Good morning everyone 
Some sunshine here today, not as warm as yesterday.
I hope everyone has a good day 
Slim, some possible films on Talking Pictures tv channel over the coming week:
Monday 11.25 am "The Fan" AKA "Lady Windermere's Fan" (1949) American adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play directed by Otto Preminger. One of the lesser films adapted from Wilde though some people thought it was good.
Thursday 15.10 "Java Head" (1934) British film set in Bristol in the 1800s, The eldest son of the owner of a shipping company causes scandal after marrying a Chinese girl. The girl was played by Anna May Wong who was the first Chinese-American movie star. Also in the film are Ralph Richardson in one of his earliest films and Edmund Gwenn,
Velvet, you mentioned Ian McShane recently. He's in "High Tide" (1980) on Tuesday at 15.55. It's not a film but was part of ITV's Armchair Theatre series and was originally shown in 4 episodes.
Slim, you may want to make a note of the film Talking Pictures is showing on Thursday week (16th) at 15.10. It's Hitchcock's 1932 film "Number Seventeen".
@El Loro posted:Slim, some possible films on Talking Pictures tv channel over the coming week:
Monday 11.25 am "The Fan" AKA "Lady Windermere's Fan" (1949) American adaptation of Oscar Wilde's play directed by Otto Preminger. One of the lesser films adapted from Wilde though some people thought it was good.
Thursday 15.10 "Java Head" (1934) British film set in Bristol in the 1800s, The eldest son of the owner of a shipping company causes scandal after marrying a Chinese girl. The girl was played by Anna May Wong who was the first Chinese-American movie star. Also in the film are Ralph Richardson in one of his earliest films and Edmund Gwenn,Velvet, you mentioned Ian McShane recently. He's in "High Tide" (1980) on Tuesday at 15.55. It's not a film but was part of ITV's Armchair Theatre series and was originally shown in 4 episodes.
Slim, you may want to make a note of the film Talking Pictures is showing on Thursday week (16th) at 15.10. It's Hitchcock's 1932 film "Number Seventeen".
Thank you El 
I've not heard of that Hitchcock film before..
By the way, Slim, it's not known if Hitchcock did a cameo appearance in "Number Seventeen". Some think he might have been one of the passengers seen for a second in the bus in the chase sequence at the end.
Photo of the passengers in the bus on imdb can be viewed via this link to imdb:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0...viewer/rm3603687681/
possibly the man on the left sitting in front of the woman with a fur coat.
@El Loro posted:By the way, Slim, it's not known if Hitchcock did a cameo appearance in "Number Seventeen". Some think he might have been one of the passengers seen for a second in the bus in the chase sequence at the end.
Photo of the passengers in the bus on imdb can be viewed via this link to imdb:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0...viewer/rm3603687681/
possibly the man on the left sitting in front of the woman with a fur coat.
It's not really a good enough shot to know for sure is it El 
@slimfern posted:It's not really a good enough shot to know for sure is it El
No it's not. One could record the film and after watching it rewind to just before you see the passengers in the bus and then play the scene at the slowest rate possible in case you can get any better idea. I think the passengers are only seen for a matter of seconds. The picture quality would have to be reasonable good to have any chance.
It's far from certain that the man was Hitchcock.
@El Loro posted:No it's not. One could record the film and after watching it rewind to just before you see the passengers in the bus and then play the scene at the slowest rate possible in case you can get any better idea. I think the passengers are only seen for a matter of seconds. The picture quality would have to be reasonable good to have any chance.
It's far from certain that the man was Hitchcock.
Usually no matter how briefly Hitchcock appears, he's easily recognised...
night EL slim
@slimfern posted:Usually no matter how briefly Hitchcock appears, he's easily recognised...
Slim, I found this clip on Youtube showing Hitchcock's cameos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtGCWDhmYTs
It includes the one from "Number Seventeen" but it's not conclusive evidence that it was him even if you play the clip at 1/4 speed 
BBC article with clip of sounds from the Antarctic and Artic. The sound made by a crabeater seal sounds like a chainsaw so don't have the volume too high:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-64514258
@El Loro posted:Slim, I found this clip on Youtube showing Hitchcock's cameos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtGCWDhmYTs
It includes the one from "Number Seventeen" but it's not conclusive evidence that it was him even if you play the clip at 1/4 speed
So by the looks of it, Hitchcock was in front of the lady with the fur coat... 
@El Loro posted:BBC article with clip of sounds from the Antarctic and Artic. The sound made by a crabeater seal sounds like a chainsaw so don't have the volume too high:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-64514258
Crazy sounds...
What do you think the last sound is El?
Possibly wind blowing through crevices in the snow landscape....
@slimfern posted:So by the looks of it, Hitchcock was in front of the lady with the fur coat...
If indeed it was Hitchcock, that would be that man but it's never been confirmed
Hitchcock didn't make cameo appearances in his early films, and the public expectation that he would didn't start until he became well known in the 1930s.
Incidentally his first film would have been "Number 13" in 1922 which was never finished and what was filmed is lost. "Number Seventeen" had no similarity to that film.
The more important film of his which is lost is called "The Mountain Eagle" made in 1926. Although described as a romantic thriller, Hitchcock is on record for saying that he wasn't sorry that the film had been lost as it was awful
A short clip showing production stills of that film (including one showing Hitchcock):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDp3m7JjkyM
Another nasty road accident locally this afternoon:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-...cestershire-64544387
St Oswald's Road is part of the inner ring road. The accident seems to have happened near the ring road which leads off to shops such as Tesco and Lidl. The road is a very busy road. There are light controlled pedestrian crossings near that roundabout on both sides of that roundabout. At present there's no information as to how the accident happened.
@El Loro posted:If indeed it was Hitchcock, that would be that man but it's never been confirmed
Hitchcock didn't make cameo appearances in his early films, and the public expectation that he would didn't start until he became well known in the 1930s.
Incidentally his first film would have been "Number 13" in 1922 which was never finished and what was filmed is lost. "Number Seventeen" had no similarity to that film.
The more important film of his which is lost is called "The Mountain Eagle" made in 1926. Although described as a romantic thriller, Hitchcock is on record for saying that he wasn't sorry that the film had been lost as it was awful
A short clip showing production stills of that film (including one showing Hitchcock):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDp3m7JjkyM
They say honesty is the best policy
@El Loro posted:BBC article with clip of sounds from the Antarctic and Artic. The sound made by a crabeater seal sounds like a chainsaw so don't have the volume too high:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-64514258
wow those sounds are amazing EL
night EL slim
Update on that local accident yesterday afternoon. The two pedestrians were children, one taken to Birmingham Children's Hospital with serious injuries and the second to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital for treatment 
The van driver, a man in his 50s, has since been arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
@El Loro posted:Update on that local accident yesterday afternoon. The two pedestrians were children, one taken to Birmingham Children's Hospital with serious injuries and the second to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital for treatment
The van driver, a man in his 50s, has since been arrested on suspicion of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
Poor wee fellas ...hope they're alright
Some drivers really shouldn't be allowed on the roads 
@slimfern posted:Poor wee fellas ...hope they're alright
Some drivers really shouldn't be allowed on the roads
I hope they'll be OK too 
It's too soon to say if that drive was at fault as the police investigations are continuing - they've asked for dashcams from any other drivers who saw what happened. The man was arrested but I'm not aware that he's been charged.
I agree that some drivers shouldn't be allowed on the roads
I generally keep a check on client's tax accounts at this time of year. I've had to get in touch with a client as her tax account is showing the January tax bill as unpaid, She generally pays her tax before the deadline dates. She told me that she asked her husband to pay out of his bank account which he did.
He's also on the self-assessment tax return system so I thought I would check his tax account and find that the payment has been credited to his account.
The husband has made the mistake of using his own tax reference number when making the online payment out of his bank account rather than her reference.
They'll have to sort that out themselves, I think they will find that she will have to pay the tax again plus interest and that he will have to get his repaid to him with no interest.
I don't think HMRC can just transfer the payment from one person to another.
Afternoon troops
Hope all are hunky dory. Some terrible news about at the minute
High Tide at 3.55 Talking Pictures is a decent 1980 period film
Take it easy ye all
Edit: just see that you've mentioned it above El 
@El Loro posted:I generally keep a check on client's tax accounts at this time of year. I've had to get in touch with a client as her tax account is showing the January tax bill as unpaid, She generally pays her tax before the deadline dates. She told me that she asked her husband to pay out of his bank account which he did.
He's also on the self-assessment tax return system so I thought I would check his tax account and find that the payment has been credited to his account.
The husband has made the mistake of using his own tax reference number when making the online payment out of his bank account rather than her reference.
They'll have to sort that out themselves, I think they will find that she will have to pay the tax again plus interest and that he will have to get his repaid to him with no interest.
I don't think HMRC can just transfer the payment from one person to another.
Seems a little unfair to me, if it's a genuine mistake.
@velvet donkey posted:Afternoon troops
Hope all are hunky dory. Some terrible news about at the minute
High Tide at 3.55 Talking Pictures is a decent 1980 period film
Take it easy ye all
Edit: just see that you've mentioned it above El
All's well here, Velvet just dealing with some complicated client matters
I though you would have been interested in "High Tide" if you hadn't seen it before 
Re disasters, years ago I heard on the news about a small plane having crashed somewhere in India. I went to work as normal, Had a meeting with the senior partner in the morning. I and he had started talking when he got a phone call. His brother had been killed in that crash Meeting ended immediately and he flew off to India.
night EL slim Velvet
Quantum breakthrough could revolutionise computing:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-64492456
@El Loro posted:Quantum breakthrough could revolutionise computing:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-64492456
Quantum particles can also be millions of miles apart and be strangely connected...
Words like that concern me in sentences like that, especially when the word Atomic is also in context...sub or otherwise.
I couldn't even begin to understand it all
@slimfern posted:Quantum particles can also be millions of miles apart and be strangely connected...
Words like that concern me in sentences like that, especially when the word Atomic is also in context...sub or otherwise.
I couldn't even begin to understand it all
I don't claim to understand that article either
You may have heard of atoms being made up out of protons, neutrons and electrons. The idea is that those are made up out of even smaller things, one of which is called a quark. The concept is that there are different types of quark made up from 6 different 'flavors' which are called 'up', 'down', ;strange', 'charm', ;bottom' and 'top'. I've guessing that's why there's a reference to strangely,
The word 'quark' was taken from James Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake".
@El Loro posted:I don't claim to understand that article either
You may have heard of atoms being made up out of protons, neutrons and electrons. The idea is that those are made up out of even smaller things, one of which is called a quark. The concept is that there are different types of quark made up from 6 different 'flavors' which are called 'up', 'down', ;strange', 'charm', ;bottom' and 'top'. I've guessing that's why there's a reference to strangely,
The word 'quark' was taken from James Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake".
Well I'm glad it's not just me El
Yes I remember studying those things at school, many many moons ago.
Don't think I really understood them then either
I was more the biology side than the physics side of our intergrated science lessons
@slimfern posted:Well I'm glad it's not just me El
Yes I remember studying those things at school, many many moons ago.
Don't think I really understood them then either
I was more the biology side than the physics side of our intergrated science lessons
In my school biology, chemistry and physics were taught separately. I had a chemistry set at home and I could buy chemicals and apparatus from school. I tended to experiment/mess about with them at home. There was the time where I put various chemicals in a test tube and suddenly they started reacting and the test tube was heating up as a result. So I picked it up and dashed downstairs into the back garden and put it down on the ground. My parents must have wondered what I was doing Some time later I retrieved the test tube and scraped out the contents with a pen knife (one that my grand father had given me).
After that I noticed something about that pen knife. I still have it and even now, after many years, the blade is very slightly magnetic, capable of picking up say a staple. I would have had iron filings and sodium bicarbonate in the test tube and other chemicals.
That wasn't as dramatic as what happened one afternoon at school. There was an alarm and the entire school evacuated to the school yard. The chemistry labs were on the top floor. There had been a class in progress for the sixth form when there was some sort of accident which lead to the evacuation. We were told that there had been an escape of radioactive gas which I assume was radon. We were allowed back inside after a short time so it can't have been too serious. Radon occurs naturally and would have dispersed quickly from the classroom with all the windows open. I think the top floor may have been cordoned off for a time, I rarely went up there.
Anyone who has any interest in history, particularly relating to Mary, Queen of Scots will be interested in this major news:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-64568222
@El Loro posted:In my school biology, chemistry and physics were taught separately. I had a chemistry set at home and I could buy chemicals and apparatus from school. I tended to experiment/mess about with them at home. There was the time where I put various chemicals in a test tube and suddenly they started reacting and the test tube was heating up as a result. So I picked it up and dashed downstairs into the back garden and put it down on the ground. My parents must have wondered what I was doing
After that I noticed something about that pen knife. I still have it and even now, after many years, the blade is very slightly magnetic, capable of picking up say a staple. I would have had iron filings and sodium bicarbonate in the test tube and other chemicals.That wasn't as dramatic as what happened one afternoon at school. There was an alarm and the entire school evacuated to the school yard. The chemistry labs were on the top floor. There had been a class in progress for the sixth form when there was some sort of accident which lead to the evacuation. We were told that there had been an escape of radioactive gas which I assume was radon. We were allowed back inside after a short time so it can't have been too serious. Radon occurs naturally and would have dispersed quickly from the classroom with all the windows open. I think the top floor may have been cordoned off for a time, I rarely went up there.
My brother had a chemistry set at home too EL ....all I really remember of it were some rather nasty smells 
You were lucky not to have suffered an injury...mind you I'm not sure how dangerous they would allow home chemistry sets to be...especially nowadays in our over protective society
I suspect when you were a boy though, they weren't so careful 
All our classrooms were on the groundfloor..they were nissen huts, as the school used to be an army hospital.
Thankfully our sleeping quarters were new build, as was the gym hall and pool house 
@slimfern posted:My brother had a chemistry set at home too EL ....all I really remember of it were some rather nasty smells
You were lucky not to have suffered an injury...mind you I'm not sure how dangerous they would allow home chemistry sets to be...especially nowadays in our over protective society
I suspect when you were a boy though, they weren't so careful
All our classrooms were on the groundfloor..they were nissen huts, as the school used to be an army hospital.
Thankfully our sleeping quarters were new build, as was the gym hall and pool house
No, there wasn't the level of health and safety rules as there is now
I remember you saying that about your school