bickster Posted December 28, 2022 Moderator Share Posted December 28, 2022 1 minute ago, TheAuthority said: I can see how that would be the polar opposite of listening to her husband FTFY 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted December 28, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted December 28, 2022 5 hours ago, Chindie said: The night sky is literally riddled with stuff. We just can't see most of it. Its not bright enough to be seen with the naked eye because it's so far away. If you go to dark places, you'll see more, because there's less light interference, but you still won't see the sheer amount of stuff out there. I'm fortunate to spend a bit of time in New Mexico during the summers up at the Santa Fe Opera about 8,000 feet above sea level. The building is on a reservation on top of a hill, in the middle of nowhere. There's so little light pollution that you can see the milky way with your naked eye and it's spell binding. Sort of unnerving too because we are sooooo insignificant but it's a wild feeling. Makes me think about all of the civilizations around the planet before electricity who were able to gaze up and see that. I wonder how it informed their sense of place in all of this. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted December 28, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted December 28, 2022 15 hours ago, TheAuthority said: Why are British dramas by and large really depressing? People with just miserable lives, having terrible luck, making bad choices in shitty situations. Then crime dramas are always absolutely horrific! Even the hero is always completely flawed and lives is squalor i.e. Luther I'm not saying everything should be Disney+ but I watched some of "Happy Valley" the other day and good lord those folks are miserable. I simply cannot understand why anyone watches Eastenders. Even the music has me sprinting across the room for the TV remote. Any who the fook would want to spend their Christmas day watching some cockney family having the worst Christmas imaginable. It's a horrendous bit of TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted December 28, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted December 28, 2022 5 hours ago, Mandy Lifeboats said: Back to the stars thing..... We have one star (The Sun) that is reasonably large to the naked eye. Every other star (regardless of brightness) is tiny. Why isn't there a star that looks half the size of the sun? Or a quarter of the size of the sun? Is it coincidence or is it physically impossible for stars to co- exist in close enough proximity? Because they'd be far too close together and would inevtably be brought together by Gravity. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted December 28, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted December 28, 2022 1 hour ago, TheAuthority said: I'm fortunate to spend a bit of time in New Mexico during the summers up at the Santa Fe Opera about 8,000 feet above sea level. The building is on a reservation on top of a hill, in the middle of nowhere. There's so little light pollution that you can see the milky way with your naked eye and it's spell binding. Sort of unnerving too because we are sooooo insignificant but it's a wild feeling. Makes me think about all of the civilizations around the planet before electricity who were able to gaze up and see that. I wonder how it informed their sense of place in all of this. I saw the milky way for the first time in Wales last year, thought it was a small cloud over the stars, it was a clear night, one of the lads I was with pointed out it was the milky way, I was dumbstruck by it and the star covered sky. ( Clear sky's in Wales is amazing enough) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 When people are going to stop going on about Gresford. If he doesn't play, forty comments. If he does play, 100 comments. People don't seem to realise he doesn't play for us, and he's not coming back. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mottaloo Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 1 hour ago, rjw63 said: When people are going to stop going on about Gresford. If he doesn't play, forty comments. If he does play, 100 comments. People don't seem to realise he doesn't play for us, and he's not coming back. I think its called the Bellingham effect. Mate. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted December 29, 2022 Moderator Share Posted December 29, 2022 12 hours ago, rjw63 said: When people are going to stop going on about Gresford. If he doesn't play, forty comments. If he does play, 100 comments. People don't seem to realise he doesn't play for us, and he's not coming back. Only time I ever see people going on about him is when you have a moan in here about them going on about him You are part of the problem and not the solution 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KentVillan Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 7 hours ago, rjw63 said: When people are going to stop going on about Gresford. If he doesn't play, forty comments. If he does play, 100 comments. People don't seem to realise he doesn't play for us, and he's not coming back. Villa fans taking an interest in players at other clubs is ok, and healthy, even when that interest is in Judas shit hair kiddy shinpad diving words removed older than their IQ who broke our hearts and will never succeed again so help me McGrath Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post blandy Posted December 29, 2022 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted December 29, 2022 18 hours ago, brommy said: thousands of stars you can barely see. You're ignoring the trillions of stars that, in theory, should be visible from earth, but the combination of their size and distance means their light isn't enough to be registered by the limitations of the naked eye by the time it has passed through earth's atmosphere with its air and light pollution. One of my most abiding memories, and considering I was well lubricated I'm amazed I can remember it at all, is being in an open air nightclub in Barbados at something like 3 in the morning when there was a sudden power cut on the island. The sky was cloudless and the stars were mind blowing. With absolutely no light pollution the sky seemed to be more filled with stars than not, it was genuinely awe inspiring and humbling and beautiful. But to sort of stay on the theme, they were all different sizes. None massive, but I guess all the smaller, feinter, ones would just never normally be visible. Always look up. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 7 hours ago, bickster said: Only time I ever see people going on about him is when you have a moan in here about them going on about him You are past of the problem and not the solution 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted December 29, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted December 29, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, blandy said: One of my most abiding memories, and considering I was well lubricated I'm amazed I can remember it at all, is being in an open air nightclub in Barbados at something like 3 in the morning when there was a sudden power cut on the island. The sky was cloudless and the stars were mind blowing. With absolutely no light pollution the sky seemed to be more filled with stars than not, it was genuinely awe inspiring and humbling and beautiful. But to sort of stay on the theme, they were all different sizes. None massive, but I guess all the smaller, feinter, ones would just never normally be visible. Always look up. Yes, I remember as a child camping in Devon. I woke in the middle of the night and went outside and looked up. I'm assuming it was a new moon and crystal clear night but the milky way was clear and as you say there seemed to be as much sky containing star light as darkness. You can see why the ancients were so affected by the stars. They would have seen those kind of skies regularly. Edited December 29, 2022 by sidcow 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted December 29, 2022 Share Posted December 29, 2022 I'm short sighted, so without my glasses on all the stars look blurry. That seems mad to me. I need my glasses to watch my TV, which is 8 foot away, but also to see the stars which are 40 trillion kilometres away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xann Posted December 31, 2022 Share Posted December 31, 2022 (edited) The Milky Way is a tease for the most part in much of the World. Look at it and you don't see it. The centre of your visual field has the colour sensitive cones, it's the concentration of light sensitive rods in peripheral vision that pick up stars. Look straight up on a clear night in the sticks, so you can't see surface lights but your field of vision is mostly sky and it's easyish to see the dense cloud of stars. Your instinct then is to look straight at it to pick out detail, when you do it disappears. It's quite frustrating Edited December 31, 2022 by Xann 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted January 1, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted January 1, 2023 Jools Holland...........wheres the youth? The BBC is embarrassing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted January 1, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted January 1, 2023 (edited) 31 minutes ago, tinker said: Jools Holland...........wheres the youth? The BBC is embarrassing. It's not a show for the yoot. They're all watching tickity tockety shite anyway Edited January 1, 2023 by sidcow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 1, 2023 Author VT Supporter Share Posted January 1, 2023 38 minutes ago, tinker said: Jools Holland...........wheres the youth? The BBC is embarrassing. Apart from Andy Fairweather Low, they're all WAY too modern for me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 1, 2023 Moderator Share Posted January 1, 2023 1 hour ago, tinker said: Jools Holland...... Shite and has been for years 1 hour ago, tinker said: wheres the youth? The BBC is embarrassing. If my daughter is anything to go by, watching Eurovision Dude's show on BBC One Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KentVillan Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 Been binging loads of Roger Cook stuff on YouTube. Some of it is very good and funny. But in this one he goes "undercover" as a drug smuggler looking to launder money (it's about 13 mins in), and he talks like a current affairs journalist and looks like... Roger Cook. How did he get away with it? At one point the man says he doesn't want to know where the money's come from, and Cook says, "the money is from DRUGS". It's so unintentionally hilarious. Were some of his hits just complete nonsense? Like Fake Sheikh level stitch ups? Or was he legit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAuthority Posted January 3, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted January 3, 2023 Was the 1st person named Phillip the one who invented a certain type of screwdriver head? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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