ASK Shellshocker

Two questions for Rocket Mick:

Why do left and right get switched about in a mirror, but up and down stay the same?

and

How does one effect a pick slide on an electric guitar?

Prompt answers please - I am on stage in half an hour!

On an electric guitar you need a gadget called appropriately enough a slide..... however if you want to show off you can use the following items......

A chunky metal ring

A bottle neck(ensure it has been ground down well)

A coin of some description( this tends to make a god awful sound so is best suited to thrash metal or punk bands.)

A zippo lighter(classic and amazing as the guy was so wasted he couldn't stand up but still belted out a fair tune.)

The mirror thing I dunno(but look forward to finding out.)

Thanks Minx, but I don't want to know how to play slide guitar. I want to do that cool thing that Barney does from time to time where he slides his pick down the E string of the guitar and it sounds cool.

The new boy tried it at Glastonbury and he fucked it up.

I want to get it right first time when the Aberdeen order are round for the footie next week

Does Bernard use metal picks?????

My question is:

WHY is MICK so damned COOL?

A Diamond a Dozen wrote: Two questions for Rocket Mick:

Why do left and right get switched about in a mirror, but up and down stay the same?

Prompt answers please - I am on stage in half an hour!

I don't know if this will help, but... The reason why letters look reversed in a mirror is because you are presenting them to the mirror reversed. The reason why someone coming toward you can read the message on your T-shirt is because the letters on your T-shirt are reversed (from your perspective) when you wear it. If you printed the words on the T-shirt so that you could read them (from the inside of the shirt), the words would look reversed to an approaching person but they would look great in a mirror.

I think I've just fallen in love with Shellshocker!

That's beautiful.

EDIT: You deleted some of it! It was great how it was!

It's still fantastic though

Minx wrote: Does Bernard use metal picks?????

No. Not sure how hard they are, but they're certainly plakky. Someone must have one that he's lobbed into the crowd at a gig.

Do you think it matters how hard it is?

I only have soft ones here.

A Diamond a Dozen wrote: I think I've just fallen in love with Shellshocker!

That's beautiful.

EDIT: You deleted some of it! It was great how it was!

It's still fantastic though

Thanks. :) I didn't want to mess with peoples' heads too much with the long winded explanation though. You must have read it very quickly to catch that!!

Explained in a way EVEN I can understand. Thanking you.

A Diamond a Dozen wrote:

Minx wrote: Does Bernard use metal picks?????

No. Not sure how hard they are, but they're certainly plakky. Someone must have one that he's lobbed into the crowd at a gig.

Do you think it matters how hard it is?

I only have soft ones here.

Well I could be wrong on this one, but I thought only metal or glass would work as a slide on an electric guitar... perhaps if it is only for one note in one direction it doesn't, but your plectrum would definitely get fucked so have another one handy...

Shellshocker wrote:

I didn't want to mess with peoples' heads too much with the long winded explanation though. You must have read it very quickly to catch that!!

Catch it????? I even tried it......PROOF

and it's the webcam in the mirror

He slides the pick in his picking finger along the string in from the bottom towards the top nut. The result is a note that starts high and falls towards the open note.

He normally does it on Temptation.

Plain Lazy wrote:

Shellshocker wrote:

I didn't want to mess with peoples' heads too much with the long winded explanation though. You must have read it very quickly to catch that!!

Catch it????? I even tried it......PROOF

and it's the webcam in the mirror

Do we look in the photos normally just like other people see us but different than in the mirror, or is it I don't even know what I look like?

Plain Lazy wrote: Do we look in the photos normally just like other people see us but different than in the mirror, or is it I don't even know what I look like?

You don't know what you look like, since you're used to looking at yourself "backwards" relative to how other people see you. I like to think I'm much better looking from other peoples' perspectives. :)

RE: Bernard's slide technique....

I shall have to investigate on my dvds... usually I'm not watching his fingers....lol

I've always thought of him as more of a singer than guitarist....

(cue a big debate and cheeky comments.)

Who? Rocket or Col?

Hey - less of the baldy!

Might be, not sure. Had decided no, but now might have decided to think about changing my mind. Again.

Minx, you can hear what I'm on about HERE. Sadly (or maybe not) he's got his back to the camera.

He always does a pickslide there though - you can see it clearly on one of the DVDs.

If anyone's got a copy of that Jools Holland appearance from last June, Barney pulls it off lovely and Cunningham fucks it up.

And Shug - fuck off!

Shellshocker wrote:

Plain Lazy wrote: Do we look in the photos normally just like other people see us but different than in the mirror, or is it I don't even know what I look like?

You don't know what you look like, since you're used to looking at yourself "backwards" relative to how other people see you. I like to think I'm much better looking from other peoples' perspectives. :)

I understood the t shirt bit ,Shellshocker.But i got a bit lost with Maya's webcam experiment

Um, and you know what you look like from photographs ,surely?

Although even then you are still seeing yourself differently from how the rest of the world sees you,apparantly.Although they reckon in the minute you die one of the things you realise is how the rest of the human race has been seeing you all your life.Or something

I have no reflection in a mirror :\ohwell:

who will win the world cup?

NOOLigan wrote: who will win the world cup?

GHANA.Or Germany

Shug wrote:

[magenta]Missy Jem[/magenta] wrote: I have no reflection in a mirror :\ohwell:

Give it a clean. It's part of yer duties as a bird

Remind me to have a word with your Mrs next time we meet, i think she might have something to say about that!!

Flaming June wrote:

Shellshocker wrote:

Plain Lazy wrote: Do we look in the photos normally just like other people see us but different than in the mirror, or is it I don't even know what I look like?

You don't know what you look like, since you're used to looking at yourself "backwards" relative to how other people see you. I like to think I'm much better looking from other peoples' perspectives. :)

I understood the t shirt bit ,Shellshocker.But i got a bit lost with Maya's webcam experiment

Um, and you know what you look like from photographs ,surely?

Although even then you are still seeing yourself differently from how the rest of the world sees you,apparantly.Although they reckon in the minute you die one of the things you realise is how the rest of the human race has been seeing you all your life.Or something

First, yeah, you do know what you look like from photographs, which is why most people are never happy with their photos. They're used to seeing themselves in a mirror.

OK, here is the rest of what I had before, which I had gotten rid of cos I figured it was a bit too wordy. Anyway, by popoular demand: One way to start to get a handle on this is to take a piece of paper with your name written on it. Look at it in the mirror and it will be reversed. Now turn it vertically. You will find that the lettering is reversed, but it is not upside down. That should start to give you a clue as to what is going on. Now take your finger and point to the first letter in your name, both on the paper and on the mirror. Notice that there is a one-to-one correspondence -- if the letter appears on the left hand side of the paper from your perspective, it appears on the left hand side of the mirror.

Take a piece of thin, translucent paper and write your name on it. Stand in front of a mirror and hold the paper up so that you can read the paper normally. Now look in the mirror. You are seeing the back of the translucent sheet in the mirror, and the word is not reversed -- it looks completely normal. Now turn the paper over and look at it in the mirror. It is reversed, but so are the letters on the back of the translucent sheet. Note that you turned the paper over -- you reversed it!

Now get out your webcam and get to it! :)

How dare you insult the CHORLEY ORACLES intelect with such daft questions.

Mick - Why are Blackcurrent flavoured lemsips NOT called Blacksips ?

will i ever find true love?

Kind of on the mirror topic.....

Why is it that when some women look in the mirror they see a reflection of themselves from 10-15 years ago??? Is it an eyesight thing???

Mutton dressed as lamb scares the heck out of me,

So much so that I have asked some of my most brutally honest friends to do a mutton check on whatever I'm wearing when I go out; In case I have scummed to the freaky place where I can no longer tell.

Can any one explain this to me?

Flaming June wrote:

NOOLigan wrote: who will win the world cup?

GHANA.Or Germany

I hope Ghana do win! It'll make the US look slightly better. :\ohwell:

Minx wrote:

Kind of on the mirror topic.....

Why is it that when some women look in the mirror they see a reflection of themselves from 10-15 years ago??? Is it an eyesight thing???

Mutton dressed as lamb scares the heck out of me,

So much so that I have asked some of my most brutally honest friends to do a mutton check on whatever I'm wearing when I go out; In case I have scummed to the freaky place where I can no longer tell.

Can any one explain this to me?

Do you have one of those funhouse mirrors?

Shellshocker wrote:

Minx wrote:

Kind of on the mirror topic.....

Why is it that when some women look in the mirror they see a reflection of themselves from 10-15 years ago??? Is it an eyesight thing???

Mutton dressed as lamb scares the heck out of me,

So much so that I have asked some of my most brutally honest friends to do a mutton check on whatever I'm wearing when I go out; In case I have scummed to the freaky place where I can no longer tell.

Can any one explain this to me?

Do you have one of those funhouse mirrors?

Nope do you think that when women get to a certain age that's what they do....run out to buy fun house mirrors That could explain it I suppose

Minx wrote:

Shellshocker wrote:

Minx wrote:

Kind of on the mirror topic.....

Why is it that when some women look in the mirror they see a reflection of themselves from 10-15 years ago??? Is it an eyesight thing???

Mutton dressed as lamb scares the heck out of me,

So much so that I have asked some of my most brutally honest friends to do a mutton check on whatever I'm wearing when I go out; In case I have scummed to the freaky place where I can no longer tell.

Can any one explain this to me?

Do you have one of those funhouse mirrors?

Nope do you think that when women get to a certain age that's what they do....run out to buy fun house mirrors That could explain it I suppose

If you do, just make sure you get the concave kind, not the convex, and you shall always be happy when looking in the mirror. :)

Shellshocker wrote:

Minx wrote:

Shellshocker wrote:

Minx wrote:

Kind of on the mirror topic.....

Why is it that when some women look in the mirror they see a reflection of themselves from 10-15 years ago??? Is it an eyesight thing???

Mutton dressed as lamb scares the heck out of me,

So much so that I have asked some of my most brutally honest friends to do a mutton check on whatever I'm wearing when I go out; In case I have scummed to the freaky place where I can no longer tell.

Can any one explain this to me?

Do you have one of those funhouse mirrors?

Nope do you think that when women get to a certain age that's what they do....run out to buy fun house mirrors That could explain it I suppose

If you do, just make sure you get the concave kind, not the convex, and you shall always be happy when looking in the mirror. :)

This thread should be renamed ask Shellshocker!!!!

Will nooligan ever find true love?

Minx wrote:

Shellshocker wrote:

Minx wrote:

Shellshocker wrote:

Minx wrote:

Kind of on the mirror topic.....

Why is it that when some women look in the mirror they see a reflection of themselves from 10-15 years ago??? Is it an eyesight thing???

Mutton dressed as lamb scares the heck out of me,

So much so that I have asked some of my most brutally honest friends to do a mutton check on whatever I'm wearing when I go out; In case I have scummed to the freaky place where I can no longer tell.

Can any one explain this to me?

Do you have one of those funhouse mirrors?

Nope do you think that when women get to a certain age that's what they do....run out to buy fun house mirrors That could explain it I suppose

If you do, just make sure you get the concave kind, not the convex, and you shall always be happy when looking in the mirror. :)

This thread should be renamed ask Shellshocker!!!!

Will nooligan ever find true love?

Maybe I can make a few extra bucks as a syndicated columnist. As far as I know, there is no requirement to actually know what you're talking about for that job!

Why does my chewing gum lose it's flavour on the bedpost overnight... And I'm gonna ask this one to... number 3 - Shellshocker...

SHEDi xxx

Leave Me A Gnome wrote: Why does my chewing gum lose it's flavour on the bedpost overnight... And I'm gonna ask this one to... number 3 - Shellshocker...

SHEDi xxx

Cue cilla black Do do ..do do..de do de do de do.

Minx wrote: This thread should be renamed ask Shellshocker!!!!

Will nooligan ever find true love?

Or will the police catch him first?

SHEDi xxx

I approve of the name change especially since that bitch MICK never showed.

Shellshocker: How do magnets work!?

Leave Me A Gnome wrote:

Minx wrote: This thread should be renamed ask Shellshocker!!!!

Will nooligan ever find true love?

Or will the police catch him first?

SHEDi xxx

easy there. nothing proven in over 15 years.

Leave Me A Gnome wrote: Why does my chewing gum lose it's flavour on the bedpost overnight... And I'm gonna ask this one to... number 3 - Shellshocker...

SHEDi xxx

Because the monsters hiding under your bed secretly replace your gum with their boogers, which happen to look and taste exactly like used chewing gum.

Shellshocker must answer the SACRED question in order to prove himself worthy of this honour.

SHELLSHOCKER:

HOW MANY CALORIES ARE THERE IN A PICKLED ONION?

Only the first answer will be accepted and NO CLUES!!!

ChrissMari wrote:

Shellshocker: How do magnets work!?

The short answer is that in most atoms, there are an equal number of electrons spinning in opposite directions, thus their charges cancel out. In magnetic materials, hoewever, there are more electrons spinning in one direction than in the other, which results in a net magnetic field in one direction or another. The more atoms you have with an electron spinning imbalance, the more stongly magnetic the material is.

A Diamond a Dozen wrote: Shellshocker must answer the SACRED question in order to prove himself worthy of this honour.

SHELLSHOCKER:

HOW MANY CALORIES ARE THERE IN A PICKLED ONION?

Only the first answer will be accepted and NO CLUES!!!

OOOh i know, i know. Pick me Sir...

[magenta]Missy Jem[/magenta] wrote:

A Diamond a Dozen wrote: Shellshocker must answer the SACRED question in order to prove himself worthy of this honour.

SHELLSHOCKER:

HOW MANY CALORIES ARE THERE IN A PICKLED ONION?

Only the first answer will be accepted and NO CLUES!!!

OOOh i know, i know. Pick me Sir...

And what is the cause of BAD breath?

You boys have had it now. Rocket's in da house.

[magenta]Missy Jem[/magenta] wrote:

A Diamond a Dozen wrote: Shellshocker must answer the SACRED question in order to prove himself worthy of this honour.

SHELLSHOCKER:

HOW MANY CALORIES ARE THERE IN A PICKLED ONION?

Only the first answer will be accepted and NO CLUES!!!

OOOh i know, i know. Pick me Sir...

Er...um..is this a trick question? Depends on the size of the onions. I'll go with 46 calories, though. What do you say, Missy Jem?

Screw you guys.

ASK MISSY

It's 11 calories.

I THINK this is a GOOD idea.Cos no one EVER understood my ANSWERS.Least of ALL me.And CHORLEY DON'T SURF the internet for answers.It is KNOWN or NOT KNOWN!

[magenta]Missy Jem[/magenta] wrote: Screw you guys.

ASK MISSY

It's 11 calories.

And 12 if you like a BIG one!

SHED wrote:

[magenta]Missy Jem[/magenta] wrote:

A Diamond a Dozen wrote: Shellshocker must answer the SACRED question in order to prove himself worthy of this honour.

SHELLSHOCKER:

HOW MANY CALORIES ARE THERE IN A PICKLED ONION?

Only the first answer will be accepted and NO CLUES!!!

OOOh i know, i know. Pick me Sir...

And what is the cause of BAD breath?

MICK!

ChrissMari wrote:

SHED wrote:

[magenta]Missy Jem[/magenta] wrote:

A Diamond a Dozen wrote: Shellshocker must answer the SACRED question in order to prove himself worthy of this honour.

SHELLSHOCKER:

HOW MANY CALORIES ARE THERE IN A PICKLED ONION?

Only the first answer will be accepted and NO CLUES!!!

OOOh i know, i know. Pick me Sir...

And what is the cause of BAD breath?

MICK!

That's ROCKET to my friends........you can call me ROCKET!

13, you fools

ASK THE CHORLEY ORACLE

Shellshocker wrote:

[magenta]Missy Jem[/magenta] wrote:

A Diamond a Dozen wrote: Shellshocker must answer the SACRED question in order to prove himself worthy of this honour.

SHELLSHOCKER:

HOW MANY CALORIES ARE THERE IN A PICKLED ONION?

Only the first answer will be accepted and NO CLUES!!!

OOOh i know, i know. Pick me Sir...

Er...um..is this a trick question? Depends on the size of the onions. I'll go with 46 calories, though. What do you say, Missy Jem?

46??

They're like 5 calories each. Tiny little things.

Al Jarvis wrote:

SHED wrote:

[magenta]Missy Jem[/magenta] wrote: Screw you guys.

ASK MISSY

It's 11 calories.

And 12 if you like a BIG one!

4 for silverskins surely? They're tiny.

ASK SHUG

SHUG the GREEN ONION

Al Jarvis wrote:

SHED wrote:

[magenta]Missy Jem[/magenta] wrote: Screw you guys.

ASK MISSY

It's 11 calories.

And 12 if you like a BIG one!

4 for silverskins surely? They're tiny.

Google reveals the answer to be 4 :D http://www.weightlossforall.com/calories-salad.htm you win

Will you all stop debating please. My word is final.

11 Calories.

Next question please...

[magenta]Missy Jem[/magenta] wrote: Will you all stop debating please. My word is final.

11 Calories.

Next question please...

Yeah, no mass-debating on NOOL please...

SHEDi xxx

Hey, what can I say? I have big onions.

Shellshocker wrote: Hey, what can I say? I have big onions.

Make ALL the girls CRY?

...and Victoria Beckham has BUNIONS.

[magenta]Missy Jem[/magenta] wrote: ...and Victoria Beckham has BUNIONS.

I didn't know she'd dropped another sprog...

SHEDi xxx

It was never called Ask Mike - Mike knows nothing.

Rocket Mick is the Chorley Oracle

EDIT: But you've obviously realised that and deleted your post

Have you done your homework yet?

A Diamond a Dozen wrote: It was never called Ask Mike - Mike knows nothing.

Rocket Mick is the Chorley Oracle

EDIT: But you've obviously realised that and deleted your post

Have you done your homework yet?

Damn you caught me....lol

Me I'm so blond I know nothing..... Will ask my fella about the pick slide when he gets here in an hour or so He's the guitar expert...I'm more a guitarists expert/groupie/roadie I know a fair bit from all the years of listening to them but not enough to help here.

Shellshocker wrote:

Plain Lazy wrote: Do we look in the photos normally just like other people see us but different than in the mirror, or is it I don't even know what I look like?

You don't know what you look like, since you're used to looking at yourself "backwards" relative to how other people see you. I like to think I'm much better looking from other peoples' perspectives. :)

Sorry to drag up this old post, but it reminded me, I have never seen myself. if I take my glasses off and look in the mirror, either the image is a blur, or if I strain to focus, I turn my eye in like a spastic.

(by the by, i will never forget the first time I seen a video of myself playing in a band, and seen my own arse on video for the first time..."explains a lot" I thought)

Ask MISSY eh?

The bendy bit half way down your arm, is your.... A. Arse B. Elbow

Oh you are all wrong, or blind...it's KILOcalories.

So 11 wouldin fact be 11,000

(and yes, I do point that out to food neurotics all the time...."hey there's 25000 calories in that" )

Doctor? wrote:

Shellshocker wrote:

Plain Lazy wrote: Do we look in the photos normally just like other people see us but different than in the mirror, or is it I don't even know what I look like?

You don't know what you look like, since you're used to looking at yourself "backwards" relative to how other people see you. I like to think I'm much better looking from other peoples' perspectives. :)

Sorry to drag up this old post, but it reminded me, I have never seen myself. if I take my glasses off and look in the mirror, either the image is a blur, or if I strain to focus, I turn my eye in like a spastic.

(by the by, i will never forget the first time I seen a video of myself playing in a band, and seen my own arse on video for the first time..."explains a lot" I thought)

Since you've never seen yourself in the mirror, you must be happy with your photos then!

Doctor? wrote: Ask MISSY eh?

The bendy bit half way down your arm, is your.... A. Arse B. Elbow

Oh you are all wrong, or blind...it's KILOcalories.

So 11 wouldin fact be 11,000

(and yes, I do point that out to food neurotics all the time...."hey there's 25000 calories in that" )

True, but if you told people an onion had 11,000 calories, everyone would be starving themselves!

Shellshocker wrote:

Since you've never seen yourself in the mirror, you must be happy with your photos then!

you think i have ever let someone take a picture of me with my goggles off? LOL no way :D

A Diamond a Dozen wrote: He slides the pick in his picking finger along the string in from the bottom towards the top nut. The result is a note that starts high and falls towards the open note.

He normally does it on Temptation.

do you need to know how barney does that specific pick slide or some thing more general cos i don't think my fella is up for me drooling over barney in order to do research....happy to help if it's more general though. get back to me asap cos we are heading out later. hugs minx