Yes, it's excellent, one of the best 2-3 restaurants in the City in my opinion.Originally Posted by Luke Emia
Yes, it's excellent, one of the best 2-3 restaurants in the City in my opinion.
Got the paddling pool filling up, BBQ about to get started and Liverpool on the TV. My parents are on the way to provide free childcare and are bringing beer. Not a bad Sunday.
Also, the last owner of our house had a hot water tap installed alongside the cold tap outside. He was very pleased to tell us about this on our viewing and we thought it was a bizarre thing to show off. But it’s utterly fantastic for paddling pools and the kids. I’d install one on any house I live in.
I'm at Centre Parcs for the weekend.
Tomorrow I am going to shoot a crossbow as well as drive/pilot/manoeuvre a kayak.
Will I die? Who knows.
On Sunday, if I make it, I will be climbing one of those indoor walls.
Mahow's Olympic journey starts now.
Kayaking is seriously great fun but pretty taxing physically.
My thighs especially are burning.
You should do paddle boarding.
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Isn't kayaking all upper body? How are your thighs burning?
Google suggests that the kayak isn't a good fit (my groin started cramping when I first sat in) and or my kayaking form is bad.
Combination of both is very likely.
Inner thighs took a pounding.
Bet the mong was on a Pedalo.
They have swan shaped kayaks, dickhead.
I can barely type this on my phone. I am zinging off my tits. Took two tabs of pooooootent LSD.
I'm still tripping. This is actual torture now. Let me sleep. Characters are still melting from my phone screen.
Two tabs is mental. Why?
Probably got bullied into it by the young uni kids.
I thought it might have been less potent as they'd been sitting in my mate's drawer for 4 years. He'd never tried it before but he's a shroom grower. He didn't tell me the guy he traded shrooms with is a mega psych head so yeah this stuff was the real deal.
Two tabs is mental. Why?
Like I've never tripped like that before, I mean it was every meme regarding acid taking X10.
I was the bridge between alternating dimensions at one point I mean I didn't even know if I was alive or not. Absolutely intense.
One Friday night at uni when I was 19/20, both of my flatmates were away and I was bored. I knew one of them had a vial of liquid acid in his room, so I thought I'd have a small swig (wanker). I think there was the equivalent of four tabs in there, and obviously I massively misjudged it. Had never tripped before and on the come-up decided it would be a good idea to go for a wander. Spent the next few hours not being able to comprehend my existence as I wandered the streets of Glasgow. I went to the smoking area at subclub because I thought it would be a safe space but iirc I just got lolled at and told to go hame m8 by anyone I explained my circumstances to.
How not to do it.
I did really enjoy listening to Portishead as I watched sprawling cities expand from my arm hair at 6am though.
Did a escape room, did poorly.
I R Stupid.
Jesus fuck climbing is hard.
Doesn't help that I'm scared of heights either.
Nearly everyone is awful at it for the first few sessions, but usually improve quite rapidly for a while after that if they start going regularly. You'll probably be sore in muscles you didn't know you had tomorrow.
That sounds like hell. It was just me and my mate on the farm house he lives in in the middle of nowhere. Safe, at least.
Really struggled to get a grip and my feet always felt in the wrong place.
Some little shit of a kid declared "this wall is easy" as he was being unhooked and me hooked. I got about 15% up it.
There were 16 wall faces and I tried about 9
9 or 10. Got to the "top" of two.
The one constant at nearly all levels of climbing is there's always a 12 year old that will stroll up and smash whatever it is you're flailing about on.
Here are the walls:
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Fun but physically exhausting and my hands were shaking too at the end as I am scared of heights.
The key to basically all beginner level climbing is getting your weight on your feet. I think bouldering is best for beginners because it really forces you to learn technique. You're never going to get better doing it in trainers either.
I'm just back from the gym. My locker jammed shut with my shoes, keys and phone in it so they had to call me a taxi to get home.
Could they not get one of the local beefcakes to unjam it?
We got pretty close with a screwdriver but it seemed quite impressively uncrackable and unshimmyable. Would have been good if they had also made them unjammable.
That place looks like it should have a ball pit and 25 suicidal looking parents.Here are the walls:
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Fun but physically exhausting and my hands were shaking too at the end as I am scared of heights.
Annoyingly most ‘soft play centres’ tend to not have a ball pit.
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It has a Starbucks and 25 suicidal looking parents instead.
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Fun but physically exhausting and my hands were shaking too at the end as I am scared of heights.
She's got you sussed.
I have a weekend pass for this because my brother gets them for free. I'm going to give Pixies (unless they are a sad sight these days) and Wet Leg a go, but is there anything I'm unaware of that is worth seeing? I live right by the site so I don't need to spend all day there.
I had a mooch about earlier and saw the back end of Snow Patrol and then Fatboy Slim. Two women were having a loud conversation during it, and I told them to shut up. One of them goes 'Err, it's a concert?' as if I'm some sort of Neighbourhood Watch nonce. Pure Lib Dem energy in the VIP section.
I would pay money to watch you experience Soft Play and their fans. The Lib Dem Youth. Punks on a gap year. Conform in an edgey way, yah.
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Pixies? Man, that's me jealous. And to a lesser extent, Shaun Ryder in a live (possibly drunk) setting. I'm with you, though. Pixies without Kim Deal isn't right. It's not even the Frank Black you'd want.
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Jamie T is still going? Headlining too. Mad.
18 year old me would have loved that - Maximo Park, The Kooks, Razorlight, The Futureheads and Jamie T.
Went to All Points East for Pixies and LCD Soundsystem, and while it’s hard not to have a good time with either, the crowd made it fucking difficult. Hordes of people paying £85 a pop either to have the most expensive conversations or get monged to oblivion. Fucking cunts. Pretty much ruined Pixies bar when they shut up for the hits, and marred the first have of LCD until we found a better little crowd enclave. Got to stop shelling out for these big London gigs as they’re just massive wanker magnets.
Definitely a feature of all public events now. Sport as well in certain contexts. They're there just to say they've been, not to actually experience it, it's all about them, the star of their own useless lives.
Yup, exactly that. Social media has turned everything into a competition to be seen enjoying something rather than actually being there in the moment enjoying it.
There was a lanky guy in front of us who seemed to be having a wholly indifferent time. That was until he whipped his phone out, put it on selfie mode, turned his back on the gig and flailed around for a bit, then proceeded to spend the next five mins putting it on all his socials before returning to his sullen sulkiness. What is the fucking point?
It's why I try and get to the front and keep my mouth shut. The phone goes out but it's always facing the stage. That's the stuff I came for.
I'd say these are the worst kinds of people, but unfortunately nowadays it seems to actually be the majority of people. I've deactivated all my social media, partly because I cannot be doing with it.
And I know you're thinking "pot kettle black" (ugh) cos I've spammed enough of my face on the internet for as long as you can remember, but I've definitely never been about pretending to have fun for photographs' sake.
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Taking a photo at a gig is fine but people record the whole thing. It's footage no one will watch or wants to watch. Enjoy the gig you nonces.
I can see over most people filming it, but some smaller people near me were having it ruined by some old bag with her phone constantly in the air.
Today I saw the Lightning Seeds, who have just enough gold for a perfect forty-five minutes; some local probably private school girls called Baby Said who were good; Molotov Jukebox who were pretty fun; and Pixies, who were fantastic. Zero crowd interaction. No encore. They just hammered through their good stuff, turned the lights on, and walked off.
Should have had Orange Cassidy come out.
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Lightning Seeds cover of You Showed Me is one of my favourite things ever. It was used on one of those epic Prem round-ups they used to do in the late-90s and it's been a total earworm for me ever since. And Pixies are great value for what they do – their songs are so short for the most-part that they can just barrel through loads of stuff in no time at all. And I'm a big fan of the no superfluous crowd chat wank, which people like Dave Grohl have taken to excruciating heights.
Kyuss Lives! Did that at Download years ago, first on the main stage, walked on, melted everyone's face off with banger after banger then left, didn't acknowledge the crowd once, immense.
Saw Tenacious D at Manchester Arena in May and the filming was ridiculous. People who had attended together, some presumably couples living together, all sat with their phones out for the majority of the gig.
When I went to see Deadpool & Wolverine two people next to us seemed to be on the worst date ever, they rolled in last second then both seemed to be on their phone for the entire film, the woman at points actively recording the screen.
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Would have loved to have seen Kyuss/Kyuss Lives, Red Sun and particularly Sky Valley are incredible albums. So much great music has come from the components of that original line-up.
The lightning seeds are awesome. Flaming sword is my fave, especially the pre-seeds Care version.
That's the thing about festivals. There's less chance of banter because the schedule is tighter. There's more chance for delays so they either bang through songs or make cuts. Only the headliners tend to get their way.
Life of Riley was Goal of the Month music for ages. Seems like that's a sign of greatness. I can think of two other songs (Teenage Fanclub - Is This Music?, DJ Shadow - You Can't Go Home Again) getting into my life because of Match of the Day.
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