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Public Area => Taxi Talk => Topic started by: Dr. Martin Gooter Bling on June 24, 2023, 01:53:10 pm
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do you lads watch the telly.
i don't think i've turned my telly on in around 5 years.
the only time i did was to watch football.
i've gone totally off football and ireland are fuckin shite.
i watch all my gear on my phone.
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On my big 50inch
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I've a 65" at the foot of me bed, all the channels, even the natgeo usa. I pay me poxy TV license and me Internet so that's that.
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With a sound bar I might add.
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fair play.
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Telly is self inflicted brain cancer ......
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do you lads watch the telly.
i don't think i've turned my telly on in around 5 years.
the only time i did was to watch football.
i've gone totally off football and ireland are fuckin shite.
i watch all my gear on my phone.
Scorcese says that movies should never be watched on a small screen, also not good for your eyesight.... like that other thing...
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I've a 65" at the foot of me bed, all the channels, even the natgeo usa. I pay me poxy TV license and me Internet so that's that.
Well, one possible good thing about the Turbidy scandal is that if he does leave RTE, the licence fee will probably halve!
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I've a 65" at the foot of me bed, all the channels, even the natgeo usa. I pay me poxy TV license and me Internet so that's that.
Well, one possible good thing about the Turbidy scandal is that if he does leave RTE, the licence fee will probably halve!
I'm surprised there's not an outcry or some sort of online moanfest begging everyone to refuse paying for the tv license after this.
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Telly is self inflicted brain cancer ......
Nothing like David Attenborough in 4k at the foot of your bed on a 65" with a soundbar. I fall asleep in a cinema every night.
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And I wake up with no guilt about it either.
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I've a 65" at the foot of me bed, all the channels, even the natgeo usa. I pay me poxy TV license and me Internet so that's that.
Well, one possible good thing about the Turbidy scandal is that if he does leave RTE, the licence fee will probably halve!
A former poster here made a salient point on another app. He said "Think of all the 170 Euro licence fees people paid so that Tubridy could be paid 345K P/A, then think of the people jailed because they couldn't afford said fee
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Not to mention playing old video games on it. I've a good few consoles hooked up. Anyone who doesn't have a TV is still having a shit in the outhouse.
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Why are yezz all braggin bout havin BIG ones ::clap
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Why are yezz all braggin bout havin BIG ones ::clap
While some boast about trummers and medals.
Others can boast about not working and watching a big FO TV
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Some movies are just made for a big screen. And with a good soundbar it really makes for a good viewing experience. Anytime I'm down in me ma's house now her tv looks like a portable and that's a 42". Once you go large you'll never go back.
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do you lads watch the telly.
i don't think i've turned my telly on in around 5 years.
the only time i did was to watch football.
i've gone totally off football and ireland are fuckin shite.
i watch all my gear on my phone.
I have a small TV and a free to air contract but almost never turn it on, last time was to watch a world cup footie game last Dec and that was just because I had a financial interest in the game and was waiting fer me cab to be ready from mechanic.
I watch a birra netflix on the PC, but never bother with the TV, I doubt that I'm missing anything !
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I've a 65" at the foot of me bed, all the channels, even the natgeo usa. I pay me poxy TV license and me Internet so that's that.
Is it a Higher Pissing contest ?
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Not really, coz I've the biggest telly I win.
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Surpass my small 50inch
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I've plans for an 86" in the sitting room too. Just have to get up off my arse and work more.
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I've plans for an 86" in the sitting room too. Just have to get up off my arse and work more.
Try something like this https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/best-home-theater-projector/ (https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/best-home-theater-projector/) better still, wear glasses! 8)
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Me mate had one of them bullets. They're a pain in the hole when the bulbs go. Pricey fcukers too.
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Not really, coz I've the biggest telly I win.
Well done ! ::cheers
Is that a big brag in your neck of the woods ?
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No, not at all Ken. Seems to be round here though. I didn't start the thread, merely contributing to it is all. Not my fault I've got the biggest so far.
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No, not at all Ken. Seems to be round here though. I didn't start the thread, merely contributing to it is all. Not my fault I've got the biggest so far.
Good fer you ::cheers,
Your claim to fame is owning the Biggest Tv in your area ! lol
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I didn't say in my area Ken, I said the biggest here. Try to keep up ffs.
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I've plans for an 86" in the sitting room too. Just have to get up off my arse and work more.
Telly is for wen yur done....telly is wen yur sittin In yur nappie in an old folks home bereft of hope an wen the only ting to look forward to is death .....the end of sufferin ....the departure lounge sort o ting ....the bigger the telly ....the bigger the worry for you horse ...again I say wit absolute conviction .......
Everything in existence depends on the laws of thermodynamics....."entropy" ..everytin starts to rot as soon as its created ..in order to delay " entropy" ....energy must be converted into "work"
In practical terms and in humans understanding....
That means as I declared earlier...TV is death
Because you as a system....are not involved in energy transfer whilst watchin the telly ( notwithstanding that " rest " is the opposition of work and must exist ) ...therefore yu as a system begin to rot ....
Bit like a boat in a harbour thats abandoned an begins to rust an shit ...yu know wat I mean ?
If yur watchin netflix ...who's paintin the boat ?
::sleep
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Jasus can I not watch a documentary in peace. Fcuk sake.
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Jasus can I not watch a documentary in peace. Fcuk sake.
If yu want to achieve self actualization....then yur goal shud be ....to convert rest to work ....its that simple ....this is the meaning of success or happiness in ape terms ...
Wen I'm restin ...I'm workin on me crypto....or going over the mistakes made with the various " love of me life " that I made don't happen wit the next poor cnut that wants to have a go ....now do ya see ?
Bleedin tired wit all this tinkin
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OK.
..I'll give yu an example that may explain the meanin of life ...
Did ya ever hav a car that yu parked up in the driveway...an after a month yu wer surprised to see the ting go all rusty all of a sudden an mould an algea an shit goin on wit it an in a month its aged 10 yers from not bean used ?
Well that's...ENTROPY ....
Ah bollix ...I'm tired tryin to explain....
Need a zzz ..nap ....yawn ....zz at least ...Good nite
Or if yur in Australia...Good mornin ......
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https://www.reviewofophthalmology.com/article/chaos-theory#:~:text=Entropy%20is%20a%20loss%20of,happen%2C%20when%20order%20breaks%20down. (https://www.reviewofophthalmology.com/article/chaos-theory#:~:text=Entropy%20is%20a%20loss%20of,happen%2C%20when%20order%20breaks%20down.)
In ape terms ...sort o ting
::sleep
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I still have my 43 in and its as good as when I got it. Will change if needed.
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There is a science behind the viewing distance, picture quality and TV size - https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-size/size-to-distance-relationship (https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/by-size/size-to-distance-relationship)
So for 6ft (TV at end of the bed), 43" is the perfect size and you won't see any quality difference with a bigger TV. My TV is 8ft away from me so 55-60 inches is the perfect size for me, for instance.
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I don't know watty, I enjoy my 65" at the end of me bed. It's like a cinema.
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If you like it, that's the main thing. I guess it's like those guys who buy a brand new Merc for a taxi yet they can only charge the same fare as the fella in a budget Octavia. Above a certain level, the value for money stops.
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I don't know watty, I enjoy my 65" at the end of me bed. It's like a cinema.
Can you get YouPorn on your 65"? 8)
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You can cast ur phone, in HD, to the telly if you're that way inclined. In saying that I've got literally thousands of TV channels from all over the world plugged into it.
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If you like it, that's the main thing. I guess it's like those guys who buy a brand new Merc for a taxi yet they can only charge the same fare as the fella in a budget Octavia. Above a certain level, the value for money stops.
Maybe they should start charging less for the first few rows in a cinema so. Up close and personal and all that.
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I like the technicalities of TV more than the actual watching so every room in the gaff is hardwired for Saorview, Satellite and Gigabit broadband and I can access one of my TV boxes via tinternet incase I forget to record something and then remember between leaving the gaff and the programme starting. With all that in place I'd probably rather read a paperback.
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I like the technicalities of TV more than the actual watching so every room in the gaff is hardwired for Saorview, Satellite and Gigabit broadband and I can access one of my TV boxes via tinternet incase I forget to record something and then remember between leaving the gaff and the programme starting. With all that in place I'd probably rather read a paperback.
With all that in place I'd probably rather read a paperback.
+1.
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With a bit of baby oil? oops
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I like the technicalities of TV more than the actual watching so every room in the gaff is hardwired for Saorview, Satellite and Gigabit broadband and I can access one of my TV boxes via tinternet incase I forget to record something and then remember between leaving the gaff and the programme starting. With all that in place I'd probably rather read a paperback.
I'd agree, back in the late Eighties/early Nineties I was a dinger at Ceefax, Aertel and all text stations and also VHS VCR's.
I defo spent more time setting them up than actually watching them.
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That's 'cos you had a chain of bookies... not OCD!
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That's 'cos you had a chain of bookies... not OCD!
OCD and LCD. 8)
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That's 'cos you had a chain of bookies... not OCD!
Getting the BBC Ceefax and ITV's Oracle text service were more fer the odds compilers use as they could fer the very first time see the Ladbroke and William Hill text services, the TV signal was coming through Cork muti-channel at the time and one would imagine that if you had a perfect BBC signal with a clear picture that you also had perfect Ceefax, but that was not the case, the text services were close enough to the original signals but not dead on, if one spent many hours on a single TV it could be programmed and the channel saved as the text channel which would show a very fuzzy if not totally fuzzy screen, but the teletext would work perfectly.
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By 1988 I had perfected my teletext tuning skills and had the only fully working teletext TV I know of, I had tuned a few more fer mates but they all Fooked them up by trying to fine tune it themselves !
Then along came the Seoul olympics (Flo-Jo, Carl Lewis and Ben Johnson being the Stars), I took 2 weeks holidays from work to watch it as it was all done in an opposite time zone.
I sat down each night with my Olympic Ante-post A3 sheet and marked it off through-out the night with the help of the Teletext services and adding my own updated betting on each of the many main events fer the head compiler to browse through the next morning before I would retire to bed fer the day. That evening the current days Olympic Ante-post list was dropped to me to update overnight and it soon became clear that every event that I had priced up was exactly what went on to the document the next morning, unwittingly and without requesting or asked or being told I was suddenly the Head and only Olympic compiler.
It was my first real introduction in to odds compiling and I took it very seriousely even wearing 2 watches fer the different time zones and I heard the updates from my colleagues that our Olympic odds list was by far superior to any other firms, other firms only offered odds on the very top events like the 100m and 200m while we with my overnight help aided by Teletext were able to provide a full list of odds on all the main on-going track and field events first thing every morning.
Fer the most part I got the vast majority of the odds correct, the one Boo-Boo that I did make was in pricing up the womens 200m final as; 1/6 Flo-Jo, 9/2 Heike Drechsler and 12/1 bar. A lot of shrewd customers lumped on to the German girl Heike Drechsler @ 9/2 and it was the only time the day compiler changed my odds to; 1/4 Flo-Jo, 5/2 Heike Drechsler and 20/1 bar.
Flo-Jo was the Golden Girl of that Olympics and in hindsight I defo priced it up with 'Rose-tinted glasses' but thankfully Flo-Jo saw out the day.