Place your bets
Queen is dead 10/1
N.Korea missiles inbound 30/1
Snap general election 5/1
Brexit proving a tad tricky 3/1
Sale on at Vivienne Westwood 2/1
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 10:41, Reply)
bah, 8th June General election
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 10:43, Reply)
"Look at what the right hand is doing, NOT THE LEFT, distraction announcement" 3/1
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 10:43, Reply)
So any change would be a plus
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 11:06, Reply)
all those bendy bananas flooding the shelves at Waitrose was the final straw
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 10:46, Reply)
Elections make this place LOVELY to be around
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 11:23, Reply)
I really don't think he can hack it. He despises the media, and is somewhat out of touch with the common man. General elections are all about engaging intensively with those two groups.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 11:36, Reply)
There's a few who can't see the painfully obvious, or won't accept it because they need it to be true for their world view to make sense.
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(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 13:04, Reply)
that's why when you vote you vote for your local candidate. Having said that he'll probably lose his seat if not his deposit.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 12:20, Reply)
We're going to find out just how lying those fake news polls are. Make Islington great again
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 11:25, Reply)
It's going to be a car crash.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 11:38, Reply)
Don't count your chickens. Labour has become a weird personality cult.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 11:40, Reply)
The only silver lining I'm clinging to here is to get rid of that delusional old cunt
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 11:46, Reply)
But we will have to listen to him endlessly whinge and whine about how it's all a Murdoch media conspiracy that he didn't win.
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(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 13:45, Reply)
McDonnell could win a closed vote. A General Election though? That moment he brandished Mao Zedong little red book as shadow chancellor during his budget response will come back to haunt him too. How many people did Mao kill again?
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 15:48, Reply)
Just too depressing.
I can seem him getting elected leader but I think labour is down for another 5 years in the wilderness.
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but I wont vote for Corbyn more,
So labour wont get my vote.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 18:02, Reply)
A bit late for that, I'd say.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 11:30, Reply)
Yep at least a month late. Pebbled as what is best for the Country rather than what it is...best for the Tory party. So they can push through nonsense like Barista Visas ha.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 11:45, Reply)
I may have had an epiphany, I am keyboard dyslexic. Or it is a small stool carved from a pebble, stop asking stupid questions.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 11:56, Reply)
This will be one for the negotiating stances.
Once we hear Labour's brexit policy we can choose.
If they have one....
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 13:08, Reply)
would the announcement not come from Buckingham Palace itself? long live the queen
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(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 13:05, Reply)
Then the government will involve the rest of the world leaders.
After they've all been told somebody at the palace will look all sombre and tell the public the queens snuffed it on the telly box.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 16:19, Reply)
and his brother will be wailing and gnashing his teeth while self flagellating with birch twigs to demonstrate his grief.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 17:52, Reply)
She's called it before the shitshow of negotiations leave us fucked by all the other countries (no lube).
Then she gets 5 years worth of distractions before we have to vote again and forget why we were fucked off with her to begin with.
That, or she gets a war about a year or so before the election after this one, cementing her for another 5 fucking years.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 13:18, Reply)
Blair will be involved and it'll be called "real labour" or something similar.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 15:44, Reply)
NSFW: just because of that one bullwhip picture
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 9:21, Reply)
Have some contorted Alex Jones to start off your week. Worked for me.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 6:05, Reply)
he is pro Trump and actually thinks he is anti-establishment, one of the richest people in the world? yeah right.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 13:14, Reply)
Pretends he is... Richness is assets to liabilities...
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 15:51, Reply)
regardless of what way you look at it, he is fucking rich, with a big empire of shit.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 16:45, Reply)
In tears by the end of this, I should probably get help
(, Mon 17 Apr 2017, 22:58, Reply)
This invalidates Kermode's judgement on ANYTHING. EVER.
(, Mon 17 Apr 2017, 23:44, Reply)
it's been a few decades since i read it now, tho...
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(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 0:38, Reply)
but what did he think about the movie?
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 1:51, Reply)
Too meandering to be truly great but destined to be a classic none the less.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 9:07, Reply)
but wasn't too happy with the choice of aspect ratio
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 22:09, Reply)
I googled it. Now my life is worse.
(Also, he looks a bit like Hexachordal, no?)
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 9:12, Reply)
Praises the most boring or irritating life-wasting films that he's being paid to sit and watch then shows himself up as a massive hypocrite on anything that's actually popular.
One moment he's saying High School Musical is a good film on its own terms as it sets out to entertain, but then says Transformers relies too much on 'special effects and explosions' - well, not to put too fine a point on it, DUH! Perhaps he'd rather those warring giant robots would be better portrayed by men in rubber suits, perhaps playing chess on a beach in arty black and white.
As for his film review advert where he's the popcorn guy telling the newsreader what to watch, if that was me, I'd punch the cunt and find another cinema.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 12:02, Reply)
Objectively you can't see where robots begin and end when they fight. The plot and dialogue are like a seven year olds. The camera work is like a porn film (following peoples arses around in crowds, peering down tops etc.) it's bad. High School Musical is cheesy as fuck and aimed at young girls, but it's objectively a lot better than Transformers ....let alone the four sequels.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 12:27, Reply)
'corny film targeting young boys' = apalling waste of time.
Yep, that's about the gist of his case too.
And just to clarify, you're saying one of those films should also be judged on its endless parade of tired sequels and the other shouldn't?
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 14:17, Reply)
whereas Transforms isn't good, even if you normally like that sort of thing.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 14:31, Reply)
When one doesn't like the 'thing' in question.
By what category do you classify a thing you don't like as thing you normally would like?
Personally I think the two films are roughly on a par, with obvious hooks for the target audience (in the case of Transformers, flash, bang, wallop, tits, and High School Musical has shallow social drama, perfect coreography, and unattainable late 20s boyfriends). Their success and sequels are almost perfectly matched. To laud one over the other is simply the bias of inauthentic liberalism.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 15:14, Reply)
big budget action films with lots of special effects, or someone who just digs the work of Michael Bay generally, and then hate Transformers because the effects were uninterpretable garbage and because Bay massively over-indulged himself.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 18:30, Reply)
you really weren't paying attention.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 12:42, Reply)
All the films he has said go and watch, ive come out with a similar reflection, same too the ones he has said to avoid.
Critics of any industry will always be a bit poncy and up their own arse - they have to be so they claim authority over their decision making. Film 2017 is usually pretty good, but some of their special guests can often go very close to being obnoxious just to get some air time on TV.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 16:13, Reply)
The guy is very good and drunk.
(, Mon 17 Apr 2017, 20:34, Reply)
Reading what other guitarists had to say about him is really amazing. McLaughlin said if he knew what he was playing, he'd steal it. Zappa thought he was no match for his inventiveness. I think I saw him live in the 70's with Jean Luc Ponte.
(, Mon 17 Apr 2017, 22:54, Reply)
watched Holdsworth being interviewed about writing and professing his disgust for boring major chords, he wanted to add spice to everything he touched. really inventive guitarist
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 12:42, Reply)
aye, some voicing for a major 7 chord "disgusting" "dissonant"
His mind was something else
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 15:39, Reply)
I was in the front row and I swear to god after about 20 minutes of improv he leaned out from behind the pillar (where he spent the whole set hiding), and whispered "what song are we playing?"
(, Thu 20 Apr 2017, 8:33, Reply)
Placed 2nd in Revision 2017 PC demo competition
(, Mon 17 Apr 2017, 19:08, Reply)
loved the numbers station reference...can't comment on it as a demo without knowing the specs/limitations of the comp, though.
(, Mon 17 Apr 2017, 23:01, Reply)
i don't think there are any limitations, which makes this entry quite unusual.. clearly it is no technical groundbreaker but people loved it just because it's so damn weird. Also it's refreshing to have something with a narrative, instead all of the usual shiny spinning cubes flying down a corridor.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 9:44, Reply)
But in other words, this belies my true intentions. I have a question, how the hell does one go about applying ID3 tags to wav files? Win10 ain't letting me, and a couple of freeware programs I've 'inflicted' on my computer claim to have done so, but demonstrably have not. I just need to get some of the new album (shhh) into a convenient zip, but would rather have the tracks in the proper order before doing that. Butting against a brick wall here lads, any tips?
(, Mon 17 Apr 2017, 18:41, Reply)
No no, just wanna get the damn wavs in the right order, not planning to piss around with flacs.
(, Mon 17 Apr 2017, 18:49, Reply)
If you're too lazy even for that, use a/the Bulk Rename Utility.
FLAC is lossless BTW. Shouldn't be any different to a WAV.
You're a techy musician? Pissing around is what you do.
(, Mon 17 Apr 2017, 18:56, Reply)
I understand that flacs are lossless, just like wavs. I get this. I am aware of this concept. However, I need to tag them, this is my question. And yes, pissing around is what I do, but at least half of it is to do with smart-arses, so once you're done lording it, fancy providing me with some sort of coherent answer - related to the queston? Cheeky bugger :P
(, Mon 17 Apr 2017, 20:11, Reply)
rename your wav/flac/mp3/txt/pdf files appropriately.
files are files regardless of content.
let your device deal with them automatically.
(, Mon 17 Apr 2017, 20:18, Reply)
en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller
(, Mon 17 Apr 2017, 21:26, Reply)
Number-prefixing the filenames would just work, why use metadata at all?
(, Mon 17 Apr 2017, 20:20, Reply)
for about three seconds of 'oooh!' and hipster woo... when it works, which it mostly doesn't. and even if it does it soon wont after an update. just file name, dude - you know it makes sense.
(, Mon 17 Apr 2017, 21:16, Reply)
Plus, I've had to use media players in the past that completely ignore filenames and folder structures and only use metadata (yes, they were shit).
(, Mon 17 Apr 2017, 21:20, Reply)
Back in the 20th Century I had a 20G HDD Archos with Rockbox firmware and all sorts of mostly pointless games and apps on a 2" LCD screen. I loved it but I doubt it's in many museums.
*edit* ...and Winamp
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 12:10, Reply)
you seem to be under the assumption that the file system has some embedded tagging system that allows you to add meta data to any file. It doesn't, it's part of the file itself and WAV files have to follow a very specific file format or players wont read them, you can't add tags to them. Some apps might store a separate database that has metadata associated with files, but that's bespoke to the application itself, nothing else can read that data unless they have some open API but there's nothing that I know of that can do what you're after. The best solutions have already been posted, either change the filename, simple but use leading zeros in the track name if you want them in order, 01, 06, 10 etc. Or use FLAC, which have FLAG tags in the file format.
Edit: Personally I'd just encode them as 192kb MP3 and save a fuckton of disk space and fill it with porn instead of WAV files.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 13:48, Reply)
that's plenty to store all my MP3 files. Why the fuck would I want to store them as WAV files at a ridiculous increase in file size? People can't tell the difference between correctly encoded MP3 and WAV like they make out anyway. They are just audio snobs.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 16:54, Reply)
I have, and I can tell the difference between FLAC and 320 VBR MP3. FLAC and vinyl is not so easy, but Vinyl requires Ritual, like getting the good china out for a cup of tea. FLAC is like slapping a bag in a mug and MP3 is like filling it up from a hot tap.
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not much use in it if no software implemented it.
I think I'd stick with MP3 files.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 16:51, Reply)
Still just filenames are good enough for me, no tags.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 22:26, Reply)
is Audacity. That should allow you to add ID3 metadata to a WAV file.
Whether the software used to play the files handles metadata in WAV files is another matter.
(, Mon 17 Apr 2017, 18:53, Reply)
I would be really hesitant to do that as you risk fecking all your wav files up. WAV files don't support ID3 tags, it's a feature of the MP3 file format, simple as that.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 13:17, Reply)
It's up to the player whether it supports reading that metadata, and the data is usually put at the end of the file to avoid breaking players (likely old ones) that make incorrect assumptions about the structure of the file.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 15:50, Reply)
if it's not implemented in anything, what's the point? Audacity is shite.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 16:56, Reply)
And I don't see what your opinion of Audacity has to do with anything being discussed here.
(, Tue 18 Apr 2017, 18:13, Reply)
how are you demonstrating this?
(, Mon 17 Apr 2017, 20:30, Reply)
www.mp3tag.de/en/
(, Mon 17 Apr 2017, 22:25, Reply)
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(, Mon 17 Apr 2017, 23:36, Reply)
Dunno why, soz.
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I don't like fancy foods so I will have that.
(, Mon 17 Apr 2017, 21:09, Reply)
"This is for the guy who open-carries at his cousin's Bar Mitzvah"
(, Mon 17 Apr 2017, 14:56, Reply)
She said it was amazing how many cars suddenly slowed down and moved out of the way.
(, Mon 17 Apr 2017, 15:27, Reply)
So how did you know that something was done to him?
(, Mon 17 Apr 2017, 20:42, Reply)
Mind you, they're probably all automatic, so I couldn't. And I wouldn't be able to get it round corners where I live.
Sad face.
(, Mon 17 Apr 2017, 16:38, Reply)
"A collection of emulated software for the early Macintosh computer, created by Apple as the successor to the Apple II series. Simple, powerful and a new path in computing, the Macintosh's graphics-based operating system changed the face of computing permanently. "
Includes Space Invaders, Frogger, Lemmings, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Mac Missiles, Psion Chess, and many more.
(, Mon 17 Apr 2017, 9:27, Reply)
I think the only thing they lack is some sort of comments system that allows people to call each other cunts whilst playing SimAnt.
(, Mon 17 Apr 2017, 11:21, Reply)
'In an office in India, a cadre of Internet moderators ensures that social media sites are not taken over by bots, scammers, and pornographers.'
(, Mon 17 Apr 2017, 7:47, Reply)
The music is a bit meh, but the visual puns/jokes are often great.
(, Sun 16 Apr 2017, 23:41, Reply)
Been doing this act the circuit for 20 years.
Some git ripped it off to go on Britain's Got Talent.
(, Sun 16 Apr 2017, 21:44, Reply)
Good though. I don't watch Britain's Got Talent so have no comment on that matter. Thank you for bringing it to our attention anyway.
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