Coombe Barton Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 ... in music, Henry Purcell meets Monty Python ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/01/13/covid-data-catching-up-after-christmas/ 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Hroth Posted January 13 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 13 (edited) 1 hour ago, Tony_S said: I think he has the wrong disc in the Enigma device. Its worse than that, he's trying to decode using the rotors from a Naval Enigma in an Army machine. Either that, or the Geheimschreiber is on the fritz again... Edited January 13 by Hroth Tabletitis... 10 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted January 13 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 13 Or simply that he’s posting from the Charente and Goggle-interpret thinks he should be speaking Franglais 13 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted January 13 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 13 10 minutes ago, Gwiwer said: Or simply that he’s posting from the Charente and Goggle-interpret thinks he should be speaking Franglais The Officer Crabtree app surely must exist… 3 4 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coombe Barton Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 (edited) 12 minutes ago, Tony_S said: The Officer Crabtree app surely must exist… Can't find one, but someone's done an academic paper on it Verbal Humour in Screen Translation: Officer Crabtree’s Case with the Fronch and Hungarian Longwodge And it is salutary to think that 'Allo, 'also was on our screens more than thirty years ago (broadcast 1982-1992) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/347551457_Verbal_Humour_in_Screen_Translation_Officer_Crabtree's_Case_with_the_Fronch_and_Hungarian_Longwodge Edited January 13 by Coombe Barton Not Typoman this time 12 4 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold DaveF Posted January 13 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 13 The shopping went well, on the way home I looked at the Quayside where there were no ships but a number of low flying gulls who seemed to think that cars should move out of their way. One almost hit my windscreen as I drove along. The pigeons were also behaving with their cutomary stupidity, they like to walk across just in front of moving cars and refuse to walk or fly out of the way. They are almost as bad as some of the local humans. I had a pleasant walk round the park, there was hardly anyone about unlike the beach which I passed on the way home where there were lots of people running along the promenade - not the place for a quiet walk on Saturday mornings. I spent the rest of the morning looking at some of my photos from 2008, as enjoyable as ever and bringing back a lot of memories. After lunch I did some model things, the Swiss platforms are now in place and the clearances checked by running trains round. I've also cleaned the car and checked the tyre pressures, as it is cooler they needed a little bit of extra air. Then I had a "play" with the car radio to get the correct "favourites" to come up to make changing stations easier. I have brought the handbook into the house to look up a couple of other things. This evening will be as usual with books, TV and music. Of the three the TV is by far the least important. David 18 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted January 13 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 13 Afternoon Awl, Centre console, sanded and filled, a couple of no longer needed makers removed. Opened one tin of part used white paint and found it was distinctly light green even after a good stir. Found a tin of part used dark blue, I decided to mix the two, came out a very nice light blue. Used that to paint the new mast step. Some more of the unmentionable parallel bits of metal converted into tram track. Started building a Matador. At one point the carpet monster swallowed a leaf spring it took several attempts to find it. While perusing the kit I decided to remove some flashing, which was making from the driver look like his uniform over pressed.. then I noticed something .. Its fitted with a American helmet. !!! Quite why a model of a British WW2 lorry would have an American driver I don't know.. anyway I decided that's not on for an RAF convoy . So having worn in real life in the RAF a WW2 issue tin hat. I've trimmed up the helmet and at some point will add the rim. 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winslow Boy Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 1 hour ago, Tony_S said: The Officer Crabtree app surely must exist… It's alright I figured it out he says he's going to a dance and needs reinforcement or was that sequins. 4 10 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Tony_S Posted January 13 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 13 (edited) 10 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said: It's alright I figured it out he says he's going to a dance and needs reinforcement or was that sequins. My nephew works for Google and sent me this. https://google-research.github.io/seanet/audiopalm/examples/data/AudioPaLM_promo.mp4 You don’t have to watch all of it but it is one example of the sort of translation tools being developed. Thus one preserve,voice and tone elements too. At the moment the one my nephew is working on only translates into English but I expect the Star Trek universal translator isn’t far away. Edited January 13 by Tony_S 7 1 6 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darlington_Shed Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 5 hours ago, Barry O said: Anyone heard from @Dave Hunt recently? Reported in The Night Mail to have been enjoying coffee and cake at a certain Muddy Hollow recently. 12 1 2 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted January 13 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 13 1 hour ago, Coombe Barton said: Can't find one, but someone's done an academic paper on it Verbal Humour in Screen Translation: Officer Crabtree’s Case with the Fronch and Hungarian Longwodge And it is salutary to think that 'Allo, 'also was on our screens more than thirty years ago (broadcast 1982-1992) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/347551457_Verbal_Humour_in_Screen_Translation_Officer_Crabtree's_Case_with_the_Fronch_and_Hungarian_Longwodge Still the best “Crabtree” was the one effectively announcing the arrival of Covid - and which was posted here - reading ”The people are being all of the toolet pooper. There will be a shittage in the supermookets”. 1 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted January 13 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 13 5 hours ago, Compound2632 said: I'm sorry I'm a bit deaf. Could you say that again? Amended. Jamie 8 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium jamie92208 Posted January 13 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 13 (edited) 1 hour ago, Tony_S said: The Officer Crabtree app surely must exist… It most certainly does. Jamie Edited January 13 by jamie92208 10 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted January 13 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 13 In other news our regular Amazon person is good. If we’re out he leaves things in the porch. Someone else was on the run today. They didn’t even open the gate let alone knock the door. Several hours later I received a “delivery” email. For a package tossed over the wall by the bins. The contents are not undamaged. Suitable feedback has been provided. Collection and replacement have been booked. 1 1 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Popular Post PhilJ W Posted January 13 RMweb Premium Popular Post Share Posted January 13 (edited) Afternoon all from Estuary-Land. I am now carless, my car has been written off in an accident this afternoon. Luckily we escaped with a few scratches. It was only a slow speed collision but the airbags went off and on a 15 year old car that means a one way trip to the scrapyard. As to fault that is debatable, I was approaching a mini roundabout when a car driver coming the other way decided to turn right only when he was on the roundabout and turned and signalled at the same time. In the meantime I'm looking for a new car, I'm now 75 and I don't know how many years driving I have left and therefore is it worth spending a great deal of money on another car? I have looked up some second hand cars and there's a few to consider. But thats a week or two away yet once the insurance is settled. Edited January 13 by PhilJ W 31 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 13 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 13 2 hours ago, Coombe Barton said: Can't find one, but someone's done an academic paper on it Verbal Humour in Screen Translation: Officer Crabtree’s Case with the Fronch and Hungarian Longwodge And it is salutary to think that 'Allo, 'also was on our screens more than thirty years ago (broadcast 1982-1992) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/347551457_Verbal_Humour_in_Screen_Translation_Officer_Crabtree's_Case_with_the_Fronch_and_Hungarian_Longwodge Ironically Arthur Bostrom who played Officer Crabtree can speak French fluently. 15 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 (edited) The cold weather is here. At 11:00am it's around -8°C according to my patio thermometer, my telephone tells me it is -10°C. There was some icy stuff overnight. I think it was an accumulation of sleet. I did go out for a short 20 minute walk (properly bundled up). Light sleet continues on and off and is blowing around. The bulk of the precipitation is to the south where perhaps 20mm of freezing rain is expected to accumulate. To the north some snow is expected. It remains to be seen what will fall here. So far, other than the cold temperatures, there is little remarkable going on. Sub-freezing low temperatures (which are rare here) are forecast for the next three days. EDIT: There's been a lot of wind-blown sleet in the last hour or so, rattling on the windows, with occasionally heavy sleet showers. They are noisy. Far better that than freezing rain. Edited January 13 by Ozexpatriate Updated later 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 4 minutes ago, PhilJ W said: my car has been written off in an accident this afternoon Sorry to hear that Phil. Glad to hear there were no serious injuries. Hopefully the adrenaline rush wasn't too intense. 1 15 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 I have plenty of things to entertain me while weather-bound today. Many of these would have the television on in the background. Today is what they call NFL Super-wild card weekend - the first weekend of the NFL playoffs. (It got the "super" moniker when they added two more games with additional wild card teams in the playoffs.) I am not a fan of streaming. One of today's NFL games is only available by streaming. This particular streamer does not have a fee, but you need to create a set of subscription credentials. (Regular season, Thursday night games have only been available streamed on Amazon Prime all season.) Not only that but today is the first day of the Australian Open tennis (Sunday down-under). The broadcaster of the Australian Open in the US has made day one only available on their streaming service - which does require a fee-based subscription. 10 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold 4630 Posted January 13 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 13 (edited) 40 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said: I have plenty of things to entertain me while weather-bound today. Many of these would have the television on in the background. Today is what they call NFL Super-wild card weekend - the first weekend of the NFL playoffs. (It got the "super" moniker when they added two more games with additional wild card teams in the playoffs.) I gather that the Steelers - Bills game scheduled for tomorrow (1PM ET and originally to be the evening wild card game live on Sky in the UK) has been postponed until Monday due to ‘inclement weather in the Buffalo area’. That must be a pretty rare event. Virtually nothing bar lightening around open air stadia normally postpones or delays an NFL game. Edited January 13 by 4630 9 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 48 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said: Not only that but today is the first day of the Australian Open tennis (Sunday down-under). The broadcaster of the Australian Open in the US has made day one only available on their streaming service - which does require a fee-based subscription. Channel 9 carry the tennis free on their streaming site if you set your VPN to Australia... https://www.9now.com.au/australian-open-tennis 8 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 1 hour ago, PhilJ W said: It was only a slow speed collision .................. on a 15 year old car that means a one way trip to the scrapyard Also apparently if its a brand new EV. 4 6 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 57 minutes ago, 4630 said: I gather that the Steelers - Bills game scheduled for tomorrow (1PM ET) has been postponed until Monday due to ‘inclement weather in the Buffalo area’. I hadn't noticed that until you mentioned it. Yes, it is in the 4:30pm EST* slot on Monday. Monday is the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal holiday (for those that actually get the day off). * 9:30pm GMT 57 minutes ago, 4630 said: That must be a pretty rare event. Virtually nothing bar lightening around open air stadia normally postpones or delays an NFL game. Yes. Blizzard conditions forecast: Quote The forecast for the Buffalo area predicted heavy snow and winds up to 65 mph on Saturday, with one to two feet or more of snow eventually piling up 1 1 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 (edited) Speaking of EV's...... Just for fun and to delay having to go out and cut the grass (which has gone mental with the rain and humidity - I have to wade through it while watching out for snakes!) I compared the insurance quotes on a 2022 model Tesla given that companies, hire car outfits etc are ditching them at a rate of knots at the moment so I wondered what I'd be up for if I suddenly went insane and bought one second hand. Only 2 companies (neither of which I've ever heard of) were happy to insure me and....phew! I then got an online quote from the NRMA that I have membership, other insurance policies and loyalty discounts with and got it down to $3177, but thats still quite a lump of money. In comparison my 6 litre V8 ute with performance options cost me $666 (I like that!) when I re-insured it last month. Edited January 13 by monkeysarefun 4 1 10 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 13 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 13 23 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said: Speaking of EV's...... Just for fun and to delay having to go out and cut the grass (which has gone mental with the rain and humidity - I have to wade through it while watching out for snakes!) I compared the insurance quotes on a 2022 model Tesla given that companies, hire car outfits etc are ditching them at a rate of knots at the moment so I wondered what I'd be up for if I suddenly went insane and bought one second hand. Only 2 companies (neither of which I've ever heard of) were happy to insure me and....phew! In comparison my 6 litre V8 ute with performance options cost me $666 (I like that!) when I re-insured it last month. There was a fire on a battery powered London bus yesterday, today the whole fleet of the type of bus concerned have been taken off the road for checks. 15 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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