I have to admit, the radio offerings these days are fucking garbage for the most part.
Even kerrang mostly plays crap now. Fingers down throat material like bloody green day, although if you get lucky, some nirvana, deep purple, metallica on radio 1, but I only end up listening to it when I'm in my old man's car, oldschool rock, sabbath if you get really lucky, otherwise its generally a heap of shite on radio 1, but kerrang isn't much better anymore.
As for buying, not quite, chances are I'll either get a refund, or more ideally, get a second battery, but I have two of the same types of E-fag batteries (shut it, I mean fag in the british sense
) and recently got a letter saying there was an urgent recall of some Vype brand batteries, and I already had/have one, that needed the tank replacing, but because it was close to my b/day, got bought a new battery, as the glass was cracked and leaking nicotine, with my having to just regularly wet the wick with fresh e-liquid, turns out, the batteries are liable to explode.
Seems like I can get a replacement or refund though on the specific batch numbers affected, some are prone apparently, being cheap chinese shite (not intended as a racist statement, I've nothing against the chinese, bar the government and some of their industrial practices, like churning out say, fentanyl analogues that are nasty looking even for fentanyl analogues [ACRYLfentanyl...sheesh!) and being probably responsible for my almost being doused in a mixture of boiling (125 'C+) 98% sulfuric acid, chromyl chloride and dichromate, the mixture as a whole being one hell of an oxidizer, carcinogenic and generally nasty shit, almost got the best part of a liter of chromyl chloride, dumped down my nether regions, would have too, after shitty glass failed on me, flask bottom (1L RBF) dropped out, and it was only the rapid reactions, honed over a legion of pyrophoric, toxic, and both- disasters that was my chemistry training as a young'un, with only books to go by. Somewhat of a trial by fire, it thankfully has given me the instincts to move bloody fast when it really counts. Probably saved my life quite a few times, what with the somewhat darwinian entry into the field, with no teacher, damn cheapo chinky glass, that accident was a real bad near miss, would have probably melted me down to the bone had I not had the instincts to run like fuck when it becomes visible all hell is about the break loose. If you buy the glassware from the right sellers, like deschem on ebay, its good, but now and then, you see a bargain and then it goes all to fuck and nearly melts your balls off)
Seems like one of the two E-cig batteries I have, I'll have to send off for a replacement, as one of the model numbers, I got a letter about and it seems they are prone to blowing your head off (it has apparently happened, where the battery has exploded and killed the user. Worse still I can't even reclaim the fucking lithium and use it for a Birch-Benkeser reduction, damn Li-ion polymer batteries. Short changing the customer out of a scrap of lithium metal, how cheapskate can you get....
OK, now I DO have a reason to have grief with the chinks. Li polymer batteries...fuckers. I've been saving up all my damned and damnable Li-based batteries for reclamation of lithium metal (I can buy it in 100g lots easily enough but would rather not spend the money when I can gut a few batteries on a per-use basis, but buggered if I want damn plasticized crap if all is going to go to hell otherwise. I'd sooner have the lithium out of the things for a Birch reduction, dissolved in anhydrous ammonia, but fucking hell...thats just annoying. Now my only option is to send it back for a replacement, given its a Li-ion polymer battery rather than one using Li metal. And right when my supply of lithium is beginning to degrade too. (**** (shit should NOT post after a few G&Ts, almost divulged it's pseudonym on one rather..sensitive forum...) keeps it's under inert gas (argon, since it reacts with nitrogen to form an unstable, possibly explosive nitride, unlike the other alkali metals which need special high-tech methods to produce a nitride at all, Li does with atmospheric N2) and in a tight-sealed container full of a mixture of magnesium dust and anhydrous CaCl2, purged with argon) although its still degrading over a year storage)
But have heard of these Li batteries going apewaste and taking the head off unfortunate users of E-cigs.
As for the coplimentary stuff, I'd they'd swap the fly swatter for some MDphenylacetone or phenylacetone, I'd actually be quite happy with it. Maybe a bottle of spirit to make good use of the citrus fruit, bugger any fancy stuff, just a good brand of gin and some fever tree elderflower tonic, a few (good) cigars, would suit me better than a bunch of bloody flowers or whatever of the like the high-brow types are used to demanding, good enough.
Hell, I'd be happy enough just given nobody poking their nose in the room unless told to come in, a complimentary NBC suit...
But yes, these days, radio music is fucking shite. And worse, they censor anything decent, even on youtube get packs of shitheads like 'vevo' even censor the 'curse words' in songs. Turning plenty of metal to utter crap. At the worst possible times, Otep for example, censoring the word 'faggot' when the lead vocalist is herself, a carpet muncher and makes no bones about it. The track in question isn't homophobic, but this publisher censors anything remotely 'rude', it pretty much ruins metal music, if you censor every possible 'rude' word, then the entire genre goes to shit. (i'm thinking in particular 'rise, rebel, resist' by otep, they censor the line 'I'm with the freaks, the faggots, the geeks, the separatists...') the whole point of the song is a risen fist against such discrimination, yet the dumbfucks censor it anyway. Does my nut right in, when trying to relax, listen to some decent music, and suddenly part of the lyrics are burnt out with static..enough to wake me up with otherwise relaxed and listening to some decent music. Takes me from sleep right to fucked right off in five seconds flat. If I wake up I want to wake up slowly, comfortably rather than be jerked awake due to a burst of static crap intended to cover some 'offensive' word, or have the playlist halted due to same, and be asked to login (when I don't want even to make an account, just to 'prove' I'm 18+, when any fucker with an email address could do the same, and I can't be the hades well arsed to make one.
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