Pathetic

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Nicky Paganini used strings made of gut maybe from the Devil and was the son of a humble dock worker. :crazy:
 

John Watt

Member
Yeah! I'm a big Paganini fan, and even a victim.
I read that he frequented big city alleys to kill cats to make his own strings.
I didn't know he was the son of a humble dock worker,
who couldn't have been too humble if he raised maybe the greatest violinist ever.
Italian audiences said they could see the shadow of the devil guiding his fingers onstage,
too indoctrinated by bad religion to simply hear maybe the first use of harmonic overtones,
new notes, high notes, multiple notes.
A photo of Paganini is my John Alexander Watt Facebook avatar.
He's the reason I lost my Jimi Hendrix concert ticket, a kinda short story.
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
Likes the pic of Paganini on you page :) I used gut strings on my Double Bass I suppose they are all metal to day the big problem was the feathering due to sweat when playing pizzicato I tried a nylon "C" string once but it just kept stretching.
 

jvhldb

New member
Rather than let us build the replacement power stations we need the EU have come up with a wonderful idea. They will ration our consumption. It has been possible for some years to control electric aparatus remomety through a mains commection provided it is fitted with the appropriate mechanism. So the EU want to fit all household equipment with these devices so they can swith them off in the event of over consumption. Fridges, freezers, cookers etc. They also want us to build another 7,000 windturbines. Yes. Those useless things that don't work when the weather is very cold, and catch fire when it is too windy. I wonder if our gutless goverment will agree to these steps.

teddy
In South Africa electricity rationing is a reality. During peak hours you can actually hear the municipal controlled switches turning all the water heaters in town off, then you start praying they remember to turn them back on. If they turn them on you know it, because all the lights in town dim and freezer motors start labouring as 15000+ geysers all come on at the same time. Eskom (Electricity Supply Commission) are re-activating old power stations and using load shedding(turning power off to certain areas for 2 hours at a time) because no new power stations have been built since our current administration came into control. That our government keep on promissing "electricity, water and housing" to everyone before an election does not help to solve the problem.

In the meantime banners on the TV keep on telling us "electricity usage is to high. Please switch off al unnecesarry devices, heaters and airconditioners". With radio adverts we are told not to use heaters and aircons, rather dress warmly or use gas heaters. if we are lucky our town get one truckload of gas every 3-4 weeks, last week the temperature ranged from -12C to a max of 3C and we have to huddle in blankets and be productive?
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
In South Africa ................. last week the temperature ranged from -12C to a max of 3C and we have to huddle in blankets and be productive?
Depends who you are huddling in a blanket with :D it could be fun
 

Chi_townPhilly

Sr. Regulator
Sr. Regulator
What do you think is the most pathetic, gutless thing your goverment has ever done?
Answers on a postcard please.

teddy
Easy. Deficit spending in peacetime. Theft and impovershment of future generations. Graceless, immoral and unforgivable.

Most of the Western World does it... but those who do it the most are the most villainous kleptocrats of them all...
 

teddy

Duckmeister
We have just had the first air show at Manston Airport for twenty years. But the silly buggers routed all the traffic through our village instead of up the new dual carriageway. The result was almost total gridlock and it is estimated that approximately half the cars heading there eventually turned back. The end result was approximately only 16,000 attendance instead of the expected 30,000.
The words "pissup" and "brewery" spring to mind. At this rate it will be another twenty years before we see another air show here.

teddy
 

Dorsetmike

Member
Come to the Bournemouth one in August every year, lasts 4 days, between 1 and 1.5 million attendance, takes place along the sea front. over a mile of beach and cliff top to view from, quite a lot view from boats offshore. And it's FREE.
 

teddy

Duckmeister
Never had these problems before, even when there were only locals roads before the bypass was built. Local radio this morning was all horror stories about people getting stuck in traffic jams for four to five hours. There is access straight from the new bypass directly into the airport and anyone local knows that there is access from five different directions. I think the idiots who organised it really messed up. We saw the Spitfire from our garden and a wonderful view of the Vulcan. Weather was bad so no Red Arrows.

teddy
 

JHC

Chief assistant to the assistant chief
I get a daily display of low flying aereo plains dropping fertiliser all over the place on the road in the river and some actually falls on the intended target
 
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