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Took three commercial breaks during Grace, so about eight or nine minutes.

Quote from: Nickslikk2112 on November 21, 2024, 09:50:24 PMWhat pisses me off - like it does with most adverts theses days is the:

"Create Exuberant" Create exuberant what?

"Live Vivid" Live vivid what?

"Delete Ordinary" Delete Ordinary what?

Adjectives and Adverbs are separate syntactical parts of grammar. Just because they both start with "Ad" it doesn't mean they are interchangeable. Go a bit further down that road and language becomes complete gibberish.

We had an English teacher in first year who used to step outside of the curriculum to cover general analysis. I remember being quite fascinated by the topic but never got to grips with it properly as he moved along too quickly. This was because he had taught it to a few of the pupils who had moved up from the lower school where he had also taught them. I hadn't, so was a bit lost. I tried to buy a book on the subject recently but couldn't find one. There were books on grammar but I couldn't find any of the expressions that would fly about the classroom, like "governing the verb.......". I'll try again. Maybe my memory is just playing tricks.

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Bit of a slog for some reason. Ten minutes.

1960s gangsters and bookmakers must be spinning in their graves.

Likewise, as Harry Enfield's mate used to say.

This was on my YouTube feed this evening,

https://youtu.be/9dbHLy2z5J0?si=I7utB5jKjtGZKt12

As a lifelong fan of Queen I was stunned to discover this extended version of Lily Of The Valley, one of Freddie's greatest works. I find it quite difficult not to become emotional whenever I hear it. The original is very short so I was intrigued as to why additional verses would end up on the cutting room floor. The new parts took the song in a slightly different direction with the transition from the album version into the new territory slightly clumsy, as were some of the lyrics. I thought perhaps that is why they were discarded, Freddie being the utter perfectionist.

Then it dawned. It's AI. Very, very clever AI, but not from the mind of a genius but rather a piece of software. I find this extremely upsetting. Like trying to capture a human soul in a jar. We are on a dangerous road. No good can come of this.

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About fifteen seconds.

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Eight minutes, nearly all on line three. Just couldn't see it until I did.

An old friend who moved away a while back finally replied to a Facebook message I sent four years ago. He'd missed it entirely. He was a keen photographer and back in 1979 he managed to take the most incredible photos of Queen at the Glasgow Apollo. I was with him both nights and was extremely worried for his safety when he sneaked down to the front at one point to get some fantastic close ups. The Apollo bouncers had a fearsome reputation and were well known for beating folk up and smashing their cameras. However, he got away with it and later that night printed off some pictures of the concert in his garden shed. He gave me several copies which I have always treasured.

Many years later whilst working as a cop at the SECC, he left some photos for Sir Brian. Brian later got in touch with him apologising for the fact that he mistakenly thought they were just for signing and selling on eBay and not realising they were a gift without any catch. He promised to do something with them and later they were published in a book about the Crazy tour by Gary Taylor. My friend is also a real aircraft geek and sent me some lovely shots of various civil and military aircraft. Some of the A380, Glasgow Airport pictures are really fantastic.

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About two minutes.

Quote from: David L on November 18, 2024, 08:21:11 PM

Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on November 18, 2024, 07:18:53 PMDepth of snow predicted for tomorrow stated in centimetres. Impossible to visualise. Use millimetres if you have to be all metric.

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Nah, centimetres is Blue Peter speak. If it's going to be 3" of snow, say that, or 75mm. Timber, building materials, tools, plumbing, etc etc etc, all millimetres. No fractions of centimetres necessary. Then you go on Amazon and you're multiplying by ten again. Totally unnecessary. 25 is the new magic unit these days be it relating to dimensions, weight or volume. Centimetres should be banned.

Depth of snow predicted for tomorrow stated in centimetres. Impossible to visualise. Use millimetres if you have to be all metric.

Quote from: Slim on November 16, 2024, 07:41:06 PM

Quote from: The Picnic Wasp on November 16, 2024, 06:08:32 PM

Quote from: Thenop on November 16, 2024, 03:40:46 PMWe need a picture of that double neck, now.

I'd love to oblige but every time I try to post picture on here I seem to end up on some shady looking, ad ridden site. Maybe because I'm on the iPad only these days but I should be getting a Mac again quite soon so I'll try again.

I think you have my email address? If you'd like, email an image to me and I'll post it.

Thanks, James. I do still have your address in messages. I'd like you to post a picture of it but I'm slightly reluctant having just had a look at its tired appearance. I've always been very kind to anything I've ever owned, even going back to my days with toys. All my friends' stuff was always beaten up and scruffy looking, in a well used way, whilst mine were generally pristine and carefully put away. I've still got some having always possessed a bit of the hoarding gene. The Shergold is missing strings, has corroded bridges and a number of dings, exacerbated by the infamous Shergold finish crackling. Still, maybe I'll post it as a before image until I get round to the after TLC pic.

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