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I have a Denon DP-200USB deck, Pioneer Z-CM32BTD HiFi with 2 good speakers. It’s fine and does what I want, including recording my massive vinyl collection, which I never seem to get around to finishing. Over the years I have had some very good systems, including the original Garrard 401, mated to an Eagle 100Watt tuner/amp. A Danish Arena Quad tuner/amp with a Philips electronic deck and a big, beautiful Akai Stereo open reel tape deck. That tape deck is the one item that I wish I had kept: the inbuilt speakers were good on their own, big horns either side of the vertical case. Most of that stuff was bought in BAOR during the late 60’s and mid 70’s, from a Dutch Air Force NAAFI-equivalent shop. I found it and was given a purchasing card by a great Dutch mate. He made myself and 2 mates keep it secret, because the prices were subsidised to Dutch armed forces by the Netherlands government and he would have been in big trouble if it became known that he was helping other NATO personnel to shop there.
I love vinyl, but my old ears can no longer tell the difference between CD, vinyl and MP3 digital. A lot of my music streamed and played in the car on a USB drive, is taken from CD. I have several Stones Vinyl LP’s that were played only to record, but when they began to digitalise their albums, I bought the digitalised CD’s. I defy anyone to tell the difference, even with ears better than mine. In fact, for clarity, which is important to u/s lugholes, I believe the dig CD’s are clearer. I can certainly pick out more of the instrumentals, especially with the older stuff: Brian Jones’ guitar on “The Last Time” * is fantastic on the dig CD.
IIRC a certain conversation with Jason correctly in MM days, that means my stance on the CD/vinyl question has done a 180!
*(not dig- it’s the original Mono) – https://youtu.be/ncRkWJmRzX8
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I'm out.What sums that link up best is Independent.co.uk
👍 Blimey Graham, 3 times in a week!!!
D’yer think anyone noticed?
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I'm out.November 1, 2019 at 4:26 pm in reply to: Read First if flying on a Boeing 737 Max–or maybe not! #37921That’s a cracker Ed. Once taking an interminable trip via RAF Hercules along with other Brown Jobs packed into the fuselage. The atmosphere became fuggier and fuggier, with squaddies smoking, eating from ration packs and redirecting internal gases that were the inevitable result of such fare. We were on canvas seats that could be detached, so waited for our tiny CSM to fall into a beer-induced sleep, then detached him, seat and all. We left him in a dark compartment near the tail and debarked at RAF Lyneham. We heard evidence of his annoyance as we boarded our trucks, he was very loud for a small guy.
Extra Drill for us, before we could take Disembarkation Leave.
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I'm out.Thanks guys!
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I'm out.October 31, 2019 at 4:50 pm in reply to: Read First if flying on a Boeing 737 Max–or maybe not! #37890From your first link Ed, an unfortunate comment by the retired engineer:
“A crack like this is similar to when you see a crack in a coffee cup handle,” the retired engineer tells us. “You can likely continue using the cup several more times, but there’s always a risk that handle will break off and hot coffee will wind up in your lap.”
No coffee cup has to withstand the effects of sub-zero temperatures at extreme altitude, then a return to land in much higher temperatures and varying humidity. A lapful of hot coffee, however painful, is somewhat less terminal than a detached wing at 40,000 feet. To quote a fellow passenger on his first flight, to Budapest this year: “F******g H**l the wing’s going up and down!” That was a 737-800. If you don’t know that happens, it is quite scary. Watching a wing fall off would IMO initially be a gradual process.
Anyone with shares in Boeing now has a choice. Anyone contemplating a flight in any mark of Boeing 737 also has a choice. My next foray into Europe will be via Eurostar and my motor. Jersey and Guernsey look good, if the flight is by another type. I fancy Belgium next year, then on to Bavaria. By road, with periodic B&B stops.
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I'm out.Honest maybe Ed. Competent, no. I could never vote for the kind of committed idiot who wants to do enough ‘good works’ to bankrupt the nation. Sorry, further bankrupt the nation. His brand of Socialism is as close to Communism as makes no difference. My great concern is how many new voters he impresses with his fairy tales.
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I'm out.The big joke has always been on the Blairites of the Labour party. They put Corbin forward as a novelty candidate because they didn’t believe their party was full of mad Marxists any more. Oh how I laughed.
Blimey Graham I am agreeing with you!😲😊😋
Same reason why John Prescott was made Deputy to Blair: they thought he would be a suitable Working Class Figure to represent the Oiks and Peasants. He was often portrayed by the media and opposition as a figure of fun, but in Hull they still love him, he did a lot of good constituency work. Which is what they are supposed to be there for, but so many forget that.
In East Lindsey we still miss Sir Peter Tapsell, who was a good example of a proper MP. Always available to his constituents, had a surgery in both Louth and Horncastle, very approachable. Helped members of my family twice, was instrumental in forcing our unsocial landlord to replace our ancient night storage heaters with GCH. Spoke against both Gulf Wars and the Afghanistan mess, correctly predicted that the West would suffer a terrorist backlash and find it impossible to win and difficult to extract. Possessed a wonderful SOH: in his late seventies, electioneering around our villages standing in the back of a Land Rover pickup, with a megaphone. Called at our friend’s house, she opened the door, SPT rolls his eyes and says “Wow! A blonde!”
Never be another like him, what a character and what a good MP. I have to vote for his replacement Victoria Atkins, who despite a few early mistakes is doing better. Says she lives among her constituents, which means a large house in a large piece of beautiful countryside. Oh well, I see no other choice TBH. The alternatives range from laughable, through impossible, to possibly the ruin of the country. I suspect many more than me will see it that way. Fill your boots Boris.
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I'm out.Thanks Ed. I will give this to my lad, atm he is busy at the academy where he is ‘temporary’ head caretaker, running 3 large schools. Half term restart, any post-holiday startup, is a busy time for him as 2 schools are well apart and the other is miles away. ‘Temporary’ because the actual head is on his second cancer battle and the school will not give up on him. One of the reasons my lad likes working there; they are loyal to staff and treat caretaking staff like human beings.
gog.com looks good, I’ll pass that on. First thing I told him was to right click and Run As Admin, he hasn’t been back to me, but lives two villages away, commutes 10 miles each way to Louth, then often away at the distant school, working all hours atm. I gave them the Work Ethic!
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I'm out.Mate of mine was a Vulcan Tech when I was in AAC: he also complained about MoD cost-cutting even then. At the same time, our AAC Gliding club was entertaining Fast jet fighter pilots at weekends and they were making similar complaints. Kit is kit and always subject to penny-pinching by unCivil Servants. From a Vulcan to an (English Electric) Lightning, through to the £billion Lightning today, it is all at the mercy of these barstewards. Goes all the way back to the 17th Century, I think Cromwell’s New Model Army was the last to be protected from penny-pinching, until Quarter Master Generals were invented and started pinching bits of military expenditure, then expanding their empires, aided and abetted by families buying commissions for their relatives.
Probably explains why Cromwell won so many battles! In N.I many of us Support Arms squaddies, having done Para or other SF training, were drafted onto the streets. We had to take our personal weapon ammunition from our own unit stores and could not have more than ten rounds! In a SLR 24 round mag, or SMG 34 round mag! Paras or RM used to open up the back of a Humber Pig and tell us to help ourselves. Infantry wouldn’t do that, only ones were DLI, or RNF: Geordie lads.
As a Sniper, I had to fight like hell to get enough for classifying 4 times a year. Our Armed Forces don’t need foreign enemies, they already have MoD!
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I'm out.Graham: 👍😁👍
John I think your system would really benefit from either a cheap ‘n’ cheerful NAS, or as BL advises, an external Hdd connected to your router. What router do you have?
Personally, one of the best (if not the best) computing moves I made, was to listen to my IT worker grandson and buy a simple Zyxel nsa 310, several years ago, and setup Network Sharing, with streaming between devices (don’t know how that’s done with 10). Recently refreshed the NAS with a 2 TB Hdd and I can backup anything on the network, stream between devices and find music, videos and pics on any device, all from the NAS.
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I'm out.No wasn’t me John. Haven’t forgotten the SATA, got to dig it out and test it, been on weekend Granddad Duty. Sorry!
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I'm out.Out here in the boondocks we get an hourly service, 6 days a week, starts at 7:30, ends at 19:00. None at all on Sundays, even in the Holiday season, which is so daft for a tourist area that it beggars belief. When I say ‘hourly’ I mean whenever it gets here, after the time it should have left but probably didn’t. The service runs from Lincoln to Louth and links to the Grimsby bus and the Mablethorpe bus, which used to link to the Skegness bus. Now there is no way to get to Skeg from anywhere in Lincs on public transport If we had a train service, that could be an option, but we don’t: Beeching saw to that. I cannot tell how many times I have left home for Louth or Mablethorpe, (opposite directions) picked up friends and neighbours who have been waiting at least 30 minutes for a Stagecoach bus. Heck, an actual, real stagecoach would be a better service!
The big problem is distance between villages and the few towns in Lincolnshire, particularly my area of East Lindsey. The Lincoln bus should arrive in Louth bus station at (say) 12:00. Waiting for it (or not) are the Grimsby and Mablethorpe buses. The Mablethorpe bus has to go past, in and around a lot of villages which are spread out around some narrow roads. One combine Harvester, one broken down truck, RTC or a cycle road race and a delay event snowballs. Same applies to the Grimsby bus, with even worse roads. This is an agricultural county with large farm combines and very few dual carriageways. The Lincoln bus has to return to Lincoln by a certain time, although that journey has the best and fastest roads, like a whole 50 mph in some places and even 60 in others! Quite often, the Lincoln bus leaves without seeing one or both of the other buses. The whole service, seriously advertised as “Connect Lincs”, falls apart and connection is lost. Gradually, one or two local companies are taking up some of the slack, but by a process I cannot fathom, they are not allowed to advertise a timetable. Anyone who wants one, has to phone and either ask for it to be posted, or go to the company’s office and get one. If they knew which bus to take them there, that is.
There is a very good Lincoln-based company, PC Coaches, which has been trying to escape the dead grip of Stagecoach upon services and has managed to get some routes. Originally, the local Lincolnshire company was totally Lincs and called “Lincolnshire Road Car”. It served the whole county and further afield, but Stagecoach bought it out years ago. After an initial good service, when subsidies were available, their service has become worse and worse. I can foresee a time when local bus companies will come back into vogue, but in the meantime the Stagecoach vampire continues to suck the life out of public transport here. I’m just glad we have a car, but many of the more elderly and young people who want to get out for a night, don’t have that option. If at some point my driving is getting worse, we will have to move to Louth, and I love my village.
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I'm out.👍👍👍
EDIT: Thought occurred to me: how is that different to the human Wage Slave parking his car at a station and commuting to work in an overcrowded city? How long before the rats’ stress levels rise?
I do get these thoughts…
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I'm out.No worries JayCeeDee, whatever Richard tells me that can be passed on here, I will. But I will leave him be for now, he is chuffed that we all thought of him, is my belief.
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I'm out.I have a 160 GB somewhere John, will PM when I find it. I will find P&P for it and that’s all I want, not using it, I’ll test it and tell you tomorrow.
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I'm out.Thanks to RSB for passing Richard’s message. I can now give a little more information.
Richard has had a few problems with work he was trying to do to his garage and shed. Managed to injure himself, not badly and he is OK now. Basically, he is quite depressed atm by the state of the country and, reading between the lines of his long message, the fact of ageing abilities not allowing him to carry out tasks he wants to finish. I share that problem of course!
The good news is that his health has improved thanks to a spinal injection and the cancer affecting his wife has taken a step back. Also, his Asperger’s daughter has found a new determination to re-enter education.
I think he puts it best by saying he is in ‘retreat mode’ and is concentrating on health and family issues for now. I will stay in touch and have given him my email, wished him and family all the best from us all.
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I'm out.Thanks Lee
It is good news, no real health worries, a long and very “Richard” message, I will get back to everyone and tell you the result, but I have to read and reply to Richard first. He sends his thanks to everyone for our concern but I don’t think we will be seeing him here for a while. I will stay in touch with him: more later.
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I'm out.Short answer is no, they don’t Steve.
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I'm out.There is no point in my continuing here. There are two contributors who ignore the truth and use hypotheses to make up any argument that suits them. I’m off, with (similar) words that I used last time in the (real) Brexit thread: in the aftermath of our departure from the EU, I will return to tell you where you went wrong in voting Leave. If I am still kicking, that is. I rely on those with a real focus to pass that message, if I am gone.
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I'm out.A mess that gets messier every single day. What an odorous, stinking pile of ordure this whole Brexit process has become. We have gone from a respected, honourable nation to divided, argumentative, quarrelsome cliques in less than a decade. The Union that was the United Kingdom, that gave the world so much and created so much, including good government, is now totally broken. It is the end of something that was an example to the world and is now the worst example the world could want to emulate.
My poor country, to become much poorer as a result of not enough people able to understand what effect the Brexit process will finally have upon them.
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