Lots Of Jitter On BBC4: "The Singing Detective"
 

On Friday, February 24th, 2012, at 14:13:36h +0000, Stephen Wolstenholme observed:

My local council do an excellent job. They empty my bins.

Are you sure about that?

I thought the majority of councils contracted out the service to
their friends in the garbage collection business --
after all, where thar's muck, thar's brass.

Lots Of Jitter On BBC4: "The Singing Detective"
 

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On 23/02/2012 10:30 PM, Java Jive wrote:
Absolutely ruining my recording of this episode, what's going on?

Is anyone else seeing this?




had glitches during top of the pops on bbc 4 earlier on freesat - even
though signal was full strength.



Same here on BBC 4 Freesat, all the way through the Brian Cox program on
nuclear fusion, with signal at over 80 per cent.
it was
Is this a live broadcast situation, or just recordings, as has been
reported before?


On the programme in question, occasionally it had all the symptoms of flaky
reception, picture break up with loud pops on sound, although mostly it had
the effect of jumpiness, as if frames had been dropped.

Lots Of Jitter On BBC4: "The Singing Detective"
 

On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:44:43 +0000 (UTC), J G Miller
wrote:

On Friday, February 24th, 2012, at 14:13:36h +0000, Stephen Wolstenholme observed:

My local council do an excellent job. They empty my bins.

Are you sure about that?

I thought the majority of councils contracted out the service to
their friends in the garbage collection business --
after all, where thar's muck, thar's brass.

My bins are empted by Stockport Waste & Recycling. The only part
contracted out is bulky item collection.

Steve

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Lots Of Jitter On BBC4: "The Singing Detective"
 

J G Miller wrote:

I thought the majority of councils contracted out the service to
their friends in the garbage collection business --
after all, where thar's muck, thar's brass.

Is English your first language, JG?

Bill

Lots Of Jitter On BBC4: "The Singing Detective"
 

On Friday, February 24th, 2012, at 16:06:03h +0000, Bill Wright wrote:

J G Miller wrote:

I thought the majority of councils contracted out the service to
their friends in the garbage collection business --
after all, where thar's muck, thar's brass.

Is English your first language, JG?

Oh sorry, should it have been spelt "wheer" in local parlance,
and not "muck" but "mook" maybe?

More examples at

http://www.yorkshiredialectsociety.org.UK/all_dialect_writing.html

Lots Of Jitter On BBC4: "The Singing Detective"
 

J G Miller wrote:
On Friday, February 24th, 2012, at 16:06:03h +0000, Bill Wright wrote:

J G Miller wrote:

I thought the majority of councils contracted out the service to
their friends in the garbage collection business --
after all, where thar's muck, thar's brass.
Is English your first language, JG?

Oh sorry, should it have been spelt "wheer" in local parlance,
and not "muck" but "mook" maybe?

No, the bit I was commenting on was 'thar's'. As I'm sure you know the
Yorkshire accent and dialect varies enormously, but you'd never hear
'thar's'. Probably the phrase would be something like 'where thiz muck
thiz brass'. Certainly around here 'where' would be pronounced 'where',
but in a lot of places it would be 'weer'. Our accent/dielect here is
strongly influenced by the Notts accent, because of the influx of miners
from that area a hundred years ago.

Bill

Lots Of Jitter On BBC4: "The Singing Detective"
 

On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:07:03 +0000, Bill Wright wrote:

No, the bit I was commenting on was 'thar's'. As I'm sure you know the
Yorkshire accent and dialect varies enormously, but you'd never hear
'thar's'.

I confess I was probably making the almost unforgiveable faux pas
and mixing it up with the Lancashire accent, which would of course be
more appropriate for our Stockport correspondent.

QUOTE

As we say in Lancashire :
"Everthing/one's weird these days, 'cept me an' thee
and thar's a bit quair tha'sel'" .

UNQUOTE

Probably the phrase would be something like 'where thiz muck
thiz brass'.

Yes that does sound more appropriate for east of the Pennines.

Lots Of Jitter On BBC4: "The Singing Detective"
 

On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:58:56 -0000, "Rick" wrote:

"Ian" wrote in message
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On 23/02/2012 10:30 PM, Java Jive wrote:
Absolutely ruining my recording of this episode, what's going on?

Is anyone else seeing this?

had glitches during top of the pops on bbc 4 earlier on freesat - even
though signal was full strength.

Same here on BBC 4 Freesat, all the way through the Brian Cox program on
nuclear fusion, with signal at over 80 per cent.

Is this a live broadcast situation, or just recordings, as has been
reported before?

No. Basically every program all the way through the entire evening
yesterdaysuffered intermittently from glitching, meaning that the
whole of yesterday's output was barely watchable. I'm particularly
gutted, because I've been recording Dennis Potter's "The Singing
Detective", and last night's episode was ruined.

On the programme in question, occasionally it had all the symptoms of flaky
reception, picture break up with loud pops on sound, although mostly it had
the effect of jumpiness, as if frames had been dropped.

Yes.

As every program was affected, although I'm not really qualified to
say, I would guess there was a problem at the playout suite, or
whatever it's called. But, for chrissake, couldn't they, as back in
the 'good old days', have interrupted the first programme affected,
reputedly Top Of The Pops '77 at 1930hrs, apologise with a notice and
"In the meantime here is some music", and FIXED it. Ok, so TOTP77
would have been a write-off, but at least the rest of the evening's
output would have been saved.

And, BTW, WTF is TOTP77 doing on BBC4 anyway? I wouldn't have wanted
to watch it even back in '77, let alone now. Old Grey Whistle Test,
yes, TOTP, only under compulsion, which I would have relieved by
taking the p*ss out of it.
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On Feb 24, 8:52*pm, J G Miller wrote:

I confess I was probably making the almost unforgiveable faux pas
and mixing it up with the Lancashire accent, which would of course be
more appropriate for our Stockport correspondent.

Hmm, possibly never been to Stockport, have you?!

If you do an accent-holiday, don't forget Widnes for it's interesting
blend of Lancs. and Scouse!

Lots Of Jitter On BBC4: "The Singing Detective"
 

David Paste wrote:
On Feb 24, 8:52 pm, J G Miller wrote:

I confess I was probably making the almost unforgiveable faux pas
and mixing it up with the Lancashire accent, which would of course be
more appropriate for our Stockport correspondent.

Hmm, possibly never been to Stockport, have you?!

If you do an accent-holiday, don't forget Widnes for it's interesting
blend of Lancs. and Scouse!
Or the Isle of Man for its blend of Scouse and Irish. Or Whitby for its
blend of the Hull accent and the Middlesbrough one.

Bill