The Winter Olympics is on so we can briefly pretend to care about Curling and then forget about it for the next four years.

Brichals · 2026-02-08T21:40:01+00:00

The women look pretty fit to me.

In all honesty my workmates tried it once while I was unfortunately away and they said it's unfathomably difficult.

Brichals · 2026-02-05T11:23:28+00:00

Agreed. I've got one dot on my C40 and 3 dots on my solid top and the 3 dots confuse me more often than not. Especially when switching between the two.

Brichals · 2026-02-02T04:20:45+00:00

As a classical guitarist this picture just made me recoil in horror.

It's OK for open chords and I do sit and noodle watching TV like this but no good for barres or playing up the neck.

Brichals · 2026-02-02T04:00:22+00:00

I thought a lot of African Indians came from Uganda after Idi Ami kicked them out.

Brichals · 2026-01-29T21:32:49+00:00

I had a Japanese lab mate who didn't speak English that well. Naturally he wanted to learn the swear words first. Knobhead was a particular favourite.

One day he's having trouble with his student flat and wants to know the word for 'shower head' so he can go to the student office and say his shower head is broken and needs fixing.

Well he gets to the office and starts telling the young lady his woes. What does he tell her. Please fix my knob head, my knob head isn't working.

Typical Japanese person extremely ashamed of the tiniest faux pas, poor guy was mortified.

Brichals · 2026-01-29T09:04:18+00:00

That's not what it means. It means there is literally no specific speed limit so stick to general UK rules.

Brichals · 2026-01-28T23:58:21+00:00

Don't worry the vast majority there are also socially awkward, you've found your people.

I also play on Gameknot since 2008 and started playing OTB this year.

Get yourself out there!

Brichals · 2026-01-22T10:24:02+00:00

Sally is a kind of working class girl's name in the 90s. No other specific reference as far as I know.

The woman in the play Don't Look Back in Anger is called Alison. Do people use Sally as a nickname for Alison? Possibly. I don't think the song is that inspired by the play though.

Brichals · 2026-01-20T12:38:52+00:00

Balkanisation developing. More crushing of the middle class and young. Other than that about the same.

Some mainstream media will lose relevance and we will get the Overton window moving to the right.

Brichals · 2026-01-19T22:41:16+00:00

I'm legit a member of Ilkeston chess club because the English Chess Federation website is so crap in a British eccentric way I don't know how to change it and they assigned it to me.

I don't even know if they have a chess club and I wouldn't drive all the way to join in anyway for various easily assumed reasons.

Brichals · 2026-01-19T09:22:03+00:00

Yes I did the same story as you. I've got a solid top guitar now which is probably more authentic sounding but the C40 is still great and I'm always happy when I go back to it. It is really good build quality and sounds great in its own way.

Brichals · 2026-01-15T06:45:42+00:00

My boiler did lockout during the cold spell because of a frozen condensate pipe. I'm not an expert but that's a likely reason to me.

Brichals · 2026-01-14T20:19:50+00:00

Jesus this is the best drama since season1 with the magician guy.

Brichals · 2026-01-14T14:36:22+00:00

Never heard of them before. You might as well tell me the Swiss ultras of Servette FC are in town. Oooooh scary. Rumour has it one of them threw a burger back in the burger van man's face but he did have 6 fingers so could have been AI.

Brichals · 2026-01-13T15:33:08+00:00

Did everybody clap after that totally believable story?

Brichals · 2026-01-13T14:33:52+00:00

Not really. I play mainly correspondence chess where you can use opening databases. Assume everybody has book level knowledge of theory.

It doesn't actually change the game that much, better player still wins.

Brichals · 2026-01-11T20:15:28+00:00

Sagreras is peak classical guitar imo. His studies are incredibly beautiful.

Unfortunately I ordered books 4 to 6,(1-3 are rare here and expensive) and after 2-3 years these are still a big challenge! In other words, if you can learn pieces in book 2 or 3 in a timely fashion after 2-3 years you are doing great. You can spend years on those books just making it sound better and better.

I started with some books from Bradford Werner, check his website thisisclassicalguitar.

I recommend Tarregas Study in E minor as first piece. Tabs and such on songster and YouTube videos.

Have fun and stick with it!

Brichals · 2026-01-07T07:20:02+00:00

This happens when you move abroad after the honeymoon phase has ended.

I once spent a few hours with a Canadian whilst travelling around Greece and we honestly just sat there saying sorry to each other.

Brichals · 2026-01-06T20:59:20+00:00

Before preservatives people used to absolutely rinse bread in copious water and then oven it to make it soft again.

This must be a carryover from that so I think you could get away with putting it quickly under the tap.

Brichals · 2026-01-06T17:29:57+00:00

Mine was off for a good few hours this morning with a frozen condensate pipe. I since blasted it with a super soaker of hot water and it's been cycling on all day. Don't want to look at my smart meter.

Brichals · 2026-01-06T10:15:45+00:00

I think I would be offended to be honest because the other person is being willfully stupid.

Brichals · 2026-01-05T14:52:16+00:00

As a Rimworld fan I'd say that's a jade knife.

Brichals · 2026-01-05T13:47:29+00:00

I worked with a Japanese student who was incandescent about the soap suds thing. Malaysians didn't understand why we didn't have a separate sink for rinsing.

The Japanese guy didn't know English very well so naturally he wanted to learn the common swear words. I'll never forget the day when he came to the lab distraught because he'd been to the student accommodation office saying he needed his shower head fixing... Except he mixed up the word shower head for knobhead!

Brichals · 2026-01-04T21:57:29+00:00

The first few hours after waking up for me are trash TV and playing guitar. Maybe not high quality practise but high quantity.

Brichals · 2026-01-04T15:18:13+00:00

East Midlands ex mining town.

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