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Post edited by Hmmm... on 29/12/2018 at 18:19.
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Post edited by Hmmm... on 29/12/2018 at 18:19.
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Garin wrote:
Dragonlance wrote:
[i]but then I took up climbing! ....
Just out of curiousity, ever join a club?[/i]
If you mean a 'climbing' club, yes, but some years after starting. Joined mainly for the extra opportunities it gave for climbing ie more often and with people of a similar standard. Infact, ended up teaching at the Club - happy days and evenings :¬)
Dragonlance wrote:
[i]but then I took up climbing! ....
Just out of curiousity, ever join a club?[/i]
If you mean a 'climbing' club, yes, but some years after starting. Joined mainly for the extra opportunities it gave for climbing ie more often and with people of a similar standard. Infact, ended up teaching at the Club - happy days and evenings :¬)
I've always been anti-bike, mainly due to my uncle being killed riding one (was hit by some joyriders going the wrong way around a roundabout) but I lost another friend years ago when he was hit by a car. I just think there are too many dangerous drivers around now and if you get hit while on a bike, you're not going to come away unscathed.
Many of the motorbike riders I see on the roads are fine, but the boy racer types seem to have a death wish. It's different on the roads to driving in something like the IOM TT though, where you're less likely to kill other people.
Dragonlance wrote:
but then I took up climbing! ....
Just out of curiousity, ever join a club?
but then I took up climbing! ....
Just out of curiousity, ever join a club?
Welcome to Ravenholm ... pete :¬D
Totally agree ... everyone knows the risks and to a certain extent, that is why they are there.
I rode for 11 years, had two major accidents (caused by 'careless car drivers') but numerous 'errors' caused by the sheer exhilaration of motorcycle riding ... how many fields have I investigated in depth, how many corners have I mis-judged or 'country-crossroads' missed....doesn't bear thinking about, but then I took up climbing! .... Totally agree pete :¬)
Totally agree ... everyone knows the risks and to a certain extent, that is why they are there.
I rode for 11 years, had two major accidents (caused by 'careless car drivers') but numerous 'errors' caused by the sheer exhilaration of motorcycle riding ... how many fields have I investigated in depth, how many corners have I mis-judged or 'country-crossroads' missed....doesn't bear thinking about, but then I took up climbing! .... Totally agree pete :¬)
Looks like it's been busy in here on here today then?.............
2 guys have been killed in sidecar practice at the TT,not a good start to the event.Read somewhere that 60 odd people are supposed to be traveling to the IOM tomorrow to demand that the racing is stopped.Don't know how true it is but can see them all ending up in Douglas harbour if they upset the wrong people.It's very sad news but the TT is and has always been a very dangerous event,everybody knows that but these guys do it out of choice.Don't really see why someone should have the right to say what these people can and can't do,they are all fully aware of the risks that they are taking.
2 guys have been killed in sidecar practice at the TT,not a good start to the event.Read somewhere that 60 odd people are supposed to be traveling to the IOM tomorrow to demand that the racing is stopped.Don't know how true it is but can see them all ending up in Douglas harbour if they upset the wrong people.It's very sad news but the TT is and has always been a very dangerous event,everybody knows that but these guys do it out of choice.Don't really see why someone should have the right to say what these people can and can't do,they are all fully aware of the risks that they are taking.
Is that an echo?
Seems like everyone has been too busy to come on here in the last few days, including the staff.
We all need a break!
Seems like everyone has been too busy to come on here in the last few days, including the staff.
We all need a break!
Welcome to Ravenholm :¬)
Our forums are moderated daily....;¬)
Our forums are moderated daily....;¬)
pete_21 wrote:
Yeah I agree Butch,I'm totally underwhelmed by the 3D thing myself.Saw Avatar in the cinema and even that didn't do anything for me TBH.Regarding TT3D,I just thought the 3D footage of the on board action would be something that the format might have worked with,but it really didn't.The film (great as it is) would have been just as good in 2D IMO.The very fact I mentioned it as the one (and only) negative point of the film says everything really doesn't it? Apparently sales of 3D Blu Ray's have been extremely poor so far,if that continues the format will surely go the same way as HD DVD.
3D Bluray is being sold with 2D in more and more instances now, but then there still aren't a lot of 3D TVs with 3D capable Bluray players, so it's early days yet. People thought Bluray was dying on its feet in the early days, but it's really doing well now. It just takes time with a new format where there isn't such a big leap in the physical media changing.
That said, many film-makers seem to have shoehorned 3D in instead of using it as a tool for telling the story or enhancing the visuals.
First 50" non-glasses 3D TVs are in production though, which may make a big difference to those hung up on the glasses aspect.
Yeah I agree Butch,I'm totally underwhelmed by the 3D thing myself.Saw Avatar in the cinema and even that didn't do anything for me TBH.Regarding TT3D,I just thought the 3D footage of the on board action would be something that the format might have worked with,but it really didn't.The film (great as it is) would have been just as good in 2D IMO.The very fact I mentioned it as the one (and only) negative point of the film says everything really doesn't it? Apparently sales of 3D Blu Ray's have been extremely poor so far,if that continues the format will surely go the same way as HD DVD.
3D Bluray is being sold with 2D in more and more instances now, but then there still aren't a lot of 3D TVs with 3D capable Bluray players, so it's early days yet. People thought Bluray was dying on its feet in the early days, but it's really doing well now. It just takes time with a new format where there isn't such a big leap in the physical media changing.
That said, many film-makers seem to have shoehorned 3D in instead of using it as a tool for telling the story or enhancing the visuals.
First 50" non-glasses 3D TVs are in production though, which may make a big difference to those hung up on the glasses aspect.
Yeah I agree Butch,I'm totally underwhelmed by the 3D thing myself.Saw Avatar in the cinema and even that didn't do anything for me TBH.Regarding TT3D,I just thought the 3D footage of the on board action would be something that the format might have worked with,but it really didn't.The film (great as it is) would have been just as good in 2D IMO.The very fact I mentioned it as the one (and only) negative point of the film says everything really doesn't it? Apparently sales of 3D Blu Ray's have been extremely poor so far,if that continues the format will surely go the same way as HD DVD.
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