He's around. Just yesterday he was posting about some woman he met on Facebook.

nobody else here to wanna touch your juicy booty?

I want someone to tell me naughty things about my juicy booty and all the other juicy booties out there that I haven't seen.

Your juicy booty was caught shoplifting candy at the store. Naughty, naughty, naughty.

The things you do to me.

i got an email tonight notifying me of a PM at Paul McCartney's official website. it was Paul himse...no. It was a member of the forum saying "where did you go? You always had such great posts!! Just saw you in a post and realized I haven't seen any of your posts for a while... Cheers!"*
I'd actually been trying to log on but given up because I'd thought that ol' skinflint Macca had put the forum on the premium members only package which is why I couldn't acess it. A/w I googled it and accessed it from there so I'm back on one of my fav forums.

*you can't belive that can you? ha ha ha

I think Paul needs all the fans he can get these days and that includes both you and Derek.

Well I'm at the hospital waiting to be assessed about an incident that happened about a day ago. Really hoping everything is ok, and is not more serious issue. That seizure like episode was quite scary. Still lethargic from it. :/

Hope all goes well!

Pretty drunk right now. It's one of those 'haven't drank all week" drunks, where you end up listening to your own music and saying very retarded sh*t on the internet that almost always has to be redacted the next day. Cheers.

I've been there. Was it the first one you have ever had? It's really rather scary, isn't it? Hopefully they will be able to chalk it up to a one off, it does happen.

Best of luck. Mine started out similarly. Fine for 22 years, then started having seizures out of nowhere. Now I'm termed "epileptic" and take multiple medications daily and am no longer allowed to drive.

there's me as well

Can still taste beer. Or cider or something.

Why do you use quotation marks? I ask cause thats what I would do. I am diagnosed as epileptic and take medication for epilepsy, but really they have diagnosed me as epileptic because they can rule out everything else. Not because they can prove I have it.

No offense to epileptics but the reason that he put quotes around the word is that epilepsy is a word that has been assigned to a condition that doctors simply do not fully understand. Doctors are human and they don't/can't understand every reason why human minds and bodies act the ways they do.

I've had a doctor friend tell me that 2 organs that doctors are, so far, simply incapable of fully understanding are the brain and the stomach. People get the shits (irritable bowel syndrome) for no known reason. And some peoples' brains occasionally freak out and cause seizures. Unless there is a tumor or a drug overdose, they don't know why. But they know it happens so they decided to call it epilepsy.

just had a nap and woke up

sorted a whole lot of mental detritus via vivid dreams

As Engine hinted at, it is because it is such a broad term and overused term. Recurring seizure disorder is also applicable. Epilepsy is far more common than people think, and can be far more rigorous and devastating as well. In history, it has been labeled "The Sacred Disease," as many prophets have been afflicted with it. I used the quotation almost sarcastically, as there is unfortunately a stigma in society about people with epilepsy, and how they may fall over at any second.

Personally I have never experienced any kind of stigma. I understand that it can be difficult to pinpoint epilepsy but I know plenty of people who were tiold in no uncertain terms that they had it, were given medication to treat it and now only have seizures whenever they forget to take it. Thats the kind of clarity I wish I had, where I could feel fully confident in my diagnosis and treatment.

Woke up...got out of bed...dragged a comb across my head... went down stairs and I had a smoke and somebody spoke and I went into a dream......

No actually I got up, made coffee, listened to some Jellyroot on Spotify, walked to the mailbox, grabbed the paper and here I sit on Music Banter.

Yesterday evening was the first 18th birthday party among my friends and to celebrate it I got absolutely smashed with them all. I was so far gone that I willingly danced to Kings Of Leon, something that I'll never live down.

Happy birthday dude. Stretch it as long as possible. :)

Can tell winter's on it's way now. I've got my window open still but it's starting to be noticable that it's getting colder. I'm glad I'm not in that other room with the 2 drafty windows directly across the room from each other with the bed directly in between them anymore. I wonder who is? Oh yes! It's Derek! There's no way that he'll last the winter in that room. Watch this space!! When he goes not only will i have the satisfaction of getting rid of the **** but I'll have the added satisfaction that it was my craftyness in swapping rooms that finally got rid of him. He actually asked me if a draft blew through from those windows in winter and I bull****ted him. At the time were talking about him moving into the 'bigger room' or as I secretly called it the 'colder room'. ha ha ha I wonder why he wanted to move. It was either 'cause of the noise from upstairs flat which isn't noisy but he's a very light sleeper so it might have affected him or the freezer buzzing all day and all night long. A problem I solved by not actually using it. I think it was that 'cause he asked me about it not long after we'd swapped rooms. Also the tap drips in there too! :)

Am I misunderstanding or are you hoping someone dies here?

:laughing:

I wasn't implying that at all just moving house.

Reasons Derek is a dick no.384-Not long after he moved in he went to town and gave some random guys he'd met £70, that's aprox $111, to get him some cocaine. Guess what happened? ha ha ha

F*cking Derek. Always getting into trouble, that guy.

Have fun with that, Moving house is a nightmare. Well it is in the UK... :beer:

So there's this thing going around on Facebook that I've seen before, but decided to participate in. It's one of those math problem pictures that challenges people to solve it. Needless to say, it gets A LOT of replies by the world's geniuses, apparently...

Ultimately, I guess it's a test of whether you know the order of operations or not, and sadly, a depressing number of people have failed. The problem breaks down to, basically, what is 6 + 1, after the multiplication and division has been solved.

But, apparently, a large percentage of grown adults and teenagers alike think you just simply work from left to right. I've never been great at math, but even I remember the order of operations from as long ago as the f*cking early '90s. It's disheartening to know that such basic information about such basic things is something I've apparently been taking for granted all these years...
It's pretty bad when you realize that you get an intelligence buff simply by the baseline sliding into such depths of ignorance.

Well it was a long week as I got settled into my new place, but I'm pretty happy with what I've managed to do so far.

Before:


After:


I've been doing some research into the house and as evidenced by all the graffiti it was a pretty big party/punk house. I found out that my barber has played shows in my room, as well as my friend's little brother. It's practically a heritage house in some circles.

I have that white chair. Great taste. :D

That chair has followed me since 2008 when I moved out on my own for the first time. I've had multiple chances to replace it with a recliner but have declined each time, there's just something about it that makes me want to keep it around.

That's actually pretty awesome-looking.

Remember your BODMAS, Dali.

Brackets, Orders, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction.

Thanks, I'm pretty happy with the cozy feeling it has, while still being pretty big, or at least big enough to have 5 people in it and not feeling like you have to sacrifice your personal space. I wish I had a window though, waking up at 7 am in absolute darkness is just weird, although I am definitely sleeping better.

It's an old house though, and has old house problems, like our bathtub not properly draining despite pouring bleach and draino down it, and then taking apart some of the pipes and poking around for hair clumps.

I don't know why you're telling me. This problem literally just had a multiplication, division, addition and subtraction in it. Doing the multiplication/division first, the rest of the problem should be obvious.

Here's what it was....

6 - 1 x 0 + 2 / 2

So it's 6 - (1 x 0) + (2 / 2) then...
6 - 0 + 1 then...
6 + 1

Which, apparently for a very large amount of people, equals 0, 1, 5, and occasionally, 3.5 and sometimes -6...

Using the standard order of operations, the answer is 7. Obviously, one should not assume that because addition is worded before subtraction in the PEMDAS or BODMAS acronym, that it should be done first before the other in equal rank. Multiplication and division are the same rank, and addition and subtraction are of the same rank. The order of operations dictates left to right when dealing with same ranks, not which operation appears first in the abbreviation.

Therefore, to solve addition before subtraction based on where the letter appears in the PEMDAS or BODMAS acronym is fallacious and can result in an incorrect answer, depending on the setup of the problem.

My new didgeridoo came in today. It's got a beeswax mouthpiece and it's extraordinarily loud. Best ten bucks I've ever spent.

There was a thread similar to this on here before, and it came down to what people were actually taught in school as to what were the correct order of operations (both of which had equally substantial and supportive material and arguments)

Besides BODMAS, there was PEMDAS

Parentheses
Exponents
Multiplication
Division
Addition
Subtraction

Using this method, one would get:

6 - 1 x 0 + 2 / 2

6 - (1 x 0) + 2 / 2 [Multiplication]
= 6 - 0 + (2 / 2) [Division]
= 6 - 0 + 1
= 6 - (0 + 1) [Addition]
= 6 - 1 [Subtraction]
= 5

All the discussions basically amounted to exercises in futility. No agreement could be made on whether once the equation was simplified, if addition always took precedence over subtraction [the AS is PEMDAS], and multiplication over division [the MD in PEMDAS], regardless of their left-to-right order in the equation.

That's pretty wicked. I'd design my own place like that. Somehow looks comfy too.