limited to death metal in terms of skill.

Do get in touch via this thread, or pm myself if you're interested.

I feel I'm not in a position to comment because the idea of Miss Scotland to me is beyond stupid anyway, but yeah, what's up with the damn lighting? They probably look better in real life. What is Miss Scotland anyway? Is it not meant to be the most beautiful woman in the whole of the country? On that note, I'm confused.

Final bump and then I'm done with this thread.

If they do exist, can you please let me know where they're hiding? Having trouble finding one myself.

Hey, would you be up for some death metal, or does it specifically have to be hardcore? My band is looking for a bassist as our previous one had other projects he wanted to focus on. So far we're female death metal vocals (thought I'd specify), one guitarist and drummer. Ages range from early to late 20s. Influences are Dying Fetus, Severe Torture, etc.

If you're up for it do get in contact.