On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 21:37:28 +0000
The Artist wrote:

Or, from another point of view, sinking into a load of pipeworks...

LOL..

Sometimes when I ride back through Lostock I hit a blue or purple
cloud of gas.. WTF is all that about?

Got me there. Ask ICI ;-)


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On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 21:33:52 +0000
Ronnie McKinley wrote:

Bet ya, Ian, washes and reuses his ... three kids !! maybe he's using
no raw materials? )

LOL.

Planned may be a bit strong, but accidents they aint.


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On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 22:36:28 +0000
Kurt Hamster wrote:

Yes, Lion King has been out on it as has Matrix 3. Ghosts of the Abyss
was pretty good too.

Cool.

Of course, you havent lived until you've been in an Omnimax.

Man that thing rocks. (Vancouver CA.)

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On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 21:33:18 +0000
The Artist wrote:

They must have fired that projectionist - Ive never seen that...

Keep your eyes peeled during the pause after the yellowed, crackly
advert for the local Chinese ;-)

Ah. that must be it. Im too disorganised to arrive in time for the ads ;-)

I paid 3.00 to see TRoTK. has it gone up since? I heard they werent
allowed to charge more or something.

That's odd. It's probably a year since I last went and it had gone up
then!!

Maybe I just misremembered it then. ah well. (mind you, only out by 50p, so not so bad)

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"Ian Molton" wrote


snip Old Testament


As to MP3s... I have perhaps 150 CDs (not counted), so about 1500
tracks. I just counted my mp3 collection at almost 6000 tracks,


I got double that...... :-)


Yes. what would be the point in a CD burnt from mp3s ?


You might be interested to know that I conducted some fairly public
comparisons of Audio CDRs made from the 'same' WAVs and MP3s about a year
ago which involved friends and family (and one or two regulars here).
*Nobody* was easily able to tell the difference and given a hearing of only
one disc they were not able to say which it was.

Flies in the face of reason? Possibly - you try it on some unsuspecting
volunteers and find out for yourself......


snip New Testament

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 00:25:00 +0000
Kurt Hamster wrote:

Absolutely. Why not? Its neither unsanitary or disgusting, and as she knows how to do it properly, its discreet anyway.

And just right for Ian... It costs **** all!

Not to mention its also less hassle for my partner (no bottles no sterilisation), delivered at the absolute optimal temperature for baby, and carries with it useful components for helping the babys immune system.

(and she has fantastic tits right now too...)

fx: ouch Ok, ok, *even more* fantastic. stop hitting me...

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On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 00:35:35 +0000
Ronnie McKinley wrote:

Plus he gets a hard-on into the bargain

Oh grow up.

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On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 01:15:59 +0000
Ronnie McKinley wrote:


My wife breast feed our son, but always had difficulty in making him
feed properly. As a result, she had to end up expressing and
feeding him from a bottle.

Good for her. expressing is more painful, so the fact she did it rather
than giving up is comendable. Its sad that there isnt better training
available for mothers in the UK though. in well over 95% of cases
difficulty is bad latch, which can be avoided with proper training.

So who knows. Is it the act and the
bonding of the breast feeding process, or the breast milk itself,
which is the most important?

According to current research, both.

It also appears that the way the baby sucks causes some kind of
difference in the milk thats produced as well, although its not clear if
this is significant.

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On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 00:46:14 -0000
"Stimpy" wrote:

'Lost In Space', 'Galaxy Quest', 'Lord Of The Rings', 'Futurama'.... Viewing
material of a stereotypical geek-boy living in his little sci-fi fantasy
world. That explains everything

Actually I dont have Futurama. that was either Kurt or Stewart.

I also have copies (original ones) of the Green Mile, Seven, Babylon 5, Blackadder goes forth (fourth series), Contact, MIB, Evolution, Ghosts of Mars (crap), The Little Vampire, Free Willy, Dead Poets Society, Stuart Little 2, The Secret Garden, ET, Brassed off, Ghostbuster, and Robin Hood (the good version).

The other DVDs havent been unpacked since our move.

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On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 00:53:55 +0000
Kurt Hamster wrote:

You aren't talking about any particular actor, also as you aren't an
actor the quote doesn't hold up either.

Anyone can be a bad actor.

Doesn't sound like you have much financial ability either. Other than
being a skinflint of course.

Im no accountant. I can manage my own money though.

*I* dont need to care how much they cost or what sort of temper
tantrums they throw. All I want to see is good acting in my movies.
And I dont care who from either, as long as they can deliver.

That's called putting your head in the sand.

No, its called not giving a **** what these people do in their private
lives (or public ones). I only want to watch them do their job. I care
as much about them themselves as I do about some shopkeeper in a
motorway cafe who I will probably never see again.

Oh, sorry I forgot you don't have any need for multichannel sound etc.
A compressed Xvid or whatever is *adequate* for you isn't it?

*need* a movie? of course I dont.

For now. sometime I'll get a better one with more channels but this
one does well enough for now.

Yeah I forgot you do "adequate" all the time, except when lecturing
others of course.

I do what I can with what I can afford.

In the case of LoTR probably nothing in the case of the soundtrack.

Given your gear I rather doubt any film would benefit.

Bleh. I bet you couldnt tell the difference between your gear and mine
in a dbt anyhow.

Xine provides a superb picture - easily the equal of any standalone
hardware player.

How would you know?

Er. I've seen the same disc in many standalone players and Xine ? duh.

Who cares? it does the job for the kids, and its good enough for the
odd film in the evening.

There you go with your adequate and acceptable again. So where did
your theory of accuracy disappear to then?

I never claimes I required perfection every moment of the day. If I did
I wouldnt be downloading stuff at all.

They are all the same looking, and if you get the R1 version you'll
get an even better box.

great. S I'll get the R1 special edition box set. sorted.

WTF are you on about?

Okay so I missed the 'p' off. Any normal person would have seen that,
especially if you hadn't missed off your quote that said...

If I wanted the lowest prices possible, I'd demand CDs for 10p per
disc and DVDs for about a quid.

And if you hadnt cut my text short youd know I also wrote that I *dont*
consider those prices reasonable for a disc with actual content on it,
you muppet.

Yes. what would be the point in a CD burnt from mp3s ?

Buggered if I know I don't have any. Whereas you have pontificated
about putting recordings through your DAC that if you weren't happy
with you could just download another. If that doesn't sound like CDs
burnt from MP3s I don't know what does.

Good god. you actually think Im playing a CD player into my dac? you
idiot! I play the data directly into the dac from my PC, via an optical
SP/DIF link.

39.99, actually, and you can check for yourself in tescos.

You quoted 29.99 at the start of this. Please make your mind up.

Typo. wanna make something of it ?

When was the typo? now, or earlier? So your "actually" was because
of 1 penny?

1 penny?

You don't track conversations very well do you?

Your math doesnt seem to be very good. 39.99-29.99 == 10.00ukp.

Only out by three orders of magnitude...

The high end of the real world doesnt have problems with jitter. (the
genuine high end that is, not the merely overpriced high end)

When was the "high end of the real world" ever mentioned before you
disappeared into the world of theory? You really don't remember the
**** you type do you?

The point is that my theoretical stuff actually WORKS in practice in the
real world, it would seem.



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