Recent content by TheoGB

Pedantically I would refer to an acoustic guitar that has a guitar jack output as an 'electro-acoustic'. An acoustic electric might suggest an electric guitar with f-holes and a semi-acoustic body such as a Gibson ES-335. I have an acoustic of the curved back variety and it does slide away. I...

Mmm. I so want to see that re-cut. This thread is very old yet very welcome. I've posted on it a couple of times.

I'm glad you cleared that up for me as I was thinking it was some sort of US slang. :b

Would that be "potting the brown"?

I just can't help thinking of the infamous 'Stone Henge' sequence in This Is Spinal Tap. The fact that we're talking about Iron Maiden is just the icing on the cake... :D :D :D

Ah well. Metric rules anyway. We'll drag the USA kicking and screaming into line one way or another! ;)

Complaint is the human condition, though...

Hmm. I believe there's actually a difference between Imperial ounces and US "British" ounces, isn't there? Or is it fluid ounces? I had a feeling that a pound or a pint in one place is 12 vs. 16 or something like that...

I presumed ChristopherDAC meant that if one never had sex with virgins then you are eventually condemning the population to die out. It's a pretty weird rule...

£7.99 would be cheap for a UK album (assuming it wasn't an ancient one) on CD so I'm guessing this is a special single? Yeah, the value of the dollar means importing from you guys is quite fun at the moment. One thing - you might want to find out about VAT? If it's added to the item you...

As far as I know, "cups" are a uniquely US invention and it's only by luck that mum has some so that we can use her US cookbook. In general cookbooks from the UK will have things in both metric and Imperial systems and yes, tablespoons, teaspoons and the like are in use. One teaspoon is 5mls...

You know I was going to do this and in the end I bought a Sony T1 VAIO ultra-portable notebook direct from the factory outlet (£1000 including VAT so should be WAY cheaper stateside). There are a couple of these tiny widescreen laptops around now - Fujitsu do one. Clearly it's not always...

Hmm, well unless you're using older versions of Word and Windows, 256 isn't really a lot of RAM. Still, I don't remember ever getting such messages on my old PIII 800 win98SE system with that amount. Are you using Win ME by any chance? That definitely had 'memory leak' problems. If you're...

Cheers, though while I do indeed reside in Great Britain, my name's Theo Graham-Brown, whichh is what the GB part stands for. ;)