3CR816 Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 Sheeps could climb trees, but they don't need to since all their food is on the ground. I bet they'd totally climb trees if they had to. This is of course pure speculation, although I bet there's a zoology department somewhere trying it.Then surely fields with fences designed to contain sheep would need either inclined fences, or walls of sheer, flat material to prevent sheep escaping? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 For a brief period years ago when I rented videos (vhs... remember them?), before the main film there'd be a trailer/presentation promoting this new and exciting format called DVD. The clip would include extracts from newly transferred films and your jaw would hit the floor at the sharpness of the picture.My question is this... if they managed to include footage that sharp in the trailer, why didn't they just make the rest of the video like that? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 For a brief period years ago when I rented videos (vhs... remember them?), before the main film there'd be a trailer/presentation promoting this new and exciting format called DVD. The clip would include extracts from newly transferred films and your jaw would hit the floor at the sharpness of the picture.My question is this... if they managed to include footage that sharp in the trailer, why didn't they just make the rest of the video like that?They do the same thing now with Blu-Ray adverts on DVD. It's puzzled me as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moose Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 Surely it's something to do with the size of the disk/video. The more high quality picture on the commodity in name would require a new technology with more space to hold it? On the other hand I have no idea, as you can probably tell from my use of the word "space".It is also highly likely that it's a pure marketing ploy to make more money from the ignorant and stupid. I have never seen a blue-ray and can't imagine that they will ever be something that make a difference in my life; unless, of course, they lead to DVDs being discontinued. i must say, I still enjoy a VHS when I am at my parents house. We have The Fugitive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gladstone Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 And when they advertise HD on the normal telly. I've been wondering about that - why don't they just make everything look like that on normal telly all the time? And why the fuck would I buy an HD TV when my normal TV is actually capable of showing me that sharpness?Bunch of bastards if you ask me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted January 14, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 HD on the Xbox certainly makes a fair bit of difference, but watching Sky HD at my mums, I couldn't really tell that much. I mean, it was slightly better and that, but not enough that I'd want to go out and renew all my appliances and re-buy things on Blue Ray etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 I preferred DVDs when they were just a crazy new invention being shown off on the Big Breakfast with Johnny Vaughan going 'a whole film?!?!... on that CD?!?!?' then pulling a face to camera. We've gone too far in the quest for high-def, when will it ever end?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moose Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 Blue ray cunts. Eh guys?!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 Blue gays more like! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gladstone Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 Blue gays more like!Smurfs?... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted January 14, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 Some TV show a few years ago said that next in line was a TV that produced smells of what you were watching. So, if someone was cooking in a film, you'd be able to smell it. Some mental Japanese folk were working on it. I hope they've given up and conceded it would be a stupid waste of time.Imagine the smell of stale rancid piss when a film cuts to a scene where young ruffians are snorting drugs in some manky bog cublicle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gladstone Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 Some TV show a few years ago said that next in line was a TV that produced smells of what you were watching. So, if someone was cooking in a film, you'd be able to smell it. Some mental Japanese folk were working on it. I hope they've given up and conceded it would be a stupid waste of time.Imagine the smell of stale rancid piss when a film cuts to a scene where young ruffians are snorting drugs in some manky bog cublicle.Surely you'd get a separate control to turn it up or down like the volume? Or an equivalent of "mute" if someone shits themselves on the TV. Gads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted January 14, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 Maybe it just uncontrollably sprays shit at you, like what happens in real life when someone in your vacinity shits themselves, it sprays at you, facewards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 If the smells were a true reflection of what you were watching then any time you turned on BBC 3 you'd just get a waft of cocaine.**i'm aware cocaine has no smell but jeezo have you seen that channel!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigsby Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 On the adverts for Sky HD on the telly, it seems to me that they show things close up and in slow motion to give the appearance of being better quality. For example, when they do this you can see the stubble on Indiana Jones' chin.Clever trick though. See also adverts on the TV for surround sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted January 14, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 It's the same with washing powder. They always spill an anonymous blue liquid on it. It's never blackcurrant cordial or dogshit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaki Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 Some TV show a few years ago said that next in line was a TV that produced smells of what you were watching. So, if someone was cooking in a film, you'd be able to smell it. Some mental Japanese folk were working on it. I hope they've given up and conceded it would be a stupid waste of time.Imagine the smell of stale rancid piss when a film cuts to a scene where young ruffians are snorting drugs in some manky bog cublicle.STINKPORN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gladstone Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 It's the same with washing powder. They always spill an anonymous blue liquid on it. It's never blackcurrant cordial or dogshitWashing powder adverts have been pissing me off for about 20 years."New improved" versions of Aerial for example - they quite often show the results of the old version of Aerial, with the stain not properly out of it. I was wise to this when I was about 7 years old - thinking "but last time, that exact version of Aerial had that guy's white shirt gleaming, why is all of a sudden no good?"Fuck you Aerial, even a 7 year old kid can see through your cunning marketing ploys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berti Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 It's the same with washing powder. They always spill an anonymous blue liquid on it. It's never blackcurrant cordial or dogshiti spilled satay sauce from Eagle May on my floor the other day, it now looks like a dog has dragged itself across my carpet in that charming way they do when the wormies inside want out and make their chocolate starfish itch like caaarazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaseyBoi Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 As we all know my grammar sucks but heres one that boggles meWe spell design, design and we pronounce it des-ign....But if we add agnat it becomes designate pronounced des-ig-nate. ...With me?.That is all.Talk about fuckingitupdesign to designate i just dont get our language......Egg who came up with that name....I mean it isnt even a word its a bloody sound...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkaline Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 Talk about fuckingitupdesign to designate i just dont get our language......Egg who came up with that name....I mean it isnt even a word its a bloody sound......Are there any words that aren't sounds? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 Talk about fuckingitupdesign to designate i just dont get our language......Egg who came up with that name....I mean it isnt even a word its a bloody sound......word of the day egg | podictionary - for word lovers - dictionary etymology, trivia & historyEtymology fascinates me.With interests like that I can easily explain where the word 'pussy' comes from but I certainly won't get any. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skubbs Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 For a brief period years ago when I rented videos (vhs... remember them?), before the main film there'd be a trailer/presentation promoting this new and exciting format called DVD. The clip would include extracts from newly transferred films and your jaw would hit the floor at the sharpness of the picture.My question is this... if they managed to include footage that sharp in the trailer, why didn't they just make the rest of the video like that?To be honest I never actually saw any difference, I just noticed that they'd made that part of the vhs really, really loud and there was lots of "woahs" and shit acting thrown into the advert. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nev Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 Whatever happened to street hockey? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted January 15, 2010 Report Share Posted January 15, 2010 Whatever happened to street hockey?The same thing that'll happen to parkour in a few years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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