Mr_Smyth

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• Films

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 5 hours, 13 minutes

  

  About to give Caligula the ultimate cut a go.
  Well maybe not all in one sitting as it’s 3hrs long

  Edit: think I’ll bail on this one, something tells me it could do with editing down to below 2 hours and even then I’ll not recommend it.

• The Bird Thread

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 15 hours, 5 minutes

  

  They are huge and not easy to mistake but often in the woods you only get a second or 2 to before they are gone but as you know we do get kites and buzzards come and visit.
  I think I spotted a snipe last week but it was flying away and probably only visible for less than a second, has a fairly distinctive flight.
  I did used to shoot many years ago so have seen (and missed) a fair few along with their bigger brother the woodcock.
  Didn’t think they made it this far into town.

• Fashion

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 day, 1 hour

  

  “ Haven’t ventured outside yet”
  Not put the heating on either!?

• The Bird Thread

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 day, 4 hours

  

  The hobby would have left for sunnier climes so sparrowhawk or kestrel?
  The male peregrine is fair bit smaller than the female but they are usually flying over rather than in the woods unless eating.
  There are little and short eared owls sighted not far away but no idea if they are in Dulwich woods.

• Fashion

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 day, 15 hours

  

  I think that’s because the plans for the nighttime raid have been changed to daylight with no backup close fire support.

• LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)

  in Forums • 2 days, 1 hour

  

  Use an accountant, then the registered address is their business address.

• The Bird Thread

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 8 hours

  

  Probably less sqM of green here (SE19) wonder what’s behind the lack of certain birds?

• The Bird Thread

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 11 hours

  

  You must live somewhere with high density housing? Fake grass out back and 3 cars per house on the concrete front ‘garden’ ?

• Fashion

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 13 hours

  

  The only legitimate scenarios for indoor hat wearing are:
  Broken boiler situation
  A large covered space such as a train station
  Visiting a public toilet outside of the home.

  As for baseball? What’s that? Some American apology for sport?
  It’s certainly not cricket.

• Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 15 hours

  

  It will get you a nice monitor but it’s not going to get you anything accurate for grading or subtle colour work.
  Yes you can do the same work on a cheaper monitor but you are paying for knowing it’s accurate within the defined colourspace and being able to see the fine colour adjustments you make, the panels are more uniform plus the best monitors self adjust to keep close to desired settings.
  I use an Eizo CG, if on a budget then Asus and BenQ do some well regarded monitors that are not gaming monitors and selling themselves on refresh rate and contrast.