Pashley26

Nope. Looks the same.

ROAAAAAAAAH PIPE BLUD.

Basically. But everybody knows that because I've said it to everyone so many times.

It hardly makes me weird though.

In your haste to be a pedantic f**kwit you've forgot to highlight the key point there. Am I going to be a passenger with you guys whilst you're banging on about how you change gears like spastics? I'm pretty irrational, but come on. Don't be that much of an an idiot and suggest that I'm in some way going to be outraged by suggestions of doing something stupid on the internet. How on earth do you guys think I manage to get through life? You do me absolutely no justice or credit at all. I'm the second best Fiat salesman in the country for f**k sake, my job is entirely based around customer satisfaction, locking myself in cars with strangers and being able to get on with them in a reasonable and professional manner and then guiding them through what is usually one of the largest purchases of their lives. I use TF as a sounding board to just get it all out and tell people exactly how I see it because I spend all day being so utterly amenable and courteous to people that I'd quite enjoy punching in the face. It amazes me that TF seem to think I'm some sort of socially inept thunder-fanny...

It really doesn't bother me 'that' much. I don't know why people of the internet think I remotely give a flying f**k about whatever they do, very few of you I will ever meet or care to meet. I'm simply throwing up my opinions for you to listen to if you want to. Drive around with your dick in your hand drinking 7up through curly straws for all I care, I really don't care.

Rich in having no opinion so just being a total bellend shocker.

I refuse to argue this with anybody. Missing gears is bad and if you do it you're a lazy nobhead.

My argument is that by forcing the gearbox to change it's speed as quickly as incorrectly changing gear does there will be excessive wear on syncromesh gears and end bearings. Skipping from third to fifth and missing out the potentially 1:1 ratio which is critical for smoothness just annoys me. It pisses me off, it's just lazy incompetence and totally unneeded. It's been my pet hate for my entire life as a passenger. As Prawn will testify. We have many arguments about it. My dad says the same, and if he says it he's right.

Skipping gears like that aggravates me.

Some really lovely shots there Matt, more please. I love seeing 35mm stuff.

I did indeed, what road do you live on? I go to Brighton two or three times a month for gigs, shopping and drinking, next time we will have to wave at each other.

Too far.

Not directly, but you've clearly never met my girlfriend.

She would f**king destroy you, you'd be left a decrepit husk of your former self. You won't know what decrepit actually means, so here goes.

Today was a f**king good day. I'm really happy. Woke up at half 7, was bored, said to my mum 'shall we go to Brighton?' and we all bundled into the Panda and off we went. We listened to Black Keys on the way down there, made it in good time, no traffic. Straight into the legendary Bill's restaurant for breakfast. It was packed, but a lovely atmosphere and the breakfast was awesome. This was the best breakfast ever...Eggs Benedict with bacon and black pudding...Mmmmm... As previously mentioned I took my Trip 35 with me to run through some film. I snapped a few good shots, I'm looking forward to getting them developed. I stopped off at one of the best vintage camera shops in Brighton, who have a lovely cabinet full of classic camera's at reasonable prices. All tested and ready to go. This really caught my eye. A cracking little full frame 35mm with a great lens, battery operated light metering and apart from focus and film speed it is an automatic. A great little cam. But it's not really going to do a different job to my Trip. The guy behind the counter suggested this... Half frame, 30mm/2.8 prime lens, the same selenium cell automatic metering my 35 has and it's tiiiiinny. £40. Done!!! Picked up three rolls of 400 Impossible film, a set of iPhone lens adapters which are pretty cool. There is a close up. A fish eye. And a landscape wide angle lens which I haven't really used yet. About two months ago I lost my glasses, this made me unhappy and blind. Grr. There is an opticians in Brighton that I use, and purchased two pairs of Persol folders, my last glasses and my mum's new glasses in there and will be taking Bethan there to get her new glasses in Feb I got a bit of a silly deal in the end, but I found a set of glasses I really wanted. But at £279+ lenses I wasn't going to be buying them this time of year. Mum got these. I drank beer, and pondered the possibility of getting the Prada glasses I really needed, and wanted... RAWWW. Beer done. More shopping. Went to Home Sense which is basically TK Maxx for homeware. Kerching. Whilst I was waiting for all the useless tatt that I'll be filling my house up with I did a bit of googling, shopping for my lenses. Found them for £142 without lenses. Decided it was worth a shot, so I went back to the opticians and showed them the price 'Look guys, don't want to beat you up. But if you can match these then look after my prescription I'm game, otherwise I'm just going to have to wait and find something cheaper that I like as much.' 'Yeah go on then but at least wind it up to £150 to cover the postage you're not paying.' Shiiiit. £150 cash in the end for the frames. I've totally expected to just take the frames, then get the prescription sorted in the new year. That's what happened last time round. Anyway, he told me I'd have to wait five minutes. He took a measurement of my face, job done. I assumed he was adjusting the frames.s He asked me to try them on 5 minutes later, PERFECT lenses, included in the price. Legend. f**k me. I can see again. All in all a really good day, feeling very happy, chilled out and all is good. Happy happy happy.

Meow. I'm in Brighton with my family and snapping the moments on my 35mm. f**k all this present giving religious bollocks, I hate Christmas. But I've got a lot of time for anything that brings a family together.

New owner loves Lol's, he phoned me up today ecstatic about how much he is enjoying it. This makes me very happy.

Dan's tales remind me of the time I booked a taxi to take me home, only to find out the next afternoon that I was already at home and had been all night. And the party was at my house. And the kitchen sink I'd taken a shit in was actually mine, and the car I'd pissed all over was actually my car as well. After I had got in the taxi from what was actually my house to what I thought was my house, and he had taken me to a house next to my work, I then trawled our entire compound and used car forecourt until I found a car that was unlocked and slept in it all day. Then when they decided to open the boots and sort out the used car pitch the next day (when I was supposed to be working), and opened the boot of a Zauxhall Zafira to find me curled up asleep in it I probably should have gone straight home. For some reason I carried on working until 7PM, then walked home and vowed never to mention it to anybody in work again. Three days later the company got taken over and the HR department and manager were replaced, so my disciplinary hearing was never actioned.

I'm sorry that it's such an inconvenience to put something on charge whilst you sleep, it must be harrowing for you.

I am going to buy an apple watch, 100%. This was going to be for the time being to see how I got on with the concept and feel of having something like this. Having worn it all day every day I can really see that if the Apple watch does what it says it does it will be a monster success.

I got the light seal kit on eBay, arrived within 48 hours. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/251755799084?_trksid=p2060778.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT I've been enjoying shooting with this thing so much I'm really tempted to send it to this bloke - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Olympus-Trip-35-Refurb-service-with-2-year-Warranty-over-200-happy-customers-/201235169234? He will fully refurbish it, replace the selenium meter with a remanufactured replacement and graphite lubricate everything. He's the guy I sent it to for cleaning, and he did such a good job restoring the body of the camera I'm really tempted to just do it right, once and have something that will last for years.

Take that as a no then! Well, I've shot a lot of film with the Trip 35 this week. Things are improving. I replaced the light seals. The top seal is one I've replaced, the lower seal is what was there. I found out the selenium meter wasn't working correctly, it was only working for about a CM of it's circumference so that's why my shots were all over the place. Because it isn't digital a lot of people won't have a f**king clue what a selenium meter is, so here goes... A selenium meter is the cool bobbly looking ring around the lens. It's solar powered, and as the Trip gets more light to the ring around the lens the more a 'needle' slides from left to right. The needle sits 2mm below a sandwich plate. Below that is two notched cams sat next to each other, the first notched cam is for the lower shutter speed, and the second cam is for the higher shutter speed. If the light gets great enough to make the needle move more than half way, it switches shutter speed. As more light enters the selenium meter the needle moves further to the left, and as you depress the shutter action the cam moves up to the needle, sandwiches it in the plate and that's what sets the F stop. Because the cam notches move the shutter arm down as the cam graduates. I took a video which will hopefully show it - It's fascinatingly simple by todays standards, but bloody hell can you imagine that it 1968? Things I like about it, that I've grown to enjoy over the last week. I dropped it, it's got a dent. It still works perfectly. You can see the camera's settings through a mini window in the view finder. I've taken it apart, and fixed it. I didn't even read how to do it online, it's just SO easy to do anything on. I like it, I can see why people still use them today. Yes it costs £3 a film and £5 to develop it, but it's permanent and you get to keep what you've taken. It's not like a digital where you take 5 shots and pick the best, you have to slow down a little and that helps an amateur like me think about what they're taking a picture of.

It was Jesus getting you back for being a grump to me. I told him to do it.