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  #3203577 6-Mar-2024 07:38
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How many streams of Sky Go (Not Sky now) can you have going at once?

 

 


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  #3203603 6-Mar-2024 09:13
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networkn:

 

How many streams of Sky Go (Not Sky now) can you have going at once?

 

 

 

 

Not as many as you'd like...





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  #3209555 22-Mar-2024 12:22
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If Donald Trump received a pig transplant, would his disposition improve?

 

 





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  #3209562 22-Mar-2024 12:36
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Rikkitic:

 

If Donald Trump received a pig transplant, would his disposition improve?

 

 

 

 

Which part of the pig?


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  #3209564 22-Mar-2024 12:55
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johno1234:

 

Which part of the pig?

 

 

Any part.





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  #3209567 22-Mar-2024 13:01
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Why does every organisation that gets hacked tell us that they take security very seriously when obviously they don't?

 

 





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  #3209630 22-Mar-2024 17:55
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Can the government back track on its promise to give us all a tax break and instead leave people in their jobs? I wouldn’t mind if we all paid 1% more tax for this to happen. Would it help if enough people wrote to the PM suggesting this to make them reconsider, or am I naive.

 

Am suddenly finding it very upsetting hearing people worried sick about their survival and finding another job. Have spoken to three breadwinners in the last days and know there are a few thousand more and it’s no longer just words, it’s a harsh reality that I don’t want to see happen. 


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  #3209632 22-Mar-2024 18:27
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Eva888:

 

Can the government back track on its promise to give us all a tax break and instead leave people in their jobs? I wouldn’t mind if we all paid 1% more tax for this to happen. Would it help if enough people wrote to the PM suggesting this to make them reconsider, or am I naive.

 

Am suddenly finding it very upsetting hearing people worried sick about their survival and finding another job. Have spoken to three breadwinners in the last days and know there are a few thousand more and it’s no longer just words, it’s a harsh reality that I don’t want to see happen. 

 

 

This thread is for light-hearted stuff. Might be better if you start a new one under off topic or politics and repost this there.

 

 

 

 





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  #3210345 24-Mar-2024 19:54
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Why do (some) sports commentaries require the commentators to have the headset mike folded out of the way and they have to use a weird mike with a metal plate on top that they shove up their nose while talking?

 

 

 

 

Must be insanely annoying, every time you want to say something you have to shove the mike up your nose.

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  #3210348 24-Mar-2024 20:06
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It's a standard mike design for that purpose that reduces wind (including from your nose) and background noise.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lip-ribbon_microphone 


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  #3210360 24-Mar-2024 20:44
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Ah, so that's what it is. Still, seems weird to be using it in an enclosed, presumably soundproof booth with no wind or outside noise, particularly since most reporting is done with standard types of microphones. Having used headset mikes of the kind in the photo in deafeningly noisy situations (about a metre from a piston engine running at 2,500rpm) it seems crazy that they can't make them work in an enclosed soundproof booth but instead use hundred-year-old technology that must annoy the commentators no end.

  #3210414 24-Mar-2024 21:15
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neb: Ah, so that's what it is. Still, seems weird to be using it in an enclosed, presumably soundproof booth with no wind or outside noise, particularly since most reporting is done with standard types of microphones. Having used headset mikes of the kind in the photo in deafeningly noisy situations (about a metre from a piston engine running at 2,500rpm) it seems crazy that they can't make them work in an enclosed soundproof booth but instead use hundred-year-old technology that must annoy the commentators no end.

 

Surprisingly, quite a number of commentaries are not done in an enclosed soundproof booth, but a room with the windows wide open - e.g. I've seen this at the Basin Reserve.


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  #3210699 25-Mar-2024 17:10
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We've all heard of Godwin's law.

 

Is there a name for the phenomenon that all whingy discussions and forum threads will always cycle (see what I did there 😜) back to moans about other people's behaviour in traffic?





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  #3210700 25-Mar-2024 17:15
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allan:

 

neb: Ah, so that's what it is. Still, seems weird to be using it in an enclosed, presumably soundproof booth with no wind or outside noise, particularly since most reporting is done with standard types of microphones. Having used headset mikes of the kind in the photo in deafeningly noisy situations (about a metre from a piston engine running at 2,500rpm) it seems crazy that they can't make them work in an enclosed soundproof booth but instead use hundred-year-old technology that must annoy the commentators no end.

 

Surprisingly, quite a number of commentaries are not done in an enclosed soundproof booth, but a room with the windows wide open - e.g. I've seen this at the Basin Reserve.

 


Some are done in a caravan sans-pants. (I'm looking at you, ACC). 

 

 





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  #3210728 25-Mar-2024 18:14
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floydbloke:

 

We've all heard of Godwin's law.

 

Is there a name for the phenomenon that all whingy discussions and forum threads will always cycle (see what I did there 😜) back to moans about other people's behaviour in traffic?

 

 

Or all back to the same universal complaint, about courier drivers delivering packages outside of expectations? 


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