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[Original Spies]

A thread for pointless waffling about stuff that just doesn't make any bastard sense. Maybe some smartarse on here can even clear some of it up for us.


This is mine, right.
Those bikes. Trials bikes. The pushlike variety, not the motorised one. The ones with no seats that folk use to jump off of stuff onto other stuff. Almost like a climbing bike. Looks like a good laugh and all, but why the cunt has it got no seat? Getting it from point A to the place where you want to jump from a block of pallettes onto a shed must be quite uncomfortable. Why can't it have a seat? You could ride it like a grown-up's bike when necessary, and then once you've found some breeze blocks and a fence, you can stand up on the pedals and be a dick on your stupid pointless bike.

I saw a youth riding one today. It looked daft that he didn't have a seat. I would have asked him what his problem was, but he was balancing on a metal fences outside the Illicit Still.


So, what is your current WTF?!??

[Lucky Rathen]

How does film work? Like the reel to reel projector film they have in the cinema. Is the sound recorded onto the film as well as the pictures? Are there millions of little pictures on the film that work like a flick book animation? I don't fucking get it.

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Lucky Rathen

How does film work? Like the reel to reel projector film they have in the cinema. Is the sound recorded onto the film as well as the pictures? Are there millions of little pictures on the film that work like a flick book animation? I don't fucking get it.

Movie camera - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Original Spies]

I always thought the sound track was seperate to the film. Like in the early 1900's when they'd have silent films, whilst some guy played piano over it in the same room. I'm assuming technology hasn't progressed at all since then.

[Original Spies]

Originally Posted by Chris

Movie camera - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikipedia is going to kill the thread.
This is for people who are too stubborn to look out the answer

[jf9tp2wd40]

Originally Posted by Lucky Rathen

How does film work? Like the reel to reel projector film they have in the cinema. Is the sound recorded onto the film as well as the pictures? Are there millions of little pictures on the film that work like a flick book animation? I don't fucking get it.

I always wondered this, and mike hte projectionist at the Vue was nice enough to give me a wee tour of hte projection room last year, the sound as far as i can remember is recorded onto a metal strip alongside the film, which is indeed a load of pictures one after the other.

Sorry it is a bit vague, but i hope that clears it up a wee bit!

[Teabags]

Originally Posted by Original Spies

Those bikes. Trials bikes. The pushlike variety, not the motorised one. The ones with no seats that folk use to jump off of stuff onto other stuff. Almost like a climbing bike. Looks like a good laugh and all, but why the cunt has it got no seat? Getting it from point A to the place where you want to jump from a block of pallettes onto a shed must be quite uncomfortable. Why can't it have a seat? You could ride it like a grown-up's bike when necessary, and then once you've found some breeze blocks and a fence, you can stand up on the pedals and be a dick on your stupid pointless bike.

I saw a youth riding one today. It looked daft that he didn't have a seat. I would have asked him what his problem was, but he was balancing on a metal fences outside the Illicit Still.

The positioning with the bike they do while trying to get up walls etc mean that they have to get as far down with their bums as possible. Basically, a seat would get in the way, and while trying to launch themselves up over a fence, they'd get a saddle in their gooch, fuck up the jump, lose balance and land on their face. Unless they had a seat that was so low-down that it would become redundant, cos your arse crack would be rested hard up against your back tyre.

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Original Spies

Wikipedia is going to kill the thread.
This is for people who are too stubborn to look out the answer

Sorry, I'd better stay out of it then. I hate not knowing the answer to stuff. If I see something on TV at home and I start wondering about it I have to know if it's true or not and immediately fire up the laptop to try and find out. Otherwise the lack of knowledge eats at my soul...


Incidentally, while I'm here, isn't the no seat on the bike thing because they'd smash their nuts when they landed? That's what I always assumed.

[Original Spies]

I did not know that. Do they have the option of a detatchable seat?

[Lucky Rathen]

Originally Posted by jf9tp2wd40

I always wondered this, and mike hte projectionist at the Vue was nice enough to give me a wee tour of hte projection room last year, the sound as far as i can remember is recorded onto a metal strip alongside the film, which is indeed a load of pictures one after the other.

Sorry it is a bit vague, but i hope that clears it up a wee bit!

Aye it does cheers. I tried to read the Wiki page but it was too long and complicated.

By the way, how are you going to remember that nonsensical username everytime you log in?