.....Sang a certain James Jewel Osterberg some years ago, but alas I'm not looking at offering myself for some sexual deviance - nope I'm playing the good samaritan - and all with reason.
You see I am bored - not bored of what I am doing, bored because I have nothing to do. Nichts, nada, niets, rien, niente. I am stuck at work and there is absolutely no trade for me - all project work has been collared by the permies, and it seems that I am just here to firefight - well when I'm on watch theres no smoke on the horizon - its all ticketty boo, my work here is done - just a little too well it seems. But I am not a lazy person - I want to justify my existance, but why should I limit myself to the people who pay my salary? Why instead can't I offer a hand to one of the good posters of TMO.
So why not delegate some task to me that I can do from here so you can enjoy more chate, or just get your boss off your back.
Rules:
1. The only tool I have is my intellect, the net and my 'puter, so using the latter two I can probably do something useful.
2. Nowt involving pron or terrorism or the like - we have a firewall and if I cross into mucky waters, I can get fired.
3. Nothing to deadline - ie If you want me to write up a review of something in 10 minutes or you'll burn in the pit of hades for an eternity, no thanks - I don't want to carry too much responsibility.
4. No sales work - done it, hate it
5. No uploading/downloading - again blocked at work
6. No promises, no guarantees, except confidentiality.
7. Payment for services rendered is optional and adaptable - CDs, Ford Pumas, Dates with forum ladies, stuff like that is all considerable as legal tender.
Ideas:
Long bothering techie issues (Sab can have a day off) Historical research - stuff you can find on the net if you look Tracking things or people down - I am handy at this, as I have proven on several occasions
- things like that - or just ask
It might help you out of a hole, and it might save me from chewing my own foot off. If its something confidential mail it to my gmail account - addy the same as the nick.
It might also be an interesting experiment - jobswap for a day - maybe even start a trend
Its bob a job week on TMO!
Posted by saltrock (Member # 622) on :
If you can find my dad via the internet, I'll offer you my body.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
You could help me impress my new boss! Our magazine's doubled in size recently (Fifty-fucking-Two pages a week) and he wants brand new features ideas to fill it, not the usual market round up stuff that I do, but totally new things to appeal to the UK electrical retail market.
So far I've come up with
- A feature involving say an MD or someone picking out what they see as the single most important product of their line up in the past 30 years, and explaining why it was so important
- Something involving people speculating on how certain markets will develop in say, 15, 20 years.
- A day in the life of kind of feature.
Any ideas will be gratefully received!
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Saltrock - If you want me to try I will - don't worry about the body thing, but rather than the flippantness of my original post, at least I would try and do something proper.
That would justify my existance.
Mail me if you want me to at least try - I do have 'methods' for locating people.
[ 23.09.2004, 07:17: Message edited by: Waynster ]
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: You could help me impress my new boss! Our magazine's doubled in size recently (Fifty-fucking-Two pages a week) and he wants brand new features ideas to fill it, not the usual market round up stuff that I do, but totally new things to appeal to the UK electrical retail market.
How about 'Readers Drives', in which subscribers can submit goosed up centerfolds of their modded PCs, and then talk candidly and erotically about the neon lit watercooling system and uprated 500 watt power supply?
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
Thorn, it's not really a new idea, but you could do a "Tomorrow's World said in 19?? vs reality in 2004"-type comparison.
Posted by saltrock (Member # 622) on :
Waynester - if you really can help what's your e-mail address?
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
or a bit more seriously thorn, how about a 'our man in america' style piece of journalism - if your magazine covers all consumer electrical goods, you could maybe think about doing an article on US applicances (which from experience are bigger, more fantastic and so on) - its all based on the ideals of the 1950s automated home. Might be an idea give an insight into what the European market is missing.
I didn't say the work I did would be any good......
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by saltrock: Waynester - if you really can help what's your e-mail address?
waynster at gmail
- I can try. I've found a few people before, and I can't promise anything, but I would like to try for what its worth.
Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
Hello Waynester.
Just a few niggles on my final Geology assignment for you to clarify for me please:
Limestone pavements: what does acid rain have to do with their development?
Asteroidea and Echinoidea are different Classes, aren't they?
Feldspars are certainly not as resistant to chemical weathering as quartzes- please confirm.
Does metamorphic foliation always develop at right angles to compression?
Thanks.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
quote:Originally posted by Waynster: or a bit more seriously thorn, how about a 'our man in america' style piece of journalism - if your magazine covers all consumer electrical goods, you could maybe think about doing an article on US applicances (which from experience are bigger, more fantastic and so on) - its all based on the ideals of the 1950s automated home.
That's a good one. so long as I can prove the American market is significantly different from the UK one. Nice!
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Damn that hipster for coming up with a proper idea!
Why not have an article where you invite a manufacturer and your readers to jointly design a toaster or something, but whereby the input of your readership and the development staff go to make the optimum product of that type which would actually get manufactured - kind of along the christmas card competitions on Blue Peter but for adults?
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: That's a good one. so long as I can prove the American market is significantly different from the UK one. Nice!
Mate when it comes to the duller things like washing machines, cookers, fridges the US are way ahead - larger, cheaper - yep everything is bigger there and more user friendly, and something the UK is missing out on.
I often wondered about importing some of the kit as I am sure there would be a market for it - just take your average US washing machine, mix with your average 4 child family and you have one less hassled mum i tell you....
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
Could you tell me exactly how much delay is caused by people blocking the doors of tube trains?
Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
Could you find me some pictures of the Len Wein and Carmine Infantino comic strip Human Target? I have been reading the Peter Milligan revamp and would like to see what the original was like.
Images of (Kirby's?) Rak Shade (Shade, the Changing Man) would also be fun.
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
quote:Originally posted by Waynster: 'Readers Drives'
lol
Posted by Boy Racer (Member # 498) on :
quote:Originally posted by Waynster: Mate when it comes to the duller things like washing machines, cookers, fridges the US are way ahead - larger, cheaper - yep everything is bigger there and more user friendly, and something the UK is missing out on.
Surely the size aspect of this is, at least in part, down to the amount of space American homes have compared to the uk?
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess: Just a few niggles on my final Geology assignment for you to clarify for me please:
Limestone pavements: what does acid rain have to do with their development?
It will be something to do with the calcium carbonate reacting with the acid I imagine. Maybe its a hardened residue caused by the neutralisation of the fluid on the surface of the limestone? Asteroidea and Echinoidea are different Classes, aren't they? [url] http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/a/s/asi103/5_classes_of_phylum_echinodermata.htm[/url] - yes Feldspars are certainly not as resistant to chemical weathering as quartzes- please confirm.
Read the bit about "Bleaching and annealing of quartz and feldspars" which I think covers it in this article:
"Foliation is a texture seen in metamorphic rocks whereby elongated or platy (mica like) minerals are oriented at right angles to the direction of stress; this is seen as layering or banding; examples include: slate, schist, gneiss . Metamorphic rocks that do not show foliation include: marble and quartzite . "
I found nothing to say otherwise [/QB]
Posted by Put This In Your Pipe and Smoke It (Member # 84) on :
Dear Waynster,
I have to book myself into an MCSE, and then a CCNA boot camp training course. The week long ones. Where can I do this in the UK? Is it any more useful to do it in Europe?
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
Calling Superwayne, calling Superwayne...
I have a task: I get paid on or around the 14th of each month. My mortgage gets taken out on or around the 1st of the next month, as do most of my other Direct Debit sort of things. How then can I maximise the earning potential of the approximate 2 grand which sits doing nothing in a stupid current account for around three weeks every month?
The solution must involve no effort on my part beyond setting it up. I'm happy to change current accounts as I understand there are options around now which will pay about 4% of something or other, which is more than 0.1% or something or other which it's 'paying' at the moment. But is there an even more exciting option than just changing accounts?
It's over to you.
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
And another...
Would mortgage companies see rental income from property 1 as 'proper income', valid to fund mortgage on property 2?
Posted by Bailey (Member # 261) on :
Hi Waynster,
I have some semi-valuable CDs I might want to sell. Do you think you could find out what they are worth and / or someone willing to buy them?
Shall I email you my list?
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Find this album cover as a poster (it exists, I saw one once in a pub!), and I will love you forever. AND buy you beer.
Posted by Boy Racer (Member # 498) on :
Waynster could you perhaps find out if there are UK dvd release dates available for the Miyazaki animes Porco Rosso and My Neighbour Totoro?
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by Put This In Your Pipe and Smoke It: Dear Waynster,
I have to book myself into an MCSE, and then a CCNA boot camp training course. The week long ones. Where can I do this in the UK?
Call 0800 181 076 for locations in your area
quote:Is it any more useful to do it in Europe?
No because they speak a different language and you may not understand what they are on about.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by Bailey: Shall I email you my list?
Why not, but your best bet is probably ebay - if you try and sell them to a shop you may get a reduced rate, the www.opalmusic.com is not a bad place to check out.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: Find this album cover as a poster (it exists, I saw one once in a pub!), and I will love you forever. AND buy you beer.
This is going to be very difficult as it is long discontinued. I can offer maybe an original print of a photo of Perry and Dave that I took live of them last year?
Posted by Sidney (Member # 399) on :
Dear Waynster,
I moved into my house 3 years ago and soon decided that one of the first things I should do to it is redecorate the living room (it is currently adorned with hideous blue and yellow wallpaper, which was obviously purchased in a Fads closing down sale some time in 1983).
Following an interval of three years, during which new wallpaper, paint, paste and a wallpaper steam stripping machine were purchased, the Fads Nightmare remains in all of its untouched glory.
As I am utterly useless at decorating, I feel a Super-Nag coming on and I need some hard facts to convince J that it is now time to get the job done.
Could you provide me with statistics on the average length of time that passes between moving into a house and getting around to decorating it please?
Alternatively, would anyone like to come and help me decorate my living room?
Yours in thankful anticipation,
Ms Sidney Milm-on-the-Choad
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by Boy Racer: Waynster could you perhaps find out if there are UK dvd release dates available for the Miyazaki animes Porco Rosso and My Neighbour Totoro?
Buena Vista have tentativly mentioned they will bring out Porco Rosso, so it may be worth contacting them direct - try feedback@thefilmfactory.co.uk and see if they can help
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sidney: Dear Waynster,
I moved into my house 3 years ago and soon decided that one of the first things I should do to it is redecorate the living room (it is currently adorned with hideous blue and yellow wallpaper, which was obviously purchased in a Fads closing down sale some time in 1983).
Following an interval of three years, during which new wallpaper, paint, paste and a wallpaper steam stripping machine were purchased, the Fads Nightmare remains in all of its untouched glory.
As I am utterly useless at decorating, I feel a Super-Nag coming on and I need some hard facts to convince J that it is now time to get the job done.
Could you provide me with statistics on the average length of time that passes between moving into a house and getting around to decorating it please?
Alternatively, would anyone like to come and help me decorate my living room?
Yours in thankful anticipation,
Ms Sidney Milm-on-the-Choad
Hmmm this old bananna. 88.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot, so I think this will not really convince Mr Sid to get away from the footie and get cracking with the stripping. May I suggest you start mentioning how tired the room is looking, whilst persusing brochures from Estate Agents of local houses just that bit too high out of your mortgage budget, thus hinting at moving on. The avoidance of financial outlay appeasement through slapping up a new decor is common amongst man, and should cause no further hindrance.
Keep the brochures for handy hints for the bedroom and gardens too!
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Ooh Dang and Herbs - Stuff the mortgage and put it all on Eye Spy in the 2.45 at Catterick. Jobs a goodun ' !
Remember no guarantees!
(Actually subclause one - do not ask anything about saving, mortgages and so on as I have never saved a penny in my life, am probably 25 grand in debt with no student loan and couldn't get a mortgage if my life depended on it - you have been warned)
Posted by saltrock (Member # 622) on :
Sidders - I love decorating! As Wayne is doing something nice for me - I'll come round and help you. TMO joint karma. Now, are you anywhere near Taunton?
[ 23.09.2004, 08:53: Message edited by: saltrock ]
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by herbs: Could you tell me exactly how much delay is caused by people blocking the doors of tube trains?
quote:Originally posted by kovacs: Could you find me some pictures of the Len Wein and Carmine Infantino comic strip Human Target? I have been reading the Peter Milligan revamp and would like to see what the original was like.
Images of (Kirby's?) Rak Shade (Shade, the Changing Man) would also be fun.
Proving a little difficult this one - seems the revamp is getting all the coverage, and not the retro - I'll have another look later.
Posted by Put This In Your Pipe and Smoke It (Member # 84) on :
Dear Waynster,
Is it possible for me to mail order "Emotional Technology" by BT's bonus CD or box set version anywhere in the UK?
Posted by Sidney (Member # 399) on :
quote:Originally posted by saltrock: Sidders - I love decorating! As Wayne is doing something nice for me - I'll come round and help you. TMO joint karma. Now, are you anywhere near Taunton?
Eyyy. Fonzy Cool. Like a TMO Pay It Forward!
Sadly, I am miles away from Taunton. Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by Put This In Your Pipe and Smoke It: Dear Waynster,
Is it possible for me to mail order "Emotional Technology" by BT's bonus CD or box set version anywhere in the UK?
Why not just order it from Amazon.com?
My only other Suggestion is trying to contact Nettwerk in london, via Ornadel Management, Clearwater Yard, 35 Inverness Street, London NW1 7HB, and see if they can tell you anything.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
I would like this image:
as a poster. A1+ size ideally, but A2 will do. The pic is called 'Tania' and it is of Patty Hearst. Managed to track one down to a shop in San Francisco, but it is not large enough.
Could you find:
a suitable poster for sale online or a *high-res* version of the image suitable for printing / rasterbating an A1 poster or a shop in London or Paris very likely to have one
If you can do this, I will pay you with smileys and kind regard, and... erm stuff. Thanks!
an advance:
[ 23.09.2004, 09:24: Message edited by: vikram ]
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by vikram: If you can do this, i will pay you with smileys and... erm, stuff. Thanks!
an advance:
Darryn already tried looking for this, and if he can't find it noone can. All I can suggest, as before is get the one you can get, then take it to a proffesional scanner/printer and get them to run one off. Won't be cheap, but if you want the extraordinary, you have to go the distance to get it.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
I will find it one day. At a flea market in Tblisi probably. Thanks Waynester. Have these:
quote:Originally posted by Sidney: As I am utterly useless at decorating, I feel a Super-Nag coming on and I need some hard facts to convince J that it is now time to get the job done.
NO. This will not work.
The fact is that everyone is useless at decorating. The only way they get any good is by getting on and doing it - by taking time and being patient when things go wrong. By working at them and getting them right.
When D and I first lived together she decided one night that the spare room needed decorating. To give me "encouragement" to start, she ripped a great fucking chunk of the old stuff down. Result: for 18 months we had to look at a lump of defaced wall every time we went into that wretched room and only got round to the decorating part about two months before we sold the place.
IMPORTANT LESSON:Male inertia will always defeat female attempts to nag, goad and annoy.
More positively, the gear is there - if you make a start on the job it will be very difficult for J not to join in and help. Not doing anything because you're waiting "until he gets round to it" is self defeating and, ultimately, demeans you both.
Hope this helps.
Posted by saltrock (Member # 622) on :
Did you see that program last night where the silly bint paid £260- for ONE roll of wallpaper? And £2000 for tiles for the downstairs loo? Madness I tell you, madness!
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
As opposed to spending three hundred grand on a cramped dank two bedroom flat in a shit part of town?
[ 23.09.2004, 09:39: Message edited by: vikram ]
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
Dude, I've been too busy of late to even reply to your emails (beer Friday, maybe, hopefully, fingers crossed) because I now apparently am the companies’ Norwegian translator and FTE expert..
I don't speak Norwegian and FTE's suck.
If anyone wants to divide up this list into:
Hospitals (H) Universities (U) Companies (C) Teaching Hospitals (UH) Research Institutes (RI) Schools (S) Other (O)
Then for the Universities and Schools, hospitals and institutes give me the FTE (Full Time Equivalent - Number of Students, number of beds, and number of researchers) by not using the fucked up lie figures on the World of learning website it'd be appreciated:
AGDER UNIVERSITY COLLEGE AKER SYKEHUS AKER SYKEHUS KLINIKK FOR PSYKI AKER SYKEHUS KLINIKK PSYKIATRI AKER SYKEHUS UIO AKER SYKEHUS/KLINIKK PSYKIATRI AKERHUS UNIVERSETITSSYK HF AKERSHUS UNIVERSETITSSYK HF AKERSHUS UNIVERSITETSSYKEHUS AMERSHAM HEALTH AS NORSKE SHELL ASEBRATEN BARNEPSYKIATRISK KLINIKK ASTRAZENCA AS ASTRAZENECA AS AUST AGDER SYKEHUS AVDELING FOR LEGEMIDLER AVDELING LEGEMIDLER AXISSHIELD POC AS BARNE OG UNGDOMSPSYKIATRISK BARNEKLINIKKEN HAUKELAND UNIV HOSP BARNENEVROLOGISK SEKSJON BARNEPSYKIATRISK POLIKLINIKK BRYNE BERGEN PSYKIATRISKE UNIV BIBLIOTEK FOR KOMPETANSESBREDT BLEFJELL SYKEHUS HF NOTODDEN BUP ALTA BUP HAMMERFEST BUSKERUD COLLEGE KONGSBERG DET NORSKE RADIUM HOSPITAL DET NORSKE RADIUMHOSPITAL DIAKONHJEMMETS SYKEHUS DIAKONISSEHJEMMETS SYKEHUS DIKEMARK SYKEHUS EIKELUND KOMPETANSESENTER ERIK WERNER FALCONBRIDGE NIKKELVERK FEIRINGKLINIKKEN AS FOERDE SENTRALSJUKEHUS FOLLOKLINIKKEN FORSVARETS FORSKNINGSINSTITUTT FOUNDATION HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH FYLKESSJUKEHUSET I LAERDA 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Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Dude I have a Norwegian language course at home - I did learn a bit a few years back - min hund har de bra which means 'my dog is ok!'.
If its quiet tomorrow fill us in and I will give you a hand.
Beer tomorrow yes - need anasthetic as neck probably broken again...
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
I tell you, if I can get out for a beer I will..
I need to have that list done by the end of today, my Norwegian isn't so bad and I'm 70% done I think, but I'm having trouble with a few bits..
I'll let you know on the beer front, what time are you back ?
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
I need a headline for a piece about three exhibitions of art going on at three underground stations. They aren't remotely similar. They are all by ladies, but I don't want to emphasise that as it's rather sexist. We can't use the words underground, platform or tube.
'Three-way action's my current favourite.
Posted by damo (Member # 722) on :
waynster- ideas for miami. i'm going tomorrow. i've got some. i need more.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Ok Darryn had a quick look and can tell you the following from what I can recall of my knowledge of Norway and Norwegian:
Anything preceeded or including AS is a PLC, thus company (AS Norge Shell for example) Sykehus - Hospital universitet - univeristy natch thus universitetsykehus - university hospital
I can probably go through and identify some and then at least research the others - want a hand?
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
Tube Tails?
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
Sorry. That was rubbish. Put me to sleep, please.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: I tell you, if I can get out for a beer I will..
I need to have that list done by the end of today, my Norwegian isn't so bad and I'm 70% done I think, but I'm having trouble with a few bits..
I'll let you know on the beer front, what time are you back ?
I'll be back around the usual time.
Mail me what you have got and I will start at the bottom and work up and give you a hand
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
quote:Originally posted by damo: waynster- ideas for miami. i'm going tomorrow. i've got some. i need more.
quote:Originally posted by herbs: I need a headline for a piece about three exhibitions of art going on at three underground stations. They aren't remotely similar. They are all by ladies, but I don't want to emphasise that as it's rather sexist. We can't use the words underground, platform or tube.
'Three-way action's my current favourite.
Triumvate tubed? Art goes underground at last?
something like that - juggling.
Miami? Stay in the zone Damo - nasty place - don't go where you shouldn't
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
We can't say tube or underground Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
Action stations.
Posted by ben (Member # 13) on :
quote:Originally posted by herbs: I need a headline for a piece about three exhibitions of art going on at three underground stations. They aren't remotely similar. They are all by ladies, but I don't want to emphasise that as it's rather sexist. We can't use the words underground, platform or tube.
'Three-way action's my current favourite.
Crap There's No Way You'd Pay To See... Times Three Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
quote:Originally posted by Waynster: Proving a little difficult this one - seems the revamp is getting all the coverage, and not the retro - I'll have another look later.
do you think I would have asked if it wasn't difficult to find
[ 23.09.2004, 10:05: Message edited by: kovacs ]
Posted by Sidney (Member # 399) on :
quote:Originally posted by ben: NO. This will not work.
The fact is that everyone is useless at decorating. The only way they get any good is by getting on and doing it - by taking time and being patient when things go wrong. By working at them and getting them right.
More positively, the gear is there - if you make a start on the job it will be very difficult for J not to join in and help. Not doing anything because you're waiting "until he gets round to it" is self defeating and, ultimately, demeans you both.
Hope this helps.
Yes, yes, yes. You are right as usual. I feel that I have to point out though that I don't leave all of the decorating stuffz to J to do. I actually join in and do as much as I can in every single decorating job we've undertaken. As we've been together for quite a while and have lived in 4 different places together, that been an awful lot of painting and papering. Which is how I know that I really am utterly useless at it whereas J, on the other hand, has Super Go Decorating Skillz, IMO.
As it happens, I have booked Monday off work as I plan to spend a long weekend stripping the wallpaper off in order to at least get it started. I'm sure that, even with my limited DIY skillz, I can strip off wallpaper.
By the way Ben, can I have you as my surrogate dad, please? Posted by kovacs (Member # 28) on :
Subway stops.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by herbs: We can't say tube or underground
You try reading and dealing with 20 requests at once
and I said 'Tubed' not 'tube' but I'll take your point
Right let me rethink for a moment - how about
"Lordy Lady Lurkers display their wares below stairs"
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by ben: Crap There's No Way You'd Pay To See... Times Three
Nice Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
[ 23.09.2004, 10:12: Message edited by: vikram ]
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
No worries... I found a Norwegian who owes me a favour - he's doing it. Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by kovacs: do you think I would have asked if it wasn't difficult to find
Well I do like a challenge...
Searches...
Kovacs I have to admit first defeat of the day - seems the Milligan Stuff has really bought it to light, and Carmine is listed just as creator. There might be something somewhere but its going to take a long time.
3/10 must try harder
Posted by rooster (Member # 738) on :
Triple Vision Below?
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
Metro Masterpieces
Scenic Stations
Tate Tunnels
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Well people I am calling it a day for today - I have tried to some extent to help you all and it has been fun - its kept me awake, made the afternoon go flying by, and made me forget about the pain in my neck.
I might play again tomorrow.....
(Damn you Kovacs - beaten me again!) Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
tunnel visions?
Have another request!
Trying to track down Hop on DVD. Can be bought from www.filmmovement.com but only for North America residents and expensive - $30. It's a Belgian film. A Benelux site that has this (with english subtitles) at a decent price much appreciated. Or can I get it on R0 / R3?
[eta: you done? thanks so much. really nice idea you are so going to heaven!]
[ 23.09.2004, 10:36: Message edited by: vikram ]
Posted by herbs (Member # 101) on :
quote:tunnel vision
*finger on nose, points at Vikram*
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
Subterranean Homesick Blues (And greens, and reds, and yellows)
Buried Treasures
Clandestine Canvas
Abstruse Artshow
Posted by Put This In Your Pipe and Smoke It (Member # 84) on :
How useful! I believe you should hire yourself out on the internet and make a killing.
Hm. Sounds like a tabloid internet horror story.
So you could even sell your story and make MORE cash!
Posted by discodamage (Member # 66) on :
waynester can you please tell me a joke. i am very sad at the moment. i really like silly jokes, but not ones about poo. jokes involving lobsters are good, or superheroes, or lesbian vampires. although not the lesbian vampire one because i already know that and it wont make me laugh.
Posted by Benny the Ball (Member # 694) on :
Waynster,
and American friend is interested in seeing Alan Partridge, I can only find region 2 of either series, american's don't do multi region - is it possible to copy my Partridge over onto a region 1 disc, or will my mac/pc automatically make the disc a region 2, or will it only play on mac/pc?
Anyway you know can do a transfer?
Cheers
Posted by Physic (Member # 195) on :
Not wishing to step on Waynster's toes but if you're looking to burn a region 2 dvd to region 1 you also need to convert it from PAL to NTSC, and by the looks of it that isn't easy since you have to rip it, convert the video files to NTSC and then encode a new DVD with the converted files, unless you can get hold of a 'trial' copy of DVFilm Atlantis which appears to be a good solution, I've just had a look at my usual sources and can't find any copies unfortunately, good luck anyway, sorry I couldn't be of more help.
Posted by mart (Member # 32) on :
quote:Originally posted by discodamage: can you please tell me a joke
(One of) MiniGree's favourites:
Why is six afraid of seven?
Because seven ate nine.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by vikram: tunnel visions?
Have another request!
Trying to track down Hop on DVD. Can be bought from www.filmmovement.com but only for North America residents and expensive - $30. It's a Belgian film. A Benelux site that has this (with english subtitles) at a decent price much appreciated. Or can I get it on R0 / R3?
Ok The first one you can get on DVD here in Belgium but with only Dutch Subtitles, but I am sure with a bit more invvestigation I might be able to find out if a UK version is available somewhere (more likley was the subtitling was done in the States, which could be a problem otherwise) - else buy it from www.freerecordshop.be, come over and maybe Darryn and me can read the subtitles and do the english dub - now that would be a laugh.
The latter - that is going to be a hell of a search - no apparent video release anywhere....
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by discodamage: waynester can you please tell me a joke. i am very sad at the moment. i really like silly jokes, but not ones about poo. jokes involving lobsters are good, or superheroes, or lesbian vampires. although not the lesbian vampire one because i already know that and it wont make me laugh.
Vampire (bat) joke
There was once a colony of vampire bats, and during one particularly brutal summer, a massiv drought caused lots of the local animals to die, thus starving the Vampire Bats of their food source - blood.
The grand pubah bat decreed that all male bats between the ages of 16 and 64 should be conscripted and divided into squadrons to search for a new food source. So at 6am the following morning, four squadrons of bats, several hundred strong were despatched to the four points of the compass in search of food.
Dusk fell, as all the female bats waited patiently for the return of their loved ones, and slowly one by one they returned. The Colour Seargant bat would stand on the door, clipboard in hand as they flew in:
CSB: Name? B: George Bat CSB: Find any blood? B: No Sir CSB: Ok go in and get your head down. Next!
CSB: Name? B: Mike Bat CSB: Find any blood? B: No Sir CSB: or wombles? B: Fuck off sarge! CSB: Sorry. Go in the and get your head down. Next!
- and so it continued into the night. Come daylight a count was done and all bar one bat had returned - just Fred bat was still out there somewhere.
Word spread throughout the batcaves, and soon the women got news.Fred Bat was particularly cute, and a bit of a Gigolo on the quiet, so many of the female bats began to cry.
Time passed further, and by dusk the following day, it was decided that Fred Bat had obviously died in his extreme search for blood, and that at 10am the following day, a special service would be held in the bat church.
The next morning all were assembled in the church. All the female bats were wailing "oh Fred Bat! How could you leave us? We loved you so!". The Vicar Bat then signalled for silence before reading a small prayer - then as he cleared his throat the doors to the church flew open! And there was Fred bat, exhausted - and covered in blood! There was blood on his face, all down his chest, over his wings! And there was much rejoicing! The Women bats surrounded him "Fred You alive!" whilst senior military bats broke through the crowd to interrogate Fred.
Finally Lieutenant Colonel Tarquin Fortesque Bat (DFC and nine bars) breaks through the lustful ladybats and demands that Fred show them where he found the blood.
So exhausted, Fred flies out of the colony, with all the bats behind him baited with eagerness and hunger. They fly 200 miles to the north, then 200 miles to the west, then another hundred north and then fly to the top of the sand dune when exhausted Fred shouts: "STOP!!!!!!!!!"
The entire colony freezes and looks below at the almost barren landscape before them.
"What is it Fred ? What?" They all cry
"Well you see that tree down there?"
"Yes Fred! We see the tree!" they screech excitedly
"Well I fucking didn't!"
*************************************
Boom Boom ad infinitum....
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by Benny the Ball: Waynster,
and American friend is interested in seeing Alan Partridge, I can only find region 2 of either series, american's don't do multi region - is it possible to copy my Partridge over onto a region 1 disc, or will my mac/pc automatically make the disc a region 2, or will it only play on mac/pc?
Anyway you know can do a transfer?
Cheers
Thanks to Physic for answering, but wouldn't an easier way be to DIVX rip it? Assuming your american Friend has access to a PC, he could watch it then?
He might be able just to download it if someone else has already done the ripping, thus saving you a job and him the postal wait (just the traffic on his download)
Just a thought...
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by Waynster: else buy it from www.freerecordshop.be, come over and maybe Darryn and me can read the subtitles and do the english dub - now that would be a laugh. [/QB]
Ok this can be picked up for around 10 quid. The translation work would take a little time, but then again I am sure if you do DVD Rips it can't be that difficult if you acn rip out a subtitle track to insert one - its just the translation/scripting which might take a bit of time.
However I think the idea of a bunch of your mates doing a silly voiced dubbed version whilst being good fun to do, may lose the edge of the movie.
Posted by Darryn.R (Member # 1) on :
In theory Wayne we could get the Dutch Sub DVD, rip it to a hard drive, re-author the DVD without subtitles and then lay over an English translation of the subtitle track and re burn the DVD..
But that's a pain in the arse.
[ 24.09.2004, 03:43: Message edited by: Darryn.R ]
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by Darryn.R: In theory Wayne we could get the Dutch Sub DVD, rip it to a hard drive, re-author the DVD without subtitles and then lay over an English translation of the subtitle track and re burn the DVD..
But that's a pain in the arse.
If someone is prepared to Translate Show Me Love in the same way, I might do it. And I suppose a few copies of that might want distributing to people on here.
[ 24.09.2004, 04:20: Message edited by: Waynster ]
Posted by Bamba (Member # 330) on :
quote:Originally posted by Benny the Ball: Waynster,
and American friend is interested in seeing Alan Partridge, I can only find region 2 of either series, american's don't do multi region - is it possible to copy my Partridge over onto a region 1 disc, or will my mac/pc automatically make the disc a region 2, or will it only play on mac/pc?
Anyway you know can do a transfer?
Cheers
You can rip to your hard drive as DVD with the ever lovely DVD Shrink which will also remove any region encoding for you during the rip. You can then simply burn straight back to DVD, no fucking about with codecs or any of that malarky required. While you will have to split the episodes up to fit them onto 4.7GB blank DVD-R's, DVD Shrink is a joy to use and could be operated by untrained monkeys so it shouldn't give you any hassle.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
quote:Originally posted by Waynster: If someone is prepared to Translate Show Me Love in the same way, I might do it. And I suppose a few copies of that might want distributing to people on here.
I have Show Me Love - English subtitles, R0.
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
But no dvd writer.
i could do copies on a mate's pc, if anyone really wants...
have together and lily 4ever too, but those are easily available.
thanks for the 'hop' tip, waynsta. hmm. only want it for the 'lick the star' extra (a sofia coppola short).
Posted by discodamage (Member # 66) on :
ultralol at mike bat! job done waynster. you da man.
Posted by Thorn Davis (Member # 65) on :
Here's another task for you Waynster - check your waynster.com email account!
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Here's another task for you Waynster - check your waynster.com email account!
Flattered dude - right back atcha
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by vikram: But no dvd writer.
I got one - if maybe you could be super cool and send me a copy in return I could churn a couple out for other people on the list - been wanting to see this film for aaaaggeessss.......
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
OK Vikkers - we found a copy in the dam of hop for €20 - do you want me to pick this up and maybe start dubbing it or at least trying to rip it? Mail me at my gmail account if you want usto pick you this up?
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
what's your gmail?!
nah, don't worry about it. really need to rein in my spending.
but ta lots.
just watched my copy of show me love. it's a r0 shipped from hong kong (ie a professional pirate copy). the pic is a bit grainly, but that could be how the movie was filmed. can't remember. subtitling is very good, though there are a couple of errors. sound is perfect.
i'll make a copy sometime next week and post it to you. email me your address. vikramahl [át] hotm@i|[dot]c0m
Posted by rooster (Member # 738) on :
Since you mentioned you are good at finding people:
When I was eight years old (in 1985), my best friend was a girl named (Name removed as requested). She was my little girl sistah soul mate. One day, her father sent her little sis (Name removed as requested) to the car to retrieve something. Within, (Name removed as requested) found marked packages of white powder. The next day, on a Wednesday, I was tearfully hugging my friend and waving her off from the street in front of her house. Her mother, upon discovering her husband’s nasty habit, took the girls and whisked them home to Holland. I haven’t heard from her since, and although I have looked, can’t seem to be able to overcome the distance and find my friend so many miles away. At the time we were living in Miami, Florida. Her mother’s name is ((Name removed as requested)), and I’m sure they all changed their last name, but on the off chance you could find her I would be eternally in your debt (within reason of course).
[ 02.06.2006, 15:00: Message edited by: Darryn.R ]
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Hmmm finding someone called (Name removed as requested) in a country with 15 million people in it? You need a miracle worker.
[ 02.06.2006, 15:06: Message edited by: Darryn.R ]
Posted by rooster (Member # 738) on :
Well, I figured I'd give it a shot -- can you blame me? and she might have kept the same last name...
Posted by froopyscot (Member # 178) on :
Waynster, is there a good country-specific people-finder site that she could try? (Like a Dutch equivalent of Yahoo People Search or something?)
edit because i seem incapable of remembering to close my brackets on the first try.
[ 25.09.2004, 23:07: Message edited by: froopyscot ]
Posted by vikram (Member # 98) on :
are the dutch electoral roles available online?
anyway, good night!
ps. waynster - don't forget to email me your address. i'll copy the dvd next week.
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by rooster: Well, I figured I'd give it a shot -- can you blame me? and she might have kept the same last name...
Ok my lovely lady had found 4 (Name removed as requested) in Holland, and apparently one with the first name beginning (Name removed as requested)(though the others don't match) - I don't know if you knew the middle name of the sister but thats as close as we can get - You can't really search on first names.
email address is waynster {at} gmail if you want us to forward the address.
[ 02.06.2006, 15:05: Message edited by: Darryn.R ]
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
Oh and there is a (Name removed as requested) in Kuwait - Here
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Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
Morning Waynester, thanks for your earlier sleuthing.
Some cinema flavoured tasks for you now: the Odeon Leicester Square is the biggest cinema screen in Britain, is it also the biggest in Europe? The Embassy Theatre in Wellington where the ROTK premiere was held claims to be the biggest screen in the Southern Hemisphere, is this true? Where is the biggest cinema screen in the WORLD?
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by Vogon Poetess: Morning Waynester, thanks for your earlier sleuthing.
Some cinema flavoured tasks for you now: the Odeon Leicester Square is the biggest cinema screen in Britain, is it also the biggest in Europe? The Embassy Theatre in Wellington where the ROTK premiere was held claims to be the biggest screen in the Southern Hemisphere, is this true? Where is the biggest cinema screen in the WORLD?
Ok there are so many conflicting sites claiming that the largest screen in Europe is either at the Leicester Square Odeon, the Waterloo IMAX (20 metres high), UGC Cardiff, Manchester IMAX, UGC Megaplex Sheffield, and one claim in Hamilton Scotland by the Strathclyde Police.
The same claim seems to be shared for the World title by Sydney and Oslo, with the former having most claims but various sources, thus making me believe that to be the case, but searching on "largest Movie Screen in the world", and sure as shit, the americans claim Denver, New York, whilst Canada and Hangzhou also stick a claim in for this feat.
Incidentally, none with the exception of the waterloo IMAX seem to quote sizes.
Finally, a trip to the Guiness world of records website we hoped would clean up the issue, but alas the website has nothing under movie or cinema screen - perhaps if someone has a hardcopy nearby they can see if they can shed some light on this, but otherwise I must report it seems very open to debate - more a case judged by egos it seems rather than fact.
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by discodamage: i am very sad at the moment. i really like silly jokes
A man walks into a pub with, bizarrely, half an apricot for a head. He drags himself to the bar and starts drinking heavily - double vodkas, one after the other. Eventually, the barman can restrain his curiosity no longer and asks the man how come he's got half an apricot for a head.
"*hic*," says the man. "I was in Istanbul last April. I bought a nice old brass lamp and when I rubbed it, guess what, a genie came out an offered me three wishes."
"Wow!" said the barman.
"S'right, *hic*. Wow. S'what I said. So, first wish, I asked for more money than I could ever spend. And in a flash I was looking at a pile of gold that I couldn't see the top of."
"Amazing!" said the barman.
"S'right, *hic*. Amazing. S'what I said. Second wish, I asked for a beautiful nude woman who would love me and make me happy for the rest of my life. And before I even finished saying it... the most beautiful nude woman ever was on my lap and kissing me all over."
"Superb!" said the barman.
"S'right, *hic*. Superb. S'what I said."
"So, what went wrong? What was your last wish?" asked the barman.
"I made a big mistake with my third wish. Big mistake. If only I could change it..."
"What did you wish?"
"Well, I wished my head could be half an apricot."
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Are you still accepting challenges?
I would like to know what the piece of music is that is played in The Thomas Crown Affair (recent version) while all the men in bowler hats are walking around the gallery.
Cheers!
Posted by Waynster (Member # 56) on :
quote:Originally posted by Abby: Are you still accepting challenges?
I would like to know what the piece of music is that is played in The Thomas Crown Affair (recent version) while all the men in bowler hats are walking around the gallery.
Cheers!
I've not seen it but surely its not too difficult to look up on IMDB - Here Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
Really? It is an excellent film - you should see it asap!
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I wonder if Darryn got anything in the mail today Abby?
Posted by Abby (Member # 582) on :
In a fight, I would win.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I don't doubt it.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
I realise that Waynster has, as announced in Meeja, gone wom, but if anyone can answer a small query, I'd be most grateful.
What are the rules about your face being showed on the television?
Do you need to give permission to be shown on the TV? I am asking because I am flummoxed by variance. For example, in a variety of 'Bravo' type programmes about the work of the police, people are often shown being cautioned, arrested, beaten etc. Some have their faces fuzzled out, some don't. Does this mean that the ones who aren't fuzzled have a) signed a permission slip so that they can be seen across the nation acting like a div or b) that as they have been convicted (perhaps) they have no right to veto the broadcast (this seems unlikely)? Not quite similarly, when the news does one of it's ever increasing in frequency The Nation's Health exposes, apparently random obese and/or smoking people are seen wandering happily down the street about their daily business. Are these a) actors paid to be shown as obese smokers or b) ordinary people who subsequently went home from the office only to find their arses plastered all over the news c)people who were so happy for their arses to be plastered all over the news they signed a permission slip?
Any enlightenment welcomed...
Posted by Vogon Poetess (Member # 164) on :
I've often wondered about the fat waddlers filmed for the "Britain Tops Europe Obesity Table-Then Eats The Table" stories.
I was going to say that speaking for the camera involves the signing of some kind of permission form, but then I thought of the random people C5 News interview on the street with questions like, "should crime be banned?" Maybe each channel has its own policy.
[ 01.10.2004, 08:20: Message edited by: Vogon Poetess ]
Posted by SilverGinger5 (Member # 49) on :
There was once an article on Meridian News about attacks on homosexuals in Brighton, and they showed a clip of St. James Street, (which is in the gay area of Brighton), talking about how couples walking up here were likely to be attacked, and they showed a shot of me and my flatmate. Possibly the only straight couple on the road.
Can I sue? I'm not even pretty enough to be a gayer.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
It's b)
I heard someone mention it during a documentary. That is my feeble source, but I'm sure it's true.
a) is for Americanos in blue jeans and chinos, cos they are sue-happy about that shit. Pour exampler; The photograph of the fat American kid on Fatboy Slims 'we've come a long way baby' is only on the english cover. The American cover has a photograph of his record collection on the front.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
I was wandering around a shopping mall in Bristol last week sometime on the day that Rachel Stevens of S Club fame decided to do a tour of 7 malls in 7 cities in 24 hours, performing (i.e. miming and wriggling a bit) in each of them, all for charidee doncha know.
Anyway, the local news crew had turned up to film and, I presume in order to avoid any privacy problems like you have mentioned, had stuck posters up at various sites around the building, which basically said "Cameras on site, if you object to being filmed contact a member of film crew". It seems to be like those book clubs where if you don't say that you don't want the Book of the Month then they send it to you automatically and you have little comeback to you.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
quote:Originally posted by SilverGinger5: Possibly the only straight couple on the road.
Your story will need to be more cock-sure than that if you plan to sue.
ETA; I worked for those dawgs hippy
[ 01.10.2004, 08:29: Message edited by: New Way Of Decay ]
Posted by dang65 (Member # 102) on :
quote:Originally posted by Louche: c)people who were so happy for their arses to be plastered all over the news they signed a permission slip?
Any enlightenment welcomed...
"Sign this and you'll be on telly, and there might be a celebrity on the same programme at some point."
*dribble* *sign* Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
NWOD, as a *koff* benwayaccountantdon'ttellanyoneplease, I used to audit those people. So if you were office-based, we may have crossed paths at some point. (This was in 2001 and 2002).
I've noticed you around, I find you very attractive... uhmmm... Would you go to bed with me? Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
Hardcore!
I worked for Nicki Day in the sales team. On the customer services floor.
Posted by H1ppychick (Member # 529) on :
It's all a vague blur which I have managed fairly successfully to block out. But when I used to visit my team, we were I think on the first floor (is that where Finance was?): turned left from the stairs and through the swipe door (achieved whilst carrying loads of stuff by swinging hip with pass against security plate in a jaunty fashion)
Firstly:
a) aren't those offices grim,
and secondly,
b) I watched a couple of 2002 World Cup games when they played them in the canteen at lunchtime since we were on-site at the time, were you there too?
Everyone else, as you were.
Posted by New Way Of Decay (Member # 106) on :
I was training at the time, also I like football as much as sticking mustard down my helm with a sandpaper wand. This is why asking someone if they want to watch the footie with me, is a sure sign that I like them.
Posted by fish (Member # 22) on :
quote:Originally posted by Louche: What are the rules about your face being showed on the television? Do you need to give permission to be shown on the TV? Any enlightenment welcomed...
I can't speak for Bravo etc only BBC, and to be honest I'm not 100% sure about documentary makers either. I think their usage policy is far stricter than in news, requiring permission forms etc. If you're really interested, you can look it up yourself.
quote:Not quite similarly, when the news does one of it's ever increasing in frequency The Nation's Health exposes, apparently random obese and/or smoking people are seen wandering happily down the street about their daily business. Are these a) actors paid to be shown as obese smokers or b) ordinary people who subsequently went home from the office only to find their arses plastered all over the news c)people who were so happy for their arses to be plastered all over the news they signed a permission slip?
Because news is - by its very nature - more immediate and rushed, permission policy is generally more relaxed (you can hardly go around asking victims of a bombing if they mind being on tv and please would they mind signing a form saying so?) although there are fairly strict guidelines in place.
When people are pixelated in news it is usually because they can't be identified for legal reasons - whether that be because criminal proceedings are still active (identity may be in question during the trial), they are the victim of sexual crime etc, or are under aged.
Despite massive advances in graphics technology, pixelation of film is something that the GFX team absolutely hate and it is increadibly time consuming - a 10 second sequence with a face pixellated can take over an hour to render. The more the pixelated area moves around, the longer it takes. Because of this, if we can avoid using pixels we will, usually this is done by using cutaways, clever filming, or a completely different shot.
However, we don't have time to go out filming GVs (general views) for every story, especially wanky health ones, so we have a library full of stock shots of everyday situations. When it comes to people walking down the street, smoking, drinking alcohol, or picking up their kids from school etc we just grab a tape from the library. We can use it as often as we like and permission is generally not needed (although it's often sought informally when first filmed). We usually make an effort for people to be identified as little as possible. If you're trying to illustrate smoking, you can start on a shot of a fag burning in an ashtray or a fog of smoke over people's heads in a crowded bar. But if you're trying to sustain pictures for more than a few seconds, it would become increasingly ridiculous to NOT show people smoking.
A word of warning though if you ever spot a camera in your high street or local bar... I recently had to cut "float pix" of obese people. Bored of the standard shots we've tended to (over)use in the past, I simply trawled through about half an hour of a tape labelled "high street gvs" and edited together a sequence of all the fat people. Now that it's been cut together there is a new tape waiting in the library labelled "Fat people GVs". Imagine how mortified all those lard-asses are going to be seeing themselves on the news every time there's another "Fat Britain" scare!
Simple rule of thumb: Never ever ever ever allow yourself to be filmed by a news crew.
Posted by Louche (Member # 450) on :
Cheers, Feeesh! That was most helpful of you. I will, in future, endeavour to avoid being fat near any television cameras. Unless I happen to have just been blown up.
Posted by fish (Member # 22) on :
quote:Originally posted by Louche: Cheers, Feeesh! That was most helpful of you. I will, in future, endeavour to avoid being fat near any television cameras. Unless I happen to have just been blown up.
Be careful about the being blown up thing... there are also certain guidelines relating to that.
If we think you are dead, we wont identify you. If you look like you're going to die, we wont identify you. If we think you're really badly hurt and stuff but you'll probably "pull through" we will identify you and your face will probably become symbolic of the tragedy, especially if you are a bit cute. If this occurs and you then do actually die, contradicting the expert medical diagnosis of a trained bbc producer, then you will become princess diana and Elton John will change the lyrics of one of his not very good songs to include your name.
I'll write a symphony just for you and me If you let me love you, I'll paint a masterpiece Just for you to see If you let me love you, let me love you
Are you ready, are you ready for louche Yes I am Are you, are you ready, are you ready for louche Yes I am Are you, are you ready, are you ready for louche
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