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D-Dan wrote:

I heartedly suggest a trip into space, and then look back.

Book now with Virgin Galactic!

https://tinyurl.com/ybmhsxq7

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Thanks Wasbit, I have checked those out and installed necessary Addons. This is something I knew zilch about, thanks for the education! Apparently I have a uniquely identifiable fingerprint. Should I be concerned?

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Thanks JCD, good spot.

I have asked the Humax site:    https://uk.humaxdigital.com/    -for info regarding the 1100S, it supports Freetime. They have a very good website, with a very responsive Online Chat service.

That’s a TV solution for me too, sorted. ?

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Reminds me of the alleged messages between a US Navy ship and a RN ship, during WWII:

USN: “How is the world’s second largest Navy?”

RN: “Fine thank you – how is the world’s second best Navy?”

(Or words to that effect.)

I hope the Yanks have some good seamen in charge of those huge carriers. Come to think of it, I hope the RN finds seamen good enough to navigate and steer our own 2 new huge white elephants.

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dwynnehugh wrote:

The Earth IS flat, didn’t we all play marbles as kids, if the Earth was round they wouldn’t have stayed where they were put.

I once lost a half-crown in 1956 on an errand for me mam. It rolled away until I couldn’t find it, cost me several smacks around the head. Proof positive!

Tadka, the fact that your Scientology friends are good people, does not mean that their beliefs are not dumb. Next door to me is a guy who was well on his way to an obese death: alcoholic, heavy smoker, lost the use of his legs. Had a visit from a Mormon a couple of years ago, became a convert. He is now several stones lighter, dresses smartly and goes out regularly. That does not obscure the fact that a religion built upon some guy finding golden tablets in an American mountain cave, is preposterous and plain silly.

The Earth is not Spherical: it is orange-shaped, being slightly flattened at the Poles. It is an oblate spheroid.

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I think it’s a question of choice BL: yes there are more programmes on Freesat, plus there’s Netflix. Review here –

https://tinyurl.com/ybylf8bc

Freesat manual for the Humax 1100S, which is my preferred choice:

https://tinyurl.com/ydaqcrxn

There is a way to access non-Freesat channels called Freetime, but from what I have read, it isn’t very successful with the previous one-cable, non-F type connections, as used in older Freesat boxes and original Sky boxes. Might be OK with the newer boxes with 2x F-type connectors. Apparently on some setups, it knocks out programme settings and they have to be reset. There is an Android and an iOs app that can be used to control set from a device. Catch ups from loads of channels. There is only one HDMI socket, but anyone needing more could invest in one of these, or similar:

https://tinyurl.com/y7mfqknu

Had a call from another aerial company today: £100 to remove the Sky LNB, supply & fit a new Freesat LNB, remove cables from interior and lay through loftspace. Satmate has not got back to me yet, but that’s a yardstick. Might save my son from climbing through all the insulation up there.

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All the best to you and family Lee, hope dad is OK and your teeth now less of a problem.

I had a similar problem to yours last year: face 3x normal size on left, excruciating pain. Dentist saw me and said the abscess was too big, gave me pain killers and antibiotics, which was a problem as I have allergies to Penicillin and had to wait for some others. Got bloody mad with it, sterilised a needle and stabbed the thing.* Instant biological volcano, as you say too much detail is irrelevant, but a week of antibiotics killed it off. Like banging your head against a wall, so good when it stops!

Dentist appeared disappointed that I would not let him pull the tooth, but about 13 months later it’s still here, had 2 more checkups since.

And yes, this Oldphart still has most of his own choppers!

Forget this place for a bit Lee, your family and health are more important. We will keep an eye out for spam. Good luck & good health to you & yours.

*Do not try this at home!!!!

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PlaneMan wrote:

I’d call that a result!

Certainly is Nolan, (hope it) works for me. Off to yet another hospital appointment, Satmate is calling this afternoon. Hope he remembers me handing out his cards all over the county, 20 years ago! He started as an aerial fitter, now has a business fitting audio/video/internet to commercial and Council/social housing/business premises all over the East Midlands, a workforce in double figures and his two sons.

I love it when a local guy makes it. He is heavily involved in the village community as well; one of the good guys.

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Further to my last: acting upon information from a FB mate, I accessed the Humax site and asked them the same question. I received an automated acknowledgement email within 10 minutes and an informational response after another 35 minutes. On a Bank Holiday Monday, from an actual human being! This is one company that I am pleased to complete a Customer Survey for.

Apparently all I need is to purchase a different LNB and swap that for the one on the dish. The 2x F-Type connectors will work to give me Freesat. They even told me which box is best for the job:

https://tinyurl.com/y9nr68br

There is a professional Satellite company in the village, headed by a guy I have known for 20 years, who can fit the whole thing and lay the cables through the loft. Happy!

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Determined, inspired lunacy, with an attempt to use mathematical proof. That’s just what we need on a boring Bank Holiday Monday.

One question: When you look out to sea from a fixed point on land, irrespective of the height of that fixed point, why is the horizon an arc of a circle?

Then there’s this:

http://www.popsci.com/10-ways-you-can-prove-earth-is-round

But thanks for brightening up my day.

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JCD, I just subscribed to DofG and sent a msg to Mr Brew, with compliments from us ex-MM forumites.

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+1 Ed I hear that comment! (Pun intended ?)

I have a new digital hearing aid in my left lughole, which is a big improvement on the previous analogue effort. Still having problems, but soon to attend another Audiology appointment to test and fit the right ear and fit a longer tube to the left. However, I can now hear everything spoken, even by most people whose English is not their first language. Americans are another story: apart from most Southern Americans. One of my favourite US comedians is Reginald D. Hunter*, who is I believe an Alabaman, I can understand his speech better than NewYorkers, Bostonians or (????) Californians, all of whom have taken the English language and masticated it into gobbledook, IMHO.

*My favourite Reggie retort, to Ian Hislop on HIGNFY: Hislop – “What do you know about Shakespeare, Reginald?”

Reggie – “He dead.”

 

 

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The ‘distance to empty’ feature of any car trip computer, is the most inaccurate feature, IMO. Unless your Bentleys, Ferarris and Astons etc. have some wonderful tech that is accurate to the last mile and last millilitre, every car I have had with one of these has been (literally) miles out. Watch it if you can as you drive: it jumps around like the FTSE did, for 48 hours after the Brexit result. It is continually adjusting for tank contents, acceleration/deceleration, engine load, engine temp’s, air temp and all the other factors that the car’s computer has to measure. The stuff in the tank, for instance, is sloshing about and affecting the sender unit as you accelerate, decelerate, go up and down inclines and around bends.

When you come to a halt and switch off, it has to catch up. I have quite often seen my display (on several cars) settle and show more miles left than when I started a shortish journey! When I switch back on again, it changes to something more believable, but not necessarily accurate. Reminds me of the old sailors of sailing ships, who dropped a stone covered in soap over the side, to judge depth by the knots in the rope. The soap stuck to the seabed and showed what the seabed consisted of. Fuel trips are about as accurate as that, maybe less so!

But you are obviously happy with your new motor Nolan, have some happy motoring.?

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True words, Ed. “swords into ploughshares” just did not happen. The ‘swords’ just became more powerful and those who sold them became obscenely wealthy by selling them to the highest bidder, irrespective of the bidder’s intentions or Human Rights reputation.

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This says it all for me in that Review link, Ed:

” When I moved back about 7 feet from the displays, differences between 4K and HD content were not discernable to any meaningful degree. In all cases, the differences between the two formats were in the very finest details in the image. ”

A little over 7 feet, is the distance from our sofa to the screen of our 40″ Sony dumb goggle-box. Couple that with our declining eyesight and inabilty to discern a difference between UHD and 1080p, and there is no reason why we should spend daft money on a TV. Then consider Steve‘s excellent summing-up:

” Clunky ui, slow cpu, low support, broken apps, spying scandal, builtin end of life, all on your dime. A smart box and dumb tv is half the price. Especially when you point out the majority of tvs all share 1 or 4 (iirc panels oems), so the picture is all but the same if the tvs is bought I’m the same year and the same res. ”

No contest, as long as my dumb Sony does what we want, it stays on the wall. If it dies, we have to hope that we can find an equally dumb (but essentially smarter) option.

Dave, I am soon going to cancel my Sky at contract end and will probably also buy a Humax. I can use the Sky dish with that, I believe. For me, apart from just a couple of box sets, Sky has been a bust.

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I always thought that Reagan was much more intelligent than believed by those who laughed at his ‘gaffes’. He used and understood irony much more than 95% of his fellow Americans. He is one of only two presidents who made the Cold War Soviets back down and need a toilet break, the other being JFK. Between RR and Maggie, the Soviet Bloc was utterly confused most of the time. The seemingly ‘warmongering’ POTUS Reagan, actually forced the Soviets into more and more miliary spending, which brought about their economic collapse and the ultimate downfall of the Soviet Union.

I believe this was the result of a programme carried out by the US government, with the help of the UK and others, with the aim of bringing about that collapse.

When I served a total of 7¾ years in BAOR, we Brits and other NATO troops believed that we would not survive long, should the USSR and allies attack. Had we but known, even in the 70’s, most of their armour and vehicle mobility was hampered by poor maintenace and breakdowns. Their rank and file were all conscripts, mainly from poor areas. We were a small, but professional, regular Army, and we believed that we would only slow them down, but we also believed that we did not want them to get past us in strength. In short, without saying it out loud, we were prepared to take as many with us as we could.

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Always loved The Who, not just for their music but their absolute lunacy, don’t think there was ever another band in which every member demonstrated some form of idiocy. Creative, but each bonkers in their own way. Of all the “Rock Operas” that emerged from the 60’s and 70’s, “Tommy” and “Quadrophenia” were so different. Whoever chose the cast of Tommy and their roles, was either a genius or a certifiable lunatic.

Besides the band, the following: Ann-Margaret, Elton John, Jack Richardson, Tina Turner, Eric Clapton, Robert Powell, Paul Nicholas. Not forgetting the guy who was REALLY detached from reality – Oliver Reed, who played a great part. Many more of course, but keeping tabs on that lot must have been a real problem.

Thanks for that, Nolan. Watching it tonight. Quadrophenia should follow that soon, BBC is nothing if not predictatble.

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Smug Git Time!

My Sony Bravia KDL40RD453BU * is a dumb TV, although it has an ethernet port. (not currently used) It has all the FullHD picture I need, as I cannot tell the difference between that and the UHD sets in the showrooms. My bungalow lounge is the biggest room and is still too small for anything larger than 40″.

*Why are the designations so long? There must be a better way to differentiate the models.

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Many Americans look back on Ray-Guns’ Administrations as the Golden Years. He and Thatcher were very close. Same people (and their descendants) think the Trumper is the Greatest.

Go figure, as they say over the pond.

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Thanks guys.

Drezha the camera restart happened to my Swift for a while, until I discovered that my arthritic hands were catching the cam icon at the edge of the phone, every time I tried to swipe. Irritated me until I realised that.

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