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From: Rowland McDonnell on 18 Mar 2010 23:10 Graeme <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > adrian(a)poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Adrian Tuddenham) wrote: > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > [...] > > > Okay, let's talk about it from that point of view. > > > > > > BBC Alba - the Scots Gaelic language channel that hardly anyone wants at > > > all - costs 29.4p per hour. > > AIUI BBC Alba is paid for by the Scottish Government, not by the licence > payer. Hmm! Didn't know that. <shrug> Well, there you go. Either way, I want to see it continue. Too many languages have been lost. > > I have nothing against the Scottish accents, in fact I rather like them, > > but not time after time after time in every programme. > > Could be worse, they could all be fron Newcastle. Yers - at least ordinary human beings can understand Scottish accents. Drunken Geordies hitting the local dialect *hard* can end up incomprehensible to each other. I have witnessed this - the problem is a lot of the dialect is *very* local, you see. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 19 Mar 2010 00:19 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > Yep, flying shuttle looms of the old fashioned sort, but they only had > > (IIRC) four hooked up to the water-wheel powered belt drive when I was > > there last. > > More typically, in the shed I filmed in, there were hundreds of them, in > rows and columns. Well, yes. Of course. >Belt driven, but by electricity, which didn't make > them any quieter. Most had switched to power sources other than the originals come the second world war. > This wasn't a heritage site; they were still being used to make money. Quarry Bank Mill was being used to make money making cloth from raw bales of cotton, driven by a water turbine, right into the 1950s. It's not a `heritage site'[1], it's a semi-working mill with small scale operations still sort of going, run by the National Trust as a museum. The only `silly' mod they've made is to replace the high power turbines with the much lower power water wheel. Then again, the trouble they had when I was there is that they didn't have enough machinery in commisson for the regulation to work well - it was a high power operation, and that water wheel mechanism didn't like *NOT* having a big load on it. Rowland. [1] A marketing term describing something with a complete absence of authenticity as far as I'm concerned. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 19 Mar 2010 00:40 Adrian Tuddenham <adrian(a)poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> wrote: > Graeme <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > adrian(a)poppyrecords.invalid.invalid (Adrian Tuddenham) wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > > It is a great pity that most music presenters these days seem to think > > > that their voice is what the listener has tuned-in to hear and the music > > > is merely a background to be spoken over. If the music is worth > > > hearing, it is worth hearing 'in the clear' for its entirety. > > > > > > > > > > Aren't presenters encouraged to speak over the music to stop people taping > > the tracks off-air? > > That was probably the case with pop music in the 1960s, They did it in the 1970s, and it never stopped anyone I knew from taping the tracks off the radio, me included. > but > inappropriate talk-over is found in many programmes nowadays, not just > in music shows but in interviews and serious documentaries. To me it > just shows that a lot of the BBC radio programmes are being presented by > badly-trained media-studies geeks. I did hear a bit of Radio 1 the other day, late night on Sunday. The presenter *apologised* for having screwed up the timing so badly he was having to talk over the music. Half an excuse: it was a problem-solving phone-in type programme. > The presenters or their producers haven't stopped to think what effect > is created by inappropriate talk over, and by music or effects under, an > interview. It is an insult to the main performer; eqivalent to holding > a loud conversation in the quiet part of a symphony concert or whistling > a tune in the face of someone who is trying to answer a question you > have just asked them. Yup. > BBC radio lost its way about 20 years ago and is just trailing along, > aping other stations and telling us how good it is. Hmm - I don't see that Radio 4 and Radio 3 have commercial equivalents anywhere. And never mind the World Service. > That is not to say > that some individual programmes aren't good - but the overall > organisation no longer understands what quality radio is all about. Radio 4 is fighting a valiant rear-guard action, you know. And the World Service good types haven't been exterminated, even if they are eking out an existence in a secret bunker somewhere, subsisting on grass and berries. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 19 Mar 2010 00:40 T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: [snip] > Mind you, it would have been in keeping with the general pace of > things up there and what we hoped was going to be the style of our > holiday ... had we not been trying to avoid the midges that is. ;-( When I last visited Scotland, I did so in the company of others. I used one brand of insect repellent. They all preferred another - the marketing made them like it better. The midges left me alone[1]. Not them. There are basically two chemicals used as an insect repellent - the common one, and the other one. I was using `the other one'. Autan brand insect repellent, for those who are interested. Rowland. [1] Aside from one morning, when I decided I couldn't be bothered doing the bits of my legs exposed below the bottom of the plus fours and top of the socks. After all, I'd had no trouble with bites *at all*. That was a learning experience, that was. .... which included thinking `Well, I could have brought long woollen socks which would have kept 'em off, couldn't I?' A small patch of lower leg on either side ended up looking like it had the plague, the rest of me being untouched by insect feeding. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 19 Mar 2010 01:09
Graeme <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid (Rowland McDonnell) wrote: [snip] > > Yes, I did find out (when looking up those dates) that metric measures > > were first made *legal* for all purposes by Parliament in 1896. > > That's what I was referring to :-) But that was not went metrication began. It's the date metric became *decriminialized* in the UK (and, one assumes, the Empire too). Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |