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Yep, it’s called compression - used in audio production forever. The idea is if that you squash the peaks in an audio wave and then, as the loudest parts are quieter, you can raise the overall level of the wave. It is very useful for things like bass, where you typically want a consistent level throughout as the bass usually forms an important component of the rhythm of a piece of music. TV adverts have been horrendously over-compressed for years, with the specific intent of slamming the message into the viewers cerebral cortex to make them buy whatever is being advertised. I can’t stand it. It’s also very often over-used in modern music production, to make the perceived volume of a song to be as high as possible. The same crappy attention-seeking as TV ads.

Leicester has a Popeyes, right?

At least 40 being reported.

Football. And I never thought I’d say that.

Scenes

Yeah, I feel that annoyance. But it is what it is!

Ah not too bad then. 👍🏽 Hope you have a very special wedding - will be all the better due to the circumstances 😃

Jokes aside, congratulations. Must have been very tense waiting 😯

Excellent news! What’s the credit limit?

My boss (male, married) once sent me a sweet emoji and a heart emoji, out of the blue and with no context. It’s never been brought up and I’d completely forgotten about it until I read this post.

You didn’t footnote your asterix.

I like a Five Guys.

Got chased by Tranmere fans once.

Kill all the horrible power mongers.

Sounds like good old fashioned necrophilia to me.

It’s the inexplicable decisions that make me wonder. Very often you can see why something has been missed, or a call is given a certain way. You can think it through. These decisions don’t bother me, but the ones where you genuinely can’t see why a decision has been made, and it seems contrary to what you see week in, week out over many years of watching football? Well, you expect one every now then but when there’s a handful in the space of a month or so, it’s hard to not feel that the refs have been given directives. Particularly when what your team is doing is overtly not what the powers that be want. E.g., pissing the “hardest league in the world”.

Obviously 2nd is as good as 1st looking at things completely pragmatically, but surely any supporter of any team of any sport wants that team to win things and get records? Surely that’s the very epicentre of why people are sports fans in the first place? I’m glad the modern game hasn’t completely taken that away from me. I would be overjoyed with 2nd, but would also take a lot from another trophy and Leeds never being able to say they were better than us this season.

One can only imagine at the crazy events that might happen 3 1/2 years from now. Really makes you think.

Got my custom made owl suit on.

Mike Tyson’s autobiography. I’m not really into boxing but thought it would be interesting. I really enjoyed the first part about his childhood and his amateur career, but that was about 20% of the book. After that, when he made it, it’s entirely about him shagging loads of women, taking loads of drugs, being sued and suing others. I suppose it’s a slightly worthwhile peek into the life of a person who’s had a very colourful life, but it’s also distasteful to the point I don’t really know if I’m enjoying it. It’s a bit like playing a GTA game - vaguely entertaining but also slightly icky. x/10.

I was on the Clifton Suspension bridge recently and could hear you lot. Fair play.

It’s not an assumption and I don’t 100% know I’m right. But to look so dangerous going forwards right up until the point we score, and then look so lacklustre afterwards, suggests to me that not conceding was a priority. We were getting deeper and deeper, it was a disaster waiting to happen. I’m not saying it’s the game plan but something was stopping us pushing on and battering them. Whatever that thing is, it concerns me as every game is massive now and, if the players are flapping, we will more than likely end up in the play offs. If it’s what Enzo wants then I don’t agree with him. I’m hoping it’s purely because we’d lost three on the spin.

Thanks. I’m fully on board with how we play by the way, and put performances since after the Leeds game down to nerves and absences. My post was in response to the presumption that it was a time thing, whereas I believe it’s more down to nerves kicking in when sitting on 3 points. For example, the “15 minute” thing against Sunderland may well have been a “first half” thing had we scored at 44 minutes. I think the huge importance of having to win can have a big impact after scoring the first. You flip from “must score” to “must not concede” in a second. They need the self belief to push on and score three imo.