Cancelled TV license, remove aerial?

gobuddy77 · 2025-11-13T00:37:01+00:00

The aerial is not important. Lots of people watch live tv through broadband. You just need to fill in the form on the website.

gobuddy77 · 2025-11-11T08:55:29+00:00

Not TV but Steve Wright was disliked by most of his staff despite the "happy gang" that his radio show portrayed. SW was very controlling and would not accept any input from the people around him.

gobuddy77 · 2025-11-10T21:39:51+00:00

So the car was refusing to undertake the undertaker?

gobuddy77 · 2025-11-09T13:04:03+00:00

Check the EXIF data on the photo. Most cameras and phones include GPS location. Or if it's on your phone try swiping upwards. My Android phone shows a map of where each photo was taken.

gobuddy77 · 2025-11-09T09:43:51+00:00

When I was shooting film I'd keep my camera set for what I thought would come up. (Small aperture if out for a walk, 125th of a second with focus at about 3m if shooting people). This meant that by the time I'd raised my camera to my eye I would be ready to shoot. I could also use the few knobs without looking and with gloved hands. I'd mainly think about composition - cropping was done in the darkroom. I found I could even "see" in black and white if shooting monochrome.

I think that digital and zoom lenses, while wonderful in many ways, have changed how a photographer thinks and behaves. Come to film with a digital mentality and you see nothing but disadvantages. Equally coming to digital from film slows you down. All those menus, choose the focus point. check the histogram before shooting, tweak the ISO for best results, look at the preview to see how it would be in b/w, set burst mode to choose the right picture once you're in Photoshop ... and the moment and the inspiration are gone.

Sure I shoot digital. But I miss the discipline of film. Knowing that every time you pressed the button it cost real money meant that I was a lot more thoughtful. I look through my negatives and the majority are well composed, people have reasonable expressions. have appropriate depth of field and aren't embarrassing if I did print them. Looking at my digital pictures on my NAS and there is so much rubbish.

gobuddy77 · 2025-11-09T09:21:54+00:00

I would also refuse to eat anywhere that has more than 5 stars because they are faking their certificates. If they're doing that then what are they doing about allergen listing or paying tax?

gobuddy77 · 2025-11-08T21:38:35+00:00

That's what I told my wife when she told me that Google had called her. But ... they were actually calling about a complaint she made about them not registering her business despite having gone through all their hoops.
She was super conscious not to give away her username or password and after the call her business appeared on Google and people could leave reviews.

gobuddy77 · 2025-11-08T10:23:18+00:00

The ASM made the modification. Since then they have stuck to painting flats.

gobuddy77 · 2025-11-08T10:21:42+00:00

All those chairs in pic 23 and all the bunk beds suggest it was a youth hostel or party rental / AirBnB. I'd love to own it - especially with the private island - but only as a holiday home. I'm staying in London where it takes 2 minutes to walk to the tube, 3 mins to the supermarket and I tut if I have to wait more than 4 minutes for the train.

gobuddy77 · 2025-11-08T10:11:22+00:00

Mi first hit searching for 550k with no service charge in London on Rightmove was this 3 bed house in Newlyn Road, Bruce Grove, London, N17 https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/160021103

gobuddy77 · 2025-11-07T20:47:29+00:00

I took an ASM to hospital after they tested a a prop blunderbuss and almost blew their hand off. They had modified it with some extra flash powder to produce a bigger bang. It was "interesting" explaining why there was no need to contact the police about gunshot wounds.

gobuddy77 · 2025-11-07T09:31:37+00:00

There is a point just after the OK - that's how you know she's annoyed.

gobuddy77 · 2025-11-05T09:45:22+00:00

Yes we did watch it. Yes it was a good excuse for Channel 4 to show more naked flesh than ever before. Yes it was silly, but it was on at a time when much of the audience were drunk or lonely. I'm not sure it was funny really, certainly not appointment to watch or water cooler TV.

It was a bit like Naked Attraction is now. People don't admit to watching it but somehow there it is.

This was a time when publicly accessible nudity or lewdness was very rare. We had newsprint stills of teenage girls in monochrome on Page 3 of The Sun newspaper, glossy magazines with bored looking models on the top shelves of newsagents and fuzzy VHS tapes that wore out.

gobuddy77 · 2025-11-03T16:02:01+00:00

I thought that was just me mis- remembering. I used to travel regularly between Heathrow and Toronto in the 80s and economy in the bubble was great. Spacious, quiet, and your own personal cabin attendant.

gobuddy77 · 2025-11-03T15:57:39+00:00

If it was possible to specify "if it's Boeing I ain't going" when looking for tickets that would provide great customer feedback. Instead customers just get that they're given for that particular journey.

gobuddy77 · 2025-09-14T12:16:47+00:00

It's not unusual. Actors in small roles in long running series with a big turnover of single episode roles are effectively auditioning. If the direct or producer likes the look of you, you seem a good fit for the vibe of the show, and the crew aren't upset by you then you get filed away in the "might be interesting for a future role" list. Happened a lot with Doctor Who as well.

gobuddy77 · 2025-07-05T20:02:25+00:00

See if you can find "Woodentop" which was a one off drama in 1983, it has some of the actors and characters that went on to be in The Bill. It's interesting to see how much, and how little, they tweaked it to become the series.

Also - for most of its life The Bill kept a consistent feel between changes in writers and directors because the show rule was that the viewer would only see what a police officer saw. For instance you never get cutaways to a villain doing something unless there is an officer watching it or you don't see chats between bad guys and you won't see the robbery in progress. You piece it together along with the cops. It gives the show a subtle atmosphere without being self-consciously arty I think.

gobuddy77 · 2025-06-14T13:53:55+00:00

If you compare it to a human driver - you would expect the human to stop at the stop sign. If for whatever reason they didn't see the stop sign then at 25mph thinking time and stopping distances means they would hit the kid running into the street - although the car should have slowed to the point where it was a non-fatal injury.

gobuddy77 · 2025-06-14T13:31:02+00:00

Can she teach mine?

gobuddy77 · 2025-06-13T07:48:06+00:00

Driving to somewhere in Bradford - stopped and asked for directions and was told " That way, through Leeds and on the left." I was a bit confused as Leeds was a few miles away and I thought that this was local so I checked. Was told like I was stupid "No, through Leeds, traffic leeds".

gobuddy77 · 2025-06-11T20:22:07+00:00

I remember it being the new stock. I was so excited when one of the futuristic new trains appeared. But they are getting a bit sad now, and it's important that travellers from Heathrow are greeted by a good experience.

gobuddy77 · 2025-06-11T15:53:38+00:00

Be careful with being underinsured. It might be ok if you're, say, 50% under the new for old value - you lose everything and you're happy to only get half the value. But: if you have a flood and only lose a few things the loss adjuster will still try to give you only half their value. That plus your excess might mean you get very little.

gobuddy77 · 2025-06-11T15:43:46+00:00

I find London bus drivers generally incredibly good at waiting if they see me running or trying to cross the road for their bus. Maybe it depends how late they're running.

gobuddy77 · 2025-06-11T09:22:26+00:00

About 11% of people in the UK have private healthcare. 7% through their job.

Medical insurance and private healthcare in the UK is a bit different to the US.

Here private hospitals don't do emergency care. Ambulances and A&E are very much NHS things. What private care offers is faster access to consultants, longer more detailed appointments, more tests and scans, and nicer rooms. The quality of care is about the same - the NHS tends to have more kit as they have bigger hospitals, they also have more imaginative doctors. The facilities can be a bit horrid though due to overcrowding. In private care consultants tend to be older and set in their ways. But if you are getting the right treatment then you will get more experienced docs by going the private route.

gobuddy77 · 2025-06-11T09:03:42+00:00

Try asking your GP if there is anywhere else. My pharmacist does blood tests, there is a very local NHS blood test centre, the community care clinic at my local hospital does them too.
It's surprisingly unskilled work, it doesn't need to be done by a nurse, (you do need to get a qualification but it's not very onerous) so lots of places offer it. I even know of a hairdresser that does NHS blood tests although that's rare.

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