Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

pinno

Is that a Harpsichord? You weren't playing some Baroque piece were you?

pinno

Handel's Messiah?

ddraver

Very late baroque...

briantrumpet

ddraver said:

Very late baroque...

Not that late... we started at 7pm.

briantrumpet

pinno said:

Handel's Messiah?

Well done, Holmes.

ddraver

I do actually want to know if it counts as baroque now....

Pross

briantrumpet said:

Another Messiah bites the dust. As they do...

Political correctness gone mad having the majority of keys black. I’m going to write to the Mail!

briantrumpet

ddraver said:

I do actually want to know if it counts as baroque now....

Yes, indeed it does. 1741, and the generally accepted end-of-baroque date is 1750, though these things are always a bit messy. Handel's expertise in opera meant that some of his music looks forward to after-baroque pre-classical music (itself a slightly tricky period to define, and which tends to be overlooked, as being 'after Bach and before Mozart', in the constructed narrative of music history.

briantrumpet

Pross said:

briantrumpet said:

Another Messiah bites the dust. As they do...

Political correctness gone mad having the majority of keys black. I’m going to write to the Mail!

Fewer elephants killed in the construction...

Munsford0

But more precious hardwoods felled?

Or is ebony and ivory just a Paul McCartney thing??

briantrumpet

Munsford0 said:

But more precious hardwoods felled?

Or is ebony and ivory just a Paul McCartney thing??

Makes me realise that when I had my upright piano taken to France, I probably should have got some sort of export licence as it's got half an elephant stuck on the keys.

There's a really good display in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter, which contains, without comment, all sorts of things made from bits of animals which are now either endangered or extinct: a powerful statement without any direct lecturing.

briantrumpet

Ha, this cropped up as a Facebook memory from seven years ago... I think I'll take this bit of parking as a win... well, it was the only space left in Topsham.

Munsford0

^ was it sheet ice and you pushed it in sideways?

pblakeney

briantrumpet said:

Ha, this cropped up as a Facebook memory from seven years ago... I think I'll take this bit of parking as a win... well, it was the only space left in Topsham.

I wan to see the video of the handbrake turn. 😉

briantrumpet

Munsford0 said:

^ was it sheet ice and you pushed it in sideways?

No, but it is a French car, so it knows how to gently touch bumpers... I think it's called a French kiss...

Actually, I can't remember how many jiggles it took to get in, but it wasn't actually that many.

Stevo_666

It's the Trumpet Brothers...
https://youtu.be/ZWbnrfKRFxI

briantrumpet

Stevo_666 said:

It's the Trumpet Brothers...
https://youtu.be/ZWbnrfKRFxI

I wonder how many cars they bashed before getting this take 😜

morstar

briantrumpet said:

Stevo_666 said:

It's the Trumpet Brothers...
https://youtu.be/ZWbnrfKRFxI

I wonder how many cars they bashed before getting this take 😜

I think it’s safe to say the cars budget for the blues brothers was not insignificant.

surrey_commuter

briantrumpet said:

Ha, this cropped up as a Facebook memory from seven years ago... I think I'll take this bit of parking as a win... well, it was the only space left in Topsham.

I used to be able to park like that, it is all on the initial manouvre and then patience

briantrumpet

surrey_commuter said:

briantrumpet said:

Ha, this cropped up as a Facebook memory from seven years ago... I think I'll take this bit of parking as a win... well, it was the only space left in Topsham.

I used to be able to park like that, it is all on the initial manouvre and then patience

Reginald Molehusband - parallel to the line of cars, a car-and-a-half in front of the space.

TheBigBean

Just use the bow thruster, right?

briantrumpet

HMG still throwing money at me on my 'lectric bill. It's a bit nuts.

rick_chasey

surrey_commuter said:

briantrumpet said:

Ha, this cropped up as a Facebook memory from seven years ago... I think I'll take this bit of parking as a win... well, it was the only space left in Topsham.

I used to be able to park like that, it is all on the initial manouvre and then patience

I basically have to park like this every time I park my car near home. Manoeuvres do not come naturally to me but I can do it most days first time now. When get you older you forget how usefrul practice is

Munsford0

rick_chasey said:

When get you older you forget how usefrul practice is

Like when you practice typing?

rick_chasey

Munsford0 said:

rick_chasey said:

When get you older you forget how usefrul practice is

Like when you practice typing?

Dyslexic innit. Don't always spot in when I write it. But thanks. Really helpful. Wrong thread for that chat however.

Pross

briantrumpet said:

HMG still throwing money at me on my 'lectric bill. It's a bit nuts.

I hope you're celebrating by putting on another jumper?

briantrumpet

Pross said:

briantrumpet said:

HMG still throwing money at me on my 'lectric bill. It's a bit nuts.

I hope you're celebrating by putting on another jumper?

I can afford more than one now!

morstar

So, the BBC has become increasingly a toothless government patsy of late.

Finally, they are starting to find new ways to tackle the government pressure despite the lack of heavyweight journalists.

Naga fact checking government figures this morning and simply pointing out the lies / creative accounting.

pblakeney

morstar said:

So, the BBC has become increasingly a toothless government patsy of late.

Finally, they are starting to find new ways to tackle the government pressure despite the lack of heavyweight journalists.

Naga fact checking government figures this morning and simply pointing out the lies / creative accounting.

Your first sentence is at complete odds with the other two.
Clarification is required.

Pross

morstar said:

So, the BBC has become increasingly a toothless government patsy of late.

Finally, they are starting to find new ways to tackle the government pressure despite the lack of heavyweight journalists.

Naga fact checking government figures this morning and simply pointing out the lies / creative accounting.

Thought that was pretty good, it was something that seemed to start with Trump and a bit worrying that we now have to do it with out own politicians. I've always wondered why there isn't more of that when you have two sides using the same numbers to try to claim different points.

I think they should also fact check the one nurse they had on just before that who claimed her take home pay now is £100 more than it was on a 2007 pay slip she found despite having being promoted to matron in that time. Assuming all other things are equal e.g. no increase in payments into a pension, changes to hours etc. I find that incredibly difficult to believe. This calculator suggests that just the step up from Band 7 to Band 8a (which I believe is the start of the matron grade) would lead to an increase in take-home pay of over £300 per month without any other pay increases over the previous 15 years https://www.nurses.co.uk/careers-hub/nhs-pay-calculator/ . The top of Band 7 from November 2007 was apparently £37,326 against the £47,672 used in that calculator. I appreciate things like tax and NI may have changed over time but I'm really struggling to see how she came up with that number. Just the increase on Band 7 over that time should have increased take-home by more than £500.