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Mike wrote:

lamp wrote:

euan wrote:Did anyone see the guy on eBay who got a AD140 and PPC412 cab for £515?

Yeah unbelievable. Worth the trip to Portsmouth!

I might be able to kill him. Where in Portsmouth?

Dunno - but that's where the pickup was from...some lucky beggar got a hell of a deal.

lamp wrote:

euan wrote:Did anyone see the guy on eBay who got a AD140 and PPC412 cab for £515?

Yeah unbelievable. Worth the trip to Portsmouth!

As a former resident, I can confirm that nothing on God's green earth is worth the trip to Portsmouth.

*gets beaten up by sailors, then gets beaten up by locals, then gets mistaken for a paediatrician and beaten up by mouthbreathers, makes good his escape in Henry VIII's flagship, only to sink just off the coast*

I went to a gig in Pompey a few years back and literally 5 seconds after I got out of the car, a dude asked me if I was selling pot. Love that place.

I went to University in Southampton. Everyone there hates Pompey, as if Soton is a nice place to be.

Mike wrote:I went to University in Southampton. Everyone there hates Pompey, as if Soton is a nice place to be.

I went to Uni in Pompey - I am the yang to your ying (except obviously not as clever, as So'ton Uni > Pompey Uni). Went to see Leftfield play at So'ton town hall thing, and the sound system was SO loud and great we at one stage stood watching cracks move across the ceiling...

Sounds like a charming place!

benecol wrote:

Mike wrote:I went to University in Southampton. Everyone there hates Pompey, as if Soton is a nice place to be.

I went to Uni in Pompey - I am the yang to your ying (except obviously not as clever, as So'ton Uni > Pompey Uni). Went to see Leftfield play at So'ton town hall thing, and the sound system was SO loud and great we at one stage stood watching cracks move across the ceiling...

The Civic Centre or the Guild Hall? I saw Idlewild at the latter and it was Amazing. I've never screamed the word "Shapes" as loud before or since.

Southampton is just "meh". Too small for it's city status, too big to walk everywhere, so you're forced onto the arcane bus system to have chips thrown at you by the indigineous runt-child-bint population or if you're really lucky, bus ticket spat into your face because you're "Feckin' Garguss". The mating rituals are primitive.

Unfortunately because of it's coastal position (without the benefit of a beach, where one should be is concrete sloping into the briny depths) there is often a bracing coastal wind which when combined with the heavy rainfall can result in "Southampton Rain" or "Horizontal Rain", which can land you turning up to the pub completely sodden on your front half and bone dry at your rear.. normally resulting in the following exchange:

"Mike you look like a fucking Double Decker Bar"
"Fucking' Southamption Rain. I hate this cunting town"

lamp wrote:Sounds like a charming place!

Funnily enough, I was raised in Exeter, and still think of it as where I'm from. This is getting a bit weird now, like I'm Keyser Soze and SS.org is the pinboard in the police station...

Mike wrote:The Civic Centre or the Guild Hall?

'Twas the Guildhall - great great gig - you could lean in to the speakers and the bass would pummel you back upright again. At one stage it was so loud and at a certain frequency that my nostrils started flapping like little wings. Which probably wasn't what Hendrix was writing about, on reflection.
I hear you on the windiness - I was once cycling across Southsea seafront on a racing bike going a fair old lick, when a gust of wind not only stopped me dead, but actually immediately started blowing me backwards. I'm 6'4".
The day I moved to Pompey, a pigeon flew straight into my face in the middle of Southsea shopping centre, much to the amusement of everybody. It only got worse from there.

ROLF.

We're not off a good start are we, you and I?

benecol wrote:

lamp wrote:Sounds like a charming place!

Funnily enough, I was raised in Exeter, and still think of it as where I'm from. This is getting a bit weird now, like I'm Keyser Soze and SS.org is the pinboard in the police station...

lol

I was seriously hoping this threas was about Orange producing a bra-theramin.