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Huge gifs ftw

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Fermented pumpkins & squirrels don't mix well...

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Lionel Richie singing "Hello" live on "Wetten, Dass...?" yesterday - on Helium

I saw it live, but it was bound to show up on YouTube...

If you're wondering how it came to this - the show is about making the guests bet whether a contestant succeeds in doing something out of the ordinary. In Lionel's case, it was one man trying to throw 25 out of 50 poker cards into a basketball net - which he narrowly failed, and since Lionel had bet that he would succeed, he had to do something in return...

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Everyone should love Black Books!

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Briareos wrote:
I saw it live, but it was bound to show up on YouTube...

I don't suppose you ended up in the video as part of the audience....

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BDR wrote:

Briareos wrote:
I saw it live, but it was bound to show up on YouTube...

I don't suppose you ended up in the video as part of the audience....

I guess I shoulda have said "Live on TV"...

I guess I'll wait until the next time they broadcast it from our stadium before getting a ticket - that's only a five minutes walk away from here...

np: Autechre - Second Scepe (Anvil Vapre)

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I watched this the other day, and my word, it was SOO funny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bvWx8OlEYY

If you want to see other clips, be sure you're 18, this one doesn't have any swearing in it, but others might.

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That was funny, but it bothers me imensely that you think that someone has to be over 18 in order to hear swear words.

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Buying a Bed (Monty Python)

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Pinnacle wrote:
Buying a Bed (Monty Python)

On that note, these guys don't do the Dead Parrot sketch nearly as well as the Monty Python crew, but the story behind why they're doing it is almost as good!

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Pilchard VIII wrote:
If you want to see other clips, be sure you're 18, this one doesn't have any swearing in it, but others might.

Frankly, anyone who can't handle "swearing" by age 10 needs to withdraw from most of life until they've received proper psychiatric help.
Who's been brainwashing Pilchard?

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My favorite Monty Python sketch.

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Blondbeard wrote:
That was funny, but it bothers me imensely that you think that someone has to be over 18 in order to hear swear words.

Jatopian wrote:
Frankly, anyone who can't handle "swearing" by age 10 needs to withdraw from most of life until they've received proper psychiatric help.
Who's been brainwashing Pilchard?

Sure. I show a little warning that the other clips have a LOT WORSE swearing, and I just suggest that you be over 18.

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Pilchard VIII wrote:
So we want 10 year olds to go around spray-painting obscenities onto people's car windscreens?

Sure, why not?

...

Oh, and did I mention that I don't have a car?

np: Boards Of Canada - Iced Cooly (Twoism)

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Pilchard VIII wrote:
Sure. I show a little warning that the other clips have a LOT WORSE swearing, and I just suggest that you be over 18.

Click here to view the secret text

×So we want 10 year olds to go around spray-painting obscenities onto people's car windscreens? (That's from The Annoying Devil BTW)

Sugest? You said "If you want to see other clips, be sure you're 18". That sounds more like a comand than a sugestion.

Warning: I write a swear word within this secret tag, so if you happen to be ultra sensetive, please don't read it.


Oh, and by the way: I don't think this is a good place to discus this any further. If you want to you can start a separate thread, or send me a PM.

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I see the anger's strong in someone today... *sigh*

Yeah, I'll go and take my sarcasm somewhere else alright. See you in a bit.

np: Boards Of Canada - Telephasic Workshop (Music Has The Right To Children)

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Pilchard may have some unpopular views, and I am so glad that you guys are willing to tolerate that and not degrade to school-yard type bullying. After all, aren't we all such a nice, friendly community?

I am also hearted by the fact that you guys can get into this argument without breaking the rules of this forum.

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IPhone ad

Takes a while to load, but:

First one to name all the actors and movies shown, wins a rank or two.

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My new favorite: Mr-clean-air system, the boxer. It's great!

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NiroZ wrote:

Pilchard VIII wrote:
And for those without Firefox...

http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/

he he he

So there's IreekH2000, Jeffff_Rey. Bork bork bork!.., iytunz, mreemer, Syntex and many other Smeetemesters on this CerefelNet Furoom discussing DROD : Zee Ceety Beneeth. So what. That forum is just a ripoff of this one anyway.

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http://media-convert.com/convert/index.php

This is a site that will convert a file format to another file format. Not just the obvious MP3s to OGGs and vice-versa, but nearly 50 formats. For free. With no sign-up. No catches of any kind.

Doesn't do M4As, though, but then that's sort of a given.

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What can I convert OGG to without losing sound quality?

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WAV. This isn't that helpful, because WAVs are, I believe, uncompressed.

OGG's a 'lossy' format, which means that it's not an exact replica of the source. If you convert it to MP3, say, because your iPod won't play it, bloody Apple, you'll lose some information. This isn't too bad if you figured you had the space to rip songs with a 512 bitrate, but you have to remember that you lose some information every time you go from one lossy format to another, such as from MP3 to OGG and vice-versa.

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And from CD to OGG, and from OGG to CD, and from CD to MP3, etc.

But Free Lossless Audio Codec is, surprisingly, lossless. It isn't widely supported, though.

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There's a simple way to measure exactly how much of your sound file are you "losing" when you convert it. To figure out, do this:

1. Open the original file in your favorite sound editor (I do this in Audacity).
2. Invert the sound track.
3. Open the converted version of the original sound file as an additional sound track.
4. Add the tracks together ("quick mix" in Audacity).

The resulting sound file is the difference between the two. How much you can hear this difference when you play it is what effect the file conversion had.

I did this to find out the difference between an original wav file and ogg at different levels of quality. I noticed that dropping an ogg file from quality 10 all the way down to 0 doesn't really have as much audible loss as I expected it would.

(The ramifications of this for DROD are: JtRH, KDD2 and The Choice have voiceovers recorded at ogg 5-quality. Since this test, however, I save all edited voice files at 0-quality. We now have Smitemaster's Selection .hold files at half the size with ~99% quality retention! Maybe one day I'll go through those holds and redo all the audio files to shrink their download sizes by half.)

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mrimer wrote:
There's a simple way to measure exactly how much of your sound file are you "losing" when you convert it. To figure out, do this:

1. Open the original file in your favorite sound editor (I do this in Audacity).
2. Invert the sound track.
3. Open the converted version of the original sound file as an additional sound track.
4. Add the tracks together ("quick mix" in Audacity).

Careful there - if the audio got delayed a bit during en- or decoding you'll have to make sure both waveforms are exactly lined up first, or you'll get wrong results... (zooming in a bit, finding a sharp peak in both waveforms and making sure they're vertically aligned should do it)

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Following Erik's good example, Paul Kidby is showing work in progress pictures of the new Discworld book cover on his site.

http://www.paulkidby.net/PhotoGallery.html

Steve.

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Defend your Castle from the hoards of roaches stick people.

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Can't believe I could be such an idiot.

Open Pandora's Box

Just to be on the legal side, I'll say that it is illegal to listen to anything from that site if you aren't from the US. I myself am not listening. I always hold my ears shut .

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You may be familiar with TimeCube, which is practically unreadable because it's a rough work of a prophet crying in the desert... but can you imagine if a whole team of enthusiasts took these theories and rewrote them into a flawlessly consistant canon encompassing life and universe and everything in one well-polished site?

Well, they did!

Reject Religion and Academia, embrace Cubicism and you will be saved!

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