Brexit, for once some facts.

oyster

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What?!?!? That's impressive! You must know your onions from your turnips! I occasionally confuse the two, but that's the CSR (which is far too common to be one my three "One in a million"{s}).
It was personal rather than professional. A tiny program with Eddie Mair and a lovely woman who actually came to our house. Can't remember her name or the program's!
 
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It was personal rather than professional. A tiny program with Eddie Mair and a lovely woman who actually came to our house. Can't remember her name or the program's!
That must have been an interesting experience. I love equipment-spotting the BBC - I wonder what they use for field recording these days? They used to use these:


...very high quality for it's time and very robust, mine eventually died a death (quartz-timed motor). Now unrepairable. Aiming it for the bin was a sad day.
 
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This is a fine example of urinating from a bedroom window on someone attempting to threaten you by setting fire to your dustbin.
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This too


Quite! and boy, this is going to cost him :oops:
 

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That must have been an interesting experience. I love equipment-spotting the BBC - I wonder what they use for field recording these days? They used to use these:


...very high quality for it's time and very robust, mine eventually died a death (quartz-timed motor). Now unrepairable. Aiming it for the bin was a sad day.
I think it was a classic Uher but that could be false memory. It used to go out very early Saturday and repeated late afternoon or early evening. Tacked onto a longer program. She was, I think, a Jennifer.
 
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That must have been an interesting experience. I love equipment-spotting the BBC - I wonder what they use for field recording these days? They used to use these:


...very high quality for it's time and very robust, mine eventually died a death (quartz-timed motor). Now unrepairable. Aiming it for the bin was a sad day.
Ditto with my one, it was a truly great little machine.
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Ditto with my one, it was a truly great little machine.
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I really miss it - was better than my tape deck - I believe it's motor was the weakest point, constantly adjusting to maintain constant speed. I replaced it with a BOSS Micro BR. Recordings have lower noise, and it's fiddlier, but smaller and lighter (also much cheaper!):


...great paired with decent mics. No instant one-touch recording though...


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guerney

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This is fun


This is a fine example of urinating from a bedroom window on someone attempting to threaten you by setting fire to your dustbin.
:cool:
This too


Quite! and boy, this is going to cost him :oops:
Professonally, she's got the better end of the deal - won't be short of acting jobs (of all types) after the Boris era. No more bit-parts in Hollyoaks...
 
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flecc

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Here's an interesting thought Oyster. That extreme pulse pressure was 2020, not '21 as I mistyped. Could getting a Covid infection cause a sharp rise in blood pressure? My blood pressure rises in the evening so I tend to check it at the usual peak times.

In March 2020 London was hit hard by Covid with 2.5 times the infection rate of the rest of the country and my Borough the hardest hit of all. Here's my pressure from 3 random day samples taken before that 15th March sudden very high reading and the next three random date samples after:

26/1 113/84

1/2 118/76

19/2 116/82

15/3 201/82

4/4 161/76

17/6 163/83

19/6 167/81

As you can see a clear leap in pressures for a while from that day, though from July they started to normalise and even went too low in October.
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AFAIK any infection increases blood pressure, as might what you eat/drink - mine seems to increase whenever I eat (delicious) very fatty foods. Unseasonably warm weather can do it too.
 
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AFAIK any infection increases blood pressure, as might what you eat/drink - mine seems to increase whenever I eat (delicious) very fatty foods. Unseasonably warm weather can do it too.
As can measuring blood pressure (when accompanied by anxiety), which in part is why I try not to measure anything I don't have to (abaddon will have me, it will be messy, it's probably better if I don't see it coming)
 
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Jesus H Christ

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The Windsor Suite, with Michelin starred food & drinks.
I think he's got a discount. The normal price is £3,300 a time.

I’ve got Michelin tyres on my Golf. To be honest they’re a shitty overpriced inferior quality product. I’ve never had a set last long enough to wear out. The side walls either crack or they become oval and create excess vibration. I never tried one of their restaurants, but if their tyres are anything to go by, I’m not missing much.
 

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I’ve got Michelin tyres on my Golf. To be honest they’re a shitty overpriced inferior quality product. I’ve never had a set last long enough to wear out. The side walls either crack or they become oval and create excess vibration. I never tried one of their restaurants, but if their tyres are anything to go by, I’m not missing much.
Michelin restaurants (in my extremely limited experience, am more a macdonalds type) are overrated. But the tyres (have pilot sports) have been great. Could it be the car?
 

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As can measuring blood pressure (when accompanied by anxiety), which in part is why I try not to measure anything I don't have to (abaddon will have me, it will be messy, it's probably better if I don't see it coming)
Hence the random dates I check it, I'm not a worrier so if I get a very high reading my answer is to stop checking it for a while.

As the old saying goes, what the eye doesn't see the heart doesn't grieve over.
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