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Things that make you go oooh thread....

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Postby bungeejumper » May 12th, 2021, 2:10 pm

brightncheerful wrote:When I told Mrs Bnc how delighted I was at my discovery she said she'd only ever used the right hand switch for the utility room and reminded me that it was my idea to have a double light switch and for the right-hand one to be for the utility room when we had the lighting redone 16 years ago.

LOL, the past really is another country, isn't it? :lol: I suspect that most of us have done that sort of thing.

Now, if only I could remember why I changed my computer shutdown settings from Off to Hibernate two months ago, I'd be a happy man. Some ingenious logic to it, I'm sure. I can't figure out how to reverse it, but hey, I expect it must have been a good idea at the time?

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Postby brightncheerful » May 12th, 2021, 2:34 pm

the past really is another country, isn't it?


A few weeks ago. having spent hours and hours most weekdays evenings for several months transferring information one at time for approximately 4000 records from an old database (desktop only) to a new one (cloud only) and finally completed, the weariness must've got to me because I inadvertently deleted the field containing all the information on the new database.

The cloud database (Airtable) enables me to take snapshots of the base, also does so automatically every so often, but I hadn't done a manual snapshot for some time and the latest automatic was a day or so old. With no way of know which records I had transferred, i was resigned to having to start again but needing time off I before getting going was also a mistake. because what i didn't discover until it was too late was that on the Airtable database there is an un-delete function which works up to 7 days after any deletion.

Having started to redo, have done about 500, I have found a few mistakes so far so I regard the deletion as an opportunity for accuracy.

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Postby AleisterCrowley » May 12th, 2021, 2:34 pm

@BJ
w10 it's Settings>System>Power and Sleep>Additional Power Settings then one of the "Choose what *** does" options
Should all get you to a menu with dropdowns for actions when power button pressed/lid closed etc etc

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Postby Markab01 » May 12th, 2021, 4:56 pm

moorfield wrote:
Leothebear wrote:The finalists are both English. Turkey has yet to get on top of its covid problem. The journey will cost fans a lot of money and cause many problems with isolation etc. Therefore it makes total sense to play the final in Istanbul. *

* To UEFA.


A problem is if not handled sufficiently well by the lawyers it may set an unintended precedent for the future. Where would the right place for two Turkish teams reaching a future final slated for Wembley be to play?



How about Athens? :)

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Postby UncleEbenezer » May 14th, 2021, 2:49 pm

so what's been translated as "state of calamity", and what would it convey to a Portuguese speaker?

Funnily enough I saw some speculation in a local paper that Britannia Ferries might take advantage of Portugal's Green status and start sailing ferries to Porto. Sounded potentially much more civilised than messing about in airports. Though that was before Porto got blighted by some football match.

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Postby Wuzwine » May 14th, 2021, 5:09 pm

Have the gunboats that sailed to Jersey, now captured Brittany and its Ferry Company?

30 hours travelling through the Bay of Biscay to Porto doesn't appeal to me, but might shake up the football fans!

Happy sailing to all.

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Postby bungeejumper » May 14th, 2021, 5:59 pm

Snorvey wrote:Northern Ireland Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has been elected leader of the Democratic Unionist Party.

Poots. Now there's a name to conjure with. Not as thunderous as trumps, I'll grant you, but just as likely to empty the room. :?

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Postby Itsallaguess » May 15th, 2021, 10:18 pm

I really do think it's time that Sky News stopped showing such gratuitous footage on their news-channels...

https://i.imgur.com/wImUxrW.mp4

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Postby bungeejumper » May 17th, 2021, 1:35 pm

Lawdy, that's a mess. 47 carriages off the rails. :| https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-57145192

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Postby TUK020 » May 17th, 2021, 3:18 pm

kiloran wrote:Apparently it was built around the 12th century, with some rebuilding in the 15th century. How the heck did they manage to construct such a beautiful building in those days, with towers and spires and archways? No computer-aided design, machanised tools, cranes, fork-lift trucks, etc. Just a lot of very skilled stonemasons and enormous effort.
Stunningly beautiful

--kiloran


Survivorship bias.
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Postby kiloran » May 18th, 2021, 8:11 am

A slow-motion avalanche on Ben Nevis

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... s-57144506

--kiloran

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Postby TUK020 » May 18th, 2021, 11:30 am

kiloran wrote:A slow-motion avalanche on Ben Nevis

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... s-57144506

--kiloran

more of a slush stream
such is skiing in Scotland., reminds one how small the hills are.
Ben Nevis is about 1300m. Mont Blanc 4800m

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Postby kiloran » May 18th, 2021, 11:33 am

TUK020 wrote:
kiloran wrote:A slow-motion avalanche on Ben Nevis

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... s-57144506

--kiloran

more of a slush stream
such is skiing in Scotland., reminds one how small the hills are.
Ben Nevis is about 1300m. Mont Blanc 4800m

Yes, I've often considered skiing in Scotland as more like downhill water-skiing :lol: though I have had some really good days

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Postby TUK020 » May 18th, 2021, 2:41 pm

We've tended to go to the other extreme - mostly Val Thorens (highest altitude resort in Europe).
Daydreams for a moment on carving fresh lines in the powder on Glacier Peclet (about 3300m)..............bloody cold though

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Postby bungeejumper » June 3rd, 2021, 10:59 am

Snorvey wrote:If not for the money, just for a bit of a laugh - maybe put a few followers in the sh*t / lala land at the same time.

If my name anagrammed as Lone Skum I'd probably do the same. Just for the sweet revenge of it.

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Postby gnawsome » June 3rd, 2021, 3:17 pm

Snorvey wrote:If you were a multi billionaire and extremely popular and active on social media, but maybe you didn't feel that you had quite enough cash AND found you could move the price of certain 'asset' (I use the word loosely) groups quite sharply with a single comment on one of these global platforms....well, you would wouldn't you?

If not for the money, just for a bit of a laugh - maybe put a few followers in the sh*t / lala land at the same time.

I know I would
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I've always had the (disturbed?) notion that was how all asset values were determined.
Based on the idea that prices are always subject to pressure, it was the ambition of those with the capacity to foresee how the 'herd' was likely to move next and then act to precipitate that movement until the 'herd' became tired/mistrustful of that direction of travel and became susceptible to a change. Isn't that what trading is about

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Postby moorfield » June 3rd, 2021, 4:07 pm

Snorvey wrote:If you were a multi billionaire and extremely popular and active on social media, but maybe you didn't feel that you had quite enough cash AND found you could move the price of certain 'asset' (I use the word loosely) groups quite sharply with a single comment on one of these global platforms....well, you would wouldn't you?

If not for the money, just for a bit of a laugh - maybe put a few followers in the sh*t / lala land at the same time.

I know I would.



And I reckon the Trump family did.

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Postby UncleEbenezer » June 4th, 2021, 12:17 am

Snorvey wrote:There is only one variant that remains un-named though. The original and the best one. Nothing to do with any particular country's generous funding of course.

Yes, it'll take our generation a while to get used to China taking the world-leadership position occupied by the US in our formative years. I wonder how long it'll be before that becomes the norm in all whole-world organisations?

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Postby Itsallaguess » June 8th, 2021, 9:19 pm

The McGurk effect -

The McGurk effect is a perceptual phenomenon that demonstrates an interaction between hearing and vision in speech perception.

The illusion occurs when the auditory component of one sound is paired with the visual component of another sound, leading to the perception of a third sound.

The visual information a person gets from seeing a person speak changes the way they hear the sound.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGurk_effect

Here's a brilliant example of the McGurk effect in action -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k8fHR9jKVM

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Postby AleisterCrowley » June 9th, 2021, 11:08 am

reading backwards (as I do)
Greenspan adds a caveat about the death cross: it’s typically followed by a so-called golden cross,
Whaaaat??? Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve believes in this hokum?
Thankfully not - it's "Mati Greenspan" - no relation (I assume)


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