Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

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You appear to have missed out U2 and Oasis.

Just trying to help.

 

[mondatoo]

I do like the song he's did with Rihanna though with 146 million hits on youtube which is pretty sick,it helps that it has probably the most stunning famous person in the world in the video   ( I don't mean Rihanna)

[tikay]

Sigh at Mere's Oasis jibe.

I might have included U2, were it not for Mr Bloody Bono being so damn pretentious & precious, almost Sting-like, (which is the pretentious yardstick) poking his frigging nose into things he does not understand, "ooh, Mr Mandela, I lurve you, peace". Bugger off Bono, right up your own arse.

I actually enjoy their early music very much indeed, up to & including Rattle & Hum, & Joshua Tree. But then he decided to be the moral guardian of Planet Earth on oir behalf. Along with Sting, of course.

And don't even THINK of mentioning Brian Tossing May to me, please.

PS - Good evening, Mr Gough. I've come here for a break from the TSP grief! FFS......

[Laxie]

Blimey.  You really have surprised me tonight Tikay.  Like BIG TIME!  Never took you for a person who would have even heard of some of those artists...never mind actually listen to them.

[The-Crow]

Hi Tikay

Did you know Costa coffee is not Italian. Its run and owned by Whitbread Breweries from their headquarters in Luton and Dunstable, lol

Its annoying that they pretend to be an Italian Chain and that they employ non english speaking waiters, who mumble in Italian and get your order wrong.

They have stopped brewing beer now , thankfully, as the Whitbread Tankard, and Trophy Bitter was awful stuff.

Other Whitbread brands include Premier Inns and Brewers fayre, where you have to get your table number ,go to the bar, pay and order everything in advance, and wait for ages for the food to come.

We once tried a Brewers Fayre Sunday lunch, but the meat was wafer thin, presliced (Before being cooked)
 and had a green shine to it.
We left the 2 meals untouched and left ,and swore never to return.

[MereNovice]

So, when I stated that the first five U2 albums bear comparison with those of any other artists, you basically agree with me?

It looks like it's safe enough Tom, you can come out from under the chair.



Let's not mention poker.

[tikay]

I've been reading much more lately, almost as much as I used to, pre-poker. It relaxes me enormously, & I look forward to an hour or two with a good book. We can get poker-obsessed, & I'm guilty as charged there, so I'm trying to get a better balance in my life.

One thing with books, is that in a way, it's like classic thoroughbred racehorses. Well-named horses win Classics, it's the exception when tackily named ones win.

Three books I've read recently make the point.

A superb collection of Boris Johnson stuff came with the title "Have I got Views for you". Superb that title, on so many levels.

Even better, I've been trying to find some books on the design & construction of the LHC at CERN. In doing so, I purchased two books that missed that particular point completely, they were more about why the LHC exists, how it works, & what it is designed to do. But both of them are utterly mind-blowing. I can barely comprehend what I'm reading about the very peculiar world of particle physics. Oh, & Mr Higgs, after whom the eagerly sought bosun was named. The bosun that may not even exist.

One is entitled "Collider". (The search for the world's smallest particles).

The other is "Massive". (The hunt for the God particle).

If we ever think we are clever, we should read that stuff - it makes me feel a complete thicko, that I cannot get even a basic handle on what it's all about, & just how small small can be, with measurements in trillionths of a second commonplace.

And they have a vocab all of their own, which is quite magnificent in it's cuteness.

I can't pretend to even begin to understand any of it, but I read it wide-eyed with agog-ness.

A quark is something that resides in the nucleus of an atom. (I think). It comprises 1% of the mass of the nucleus, & nobody can work out where the other 99% comes from. Again, I think.

These quarks work in sets of three - always 2 of one type, & 1 of another, to form hadrons, which are mainly - again, I think - protons & neutrons. (Pro for positively charged, neu for negatively charged).

And here's the thing. There are six types of quark, known as "flavours". And their names?

Up

Down

Top

Bottom

Charm

Strange

For me, it's impossible to imagine something as small as an atom, or what it might look like. And yet inside it there is a nucleus humming with activity, & inside that there are these hadron's, made up of quarks with weird names.

Spare a few minutes to read this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark

[tikay]

So, when I stated that the first five U2 albums bear comparison with those of any other artists, you basically agree with me?It looks like it's safe enough Tom, you can come out from under the chair.



Let's not mention poker.

Basically, Vince, to paraphrase something I heard said in a TV Show recently, "up yours".

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I've got a hadron. 

Oh wait....

[Woodsey]

Sigh at Mere's Oasis jibe.

I might have included U2, were it not for Mr Bloody Bono being so damn pretentious & precious, almost Sting-like, (which is the pretentious yardstick) poking his frigging nose into things he does not understand, "ooh, Mr Mandela, I lurve you, peace". Bugger off Bono, right up your own arse.

I actually enjoy their early music very much indeed, up to & including Rattle & Hum, & Joshua Tree. But then he decided to be the moral guardian of Planet Earth on oir behalf. Along with Sting, of course.

And don't even THINK of mentioning Brian Tossing May to me, please.

PS - Good evening, Mr Gough. I've come here for a break from the TSP grief! FFS......

+1 Bono is a total nob..............

[tikay]

I've got a hadron. 

Oh wait....

Tom! (I struggle to remember what one of those is).

[MereNovice]

So, when I stated that the first five U2 albums bear comparison with those of any other artists, you basically agree with me?It looks like it's safe enough Tom, you can come out from under the chair.



Let's not mention poker.

Basically, Vince, to paraphrase something I heard said in a TV Show recently, "up yours".

You've started watching Jeremy Kyle?

[The-Crow]

Just googled a Quark, looks like this

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I've got a hadron.  

Oh wait....

Tom! (I struggle to remember what one of those is).

from the Greek: ἁδρός, hadrós, "stout, thick"

[tikay]

So, when I stated that the first five U2 albums bear comparison with those of any other artists, you basically agree with me?

It looks like it's safe enough Tom, you can come out from under the chair.



Let's not mention poker.

No, let's not.

Or churlish, moaning, whining, jealous, poker players. One has had one's fill of those today.

Did you read about the kid next door - GaryQQQ - who walked all the way from John O'Groats to Lands End, for charity, & never once moaned about the weather, his blisters, his anything? My hero, him.