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Marcus is in London at the moment, I believe.

@bulldog Prob best not too. You'd blow a gasket.:)

@Iwar some really nice work. That panther head is something else. Looks like you've had a great trip to the Big Apple.

There were about 4 bands playing that night in my hometown. The Clash, who were headlining were playing across the road in a bigger hall. Anyway a fire broke out in the hall and burnt it down, destroying the place and the Clashs' sound system. A local band, XTC lent the Clash their gear for the night so that their set could go ahead in the smaller club. The opening number was Londons Burning but Joe changed the lyrics to Swindons Burning. Packed in like sardines, sweaty, eardrums getting shattered. Fucking amazing night. Got arrested and charged with criminal damage and theft for pulling down some 25th Jubilee bunting, that year. £25 fine. I think I'll stay in over the 60th Jubilee bank holiday and keep out of trouble.

Came across this website today. It works out how much you get stiffed by the UK taxman. Calculator: how much tax you pay on beer, wine, cigarettes and spirits | This is Money Heres mine and my partners. We don't smoke and we are not heavy drinkers. So spend more of your vice money on tattoos. The taxman might only get 20% of that.

Thats something else.

Love that film.

@RoryQ I bought a couple of bottles from M&S at Paddington Station yesterday for the journey back home. I never noticed the little tab on the neck of the bottle showing it was brewed at the Meantime Brewery. That would explain why it was so good. This was a 500ML bottle though. £2.55 a bottle. I just love porter.

I'm with you on this one @Jack.

The Clash. Saw them in 1977. Electrifying. RIP Joe Strummer.

6X by Wadworths a local brewery in Devizes, about 19 miles from where I live. They've been brewing beer from this brewery since 1875 Tastes better out of a bottle. But this is still good.

Sorry man I'm on 2 weeks vacation.:)

Apart from the National Lottery, no. I work as a fraud analyst in the banking sector. Part of my job entails monitoring visa card spend. The amount of people I see that are caught up in online betting is pretty scary. A never ending financial nightmare of payday loans (at 3000% interest) followed by betting transactions. These people usually end up going into an authorised overdraft situation. To pile on the misery we hit them with bank charges. I also see some customers who are professional gamblers, but these are few and far between. These people do it for a living not to feed an addiction. I don't know much about gambling addiction but I've lived with a alcoholic and it's not fun. Good to hear you got over the worst of it but don't you think what you are doing could eventually get out of control?

Ice cold cider on a typically ice cold English Summers Eve. One of the few places on earth, during summer, where you leave the drink out of the fridge to chill it down. This is really good cider. Medium dry and made from a single apple variety.

Outline done on my rib panel. From Horiyoshi iii book 100 demons. Tattooed by @Stewart Robson at Frith Street today. I'm really over the moon with it.

I give you the original Ronald Macdonald. I know this is a picture thread but. Scary shit...........

How about this little beauty. Got this one from a well known artist. They accidentally caught me with the machine. The artist was absolutely mortified and said they would dig it out, but I wouldn't let them ha ha.

I always do with a "Will you look at that, isn't that disgraceful" or "how can that be hygenic"? comment tagged on for good effect.

Ha ha yeah they do that shoe thing in some bars in Belgium.

I've got one of those glasses. So tell me do you drink holding the glass or do you drink with the glass in the stand holding the handle?

You'll go straight to hell, though, drinking it out of the wrong glass.

Taurus tat gun.

When people speak with an inflection at the end of each sentence. Everything they say sounds like a question. It just makes them sound unsure about everything they are saying. These people even do it when saying their own name FFS. :mad:

What the hell was I babbling on about. The tattoo is on the inside of my shin

Yes, that’s what I was experiencing last night, in bed. Weird.