Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

CKhalvashi

GDB2222 wrote: »

You have 3 teams entered in the contest? Is that allowed?

Warner have 5 this year, and Sony have 4. Just because we're a smaller company shouldn't mean we're any different?

It comes down to who pays the bills for the artists, rather than who is actually promoting them on the week (where we've taken a step back, and let the band managers kick in)

Oh, and I agree that Denmark is the favourite at the bookies, by a large margin, and I listened to some more without finding one better than Denmark or even very close.

Will we have any with 'nul points'? That's where the excitement lies.

I disagree on Denmark, but such is life.

And I don't know the answer to that, either

CK

CKhalvashi

LydiaJ wrote: »

I wouldn't have thought so. I've never seen any advertising on their clothes. More likely to be on the merchandising and/or adverts displayed behind the acts or broadcast during the change overs. CK's company seems to be spending shedloads on salaries, hotels, alcohol etc, so it must be getting something pretty significant in return. Maybe they get a cut of the royalties from future sales of the songs that they sponsor.

CK, can we look out for your company's branding? What should we look out for?

99% of our work was completed the a few weeks back; although if you look hard enough, you'll find 'JSC NNK' and branding on some of the press reports a few months ago

We organise 2-3 of the tours each year, we manage the publishing for iTunes (Warner take the other bit) for all artists, which raises a massive 6p for each download :eek:, and I personally deal with the payments for the entire contest.

We make a small profit from the contest, but I mentioned a few weeks back, that the profit margin of the company as a whole is something like 8%. For the contest, it's more like 2-3%, so it's not huge amounts.

CK

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

I must do some of the dreary paperwork, too. Soooo not looking forward to it.


LIR, I would love to know what Bang Bang Chicken was trained to do? With a name like that, it must be something oriental, probably with peanuts.

Nothing particularly exciting.:o Consistently choose a small paper star over a small paper square/circle/triangle. Walk in a circle. Touch the end of a whip and go where it pointed.

Besides the basic clicker stuff the time spent with her made her very friendly. She liked a cuddle and to weave around my legs like a cat.

The point of clicker training chicken a chicken isn't really to clicker train a chicken. It's to train a clicker trainer. Chickens don't really 'try' like dogs or sow other animals, and because of that it makes them very honest on ones timing and clarity. Much more honest than a dog who loves you, who will try very hard to overcome your shortcomings for you!

There are some fun YouTube videoed of chicken'agility' course trained on clicker training weekends if its interesting to you.

vivatifosi

michaels wrote: »

Try St Albans then - I am seriously thinking our next car will have to be a proper 4x4 as normal cars just don't have the suspension to stand up to the roads here.

East of England has just come out as the worst region for potholes in the country. I think Hertfordshire will have played a big part in that. One of my friends had to claim against the council for a pothole and was something like number 500 in the queue.

They do need to sort them out urgently. I find the most dangerous ones are the ones that force you to take a different line round a roundabout or corner, meaning that the other cars on the road misread your path.

Not good when the head of the AA has his suspension wrecked by a St Albans pothole. Still, at least it catapulted the local issue into the national news:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-21883899

vivatifosi

CKhalvashi wrote: »

99% of our work was completed the a few weeks back; although if you look hard enough, you'll find 'JSC NNK' and branding on some of the press reports a few months ago

That's weird. I looked up JSC NNK and google said it was some oil company in Kazakhstan. Maybe there are two companies with those initials and it isn't picking up the other.

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

There are some fun YouTube videoed of chicken'agility' course trained on clicker training weekends if its interesting to you.

Again, that's why I love this thread. I would never have found that out in a million years otherwise. Or to have cottoned on to the fact that most chicken rearers don't do this. In my crazy townie world, I just figured that you'd walk along with a clicker and the chickens would follow between their run and their nesting box thingy; that it was how you round up chickens, sort of like a sheepdog with sheep. I am definitely not a country type.

lostinrates

Are there any Dutch speaking nice people....with some patience? If today works how dh wants it to I might need so e help with a few word translations and a phonetic pronunciation for each...

I know ( I think thanks to an online dictionary) the meanings of these, but pronouciations?


Geliefde, kostbare, mooie, schoonheid, aangenaam.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Again, that's why I love this thread. I would never have found that out in a million years otherwise. Or to have cottoned on to the fact that most chicken rearers don't do this. In my crazy townie world, I just figured that you'd walk along with a clicker and the chickens would follow between their run and their nesting box thingy; that it was how you round up chickens, sort of like a sheepdog with sheep. I am definitely not a country type.

Chickens learn to come really quickly.....they like food, you provide food, ergo, they come to you. When you provide food you go 'chook, chook, chook, choooooooook, chook chook. They soon come when you g outside and shout chook chook chook. A nifty trick would be to change the wording, 'come birds, to the call of your mistress' might be a bit complex but 'am I god? Birds, birds, am I god?' Could be amusing, and simple and repetitive enough.

CKhalvashi

vivatifosi wrote: »

That's weird. I looked up JSC NNK and google said it was some oil company in Kazakhstan. Maybe there are two companies with those initials and it isn't picking up the other.

Its a company incorporated in Georgia, if you find Paliashvili Str. in Tbilisi, you should be able to find something that sounds studio-like

ETA: The street numbering system is so confusing, and you really need local knowledge to get anywhere with it! I tried to direct someone to our other Georgian studio on Vazha-Fhavelas yesterday, and although it's easy to find if you can work the numbering out, where the Communists were building extensions to existing roads, you'll go from (as you drive down), say 31-1, then 65-33. The one way system on this road makes it more complicated.

I've just checked Google, and it's there, but due to the abovementioned system, it may take a while to find! Vake is quite an upmarket area of Tbilisi. I remember we paid US$12,000 for this office in 2000 (as 2 apartments), and US$30,000 for the other three apartments that make the other office, in 2004 (all ground floor, as office/shop conversions were and still are profitable)

The same units, between them, are worth a lot more now, probably US$500k between them!

CK

LydiaJ

zagubov wrote: »

I know some threads where I'm sure everybody's an AE. You ask after people who haven't posted in six months and within a day all have checked in to say hi.:rotfl:

Maybe they have some kind of email alert set up when someone posts on "their" thread or when their username is mentioned or something.

CKhalvashi wrote: »

Its a company incorporated in Georgia, if you find Paliashvili Str. in Tbilisi, you should be able to find something that sounds studio-like

Oh my! So your company (or is it companies) does stuff with oil as well as music and taxis? Is there no end to your talents? I mean, I knew you were a child prodigy or something - to get a degree and a masters and a PGCE and two years of teaching experience by the age of 21 is most exceptional here - although I guess fast-tracking the academic elite may be more common in the former soviet nations. It's still amazing, though.