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Post by Sam Tyler on Jan 4, 2023 21:15:23 GMT
Why has darts become a big spectator sport on TV? To me, it's just a pub game, used to pass a bit of time on at lunchtimes in the George and Dragon in Manchester back in the late 70s/early 80s darting, but now huge crowds at the Alexandra palace. Don't get it Blimey, you're abit late with that one Carty, it has been on TV for donkey's years. It was on in the 70s but more so in the 80s. Think back to the "Not The Nine O'Clock News" team doing the proverbial p*ss-take: Sam.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Jan 4, 2023 21:31:56 GMT
Why has darts become a big spectator sport on TV? To me, it's just a pub game, used to pass a bit of time on at lunchtimes in the George and Dragon in Manchester back in the late 70s/early 80s darting, but now huge crowds at the Alexandra palace. Don't get it I love the darts but see it for what it is, all show and a bit pantomime heroes and villains these days. Right or Wrong the money and the PDC has made darts what it is now all (feels) a bit scripted and staged managed but if you go along with it you'll enjoy it. The death of the BDO has probably intensified this move to the giltzy style and as said the hero and villain players are perhaps staged managed for maximum effect too. Still it beats the World Cup for me!
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Post by Del Boy on Jan 4, 2023 22:12:31 GMT
I enjoy watching it on the telly at this time of the year. I've been following it on and off since the early 80s. These days the biggest annoyance is the crowd getting on the back of certain players just to cause trouble. That aspect of it is getting out of hand.
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Post by Sam Tyler on Jun 27, 2023 20:50:13 GMT
What I don't get with so many mobile phone brands whether they be Android or IOS is why some of the default settings are so obscure - and why the same phone users are oblivious to some of those settings.
First point is the keypad tone, why is it enabled as default? It has to be one of the most irritating sounds when you're on a train and you hear the repetitive bleep bleep bleep of some muppet typing in a text message because they don't know how to disable it. Let's have it silent as default and let people turn it on if they feel the necessity for it.
The second point is the selfie photo. Now each to their own if they want to take selfies but why is it by default that the image is saved as a mirror view? I don't understand why so many people post selfies with the image reversed, any text is back to front and the whole background is reversed. Why can't people see that? Or are they blind to the technology and don't review their images first? Why not have the default save as the correct view orientation?
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Post by Nightfly on Jun 30, 2023 19:17:49 GMT
The second point is the selfie photo. Now each to their own if they want to take selfies but why is it by default that the image is saved as a mirror view? I don't understand why so many people post selfies with the image reversed, any text is back to front and the whole background is reversed. ... and those social media influencer wannabes who desire to the next best content creators on YouTok, TikBox, Whatsnap etc who can't hold their fancy phone still and insist on filming everything in portrait. Although you couldn't do selfies etc on them, the phones of the early-mid 90s were the best. Particularly the Nokia 2110 doorstep and even the Sony Mars Bar and Fag Packet models. https://www.instagram.com/p/CuG-MYNrAuc
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Post by Sam Tyler on Jul 1, 2023 0:01:56 GMT
... and those social media influencer wannabes who desire to the next best content creators on YouTok, TikBox, Whatsnap etc who ... insist on filming everything in portrait. You're spot on there Nightfly. I always take my pics in landscape because first and foremost that is how I view them later on my PC, if I choose to add them to Instagram then they generally go on in landscape format. I did receive a comment from one tosser trying to tell me to post my Instagram pictures in portrait, I didn't even bother responding to him. They're my pictures so if I decide to publish them then it is how I choose and not how some twat tries to dictate. He should consider himself lucky that I choose to share the pictures if they are of interest him. It seems that these creators or influencers are driven by numbers of posts, numbers of followers, and number of likes and if that's all they have to worry about in life then clearly their lives are very shallow bordering on empty. There are far more important things for me to worry about than poxy phone apps. Sam.
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Post by Sam Tyler on Jul 25, 2023 19:25:08 GMT
Next gripe:
Our daughter was watching the MTV 90's channel last night (we do watch other channels, not just music channels, honest!) and I walked in while they were playing Chumbawamba's Tubthumping. It had just gone past the 9pm 'watershed' point but MTV saw fit to censor the lyrics.
Now up to a point I can understand that they may censor the "p***ing" from "p***ing the night away" part if they felt particularly delicate about it but no, they decided that they had to censor i.e. blank out, all of the different drinks in the lyrics too. There was no attempt to overdub, all of these words were just blanked out so badly that the first letter of the next word was also blank.
As a result, instead of hearing:
"He drinks a Whiskey drink, he drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink, he drinks a Cider drink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times"
The resultant song went like this:
"He drinks a ....... rink, he drinks a ....... rink He drinks a ....... rink, he drinks a ....... rink He sings the songs that remind him of the good times He sings the songs that remind him of the better times"
I'd like to know what the point was of playing the song in the first place, it just sounded ridiculous.
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Post by Cartman on Jul 25, 2023 20:59:27 GMT
That is a great song too, from that late 90s interlude when music became ok again for a bit after about 10 years of pony
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Post by Sam Tyler on Jul 26, 2023 12:22:23 GMT
I've also just remembered the other song that MTV censored/blanked out while I was there, it was The Beastie Boys and their single "Fight For Your Right". Expecting to hear the following: "Man, living at home is such a drag Now your mom threw away your best porno mag" Instead we were given: "Man, living at home is such a drag Now your mom threw away your best ..... mag" I could have given them a choice of couple of words that could have been overdubbed to replace 'porno' but I suppose they would have been blanked out too! I find it totally unnecessary. Sam
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Post by Nightfly on Jul 26, 2023 18:32:55 GMT
I find it totally unnecessary. Sam Ridiculous - particularly the Chumbawumba example. It always amused me when some radio stations censored the line in Wheatus' "Teenage Dirtbag". The line is Her boyfriend's a d**k, he brings a gun to school... The versions I often hear censor the word "gun" but leave the other word in. It's a shame poor old Ed Stewart isn't around anymore to play the album version of that Beautiful South song...
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