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Tbh, once I replaced the knackered lead my brother gave me with just a cheap Fender lead, the tone is surprisingly clean.

My current rig consists of... This badboy. In fact, mines doesn't even have a headphone jack.

My older brother, who gave up playing a long time ago, has given me his guitar. I can't really play, but I play a little bit of bass, and I know some riffs and chords on guitar. I don't know my way around the neck or the chord/scale shapes but I could tell that the strings were absolutely fucked. Since it's quite a nice guitar (Gibson SG) I decided to have a go at restringing it. I did it myself, and besides some little cuts to my hands it actually turned out fine. I was shocked tbh. I've been messing around on it, just learning some riffs from tabs, and I've worked out how to play the usual major/minor/pentatonic/blues scales along most of the neck. I'm still lost around the middle and upper part of the neck, because to work out which notes I'm playing I basically have to count up from the lowest note. So like if I play fret 9 on the A string I have to think "Ok, this string is A and 9 semitones up from A is a... perfect 6th... so I'm playing an... F#". Which is obviously not as quick a process as I would like. Saxophone is my first instrument, so I find it bizarre to play without knowing which notes I'm playing, and the whole process makes it harder for me just to play without overthinking it.

Beats 8/10 A film about two boys trying to make it to an illegal rave in 1994 West Lothian sounds fairly one-dimensional but its a brilliantly acted and directed film, that straddles the feeling of tragedy and comedy really well.

Senior civil servants are leaking that they think Corbyn is too frail to be PM. The level to which so many of our major political instructions are debasing themselves out of fear of Labour is useful for finding out how deeply entrenched our entire political system and its institutions has become in the narrow political consensus we've lived under since the 1980s, and how desperately we need to break out of that consensus. When people spend decades convincing themselves there is no alternative, anyone who proposes an actual way forward appears either dangerous, or as a lunatic.

I don't get why this guy isn't being called a terrorist? If a Muslim extremist drives a car into a crowd it's instantly and rightly called terrorism but when a white supremacist does it its different? He's a Nazi terrorist, there's tens of thousands more like him out there, and they're the most dangerous group in the West right now.

Almost given myself whiplash today since finding this track. Bass for days.

Yeah im still doing most of my old cardio alongside the strength. I just hit a point where I realised my arms looked weirdly thin and I knew it would just get worse the more weight I lost if I didn't do a little work on them. My body type seems to be quite lanky by nature. Weight gathers mostly in the middle and the limbs stay relatively skinny. My aim is pretty much to keep my weight at a point where any excess around the midriff is minor, and my arms and shoulders look a bit more proportionate. Maybe a wee bit more thighs and arse too. Thicc is in these days, lean into it.

I've managed to lose a bit of weight over the spring. Not sure how much, but just from around the face and ribs etc I can tell. Makes sense since I upped the running and ate better since winter. Also less pints. I could lose a little more flab here and there still but I can live with that, so for first time since high school I've started doing a bit of strength instead of cardio. Just lifts and squats with some light dumbbells and some push-ups, but I feel like there's a slight difference around the arms and shoulders. Not sure if I'd want to sign up at a gym and go further with it. I wouldn't be bothered about building any real muscle, just get a bit more definition.

I think a big part of the problems we have in talking about Brexit, and also just domestic British politics, is that the Conservative Party is , objectively, a far-right English nationalist party. We think we are separate from the issues you see in places like Hungary and Poland, but the thing is that rather than a Fidesz, or a Law and Justice type party coming to power, our traditional governing party has turned into a party analogous to them. And its only strategy for holding onto power is to hide its new, radically reactionary character behind the charade of being the "Conservative" Party. Meanwhile, the pretty run-of-the-mill social-democrat opposition is spun into some kind of totalitarian monster to try and hide its own new radical direction.

Diego Maradona - 8.5/10 Not normally a big sports documentary guy but I had to go see this. The footage and audio they found was incredible, and it pulls together different moments and ideas from his life so well to make you think differently about Maradona, even if you know all about his life already.

I'm in the weird position where I actually do believe that some faction in Iran (not necessarily the leading one) is behind this, but I would be happy to see the world tell America to fuck off, even if they were finally telling the truth.

Started watching BBC's Rome and have taken this out the library to fill out the background.

Robert Peston thinks working class people like Donald Trump. His approval with working class Britons is 16%. I swear to god, our intellectual elite are some of the stupidest, most sheltered and most prejudiced people on this planet. There must be some kind of congenital stupidity with the British upper-class, because you can throw the world's best education at them for centuries and you're still hard pressed to find any of them turn out to be remotely useful.

I'm absolutely supportive of immigration, but to me the troublesome aspect of much of the rationale rough which people justify immigration is that it is based on an economic logic in which continual growth is required. I think we've reached a point in economic history at which highly developed countries should cease to seek economic growth as a goal in itself. There is enough wealth overall. Our economic problems are no longer to do with the amount of wealth, but with allocation and distribution. Obviously, the problem is that capitalism is founded on a need for profits to grow which presupposes a growth-oriented model. But even if we even want to maintain our current level, immigration would still be economically valuable, with an overall ageing population, not to mention the tendency for immigrants to help lessen particularly acute labour shortages such as in healthcare. And finally of course immigration has social and moral justifications which go beyond economic quantification.

No idea how I've went the last few years without hearing about a band with a name like this, that makes music like this.

Good to see it's confirmed that Joshua is a fraud propelled to stardom by an extremely carefully curated career with more focus on media and marketing than the sport itself. I always thought it would all fall apart when he was eventually forced to take a tough fight, turns out it's fallen apart even in a typically rigged match-up.

Bitter, mentally limited people have been complaining about London being corrupted by foreigners since at least the 12th century. It's just funny that even today, people are still choosing to say such nonsense and add themselves to that group. Edit: he's even got his facts completely wrong. Edinburgh and Glasgow definitely were more pro-Remain than London. The old English bigot probably doesn't consider Glasgow and Edinburgh to count, to be fair to him, but there are for sure some English cities which were more pro-EU.

I found myself watching some lectures by the author on YouTube so I figured I'd give one of his books a look. Fairly interesting concept so far.

So the two biggest political groupings in the country right now are viciously pro-austerity Remainers, and No Deal supporters. At least we've found one unifying issue for the country: 80% of the country is in agreement that the disabled and mentally ill need to keep being driven to their deaths. Encouraging stuff.

I'll be curious to see if Keita starts next season as a mainstay. Robertson had a similar process of being warmed in during his first season and he's never looked back from there.

Farage has blacklisted Channel 4 from his events for its investigations into his finances. Wow I'm so happy Farage is here to fight our PC anti-free speech culture.

I think City draw some kind of residual meaning and identity from Liverpool, even if it is only by playing the villain to them.