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Start here => M.O.-Introductions => Ask Away Threads => Topic started by: Arya Quinn on March 27, 2014, 06:47:22 PM
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Go on, ask some questions and such. I'm not afraid. :bounce:
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Your signature is very large.
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Your signature is very large.
A Game of Hodor (Hodor Box Office Opening Theme) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0nS8u6Td5I#ws)
"He's the Hodor Westeros deserves...but not the one it needs right now. So they'll hunt him, because he can take it. He is the silent guardian, a watchful protector...he is....The Hodor."
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Congratulations, Some-Bloke, on achieving legal adulthood.
What was your best BD present, apart from the deeply craved membership here?
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Congratulations, Some-Bloke, on achieving legal adulthood.
What was your best BD present, apart from the deeply craved membership here?
Driving lessons and tickets to Belfast Comic Con.
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Have you had your first legal pint yet?
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Your signature is very large.
Indeed.
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Why does the dude in your sig have red hair and a yellow beard?
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Were you afraid that without a big sig picture, you might go unnoticed, on I2?
And, are you the sensitive type?
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What are the values you hold closest to your black heart?
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Have you had your first legal pint yet?
Tonight.
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Have you had your first legal pint yet?
Tonight.
I remember having 8 pints of Guiness one night. "Saint Patrick's Day". I had to work the next day. I was late. I could not fake sick. I felt like death. It was really unfair.....though it was fun at the time.
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Just had a look at the signature. Glad I block them.
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Your signature is very large.
Indeed.
In other words, did you know that you can rescale an image?
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Just had a look at the signature. Glad I block them.
Thinking about doing the same.
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Bump.
Were you afraid that without a big sig picture, you might go unnoticed, on I2?
And, are you the sensitive type?
Suggestion:
Put a picture of that bearded guy with sticky tape on your screen, if you love it so much, and take it out of your signature.
Just had a look at the signature. Glad I block them.
Thinking about doing the same.
Same here, may be time to block them all for a while again, or find out again how to block a specific picture, I know it could do that in the past. I like seeing sigs, helps me see who wrote what. Too much in my face, they are very annoying.
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Ah, just added a custom filter on adblock. :hyke: :hyke: :hyke: :hyke: :hyke: :hyke: :hyke: :hyke: :hyke:
It is fucking beautiful, my screen, without the bearded guy.
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Just had a look at the signature. Glad I block them.
Thinking about doing the same.
Just call him out. :dunno:
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Why does the dude in your sig have red hair and a yellow beard?
Photoshop:
(http://cdn.sheknows.com/articles/2011/11/alexandra-breckenridge-american-horror-story-image.jpg)
(http://i.lv3.hbo.com/assets/images/series/game-of-thrones/character/hodor-160.jpg)
Were you afraid that without a big sig picture, you might go unnoticed, on I2?
And, are you the sensitive type?
Nope. I just haven't figured out how to re-scale the image yet. :fp:
Am I the sensitive type? That depends on your definition of sensitive.
What are the values you hold closest to your black heart?
Family and close friends.
Your signature is very large.
Indeed.
In other words, did you know that you can rescale an image?
Still trying to work that part out.
Just had a look at the signature. Glad I block them.
Thinking about doing the same.
Just call him out. :dunno:
Over a photoshopped picture of Hodor and the maid from American Horror story?
Really?
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Just had a look at the signature. Glad I block them.
Thinking about doing the same.
Just call him out. :dunno:
Over a photoshopped picture of Hodor and the maid from American Horror story?
Really?
It would add some excitement. :M
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Have you had your first legal pint yet?
Tonight.
I remember having 8 pints of Guiness one night. "Saint Patrick's Day". I had to work the next day. I was late. I could not fake sick. I felt like death. It was really unfair.....though it was fun at the time.
(http://i.imgur.com/DR7OFUY.jpg)
That was all that was drunk between six people last night.
Needless to say, I had my first hangover this morning.
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Have you had your first legal pint yet?
Tonight.
I remember having 8 pints of Guiness one night. "Saint Patrick's Day". I had to work the next day. I was late. I could not fake sick. I felt like death. It was really unfair.....though it was fun at the time.
(http://i.imgur.com/DR7OFUY.jpg)
That was all that was drunk between six people last night.
Needless to say, I had my first hangover this morning.
Does that make you feel mature now?
Would you recommend it?
I have never had a hangover in my life. I've been quite drunk on occasion, with everything spinning and all, but no hangover.
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Have you had your first legal pint yet?
Tonight.
I remember having 8 pints of Guiness one night. "Saint Patrick's Day". I had to work the next day. I was late. I could not fake sick. I felt like death. It was really unfair.....though it was fun at the time.
(http://i.imgur.com/DR7OFUY.jpg)
That was all that was drunk between six people last night.
Needless to say, I had my first hangover this morning.
Does that make you feel mature now?
Would you recommend it?
I have never had a hangover in my life. I've been quite drunk on occasion, with everything spinning and all, but no hangover.
Its not that bad of a hangover. Just a mild headache and dry mouth but I wouldn't recommend it.
I regret nothing though. You only turn 18 once and I only drink on special occasions (so rarely)
edit: And out my friends I actually drank the least.
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Just had a look at the signature. Glad I block them.
Thinking about doing the same.
Just call him out. :dunno:
Over a photoshopped picture of Hodor and the maid from American Horror story?
Really?
It would add some excitement. :M
It sounds like a really goddamn stupid idea.
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Just had a look at the signature. Glad I block them.
Thinking about doing the same.
Just call him out. :dunno:
Over a photoshopped picture of Hodor and the maid from American Horror story?
Really?
It would add some excitement. :M
It sounds like a really goddamn stupid idea.
It would bring you right into the heart of I2. :flyingbat:
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It sounds like a really goddamn stupid idea.
Not really.
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Just had a look at the signature. Glad I block them.
Thinking about doing the same.
Just call him out. :dunno:
Can't be bothered.
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What lies at the bottom of the ocean and twitches?
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What lies at the bottom of the ocean and twitches?
I'm assuming the lovechild of Winnie the Pooh and Cthulhu.
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What lies at the bottom of the ocean and twitches?
The prostitute I killed yesterday? :orly:
No, I'm kidding. She stopped twitching hours ago. :zoinks:
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What lies at the bottom of the ocean and twitches?
The prostitute I killed yesterday? :orly:
No, I'm kidding. She stopped twitching hours ago. :zoinks:
What do Madeline McCann and a submarine have in common?
They're both at the bottom of the sea and full of seamen :zoinks: :orly:
(one of the darkest jokes you'll ever hear from me)
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What lies at the bottom of the ocean and twitches?
I'm assuming the lovechild of Winnie the Pooh and Cthulhu.
That too. (Original answer: A nervous wreck.)
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What lies at the bottom of the ocean and twitches?
I'm assuming the lovechild of Winnie the Pooh and Cthulhu.
That too. (Original answer: A nervous wreck.)
I think my answer was better :M
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Do you collect anything?
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Do you collect anything?
Not really, no. :dunno:
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Why would I want to ask the asshole a question behind the wall?
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Ever tried to break down the wall?
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I thought the membership might like to watch him squirm, that's all.
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Ah, I meant it as a question for him. :P
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Why would I want to ask the asshole a question behind the wall?
Because you're :viking:
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Ever tried to break down the wall?
Break down this:
(http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110305193555/gameofthrones/images/f/f5/The_Wall.jpg)
No. But I have climbed over it.
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Why would I want to ask the asshole a question behind the wall?
Because you're :viking:
I may be :viking:, but I'm even :nerd!:
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Do you collect anything?
Not really, no. :dunno:
Have any special interests or areas of expertise?
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Do you collect anything?
Not really, no. :dunno:
Have any special interests or areas of expertise?
Special interests: Creative writing (particularly science fiction of fantasy)
Expertise: Patience.
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No. But I have climbed over it.
Looks like some folks went straight through it.
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No. But I have climbed over it.
Looks like some folks went straight through it.
(https://indieethos.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/scarfe-illustration-for-the-wall.jpg)
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No. But I have climbed over it.
Looks like some folks went straight through it.
Those folk had powers, along with a kind of determination of will that I see fading from our (I do not mean "our" as we Americans. I am talking about the entirety of the human race) populace.
I would love to see real strength return to those who are challenged these days.
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DirtDawg, you do know that the picture is from Game of Thrones and was probably not terribly accurate?
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Hung over?
I'm not surprised you felt a little sick after that, drinking toilet duck will do that to you :P
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DirtDawg, you do know that the picture is from Game of Thrones and was probably not terribly accurate?
You are kidding, right? You thought My comment was random?
IN your mind there must be this place where I have not been a fan of George R.R Martin since before it ALL started on Cable TV?
Did you know that I actually spend a great deal of my free time reading? I read more than I type.
So, allow me to help you the way you have tried to help me; there were awesome books available written about this fantasy world well before there were fanbased "TV Movies."
OH, and to be honest, I bought my first GRRM book off the used paperback section at Half Priced Books in about 'ninety eight, due to how intrigued I was by the cover. SO, there you go.
:2thumbsup:
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Yes, Dirt Dawg, I do know that Game of Thrones is a literary series. I've never seen GoT on TV because I don't subscribe to that channel (whichever one it is.) I merely inspected the element and saw it was GoT, so knowing how much emphasis television places on accuracy in fictional shows, I was commenting on the accuracy of fictional TV series.
HOWEVER, I give George R. R. Martin the top spot in this argument.
I also spend a whole lot of time reading, much to the detriment of family time. If I'm eating, then I'm reading. If I'm bored, then I'm reading. If I'm tired I'm reading. Well you get the idea. At any one time I have over 8 books in various stages of being read or re-read. They're in the house and in my car. And yes, I'm the only person I know that has ever read the unabridged The Cloister and The Hearth (G_d awful book. Read it out of sheer cussedness because someone said it was the most boring book ever written - all what 800 pages of it?).
I cut my teeth on Murray Leinster and Lester del Rey in the early 1950's when the inside covers of the SF books had beautiful illustrations of space ships and other SF related matter rendered in marvelous shades of grey. I tried Lady Chatterly's Lover when I was 10, but gave that up as a lost cause. I read Dad's Stag, Male, Argosy, porn books, etc. If it stayed still long enough I read it.
My parents would give me money and say, "DON"T buy any books."
Before I married my entire apartment, save hall, kitchen and bathroom, was wall to wall shelves, crammed with books. Of all kinds: historical novels, science fiction, archeology, anthropology, astronomy, how to, cookbooks, history books, self-help books (obviously didn't work), biographies, autobiographies, travel, popular fiction, etc. About the only things I had/have no interest in are romance and western novels.
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Seems as if we have a great deal in common.
I went through long series of massive tortures deciding which books to "donate," when it came time to give up my library room and allow my young son to have his own room.
Obviously he NEEDED to have his own room, but giving up my thousands of books and almost as many thousands of LPs was tough to get through.
I managed, some how. I cheated a bit and stored about four thousand books under the house in the crawl space. They are well packed and the crawl space is dry, so one day I will have and incredible treasure to share with my young readers.
I have already brought up a few and presented the youngsters some of my treasures, with hit-and-miss results. It seems to be more about timing, associated with the subject matter, than the actual value of a book which decides whether my idea of a great book is accepted or not.
:dunno:
The world is different these days. Hell, these kids come with ideas presented at school which are totally false, according to the history I was taught. The fact that we still have to pay an exorbitant book charge each year and YET we are never presented with ACTUAL books that we paid for is a bit disturbing.
We get little copied from a computer pages that the kids have to fill out and return. BUT, if it is some part of calculus or factoring that I have forgotten about due to non-use (and could easily remind myself with ten minutes using an actual high school book) I find myself struggling until I go into some university site with page after page of some of what I need to help my kid.
Finally after taking the college course again, I can go help my kid finish his homework.
Not having the actual books from the school is a problem. Considering we paid a book charge of four hundred bucks per student and we get NO BOOKS!
Anyway, when I noticed that Game Of Thrones was going to be available on Blu-ray disc, I did not even hesitate. I have bought them all on disc. I can tell you that the series appears on HBO, but since we rarely watch television (we generally watch discs) at this household, we do not subscribe. I DO have cable, so that I can get high speed internet and local news without worrying about whether the huge maple trees are blocking the aerial signal in summer or not.
BTW, My parents told me not to buy any more books as well.
:GA:
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The kid wouldn't have his own room if it had been me.
I do not donate my books. I do not throw them away.
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The kid wouldn't have his own room if it had been me.
I do not donate my books. I do not throw them away.
All I can say is that my son is more rich for having his privacy, especially now that he is fifteen years old.
Our local library is also more rich for all my donations. Admittedly, it was very difficult to decide which to keep and which to allow other readers to enjoy.
I feel that I fed karma a huge meal. I have to think that I made a proper decision.
Had I not lost my best job ever, about ten years ago, we would still own our dream house and this would not be a conversation.
:violin:
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:GA:
Not sure I would have been able to cope.
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:GA:
Not sure I would have been able to cope.
I am not saying it was done in a short amount of time.
It took me months, literally.
I am not even sure which LPs I saved underground (mostly sixties and seventies rock, jazz and Detroit funk - but, none of those I just had acquired for some band to learn the hits from, unless I liked the music myself).
Maybe if I could stop buying "new" ones (so many incredible Deutsche Grammophon efforts available in pristine condition these days, I can not control my urge to buy), I might have time to go down stairs and explore a bit.
Now that all the Xmas music has finally been pulled from shelves, I can find ...
... I found a 78rpm Furtwangler collection a few weeks ago. WOW! My 78s are mostly collectible, such as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, etc but I sometimes indulge myself. (yes, I have a specific turntable set up properly for 78s)
My "huge-ish" closet is already becoming fullish. MAy have to get rid of some old amplifiers or saxophones.
:'(
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I live small, donating books is a chore I have given myself. There are times I am not allowing myself to buy new books, till I have at least a bit of space on a shelf. Emptied 6 meters of shelves two years ago. Somehow it got easier, after my ex had taken his pick from the books, before leaving. And I realised I could live without them.
My parents never told me not to spend my money on books. My dad was a huge reader, my mother loved her books too. So, they would never have been able to be convincing in telling me not to buy books.
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'furtwangler' sounds either like some sort of foreign food the origins of which are better left unasked, or something that might appear in a sex-offenders register.
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I guess I'm the only one who hasn't tasted A Song of Ice and Fire (or Game of Thrones for that matter; I don't have a heck of a lot of time for watching TV and WolFish likes lighter stuff).
I agree though about the return of strength. I'm getting increasingly sick of the victim-contest among people a few years younger than me. I get that millenials are being screwed over, but I wish their answer to it wasn't to go schoolmarm on the English language about what sociopolitical rhetoric was and wasn't acceptable. Outrage is cheap. Action is not.
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I guess I'm the only one who hasn't tasted A Song of Ice and Fire (or Game of Thrones for that matter; I don't have a heck of a lot of time for watching TV and WolFish likes lighter stuff)
I've not seen either or a lot of movies in the past 3 or 4 years. I play musical TV with the PR. She jumps around between the TV in our bedroom and the TV in the living room and the computer. And announces to us that we "can have the... now." She has a TV in her room, but doesn't have a remote for it. Her behind is about to be put in a sling because I'm tired of being shit man on the totem pole.
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Hung over?
I'm not surprised you felt a little sick after that, drinking toilet duck will do that to you :P
I'm not sure if you're talking to me or not. :dunno:
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Some bloke; yes.
The picture with all the empty beer cans and vodka bottles, in the left hand side, a jug of bog cleaner (seriously, whats the point, other than to unblock something horrid that refuses to flush, of chemical bog cleaners? one is only going to cover the bowl again with a layer of feculent, creamy turd-streaks, drenched in piss right after cleaning, making it dirty again)
I was facetiously implying that yes, one would be...err...hung over, in a manner of speaking, after chugging 8 pints of loo cleaning fluid.
Myself though, I'll stick to the beer and vodka. Well, I'd sooner just have a few beers and shots to compliment an arm full of H/morphine/oxy/dipropionylmorphine and a nice handful of tranqs. No hangover that way when one lets the actual, properly decent drugs to do the leg-work, and just a few pints (of lager or/and ale, not shithouse cleansing fluid of course) to whet the appetite and keep from getting thirsty)
Although that said, I haven't actually had a hangover in years. Can't remember if I have even had one since I was legally old enough to drink.
Before that though I did give myself a few real stinkers. Like the time I was about 13-14 and downed an entire bottle of whisky. Can't stand the stuff, but it was obtainable, affordable on the remnants of my at the time, miserably meager kids income, post-spending almost all the rest on supplies for my lab. Which is where almost all my money at that age went on.
Where most kids that age I knew were spending pocket money and odd-job money (and in my case, opportunistic profit from whatever enterprises I could dream up to make a few extra quid) on the likes of candy, porn mags, cheap shitty cider and the like, I'd be off down the DIY stores and pharmacies spending my pocket money on sulfuric and hydrochloric acid, potassium permanganate, lithium batteries, ether, solvents and other things in that vein.
Or then there was the cointreau incident. Slugged down a full bottle of the stuff, and needless to say, threw my guts up quite spectacularly. And the hangover after waking up/coming round was something I can unfortunately still remember. To this day I can't drink the stuff, I can't even bear the smell of it now without my gorge rising. Instant aversion-therapy lol. I very much doubt I will ever, ever touch cointreau again, even though I'm 27 now, and at the time wasn't old enough to have left my Kanners spesh school that smell still instantly brings back the traumatic memories of that event, from wherever in my brain they are hard-wired and permanently psychically burnt in like it was the day after the morning after that evening (not the morning after itself however, as I was at that time, still paralytically shitfaced. Pretty sure all the teachers at my spazz school must have realized what was up. Although the faint scents of chloroform, ether, iodine and the tang of HCl coming off my clothing might have made them wonder just what I had been upto that weekend :D)
And needless to say, no I did NOT want to get out of bed and attend school.
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'furtwangler' sounds either like some sort of foreign food the origins of which are better left unasked, or something that might appear in a sex-offenders register.
Wiki link: Wilhelm Furtwängler (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Furtw%C3%A4ngler)
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:GA:
Not sure I would have been able to cope.
I am not saying it was done in a short amount of time.
It took me months, literally.
I am not even sure which LPs I saved underground (mostly sixties and seventies rock, jazz and Detroit funk - but, none of those I just had acquired for some band to learn the hits from, unless I liked the music myself).
Maybe if I could stop buying "new" ones (so many incredible Deutsche Grammophon efforts available in pristine condition these days, I can not control my urge to buy), I might have time to go down stairs and explore a bit.
Now that all the Xmas music has finally been pulled from shelves, I can find ...
... I found a 78rpm Furtwangler collection a few weeks ago. WOW! My 78s are mostly collectible, such as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, etc but I sometimes indulge myself. (yes, I have a specific turntable set up properly for 78s)
My "huge-ish" closet is already becoming fullish. MAy have to get rid of some old amplifiers or saxophones.
:'(
I have a roomful of cinema-related stuff. I know the feeling.
The last few things I acquired had to go elsewhere. My study floor is now filling up with stuff I don't know where to put. There's a Dolby CP500 next to a Mackie mixer and an 8-track digital tape recorder, plus a boxful of assorted cables.
:GA:
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Some bloke; yes.
The picture with all the empty beer cans and vodka bottles, in the left hand side, a jug of bog cleaner (seriously, whats the point, other than to unblock something horrid that refuses to flush, of chemical bog cleaners? one is only going to cover the bowl again with a layer of feculent, creamy turd-streaks, drenched in piss right after cleaning, making it dirty again)
I was facetiously implying that yes, one would be...err...hung over, in a manner of speaking, after chugging 8 pints of loo cleaning fluid.
Oh, no one actually drank from the cleaning liquid. It was just there because I was cleaning the sink with it the night before. I think that if anyone drank that much of it then they'd probably be dead, or at the very least have to make a trip to the hospital. :tard:
Was I hungover? A little bit and it was the first time I've actually been hungover.
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:GA:
Not sure I would have been able to cope.
I am not saying it was done in a short amount of time.
It took me months, literally.
I am not even sure which LPs I saved underground (mostly sixties and seventies rock, jazz and Detroit funk - but, none of those I just had acquired for some band to learn the hits from, unless I liked the music myself).
Maybe if I could stop buying "new" ones (so many incredible Deutsche Grammophon efforts available in pristine condition these days, I can not control my urge to buy), I might have time to go down stairs and explore a bit.
Now that all the Xmas music has finally been pulled from shelves, I can find ...
... I found a 78rpm Furtwangler collection a few weeks ago. WOW! My 78s are mostly collectible, such as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, etc but I sometimes indulge myself. (yes, I have a specific turntable set up properly for 78s)
My "huge-ish" closet is already becoming fullish. MAy have to get rid of some old amplifiers or saxophones.
:'(
I have a roomful of cinema-related stuff. I know the feeling.
The last few things I acquired had to go elsewhere. My study floor is now filling up with stuff I don't know where to put. There's a Dolby CP500 next to a Mackie mixer and an 8-track digital tape recorder, plus a boxful of assorted cables.
:GA:
I know the feeling. While my closet is full, my garage is ridiculous. I would have to remove about one hundred seventy or more JBL drivers, two racks of large amplifiers, some smaller racks of various audio processing gear, a number of Jamo, Cerwin Vega, Yamaha, Altec and KEF efforts from my garage in order to park my car there and I have a two-car garage.
(actually trying to put both my wife's Lincoln and my Escalade in the garage would be tight.)
I also have buried my table saw and some of my other tools with miscellaneous bullshit that just needs to go away.
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We also have a two-car garage. No car has been able to park there in fourteen years because there's a cinema in there.
I mean, where do others have their cinemas?
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We also have a two-car garage. No car has been able to park there in fourteen years because there's a cinema in there.
I mean, where do others have their cinemas?
I would think a basement, where it's dark. :dunno:
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We also have a two-car garage. No car has been able to park there in fourteen years because there's a cinema in there.
I mean, where do others have their cinemas?
I am pretty sure that most people DO NOT have the kind of cinema system you have. Might be one or two others, but no more, I am thinking.
I have consulted in terms of audio on home installs where the owner had some form of Hi-Def, digital projector hanging from the ceiling, flaming a one hundred fifty inch or larger screen, which sits "in front of their speakers" (WTF!). The challenge is to make the sound OK with the fucking screen in the way. OK, we can do that! ... but give me professional equipment, like theaters use when blasting past a screen or just give up and use the shit as it is.
:dunno:
My idea of "what you need to get good sound" often pisses off the new money people, who thought they could do it all on a shoestring with a smattering of goo. But what do I know? I only have a lifetime of experience making good sound in questionable rooms.
I really wish that my garage had a "theme." Instead, mine is a huge disorganized storage facility. It has gotten worse since I had surgery. I am barely getting back to making something other than a mess of it all. Finding all my tools again is one of the first things on my list.
:police:
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If you have the right kind of screen, you can place your speakers where they belong. The problem is that those screens are pointless if the auditorium is small because you'll see that the screen is perforated.
Better to have a think beforehand and realise that you need to compromise. Left and right are supposed to be placed right near the edges--inside would be best but outside is a good approximation if you don't have the equipment--because films will be mixed with that setup in mind. It's about consistency in psychoacoustics rather than exact measurements. It's how our brains work.
The centre is what it is. I'd go with placing the HF above the screen, angled, and would probably prefer a higher split to the subwoofer if possible, but depending on where the sub is placed.
My living room, OTOH, has a 50" plasma and the centre placed below the screen. It works because the viewing distance and the angle of the centre plays tricks on the mind. The side speakers are a bit further outside the screen edges than what Dolby prescribed, but again it's psychoacoustics rather than an exact science.
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Bumpity bump.
I was a naive little cunt back when I made this thread.
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I know what you look like. You are fucking fat with dark circles under you eyes. You look like an Unger.
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I know what you look like. You are fucking fat with dark circles under you eyes. You look like an Unger.
I look average and the dark circles under my eyes aren't a thing anymore, so you're wrong on that front. Christ, I posted images of myself from last year in the photos thread that gives a more accurate representation of what I look like.
And even if I was a bit tubby, are you in any position to make fun of someone else's weight? I know what you look like, you have dark greasy hair and you're obese. :orly: