Bob The Badger

14 hours ago, Kinder said:

That’s rough mate, hope she’s on the mend. Don’t want to rub it in but I’m going on Wednesday.

Not rubbing it in at all, I hope it's brilliant.

Please write a review, maybe in the festival and gigs thread.

We had friends go to the Bologna gig and loved it.

I've been looking at set lists and not seen them play Love Cats yet, which seems weird.

11 hours ago, Mostyn6 said:

I'd never listened to any Foals before.

I probably won't again tbh. Sounds very retro 80s, like a poor mans China Crisis.

My critique maybe a tad tough coming as it does after listening to 45 seconds of one song.

Edit: I left ot running and Mountain at my Gates came on. Now I think I'm listening to Coldplay, so maybe My Number isn't representative of their stuff.

When I first scanned your list I did think it said Mountain of Goats, which quite honestly, would be a much greater title. 

2 hours ago, FindernRam said:

Spike Milligan.

Yep. There was a documentary about him called that too.

1 hour ago, Kinder said:

Great to see Sasha on there.  His and Digweed’s Northern Exposure 1 is right up there for me, just behind Oakenfold’s Goa Mix.

He's done some really good new stuff recently. 

I had tickets to see The Cure in Birmingham this Wednesday but Mrs Badger has broken her ankle and herniated a disc in her back. So we've had to sell them. Gutted. 

I bought them the day they went on sale over a year ago for her Christmas present last year and they weee great tickets. Oh well. 

People who don't clean up after their dog.

A women on Perranporth this morning let her dog drop a log and then looked around the largely deserted beach, (clearly didn't see me), and kicked a bit of sand over it and carried on walking.

Nervous dog owners who convey their anxiety to their dogs.

And people who tell me that their dog was attacked by a Doberman once (I have two).

In 26 years of owning a Dobie, only once has one of mine attacked another dog and we've met literally thousands. I probably met 20 this morning without the hint of a problem.

Dobies are really soft dogs, but whenever I can see another owner is nervous I always say 'don't worry they're fine'. But the times I hear back 'mine was attacked by a Doberman once' is ridiculous.

I saw fights regularly in Florida and almost all involved lunatic Pit Bulls that had been bred for fighting. Apart from that one occasion with mine, I've literally never seen a Doberman in a fight and mine have been attacked a few times. But they're utter wimps and run off. 

There was a Pit Bull going metal in a dog park in Orlando one time and I asked the owner (who was a really nice and very stressed guy totally out of his depth) where he got the dog from.

Craigs List came the reply.

He'd really bought a killing machine off Craigs List and was now wondering why it was having the time of its life ripping other dogs to shreds. 

On 28/11/2022 at 16:37, Ghost of Clough said:

Drivers who speed up when you've almost overtook them, only to slow down again before it's even possible to pull in behind them.

Drivers of the vehicle located directly behind you who decide to flash you immediately after the vehicle you were overtaking chose to speed up.

Drivers who flash their lights and honk their horn when you don't move over when there would be a 1mm gap between you and the other vehicle you just overtook.

Drivers who try to squeeze through the car length gap between you and the vehicle you've almost finished overtaking. Then decide to honk their horn and choose to 'gesticulate' as they pass.

Drivers who honk their horn at traffic lights after they've turned green, but when I would end up blocking the intersection due to the exit not being clear.

All of the above when it's night time and it's slightly foggy.

So basically you're saying, drivers.

On 28/11/2022 at 20:58, Stive Pesley said:

Cash is definitely going - no doubt about that, but I don't see a true decentralised blockchain crypto currency replacing it unless it's somehow backed by governments and introduced formally with regulation. It's a trust thing. Ironically

I also read an opinion piece somewhere which said crypto is failing as a currency because it's not been picked up by the porn industry. The thrust (hem hem) of the argument was that historically all technological revolutions have been driven by the porn industry

(cue someone arriving and telling me that they regularly pay for "special massage services"  by BTC ?

Listened to a really interesting podcast yesterday that was indirectly about crypto.

It was actually an online marketing podcast (which is what I do) about the difficulty of accepting micropayments. And how it will have to be resolved because of IOS now happily blocking third party cookies.

The new Firefox beta can also block UTM code which is the stuff you see after a question mark in a link. UTM code allows tracking without cookies.

The point is, if all this privacy stuff means sites like The Daily Mail and lots of others cannot make money by ads because they're efficacy comes from tracking and retargeting, then they will need to be able to take micropayments for their content.

At the moment charging somebody 5p for a page of content isn't viable because it would be taken in transaction fees.

In steps crypto with no transaction fees.

Does anybody know how Vicki Sparks got a job?

I have zero problem with female commentators, but I was listening to a game in the car on 5Live a few days ago and she literally missed 3 consecutive goals because she was waffling.

I *think* it was Clinton Morison who was with her and on one occasion it was him who said 'they've scored again'. 

Then last night or the night before I was listening when John Murray dived back in when they were getting a report from another game to catch a goal being scored.

I'm all for having women commentate, but not if they'r incompetent and just making the numbers up.

1 hour ago, Unlucky Alf said:

Looked it up and here we are, I have forensically enhanced the video with a 78p magnifying glass I bought from ebay, The ball was outside the quadrant, I have now sent this to the EFLs "levelling up history department" who will no doubt penalise us with a 3 point deduction

 

That shoulder charge at 24 seconds would have resulted in the Bradford player feigning death and the Derby player being sent off now.

13 hours ago, Loughborough Ram said:

Physics? ?

Alan Hinton didn't have to try and gain half a balls width when taking a corner. Didn't physics exist in the seventies?

maybe modern players should practice missing the first man instead of practicing balancing a ball on the wrong side of a line just so that they can feel like they're getting away with something

Hinton was great, but for curling the ball I think Nigel Callaghan may have been even better.

And in fairness to @sage physics wasn't invented until 1987.  

For those of you who have Spotify, did you get any revelations from your Wrapped?

I am almost always surprised by most played track because it's never my favourite from the year. It's usually more a product of being the first track of my most played playlist.

Of my top 5, only the HAAI remix of Lifetime by Romi would make my top 5

And I'd have to give Free Ride by Eris Drew as my top track although technically it came out late in 2021.

Before Spotify I used to just listen to the same old stuff, but now I rarely go back because there is so much brilliant new music being played.

12 hours ago, DarkFruitsRam7 said:

The Bear.

Brilliant.

Great review.

1899 on Netflix.

A ship on its way from England to New York recieves a radio signal with just coordinates that it believes is from its sister ship that went missing with over 1400 passengers and crew aboard 4 months earlier.

The passengers basically all say duck 'em keep going to New York, but the moody German captain stars into space a lot and decides to go anyway.

They find it and it's deserted except for a child.

Then it all starts to get very weird with cans of worms being opened only to find out that the worms inside have eaten more cans of worms.

All the passengers are hiding murky secrets and it has a distinctly Lost (the TV series) feel to it. Lost at Sea would have been a good name.

I'm almost 4 episodes in and I have no clue what to make of it. If Mrs BAdger said let's leave it, I'd be fine with that, but happy to stick through some more.

I like that everybody speaks their native tongue and subtitles are used and it's atmospheric for sure, but I'm having to use a tad more headspace than I'd like.

My guess is it will garner a loyal viewing as per Lost but will leave come people cold. I quite enjoyed the first season of Lost and then gradually lost interest when I realised there was never going to be a solution and never even made it to the end of the second season.

4 minutes ago, ramit said:

i just checked on Netflix, it is still there.  Perhaps you have a different version of Netflix than is offered in Iceland, hopefully someone better in the know can explain this apparent omission.

Each country has different offerings. Some movies will be in multiple regions but a lot are sold or rights granted by territory in exactly the same way as terrestrial TV. 

On 18/11/2022 at 01:50, Eddie said:

All Quiet on the Western Front 

The 2022 version, directed by Edward Berger.

A man's uniform was worth more than the person wearing it.

A sickening, harrowing and utterly spellbinding view of trench warfare. A slightly more graphic version even than the 1930 one directed by Lewis Milestone (which in itself was probably the most graphic depiction of warfare that had ever been made up to that time).

Watched most of it last night (still have the last 20 minutes to get through).

And yeah, ditto asper @Crewtonand @Chester40. Very good but not sure I'm a happier person for watching it.

Paul Goddard/10

On 27/11/2022 at 12:15, Stive Pesley said:

Yep  - as the article says, it's akin to the unregulated markets prior to the 1920s crash. It's all just unregulated speculation now. No good will come of it. The idea of it being a replacement currency has long since been forgotten

I'd like to hear a counter argument.

It's easy and intellectually lazy to offer analogy's like the South Sea Bubble.

The two have very few similarities. The South Sea Company was trading in its own stock whereas millions of people are buying things with BTC - like drugs for example ?

But seriously, buying crypto is gambling on a paradigm shift driven by massive advances in technology never seen before.

So many experts were happy to say 'told you so' when the dot com crash happened. How did that turn out? 

I've said a few times in here that I have no clue what crypto will the one that breaks through, or even if it exists yet, but I personally have zero doubt that crypto is coming in the same way as cash is going.

1 minute ago, Mick Brolly said:

Who the hell was the co commentator never heard so much s**** in my life 

Have you get @RoyMac5on block? ?

815 Rams fans. Good work chaos and chapettes. 

Yeees!

Sibleys da man.  If only he had some support on this board. 

1 minute ago, DavesaRam said:

Is that because a fork has 4 prongs instead of one?

If it only had one prong it wouldn't be a fork, it would be a spike and I'm hardly likely to plunge  a spike into my eyeball. I'm not stupid. 

Fabulous second half. I was stabbing my self in the eye with a fork to stay awake in the first half. 

That's a keeper worldie 

Outstanding goalkeeping!

1 minute ago, Anag Ram said:

Yeah, all over his SETI.

 

Draylon wipes clean. 

1 minute ago, DRBee said:

But the awful team selection  has changed as well.....Poor choices made by Warne & management team.

Or alternatively, astute adjustments by Warne & management team.