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  1. #2861
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    In my driving licence picture, I look like those photos you used to see of John McVicar years ago.

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  2. #2862
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    Haha - one of my favourite films! Dunno about that though, you just look a little 'menacing', which is kind of cool. I'd look slightly 'menacing' too, but in the wrong way, if I let the hair that's left grow around the baldy bits! Which is why it's kept super-short!



    Not a good look, so get a bloody haircut, mate!

    Marco.
    He's a boffin. You're allowed to have hair like that if you're a boffin. If you meet someone who claims to be a boffin and they don't have crazy hair that's how you know they're lying.
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  3. #2863
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    Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
    I get it, but I doubt I'd have adopted that look, even had it been in fashion when I was a teenager, as I've always wanted to look young, even when I was young [plus my old man would've kicked my arse for going out looking like Catweazle], and now I'm older, I still like to look as young as possible (and dress that way, too), which is why I don't 'do' beards.

    It's also why I keep my hair (what's left) super-short [much easier looked after that way, too], rather than allow any grey hair that's there to grow and become really obvious, or worse go for the 'Friar Tuck' look!!

    If you want to look as young as possible, when you're in your 50s and over, then stay clean-shaven and keep your hair (if applicable) as short as possible. Quite simply, there's nothing more ageing, aside from a bushy grey beard, as long (dirty and unkept) straggly grey hair, especially with a big bald patch in the middle!

    Marco.
    Nothing wrong with dressing as young as possible, but I think the Pampers 'Pull ups' are going a bit too far.

    I'm sticking with my lady-tickler for the time being - it went past the grey bits stage a few years ago, and now it's completely blond. Mrs. P disagrees about the colour, she thinks it's white, but what do women know about hair colouring?
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  4. #2864
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    He's a boffin. You're allowed to have hair like that if you're a boffin. If you meet someone who claims to be a boffin and they don't have crazy hair that's how you know they're lying.
    Lol, I know. Eggheads is one of my fav programmes!

    However, there are plenty of folks walking around in that state who aren't 'boffins' - and it's just wrong....

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  5. #2865
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    How do you know they are not boffins? They could be building a Mars rover in their garden shed for all you know.
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  6. #2866
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony View Post
    Nothing wrong with dressing as young as possible, but I think the Pampers 'Pull ups' are going a bit too far.

    I'm sticking with my lady-tickler for the time being - it went past the grey bits stage a few years ago, and now it's completely blond. Mrs. P disagrees about the colour, she thinks it's white, but what do women know about hair colouring?
    Ha - where've you been recently, daftee? You've been rather quiet... I thought they'd taken you in early for the op!

    Marco.
    Main System

    Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.

    Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.

    Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.

    CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.

    Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.

    Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.

    Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.

    Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.

    Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.


    Protect your HUMAN RIGHTS and REFUSE ANY *MANDATORY* VACCINE FOR COVID-19!

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  7. #2867
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    They could also be 'wannabe' boffins.
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  8. #2868
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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    In my driving licence picture, I look like those photos you used to see of John McVicar years ago.

    That's a look that improves with distance - I'm glad that distance is 200 miles, otherwise I'd be sleeping with the light on tonight.

    Only kidding Geoff - I bet you were the best looking guy on the 'Manor'. And would look great behind the wheel of a Ford Zephyr.
    I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in

    T/T: Inspire Monarch, X200 tonearm, Ortofon Quintet Blue. Phono: Project Tube Box CD: Marantz CD6006 (UK Edition); Amp: Musical Fidelity A5 Integrated.
    Speakers: Zu Omen Def, REL T9i subwoofer. Cables: Atlas Equator interconnects, Atlas Hyper 3.0 speaker cables

    T'other system:
    Echo Dot, Amptastic Mini One,Arcam A75 integrated, Celestion 5's, BK XLS-200 DF

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  9. #2869
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    How do you know they are not boffins? They could be building a Mars rover in their garden shed for all you know.
    True, lol... It's just not a look I dig. Reminds me of my old chemistry teacher, who looked like that, and also as if he'd been dressed by his mum. Why do 'academics' so often have no fashion sense?

    Marco.
    Main System

    Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & reg mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat/Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight/Isonoe feet & boots/Ortofon RS-212D/Denon DL-103GL in Denon PCL-300 headshell with Funk Firm Houdini/Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.

    Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp/Denon AU-310 SUT.

    Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.

    CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.

    Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new, by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.

    Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. LDR Stereo Coffee. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.

    Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.

    Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.

    Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.


    Protect your HUMAN RIGHTS and REFUSE ANY *MANDATORY* VACCINE FOR COVID-19!

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  10. #2870
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    Quote Originally Posted by Macca View Post
    They could also be 'wannabe' boffins.
    I've never seen Eggheads, so I dunno what a wannabe boffin looks like. Round our way, it's all beards, 'man-buns' and tweed. Which is fair enough. No doubt I looked a right tit in my flared trousers and platform boots.

    Judge for yourselves:

    Last edited by Joe; 25-02-2019 at 21:23.

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