Questions Thread

[AyewJoking]

Do Netflix originals ever go to to dvd or does that kind of defeat the point?

[SystonFox]

21 hours ago, The Bear said:

Jimmy Carr's is still the weirdest. Like a seal having an orgasm. 

My wife tells me my laugh is Jimmy carr like. Inward breathing

[marbles]

5 hours ago, Royston. said:

Do Netflix originals ever go to to dvd or does that kind of defeat the point?

A few have in the past, but don’t think so anymore.

 

I spent the money and bought a server a few years ago.  Now if there’s something on a streaming service I really like, I capture and save it.

 

You can do the same with an external hard drive and 2 bits of software.  

 

 

 

Edited 16 April 2023 by marbles

[AyewJoking]

Why does the calendar on my daughter's phone use up around 5MB

but mine uses around 200KB?

 

She has the A03 and I think mine is the A03 Core.

[SemperEadem]

Has anyone hired a bbq before?

[Parafox]

4 hours ago, SemperEadem said:

Has anyone hired a bbq before?

I haven't, but I'm curious to know why you'd hire a barbecue unless you mean the whole BBQ experience with a competent barbecue cook.

 

 

 

 

[SemperEadem]

8 minutes ago, Parafox said:

I haven't, but I'm curious to know why you'd hire a barbecue unless you mean the whole BBQ experience with a competent barbecue cook.

 

 

 

 

UFS charity tournament. We struggled to keep up feeding nearly 100 or so on a 30cm thing before.

[Parafox]

7 minutes ago, SemperEadem said:

UFS charity tournament. We struggled to keep up feeding nearly 100 or so on a 30cm thing before.

So you want to hire an actual BBQ grill?

 

I've Googled and there's not that many locally. I would suggest you try the same. You will best know what will suit your function.

 

 

[Paninistickers]

When were the olden days? Is there a turning point? 

 

I tend to be drawn to the 70s. But then, I'd see something like the likely lads or the Sweeney and give or take, life ain't that much different (phones apart).... go work, wait for weekend, watch football, do DIY, chase birds, 

 

Only fitness and phones seem to be vastly different. 

 

 

[Free Falling Foxes]

2 hours ago, Paninistickers said:

When were the olden days? Is there a turning point? 

 

I tend to be drawn to the 70s. But then, I'd see something like the likely lads or the Sweeney and give or take, life ain't that much different (phones apart).... go work, wait for weekend, watch football, do DIY, chase birds, 

 

Only fitness and phones seem to be vastly different. 

 

 

Plus you didn't walk on eggshells all the time for fear of offending someone/something.

[String fellow]

My granddaughter was recently asked the following question at school:-

Can the 8 columns of the standard PL table contain

(a) all even numbers,

(b) all odd numbers.

Having already spotted that City recently had all even-numbered stats, part (a) was easy to answer in the affirmative.

But part (b) requires a moment's thought. If goals scored and goals conceded are both odd numbers, GD must be even.

Furthermore, the points gained from winning an odd number of games and drawing an odd number will also produce

an even total. Therefore, at least 2 columns of the PL table will always contain even numbers.  

Edited 7 May 2023 by String fellow

[leicsmac]

15 hours ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

Plus you didn't walk on eggshells all the time for fear of offending someone/something.

It's true. It really was a better time when "No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish" was alright and Love Thy Neighbour was considered top-tier comedy, wasn't it?

[HesNotGudjonsonn2]

13 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

It's true. It really was a better time when "No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish" was alright and Love Thy Neighbour was considered top-tier comedy, wasn't it?

You only have to go back ten years and you can find a lot of questionable comedy. 

[leicsmac]

5 minutes ago, HesNotGudjonsonn2 said:

You only have to go back ten years and you can find a lot of questionable comedy. 

It's certainly true that things have moved pretty damn fast in that regard in recent times. Too fast for a fair few people, evidently.

[HesNotGudjonsonn2]

1 minute ago, leicsmac said:

It's certainly true that things have moved pretty damn fast in that regard in recent times. Too fast for a fair few people, evidently.

It is very good that it has and, I think, most would agree. Why do we need to insult people to create comedy. It is time for writers to show how clever they can be.

[marbles]

2 hours ago, leicsmac said:

It's true. It really was a better time when "No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish" was alright and Love Thy Neighbour was considered top-tier comedy, wasn't it?

Why do you go from “I’m offended about everything” to “no blacks allowed”?

You do realize there was a time in between - right?  

Maybe that’s the time period people prefer to remember fondly.
 

[marbles]

2 hours ago, HesNotGudjonsonn2 said:

It is very good that it has and, I think, most would agree. Why do we need to insult people to create comedy. It is time for writers to show how clever they can be.

It’s about choice.

I could list dozens of things I don’t like or agree with, but give no thought to because it’s not hurting me or anyone else.

 

Not necessarily you - but is funny that people complain about religion and the push of religious principles on people, when this is the EXACT same thing.  
People feel that other shouldn’t enjoy a certain type of comedy (or lifestyle), and therefore that comedy (or lifestyle) should be eliminated.

No.  If people find something offensive, move along.  Turn the channel.  Listen to something else.  Quit wasting your life trying to tell others how to live.  
 

Because you damn sure wouldn’t like it if I came into your life and told you what you’re allowed to enjoy.

Edited 7 May 2023 by marbles

[HesNotGudjonsonn2]

4 hours ago, marbles said:

It’s about choice.

I could list dozens of things I don’t like or agree with, but give no thought to because it’s not hurting me or anyone else.

 

Not necessarily you - but is funny that people complain about religion and the push of religious principles on people, when this is the EXACT same thing.  
People feel that other shouldn’t enjoy a certain type of comedy (or lifestyle), and therefore that comedy (or lifestyle) should be eliminated.

No.  If people find something offensive, move along.  Turn the channel.  Listen to something else.  Quit wasting your life trying to tell others how to live.  
 

Because you damn sure wouldn’t like it if I came into your life and told you what you’re allowed to enjoy.

Perhaps we can all just find humour without it being offensive to someone else. That is all I am saying. 

[Free Falling Foxes]

7 hours ago, leicsmac said:

It's true. It really was a better time when "No Blacks, No Dogs, No Irish" was alright and Love Thy Neighbour was considered top-tier comedy, wasn't it?

And there we have it. Offence. One size fits all.

Those examples are abhorrent and no right thinking, decent person would subscribe to it nor be associated with it.

Here's the thing though. I offended an Asian colleague once. I didn't mean too, I didn't realise I had. But, that is no excuse nor defence these days.

Guilty as charged. They felt offended and told me.

What had I done? I offered my opinion that astrology is complete codswallop.

My colleague explained, his religion holds great belief in astrology, something his elderly mother holds very dear too and I ought to bare in mind that many others feel that way too.

Another colleague of mine was offended by the F word being used by a client she and I were carrying out an assessment for. It wasn't said aggressively, he happened to use it in his everyday language.

I thought nothing of it, she immediately stopped the assessment, stating she was offended by his use of the word.

 

Perhaps I should have been offended when an Asian lady said she didn't know if she should trust me because I have green eyes. She had always been told not to trust people with green eyes

Imagine if I had said that about the colour of her skin!

 

Perhaps, I should have been offended by recent posts on these boards that stated men who don't wash their hands after using the loo, tend to be over 50s. Or that older folk tend to drop litter. Both ludicrous, generalisations, not to mention inaccurate.

 

My 'walking on eggshells' point was: anyone can be offended by someone, something or somewhere, and there seems to be an increasing lack of resilience amongst folk and feeling they need protecting.

 

You run the risk of grouping, labelling and treating all potentially offensive comments under the extreme examples you have given. It is tiresome and tedious of those who do so. 

 

[marbles]

2 hours ago, HesNotGudjonsonn2 said:

Perhaps we can all just find humour without it being offensive to someone else. That is all I am saying. 

I got you.

We can agree to disagree

 

[leicsmac]

8 hours ago, marbles said:

Why do you go from “I’m offended about everything” to “no blacks allowed”?

You do realize there was a time in between - right?  

Maybe that’s the time period people prefer to remember fondly.
 

The OP referenced the 70's. Both of those things I mentioned were part of the 70's - and popular enough to be remembered as part of it too. We look back at the past with rose-tinted spectacles far too often.

 

That being said, it would be a better world if folks followed your "no harm, no foul, leave it alone" rule...I just don't see much evidence of it being successful in practice, not when dominant demographics - religious or otherwise - use their power to legislate the lives of others. What people are seeing right now is pushback to a position more equal, rather than an attempt to usurp that power, IMO. (But who knows?)

 

3 hours ago, Free Falling Foxes said:

And there we have it. Offence. One size fits all.

Those examples are abhorrent and no right thinking, decent person would subscribe to it nor be associated with it.

Here's the thing though. I offended an Asian colleague once. I didn't mean too, I didn't realise I had. But, that is no excuse nor defence these days.

Guilty as charged. They felt offended and told me.

What had I done? I offered my opinion that astrology is complete codswallop.

My colleague explained, his religion holds great belief in astrology, something his elderly mother holds very dear too and I ought to bare in mind that many others feel that way too.

Another colleague of mine was offended by the F word being used by a client she and I were carrying out an assessment for. It wasn't said aggressively, he happened to use it in his everyday language.

I thought nothing of it, she immediately stopped the assessment, stating she was offended by his use of the word.

 

Perhaps I should have been offended when an Asian lady said she didn't know if she should trust me because I have green eyes. She had always been told not to trust people with green eyes

Imagine if I had said that about the colour of her skin!

 

Perhaps, I should have been offended by recent posts on these boards that stated men who don't wash their hands after using the loo, tend to be over 50s. Or that older folk tend to drop litter. Both ludicrous, generalisations, not to mention inaccurate.

 

My 'walking on eggshells' point was: anyone can be offended by someone, something or somewhere, and there seems to be an increasing lack of resilience amongst folk and feeling they need protecting.

 

You run the risk of grouping, labelling and treating all potentially offensive comments under the extreme examples you have given. It is tiresome and tedious of those who do so. 

 

I'll freely admit I was pretty damn facetious and flippant in my response and for that I apologise.

 

My own thoughts on looking back at the past as stated above, you make valid points here. Living in a country where I am a minority group for nine of the last twelve years has opened my own eyes to what it is like to be that minority group and, yes, for folks to cause offence to me based upon it.

 

I agree about the increasing incidences of such "offence", but I also think that rather many people are using pushback against that as a way to reassert their own social power and, yes, go back to the time where the extreme examples I mentioned were the norm. Just because there is people crying wolf where there isn't one, doesn't mean the wolf doesn't exist and isn't active, as it were. And we know how that story ends. Look at the political climate in the US and UK, among other places, from 2016 until now, for instance.

 

People do need to take the time to parse between the two differing types of "offence" here, but at the same time I empathise with those who have been mistreated on account of who they are in the past, are fed up with it and who might not necessarily be inclined to do the work and instead lash out. It's unproductive and doesn't get them what they want or need (a more equal society), but I do understand it.

 

I'm not sure what the "solution" is, or even if there is one, to these artificial divisions that are the basis of a lot of "offence". I just wish that more people realised that we are all, in fact, just human.

[ozleicester]

Personal offending is a very different beast to, for want of a better term, "societal offending"

[HesNotGudjonsonn2]

6 hours ago, ozleicester said:

Personal offending is a very different beast to, for want of a better term, "societal offending"

I agree. Some people will find offence in anything written, because they look for it and indulge themselves in their own indignation.
 

i think it is an issue when it is an insult to a large societal group when it needs not be.

 

Lets all laugh at black people.

Let’s all laugh at gay people.

Let’s all laugh at trans people.

Lets all laugh at Indian people.

 

We can wrap a load of hatred and belittlement into a nice 23 minutes with adverts and call it comedy. If that doesn’t work then let’s claim it is satire.

 

This is what I think is wrong and was still happening in the 00’s.

 

I mean Judith from Wimbledon South will be writing into Points of View for someone speaking badly of Chrysanthemums. I think we can take her with a pitch of salt. 

Edited 8 May 2023 by HesNotGudjonsonn2

[marbles]

3 hours ago, HesNotGudjonsonn2 said:

I agree. Some people will find offence in anything written, because they look for it and indulge themselves in their own indignation.
 

i think it is an issue when it is an insult to a large societal group when it needs not be.

 

Lets all laugh at black people.

Let’s all laugh at gay people.

Let’s all laugh at trans people.

Lets all laugh at Indian people.

 

We can wrap a load of hatred and belittlement into a nice 23 minutes with adverts and call it comedy. If that doesn’t work then let’s claim it is satire.

 

This is what I think is wrong and was still happening in the 00’s.

 

I mean Judith from Wimbledon South will be writing into Points of View for someone speaking badly of Chrysanthemums. I think we can take her with a pitch of salt. 

You’re not looking at the intent.

Youre simply stating “it’s a joke about a black/Asian/trans - it’s automatically bad.
That’s no different than someone looking at the movie featuring a gay character and deciding it’s “woke garbage” without actually watching the movie.

 

The intent and meaning are important.

If its a comedian who only makes fun of a certain race - that’s a problem.

If the jokes are mean spirited, and promote stereotypes - that’s a problem.

 
However, if they are used as a way to make light of bad situations, stupidity, or even used as a way to help others better understand the struggles of a particular race - I have no problem with it.

Instead of simply cringing if a comedian tells a joke, try listening to what they are trying to say.  The same way you listen to a songwriter, or look into the meaning of a particular book/story - by not simply staring at the words.

Edited 8 May 2023 by marbles

[HesNotGudjonsonn2]

6 minutes ago, marbles said:

You’re not looking at the intent.

Youre simply stating “it’s a joke about a black/Asian/trans - it’s automatically bad.
That’s no different than someone looking at the movie featuring a gay character and deciding it’s “woke garbage” without actually watching the movie.

 

The intent and meaning are important.

If its a comedian who only makes fun of a certain race - that’s a problem.

If the jokes are mean spirited, and promote stereotypes - that’s a problem.

 
However, if they are used as a way to make light of bad situations, stupidity, or even used as a way to help others better understand the struggles of a particular race - I have no problem with it.

Instead of simply cringing if a comedian tells a joke, try listening to what they are trying to say.  The same way you listen to a songwriter, or look into the meaning of a particular book/story - by not simply staring at the words.

I completely agree. I am saying if the intent is to laugh at them and belittle in an offensive and insulting way based on stereotypes then there is no place for it. You should always listed to the context and the true meaning.