#lazy git

[ingek73]

Appearing on BBC’s Newscast, the sports broadcaster Gabby Logan criticised William and Rishi Sunak for not travelling to cheer on the Lionesses.

Logan said: “I have to say I’m disappointed that Prince William isn’t going with his role at the FA and the history that is going to happen and be created on Sunday, one way or the other.

“I just wonder, would neither of those people come to a men’s World Cup final, would Britain not be represented by at least one of those two figures at a men’s World Cup and I can’t help thinking that they would be there.

“I don’t know what prior engagements that can’t be moved or if there’s something that’s enormously important that is getting in the way of this, but it does feel like we should have somebody of national (importance).”

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something that’s enormously important that is getting in the way of this:

he’s on holiday

Has been for months.

And no its not the environment he only pretends to care and constantly takes helicopter flights & flew himself & celebs over for the awards show for which he stole both the idea & name whilst the recipients were forced to stay home

No wonder they boo him at football games.

[beatlepaul4ever]

Of course he wouldn’t be involved in lugging it round, would he! Poor Pete being lumbered on carrying it with Neil. Why didn’t he say “bugger off, I’ve got my drums to carry!”

I always was interested in finding out what have happens on the photo. What gave them the idea of depict Paul's funeral: why the funeral, why Paul? Well…I have an answer, I suppose

More legendary than most, however, were a band briefly signed to Brian, the Big Three. Other musicians on the scene seemed to regard this band with awe. They were the original power trio, real sonic bruisers who’d built themselves the biggest amplifiers - nicknamed Coffins - that anyone had ever seen.

(Liverpool - Wondrous Place by Paul Du Noyer, 2002)

Epstein made his way to the Cavern club to see the group perform at a lunchtime session on November 9th. He wrote later that he had never seen anything like The Beatles on any stage. <…> "I loved their ad libs and I was fascinated by this, to me, new music with its pounding bass beat and its vast, engulfing sound." <…> The "pounding" bass that Epstein described was due in part to a new addition to The Beatles' equipment line-up. In the early 1960s there was really no such thing as a proper bass amplifier. Most bass players would use the most powerful guitar amplifier that they could get their hands on. But these were not designed for bass guitar, and did not provide the deep, throbbing bass tones that bass guitarists wanted. As The Beatles evolved their sound and Best perfected his "atomic beat" the group were searching for a stronger and more solid bass sound.

The band considered by many to be the loudest and most aggressive in Liverpool was The Big Three. They bad started out as Cass & The Cassanovas, a four-piece until leader and frontman Brian Casser left during the beginning of 1961. The remaining members stayed together to form The Big Three: Johnny Gustafson on bass, guitarist Adrian Barber, and Liverpool's loudest drummer, Johnny Hutchinson, on the skins.

Barber says that when they became a trio there was an instant problem: he and Gustafson weren't loud enough to project over Hutchinson's drumming. Even the relatively punchy Selmer Truvoice amp was not enough. Barber, however, had an interest in electronics from his days in the merchant navy. <…> Barber went out and bought a book about loudspeakers produced by G A Briggs, who owned the British Wharfedale speaker company, and inside he found construction details for various sizes of cabinets. "I decided on one, and Denis Kealing said he could get me a 15-inch speaker," recalls Barber. "I built a set-up for the bass guitar and for the vocal, in a cabinet about five feet tall by about 18 inches square. <…> I used that and mounted it in a metal ammunitions case, so we could carry it around without killing it. Johnny Gustafson used it as his bass amp, and it was very successful. "When we carried it we bad to lower it on its side, because it was long and skinny. The first time we took it down to the Cavern, we struggled down the tiny stairs there. As we carried this black-painted thing across the room it looked just like a coffin - and that's how it got its name: the Coffin. Now, the Cavern was the underground basement of a warehouse, with three vaulted brick-built archways. Over the years water had seeped down and brought calcium deposits with it, which had settled in the ceiling bricks. So when Johnny plucked that first bass note it was like a shower of snow corning down. People went, 'Wow look at that … and listen to that.' So we were really impressed, and I got ambitious at that point." <…> Other bands began to notice the relative sophistication of The Big Three's amplification, especially the bass gear. "Liverpool wasn't a competitive scene, before it got commercial," explains Barber. '"All the bands co-operated with one another and backed each other up. It was a cool scene, and I started to build these things for other people. Paul McCartney asked me to make him a Coffin. It had a single 15-inch speaker in a reflex-ported cabinet, with two chrome handles and wheels on the side."

McCartney started to use a Barber Coffin speaker cabinet during the late part of 1961. <…> McCartney himself recalls, "Adrian made me a great bass amp that he called the Coffin. And, man! Suddenly that was a total other world. That was bass as we know it now. It was like reggae bass: it was just too right there. It was great live." Pete Best too remembers the Coffin. "Neil Aspinall and I used to carry it. Every couple of shows there'd be a flight of stairs which you had to carry this thing up, and it was then we'd wonder why he couldn't have got something smaller. We'd have sweat streaming off us. But the beauty of it was, with all the laughing and joking aside, it did produce a great sound. The first time Paul plugged it in and used it, we just said my god, this is incredible. It added to The Beatles sound."

(Beatles Gear: All the Fab Four's Instruments from Stage to Studio Hardcover by Andy Babiuk, 2010)

So, I guess, Paul is lying on his bass amp that they called the Coffin - and it's the reason of the pantomime on the photo.

[ranskeysrdm24]

late to the trend but wahtever

[cooliedoodley]

Old man yaoi if the old men were 20 years old. I love Kurokei, so sad they are a dying ship 💔 Well okay, they aren’t a dying ship but ngl after the incident, it’s been harder to find new Kurokei content 😔 I only play the english server so I am oblivious to my doom as a Keito producer (on the side. I still am a 2winkP) but it’s okay, I’ll continue to live in oblivion and drawing my own Kurokei till my eventual doom

[iiep-wop]

Since doing my Jed TOH drawing Ive realised that I quite like redrawing screen caps from it as NATM characters, so I give you dancing Jed and Oc except it's that one screenshot from the Grom dance

[ashroomancer]

Telling people their critiques of a video game aren't valid by saying they need to "git gud" is a form of bullying in fact

[thechaotichorse]

silly audio from a silly christmas vine

(may animate it if i’m motivated)

[ssaalexblake]

I actually think the best pitch for a show about downing street is a kids show about the cat prime minister, Larry, leading the cat community of Britain.

He gets disdained by the old money pure breed cats bc he's just some domestic shorthair from battersea, he's just some jumped up little tom cat not fit for the job.

The ragdoll community is real bitchy about it (his fur isn't pretty enough). He's very popular among the average working class mouser community. Farm cats think that he's gotten too big for his paws and has forgotten his humble roots and hate him, though.

And looking at this post, i think that the lack of sleep from the past week has finally caught up with me.

[emailgf]

if I don’t have adhd then the choices I make with my time and wellbeing are objectively insane

[grey-wardens]

[stinkypeanutbutter]

. . Remember me ? 😇🙏

[sableeira]

why can’t I be unconditionally happy for once in my goddamn life why do I always have to be cursed with hardware malfunction or data loss a week before any given deadline

[adarkenedforest]

GUESS WHOS BACK BITCHES

[another-atom]

going to take an edX math course just to feel something

[leyavo]

John Price staring at your cat, it’s rare that he comes out when he visits. He normally sees the end of a tail as the cat rushes back to its safe space in the airing cupboard.

“Gotta call him General Tibs not just Tibs, John,” you tell him or he’ll never come out of his safe space. John huffing about how the cat’s a higher rank than him and still can’t take orders.

All of your previous cats were named Tibs, but they upped a rank each time. Sergeant Tibs, Captain Tibs and now General Tibs.

A tabby, lazy in his old age. Starts to creep closer when John’s watching tv late at night and thinks he can’t be seen in the shadows. Each night getting just that little bit closer. John doesn’t acknowledge General Tibs, knowing he’ll flee if he turns his head in the cat’s direction.

And when General Tibs does become comfortable around John, he scratches the cat’s head, “still up, old timer?” A purr of approval and then he’s gone again.

It’s not till he moves in, a house you’ve bought together that they bond more. No airing cupboard, so General Tibs has been roaming around the new home in search for a safe space.

John building General Tibs a cupboard in the alcove next to the fire, the cat will be able to feel the warmth through the wall.

He lets General Tibs discover the new spot, the same blankets and towels in there from his old safe space. Every now and then John opens the cupboard door, checking on him. A scratch to the head and closing the door again.

There’s not much General Tibs does, he’s content with laying around the house all day, sitting on your lap as you read or in John’s lap as he does the weekly crossword in the newspaper.

He does however like sitting in the back seat of John’s truck watching the world blur by. It happened by accident the first time, Tibs sneaking out and jumping in back, but John didn’t make a big deal out of it. So now he goes for Sunday morning drives with the tabby, all so he can keep the old car going that’s he’s been working on.

General Tibs prefers John’s office, the sun shines on the wood flooring and he likes to lay in the warmth. You send John pictures of the cat when he’s working away from home, Tibs stretched asleep.

The guys at work look over his shoulder at the picture and say that John and the cat are both old gits. Which makes John trim his scruffy beard, a little tidy up. Scolds them for shortening his name, “that’s General Tibs, to you.”

Cat series: [Ghost] [Soap] [Gaz] [König]😸 inspired by sergeant tibbs (101 Dalmatians)

[dingostrash]

I'm sorry I just really love your art 😔

It's okay! That makes me happy! I'm glad! I'm always happy to draw stuff people want! I just thought it was funny.