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Questions and Answers - Part 3

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Mistoffelees

05:32 / 08.05.06

Thanks for the offer, Rothkoid.

Now that I see, it´s the same everywhere I´m not surprised. Some of the names sound so ridiculous. And some even make sense. Hungrig for example is german for hungry. And there were some funny ones, too, like the bed gutvik which sounds like gut fick.

I researched, and sofas, armchairs and couches get swedish town names, bathroom articles swedish river and lake names, and kitchen articles swedish verbs (krossa = to grind).

The ikea catalogue has the largest print run after the bible and Harry Potter.

Saveloy

11:44 / 08.05.06

A question about mould and damp:

How would one go about finding out if part of the damp course of a house is knacked? Are there any tell-tale signs, or is it something you need to get a professional in for?

A friend has discovered a patch of midewy mould in a corner of his bedroom (it was hidden behind a bookcase) and he's wondering if it's just a matter of poor air circulation or if the damp is coming from outside (it's an external wall).

Lama glama

14:19 / 08.05.06

This could go in Radio or Film and TV, but I'll chuck it in here for a more conversational reply.

Does anybody know what the Big Finish Audio people are like to deal with. I've been toying with the idea of sending a radio play script their way, but I'm not sure what they're like with unsolicited submissions. Anyone here dealt with them, or a similar company?

Lama glama

14:39 / 08.05.06

Ah. Just answered my own question..by, y'know..actually looking at their FAQ. It's a no-no.

How's a radio play featuring an alien train in 19th Century France meant to get a break!?

Saveloy

09:53 / 09.05.06

Super 8 film onto DVD

I've found a bunch of old super 8 films and would like to have them put onto DVD. Can anyone recommend a place in the UK that does this? All the places I've googled so far are in the US or Australia.

Loomis

13:23 / 09.05.06

What's the general opinion on the furture of CDs and DVDs? I occasionally hear talk about them being superseded soon as the dominant form. In ten years' time will we all be stuck with mountains of useless shiny discs and have to buy everything again?

Mistoffelees

13:53 / 09.05.06

It´s the choice of the consumer. If ze accepts the new formats and starts buying new hardware and all their movies and albums again.

I don´t see any reason for a new kind of CD, since the quality right now is good, and most people don´t care anyway (=if we convert our CD music to mp3s, so we can play them on ipods and such, we lose lots of quality).

But I see the necessity for a new DVD format. Lots of movies are sold on two DVDs, because the amount of data doesn´t fit on one disk. That doesn´t mean, I´ll buy all my movies again. In a couple of years, I´ll have a DVD player plus the new whatever format player, and will buy new movies in the new format.

Whisky Priestess

14:45 / 09.05.06

I have an essay due very, very soon (end of this week).

Has anyone ever
a) worked in publishing or as a buyer in e.g. W. H. Smith's or Waterstone's?
b) published a book themselves (i.e. sorted out the editing, publishing, distribution etc.)

and would you be willing for me to ask you a few questions via PM?

Help!

paranoidwriter waves hello

20:54 / 09.05.06

OK, I'm watching 'Lost' on UK terrestial TV; I think I love and hate this show in equal measure (I want some answers, dammit!). However, can someone from the US tell me whether Season 2 is the final season? I mean, how long is this series supposed run? I've looked on the wiki but there's no indication of a third season, or indeed whether the series ends at the end of this season. I just want to brace myself for a potential (I dunno) Ten Season series. Please feel free to PM me if the answer (I can't imagine how) would ruin it for everyone else.

paranoidwriter waves hello

20:57 / 09.05.06

P.S. I'm avoiding the threads in Film, TV & Theatre for Spoiler reasons.

ONLY NICE THINGS

21:01 / 09.05.06

Apparently, the cast have signed five-season contracts, although that could just be a cunning trick.

paranoidwriter waves hello

21:07 / 09.05.06

I wouldn't put it past them. Tricks aplenty in this show. (e.g. I'm doing my best not to get into the Hanso Foundation stuff...)

Cheers, Haus. I suppose Im just going to have to patient (the swines!).

P. Horus Rhacoid

21:49 / 10.05.06

Okay, I seem to have turned on some bizarre forward-delete feature of Microsoft Word. Every time I try to add textto the middle of something that's already been written, the letter in front of the cursor gets deleted with each new letter I type. As happens at least 50% of the time that I use word on a PC, I have accidentally turned something on which makes me want to put my fist through the computer screen. How the fuck do I turn this off?

I fucking hate Word, it's like the developers wanted to put in as many Special Features as humanly possible without taking into account that 99% of them cause more irritation than they could possibly be worth.

GAAAAH!

Olulabelle

22:04 / 10.05.06

Press insert. It's horrid and very weird but all it is is that you accidentally pressed insert.

At least that's what it was when it happened on my machine.

Shrug

22:16 / 10.05.06

Ahhhhhh, that's terrible FWP. But, I think, all you need to do is press (double click) the OVR button along the bottom of your Word Screen (it lies at about the centre). I don't know what activates it but it can be quite annoying if you haven't been looking at the screen for a while.

P. Horus Rhacoid

22:21 / 10.05.06

Aha! Insert it was, thanks a bunch. God, this program is dumb.

Spatula Clarke

22:38 / 10.05.06

This is really stupid. Super stupid, in fact, given that I just got a new job three weeks ago and am now finance bod for a community centre type thing, and am definitely going to be presumed to know this sort of thing instinctively. Never let it be said that I'm afraid of looking like a prat.

So...

Do cheque books have a use by date? Is just that the cheque book that I've got here is five years old - I never use cheques personally, ever, but I suddenly find that I need to pay for something with one. And I don't know if these are still going to be valid or if the entire book'll have been cancelled by the bank because of lack of use, or date of issue, or something. Or not. I'm edging towards not, but I want to make sure before I make a total pillock of myself. Again.

Yours, hoping that nobody from work ever trips over this.

ibis the being

22:44 / 10.05.06

HAAA HAAAAAA!

No, they don't expire.
Well, not here (US) I guess I should say.

Jack Fear

23:18 / 10.05.06

That being said, if your account has been inactive for quite a while and suddenly you start using a lot of cheques, you might get a phone call from the bank verifying that this is in fact you. It's a nuisance, but it's probably a good thing on balance, as it helps prevent identity theft.

Olulabelle

18:52 / 11.05.06

And they do get a bit shirty if you lose a chequebook, start using a new one and then go back to using the old one if you find it. I think they do actually cancel the lost book, you see.

Spatula Clarke

23:03 / 11.05.06

Cheers guys. Big help. Job is secure for the short-term, at least.

Saveloy

10:39 / 19.05.06

HAMSTERS!

My son is after one. What are the best, er, type? Russian hamsters look the cutest, but I've heard they can be bitey. Is that true?

Jub

10:57 / 19.05.06

I had a Russian hamster, and although cute, I much prefered the Syrian kind. They are bigger and perkier. Maybe it was just mine but he seemed a lot more circumspect and curious, than the Russian, who just darted about looking worried.

Triplets

11:09 / 19.05.06

Syriana

All the way.

Whisky Priestess

11:54 / 19.05.06

Russian hamsters are cute as buttons and deadly as vipers. When they bite you (i.e. most of the time) you can swing your hand around with them dangling off your fingers and they don't let go.

Despite their gorgeously soft fur and wittle twitchy noses and big Bambi eyes, they are the Rottweilers of the rodent world, and I do not suggest getting one for your son unless you like to see small boys cry. And bleed.

Saveloy

12:13 / 19.05.06

Heh heh! Thank you, everyone. Dang, I've just seen Chinese hamsters - even cuter than the Russians! Any thoughts on them?

pear

13:23 / 19.05.06

I had a pair of Russian hamsters (Pinky and the Brain - ahoho) and second the vicious comment.

They're much harder to handle than other types, and do bite a fair bit more in my experience.

One day I came downstairs on the way to school to find them both dead. Well, I said i found them both, but it was more like one and a third. There had been some scrap or incident, one had died, and the other spent what must have been most of the night eating the other. This seems to have given it terminal indegestion, and he was curled up and lifeless. (Serves you right you cannibalistic little git)

If you can spare a bit more room, I'd recommend a rat. Intelligent, affectionate and very cool pets.

Saveloy

13:59 / 19.05.06

Thanks for the further warning, pear. That's Russian hamsters crossed right off my list.

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20:17 / 20.05.06

Anyone have a link to the dream thread in here?

Mistoffelees

20:26 / 20.05.06

Here´s the dream thread.

petunia

12:33 / 21.05.06

I need the name of a cartoon.

I remember there was a cartoon that used to be shown on bbc2 (i think) inbetween programmes. It was only ever about 5 minutes long and involved a spy lady going around doing spy things. She'd always be about to succeed in her mission and then she'd die.

I remember once, she'd jumped out of a helicopter attatched to a rope so she could do some nifty abseiling thing, but the rope got wound up round her neck and killed her. I think another involved her doing some recon with her binoculars and in the last second looked round to see a sniper pointed right at her. Another involved her running away from a crazy alien creature thing and doing mad acrobatics to get past all the weird laserbeams and stuff in her way. She died in the end tho.

It was shown about ten or more years ago. It was weird animation. i can't remember much more about it, but would like to see it again.

Anybody have any ideas?

Spatula Clarke

12:49 / 21.05.06

Most likely Aeon Flux. Thread about it here.

petunia

17:36 / 21.05.06

That's the one!
Thanks!

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18:04 / 21.05.06

Thanks Mistoffelees, I'm not sure that I want to post my dream now, (kind of daft, really.) but will remember that the link is in here incase I have any others that I feel like posting about.

Also : is it just me or is there no Da Vinci Code thread in the film forum?

Jack Vincennes

20:16 / 21.05.06

It seems there is not! Do start one.

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