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Questions and Answers - Part 3

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STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

23:01 / 11.01.09

Too DEEP for you?

20:12 / 13.01.09

Okay, so I'm looking at doing a little DJing. I was intending to burn a load of mixes for obvious reasons. Unfortunately, when I put everything on my computer I was only thinking in terms of listening to it myself. So, my question is: is anyone likely to particularly notice if a lot of the songs I played were burned from 192Kbps mp3 files, or is that good enough that it's pretty much indistinguishable to the human ear even at club volumes?

trouble at bill

12:11 / 19.01.09

Can someone tell me exactly what the phrase "shit the bed!", said in roughly the same way as one might say, "back of the net!" means, and why, and so on? My friend and I are finding it utterly perplexing. Like, people seem to say it like it's a good thing. (Oh and it's not said as an interrogative when someone gets to work early, before anyone suggests that, we know of that useage, but this is different, it seems.)

12:53 / 19.01.09

Don't quite get the current usage, but Charles de Gaulle and the Paris student protesters traded "chie-en-lit" as a punning insult back in May 68.

trouble at bill

13:06 / 19.01.09

Cheers, but I'm afraid I need that pun explaining! (I would Google it but I fear all scat stuff would come up and I'm at work!)

13:09 / 19.01.09

Just Google it - it's perfectly legitimate political research!
Maybe don't do an image search

trouble at bill

14:09 / 19.01.09

it's perfectly legitimate political research!

That's what Pete Townsend said!

15:43 / 19.01.09

Can someone tell me exactly what the phrase "shit the bed!", said in roughly the same way as one might say, "back of the net!" means, and why, and so on?

I only know that this can´t be recent. Mozart used this phrase in his letters, and he got inspired by his mother´s letters.

trouble at bill

19:06 / 19.01.09

Are you saying that Frau Mozart, mother of Wolfgang Amadeus, one of Europe's greatest classical composers, used to write her child letters in which she exclaimed, "shisse der bett!" or whatever the correct wording would have been then?!

19:18 / 19.01.09

Yes, she did. She wrote to her husband and daughter on 26. September 1777:

"Ich winsch ein guete nacht,
scheiss ins beth das kracht,"

Translation:
"I wish a Good Night
shit the bed that it crashes/breaks."

21:34 / 19.01.09

I had heard that Frau Mozart used the term when complaining that her then boyfriend, Herr Spudhaupt, a notorious "Dragon Chaser" had "scheiss ins beth" when he had finally been shown her sleeping chamber after a crazy night at the brauhaus.

21:34 / 19.01.09

That was poor, but I couldn't resist.

20:46 / 06.02.09

Wow, so it's been a while - I've not read or posted here for ages, but I'm not really sure where else to get the info I need...

I have just finished employment at a company I strongly dislike. I have a job that I am due to start on Monday for a company I very much like.

I did a potentially foolish thing: I wrote a mean email slagging off the company practice, the way it treats and underpays its staff etc etc. It was a long rant. I swore a lot. I did mention two (very awful) people by name, but did not say anything that is not a fact. It was also rather well written and funny. I sent it to everyone working in the UK for this company who has an email address(around 400 people).

However, my ex-employer did not see the funny side. I have been informed that they intend to send this email to my new manager.

Now, I'm proud of what I said. I can substantiate all my claims etc etc. But I'll admit that it probably wasn't the most professional of things to do. If my new employer reads this, I suspect that not much will come of it, but I do not know them well enough to be sure of this.

So freaking out a little, but a friend said to me - 'It's illegal for previous employers to send negative information to new employers' They reeled off the common view that it s illegal to give a bad reference. (this is in the UK, by the way).

SO I've done a little bit of research, and all I can find is information saying that it is NOT illegal to give a bad reference...

SO does enyone know what the standing would be in my situation? Do I have any legal power to stop my old employer sending this email to my new one?

And yes, I know I'm a fool.

01:17 / 07.02.09

So long as they're telling the truth, I can't imagine the law is going to prohibit this sort of thing. On the positive side, their current behavior is just as unprofessional as yours was, and they should probably be held to higher standards than you. Any reasonable management will see through this sort of silliness and disregard. Best of luck.

03:41 / 07.02.09

you could send it to your new supervisor first, explaining the situation and the fact that you have the gumption to be frank and that you will bring this trait with you to a job with people who will be great to work with and to a company that you understand to treat its employees like real, decent people... or something to that effect.

good on you! (i did something similar when i left a gov't dept - i wrote to the deputy secretary and told them, nicely, what i thought of the culture of the dept. didn't affect me and they took it quite well. i rekkun if you past employees are so naff, they deserve it - i hope the new ones are more understanding and accommodating - good luck!

11:05 / 08.02.09

Cheers for the advice.

As I'll be starting at the time my new boss gets in, there's not much point in trying to 'pre-warn' her. I half suspect the email won't get sent and if it does, it should make for an interesting icebreaker...

jentacular dreams

16:39 / 09.02.09

Pingle!Pop
Okay, so I'm looking at doing a little DJing. I was intending to burn a load of mixes for obvious reasons. Unfortunately, when I put everything on my computer I was only thinking in terms of listening to it myself. So, my question is: is anyone likely to particularly notice if a lot of the songs I played were burned from 192Kbps mp3 files, or is that good enough that it's pretty much indistinguishable to the human ear even at club volumes?

I think it may depend on the quality of the PA system in place and the sobriety of the audience, but when I was DJing 160kbps was my acceptable lower limit for tracks (usually because finding anything >192 kbps on audiogalaxy/soulseek was pretty challenging). That was just on a slightly shasty university union system though, so if you've got the option of burning higher quality I'd say go for it.

23:32 / 09.02.09

Thank you! I'll try not to worry too much; at the moment it is just a uni PA, though my ideal is to get any decent quality rips (I'm assuming v0 or 320kbps will always be beyond human perception, as I'm not going to start downloading vast quantities of FLAC) I can before I burn a hundred or so CDs, with the intention of DJing, well, anywhere that'll have me within reason. I've thankfully discovered What.CD and Waffles.fm at just the right time, so whilst it's a bit galling to download stuff that I ripped from CDs in the first place, it's nice to have the option for most things.

I'm childishly excited about the whole prospect. I've wanted to DJ for years but never known where to start.

Whisky Priestess

10:33 / 25.02.09

Sorry about this, but I have just spent about half an hour searching for a thread I remember with luminous clarity, except for the name and any of the obvious keywords. If someone can find it I will love them forever, with sweets.

It was a thread possibly started by Sax or grant or someone, which asked for movie pitches based on a single word (one example was Blue ... then someone did Black, and Green) etc. They mostly came in threes and there were some amazing ideas in there and I want to nick some.

There was one pitch about cricket too - possibly called Out, or Break. Um.

Sorry. Help?

Whisky Priestess

10:35 / 25.02.09

I think it was in Creation, or else Film, TV and Theatre, if that helps.

10:39 / 25.02.09

That was one of mine, on a former iteration of the board. The original posts, and a few follow-ups, are preserved here.

Whisky Priestess

12:30 / 25.02.09

Top chap. Cheers!

14:27 / 02.03.09

You can definitely tell the difference between a 320 and a 192 if you listen to both. The trick is to match sound quality; most people will not notice without a comparison track. Don't go from high quality to low a lot and nobody will even know.

But aye. My rule is 256+ or it doesn't get used.

19:03 / 04.03.09

What's the string sample used on Wu-Tang's 'Reunited'?

17:29 / 05.03.09

Wow. Sorry. That was a little rude of me. Was a tad drunk and awed by the track at the time.

The question does remain though...

11:19 / 11.03.09

Thank'ee. I can't really set the bar higher than 192 without losing too much of my music collection, but I have managed to re-download most things in V0/320.

And the first nite went awesomely. I got an ovation. Yay.

12:54 / 11.03.09

It is a curse, hey. The curse, even. If it helps you feel better about low bitrates, i have been at events where folk use audio from youtube...
Just go after high rate form now on, and make sure your ripper(itunes or whatever) is set to rip at a decent quality. There's no point in having a CD and ending up with 192 if you can help it.

Glad to hear your show went well. You up for getting together a mix and putting it up online? I'm sure some of us would be into hearing it.

13:26 / 11.03.09

Yeah, I only rip to V0 now, but I don't have immediate access to most of the CDs I originally ripped. Youtube audio? Nice.

A mix? Of things I played? I did the amateur DJ thing of planning the whole set in advance, so I do have a list that's more or less accurate up to the point near the end of the nite when I realised that I'd better just keep playing things like the Ting Tings to keep people on the floor. I could upload it, though it'd just be a bundle of songs? Or there's a copy of the more-or-less-playlist on Facebook, but to link to it here would be anonymity-jeopardising, so if you want it I can PM it, and then if it looks like something you'd like uploading I can do that.

14:08 / 11.03.09

I was thinking you could leave something like audacity running and just record a set... I think doing it live makes things interesting sometimes.

I'd definitely be interested in having a look at your tracklist, though. tell you what, PM me that, and I'll swap you for a link to my radio show.

16:21 / 11.03.09

PMed.

Whisky Priestess

10:27 / 12.03.09

So I have found a massive amazing room in Bethnal Green to be the new home for me and my stuff - however, the letting agency insists on giving me an obligatory credit check for the princely sum of £123, which seems bloody steep.

My questions are:
Should a credit check cost this much?
Can I get my credit checked any cheaper?
Can't I just show them bank statements or something?

12:10 / 12.03.09

Why would YOU have to pay for THEM to run a credit check? Is that how things are typically done in the UK?

It sounds fishy to me; I would investigate further.

Whisky Priestess

14:51 / 12.03.09

I dunno. I really don't feel like forking out over a hundred quid for them to tell me that I've good for the rent.

Anyone else (UK based) have experience of this sort of thing?

01:41 / 15.03.09

as far as i know in australia, a credit check never costs the subject of the inquiry, and it isn't them wants the information, so this seems entirely bodgy if that's the way the uk allow such practices to occur. surely a relevant gov't agency could be called to check - consumer affairs?

g'luck with the new digs!

19:20 / 18.03.09

Can anyone recommend me a blog site where I get to have copyright and the intellectual property remains mine?

Google can fuck off.

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