What Grinds your Gears?

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TankAss95
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And what could one do to improve the magnificent presentation of brown anyway?
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I could try as long as Brown's GIF doesn't have too much frames.
And if there's a free GIF editor :lol:
 
Jai
Your avatar would be so much better without the rope in the way.
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And your avatar would be so much better if a little more of the car were on show.
What is that car, anyway? Some sort of Alfa Romeo?

EDIT: @ Daniel:
Thanks for the offer but I honestly don't want to use up your time. To be quite honest I'm not sure wether any Christmas'y editions would suit brown anyway. A hat would look weird for example, as it would be covering his eyes lol.
 
Jai
Your avatar would be so much better without the rope in the way.
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I know but I wouldn't expect a $381,000 car to not have a rope around it. I wish it wasn't there either. Of course the 300SL I considered I couldn't get a picture of the front because it's on a balcony and the iPod camera is tiny.

I always thought your avatar was a Fiat 500 :dopey:
 
Whammed again? I still haven't heard the song or any covers apart from the one on the first page :D
 
Jai
Indeed, the 4C :D


Italian cars are awesome
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Yeah, I remember seeing that car in my magazine! So beautiful... :drool:
It's supposed to be that the cars on display were coated in this special, glossy paint which didn't like cameras that much :lol:. I'm not sure wether it'll be on the production models, though.

Italian cars are awesome, but they can be a bit, well, too snobbish for my liking.
I'm not quite sure how to explain, but Italian cars sometimes remind me of a polished shoe... a little too 'clean'?
Anyone understand?
 
I understand, but I do like Italian cars.

You've pretty much summed up how I felt about the sets in "2001".
 
TankAss95
Yeah, I remember seeing that car in my magazine! So beautiful... :drool:
It's supposed to be that the cars on display were coated in this special, glossy paint which didn't like cameras that much :lol:. I'm not sure wether it'll be on the production models, though.

Italian cars are awesome, but they can be a bit, well, too snobbish for my liking.
I'm not quite sure how to explain, but Italian cars sometimes remind me of a polished shoe... a little too 'clean'?
Anyone understand?
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I understand what you mean, I suppose you can base it on the stylish bodywork.. You sometimes feel that you aren't good enough to own one.. Not to mention all the luxury and exotic cars that come out of Italy.
 
Jai
I understand what you mean, I suppose you can base it on the stylish bodywork.. You sometimes feel that you aren't good enough to own one.. Not to mention all the luxury and exotic cars that come out of Italy.
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To like a car you first have to feel comfortable within it. A person who feels totally comfortable at the character of a modern Italian car is probably the kind of person who likes to give pedicures to small dogs.
 
Oh crap.

We have an assessment in Music on Friday, we have one lesson a week and we have had 8 weeks to practice.. However, being me, I was sat there making dirty noises using the keyboard when you put it on the "Rap" setting.. Me and my partner are screwed when we are told to perform it in front of the whole class. I'll just be like "Hai".. You practice with headphones, meaning I'll start being a prat if nobody can hear... :scared:
 
Jai
Oh crap.

We have an assessment in Music on Friday, we have one lesson a week and we have had 8 weeks to practice.. However, being me, I was sat there making dirty noises using the keyboard when you put it on the "Rap" setting.. Me and my partner are screwed when we are told to perform it in front of the whole class. I'll just be like "Hai".. You practice with headphones, meaning I'll start being a prat if nobody can hear... :scared:
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I can totally relate. We had a 'DJ' button on our keyboards. When individual keys were pressed unimpressive synthesisers were activated with the addition to strange human exhalations and vocal contribute (all according to pitch of course).
Very strange.
 
Jai
Oh crap.

We have an assessment in Music on Friday, we have one lesson a week and we have had 8 weeks to practice.. However, being me, I was sat there making dirty noises using the keyboard when you put it on the "Rap" setting.. Me and my partner are screwed when we are told to perform it in front of the whole class. I'll just be like "Hai".. You practice with headphones, meaning I'll start being a prat if nobody can hear... :scared:
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If there is one thing I have learned that may help you, is that you could probably just play anything and most idiots will be impressed.

I remember a few years ago, I had a gig after work, so had to haul the guitar in. One of the guys I worked with asked to see my guitar (as it's a Gibson). He played a few chords of an oasis song (mind numbingly easy) and the idiots I worked with were extremely impressed.

Then, someone I worked with asked me to play a song. I played Cavatina.

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Point is, play some crappy mainstream thing and everyone will be so impressed. Play some technical masterpiece, and you'll get that reaction from most.
 
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If there is one thing I have learned that may help you, is that you could probably just play anything and most idiots will be impressed.

I remember a few years ago, I had a gig after work, so had to haul the guitar in. One of the guys I worked with asked to see my guitar (as it's a Gibson). He played a few chords of an oasis song (mind numbingly easy) and the idiots I worked with were extremely impressed.

Then, someone I worked with asked me to play a song. I played Cavatina.

Point is, play some crappy mainstream thing and everyone will be so impressed. Play some technical masterpiece, and you'll get that reaction from most.
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:lol: 👍
I think that's another gear grinder: I think that too often people see the world in a kind of two-dimensional view. Often such effort in types of art or media gets discarded while simplistic, unimaginative content thrives.
 
TankAss95
EDIT: @ Daniel:
Thanks for the offer but I honestly don't want to use up your time. To be quite honest I'm not sure wether any Christmas'y editions would suit brown anyway. A hat would look weird for example, as it would be covering his eyes lol.
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I would give him a Christmas Hat with the white part extended a bit and punched holes for the eyes :p


I'm not doing a Christmas theme for mines because I have something else in mind.
 
Well, let's hope that tomorrow is as good as today. I have a feeling my band teacher will find a way to ruin it though, as we have a test. :scared: I know the fingerings, just not the notes, and I'm afraid I'll fuzz! Maybe they'll make an exception because it's my birthday? Haha, if I said that though I think they'd make me go first. See, I have two band teachers, one's a band Nazi, the other is pretty laid back. The band Nazi teaches the woodwinds. At least he's a good teacher, just not a nice person.

A good thing is I haven't been whammed yet!
 
F1 fan
If there is one thing I have learned that may help you, is that you could probably just play anything and most idiots will be impressed.

I remember a few years ago, I had a gig after work, so had to haul the guitar in. One of the guys I worked with asked to see my guitar (as it's a Gibson). He played a few chords of an oasis song (mind numbingly easy) and the idiots I worked with were extremely impressed.

Then, someone I worked with asked me to play a song. I played Cavatina.

Point is, play some crappy mainstream thing and everyone will be so impressed. Play some technical masterpiece, and you'll get that reaction from most.
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I get that. Most people think I listen to weird music. Because I show them Dream Theater's Dance for Eternity (which changed time signature almost every bar) or I sing something not mainstream or that they haven't heard much of before. It'll be long and difficult. I want to try Learning to Live by Dream Theater (because in a few months I'll be able to hit Labrie's legendary F sharp) If I sing Iron Maiden's The Trooper, they say, "wow that's good!" Lucky my dad isn't like that, and he was shocked that I could actually sing. :D

He said I have very good control, and good range! :D

What grinds my gears? Today ending, it's been such a good day, who knew meeting people could be so great. :p

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Well, let's hope that tomorrow is as good as today. I have a feeling my band teacher will find a way to ruin it though, as we have a test. :scared: I know the fingerings, just not the notes, and I'm afraid I'll fuzz! Maybe they'll make an exception because it's my birthday? Haha, if I said that though I think they'd make me go first. See, I have two band teachers, one's a band Nazi, the other is pretty laid back. The band Nazi teaches the woodwinds. At least he's a good teacher, just not a nice person.

A good thing is I haven't been whammed yet!
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Happy birthday! I can't wish you luck for tomorrow because it will of course make you fail... :p
 
Our 'Further Studies' form really grinds my gears... It's so long and I have to choose a different cocuriculum activities because it's not available in the form despite asked to choose the one I joined in school. I mean, government, what the? You wanted us to join the cocuriculum so badly yet by doing this you're not making us interested in joining any cocuriculum activities at all... :rolleyes:
 
*sigh* I have school now. I was hoping it would snow which of course was the weather channel 🤬 me. I'm so tired... At least I have tomorrow off.
 
@ilikewaffles11: That happens to me a lot. Its always the times you go to bed and wake up well rested that you get the day off.
 
TankAss95
I don't have a clue how to.
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I'm not implying you have to do it. I'm implying that what should I or someone else do with it, even though I or the person who is interested wasn't asked to modify it.



What's grinding my gears is that's it's cold as heck. But this gear grinder is mere commonplace around this season, so no extension there.
 
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