The TPU UK Clubhouse

[FreedomEclipse]

With the south African mutation suddenly appearing. I don't think so

 

[Tatty_Two]

Sadly just heard Captain Tom has died

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Sadly just heard Captain Tom has died

Terrible news, He was a true Legend and will be missed.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Saddened to see Captain Tom leave us this way but on the more positive side. Now he'll be amongst his friends and most importantly, his brothers in arms, Which im sure they'll have many a stories to tell each other and catch up on.

Meanwhile. I fall within the postcode of this new mutation so no more setting laps around regents park on my bicycle for a while.

 

[dorsetknob]

had my eyes screened today (Diabetic Retinography )
was a bugger to read the eye charts wearing the compulsary mask ( glasses kept steaming up )
got there in the end.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

had my eyes screened today (Diabetic Retinography )
was a bugger to read the eye charts wearing the compulsary mask ( glasses kept steaming up )
got there in the end.

Youre lucky they didnt drop that crap in your eyes that makes everything close to you look like a blur.

 

[dorsetknob]

Yes i had the Drops that dilate your retina ( they sting like hell)

and i had to stretch open my eye lids myself (covid rules) so the nurse could put in the drops

 

[FreedomEclipse]

aw man, they got you good with that. I remember one time as a kid i had to had my eyes checked like that. They dropped that stuff in my eyes then didnt bother looking at my eyes at all. Parents were mad because they took me out of school for that appointment and expected to take me back but i couldnt go back after my eyeballs started tripping

Spent the rest of the day home so it was fun for me at least.

 

[Space Lynx]

I personally dont think Cinemas will be coming back in any big way. Not with the constant threat of Cov and all big publishers/studios moving to their releases to their own online streaming platform. They will probably exist but in very small numbers.

I never was a fan of my local cinema places anyway, grainy quality screens because they are so giant... much rather watch it on a 55" OLED. /shrug maybe IMAX is different, haven't been to one of those in a decade.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I never was a fan of my local cinema places anyway, grainy quality screens because they are so giant... much rather watch it on a 55" OLED. /shrug maybe IMAX is different, haven't been to one of those in a decade.

I personally thought they were over priced. some places charged £8-9 a ticket and £10-12 if you wanted their premium ViP seats. Quite a few places ive been to would deliberately have very little legroom to force people into buying VIP seating. I would be sitting upright and my knees would be pushing against the seat in front (and im between 5'10-6'1) Food was always very overpriced too but that all changed when the gov or some watchdog put laws in place that stopped them stopping people who were bringing in their own food.

a lot of the experience can be recreated at home. It just depends if you have the money to set it up. The one main area that you cant compete with If youre going to watch films from the marvel franchise because the sound system they have in the cinema is going to win as they crank it up higher and have more sub woofers for all the boom and zoom sounds.

I rewatched the John Wick franchise and the remastered matrix movie and it still sounds pretty kick ass on my Yamaha.

But i digress. When i was growing up, going to the cinema was always seen as treat rather than a way of life. Back then there were also a lot of video rental stores about too so it was easy to step out and grab a few tapes for the box at home.

 

[kurosagi01]

Price of ticket are around 8-13 quid in cineworld which is generally where I would go. I don't normally get any food or drink unless I have some voucher (plus member was like a tenner a year you get discount buying tickets online and couple vouchers for discounted food+drink) but I generally only get drink as I'm still self conscious on my food intake.
If eating though at the cinema I would bring something on my own from home or from shops.
Pacific Rim at the cinema was a great experience and even Godzilla.
I've not had any issues with leg room but that could just be because I'm always sat at the top corner away from people.

Clap for Captain Tom...why not give that 250k a week or whatever it was Boris slapped on bus to the NHS? No...

 

[kurosagi01]

Like all good businesses they will always try to find some kind of loophole or cost saving strategy.

Grenfell: Arconic boss says fire safety tests were not his 'priority'

The president of Arconic says he only learned about a key fire safety standard after the disaster.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[FreedomEclipse]

im a bit late but happy CNY to my fellow mellow yellows

@kurosagi01 and @Fourstaff (I know theres a few more. but they aint clubhouse members and i cant quite remember who they are)

Spoiler

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/lgogfk

 

[kurosagi01]

im a bit late but happy CNY to my fellow mellow yellows

@kurosagi01 and @Fourstaff (I know theres a few more. but they aint clubhouse members and i cant quite remember who they are)

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/lgogfk

Happy late CNY to you too my asian brother.

 

[Fourstaff]

im a bit late but happy CNY to my fellow mellow yellows

@kurosagi01 and @Fourstaff (I know theres a few more. but they aint clubhouse members and i cant quite remember who they are)

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/lgogfk

Thanks man, Happy Chinese New Year to you and @kurosagi01 too!

I have been to Pavillion Mall, its amazing but too big for my liking.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Anyone from Portsmouth?

 

[Ruru]

I know that there's lot of hot chicks in UK, promise me that I can have at least one when I come to visit London?

 

[FreedomEclipse]

I know that there's lot of hot chicks in UK, promise me that I can have at least one when I come to visit London?

I think you are grossly mistaken

 

[Ruru]

Who the hell flagged mine and @FreedomEclipse 's posts as low quality ones? I can't quote ur post, dammit.

Anyway, that's an exception.

 

[the54thvoid]

If the mod team mark a post as LQ, ask the mod team why via PM. Forum rules are clear about that.

 

[Ruru]

If the mod team mark a post as LQ, ask the mod team why via PM. Forum rules are clear about that.

Alright, just weird.

Are there still some fine British girl pop bands like in 90s/2000s?

 

[tabascosauz]

I never was a fan of my local cinema places anyway, grainy quality screens because they are so giant... much rather watch it on a 55" OLED. /shrug maybe IMAX is different, haven't been to one of those in a decade.

Some of the audio is nigh impossible to recreate at home though. I suspect the audio is tweaked in the digital/home release so as not to nuke everyone's home speakers lol.

Good example is the docking scene and waves planet in Interstellar; the bass from the organ you can feel reverberating through your body when you watch it in the theatre - it works fantastically for building tension. None of the digital content I've seen has sounded right on any audio setup I have, regardless of how loud I play it.

Just watched Greyhound last week; good movie for sub and ASW enthusiasts if you excuse some of the liberties taken with U-boat strategy. It really makes me think though what kind of audio-visual experience I'm missing out on, by not watching in a theatre.

That said, I kinda miss Bristol. The cinemas at Cabot Circus I actually find pretty comfortable and I would want to watch something there again, unlike those at home here (yuck). I just hate having to walk uphill all the way back to Clifton afterwards.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Some of the audio is nigh impossible to recreate at home though. I suspect the audio is tweaked in the digital/home release so as not to nuke everyone's home speakers lol.

Not true. The movies in most auditoriums should be making use of either DTS: HD MA or Dolby TRUEHD but a lot of money goes into the speakers themselves and setup/arrangement as well as soundproofing that gets you that body shaking booms and rumbles. Because they can afford to have bigger and more speakers/subwoofers and crank their volumes up a lot higher then you would at home enough to unknowingly trick your neighbours into thinking theres an earthquake going while youre sitting there watching Age Of Ultron or Thor Ragnarok with your 10" sub moonwalking across the floor.

Subwoofers can be adjusted mind you, so you can still have a good bootyshaker without having to crank it up super high and destroying your bookshelf speakers or floor speakers in the process.

 

[dorsetknob]

Not true. The movies in most auditoriums should be making use of either DTS: HD MA or Dolby TRUEHD but a lot of money goes into the speakers themselves and setup/arrangement as well as soundproofing that gets you that body shaking booms and rumbles. Because they can afford to have bigger and more speakers/subwoofers and crank their volumes up a lot higher then you would at home enough to unknowingly trick your neighbours into thinking theres an earthquake going

Back in the day cira 88 ish A Friend's wife worked in a video rental shop
to cut a long story short
I took my VCR (top of the Range item) my Quad Rotel Amp and 2 sets of Mordent Short 300W Speakers to his house.
Sunday morning we played Predator

10 minutes after first fire fight Armed Police turned up after reports of "Extensive Gunfire Reported"
After an extensive search of house with nothing found
we explained it was a Video Recording..............they the police were not convinced
So press play and watch those coppers watch the film
come to the firefight and it was fun to see the police duck and flinch as the firefight went on with rounds and explosions bouncing from one speaker to another (simulated Quad fill souround sound ).

Sheepisly they told us to lower the Volume level and they then left.

home cinema works well in a big enough Room with a well set up Audio system

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Back in the day cira 88 ish A Friend's wife worked in a video rental shop
to cut a long story short
I took my VCR (top of the Range item) my Quad Rotel Amp and 2 sets of Mordent Short 300W Speakers to his house.
Sunday morning we played Predator

10 minutes after first fire fight Armed Police turned up after reports of "Extensive Gunfire Reported"
After an extensive search of house with nothing found
we explained it was a Video Recording..............they the police were not convinced
So press play and watch those coppers watch the film
come to the firefight and it was fun to see the police duck and flinch as the firefight went on with rounds and explosions bouncing from one speaker to another (simulated Quad fill souround sound ).

Sheepisly they told us to lower the Volume level and they then left.

home cinema works well in a big enough Room with a well set up Audio system

For some reason this kind of reminds me about a joke i heard a while back about a guy's house being broken into and burgled. Police came to investigate and do the usual stuff like taking down the home owners details and list of the items that were taken.

A week later there was a horrific fire in the local area and half a guys house burnt down, The guy who had been burgled got a call from the police telling him that they had recovered some of the stuff that had been stolen...

It turns out that the thieves who had burgled his house also took an old beaten up toaster that his wife had been bitching at him to replace for ages. The clock/timer on it was busted and it wouldnt eject the bread and thats how he found out who stole his shit.