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On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 15:41:24 +0100, "Keith G"
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"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 14:47:59 +0100, "Keith G"
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...*replacement* Bean/Boult copy of VW's Larka!! :-)

I have actually finally knackered my own with *no way* any less than
500
playings - maybe even getting on for a thousand!! (It's almost a daily
ritual for me!) It actually still sounds very good *musically* but the
'groove noise' has been getting louder lately!

His great (not sure how many) granddaughter Nicky is a good friend of
mine. She wouldn't recognise a semiquaver if it smacked her in the
face. Funny how genetics sometimes doesn't work out.


Most inherited traits skip alternate generations don't they? Perhaps she
was on the backbeat??

Just waved off my skip blokey (having waited in all day and now it's
****ing with rain again) - 120 quid for a skipfull of garden
snippings/loppings/garage junk and you're going to wait 3 years for a
200 quid HD player to come down in price?

;-)

Once you start a game of "who blinks first?" you can't just quit.

d

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"Don Pearce" wrote


Once you start a game of "who blinks first?" you can't just quit.


Sure you can - after a suitable period and without moving a muscle, you
suggest changing to a game of Scissors, Paper, Stone to speed things up:

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/games/Scissors+Paper+Stone/

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On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 15:59:30 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:


"Don Pearce" wrote


Once you start a game of "who blinks first?" you can't just quit.


Sure you can - after a suitable period and without moving a muscle, you
suggest changing to a game of Scissors, Paper, Stone to speed things up:

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/games/Scissors+Paper+Stone/


Shall I try that at Currys? I usually prefer spoof for this kind of
transaction, but I'm prepared to give it a go.

d

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"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 15:59:30 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:


"Don Pearce" wrote


Once you start a game of "who blinks first?" you can't just quit.


Sure you can - after a suitable period and without moving a muscle,
you
suggest changing to a game of Scissors, Paper, Stone to speed things
up:

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/games/Scissors+Paper+Stone/


Shall I try that at Currys? I usually prefer spoof for this kind of
transaction, but I'm prepared to give it a go.



Currys?

That's where the kiddie ringing up your purchases usually says 'Wow,
that's a good price - I'll have to get one of/some of those myself!'
isn't it?

(Thought they'd gone bust, anyway....??)

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In article , Keith G
writes

"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 14:47:59 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:

...*replacement* Bean/Boult copy of VW's Larka!! :-)

I have actually finally knackered my own with *no way* any less than
500
playings - maybe even getting on for a thousand!! (It's almost a daily
ritual for me!) It actually still sounds very good *musically* but the
'groove noise' has been getting louder lately!

His great (not sure how many) granddaughter Nicky is a good friend of
mine. She wouldn't recognise a semiquaver if it smacked her in the
face. Funny how genetics sometimes doesn't work out.


Most inherited traits skip alternate generations don't they? Perhaps she
was on the backbeat??

Just waved off my skip blokey (having waited in all day and now it's
****ing with rain again) - 120 quid

Ah!, yes one of Gordons stealth taxes by another name;!...

for a skipfull of garden
snippings/loppings/garage junk and you're going to wait 3 years for a
200 quid HD player to come down in price?

;-)





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"tony sayer" wrote in message
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In article , Keith G
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Just waved off my skip blokey (having waited in all day and now it's
****ing with rain again) - 120 quid

Ah!, yes one of Gordons stealth taxes by another name;!...


You mean Skippy's Landfill Tax rant?

(You've been speaking to him as well then??!! :-)

Now, Toe Knee, me auld china - what would you say if I told you I have
just pulled these *chunky pieces* out of the stack pro temps and I'm not
sure if I desperately need to keep them?

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Temptation.JPG

??

(I'm not looking to *throw* them away, either.... ;-)

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"Keith G" wrote in message
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"tony sayer" wrote in message
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In article , Keith G
writes


Just waved off my skip blokey (having waited in all day and now it's
****ing with rain again) - 120 quid

Ah!, yes one of Gordons stealth taxes by another name;!...


You mean Skippy's Landfill Tax rant?

(You've been speaking to him as well then??!! :-)

Now, Toe Knee, me auld china - what would you say if I told you I have
just pulled these *chunky pieces* out of the stack pro temps and I'm
not sure if I desperately need to keep them?

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Temptation.JPG

??

(I'm not looking to *throw* them away, either.... ;-)



Note to self:

Hoover the bloody carpet before taking low-level snaps, next time....

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On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 12:21:59 +0100, "Keith G"
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"Don Pearce" wrote


Nah. The quality problems I find with films tend not to be anything to
do with the technical standard of reproduction. In fact high def and
hi fi tend to do nothing more than reveal the nastiness even more
clearly.


What nastiness is this?


I'm talking about stupid visual effects (when cars collide, they are
somehow undamaged, but one of them miraculously leaps into the air and
turns over, exploding as it does so). And ludicrous sound effects
(why, when somebody is punched, does it sound like a small bomb has
just exploded? Why, when the plastic rear light of a car is smashed,
do I hear the sound of glass breaking?)

(Other than the *lost/buried* dialogue you mentioned - which I heartily
agree, especially in modern Yank stuff where you need the subbies on
half the time...!!)


Well, you need that even when you can hear the dialogue now, "movie
english" is so far divorced from the real language.

I can't believe your taste in movies is anything like as *technically
antiquated* as mine (mostly 4:3/mono/B&W) - having thoroughly enjoyed
'Meshi' (1951), only the night before last:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043801/

Most of my favourite films are either B&W or severely yellowed
technicolor.

**Just to be pedantic here, but the big advantage of TechnicolorT is that
colour balance is always perfectly rendered. I trust you are aware of the
process involved?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technicolor

Very clever.


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On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 08:27:43 +1000, "Trevor Wilson"
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Most of my favourite films are either B&W or severely yellowed
technicolor.

**Just to be pedantic here, but the big advantage of TechnicolorT is that
colour balance is always perfectly rendered. I trust you are aware of the
process involved?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technicolor

Very clever.

So how come old Technicolor movies on TV always look like they have
been shot through a yellow filter. They just look faded.

d

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"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 08:27:43 +1000, "Trevor Wilson"
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Most of my favourite films are either B&W or severely yellowed
technicolor.

**Just to be pedantic here, but the big advantage of TechnicolorT is that
colour balance is always perfectly rendered. I trust you are aware of the
process involved?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technicolor

Very clever.

So how come old Technicolor movies on TV always look like they have
been shot through a yellow filter. They just look faded.

**Points:

* They don't ALWAYS look like that (I recently watched an old Sinbad movie
and it was stunningly good).
* TechnicolorT has nothing to do with the fading.

Technicolor rapidly gained the status of the system to archive valuable
movies on. Early Eastman colour movies were transferred to TechnicolorT for
permanent storage. Eastman colour (Kodak) had a life as short as less than a
decade. Technicolor, if stored correctly never loses it's colour balance. I
suggest you read the Wikipedia reference. Interesting stuff. The bit about
the speed rating of the film (ASA 5!!!) was most enlightening.


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