Space Cadet

Know that feeling... same here.

Oh, do you live around horses? Cool. But yeah, the auto industry has been promising fuel cells for decades, but somehow never manages to make any progress on them... Granted, the part where the hydrogen potentially blows up a la the Hindenburg isn't so appealing, so they had better take their time to do it right. But still... I think it's a stalling tactic. In the category of the way the world could have been, electric cars have been around for over a century- some of the very first experimental cars were electric.

Apocalype aside, it would probably be good for old forgotten out of the way port cities like Halifax, because people would probably find a way to revert back to old sailing ships for transportation. But yeah, there probably would be massive food shortages all over the western world for years until more farms started up and cities found a practical way to survive. We'd probably all have to get used to having horses around again.

Started exactly 3 days after I got mine cleaned out for the first time in -literally- years. Now that's irony. It's been so long since I last saw the whole floor that it creeps me out every time in walk in. Just don't feel at home there any more. But the nice part is that it's alot easier to walk over to my record player now, no more having to tiptoe through the 2 or 3 tiny spots I could put my feet without breaking something, so I've been listening to a lot of vinyl lately. :nice:

Another part is that at a concert they can mess up their first couple of songs and still play a great concert otherwise once they've warmed up. At a show, the one and only song is over before they've ever warmed up at all, so they're not at their best. And yeah, I don't know what it is with the people who run the soundboards, but if the Junos are anything to go by (I was there live once), they do a terrible mixing job most of the time somewhere on the way to the tv feed.

Two way tie for me... Radiohead and Coldplay, but for very different reasons.

Thanks Tracie, I've added your list. And that album is Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace If a poster screams in an empty thread, and no one notices, did she really make a sound? :P We're up to 23 lists so far! :nice: Time's running out. Any more coming? Think we can make it to 30?

Briggins! I have a challenge for you! This thread got me to haul out my vinyl boxset and start randomly listening to some of the singles last night. Which put me in a massive Coldplay mood and gave me an idea... yeah, it's silly, but just play along. ;) Oh, and this won't work if you've listened to any music in the last hour or two, so give your ears a break first. Or maybe listen to the Joshua Tree first, that's what I was doing- it seems to work well as a hearing reset button. You are being hypnotised. :dizzy: The year is 2004. X&Y does not exist. Coldplay are the critical darlings who in their short career have released two amazing albums. Radiohead released HTTT last year which was good, but certainly not their best work, and some fans are still making a stink about it. You are familiar with both bands. Now, when you wake up, you are going to listen to the Coldplay song "Careful Where You Stand". Should you feel inclined you will follow it with "No More Keeping My Feet on the Ground", "For You", and "See You Soon", or anything that appears on the Safety EP. You will realise that while Radiohead and Coldplay have similarities, they must be listened to in different ways, because they approach their music differently. Now *claps hands* Wake Up! :D Tell me what you think, ok?

Aw. That's sad. I'm certainly not into them the way I used to be. These days I usually listen to Travis instead when I'm in a Coldplay mood. But I still love AROBTTH and Parachutes way too much to ever not like them anymore. Maybe I'm just really sentimental. I keep them tucked away for emergencies now, because I was listening all the time for a while, and it lost something. If I stay away long enough at a time, it's fresh enough again to pull me out of my worst bad days. I've found alot of music that I love over the last 3 years or so, but nothing else that can pull me out of my deepest darkest moods quite as well. I just hope they really rediscover themselves on the new album, and that the marketing machine that ruined their reputation on X&Y won't go into super obnoxious mode again. Nothing like having something crammed down everyone's throats to make them resent it. Coldplay's greatest strength isn't the big soaring stadium stuff; it's when they write their smaller intimate songs that make the rest of the world melt away. Stuff that can make just some music and a hot drink the perfect antidote for a wet, grey day when everything aches and the world feels like it's going to end. That's the Coldplay I still love. :nice: Goodness, I meant to write a paragraph and came up with an essay. :stunned:

Yeah, now that one is for all time! :laugh3::laugh3::laugh3:

Of the countless different ones I've heard I've almost never come across one I didn't like. I just like them for different reasons. But Glasgow is still my favorite in the universe. :nice:

Just over 15 days left! Just over 15 days left! Just over 15 days left! Just over 15 days left! Just over 15 days left! Just over 15 days left! Just over 15 days left! :D ...Just saying

Goodness, I haven't even been following that... will have to figure out who to vote for in the morning...

Oh yeah, last day of voting, isn't it?

That looks weird. :confused: For better or worse, I really like the union jack the way it is. I may be very wrong on this, but I thought the blue background had something to do with Wales anyway? Though I have to admit, I always wondered why England and Scotland had their crosses on it, but not Wales. (or Northern Ireland?)

I don't really think that's a sign of ADD so much as being conditioned to expect automatic entertainment, which real life will deny.:thinking: But with threads like these to catch up on, it hasn't been that boring lately. Talk about surreal :stunned::laugh3:

^ah, ok. Thanks. Hey, did you hear about that book about Twinkies? Some guy tried to track down the origins and use of every single ingredient in a twinkie. Even just the writeups about it were pretty disturbing. For instance the "cream" is actually a couple of petrolium products. :sick:

I bet you a lot of the little kids who start school and are suddenly diagnosed with mild ADHD would just as suddenly have their symptoms dissappear if their parents stopped packing processed lunch meats. Meat preservatives - mainly nitrates- are the worst. I have genetic ADD- the space cadet kind. I'm almost never hyper because of it. But within about 15 minutes of eating a hotdog I'm suddenly jittery and bouncy and my already abysmal attention span is cut in half. It was amazing the difference it made when I gave up lunch meat all together. What are E numbers exactly? Is it some sort of additive code? They just use the big fancy scientific names here. All the better to confuse the customer with. :dozey: And the worst part is that now that the industry is cracking down on salt content, processors are starting to add even more sugar to food to make up for it. Refined sugar is not a natural thing... the human body was never meant to handle it at all. And now it's in everything.

And don't forget all the toxic colours and flavours... :angry: *grumble* Basically only filtered water and peppermint tea for me... at least on any regular basis. *edit* Oh, this is too good to let pass. Seriously. It was the ad the bottom of the page. :laugh3:

Living

The worst was that "I could die from that" usually worked for everything else... too well, actually. They wouldn't let me eat things that were fine. But the moment good old PBJ was involved, cross contamination became an alien concept.

Lovely job you're doing of it, too. :P:laugh3:

The absolute worst is when someone doesn't understand that using a peanut butter knife in the jam immediatly afterwards will leave peanut butter mixed in with the jam. I come along later and suddenly have a massive allergic reaction to (what should be) perfectly harmless raspberry jam. :veryangry: Durr. My family knows better, but I've had that problem with roommates who never learned before.

First it was Belgium, now I'm being stalked by lego! :stunned: Opened up the paper today and this was one of the main articles: They still love to play LEGO-addicted adults tinker for fun, show Adult LEGO enthusiasts, from left, Sam Cohen of Moncton, Lawrence Livesey, Tatamagouche, and Ken Partridge and Owen Grace, both of Halifax sit beside a Lego display featuring trains, cranes and several large buildings at a recent show at Dartmouth Sportsplex. The members of NovaLUG, the Nova Scotia Lego Users Group, will present their holiday display at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic beginning Dec. 11. (PETER PARSONS / Staff) http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Living/994520.html

^Yeah, I usually go for the icecream. :uhoh: