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Favorite singer is complicated. I might choose Paul McCartney, whose singer-songwriter skills have resulted in a lot of my favorite songs. Or I might pick Tyler Joseph, who wrote and sang some songs that are very meaningful to me. Or Robert Plant, whose vocal dynamics I'd like to emulate. Or I could pick some blues or R&B or opera singer whose singing is just downright impressive. Not sure I could choose one.

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Yeah, it's nuanced. I like the female voice, Linda Ronstadt, Patty Griffin, Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Sarah McLachlan, Adele, are the current favorites but the list is endless.

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Judith Durham (of The Seekers), Karen Carpenter, Agnetha Faltskog, Sandie Shaw, Donna Summer are the ones who spring immediately to mind.

What was the last live music concert or event you attended?

1982, Charlie Musselwhite and his band at seattle's central tavern.

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The ONLY concert I've ever attended: T Rex at Belle Vue, Manchester, 16 June 1972.

Have you ever mastered a musical instrument?

nope. mediocre at many instruments but none mastered in this lifetime. so far.

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no, only pianolessons i never enjoyed

*last live, at a friend ofcourse
before that; a paying event, lee perry
situational it was weird: in a caged garage with foreign(coughcough) security

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I got an acoustic guitar for my birthday in the early 1970s, but never made any serious attempt to learn how to play it, something I now regret.

Has your standard of living improved or declined over the past decade?

in the last year or two it has gone up due to acquisition of my civil service and vet's pensions. so far. should be [god-willing] a BIG jump this december when i finally qualify for social security. then i can hopefully really breathe a sigh of relief. hopefully.

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There's been no real change, as I have no serious extravagances in expenditure, and have been able to live quite agreeably on around £600-£700 per month over that period. I inherited just over £100,000 from the death of a parent in 2017, which was obviously a big help, but the expected big rises in inflation over the next few years might cancel out a lot of the benefits. I will qualify for the equivalent of the US Social Security next year, but that's only likely to amount to around £200 per month after tax, as my contributions were restricted to the period 1980-2001.


Do you think the war in Ukraine will be a 'game changer' for the world in terms of economics or geopolitics, or that it will fizzle out (Putin deposed?) and that it'll be business as usual within a year or so?

in the run up to retirement, its lots less, and truckdriver hub gets a bottomline, while the not-so-bad income was due to extra- overtime and such, but retirement is based on the bare income
maybe the separate households getz too expensive soon enough, we'll see that when we get there
(i might need to grow five backbones and armorclothing


oh yeah russia will sell to china or india instead of europe

great politics

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It doesn't matter here.
Unless that gave a cue or an excuse for the Chinese government to invade Taiwan.


What's the most confusing drawing you've drawn?
If you don't draw that much, what's the most confusing writing you've wrote?

Gained Number Post Count (1).
Lose Time (n).

Lose more time here - Updates at least once a week.

a big pole needs a big hole to reach it's goal. a small pole is lost in a big hole and fit only for a small hole which can comfortably enroll only the small pole. the two different types do not fit well together. if you took a poll of the hole and pole, you'd find agreement on the whole, on the virtues of matching the pole with the hole.

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I've done neither, so let's just skip to a question:
Favorite X-Men members and why?

no faves.

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Nightcrawler: He's Catholic!
Storm: I've always thought she was beautiful, and I like her personality.
Most beautiful place you've ever been?