Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up
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I'll take your word for it.briantrumpet said:The comments under this DT article. Pricelessly Telegraphic.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/11/school-bans-girls-wearing-skirts-new-gender-neutral-rules/The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Totting up my drafts. Not as much as it could have been after a clearout but now wondering how high can it go.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Getting a lot of schadenfreude from the current crypto collapse.
Hopefully it'll persuade people to stop malinvesting in a waste of time and energy, literally, and put there money somewhere more productive.0 -
Still $24k for one bitcoin. That cheers me up.0
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pblakeney said:
I'll take your word for it.briantrumpet said:The comments under this DT article. Pricelessly Telegraphic.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/11/school-bans-girls-wearing-skirts-new-gender-neutral-rules/
It's quite entertaining, and you can read them with neither subscribing nor disabling Javascript.0 -
Turns out that I can, now. I couldn't before. 🤔briantrumpet said:pblakeney said:
I'll take your word for it.briantrumpet said:The comments under this DT article. Pricelessly Telegraphic.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/11/school-bans-girls-wearing-skirts-new-gender-neutral-rules/
It's quite entertaining, and you can read them with neither subscribing nor disabling Javascript.
It's all a bit meh for me. Seems logical if they want a uniform and equality.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Hearing Tchaikovsky's 2nd Symphony on 'the wireless', and remembering conducting it in Rennes about 25 years ago. It also amuses me that we went to great trouble to take a large tam-tam, which has just one note in the whole piece, in the last movement, and the player missed his entry, so the tam-tam came home again completely unplayed. Oh well.0
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You had one job...briantrumpet said:Hearing Tchaikovsky's 2nd Symphony on 'the wireless', and remembering conducting it in Rennes about 25 years ago. It also amuses me that we went to great trouble to take a large tam-tam, which has just one note in the whole piece, in the last movement, and the player missed his entry, so the tam-tam came home again completely unplayed. Oh well.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
rjsterry said:
You had one job...briantrumpet said:Hearing Tchaikovsky's 2nd Symphony on 'the wireless', and remembering conducting it in Rennes about 25 years ago. It also amuses me that we went to great trouble to take a large tam-tam, which has just one note in the whole piece, in the last movement, and the player missed his entry, so the tam-tam came home again completely unplayed. Oh well.
To be fair, as we'd failed to recruit a proper percussionist, we'd arm-twisted a choir member into playing the cymbals and tamtam, thinking he could read music passably. Well, if he could, he couldn't count bars rest, so every cymbal clash I told him to watch me and I'd point at him. That mostly worked, even if it looked hilarious. When I pointed at him for the tamtam, he was nowhere near it.0 -
Now there's finally something I could have played. Counting rest bars was my speciality playing E flat bass in the last years of my brass band 'career'.briantrumpet said:rjsterry said:
You had one job...briantrumpet said:Hearing Tchaikovsky's 2nd Symphony on 'the wireless', and remembering conducting it in Rennes about 25 years ago. It also amuses me that we went to great trouble to take a large tam-tam, which has just one note in the whole piece, in the last movement, and the player missed his entry, so the tam-tam came home again completely unplayed. Oh well.
To be fair, as we'd failed to recruit a proper percussionist, we'd arm-twisted a choir member into playing the cymbals and tamtam, thinking he could read music passably. Well, if he could, he couldn't count bars rest, so every cymbal clash I told him to watch me and I'd point at him. That mostly worked, even if it looked hilarious. When I pointed at him for the tamtam, he was nowhere near it.
Would have been better if he'd hit it in the wrong place, I think Rhod Gilbert did that on one of his work experience shows playing at Proms in the Park.0 -
Pross said:
Now there's finally something I could have played. Counting rest bars was my speciality playing E flat bass in the last years of my brass band 'career'.briantrumpet said:rjsterry said:
You had one job...briantrumpet said:Hearing Tchaikovsky's 2nd Symphony on 'the wireless', and remembering conducting it in Rennes about 25 years ago. It also amuses me that we went to great trouble to take a large tam-tam, which has just one note in the whole piece, in the last movement, and the player missed his entry, so the tam-tam came home again completely unplayed. Oh well.
To be fair, as we'd failed to recruit a proper percussionist, we'd arm-twisted a choir member into playing the cymbals and tamtam, thinking he could read music passably. Well, if he could, he couldn't count bars rest, so every cymbal clash I told him to watch me and I'd point at him. That mostly worked, even if it looked hilarious. When I pointed at him for the tamtam, he was nowhere near it.
Would have been better if he'd hit it in the wrong place, I think Rhod Gilbert did that on one of his work experience shows playing at Proms in the Park.
I was once standing by a bass drum player who failed to look at the conductor at the moment he put in a big pause... let's just say that the massive solo bass drum thwack was only a second or two earlier than the rest of the orchestra...0 -
Conductors are there to be ignored. Bunch of egotists waving their arms around
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Seriously, what is the point of them? (genuine question)Pross said:Conductors are there to be ignored. Bunch of egotists waving their arms around
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With that many players people need a focal point, just to bring it all together. Else it's hard to know who leads.TheBigBean said:
Seriously, what is the point of them? (genuine question)Pross said:Conductors are there to be ignored. Bunch of egotists waving their arms around
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As Rick says, it just pulls it all together. They can hear the whole thing so will let you know to pick up or drop the volume and make sure everyone stops and starts at the same point rather than relying on their own counting. With amateur choirs they also help a lot in reminding you of the words!TheBigBean said:
Seriously, what is the point of them? (genuine question)Pross said:Conductors are there to be ignored. Bunch of egotists waving their arms around
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Thanks for the explanation. I was wondering if they could be replaced by a counter. I hadn't considered your volume point which sounds like something useful.Pross said:
As Rick says, it just pulls it all together. They can hear the whole thing so will let you know to pick up or drop the volume and make sure everyone stops and starts at the same point rather than relying on their own counting. With amateur choirs they also help a lot in reminding you of the words!TheBigBean said:
Seriously, what is the point of them? (genuine question)Pross said:Conductors are there to be ignored. Bunch of egotists waving their arms around
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Rick's got most of it, but it's also about the rehearsal, and developing a shared interpretation. There have been a few management studies about how the best conductors create a human dynamic which is co-operative, not dictatorial, and by building up trust they can take a large group of individuals with them, and get the best out of everyone. By the time of the performance, it shouldn't really be much about beating time, though that can be helpful in tricky acoustics where you can't hear everyone you'd like to.TheBigBean said:
Thanks for the explanation. I was wondering if they could be replaced by a counter. I hadn't considered your volume point which sounds like something useful.Pross said:
As Rick says, it just pulls it all together. They can hear the whole thing so will let you know to pick up or drop the volume and make sure everyone stops and starts at the same point rather than relying on their own counting. With amateur choirs they also help a lot in reminding you of the words!TheBigBean said:
Seriously, what is the point of them? (genuine question)Pross said:Conductors are there to be ignored. Bunch of egotists waving their arms around
There was a brilliant series about the truly great conductors several years ago... the top professionals actually only truly respect a very few conductors (the late Bernard Haitink was one)... too many are either bullies, or just not very good, but earning 10 times as much as the people who put their reputations on the line every time they play a note. It's a pretty brutal occupation at the top.0 -
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Pross said:
As Rick says, it just pulls it all together. They can hear the whole thing so will let you know to pick up or drop the volume and make sure everyone stops and starts at the same point rather than relying on their own counting. With amateur choirs they also help a lot in reminding you of the words!TheBigBean said:
Seriously, what is the point of them? (genuine question)Pross said:Conductors are there to be ignored. Bunch of egotists waving their arms around
Yes, there's very much the balance thing too. I make a guess based on what's written in the part (and one's guesses get better with experience too), but the conductor will balance everyone's guesses - mostly in rehearsal, but a hand gesture or look in performance can still adjust, live.0 -
Ah, the look. My old brass band conductor would glare at the offender and tug his ear to indicate a pitching issue (didn't get many as I was usually counting rest bars or faking playing) and my choir conductor glares and shakes his head which means 'you sound terrible, STFU' which I've also avoided so far!briantrumpet said:Pross said:
As Rick says, it just pulls it all together. They can hear the whole thing so will let you know to pick up or drop the volume and make sure everyone stops and starts at the same point rather than relying on their own counting. With amateur choirs they also help a lot in reminding you of the words!TheBigBean said:
Seriously, what is the point of them? (genuine question)Pross said:Conductors are there to be ignored. Bunch of egotists waving their arms around
Yes, there's very much the balance thing too. I make a guess based on what's written in the part (and one's guesses get better with experience too), but the conductor will balance everyone's guesses - mostly in rehearsal, but a hand gesture or look in performance can still adjust, live.1 -
I heard a cuckoo today whilst sitting in my garden.
I lived in this house as a kid, and I can remember hearing one when I was about 10 or less. That's over 50 years ago and a couple of houses, so this was quite special.
The older I get, the better I was.1 -
Brilliant! I am just having to get one.ddraver said:0 -
With the £ falling further today, seeing when I bought my last lot of euros...
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Same, if you put the captions on it tells you what every part is. I thought the bottom of the engine was the top and got the starter motor and water pump mixed up so I probably shouldn't go anywhere near it.briantrumpet said:
They do do a V8 version too though!
We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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Remembering if I was supposed to bow or not was always my mistake - right at the end so you looked a total nobber tooPross said:
Ah, the look. My old brass band conductor would glare at the offender and tug his ear to indicate a pitching issue (didn't get many as I was usually counting rest bars or faking playing) and my choir conductor glares and shakes his head which means 'you sound terrible, STFU' which I've also avoided so far!briantrumpet said:Pross said:
As Rick says, it just pulls it all together. They can hear the whole thing so will let you know to pick up or drop the volume and make sure everyone stops and starts at the same point rather than relying on their own counting. With amateur choirs they also help a lot in reminding you of the words!TheBigBean said:
Seriously, what is the point of them? (genuine question)Pross said:Conductors are there to be ignored. Bunch of egotists waving their arms around
Yes, there's very much the balance thing too. I make a guess based on what's written in the part (and one's guesses get better with experience too), but the conductor will balance everyone's guesses - mostly in rehearsal, but a hand gesture or look in performance can still adjust, live.
Worse given that I had likely mimed the majority of it too...We're in danger of confusing passion with incompetence
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From an engineering point of view and having rebuilt a few engines, there was a lot missing. I presume that was for the sake of keeping the video short but I didn't see:briantrumpet said:
Any lubrication of the tappets
Lubrication of the cam shaft lobes bar heaps of a high temp grease(?) after the assembly which does not guarantee contact lubrication between the cam and the tappets until oil is readily circulating at the right temp. , so the initial start up is a bit of a mechanical squeak - you would never do that in an engine
Setting the piston scraper/compression ring gap opposite the thrust side
A torque wrench
An electric device to provide an initial bedding in
A cam belt tension measuring device.
He was far too liberal on the assembly oil. That stuff is viscous and excess lends nothing to cooling/lubrication
(enough) Sequential tightening
Even though the engine is small, I would presume that all of the above would still matter. Unless of course he has little long term use for it beyond putting it in a display cabinet. Filmed for likes and subscribers and not a lot else.
The actual assembly looks pretty straight forward and any Joe with a bit of patience could do it.
This guy is good. Warped perception is a great channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHpjrwULHYA seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
I messaged him (On Faceache) about perhaps doing a video of the inside of a limited slip diff in action. He said he was 'working on it...' but we had a few conversations about the Rotary engine and other things.
He knows his stuff (and is missing a digit!)seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
When you look at the complexity of a dinosaur squeezing's engine compared to the smooth efficient instant torque of a brushless motor, they are a triumph in overengineered futility by comparison. I know the batteries still need to evolve, but it's coming.pinno said:
From an engineering point of view and having rebuilt a few engines, there was a lot missing. I presume that was for the sake of keeping the video short but I didn't see:briantrumpet said:
Any lubrication of the tappets
Lubrication of the cam shaft lobes bar heaps of a high temp grease(?) after the assembly which does not guarantee contact lubrication between the cam and the tappets until oil is readily circulating at the right temp. , so the initial start up is a bit of a mechanical squeak - you would never do that in an engine
Setting the piston scraper/compression ring gap opposite the thrust side
A torque wrench
An electric device to provide an initial bedding in
A cam belt tension measuring device.
He was far too liberal on the assembly oil. That stuff is viscous and excess lends nothing to cooling/lubrication
(enough) Sequential tightening
Even though the engine is small, I would presume that all of the above would still matter. Unless of course he has little long term use for it beyond putting it in a display cabinet. Filmed for likes and subscribers and not a lot else.
The actual assembly looks pretty straight forward and any Joe with a bit of patience could do it.
This guy is good. Warped perception is a great channel.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHpjrwULHYA0
https://youtu.be/gBC7koChPsE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYnqU4AJvtA
