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  • Conrad
    Conrad Posts: 33,137 Forumite
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    GregH wrote: »
    Going down the Entertainment Industry equipment route;

    MC2, Amplifiers - Honiton, Devon
    Klark Teknik, Audio Equipment, including MIDAS Mixing Consoles - Kidderminster
    Pulsar, Lighting and Control Systems - Cambridge
    Canford, Audio Equipment - Washington, Tyne & Weir

    This really is only a few of the world leading Entertainment Equipment design and manufacturing companies that are from the UK.

    More can be found here -

    http://www.plasa.org/


    This is indicacative of the 'unseen' natue of British production.

    We do an awful lot of stuff that goes unseen. Ok we are'nt big car producers, yet we have a lot of technical supply companies based in places like Oxfordshire to wit the rest of the world turns.

    Then just take a look at many a forum and you will see time and again a very significant British input way dispropotional to our size. I'm thinking of things like music production forums which underline the fact we are major players in the business of music.

    On a trip to Sardinia, every bar, every beach cafe had UK music playing.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
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    edited 23 February 2010 at 4:59PM
    Conrad wrote: »
    On a trip to Sardinia, every bar, every beach cafe had UK music playing.


    That's interesting. I've never been to Sardinia, but through out the rest of Italy there is a lot of Italian own pop music (apart from events where UK and American music are commercially popular to foreign money...) . I noted my peers in Italy also tended to have more diverse taste, and less identification with a ''genre'' of music. I found Italian pop a bit hard to get into at first, but have a better appreciation now...

    eta.: my rendition of this, which was massive in spring.summer 2007..... has my italian friends in absolute stitches..., that I.m crying with laughter doesn't help

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXhYn7NmG1s

    edit: I mean the tune was massive, not my version...oops
  • Conrad
    Conrad Posts: 33,137 Forumite
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    That's interesting. I've never been to Sardinia, but through out the rest of Italy there is a lot of Italian own pop music (apart from events where UK and American music are commercially popular to foreign money...) . I noted my peers in Italy also tended to have more diverse taste, and less identification with a ''genre'' of music. I found Italian pop a bit hard to get into at first, but have a better appreciation now...

    eta.: my rendition of this, which was massive in spring.summer 2007..... has my italian friends in absolute stitches..., that I.m crying with laughter doesn't help

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXhYn7NmG1s

    Nice!

    Sardinia 2007 - the tune we heard most was the 80's classic 'he's my Japanese boy':eek: go figure. Actualy I like the track - early gay dance feel.
  • Pagg
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  • googler
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    kabayiri wrote: »
    Naim Audio, Linn Sondek (last time I checked anyway).

    Quad, Audiolab, Wharfedale, Celestion, Tannoy..... I'll think of some more in a minute.
  • Ipods
    _huge_ numbers of mobile phones
    lots of netbooks

    all use ARM chips, a Cambridge Company

    The chief designer for the iPod, iPad, iMac, iJustAboutBloodyEverything is British...

    Bomb disposal robots - http://www.remotec.co.uk/. If you ever see one of these close up, you'll see quite how scary they are!

    Harrier jumpjet. 21:0 air to air combat ratio in the Falklands....
  • googler wrote: »
    Quad, Audiolab, Wharfedale, Celestion, Tannoy..... I'll think of some more in a minute.

    Spendor loudspeakers - Hailsham's finest!
  • Best British Product?

    Consumers.

    Slavishly brand-loyal, they spin the hamster-wheel on the upgrade cycle in search of the 'lifestyle' fulfillment of buying things they don't need with money they don't have in order to impress people they don't like. Greedy, acquisitive, suspicious, selfish and insecure; they are the perfect customers, ready to harvest!

    They judge themselves and their colleagues (for they have no real friends) on the brand-prestige and up-to-datedness of the possessions they have amassed using their branded credit-cards. Harder and harder they work, for longer and longer hours so that they can upgrade their aspirations. Like children, they believe that next upgrade will be the one that makes their life complete! Their memories have been destroyed along with their attention-span; little do they realise that the lack of satisfaction they feel, the howling void where there should be meaning in their lives, will not be assuaged by upgrading their 'stuff'. The new, improved, upscale 'stuff' will fail to satisfy proportionally, so they'll work harder still. They have mistaken buying a lifestyle for leading a life. And they just keep on doing it over and over again, faster and faster.

    The hedonic treadmill has blinded them to the fact that they work harder and harder for longer and longer hours merely in order to infantilise themselves by their self indulgence. Unaware that they are the 'installed base' bought and sold, passed around and owned by the faceless content and hardware providers, they failed to notice that the celebrity-saturated 'entertainment' they soak up on their 'forced upgrade' (content format/hardware compatibility issues) home media centres long ago turned into advertorial and that the living room is the factory where the product being manufactured is them.
  • ninky_2
    ninky_2 Posts: 5,872 Forumite
    new balance trainers in cumbria.

    nissan micra.

    tunnocks biscuits / teacakes.

    dents gloves etc. (sussex)
    Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron
  • googler
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    Kendal Mint Cake, Lakeland, Hawkshead.....

    You can tell I was in the Lake District recently.....
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