Anyone see this programme on BBC 1 Monday night ? I saw it at my son's house and thought it was very good :grin:. Old Lord Sugar is complaining that the actors used Liverpool accents which he couldn't understand. Ermmmm it was set in Liverpool and written by an ex Liverpool cop. The auld buggar should have put the sub-titles on his 90 inch telly if he was having problems with the accent, which incidentally Martin Freeman had down to a tee 9/10 for me I didn't give it a 10 as there was too much effin and jeffin.
All 5 episodes are available at Zoony's Video Emporium. Downloading now.
Half way through Bosch Season 6 and I'm getting a little jaded with it now. Probably give that a go when that S6 is done - couple of days most likely. Then finish Bosch off with S7 and probably on to Grimm which Raven rocommended. Oh and Sleepy Hollow and.. and.. Phew....
Remind me again how to I download Zoony's emporium and do I need to do it on a VPN which I haven't got ! Maybe I could do it on my old desktop PC with Windows 7 ?
So you popped round your sons to have a look eh!!!... Go and sit with crabbyob.. :nooo:
Yeah he's only in the next road, before the leg fiasco I always walked there. :halo:
Quote from: Alex on January 26, 2022, 02:10:21 PM
Remind me again how to I download Zoony's emporium and do I need to do it on a VPN which I haven't got ! Maybe I could do it on my old desktop PC with Windows 7 ?
No real need for a VPN imo. I don't actually run the torrents so certainly don't need one.
What I do and history. Another of my rambles in fact... skip past this para if you want...
I've had a sub with https://real-debrid.com/ for years from the days of putlockers - sites like MegaUpload where folks uploaded the movies. You needed a sub for a fast download and there were lots of sites. The way around that was a Debrid site - they had multiple licences with the putlockers and you had access via the debrid site's licence. Most of those putlocker sites got shut or obstructed along with the best known torrent site ThePirateBay. Then I made use of the other feature of real-debrid - it would run the torrents for you. These days most of the torrents you get have already been run and you get a straight download from their servers - they normally run at line speed. My line is 500Mbps so it don't take long.
Assuming you skipped that you'll need to run a torrent client which I never have - best ask zoony.
Quote from: Alex on January 26, 2022, 02:10:21 PM
Remind me again how to I download Zoony's emporium and do I need to do it on a VPN which I haven't got ! Maybe I could do it on my old desktop PC with Windows 7 ?
Use this Alex. https://www.magnetdl.com/
A VPN is recommended but I've never used one. (I don't get on with 'em.. not bright enough.) You'll need to get to know it a bit and will need a magnet link..Perhaps download this: https://www.utorrent.com/. Feel free to ask. :smiley:
What's a magnet link ?
It grabs the film/tv show and makes sure it downloads properly and quickly on your machine..Just makes things faster and surer.
Whe you have installed your torrent client and have found what you want on magnet.dl right click on the little magnet icon and select "copy link". I think the torrent client will be monitoring the clipboard and start running it. If not you'll need to paste it in. The content is mostly gobbledegook. This is the one you want just as text...
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:e9c0514cf13c0ced1a20a310e4c9c165e47a4b9c&dn=The.Responder.S01.720p.iP.WEBRip.AAC2.0.x264-playWEB+%5Beztv%5D&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3A451&tr=udp://tracker.internetwarriors.net:1337&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fexodus.desync.com%3A6969
Wow.. I never did anything like that.. :worried:
Costs abot £30 a year. Virtually no waiting though.
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Sounds complicated, I think that's what I thought last time I asked about it :grin:
It isn't. Believe me it isn't. If you can paste a link in here then you can download stuff.
Don't they tell you not to download stuff as that's where you get viruses ?
Those that don't want you to download stuff do. You cant get a virus from a movie. You could from a dodgy site but neither of the sites I've mentioned are dodgy. Copyright breaking maybe but not dodgy.
:upvote:
Not worth risking software downloads though imo...
Paste and link.. !!! I think that is the one I have just learned.. One day I will master a pic..
Quote from: Alex on January 26, 2022, 03:45:49 PM
Don't they tell you not to download stuff as that's where you get viruses ?
Alex.. Magnetlink is a site trusted and used by millions every day. You have a choice to or not.. :hmm: And that's why we have security systems..
Quote from: zoony on January 26, 2022, 05:11:21 PM
Alex.. Magnetlink is a site trusted and used by millions every day. You have a choice to or not.. :hmm: And that's why we have security systems..
Yes Miss :wink: :wink:
I've watched the first two episodes on BBC. I'll watch it all, I think Theresa May should have to watch it. She might just realise the result of decimating police numbers.
Good point Mac :upvote:
"D'ya want back up ?
"No"
"Good, cos we aven't gorreny "
:angry: :nooo:
I only watched a tiny portion just to assess the download but had no problem with the accent. Accents are odd old things. I tend to think of myself as having none but have met folk who have known instantly where I'm from just from talking.
I don't think I've got an accent yet other people do ! :grin:
If you are a Scouser believe me you have. There are enough of you to identify your origin in seconds. I was just so gobsmacked when somebody told me my origin when I have no accent at all :smiley:
Unlike all those in Rugby where I lived for some time or all the Essex boys I worked with when I worked at Ford Parts in Daventry.
I'm not a scouser klondike, like Sheila, I live on the posh side of the Mersey [2090]
So you've got a posh Scouser accent then? :smiley:
When I lived in the US they had the cheek to comment on MY accent! :grin:
We got asked if we knew John Lennon :grin: :grin:
What do you call a Scouser in a suit? The accused
:smug:
Mike, you'll be in trouble! :grin:
I know obviously that I have an accent. My children never sounded like me for starters! My English born OH sounded Scottish when we met, he'd lived there since childhood, but now its not at all obvious where he's from. He sounds more generally English than me, but has no strong regional accent.
Quote from: GrannyMac on January 27, 2022, 07:00:37 AM
but has no strong regional accent.
You may well be correct but habituation with a voice somehow makes it accentless I think. Thats why many think they have no accent (like me but I know I do).
it would be fun to have a facility for us to record our voices on here so folk could have a guess at one's origins!
Mike
They'd need to be randomised as we already know a fair bit about each other.
Folks could all record the same agreed message on
https://online-voice-recorder.com/ (or other that was the first that came in a search)
PM their recording to the organiser who could then put up a post of links and we could try to put a userid to each recording.
Well volunteered Mike. :grin:
When in Australia some were fascinated by my SE (accent).. Whatever that is.. !!
I don't think I have an accent.. I find Northerners hard to understand.. the further up the harder it becomes.. and as for Scottish..!!!
well, I used that link to record a brief message as an mp3 file, but I can't work out how to post it here
Mike
when i came down here at first so many people told me they had Scots grannies and grandpas, some even asked if i had known them in Scotland as tho it was a village...
mmm do we have a village on here yet? i canny mind?
Quote from: Michael Rolls on January 27, 2022, 10:45:25 AM
well, I used that link to record a brief message as an mp3 file, but I can't work out how to post it here
Mike
I found it entirely non intuitive when I tried but did get one done as a test.
You could probably upload it to youtube. https://www.tunestotube.com/
Just thought - wonder of I could post it here as an attachment, just like a photo? Hate to rob you lot of my dulcet tones
Mike
tried - file too big
I always was verbose!
I think it would just download rather than play anyway
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21450930/force-play-mp3-instead-of-download
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I'm lost
Mike [1100]
I've added an mp3 as an attachement above. If you click it then it will download. It won't play. You could play it but it would all be a pita. I could probably put something together but it wouldn't be trivial and maybe wouldn't work for everybody anyway. The MP3 is me fiddling about with that voice recording site.
I'm still lost
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HTH :smiley:
Quote from: klondike on January 26, 2022, 08:31:56 PM
I only watched a tiny portion just to assess the download but had no problem with the accent. Accents are odd old things. I tend to think of myself as having none but have met folk who have known instantly where I'm from just from talking.
I watched the first episode this evening and had no problem understanding the accent or the idioms though I admit that accent-wise there was no quarter given..
Something else occurs to me. When I worked as an employee it was mostly international companies and I had a lot of contact with people who didn't have English as their first language. When contracting I travelled around a fair bit and worked with people from all over. I never worked with black Americans and find I do struggle with those accents in the Bosh I am watching at the moment. Maybe it's just a case of becoming accustomed. Seems likely to me.
Quote from: Michael Rolls on January 27, 2022, 09:14:17 PM
I'm still lost
I'll have a look for some scripts that will record and playback sound. This isn't something I want to write from scratch but there are scripts for most things that can be quickly adapted. An optional voice hello from posters may be (or may not be) welcome.
thanks
Found some simple stuff but it's all javascript which is not my forte and I need to figure a way to pass the internal stream held by the broswer on to php so I can store it on the server. It does have a save to local disk function so that will be where I need to make the junction. It will happen. Not sure when yet.
we have faith!
Mike
cant someone just put an arrer on that map just to show Mike where he is?.... :nooo:
Sorry to deviate for the current topic :grin:
Watched first episode of the Responder. No problem with accents but I had too much trouble in suspending my disbelief that any copper so clearly mentally unstable would keep his job. I don't think I'll watch the rest. Maybe I missed some deeper meaning.