Bits and Bobs 48

DBSnappa · **Posted:** Thu Jul 20, 2017 20:32

MaliA wrote:

I know a guy who runs a bottle shop and bar. When another opened up on tne same street, his sales increased. This is because people now travel to go to both. It's very counterintuitive.

It's a known business thing. This is why you get "districts" of retail businesses.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Yo, I need a new telly.
Up to 450, ideally around the 40 inch mark. RMD.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

GazChap wrote:

MrChris wrote:

it's also illegal to run a lottery like that...

You're assuming he's unlicensed

a bloke running a games shop via Facebook? I think that was a fair assumption...

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10074

MrChris wrote:

Yo, I need a new telly.
Up to 450, ideally around the 40 inch mark. RMD.

You'll get 2 tellies for that. Buy a 55in one!

devilman · **Posted:** Fri Jul 21, 2017 8:54

Trousers wrote:

oh Bruce.

http://www.bruceonpolitics.com/2017/07/ ... t-britain/

I re-watched 'Conspiracy Theory' last night and that post could easily have been lifted from the plot.

As an aside, Amazon lists Conspiracy Theory as a 'rom com/thriller'. Ok, there are elements of romance, and certainly some funny bits, but I can't imagine watching Mel Gibson having his eyelids taped open and getting tortured would set the right mood on valentine's day. Or maybe it would.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Jul 21, 2017 9:12

MrChris wrote:

Yo, I need a new telly.
Up to 450, ideally around the 40 inch mark. RMD.

https://www.richersounds.com/product/tv ... g-43uh603v

Looks a good bet.

https://www.richersounds.com/product/tv ... tx40dx700b

Really pleased with my Panasonic but this one above is 4k too.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Jul 21, 2017 9:14

Just check on the connections, depends how many devices you'll be having plugged in. Unless you have an HDMI receiver to pass things through. Like me.

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Jul 21, 2017 9:20

In the taxi on the way back to Langdale, the taxi driver was a big scouse guy. Bermuda shorts, shaven head, la coste polo shirt, blue toith ear piece, greek cigarettes and snow white trainers. I liked him from the get go, as a non judgey person I appreciate the local colour. Anyway, we were all chatting about Tom Hanks films and he was trying to remember "The name of the one where Tom Hanks is in law enforcement and there's the autistic kid". Turns out, he meant Mercury Rising, not, as I thought, Toy Story.

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16557

£100 though, how long did it take?

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Jul 21, 2017 9:31

About 45 mins (looking at text message and bar receipt)to get us from Wasdale Inn to Sticklebarn pub (where I got out) over Hardknott and Wrynose and then however long to get to Ambleside to drop the others. Paid a bit of a tourist tax, but over the passes in someone else's car always good.

Bit of a tourist tax, (I've paid £25 each way in the lakes to go 500 yards as the crow flies (2 miles by road) as cab on meter from Penrith.) But decision was "walk extra 5 hkurs around scarfell and back over Bow fell or walk one hour, 4 pints a meal and £25 each home.

Oh, we passed the little railway that made MrsA pregnant which was amusing.

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Jul 21, 2017 9:40

MaliA wrote:

Oh, we passed the little railway that made MrsA pregnant which was amusing.

The little engine that could, eh?

markg · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 16557

You should have just stayed in the pub and sent the one with the greatest chance of survival back over the hill to get the car.

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Kern wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Oh, we passed the little railway that made MrsA pregnant which was amusing.

The little engine that could, eh?

Please please please don't ever stop posting

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Jul 21, 2017 10:08

markg wrote:

You should have just stayed in the pub and sent the one with the greatest chance of survival back over the hill to get the car.

£25 to arrive at Sticklebarn 6 hours earlier better call, mind. The girls in there were beautiful.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Jul 21, 2017 10:27

Have to get Mali and Kern to the next Tinkers meet.

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!

Mali can well get the beers in if he's cool spunking £100 on a taxi.

TheVision · **Posted:** Fri Jul 21, 2017 11:30

Yesterday a woman named Julia emailed me and called me Scott.

Today I've emailed her back and called her Julie.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Jul 21, 2017 11:40

Heh, nice one, Scotty.

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Jul 21, 2017 11:43

Can you just check to make sure you're not in a summer romcom?

Kern · **Posted:** Fri Jul 21, 2017 11:44

Zardoz wrote:

Have to get Mali and Kern to the next Tinkers meet.

Would love to. Perhaps next year?

Zardoz · **Posted:** Fri Jul 21, 2017 12:04

Perhaps later this year too!

Jem · **Posted:** Fri Jul 21, 2017 12:54

Kern wrote:

MaliA wrote:

Oh, we passed the little railway that made MrsA pregnant which was amusing.

The little engine that could, eh?

MaliA · **Posted:** Fri Jul 21, 2017 17:31

devilman wrote:

MaliA wrote:

devilman wrote:

MaliA wrote:

I saw a t shirt which was an A Wlng, a B wing , a Y wing an x wing and a Corellian light freighter all in silhouette with different coloured kines coming out the back but cannot find it anywhere. It was dope.

Is this it? I don't really know the spaceships that well.

edit - or this

No, but thank you, I like them.

This one?
(damn, out of stock)

Was in stock a few days back.

Malc · **Posted:** Fri Jul 21, 2017 23:43

I have to go to Leeds in a fortnight for a court case. Anyone want a beer?

MaliA · **Posted:** Sat Jul 22, 2017 7:28

Malc wrote:

I have to go to Leeds in a fortnight for a court case. Anyone want a beer?

Which dates? I am 15 mins from Leeds by train. And away first week in August

MaliA · **Posted:** Sat Jul 22, 2017 9:05

DBSnappa wrote:

MaliA wrote:

I know a guy who runs a bottle shop and bar. When another opened up on tne same street, his sales increased. This is because people now travel to go to both. It's very counterintuitive.

It's a known business thing. This is why you get "districts" of retail businesses.

Thank you. To the library!

MaliA · **Posted:** Sat Jul 22, 2017 9:05

MaliA wrote:

Phone interview yesterday, one in an hour today, 2 recruiters calling me back over other jobs. Not in the mood for work.

Yesterday's went well enough to move to face to face! This mornings has been rearranged.

This mornings lot now want a face to face in Manc.

Hot property, me.

Went OK, did that.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Sat Jul 22, 2017 10:06

Fingers crossed for you!

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25586

Darwin tried to convince me tonight that there's another toy (as well as Betty, Little Dragon, Mr Nibbleton and Mr Trunkington) that he NEEDS to go to sleep with...

Attachment:

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Yes, it is a 4x4 Mega Block.

Don't worry, I didn't let him. I mean, sharp edges and all, but mostly I'm worried that he's going to build a set of stairs to get out of his cot.

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6508

When I first saw the picture, I thought he was cuddling an ice cube tray.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25586

Squirt wrote:

When I first saw the picture, I thought he was cuddling an ice cube tray.

That would have been even better

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

BEEX which should I get:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01EBXER5K/ ... 27SDCGWLJ5

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01EKZOHAO/ ... TX78&psc=1

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2017 14:51

I'd take the Sammy over the LG, because I have a Samsung at home and an LG at work and the "smarts" stuff is better on the former.

Jem · **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2017 14:52

Personally I'd go for the Samsung, just for the greater amount of positive reviews. But I know nothing about TVs so...

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38459

Is the smart stuff important to you, MrChris?

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Thanks Grim - I've also been less than impressed with the LG I currently have (sound rapidly became bad so have had to have speakers for it for last couple of years) but that could be an issue with the specific model or indeed individual TV.
Jem - precisely the approach I was otherwise going to take

DavPaz - dunno really. Would be handy to be able to use the smarts stuff to use e.g. netflix without having to boot up the PS4, other than that...

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25586

I'd go with the Samsung based on. Otho g more than the fact that all the favourite TVs I've owned over the years have been Samsungs.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2017 15:01

External speakers should be the first thing you get plugged into your TV. I'd take surround sound over HD, personally.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38459

I agree. I couldn't bear the weedy speakers on modern LED tellies. I can leave surround sound though. Stereo's enough for me these days.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

You surely only use the in-built speakers with a TV if you hate yourself?

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

I only now use them because the external speakers are fucked and so's the jack.

ANYWAY THE SOUND IS NOT THE ISSUE.

Findus Fop · **Joined:** 14th May, 2009 **Posts:** 4299

This may or may not help, MrChris, but I have an HD LG which delivers an exceedingly odd experience.

it's only a 26-incher or something. The picture is super clear, but watching shows on Amazon or Netflix, the experience is jarring.

It's like the picture is so clear that it feels like it's lost something from the post-production process.

What looked like a grimy bar in American Gods now looks like a set.

Ditto that immaculate office in House of Cards.

There's almost a faint jerkiness to people's movements.

As you can see it's terribly hard to describe, but the net effect is that big-budget stuff ends up feeling TV-movie like. It's like you can see the seams.

It's perhaps similar to the criticism that was levelled at Peter Jackson for that technique he used for the Hobbit* with lots of FPS (or summat).

*Making a big fucking balls-up of it, AMIRITE?

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38459

100hz mode.

You should be able to turn it off.

Sometimes called Sports mode. Some TVs even have a "football" button on the remote.

Bamba · **Joined:** 25th Jul, 2010 **Posts:** 11128

Findus Fop wrote:

This may or may not help, MrChris, but I have an HD LG which delivers an exceedingly odd experience.

it's only a 26-incher or something. The picture is super clear, but watching shows on Amazon or Netflix, the experience is jarring.

It's like the picture is so clear that it feels like it's lost something from the post-production process.

What looked like a grimy bar in American Gods now looks like a set.

Ditto that immaculate office in House of Cards.

There's almost a faint jerkiness to people's movements.

As you can see it's terribly hard to describe, but the net effect is that big-budget stuff ends up feeling TV-movie like. It's like you can see the seams.

It's perhaps similar to the criticism that was levelled at Peter Jackson for that technique he used for the Hobbit* with lots of FPS (or summat).

*Making a big fucking balls-up of it, AMIRITE?

And you've switched off the Motion Interpolation/Smoothing setting that specifically does everything you're describing there, right? I mean, I phrase that as question but...

ETA: Note that LG calls that 'TruMotion' in it's marketing bullshit so it might appear as similar in the settings.

ETA2: Or possible De-Blur and De-Judder. Jesus. Just turn it all off and you'll be reet.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38459

It appears that LG call it Trumotion

Trousers · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3073

Just in case anyone hasn't seen this - citizen's arrest has quite far reaching powers - "put your hands on the car and get ready to die"

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 57151.html

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14356

Trousers wrote:

Just in case anyone hasn't seen this - citizen's arrest has quite far reaching powers - "put your hands on the car and get ready to die"

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter ... 57151.html

Jesus Christ, was that a Faulty Towers sketch?!

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2017 16:35

Bamba wrote:

And you've switched off the Motion Interpolation/Smoothing setting that specifically does everything you're describing there, right?

Gaywood always complains about that when he sees it. It's fucking invisible to me.

Mimi · **Joined:** 27th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 25586

Grim... wrote:

Bamba wrote:

And you've switched off the Motion Interpolation/Smoothing setting that specifically does everything you're describing there, right?

Gaywood always complains about that when he sees it. It's fucking invisible to me.

Old people can't see it. It's like those alarms that emit a high pitch to keep young people from hanging around outside Spar, but it affects sight, and the effect is lost post-middle-age.

MaliA · **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2017 16:57

Mimi wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Bamba wrote:

And you've switched off the Motion Interpolation/Smoothing setting that specifically does everything you're describing there, right?

Gaywood always complains about that when he sees it. It's fucking invisible to me.

Old people can't see it. It's like those alarms that emit a high pitch to keep young people from hanging around outside Spar, but it affects sight, and the effect is lost post-middle-age.

And doccyg has been replaced by a robot.

Grim... · **Posted:** Mon Jul 24, 2017 16:59

Mimi wrote:

Grim... wrote:

Bamba wrote:

And you've switched off the Motion Interpolation/Smoothing setting that specifically does everything you're describing there, right?

Gaywood always complains about that when he sees it. It's fucking invisible to me.

Old people can't see it. It's like those alarms that emit a high pitch to keep young people from hanging around outside Spar

Oddly, I can hear those. And I also find it hilarious that school kids are using the noise as a notification alert on their phone, because the teachers can't hear it.

Also Gaywood is older than me

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