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Gray said:
But Long Covid is well known, hopefully not what you've got.
Get well soon.

I saw this article in today's BBC web news:
www.bbc.co.uk

Covid: Is there a summer wave and what are FLiRT variants?

Lots of people seem to have Covid at the moment but what is behind it and is it serious?
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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Thanks, it does seem that lots of people are coming down recently with [unspecified illness, which is officially attributed to as an airborne pathogen, but could also possibly be* a worldwide conspiracy to change human genes by creating panic & spreading false symptoms to enable a global social contagion, fed with deliberately vague testing apparatus to knowing decisive doctors into misdiagnosing & mistreating millions before secretly offering a “vaccine” which really injects 5G signals into our hip joints ready for the singularity when computers will use us like radio controlled donkeys to carry stuff around for them]

*very, very, very, very unlikely
 
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Gray said:
Amazon.
I searched and bought a (Ramsey Lewis) CD.
Below, I was told that I 'might also like':
A Love Honey, Rabbit Ears Clitoral Stimulator.

(Maybe their way of calling me a rude word 🤔)
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I wish I would get recommendations like that.

Mine are all dog treats, grunge vinyl & books about psychology

P.s. did you buy one?
 
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Revolutions said:
Post-Covid fatigue.

I had no idea this was a thing. But now apparently I have it. The last three weeks have been pretty crap. Stopped training to try and conserve energy. That hasn’t helped with focus at work. Ended up taking over a week off. So now I feel stressed, out of shape, behind with work, losing money & totally listless with no motivation to resolve it. Strange.
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Sorry to hear that - hope you feel back to normal soon.
 
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Gray said:
The crossbow killer.
He's in hospital. Imagine being the doc / nurse responsible for his care.
(If anyone deserves Lucy Letby style 'care', it's him).
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I don't want him dead. He needs to spend decades in jail, especially as after killing a mother and two daughters, he won't be very popular with other inmates who have daughters of their own.
 
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The comments on audiosciencereview.com

I know it’s the internet, and a perfect microcosm of it at that. My recent explorations have stumbled across many a 30-page discussion resulting from a test of an amp, speaker or even a channel switcher. The absolute hatred of anything that doesn’t receive high scores is incredible, even though implicit in the whole thing is the complexity of acoustics, the difficulty of testing & the subjectivity of hearing. Such dogmatic views are kinda sad.

p.s. not talking about tests that show zero degradation (at all price points) of electrical signals on certain, erm, wires, that power or join together hifi components.
 
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Revolutions said:
The comments on audiosciencereview.com

I know it’s the internet, and a perfect microcosm of it at that. My recent explorations have stumbled across many a 30-page discussion resulting from a test of an amp, speaker or even a channel switcher. The absolute hatred of anything that doesn’t receive high scores is incredible, even though implicit in the whole thing is the complexity of acoustics, the difficulty of testing & the subjectivity of hearing. Such dogmatic views are kinda sad.

p.s. not talking about tests that show zero degradation (at all price points) of electrical signals on certain, erm, wires, that power or join together hifi components.
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That is definitely not the site for me. I don’t see the point of obsessing over testing and performance results and graphs. What really matters is what kit sounds like, to your ears, in your home.

Those people have lost sight of what it’s all about, enjoying listening to music.
 
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Friesiansam said:
Those people have lost sight of what it’s all about, enjoying listening to music.
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Whereas those obsessing over bits of wire, fuses, furniture, bits and sample rates, etc, etc, and any other pointless snake oil you care to mention haven't? *


*which is pretty much every other hifi forum , including this one. Incidentally.
 
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daveh75 said:
Whereas those obsessing over bits of wire, fuses, furniture, bits and sample rates, etc, etc, and any other pointless snake oil you care to mention haven't? *


*which is pretty much every other hifi forum ...
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It’s a fair point. I presume that site has loads of other topics, but google only brings up the testing threads.

And the fact I felt the need to call out a difference between testing cables for signal loss vs something like speaker response shows where my bias lies: I trust measurements that reinforce my beliefs.
 
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daveh75 said:
Whereas those obsessing over bits of wire, fuses, furniture, bits and sample rates, etc, etc, and any other pointless snake oil you care to mention haven't? *


*which is pretty much every other hifi forum , including this one. Incidentally.
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Where did I say that those obsessed with testing, are the only ones who have lost sight of what it's all about?
 
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Me, I fear.

Being followed by a Corsa on the way back from hols a week or two ago, along a very long stretch of dual carriageway. Whenever I was stuck behind something that was slowly overtaking a lorry, the Corsa glued itself to the bumper of Mrs 12th's car. When the way cleared, I'd put my foot down to get up to speed, get past and then pull into the nearside lane - as per highway code etc. Each time, a substantial gap opened up between us and the Corsa.

I started to notice that whenever I did this, and no matter how many hundreds of metres of clear road ahead there was, the Corsa never moved out of the overtaking lane. It just sat there, gradually being wound up and glacially catching up after having been dropped. Each time I moved over to overtake something, I seemed to end up behind another vehicle that was doing likewise, but always slowly. So each time I ended up with the Corsa stuck in my rear view mirror, and each time it then refused to get out of the overtaking lane no matter how clear the other lane was.

I'm sorry to say that after a while I made a bit of a game out of it - ensuring that as the gap got down to 50m+ or so (i.e. it was perfectly safe to pull out, given the glacial rate of gain), I was always at the point of having to pull out to overtake. This went on for about half an hour. Not noble, I know. I'd like to pretend I'm not proud...
 
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The Beeb's coverage of the Olympics. Wanted to watch the swimming, but the decided to stick with Murray's tennis. And this was also being show on the red button as the only other live option. When swimming became available on red button, this then switched to showing the hockey. After quitting iPlayer and re-entering a few times, swimming finally became an option again, but only after two events had actually happened.

Given that it can stream a vast number of things in this way, please just stick with what you say you are going to show...
 
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The Beeb's coverage of the Olympics. Wanted to watch the swimming, but the decided to stick with Murray's tennis. And this was also being show on the red button as the only other live option. When swimming became available on red button, this then switched to showing the hockey. After quitting iPlayer and re-entering a few times, swimming finally became an option again, but only after two events had actually happened.

Given that it can stream a vast number of things in this way, please just stick with what you say you are going to show...
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Think I read somewhere the Beeb has actually sold the broadcasting rights to a third party...might be something to do with it.
 
DougK1 said:
Think I read somewhere the Beeb has actually sold the broadcasting rights to a third party...might be something to do with it.
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They did not sell it. Warner Brothers bought the European broadcast rights for £1.3billion, from the IOC, which is a tad beyond the BBC budget. Because it is a protected event for public broadcasting under UK law they were sold 2 streams from the original package, and that was all the BBC could afford. The BBC have to choose which 2 to show at anytime.

The WB deal lasts until 2032.
 
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Discovery+ has an offer on for their "Standard" plan for the duration of the Olympics for £3.99 a month (usually £6.99) at the moment if you want comprehensive and better than the BBCs woeful coverage... Just as an FYI
 
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I have just binged through nine episodes of Dark Matter on my streaming service (Apple+ TV), great Sci-Fi. How likely is it that a multiverse exists and there is another version of you or maybe thousands of you, coexisting in a parallel universe.
Don't want to spoil it for you but if you haven't watched it yet, worth putting it on your viewing list, or better still, read the book.

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View: https://youtu.be/j6ucGt_Xp14?si=Y6UWZdY3E78kD2db
 
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