For a better tomorrow.
- Gardener6
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There's a thread on another forum about pop concerts which I have been contributing to and I have a small story about Michael Jackson's gigs at The MK Bowl in Milton Keynes, UK back in 1988 that I thought I'd share with you.
I was working as a chef at the Travel Lodge in Newport Pagnell around that time, cooking breakfast for 60 folk every morning (!?!) and the road crew/security staff for the MJ tour were staying at the hotel there - not exactly The Hilton but there you go. They were really nice folk, buying drinks for staff in the evening and leaving big tips for waiters (and the chef!) as they were well looked after at the hotel. So one morning after a particulary nice breakfast one of the road crew came into the kitchen handing out official MJ road crew t-shirts, which was kind and very cool. Mine said 'Michael Jackson Security' on the back of a burgundy shirt, I kept it for a while until passing it onto a collector friend, but I wore it one year at the Glastonbury Festival and lost count of the amount of friendly folk who kept tapping me on the shoulder saying "wow, were you in MJ's crew?" I just laughed and said "yeah right, we're great mates!"
- Elwin7411
- stewart28
- ❤️Wordsworth
- Definitely yesMrT
- Noicemort_
- Good work, bravo!OBBTKN
- OMG yes.
That's dead sexy.Continuity - Nice numbernb
- wow!oey_oey
- tuning forksee_bee
- Super Gregmisterhow
- dasohr4
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in june going to see Primus. tomorrow going to work.
- Dude, Long Beach show?futurefood
- Want to see Black Angels. They are playing together in Long Beach.futurefood
- Fuck me! I’m out of state at the end of that week.futurefood
- kaiyohtee4
80's-90's MEMORIES
would've loved to have seen this song live
- I missed their Oakland Inutero (sp) show, thought I'd catch them next time around, man what a mistakeYakuZoku
- On my birthday. There.
https://www.youtube.…tank02 - I was here. https://youtu.be/135…Morning_star
- _me_6
- anyone got info on that starwars apple tape ? gotta be worth a squilion $_me_
- https://www.youtube.…
1977 demo to show gfx on the apple II. It had to be renamed to star warriors later.uan - ^
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- Continuity7
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Well, punches for me.
Having been immensely proud of myself for finally having grown up and bought a plumber's snake to deal with the kitchen sink, I uncoiled it and got stuck in.
Or so I thought.
The motherfucking snake didn't fit down the motherfucking drain, no matter how I tried to coax it in. It just wouldn't go.
So, I thought a bit, and thought I would drain the pipe through the clean-out into a stock pot, and stick the snake in that way.
Already congratulating myself for my cleverness, I squatted down, opened the cabinet door, readied my pot under the clean-out, and twisted the thing open.
There are two things I didn't account for or predict, however:
1) The pressure of the water coming out, and;
2) The sheer volume of water trapped in there and in the sink.It took no time at all for the pot to get full to overflowing, and — since I was holding the thing two-handed because it was so heavy, I couldn't twist the clean-out cap back in place to empty the pot and continue.
And, so, there we have it:
Ladies and gentlemen, like the plonker that he is, Continuity flooded his kitchen.
Greasy, foul, chemical-laced water covering floor, and the floor of cabinet under the sink.
I've just spent the last 1.25 hours — and EIGHT rolls of kitchen paper — getting that shit cleaned up, then mopping.
And my sink *still* isn't unclogged.
I tried with my initial snake-through-the-clean-out idea, and there was nothing for it. It simply sould make the hard Z-like angles of the pipe.
So, now I've emptied an entire litre of unclogging gel into the drain about an hour ago. Slowly, but surely, the level is going down.
I needed this like I needed a hole in the head.
And I think I can speak with absolute, unequivocal confidence when I say that I'd rather staple my bag to my leg before even considering plumbing as my vocational exit strategy from advertising.
- Thing about blockages - don't keep the pressure pushing towards the blockage -you're just compacting it and making it firm, harder and more ingrained.shapesalad
- You need a sucking pressure to bring the detritus back out, allowing water to seep through and with natural gravity/water pressure, the block clears out.shapesalad
- This happens with my toilet in old building, if it blocks, a rapid up/down motion with toilet brush, creates a sucking pressure, loosens stools enough toshapesalad
- get the water flowing and carry the blockage (now loosened up) out.shapesalad
- I'd initially tried that with my plunger, the problem being that I couldn't get any pressure at all because of the secondary drain at the back-top of the sink.Continuity
- for next time, you either stuff a wet cloth into the secondary drain or get someone to hold half a tennis ball over it while you pump at the firstdee-dubs
- BTW an enjoyable read... 9/10, thank you!dee-dubs
- yeah seal up the 2nd drains.shapesalad
- It's only been two hours, so I won't laugh yet. But um.. this sounds like you unhooked an S-Trap under pressure.garbage
- Please tell me that your bathroom and kitchen lines aren't linked.garbage
- Oh dear god, no. They're wholly independent from each other.Continuity
- Get a professional in. Had a similar thing. The plumber openly laughed at me after explaining how I thought I could fix it with gel. Apparently its uselessthumb_screws
- Fantastic read AND experience @Continuity AAANNNDDD (sh)it happens brother.ideaist
- Oh thank god. Two follow-up questions: Do you own or rent, and what kind of pipes do you have?garbage
- Rent. And the pipes under the sink are PVC. I've since had a good look, and the problem isn't in those pipes, it's in the piping behind the wall.Continuity
- Managed to disconnect from the wall, and ran water through the PVC pipe. So, tomorrow, I'll shove the snake in the wall pipe, and see if that helps.Continuity
- Because if you own it, Draino and the like don't do much more than destroy your pipes in the long term.garbage
- If you have metal pipes, dump a few gallons of boiling water down the drain, and get in there with a drain auger brush with a power drill.garbage
- Wouldn't be able to tell you if it's metal or PVC behind that wall, they're behind the plasterwork. So hey ... this should be fun!Continuity
- So, after your first post when you implied you might attempt to fix this, I wanted to tell you to call a plumber for this exact reason.monospaced
- But I'm not sure you would have gone that route regardless. Sorry to hear this happened, maybe you'll call a pro now to fix this.monospaced
- Oh I'm along for this ride. Draino will be the owner's problem a few decades down the road, but a boil rinse will be your problem now, so scratch that.garbage
- Pics!garbage
- You might have something plugging your vent pipe on your roof. Often they can get debris or an animal stuck in them and prevent sinks draining/slow draining.monNom
- If you don’t mind going on the roof you could inspect, or you could run your snake (maybe) up the pipe in an attempt to dislodge the plug.monNom
- But honestly, just call a plumber. Usually 10 things go wrong fixing the 1 thing with plumbing. Especially old plumbing. Save your heart. Pay a pro.monNom
- Discretion is the better part of valormonNom
- entertaining lunchbreak read, thanks for sharing, sorry about the filthy kitchen! :)BuddhaHat
- This is my nightmare. I have hardwood floors which i installed myselfdrgs
- Thankfully, I've got tile in the kitchen.Continuity
- Fuck the pros! If you have a hose that can reach, a Drain King is maybe 20 bucks. You've already gotten your hands dirty, might as well see it to fruition.garbage
- I'm non-sarcastically on the edge of my seat, #teamcontinuity.garbage
- Haha! garbage, I'll try not to disappoint. I'm gonna get stuck in this afternoon, to see what I can manage.Continuity
- Call a pro ffs.monospaced
- Godspeed! And plumbers are for pussies, you will conquer the clog!Gnash
- sea_sea6
UFO of the day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?app…
(ff to 8:00)It's official. We lived to hear it verified. What's next?
As expected.. they're categorizing any UAP (Unidentified Aerial phenomenon) as a potential security threat. false flag attack? Why am I not surprised.
- been a while, messed up the link. derpsea_sea
- dope thanksYakuZoku
- I'm guessing it's just saying what was pretty common knowledge all along? It's not aliens, but now America isn't the only country with black projects.garbage
- People mistook B-2s for alien craft for decades, and China now has a clone in the Xian H-20.garbage
- Given how long these projects stay under wraps, I don't even want to know how far ahead the US is in drone tech.garbage
- ^ this.Krassy
- The fun starts at 21:30prophetone
- It's impossible to understand how an object could travel 60 miles within 2 seconds, and sustain sustained G-forces well over 5000 without destroying itself.utopian
- the only explanation so far is a field/shell of anti-gravity around an objectprophetone
- the subtle eyebrow-raising points for me where when asked about uap in underwater sea domain they deferred answers for the follow-up classified meetingprophetone
- which prob speaks to the 2004 Nimitz encounter with the 'unusual churning of the ocean surface' and also a tic tac uap zipping around itprophetone
- as if ANY of us here technically & fully understand how, say, WI-Fi works. TVs? Radio? etc. Might know the principle, but overall it all appears "impossible"Krassy
- which reminds me I need to re-watch The Abyss soonprophetone
- Gardener3
- just out everywhere todayGardener
- Watched this last night. I'm sure Shapesalad said it was utter nonsense, but so far it's the most beautiful, bonkers and thought-provoking film ive seen in agesIanbolton
- cheers, looking forward to itGardener
- it's insanely creative and well-made and it doesn't hurt either that the performances are top notchprophetone
- mort_10
- Episode 77
http://vantagepointr…autoflavour - Cool, thx auto!mort_
- cups-with-string telephone would have been even coolerKrassy
- Episode 77
- Gardener3
- In 100 years time there'll be no one around to give a shit about any of this record collect. That's just how it is... go to any vintage store to see how no oneshapesalad
- gives a shit about the old piano music scores of popular movies from he 1930s. I bet at the time, people collected them, held them with esteem.shapesalad
- Wow, you are quite cynical Shapes. Gardener collects vinyl and music memorabilia - and you're saying 'what's the point?'.Ianbolton
- Gardener4
- Who would have thought this shithead would win album of the year at the Grammy’s for “Morning Phase”?!
Love him.ideaist - Grammy awards and all awards are shit. I love Mellow Gold, Morning Phase and everything he's done before the last two boy band albums.CyBrainX
- The magic behind Odelay: Smokey Hormel. AHMAZINGnb
- One of his best albumsscarabin
- ...
https://www.youtube.…kaiyohtee
- Who would have thought this shithead would win album of the year at the Grammy’s for “Morning Phase”?!
