Eddie Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 9 minutes ago, Eric Cuntman said: Remember when he told Stickers that he'd been to visit his hash dealer? I bet he watched his 1980, VHS copy of 'The Wanderers' for guidance on how 'street people' actually dress. If only Franks ‘aids’ hadn’t struck quite so viscously he could have played a beautiful rendition of ‘terror’ the leader of the Fordham Baldies…. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Cuntman Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 Just now, Eddie said: If only Franks ‘aids’ hadn’t struck quite so viscously he could have played a beautiful rendition of ‘terror’ the leader of the Fordham Baldies…. Founder Ducky-Boy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miles Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 50 minutes ago, Eric Cuntman said: Remember when he told Stickers that he'd been to visit his hash dealer? I bet he watched his 1980, VHS copy of 'The Wanderers' for guidance on how 'street people' actually dress. It wasn't VHS .. he had a Grundig Video 2000 VCR. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Decimus Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 42 minutes ago, Eric Cuntman said: Remember when he told Stickers that he'd been to visit his hash dealer? I bet he watched his 1980, VHS copy of 'The Wanderers' for guidance on how 'street people' actually dress. Indeed. I can picture the middle-class old wanker sheepishly knocking on the squat door of some huge fucking rasta. "I heard that you have some grass, maaaaaannn. How much for an eighth?". 800 quid later, he's pretending to Rupert and Corenza that he's blasted when all he's been smoking is oregano. Fuck I hate him. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Cuntman Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 14 minutes ago, Dead Penelope said: Its wasn't VHS .. he had a Grundig Video 2000 VCR. Rotel stereo. I thought the 2000 was Philips? Big fuck off cassettes like laptops. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miles Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 1 hour ago, Eric Cuntman said: Rotel stereo. I thought the 2000 was Philips? Big fuck off cassettes like laptops. Both Grundig and philips did the V2000 .. the tape were double sided like audio cassettes. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake The Muss Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 10 hours ago, Eddie said: Oh I don’t know fend, the highest tax rate for 70 years, food prices, energy costs, petrol prices, property prices in relation to wages, the super rich avoiding tax with loop holes and off shore accounts. The chancellor who should be closing loopholes knowingly allowing his wife to choose a non-dom status to avoid his family’s fair tax bill, you stupid fucking cunt. Yeah what a shit show Ed...glad you have noticed all these things but you left out postal costs, as i have an online business and send out lots of parcels, this is obviously something that's pissed me off. But it's only a game show. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadkill Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 43 minutes ago, Dead Penelope said: Both Grundig and philips did the V2000 .. the tape were double sided like audio cassettes. These that thing you see in Uma Thurman's house in Pulp Fiction? The ones that look like the traffic light computers in the original Italian Job? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake The Muss Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 22 hours ago, ratcum said: Sevens, is that you under that silly martial disguise? No idea what you're talking about and you don't either. Still i'm glad we have had this chat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Cuntman Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 4 minutes ago, Roadkill said: These that thing you see in Uma Thurman's house in Pulp Fiction? The ones that look like the traffic light computers in the original Italian Job? That was a reel to reel tape machine. The one she played Dusty Springfield on while she snorted a gram of heroin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadkill Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 Just now, Eric Cuntman said: That was a reel to reel tape machine. The one she played Dusty Springfield on while she snorted a gram of heroin? Yeah. There were video tapes like that, too? I only remember regular VHS tapes and how the foreign ones would never fit. I think I saw a Betamax when I was very young - smaller cassette with only one spool visible - but they seemed to be for posh people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miles Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 22 minutes ago, Roadkill said: These that thing you see in Uma Thurman's house in Pulp Fiction? The ones that look like the traffic light computers in the original Italian Job? Not sure, if I remeber rightly .. the Philips ones usually had a sloping front whereas the Grundig ones were great big oblong lumps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Cuntman Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 11 minutes ago, Roadkill said: Yeah. There were video tapes like that, too? I only remember regular VHS tapes and how the foreign ones would never fit. I think I saw a Betamax when I was very young - smaller cassette with only one spool visible - but they seemed to be for posh people. No, the video tapes were all enclosed in black plastic, the Betamax ones were small and heavy with one window as you said. The Philips V2000 was a big double sided tape like Pen described, and VHS was what you remember. It was the cheapest, with lower picture quality than the other 2, but price won the war, leading Philips and Betamax into obscurity. Remember 12 inch video discs? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miles Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 20 minutes ago, Roadkill said: Yeah. There were video tapes like that, too? I only remember regular VHS tapes and how the foreign ones would never fit. I think I saw a Betamax when I was very young - smaller cassette with only one spool visible - but they seemed to be for posh people. Two regular makes for Betamax .. the Sonys were posh and the Sanyos were cheap and common. TBH nothing wrong with the Sanyos. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miles Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 6 minutes ago, Eric Cuntman said: No, the video tapes were all enclosed in black plastic, the Betamax ones were small and heavy with one window as you said. The Philips V2000 was a big double sided tape like Pen described, and VHS was what you remember. It was the cheapest, with lower picture quality than the other 2, but price won the war, leading Philips and Betamax into obscurity. Remember 12 inch video discs? The real weakness with V2000 is that the movies available on the few prerecorded tapes used both sides of the tape so that when you were half way through the film you have to get up and change the tape over to the other side and most cunts were too fat and idle to want to do that. I did at one point have a full sized Sony Video 8 machine, they were better than either VHS or Betamax and you could also record PCM audio on them .. great system loads of promise but the prerecorded tapes for those machine never happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadkill Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 1 minute ago, Eric Cuntman said: No, the video tapes were all enclosed in black plastic, the Betamax ones were small and heavy with one window as you said. The Philips V2000 was a big double sided tape like Pen described, and VHS was what you remember. It was the cheapest, with lower picture quality than the other 2, but price won the war, leading Philips and Betamax into obscurity. Remember 12 inch video discs? Laser disks? Never seen one in person, but I know of them. I grew up in a weird time in terms of technology and formats. Videos and DVDs were being made at the same time and I was saving my school work on floppy disks that were never floppy until I could save up enough pocket money to buy a USB flash drive. We would make fun of people with huge mobile phones because they were so old fashioned and outdated, but the first smartphones were just over the horizon. Tape was dead and the CD was king, but the MP3 was already out there for free if you knew where to look. The only thing that hasn't changed is that vinyl is still popular. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ratcum Posted April 12, 2022 Report Share Posted April 12, 2022 2 hours ago, Eric Cuntman said: No, the video tapes were all enclosed in black plastic, the Betamax ones were small and heavy with one window as you said. The Philips V2000 was a big double sided tape like Pen described, and VHS was what you remember. It was the cheapest, with lower picture quality than the other 2, but price won the war, leading Philips and Betamax into obscurity. Remember 12 inch video discs? My Aunty Vi had some old Bakelite cylinders. "Rat" she used to say, "stuff these up my Billingsgate and see if you can get a tune out of me". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Umbongo Posted April 13, 2022 Report Share Posted April 13, 2022 9 hours ago, Roadkill said: Laser disks? Never seen one in person, but I know of them. I grew up in a weird time in terms of technology and formats. Videos and DVDs were being made at the same time and I was saving my school work on floppy disks that were never floppy until I could save up enough pocket money to buy a USB flash drive. We would make fun of people with huge mobile phones because they were so old fashioned and outdated, but the first smartphones were just over the horizon. Tape was dead and the CD was king, but the MP3 was already out there for free if you knew where to look. The only thing that hasn't changed is that vinyl is still popular. We had a hired Ferguson Videostar (front loader) VHS VCR. Hired, because it was about a grand to buy - I still have an old Panasonic VHS VCR sitting in the shed. Fuck knows why. And they were called floppy disks because they were originally 5 1/4 inches and 'floppy', the 3 1/2 inch floppy disks in the rigid plastic case came later. What capacity did you have? 360kb, 720kb, or were you a posh cunt with 1.44mb ones? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miles Posted April 13, 2022 Report Share Posted April 13, 2022 49 minutes ago, Cunty BigBollox said: We had a hired Ferguson Videostar (front loader) VHS VCR. Hired, because it was about a grand to buy - I still have an old Panasonic VHS VCR sitting in the shed. Fuck knows why. And they were called floppy disks because they were originally 5 1/4 inches and 'floppy', the 3 1/2 inch floppy disks in the rigid plastic case came later. What capacity did you have? 360kb, 720kb, or were you a posh cunt with 1.44mb ones? I had a BBC B with 5 1/2 floppies and the first PC I had was a secondhand PCXT with 5 1/2 floppies (360k I think) and a huge 10 meg hard drive , but huge the hard drive was about twice the height of a CD Rom drive and made a noise like Concorde taking off. I soon bought a new motherboard (PC 33?) which only made tow bleeps when I tried to run the PC .. I found out that I should have bought some RAM chips those cost more than the motherboard itself. Then I found that I needed a new fucking monitor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyslexic cnut Posted April 13, 2022 Report Share Posted April 13, 2022 41 minutes ago, Dead Penelope said: I had a BBC B with 5 1/2 floppies and the first PC I had was a secondhand PCXT with 5 1/2 floppies (360k I think) and a huge 10 meg hard drive , but huge the hard drive was about twice the height of a CD Rom drive and made a noise like Concorde taking off. I soon bought a new motherboard (PC 33?) which only made tow bleeps when I tried to run the PC .. I found out that I should have bought some RAM chips those cost more than the motherboard itself. Then I found that I needed a new fucking monitor. Interesting stuff. I’ve been tasked by the board to inform you that @Roadkill passed away in agony early this morning, Pen. I know you held him in high regard and it’ll be a sad loss to the site, but a promise is a promise, sugar. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dyslexic cnut Posted April 13, 2022 Report Share Posted April 13, 2022 53 minutes ago, Dead Penelope said: I had a BBC B with 5 1/2 floppies and the first PC I had was a secondhand PCXT with 5 1/2 floppies (360k I think) and a huge 10 meg hard drive , but huge the hard drive was about twice the height of a CD Rom drive and made a noise like Concorde taking off. I soon bought a new motherboard (PC 33?) which only made tow bleeps when I tried to run the PC .. I found out that I should have bought some RAM chips those cost more than the motherboard itself. Then I found that I needed a new fucking monitor. Is this one of your ‘gender reassignment’ references? Genuine question. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roadkill Posted April 13, 2022 Report Share Posted April 13, 2022 4 hours ago, Cunty BigBollox said: We had a hired Ferguson Videostar (front loader) VHS VCR. Hired, because it was about a grand to buy - I still have an old Panasonic VHS VCR sitting in the shed. Fuck knows why. And they were called floppy disks because they were originally 5 1/4 inches and 'floppy', the 3 1/2 inch floppy disks in the rigid plastic case came later. What capacity did you have? 360kb, 720kb, or were you a posh cunt with 1.44mb ones? 4MB - this was the early 2000's, at the very peak of floppy disk technology. Strangely enough CD-R's never caught on for saving school work at the time - probably because of the cost that adding a CD burner to every RM computer and the fact that the schools didn't want to become music pirate havens. It went straight from floppy disk to USB storage: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miles Posted April 13, 2022 Report Share Posted April 13, 2022 4 hours ago, Dyslexic cnut said: Is this one of your ‘gender reassignment’ references? Genuine question. No .. That is a genuine answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miles Posted April 13, 2022 Report Share Posted April 13, 2022 4 hours ago, Dyslexic cnut said: Interesting stuff. I’ve been tasked by the board to inform you that @Roadkill passed away in agony early this morning, Pen. I know you held him in high regard and it’ll be a sad loss to the site, but a promise is a promise, sugar. I never really liked him .. could you die by proxy instead? 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miles Posted April 13, 2022 Report Share Posted April 13, 2022 4 hours ago, Dyslexic cnut said: Interesting stuff. I’ve been tasked by the board to inform you that @Roadkill passed away in agony early this morning, Pen. I know you held him in high regard and it’ll be a sad loss to the site, but a promise is a promise, sugar. I meant "two" bleeps rather than "tow" bleeps by the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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