Mark W

Saying that though, Chav'ism isn't relegated to purely "lower"/"working" class people. I know plenty of people round here who have well-to-do parents, who are given all that they want and are still chav, rude little bastards who just go round punching people. I know plenty of people here who live in your average sorta two-parent household who are again chav wankers. It has as much to do with a child's decisions as just their parents. Someone I'm friends with here has a Mum who does her best for him and helps him all the time (Be it money, taking him places, buying him stuff, whatever) and he's had a very safe, stable upbringing, and he's just being a complete dickhead a lot of the time now. Equally, most chav scum are around adolescent age, so they're going to be doing the whole "rebellious" thing. Also, the media is now perpetrating that it's OK or 'cool' to be chav. Plus the fact the judicial system is stacked in favour of whoever is the person being accused of assault/whatever means that it's free reign for them. I'm in upper sixth form at our high school, and the year sevens are waaaaaaaaaaaaaay ruder than we ever were (that's not just me saying that - it's parents, teachers, other pupils, etc.), and they're just little shits, yet I doubt that in 6 years, parents in the same area are going to have become a hell of a lot worse at doing their jobs? I think that although a bad background doesn't help, people still have a choice. We could talk for days on here, making up stereotypical case-study-style things on people's lives, but at the end of the day, it's all meaningless. We all choose what we want to do. People who have shitty backgrounds can go on to do really well, it's all whether you choose to or not. The choice can be loaded to one side more than the other, but it really, really pisses me off when my friend's just been kicked in and the school say "Oh, but look, he's from a single-parent family" - so f**king what? My Mum and Dad divorced in 1996. I don't go round punching people in the face. We're not super well off or anything. My Mum's a teacher, and also works part time in a call centre. We get by. I wouldn't say we were middle class, but I wouldn't say we were council-estate-chav-stylee class or whatever. It's just f**king annoying when people try to defend the behaviour of the pieces of crap who go around causing trouble and explain it all away with "But look at his background". Some kid here's been sent to prison for the second time recently for trying to cut someone open with a meat cleaver in a busy pub. Every time he's about to go to court, he has a social worker speak to him, and he cries and blames it on his parents. Having spoken to his friends, this is all a front. His parents did split up and so on, but he knows how to play the system. He's not even all that intelligent, it's just that people all have a survival instinct so if they find a loophole to get out of trouble for something they'll exploit it. Mark.

Right. Chavs/Townies/whatever are in every town. They're shit everywhere. Whatever bad experiences you've had, we've probably all had pretty similar ones. Therefore, you don't need to post about townie scum and how gay they are or however you want to phrase it, unless it's genuinely funny and/or interesting (that doesn't mean the punchline is "And then I said f**k off."). There are quite a few threads about chav/police related matters in NMC all the time, and there are generally a few on here, and it'd just be way better to not have to have them here. Mark.

Odyssey Slic Cable if you can be bothered. Longer, cheaper Clarks cable like me if you can't.

So how come the old 221 frame cost £530, and now the full bike costs just over £100 more? Seems a little strange :wub: There've been cuts in the frame somewhere? Or is this a new bike and Monty have given it an established name to help it sell well... Either way, thanks for the info (Y) We could really do with a 'pondering' smilie :( Mark.

Going nowhere.

SuperCycles 0115 941 11 33. They are Onza, so if you want an Onza product, they'll have it.

No, I think you just need to: a) Read the Section7 interview with the Coustellier's Dad, and b ) Realise that it was edited, and some of it may have been lost in translation. The BikeShow wasn't 'cos we're xenophobic, hence the riders from around the world. Seemed to be more a company politics sorta thing. Of course, putting the worlds best riders on your billing can't hurt attendance figures, even if they don't turn up in the end... Oh, and Raub - by ";)\" and quoting our posts, I meant it meant the same thing, and people seemed to be ignoring the fact that was contained within 'em.

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Nah, his Dad said that in fairness, and from what I've heard it was a bit...misquoted, I guess you could say... Maybe the natural's just not good enough here for him or summat. What's street like in Newcastle anyway? Hold up - why do I even care? ;) HOLD ON Where does it even say that Gilles has no-one to ride with 'cos there's no-one as good as him? It just says that he's moving to a different country and has no-one to ride with. That's probably because of the whole "new to the city, new to the country" thing he'll have going on?

Living in France, a shit's throw from amazing places to ride, with your family and friends - to Newcastle?

Basically, this is going nowhere. Tom. You've ridden these pads for less than 3 or 4 hours. We don't care. Review them when you've had them for a decent length of time. Equally, review them in the RimJam thread. READ THE NEW STICKY IN THE TRIALS CHAT HOME-PAGE OR I'LL COME TO YOUR HOUSE AND JAB YOU. Mark. PS. Oh, and if you type like a 'tard don't be surprised when people don't bother reading it.

Right. Not that it's really annoying (well, yeah, it IS), but can you please try and keep pad reviews in ONE thread? There are threads specifically about RimJam pads, Heatsinks and...er..."Tart" pads, so please think about the children and post reviews in there. Please. Someone think of the children. Either way, it's getting out of hand. There are more reviews from people who've just opened envelopes with pads in than are really necessarily. Equally, if people are thinking of buying pads, if all the reviews for a company are in one thread, it's a lot easier. And, again, it's not half as annoying. One last thing - if you're writing a review: 1. If you've only just received the pads and have ridden for less than a day, DON'T click Post Reply. One day of riding means very, very little. 2. If you've only just received the pads, we don't care if there's "No noticeable wear". There won't be. 3. Keep it simple. Pad type. Mod/Stock. Rim type. Rim surface (ground, tar, etc.). 4. Simple review. Good/not so good. Give reasons. So yeah, just to stop people like my good self getting pissed off, follow these rules. M'kay? Mark. Heres the standard review format

Diamond or DW or something maybe?

Well, Cornford's site is Flash-based so no URL image links, but yeah, check out Cornford's site 'cos it's really swish. Our drummer's buying a new kit, can't remember what, but it's setting him back over a grand. Looks truly awesome, all black with non-cheesy flames. Way cool. However, he's only using it in his practise room or in the recording studio, so the world will never know ;) Mark. oooh oooh oooh, and here's my bass that's coming in December. Can't f**kin' wait.

Shitty electronics? I guess it's just that if you're using a really dirty tone unless it's a good quality amp it'll probably have a bit of background noise which'll just get drowned out the louder you go? Speaking of guitar amps - Al's decided he wants another amp to go with his Mesa Boogie Nomad, so he's getting a Cornford Hellcat head. We went and checked one out, and it's the nicest amp I have ever seen. It just looks f**kin' awesome! http://www.cornfordamps.com or something like that. I'll try and get a pic. Mark.

...equally, if you wanna become a session musician you'll need to be able to sight-read. We're going through it in my bass lessons now, and it's not all that bad, it's just a matter of practising. It's still pretty freaking hard, but you get used to it. It's got to the stage now where I can read a sequence and not even have to think about fretting it 'cos I'll just do it, but I can't keep reading across bars at the right speed, for some reason :(

Mainly 'cos if you've learnt an instrument like piano, etc., you'll have been taught the 'classical' way where you get taught not to learn parts but to read them. This means they're more comfortable with the sheet music in front of them. Also, it's super useful. When I went and joined this jazz workshop thing, we had two days to learn 8 songs. I didn't 'learn' them, I just had to sight read them (like grade 8 standard too. we're talking fackin' hard), and it's really useful. And it's also pretty amazing how good some people are at sight-reading :(\ Anyway, yeah, I guess it's just what they're used to... Mark.

If someone adds me to MSN, I'll send 'em the pics and they can try and upload them somewhere. I've got no attachment/gallery space left :( Mark.

Have you ever heard of Dennis Rollins? I did a jazz workshop run by him, he's a freakin' awesome 'freestyle' Trombonist. Check out his site (www.dennisrollins.com) for MP3s, etc.

I didn't realise that was a link and was about to call you amazingly stupid.

There, bastards :- The one I was trying to upload was 4.53Mb big. This is just over 1/3 of the size of the original, which was 1/3 size of the original photos (Y) Anyway, wank away.

Oi, guitarists. This is Alan's new guitar to go with his Jem. This is one seriously f**kin' pimp guitar. Bone inlays around the neck (the creamy white bits you can see). The "Jackson" on the headstock is Mother of pearl. The top of the knobs are mother of pearl too. Gold hardware. through-neck solid mahogany body/neck with a flamed maple cap (the guy who chose the maple top had a choice of 40-45 maple to choose from to put on the top of the body). Custom radius-ed neck so it feels like a Jem. Retail price: £2,300 Alan's "jammy b*****d price": £800 (although he nearly died 'cos of a tard Welsh farmer) What a fanny. Anyway, here are the pics taken just now. Next post down (Y) Made a boob of myself.

Yamaha is the main bass, acoustic needs restringing, I made the one on the right (has signatures from all my friends in my old year 11 class back in the day on the back). The one I made plays really nicely too (Y) The double bass The last pic is my amp, with 4x10 speaker cab. The pedal is the sub-harmonizer and SHAPE footswitch. I've also got a Line6 DL4 which I couldn't find a picture of... Mark. PS. Nice bass Haz!