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hampydoodums

Sarahdol75 wrote: »

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Glad hes home, and hope for a speedy recovery.

Thank you

Savvybuyer

I'm very restrained aren't I? Managing somehow not to try to post a word or asterisks.

I can't tell you my next sentence, sorry - I've censored the whole lot:rotfl::rotfl:. And all because there was a single swear in the sentence I thought, and I would have posted the sentence if the swear had not been in it.

I've forgotten what it was now:rotfl:. So, it doesn't matter - and you, and me, will never know.

Tinyshoes

hampydoodums wrote: »

Ooo, I can help with this TS. Inside my T extra store they have a photo lab, it's owned by Max Spielmann - are all T's photo labs run by them now? . Anyway, they wanted about £25 to put each VHS tape on to a disc, no matter what length tape it was. DH gave DD1 the job of getting the best deal for him as it was a surprise BD prezzie for me last year. The guy from the photo lab was stood behind DD1 when she called DH with the price they'd just quoted her (we had 10 to convert). She said there was a local photography shop in town which she was going to try to get a cheaper price from. The guy called DD1 over when she'd come off the phone and said he would do them for £12 each :money:

Didn't realise they could do this, and they did a fab job with a very quick turn around. Maybe worth enquiring at your T

Thanks for this hampy, I had just googled max speilmann and found they have outlets at both my local Ts.

Bloomin nuisance I have so many tapes though. Some only have about 3 minutes at the beginning. I was always bit nervous about handing over a tape someone else had already done for me just in case it got wiped.

I guess I am going to have to cough up to keep these memories. :eek:

Tinyshoes

Just thinking how much draw space I would gain if I got all the VHS transferred. More room for stashes :eek: :rotfl:

Savvybuyer

underperky wrote: »

Silvercar and Sunshinemummy ...there are always going to be different opinions ...opinions are just that ... I respect both of your opinions

I don't think they are (or not always). Opinions become more than that when they are held by people generally in society. Or some of them do. But that's an esoteric point/opinion.

People generally "have the opinion" that child abuse is wrong:think:.

Child abuse is wrong. It's not a matter for opinion. Of course, there's also various degrees or degradations - to what extent smacking, by parents, for example steps over the line into "abuse". When it's something like this, it ceases to become a matter of opinion and becomes the societal standard (for very good reasons, in this case, which I will see and support myself as I am within the society). It's a fact, not opinion. Child abuse (although the boundaries as to where that starts and ends may be, at the very edges, be subject to different opinions) is wrong and anyone that has the opinion that the core of that is not holds a socially-deviant opinion that can be safely ignored and ruled out. Some "opinions" - such that it is acceptable to abuse children - and I mean, really abuse - are "opinions" that are not valid ones, can be dismissed as deviant and rightly, people that practice anything like that are, when caught, punished and dealt with. It's not acceptable to abuse children and an opinion to the effect that it is does not make it acceptable. It's a fact, not opinion, since it's societal standard. Although my saying it's a "fact" is maybe an opinion of mine.:think::question:

I do deal with these "challenging" subject matters don't I? I hope that does not upset anyone. We do need to deal with these things that are harsh (from time to time anyway, hopefully not incessant discussion:o). Sorry.

:huh:Why am I saying I'm "sorry"? It's as if my post is wrong. No. My post is not wrong. I'm not sorry for anything I raise, but it's just, here, my view that "opinions" sometimes are much more than that. They (that is, some opinions) create a societal standard. Mostly rightly (I think, perhaps) but sometimes maybe not.

Tinyshoes

Goodnight everyone.

Sunshinemummy

underperky wrote: »

Silvercar and Sunshinemummy ...there are always going to be different opinions ...opinions are just that ... I respect both of your opinions

I know honey... I just wanted to transfer the issue to the politicians xxxx

Savvybuyer

I think it's definitely Asperger's, not just the fact to have these as special interests which is itself Asperger's, but that it is also Asperger's to think about what are social conventions, so on the two counts I'm squarely within the definition of the condition again.

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Maybe everything I do is special interest.
Supermarket grocery prices. Music. "Swearing". Asperger's. The news (mainly the BBC News Channel). Societal standards and "acceptable" behaviour (whatever that is, I've no longer any real clue:rotfl: (at the edges)).

Everything I do is special interest, and these topics just roll around back again and move from one and back to the other.

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Savvybuyer

Yes, here it is - this is the classic non-hit:((:rotfl:) that I was referring to (as opposed to some version by some artist called "B.O.B." (which I've never even heard of until today:rotfl::rotfl:) that came up before I did a more specific search:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjvb5tctXI4

As for "B.O.B.", I know this one though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VBq5G866LI

As opposed to some later more popular songs that the same artist went on to do, at the point immediately before which that was the last time I ever picked one of the songs by them. So, I don't know why, yet again, after they're first Top 10 hit, I've then 'ditched' any further songs by that artist. I just turn off whatever I don't like here at home and play what I do like. That's how I see it. For some peculiar reason, it just turns out that my tastes are that way.

In fact, at one point I noticed that I liked the songs that were in the Top 40 in Germany. Except to the extent that they duplicated anything that was also played on the charts and in there a lot here in the UK:rotfl:. So, I liked much of German pop music but just not UK pop music at that point (early 2000s) and the ones in the German chart I didn't like are the ones that were also UK pop chart music. So, it's just our pop music scene that I don't like - and to the extent that we've exported anything in our charts over to somewhere else:rotfl::rotfl:. I'm sorry (I'm not of course, that's just politeness), I just liked what I heard there but noticed the only ones I didn't happened to be all of those that were also big UK hits.

My theory as to why this is? It's because of the bugbear - boring special interest - of UK radio again. It's because of the sound that is suitable for UK radio, that encourages and requires artists/record companies etc. to produce songs that fit into that sound, in order to get UK radio play, which is why (to my contention) commercial dance went rubbish (and ceased to be so) as dance acts were now forced to include unbearable-sounding vocals on their songs for those songs to get radio play, whilst "all good music" (from my perception) had now been driven underground. And has remained that way ever since. Of course I still like all the pop songs from "the time before the radio went rubbish" - and when they go back pop music from those times, suddenly they get their taste back again. Whenever the radio goes back to 1999 onwards however - I imagine and it's undoubtedly true even though I no longer listen to them and thus do not know but I suspect so - they pick the songs that I think are rubbish from that time. Surprise, surprise, no Force Majeure picked again, as that wasn't pop music. It's the same if I do on to parties or clubs. If they play 80s or 90s, they pick good stuff (unless it got to 1999 by which time I had tuned out) but, whenever it gets beyond that date, "they seem only to pick rubbish again".

However, I was buying State of Mind's Take Control in 1998 whilst everyone else was buying Robbie Williams. (I actually borrowed the CD of Robbie Williams from someone - and discovered I liked the remixed version of the song but just not the pop version. There's an element in that (Rock DJ) where, in my view, he doesn't pronounce a word in the way I would like - he says "e-zay" as opposed to "easy" and I bet it's that element that people like and is the bit that got it on the radio. I bet it's still on the radio all the time even now:rotfl:.)

State of Mind is the UK house music act btw (though there's a garage version and probably others too, which I also like), and not the album by the New Zealand drum n bass artist of the same name with the same title from 2006, although I also do like all of that.

All this wide taste. Just don't like anything much on the radio:rotfl: (except for the old songs which I think get drowned out). I used to like everything on the radio in the early 1990s when, indeed, radio (and occasionally TV) was my only source of music.

Robbie's Rock DJ (of course, the "wrong" version - the right one for most people) stayed in the chart for weeks on end, although I think I did get the pleasure once of hearing Brainchild's "Symmetry C" at position number 30, after I bought the song that week - someone in the dance music magazine called it, unkindly, "Braindead Child" - but not to me - obviously that was as high as it got - and no point as you won't have found that on the radio all the rest of the week in the day, just the Top 40 play, I can say with some certainty even though, by that point, I had stopped listening entirely to that and of course was hearing the song all week from the CD. It then charted on the Sunday at 30, whilst Robbie, I think, whose song had been in the charts for weeks (and never heard by me, as I just tuned in for the lowest new entry every week, then switched the chart off) had slipped down to number 31 with Brainchild outselling him for only one week - but obviously Robbie's single in total got far more sales. But then, when it's "advertised" across all radio every five minutes, more people will have got the chance to hear and know about it. The 'proof' for that being that my songs, which were on the radio in the early to mid 1990s, did get higher chart positions - probably as a result. I was listening to the whole charts every week then (except maybe I was tuning out one or two songs that didn't even seem prominent to me), by 1999 I was listening just to the one lowest new entry - that I had predicted in advance would be there as it was the very song I'd bought that week - by 2006, when they included downloads - I thought in another attempt to remove my music from the chart by discounting sales - I wasn't listening to the charts and don't even listen at all now (they don't I think play the whole chart anymore and I bet if I ever again got a song into the charts, it would be the one they miss out). So thoroughly dissatisfied with radio and the charts:rotfl::rotfl::p:rotfl:.

So, having tuned out Robbie:eek: in 1999, at position 31, I then got the satisfaction of turning up Brainchild at number 30 (Scott Mills was sitting in btw) and then annoyed when another song afterwards came on that I didn't like, at which point I turned off the chart altogether - as nothing else in the rest of the chart at all now I would like - it had been the same every single week for all previous weeks for some time - and got the CD of Brainchild out and played it once again. Forced to play Brainchild at number 30:D. I loved subjecting the daytime audience to one good song every week (around number 36 some weeks), as it was the only time they got it thrown at them. Whilst I kept having all the 'rubbish' it felt like shoved down my throat for all week (just before the point when I finally switched it all off in annoyance). I hope my music shocked them. Electrique Boutique was one artist that I got the satisfaction of forcing Mark Goodier to play when that charted at the lowest new entry, yet again like all the other songs I'd bought, for one week. A classic hit popping its head above the parapet of number 41 for one week, to get a play on daytime radio, once and never ever again, on the Top 40.

Heliotropic "Alive". Tomski "Love will Come".. All of them:rotfl:. Lowest new entry, only good song on the charts at that stage! It was the only time I heard some of the songs I liked on the radio - was the Top 40. The radio just don't play chart music all week:rotfl::rotfl:. (By that stage anyway. Now, the music I like is not even in the charts.) Mind you nowhere (to my knowledge) playlisted Flip n Fill either, that got to number 7, but did play every other song in the Top 10 and of course I bought just Flip n Fill:rotfl:.

Yeah, I was generally at number 31 for one week in the charts in 1999-2003, the song at around number 62 for one week each week in 2004-2007 and high peak of number 118 in 2007-2009. I don't think my songs are anywhere at all now:rotfl:. Blamed on radio sidelining once again:rotfl::p:p:rotfl:.

Munqui

Evening/morning

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