General Chat

I like predictive text on the news - always on in the bank - was there one day when there was an item of queues at the border between Gibraltar and Spain - the text read "Jews are being abused at the border" - hysterical

Subtitles can be hilarious!! :-D :-D

I detest these programs, where the film jumps from shot to shot in 1 second intervals, unwanted background noise (aka music, and sound effects...) eg tipping point, does the cd thing REALLY have to have any added noises? ,

is the so-called suspense noise really necessary when waiting for answers?

thank heaven for subtitles...............WHEN they can keep in sync with the spoken word.....

If you say so.

maybe ads should have content warnings with the option to skip or watch?
for instance ads about chocolate and Audrey Hepburn might do quite well while death defying helicopter flights (*) to validate yr choice of mobile phone sub may not. It is technically possible so why not ?

Or going a little bit further maybe tv ads could be integrated with yr Google preferences thus forever escaping from fat men in hot pants, would be us pulp fiction gangsters selling car insurance and so on. But whose preferences? What happens when teen grandson has tuned preferences to Levi 511s and free running?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPBi23LMBus

(*) Phil Reynolds and helicopter suspended from a crane.

I don't normally watch films or, indeed, read fiction and I would certainly not want to be 'entertained' by something that portrayed a situation like that so I don't think I should have it shown during a programme that I am choosing to watch.

No, I have never watched a Bond film and never wanted to.

roflh

I absolutely HATE the men in high heeled shoes and padded shorts adverts

They make me cringe and certainly wouldn't make me use the product they are promoting

BUT having worked for Unilever I know that adverts that make you talk are doing the trick because they stick in your mind and subconsciously they come to the fore when looking for the product .

I can't remember though what the pants men are advertising other than high interest rate loans or something :-(

:-D :-D :-D :-D

I don't like heights either - but the 'leading actor' does nothing for me, so I don't care. I just know he's earning stupid money - and that's going onto the bills of those using that phone/network/hair gel, or whatever they're advertising :-D

And I think - thank goodness I'm using an ancient 'pay as you go' :-D :-D :-D

And it still scares the living shot out of me!

He's not really high, Sharron.



Honest!!

Just imagine how they did it - okay there may have been a stunt man for the distant pics - but he loves heights, and is paid a fortune.
However, the 'star' is probably no more than 4 foot off the ground (insurance), with a green screen all around him, and the 'height' footage is added after.

It doesn't stop me hiding behind the sofa when that bloody ad is on though does it?

oops - forgot - he's a gardening expert as well - move over Monty Don!!

I'm with you Bob, and magpie and Maggie - Rollo has been everywhere, seen everything, done everything, knows everyone - why he hasn't won Mastermind I have no idea - he's a flippin' genius - well he thinks he is anyway

I was working on a "witty riposte" myself Maggie, but you are better at it than me. I must admit that this thread has had me laughing. We have a bloke like R-t-R down the pub. Been everywhere, done everything, read (or written) the book, bought the T shirt. etc. etc. ad nauseum. I await a explanation of the Latin phrase, from it's Greek root word, from Farsi, via Clingon. That's sarcasm, by the way, not irony.

Rollo would know all about the rest of Somerset - Wick St Lawrence is in Weston Super Mare - a highly built up area compared to most of Somerset, but is, apparently 'typical' of the rest of Somerset - really?. I expect that area has both street lighting and 90% coverage, unlike most of rural Somerset.

Obviously, the FACT that we can't contact our brother from anywhere when he's in his studio and we instantly lose the signal as soon as we're more than 5 miles west of the M5. is a figment of our imagination - because Weston Super Mare has a 'perfect' signal.
Oh - and there's very little 'street' lighting for miles leading up to my brother's studio - roads go on for miles without the glimmer of a light.
The FACT that none of us can any of us get an inkling of a signal until we get to Williton is obviously a figment of our imagination/the wrong phone/we can't use our phones/ wrong provider/ any reason other than the phone signal in Somerset is Cr*p.

Of course, according to Rollo, It's not cr*p, because Rollo's got a house in Weston Super Mare, and he/his tenants can get a signal from there!!

If I said Southern Rail is rubbish at the moment, I've no doubt Rollo would contradict, and 'state' that the train service is amazingly good, because he has a relly up North and has no problem with the trains up there, so Southern Rail must (by that account) be excellent, and I'm talking out of my hat. . :-|

Um...does Apple know that street lighting isn't that prevalent in rural areas? Who would pay to run Street lighting with UV bulbs? Currently streetlight is provided and paid for by the county councils or their city equivalents.
It sounds very much like another development which will bypass rural communities, either small holder farms in the middle of no where, or the little clusters of houses left from a bygone age.

90% of people in Somerset can get a reasonable phone signal and most can get 3G. Yeah probably more of a problem for the cowz and applez.

In any case current wifi / 3G GSM technology is obsolete and the UK should stop trying to roll out this steam age architecture.

The replacement technology is cheap and cheerful LED lights which can be got to provide over 1 Gb data transmission speed. Moreover it does not suffer from the line-of-sight problem. It would be massively disruptive to the business model of OpenReach and physical ISPs. Apple is experimenting with it for their mobile phones. Outside it can run using street lighting with UV capable bulbs.


If the UK is to make a success of brexit then it needs to be getting into the roll out of very leading edge technlogy in the UK not an "industrial strategy" based on the mythical renaissance of UK widget manufacture and export to the BRICS. As it is no doubt in a few years time we will be importing the stuff from Huweii.

https://goo.gl/8aQzmq
http://www.mobileindustryreview.com/2015/12/lifi-light-based-communication.html

Rollo, Is there anywhere on this planet to which you don't have some personal connection, a career that you haven't participated in at a senior level, people you aren't connected to or personal friends with, any subject about which you are not an expert? The list would appear to be endless!!!

If you want to be really pernickety, it's "zoider".

And I agree with Sharron - some adverts shouldn't be shown!