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- hans_glib0
how many of you are born and bred londoners?
i only ask because my daughter said an odd thing last night - she'd been described as a "unicorn" by someone she met. when asked what she meant, this girl said "i was told i'd probably never meet a real londoner, someone who's born and bred here - they're mythical..."
when i heard that i laughed and said "what nonsense", but the more i thought about it the more i realised that everyone i know was indeed born elsewhere. even at art school there were only two other londoners on the course.
i've never noticed before.
- A young Londoner who works at the studios here said much the same thing to me quite recently - she felt like she was a total minority.Nairn
- surely all the people now living in London having children will produce born-n-bred Londoners? Same as ever.Fax_Benson
- I'm sure there's been a demographic change in terms of 'traditional' Londoners moving out to Essex and Kent. But where did they come from?Fax_Benson
- I meant 'minority' in the numerative sense, not an ethnic one. I just realised this when I was outside, hacing a quick cig.Nairn
- Got stuck on the tube one evening in 2005 for an hour, Australian lad (drinking Fosters FFS) hypothesises loudly "Nobodies talking because they think...kingsteven
- they're the only one not from London" ... "but i'm not sure anyone here's from London". he went round the entire carriage asking folks, not one person even fromkingsteven
- England... conversations all over the place after that, not sure he was entirely right but an eye opener all the same.kingsteven
- depends where you are and what you're doing I guess.Fax_Benson
- Only got to know a few Londoners the 4 years I was there tbh.kingsteven
- Met a born and bread Londoner years ago, when I was in my 20's. His family had left London, hated it, changed too much. That was 20 years ago.shapesalad
- The only born&bred Ldn'r I met and befriended in 13y of living in LDN, emigrated to Australia.shapesalad
- When I used dating websites years ago, I was a rare find in LDN apparently, because I was English.shapesalad
- It is what it is, LDN. I still don't get it. Miserable weather, pollution, crime, expense, over crowded and half the world(3rd) wants to move there.shapesalad
- so often the case - most of my daughters' friends (from when they were younger )moved out to the home counties and beyond for schools and such.hans_glib
- what are you now?Fax_Benson
- one family told me they had had enough of hearing police helicopters all the time... :/hans_glib
- i'm not talking about english, just london. the guy who cuts my hair is a londoner, born and bred. his dad came over from cyprus, but he's stayed here, had kidshans_glib
- My wife was born in London, her dad lived in South London, left as it was a shithole where they lived. Loads of family still there though.PhanLo
- They say the same thing about Torontonians, and then you meet one. Not so mythical.ben_
- The only two people I'm close to beyond bloody foreigners here are both LDN born and bred; both have ambitions to leave over the next couple of yearsNairn
- Father was from South london, Mother was from Sussex, grew up within the M25 and live in South London. Its been a heart breaking change this past 10 years. I'mmugwart
- having to move out like all the other 'cunts'mugwart
- brouch this subject (like tube) and you get a "you a racist father" (father ted) look.
I can't even remember the last time I heard a cockney accentmugwart - its sad the change, while I'm not a right wing racist (my kid is mixed) but all that culture that has accumulated pre roman is all gone in a generation.mugwart
- old streets/pubs/record shops (aka soho) all gone to fucking cooperate endeavors.
Generations of families no longer thanks to overpriced rent.mugwart - Born in Brompton...lived in Raynes Park, E&C and North Finchley.see_thru
- ...and when I went to uni in the 90's, everyone else seemed to be either Welsh or from Gateshead.see_thru
- Fax_Benson-1
Previous post made me think of this, which I read this morning.
Londoners arrogant and insular, according to those outside capital
- pinkfloyd-4
I haven't done websites forever so this will be a naive question. Some guy wants a website with 500 videos. What's the easiest way of doing this? I tried getting 20k for it but he said his budget is 10k. If I take it, what's the most easy way of displaying 500 videos without making each one a separate page? Can all the videos be on the server, and then one page with all the thumbails. When the user clicks on the thumbnail it overlays the video?
- can i do this in squarespace lol?pinkfloyd
- https://www.wix.com/…
:)Gnash - i helped a friend put together a site with about 30 of his videos. He was already using wix for 4 of his other sites and wanted to stay in that ecosystemGnash
- shockingly, it was one of the easier "friend" projects I'd ever done. tons of video options via built-in and with extra plugins you can do even moreGnash
- this was free, mind you. I'd have a hard time charging 10K for a wix site ;)Gnash
- Sounds like easy money. I wonder if squarespace can do the same as I've always wanted to learn / use squarespacepinkfloyd
- You could feed the uploaded videos from a wix server or just point the vids to wix from youtube or vimeo library.Gnash
- it even pulled the titles and seo from YTGnash
- Always link to videos on YT/Vimeo, if he has them all uploaded to a channel it is v.easy to display the video thumbnails on a website. Wordpress has manyfadein11
- he said he wants his video sitting on his site w/o youtubepinkfloyd
- plugins to do this and other platforms. Never try to host video that is likely to get a lot of plays or that quantity of video. Unless he has big server budgetfadein11
- Squarespace allows you to embed a YT channel but no need to do that really and it will look unbranded. Just create thumbnails of each vid and then link to YT infadein11
- a lightbox, it's no harder than creating an image gallery.fadein11
- yeah thats easy then, just use the YT embed code for each video, laborious on 500 videos but it is what it is... or embed the whole channel, but that will befadein11
- branded like YT with little customisation options. 500 thumbnails linking to a lightbox video player will be the best option.fadein11
- if w/o any YT then you will need to use a custom video player that will play from YT.fadein11
- you just made 8 notes in a row about youtube but he doesn't want to use youtubepinkfloyd
- use vimeo. a little $$ will buy you a pro account and you can take out all of the annoying clutter and just show the vids.hans_glib
- hosting the vids elsewhere makes sense as bandwidth will rapidly become an issue otherwise.
and vimeo pro allows you to make vids privatehans_glib - that sounds nice thxpinkfloyd
- you can use a custom video player to play YT videos without any indication its YT. Are his videos hosted anywhere currently?fadein11
- if not just use Vimeo or YT. But hosting 500 videos on Squarespace is not an option. Why does he hate YouTube? no budget but expect to build their own streamingfadein11
- service...fadein11
- google drive - but can't to remove the 'pop-out' button.shapesalad
- sorry if over enthusiastic, been here a few times before and on that budget no point reinventing the wheel as it werefadein11
- watpinkfloyd
- get your shit togetherpinkfloyd
- ?fadein11
- I've been asked by clients to self host video numerous times and its totally pointless, how the fuck have i offended you by trying to help? Lolfadein11
- i have more money than youpinkfloyd
- Eh? Wtf are you talking about? Wow, get your shit together dudefadein11
- host on YT etc, use this https://github.com/s…shapesalad
- Indeed shape, lets see if you get random abuse lolfadein11
- lolpinkfloyd
- My buddy ended up hosting some on YT (those he wanted to track with social media), and the rest on a private Vimeo.Gnash
- both ways he choose to suppress the YT and Vimeo branding so there was no indication that they were hosted off-siteGnash
- Exactly gnash, its the best way. Vimeo has a nicer interface but plenty of options to customise both. Self hosting 500 vids on squarespace/wix is never gonna hafadein11
- happen*fadein11
- ********-1
Had a gig so couldn’t take a phone interview for a better job.
- canoe-1
Sitting in the library... when "Boobs of the day" shows up in the top left.
That thread is like the startling, irrelevant headlines you see on mainstream news sites, "Man stalks babysitter and decapitates her with lead pipe."
- mg330
Need suggestions for a couple odd songs to add to a Spotify playlist we share in my office. Nothing insane, but something that, if you heard it, you'd stop down and listen intently because you were so confused by what you heard. Any suggestions?
- https://open.spotify…pango
- is this one on spotify? https://www.youtube.…scruffics
- "Spirit Cold" by Tall Heights
"Told Me" by Dusky Grey
"Old School" by Urban Cone
"Two High" by Moon Taxi
"Human" by Emilie Brandtimbecile - "Have You Ever" by The Avett Brothers
"Oceans" by Seafret (Acoustic version)
"Desire" by Ryan Adams
"Dance" by Tim Halperin
"Touching the Ground" by Brandi Carlimbecile - https://www.youtube.…********
- Nopepango
- https://www.youtube.…********
- https://open.spotify…pango
- LOLmg33
- Orca - Nicolas Godinshapesalad
- https://open.spotify…shapesalad
- ^ the original Bach versions, then Nicolas Godin's versions. Lovely stuff.shapesalad
- https://youtu.be/ZJL…pango
- https://www.youtube.…sarahfailin
- https://www.youtube.…shapesalad
- https://www.youtube.…shapesalad
- jesus musicfuturefood
- https://open.spotify…pango
- https://open.spotify…CALLES
- Look in my eyes - The Chantels
A Child of God - Millie Jackson
Troubles, Heartaches & Sadness - Ann Peebles
I love how you love me - The Paris Sistersmicrokorg - Oh! You Pretty Things - Au Revoir Simone
Mississippi - The Cactus Blossoms
To Build A Home - The Cinematic Orchestra
Young Turks - Today Kidmicrokorg - El Michels Affair - C R E A M (Instrumental)
The Charmels - As Long As I've Got You
Gary Wright - Love is Alive
The Cars - Bye Bye Lovestoplying - thank God i don't have to endure a playlist at work!Bennn
- Sasquatch by Giants in the Trees.Wolfboy
- imbecile-4
When writing an equation to result in 4.5 stars graphically, at what point does the half star appear? 4.26? 4.34? 4.46? Something else? Why?
- 4.5shapesalad
- <4.5 = 4 stars
>=4.5 = 4.5starsshapesalad - anything over 4.25 - simple rounding up rule appliesGnash
- and under 4.75 become 4.5Gnash
- thanks gnash, that was my proposal as well, but received other input; as was presentedimbecile
- sarahfailin-3
Why do we have like 5 threads for bitching about Elon Musk?
- because haters gonna hatemonospaced
- chukkaimbecile
- because people love him, many idolise him, some of those in weird contrary ways, shitting on him as they quietly and clumsily masturbate themselves.Nairn
- lol downvoters want more Elon threadssarahfailin
- Nairn-2
Why do I always immediately sniff something I know will be disgusting? Particularly old containers or things with fetid milk dribblings.
I do this at home all the time, when I find some old thing at the back of the fridge - pulli out, open it up and instantly stick my nose in, to be disgusted. Why?
I've just done it now - picked up a flask I've not used for a while, opened it up and straight away stuck my nose in and sniffed it. Wtf? I know I've not used the thing in two months, and last time I did I probably didn't wash it properly afterwards, so why am I surprised when I get a lungful of dead blue mould rot dust?
idiot.
every time.
- I'm in the studio. If I left a flask full of dead evil dust at home I'd have my balls ripped off by 'er indoors.Nairn
- Fax_Benson-4
I've just been made aware of the existence of 'Salt Bae' and his signature photo pose. I'm assuming from the pose alone that I don't need to know any more about him?
Does everyone know about this guy?
- yes, he's a chef who salts foodimbecile
- he's my personal chefpinkfloyd
- it was gif on twitter of him dry-humping the barbequed ribcage of some animal in front of somebody famous.Fax_Benson
- link?pinkfloyd
- welcome to Jan 2017!chukkaphob
- I'd go back in a heartbeatFax_Benson
- :)chukkaphob
- haters gonna hate ;)monospaced
- He is so extrapango
- https://www.cbc.ca/p…pango
- yeah, that kind of thing.Fax_Benson
- dorf0
trying to find a pic from a while back. it's a cartoon with a kid laying back saying "no". anyone have it?
- utopian0
- "UrbanSplashMedium-R... custom by https://www.daltonma… (it's in the metadata of the woff file)kingsteven
- ha. I thought you ment what the fawkHayoth
- thanks!!utopian
- PonyBoy3
I love me some pistachios...
bought a bag of unshelled and thought I'd be in heaven... but I feel cheated... taken... like something is missing
I find myself longing for the shelling step... there's a moment of anticipation that just seems to make the tasty little fuckers even tastier... instead I find myself w/a hulking chewy wad of salted... well—deliciousness—but I still feel cheated.
- ha, yes I can relate to this. gotta get em out 1st.fadein11
- cut some brown paper into lots of little pieces and individually wrap them and put the back in the bagFax_Benson
- *themFax_Benson
- unshelled pistachios represents moder lifes need for instant gratification. No appreciation of the moment. No substance.
:)******** - modern life's *********
- How many nuts can you fit in your mouth at a time?stoplying
- Fax_Benson1
- Because nasty, that's why.Maaku
- 'benign masochism' is pretty much a catch-all descriptor for life. And client relationships.Fax_Benson
- imbecile1
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- pinkfloyd-2
I bought a grilled chicken sandwich on wed and ate just half of it. I left it in the fridge since, is it still good today friday?
- it's not going to kill you but the bread will be stale and anything in contact with sauce will be soggyspl33nidoru
- Screw it, i'll just get some steak nowpinkfloyd
- good call, that wouldn't have been a very fun lunchspl33nidoru
- it's finemonospaced
- ^ not a sandwich loverspl33nidoru
- eat it cold or throw it away.imbecile
- imbecile....nvmpinkfloyd
- the point is if you won't eat it cold, it's probably trashimbecile
- Steam it 10mins, then microwave for 25s on high, then bash it with a fork, add chives, fry in lard, put in bin.shapesalad
- lol shapefadein11
- https://youtu.be/ZcJ…pango
- aslip2
This day at the office is dragging on and on. Humans aren't supposed to live this way. I should be on a beach with my family or something. I can't wait to tap out of this 9-5 lifestyle.
- Specially after you had Bandeja Paisa for lunch. I need a nap.Maaku
- summer is overrrrr********
- been freelancing for 18 months now :)pinkfloyd
- 9-5 lifestyle is the dream! try 9-7+ in london...shapesalad
- ^OBBTKN
- Or 7 / 19 freelancingOBBTKN
- what shape says. drives you downmugwart
- 9-5 M-F is easy. Try another job.********
- I’m running 2 side businesses. I have my share of extra hours. Just saying this “time for money” trade is not for me.aslip
- ********-2
- microkorg0
Saturday night.
Had a good few beers.
Bought some breaks.
Had a load of crisps (potato chips for the US here)
Bought a cover and stand for Push 2.
Watched some YouTubes including
In years gone by I'd be smoking weed and staying up all night whilst in the mood for beatmaking.
But now a responsible married adult with a 18 month old lil one I know that I've got to get to fuckin bed as I'll be up in 6 hours to start another day lol- Just start making baby beats dude, problem solved.robotron3k
- too black...too strong!utopian
- I’m adulting wrong I guess. I have 2 kids, married and still stay up late making beats (weed optional)autoflavour
- Sleep is overratedautoflavour
- notype1
What can I do to spice up my track lighting in the kitchen? Seems like the LL got a cheap’o from ikea- really ugly white florescent light. I’ll take a photo of it. Need the q00bs help in creating something nice for my pad - making it feel more homey.
- Here it is https://m.imgur.com/…notype
- Replacing the glass shades around the bulbs is the easiest thing. Replacing the whole thing is the next.sarahfailin
- looks like there are only so few options to replace them though because of the pegs on the edge (though I'm not an expert @ this...)notype
