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Offline gep

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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #900 on: June 22, 2009, 10:44:11 AM
But Thal - unless you have met every woman in the world, how can you possibly know that? In any case, valuing a woman in banjo currency is surely a somewhat unreliable method of calculation, wouldn't you say?...

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It is, one has to determine first a) how does the banjo sound and b) how does the woman sound. And you'd have to count the amount of strings attached, of course!
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #901 on: June 22, 2009, 11:13:35 AM
I have to admit to experiencing gteat difficulty in understanding this modern Dutch dialect, but I thini that I can nevertheless graps sufficient of its sense not to need a translation into English...

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Alistair

Dis aint no Dutch, djuz' an approxemasjun of de lingo I heard on sum English TV sait!
I am mightily relieved to discover that!

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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #902 on: June 22, 2009, 11:17:12 AM
It is, one has to determine first a) how does the banjo sound and b) how does the woman sound. And you'd have to count the amount of strings attached, of course!
Perhaps the shape of each might also be a factor...

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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #903 on: June 22, 2009, 11:20:48 AM
In any case, valuing a woman in banjo currency is surely a somewhat unreliable method of calculation, wouldn't you say?...

Well, i do not buy cheap Korean Banjos, so i would base my calculation on a good Goldtone Plectrum Banjo at about £600 - £800.

I do not like Ozarks or Gibsons, albiet I would love a Piestch.

Hope this clears things up somewhat.

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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #904 on: June 22, 2009, 01:38:57 PM
What has this thread come to?!  The price of banjos in lieu of women?!
I'm only hoping this is all some sort of psychologlical outlet for brilliant musicians...

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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #905 on: June 22, 2009, 01:44:03 PM
What has this thread come to?!  The price of banjos in lieu of women?!
I'm only hoping this is all some sort of psychologlical outlet for brilliant musicians...
Of course it is! Read some of Mozart's letters. Especially those to his niece (das Bäsle)... :o ;)

A poem by Mozart:
  Nun mein Liebster bleib gesund,
  Reck dein Arsch bis an den Mund.
  Nun mein Liebster gute Nacht,
  Scheiss' in's Bett mit Kracht.


No, I'm not going to translate that!
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #906 on: June 22, 2009, 05:06:38 PM
Of course it is! Read some of Mozart's letters. Especially those to his niece (das Bäsle)... :o ;)

A poem by Mozart:
  Nun mein Liebster bleib gesund,
  Reck dein Arsch bis an den Mund.
  Nun mein Liebster gute Nacht,
  Scheiss' in's Bett mit Kracht.


No, I'm not going to translate that!


Hehe yeah Mozart's Bäsle letters are fun to read ;D

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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #907 on: June 22, 2009, 05:48:58 PM
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No, I'm not going to translate that!



than I will translate it (I hope this does not offend anyone)

Now my sweetheart stay healthy,
Reck your ass up to the mouth.
Now my sweetheart good night,
***''S bed in with vigor.
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #908 on: June 23, 2009, 12:27:06 PM
I am hoping to acquire two new piano students!   Yeah!    ;D    :)
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #909 on: June 24, 2009, 03:24:08 AM
Trying to get my mind off a certain person so I can go on with my life, online and offline.
I'm sinking like a stone in the sea,
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #910 on: June 24, 2009, 01:59:32 PM
No matter what occurs in our lives, it is usually a human courtesy to just be polite in
chat room.  I mean, ppl are getting turned off in there because of the *atmosphere*
in there.  Some ppl are cheerful and can carry on a decent conversation, but lately I
am finding it not as enjoyable these past several weeks.........either ppl are so stressed out
about stuff and life is a chore, but hey, ppl have problems and I'm aware of that fact,
but in order to make other members feel welcome and okay in chat room, lets be friendly
and not spat at one another.  It has been a pet peeve of mine lately and no wonder
chat is empty most of the day.  Are we all in a grump mode or what?  I deal with problems too,
but I decided that in order to make things happen in this forum or elsewhere , it is not that hard to be pleasant and polite in chat room.  Gosh!   :P   ::)   ???    :-X    ???   :(   
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #911 on: June 24, 2009, 02:47:32 PM
Sorry I am just in a really bad mood now. :(
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #912 on: June 24, 2009, 03:24:06 PM
Sorry I am just in a really bad mood now. :(

Say, I know you are, db, it's not you that I'm ranting about of chat, but it's just in general ppls
these past weeks......I just needed to vent at the moment.   :P
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #913 on: June 25, 2009, 12:30:27 AM
I've almost finished a box of wheat thins and had 2 cups of grape juice... It's a like a communion feast...

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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #914 on: June 26, 2009, 01:16:11 AM
I'm smirking, thinking someone can "unleash" this on someone, as an insult... (although it's politically incorrect).  I wouldn't, but it's one of those things people post that's an amusing insult.



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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #915 on: June 26, 2009, 08:01:01 PM
I don't know what to think about anything......am I just trying too hard?
   *sigh*           :-\
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #916 on: June 26, 2009, 10:07:52 PM
I'm thinking that nobody, NOBODY should fake feelings. This just make everything so hard...
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #917 on: June 27, 2009, 08:51:27 AM
I am trying to sleep more, but tonight it's about 3AM and here I am, wondering as I am
wandering PS.........is there another good topic about something.....oh.......hummm....
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #918 on: June 28, 2009, 08:39:33 PM


*BORED*   *BORED*    *BORED*   

*sigh*
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #919 on: June 28, 2009, 09:08:31 PM
You can make me a bacon buttie if you are that bored.

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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #920 on: June 28, 2009, 09:27:38 PM
You can make me a bacon buttie if you are that bored.

Thal

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(by the way, what is a bacon buttie?)   :P



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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #921 on: June 30, 2009, 09:53:52 AM
Ha ha ha ha !   

     Announcing:       :o      :o     

                             * GO MAKES HER 1000th POST* 

         Ta da!            Ta da!               Ta da!                 Ta da!           

    :)    ;)   :D    ;D    8)    :-*    :-*    :-*

Let the party begin..............Oh, yea!    ;)
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #922 on: June 30, 2009, 09:56:05 AM
So now you're a kiloposter!

Congratifications!
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Reply #923 on: June 30, 2009, 10:48:31 AM
Just in the news here. Apparently the UK has 5 officially recognised Sharia courts (plus some 80 "illegal" ones). Seems that the "judge" from such a court has to check any ruling with the "official" courts, though.

Now, the Dutch government is hugely hypocrit and stupid, but even they must bow to the UK!
Allowing two juridical systems (mutually exclusive at that) to exists in a country? Recognising the Sharia? They must be miles out of their minds and accelerating!
According to the news the Archbishop of Canterbury is much in favor of those courts...

What's next? Setting up courts based on strict adherence to the Old Testamentic laws? US type ruling? Dutch system??? :P

*flabbergasted*
 
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #924 on: June 30, 2009, 05:57:26 PM
According to the news the Archbishop of Canterbury is much in favor of those courts...


Well, the Archbishop of Canterbury is an out of touch tambourine banging twat.

I do not see how in a Country you can have two different types of Law systems in operation,  that could produce vastly different judgements when dealing with the same case. If ever there was a barrier to integration, this is it.

Our Muslim loving Labour government is to blame for this stupidity. However, since the Labour Party are supposedly all for equal rights for women, I do not see how they can allow this system to operate.

Anyway, since most of our laws appear to be made by unelected fraudsters in Brussels, there is probably nothing that they can do about it even if they had the will to do so.

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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #925 on: June 30, 2009, 10:01:06 PM
Well, the Archbishop of Canterbury is an out of touch tambourine banging twat.

I do not see how in a Country you can have two different types of Law systems in operation,  that could produce vastly different judgements when dealing with the same case. If ever there was a barrier to integration, this is it.

Our Muslim loving Labour government is to blame for this stupidity. However, since the Labour Party are supposedly all for equal rights for women, I do not see how they can allow this system to operate.

Anyway, since most of our laws appear to be made by unelected fraudsters in Brussels, there is probably nothing that they can do about it even if they had the will to do so.
I rather doubt that the Archcant of Bishopbury would know quite what to do with a tambourine if anyone were to present him with one, but I do agree that two sets of laws of the kind that you allude to are likely to be about as useful as the time-dishonoured "two sets of accounts"; that said (and I also appreciate your remarks about New Old Half-Baked Labour's purported support for women's rights sitting uncomfortably alongside promotion of the use of Sharia law in UK), I don't think that what you call "the unelected fraudsters in Brussels" are any more adept at breaking or otherwise deliberately misppropriating laws of their or anyone else's creation for their own ends than is anyone here in UK, elected or otherwise, inside or outside of what passes for local or national government and irrespective of who may or may not have made said laws in the first place.

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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #926 on: July 02, 2009, 04:21:21 PM
What ever happened to morningstar?  He usually comes here to visit PS everyday and now
he isn't around.... ???       Where ever you are, I miss you!    :-*

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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #927 on: July 02, 2009, 08:34:33 PM
How hard is violin to learn exactly???? I wonder how long it will take me to learn it???? sigh....maybe I will pick it up rather quickly!!!....or maybe that is just wishful thinking??

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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #928 on: July 06, 2009, 11:45:45 AM
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #929 on: July 06, 2009, 12:24:43 PM
To play the violin effectively, you need a good teacher to show the proper way to hold the violin and the bow.  It takes time and effort to learn to play violin.  Yet, a great instrument to play beautiful pieces. 

best wishes,

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Reply #930 on: July 06, 2009, 12:30:00 PM
To play the violin effectively, you need a good teacher to show the proper way to hold the violin and the bow.  It takes time and effort to learn to play violin.  Yet, a great instrument to play beautiful pieces. 

best wishes,

go12_3
Yes indeed. I prefer playing the CD/LP rather than the violin, for reason that I can do the former, but not the latter...

Sorry, feeling a bit woozy after all that hot weather...
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #931 on: July 07, 2009, 02:16:38 AM
Ow... My body is so sore.  I'm getting old.
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #932 on: July 07, 2009, 05:06:40 AM
I know what you mean....my leg is really bothering me tonight... :-\ I wish I was 10 again....no not really...I would have to much to learn all over again!!

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Reply #933 on: July 08, 2009, 03:35:22 AM
what's on my mind? what to post.
had an awesome practice. my boosted self esteem prompted me to revisit PS as an active poster rather than a lurker ;D
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #934 on: July 08, 2009, 01:43:52 PM
hmmm.... right now, I'm thinking what to post... anyone wanna help me?   :D
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #935 on: July 10, 2009, 01:45:44 PM
Right now... I'm thinking about finding the "I'm so sorry"-thread, since I kind of ruin every topic that I find boring...

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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #936 on: July 10, 2009, 01:53:31 PM
Roslavets is certainly not the best Russian Avant-Garde composer. Feinberg and Lyatoshynsky easily rival him in skill.
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Reply #937 on: July 10, 2009, 02:45:29 PM
How interesting life is with its twists and turns.  Not in a happy state at the moment....just need to keep my mind occupied with music and my art work.....
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Re: What's on your mind right now?
Reply #938 on: July 10, 2009, 06:05:58 PM
It is physically impossible to play what Liszt wrote in the Hungarian rhapsody no.18 in C-sharp minor. He writes prestissimo during the octave section so you have to play them as fast as you can and than he writes accelerando so you have to get faster than you possibly can. Therefore everyone has faked it  ;)
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Reply #939 on: July 10, 2009, 06:12:50 PM
Already my mind is on the off mode.....ummmm, ummm................
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Reply #940 on: July 11, 2009, 05:08:25 AM
I'm wondering where lucylucy's "FIRST HANGOVER" thread is...  :P
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Reply #941 on: July 11, 2009, 05:11:13 AM
I'm wondering where lucylucy's "FIRST HANGOVER" thread is...  :P
Nils deleted it, of course.
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Reply #942 on: July 11, 2009, 12:53:00 PM
OMG! I JUST DOWNLOADED HALF OF THE MARTH ARGERICH DISCOGRAPHY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Me is happy!  :)
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Reply #943 on: July 11, 2009, 02:18:29 PM
OMG! I JUST DOWNLOADED HALF OF THE MARTH ARGERICH DISCOGRAPHY!!!!!!!!!!!!! Me is happy!  :)

I don't like her playing that much. A lot of the time I find it dry, especially in her Chopin sonata no.3. However, I like her Gaspard de la Nuit and Prokofiev piano concerto no.3.
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Reply #944 on: July 11, 2009, 10:05:47 PM
Im thinking about ice cream!!!!! I love Ice Cream!!!! I scream, you scream, we all scream for Ice Cream!!!! ;D hehehehe

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Reply #945 on: July 11, 2009, 10:30:21 PM
I'm  realizing that some things just don't or won't work out....after all that is said and done....
it is over......*sigh*   
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Reply #946 on: July 12, 2009, 11:02:49 PM
just woke up... I don't know why I'm on the computer this early in the morning...
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Reply #947 on: July 31, 2009, 02:59:58 AM
I'm thinking they should have kept those little public telephone booths.  People can go in there and talk as loud as they want.
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Reply #948 on: July 31, 2009, 03:13:20 AM
I've been doing a digital art of a pink rose most of the day and now I just wrote a poem
about rose petals falling one by one upon my table..... 8)

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Reply #949 on: August 11, 2009, 12:09:07 AM
I'm back playing the piano... still frustrated with it though.
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