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The Game
I'm a cunt, but it's a rule.

I will go to Hull now.
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:30, archived)


(I helped save b3ta! MONO!, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:31, archived)
That's about right actually.

(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:32, archived)
I've had enough of the incredibly boring shits on here now, me included.
I'm off to bed.
(I helped save b3ta! MONO!, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:33, archived)
I thought that I had to make a cunt of myself before I went
But that was my next priority, too.

Night!
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:35, archived)
Night

(Arahan, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:41, archived)
I just read the whole of The Old Man and the Sea in one sitting
it's really terribly good
(I helped save b3ta! lemony, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:32, archived)
It's cocking ace
and needs to read in one sitting, definitely.
(I helped save b3ta! wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:32, archived)
The misunderstanding with the tourists at the end is competing with the sense of abject defeat at the end of The Great Pearl (Steinbeck)
for my favourite moment in any book ever
(I helped save b3ta! lemony, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:42, archived)
Surely
it's where Bentley/Spielberg got the character of Quint in Jaws from?
(I helped save b3ta! wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:51, archived)
Hahaha... I see what you mean
I can't say I read him that way though...
(I helped save b3ta! lemony, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:57, archived)
Right. Now back to On the Road
interspersed with reading about the 1961 Luptse expedition

night all
(I helped save b3ta! lemony, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:59, archived)
Night

(I helped save b3ta! wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 1:03, archived)
I did that too
I have wanted to read it again ever since, but lent my copy and haven't replaced it.
(I helped save b3ta! Enigmatic ™                 Voice No More                  ©, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:40, archived)
I've only done it with a few books
1984
l'etranger
portrait of dorian grey
Old man and the sea
to kill a mockingbird
Candide

All books I will now never lend to anyone after my fight to get candide back
(I helped save b3ta! lemony, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:45, archived)
oh...

and the harry potter books
(I helped save b3ta! lemony, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:46, archived)
yes, I did it with a heap of books as a kid
Arthur Ransome books, Enid Blyton, and HG Wells (I read The Time Machine all the way through in one day at the age of 7 - I had a weird childhood)
(I helped save b3ta! Enigmatic ™                 Voice No More                  ©, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:50, archived)
ahhh... I'm not counting anything I read before the age of 18
as that would make the figure vastly larger
(I helped save b3ta! lemony, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:51, archived)
fair point
I had forgotten till you reminded me of my avaricous reading
(I helped save b3ta! Enigmatic ™                 Voice No More                  ©, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 1:03, archived)
I used to do it all the time as a nipper
it's clearly where my insomnia started.
(I helped save b3ta! wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:52, archived)
To be honest
if it's under 300 pages, and I've got the time, I'll pretty much always read the whole thing...only problem is, you can't really remember much of the plot that way.
(I helped save b3ta! wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:53, archived)
OH GOD NO
THE GAME THE GAME SHIT SHIIIIT I FORGOT

Might as well kill myself now.
(I helped save b3ta! moohalaa, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:32, archived)
NO!
You can't die!

Who will there be to remember if you kill yourself?
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:32, archived)
Do you mind if I ask you a guitar setup related question, please?

(I helped save b3ta! TN, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:35, archived)
fo shizzle

(I helped save b3ta! moohalaa, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:37, archived)
Excellentay
I've got awful fret buzz on the 2nd string and wondered if raising the bridge on that side of the neck just a little will cause tuning problems?

Or to summarize, should I just take it to a professional to get setup properly?
(I helped save b3ta! TN, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:39, archived)
mmm.
what kind of guitar is it?

If the rest of the strings are fine it's probably just a fret jutting out a little higher than the others, and it's a bit laborious but fairly simple to fix frets.
(I helped save b3ta! moohalaa, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:41, archived)
Gibson Les Paul
I sometimes get a little buzz on the 3rd fret but that I can handle, the 2nd string buzz is constant. As Enigmatic pointed about below it's weird it doesn't happen with the 1st string.
(I helped save b3ta! TN, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:43, archived)
so a tune o matic bridge.
All I play are Les Pauls :)

It might be the saddle slidey thing* that the string is sitting on at the bridge, the string might have cut down a little deep into it.

Either that or the nut has been cut down a bit by string movement, which is unlikely, but can still happen.
I'd get it taken to a pro if it's a Gibson, you have to treat them well - and if someone's set it up really nicely, they're a wet dream to play.

*the slidey thing, y'know. Official terminology.
(I helped save b3ta! moohalaa, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:45, archived)
Thanks :D
Appreciate the advice as it's my second but I much prefer this one, I'm giving the first to my father.
This one is a lot easier to play with my sausage hands so I want to keep some of the action but remove the fret buzz!
(I helped save b3ta! TN, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:49, archived)
no problemo
if they're set up nicely and the tune o matic is correct across all the strings, they're awesome bits of kit.
(I helped save b3ta! moohalaa, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:51, archived)
i would raise the bridge a bit
then fiddle with the tune-o-matic bits to make sure it's all in tune across the fretboard.
then turn it up to 11 and totally rock out dude.
(I helped save b3ta! scott,, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:46, archived)
All this moving around has prevented me getting some proper practice in
So I'm almost back to stage one of learning to play again :(

I'll take it to a pro, I know someone at work who can get me it on the cheap with someone reputable. He tried making me swap my Gibson SG with an el cheapo Ibanez hollowbody. I think not my friend!
(I helped save b3ta! TN, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:53, archived)
it shouldn't be hard to find decent guitar techs in the US.
isn't there a Gibson shop in San Fran?
(I helped save b3ta! scott,, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:57, archived)
Not that I know of?
Guitar Center is the place to be. It's HEAVEN.
(I helped save b3ta! TN, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 1:01, archived)
the one on Haight Ashbury is an official dealer, apparently.

(I helped save b3ta! scott,, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 1:09, archived)
are you sure it's not a raised fret bar problem?
To not happen on the outer string seems weird
(I helped save b3ta! Enigmatic ™                 Voice No More                  ©, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:41, archived)
This is what I'm nervous about

(I helped save b3ta! TN, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:42, archived)
go fuck yourself
seriously, go and cut your throat and jump off a tall building

memes are not funny, if you've got nothing original to say then FUCK OFF
(I helped save b3ta! Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:32, archived)
Harsh, but
well, just harsh really.
(I helped save b3ta! Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:32, archived)

harsh really. ified
(I helped save b3ta! ArthurTheRat, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:33, archived)
help me Aardvark, I'm so fucking bored of people saying "omg j00 lost teh g4me LOL" in here

(I helped save b3ta! Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:33, archived)
omg j00 lost teh g4me LOL

(I helped save b3ta! MONO!, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:34, archived)
4ll ur b4se R b3l0ng to uz
LOLOLOLOLOL
(I helped save b3ta! Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:35, archived)
Sorry, it was the last time
I promise.
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:36, archived)
You have to remember that some people didn't hear about it 10 years ago
and still think it's new and wonderful. Just call them cunts, move on, and post something else. Good threads are coming Gilgy, keep the faith.
(I helped save b3ta! Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:35, archived)
I'm listening to Perry Como now to calm down
blame Malchick and his sig
(I helped save b3ta! Gilgamesh gazed in wonder as Frampton came alive, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:37, archived)
Mmm, Quality Street.
Not as good as Roses.
(I helped save b3ta! Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:39, archived)
Evenin 'Vark
I'm listening to Mack the Knife.

Apparently he's spending like a sailor and may have done something rash.
(I helped save b3ta! chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:56, archived)
Evening mate
What are you doing up at this hour?

(obviously you've just told me 'what' you're doing, my implication was more towards finding the underlying cause of you still being up)
(I helped save b3ta! Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:58, archived)
Working the night shift :(
I'm in until 8am.
(I helped save b3ta! chenobble rocking his explorer beard on, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 1:06, archived)
Eep.
Hope you've got plenty of coffee/tea/Red Bull/amphetamines to keep you going.
(I helped save b3ta! Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 1:07, archived)
I'm in the game,
I didn't find it as a b3ta meme.
The rules tell me to remind everyone,
besides, I'm only having a little fun.
(I helped save b3ta! ClanSoul, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:33, archived)
Well no one else is
and you're not helping.
(I helped save b3ta! elusive I'm not really here. You're imagining me, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:35, archived)
Youn are.

(I helped save b3ta! MONO!, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:33, archived)
I wish this was an official rule
Although there'd only be a new thread every couple of hours, but to be honest, i'd still prefer it
(I helped save b3ta! elusive I'm not really here. You're imagining me, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:34, archived)
Nah.
b3ta would be like normal, just less boring.
(I helped save b3ta! MONO!, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:34, archived)
There's no way to enforce a minimum amount of imagination in a new thread
except by driving people out through hatred when their threads don't meet your standards. I prefer a slightly more moderate approach though.
(I helped save b3ta! Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:37, archived)
I'm not mean enough for hatred
I'm only good for grumpy and moany, which doesn't get me anywhere
(I helped save b3ta! elusive I'm not really here. You're imagining me, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:43, archived)
Shut up. I hate you. Your posts are rubbish.

Just copy and paste that^ when you need it.
(I helped save b3ta! Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:47, archived)
Shut up. I hate you. Your posts are rubbish.
/obvious

Have an aAAaAaaAAAaaAAaaaaAaaarrrRRrrrrRRdvaaaAAAaAAAaaAaAaaAAaAAAAaaAaAArRRrrRRrrrrk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! to make up for my nastiness
(I helped save b3ta! elusive I'm not really here. You're imagining me, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:51, archived)
:D
You silver-tongued devil, you.
(I helped save b3ta! Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:52, archived)
Mudkip still lieks you.

(Arahan, Wed 8 Aug 2007, 0:33, archived)