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Bugger, laptop not responding - having to use desktop in study. Means that I can't browse web while Fliss is watching "call the midwife" and suchlike.
I have that on dvd ,that my daughter gave me 3 yrs ago . I havent watched it yet ,but wasnt that the basis for Allo Allo , or am I imagining it??:lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
I must root it out but I recall the very same thoughts about it as you did , a bit boring ,and no Michelle in a maids outfit :eek:
On another random note , I have had a quiet time with my hi fi , not had it on for a few weeks and cant be arsed to play any vinyl , as I am too lazy!!
Alexa keeps me amused most of the time :eyebrows:
great series. quite a lot of episodes too. ive got it on my hard drive. and yes allo allo was a parody of it, even tho secret army was belgian.
Wasn't my thing at all. And iirc, the theme music was similarly dreary. My mum was into it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
No-one in our house was into it. My dad wouldn't be home from work yet, my brothers would be at cubs and the only thing my mother ever watched was Coronation Street, and maybe This Is Your Life if it was someone she liked. We used to dread that as she'd insist on turning the channel over to see who it was and we'd pray it was no-one she was bothered about, or we'd be stuck with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Just hearing that Secret Army theme tune and seeing the opening credits again sparked a Pavlovian reaction in me. 'Oh no. Got to do my homework.'
not sure what time it was broadcast but i think it was just after teatime, or dinner time elsewhere.. back of 6 o'clock??Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
It was broadcast in the late 70's, so I had no problem being somewhere else. We had a second living room with another telly and the family stereo, my bedroom with my stereo, and there was always the pub :) Not that I did any of these things just to avoid Secret Army.
I never did any of my homework at home, my school had a thing called homework detention for that sort of thing. Which preceded Secret Army by quite a few years.
only homework i did was cutting grass etc; anyone's grass:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
I would guess it was on in the 7 o'clock slot, BBC2.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
The one I saw the other night was first broadcast in November 1978. I would have been ten years old.
ok, yes could have been.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
i used to watch it so it must have been before pub time:D
on another note, i see putin has banned old joe biden from travelling to russia, :( i can just hear joe now....."well thats the holidays screwed jill;)
lol yes I thought that. Pictured him unpacking his suitcase, chucking his fur hat back in the wardrobe.
Russia Today has had its licence to broadcast in the UK revoked with immediate effect after watchdog Ofcom said it did not consider the channel "fit and proper" or a "responsible broadcaster".
The media regulator said that it had taken into account "a number of factors" including the fact that the news channel was funded by the Russian state "which has recently invaded a neigbouring sovereign country".
Ofcom also cited new laws in Russia "which effectively criminalise any independent journalism that departs from the Russian state's own news narrative, in particular in relation to the invasion of Ukraine".
"We consider that given these constraints it appears impossible for RT to comply with the due impartiality rules of our Broadcasting Code in the circumstances," the regulator added.
RT responded to the decision by saying Ofcom had shown itself to be "nothing more than a tool of government, bending to its media-suppressing will".
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: "This is a continuation of the madness which is going on in America and Europe - it is anti-Russian madness.
"This is yet another step that crudely limits freedom of speech."
if it werent so sad it would be hilarious... i wonder if the kremlin has a writer for all this pish they spout?
In case you wondered. The song on the 'Kayak' sponsored Pick tv channel is Oktoba, by Laura Greaves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANg5...annel=headcell
It caught my attention, so I looked it up.
If you have Shazam on your phone it's easy peasy. I can usually have the song title and artist before the advert is ended :)Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Strange thing with Shazam though, it doesn't seem to "listen" the same way we do. One time while on holiday I tried to identify a particular song some bloke was singing in this bar. Shazam was having none of it.
I don't use a smartphone. In fact I don't use any kind of mobile phone much at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Just set up a new one for my boy. His was giving issues. He got a Moto.
Doesn't work if the song is performed in the 'club' style.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
You're right - tried it, doesn't work.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
https://youtu.be/X1fYqd-mNhQ?list=RD3i2xnMnGKAQ&t=14
aye my google phone has something like that built in, and it needs to be an official version i think, i rarely use it even tho its always on as i can never find the results. i think its aligned with spotify
Fuel duty to be cut by 5p per litre apparently. Just watch the greedy fuel companies start easing pump prices up to absorb that!!
what about when he sings it again 'properly', does it not work then either? App must be rubbish in that case.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
I know, it can only do the easy stuff. Songs done in the 'club' style are what we need help with, and if the app can't do that, what's the point? To be fair though, Vic does sing "don't wanna be" rather more quickly than on the original.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
much good that is to me :DQuote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Bet you wish you'd kept the Toyota now, you'd be quids in :)Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
Nah, 5p is nowt to savings I get with electric, even when prices go up it'll still be way cheaper.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
In sport mode I also get the rocket takeoff lol
I knew all of that really. I can see that 'going electric' would bring savings, after initial purchase cost. I wish everything else could be that simple - it looks like my diesel-powered tumble dryer idea, despite obvious electricity savings, will be a non-starter :(Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
i never understood why water mills went out of fashion. One thing we're not short of here is water. You could use that to spin the washing machine, or do loads of other things. Charge a leccy car off it.
You'd need to move to a house by a stream though. Or divert one through your land, like they do in the westerns.
The good people of out-in-the-sticks America are very protective of their streams though - get it wrong and they'll go gunning for the man who stole their water - a guy from Utah once told me that.
You want one of these.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
https://i.ibb.co/M5c4D1D/s-l1600.jpg
If I ever won the lottery though, I'd buy a house next to a stream, I believe some good savings can be made with a water powered generator. No need for it ever to fail - during dry spells I could assist the stream by adding water from my tap via a garden hose :)
With all of that free power, you would have thought they would have at least a tumble dryer if not a washer/dryer. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Waterwheels apparently don't make good leccy makers
Well it certainly wouldn't work for me, with my lack of technical skills - I'd end up electrocuting the fishQuote:
Originally Posted by struth
The majority of water wheels are big, cumbersome and slow moving so dont really generate electricity well. Its not to say you couldnt do it tho. You just have to design a different one and put it in a place where it will spin quickly enough.
you can power a TV from a bicycle so a water wheel should do it easy.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
yeah it can but a normal waterwheel doesnt spin quickly enough reall to produce enough. you have to design it right and place it right too. it still wont do much more than a house and solar and wind are more productive on small scales. tidal works well too ... solar panels on my roof would likely produce all i need plus a bitQuote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Bit tricky following what's shown while you're pedalling along though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Macca
Microplastics found in human blood.
Microplastic pollution has been detected in human blood for the first time, with scientists finding the tiny particles in almost 80% of the people tested.
The discovery shows the particles can travel around the body and may lodge in organs. The impact on health is as yet unknown. But researchers are concerned as*microplastics cause damage to human cells*in the laboratory and*air pollution particles*are already known to enter the body and cause millions of early deaths a year.
And how much of that will be passed on to the customer :scratch: :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
latest I have heard is about 2p :steam:
I wouldn't have thought big and cumbersome would be a problem - as long as the wheel has some welly, the final drive can be quick as you like if it's geared down that way.Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
i heard none will be... the old excuse that they can do it til they change their tank contents, and by that time it will have vanished. thats why it wasnt taken off vat. another tory con.Quote:
Originally Posted by guy
did you see sunak talking about the devistation in ukraine and boris bursts out laughing? what a fuck we have as a pm
There will always be some who benefit from economic "events", unfortunately that never includes us :(Quote:
Originally Posted by guy
And the latest I've heard is that price of loft insulation is set to increase by about 55%. Just as folk will be looking at ways to cut down their energy usage. Boils my piss that does.
they will work and produce electric etc but they are not efficient. modern hydro is really a modern version which is fairly efficient. ideally you want the whell turning fairly even and relatively fast. not like a waterwheel which is better at producing a decent bit of muscle.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Ok I accept that a water wheel is probably not ideal, but living next to a stream can still save us some money - all I would need is a rock in the stream to beat the clothes on, and another rock next to it for Mrs. P to sit on :)Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
My grandmother did that. The locals had a pond and stream fed by a spring and washed their laundry there. It was in a tiny hamlet east of central France.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony
Yeah well they have clean streams in France ime, having done canoeing and fishing in some. Not like the watered-down gravy we have over here.Quote:
Originally Posted by walpurgis
Wind turbines are slow moving, but they generate electricity. There is no real reason why water wheels cannot be used to generate electricity for domestic use, as long as there is not a need for a lot of power (say < 20kW): https://www.askaprepper.com/homemade...ric-generator/,Quote:
Originally Posted by struth
What the f--- :steam:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony