Ryan Shirlow

Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:44 UTC

I have always had a good experience at Richer Sounds…

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:24 UTC

Anyway, any tips on what TV my inlaws should buy? They want 65”, no more than £800, probably decent volume cause they’re half deaf - there’s loads of stuff on Currys, LG? Samsung? Anybody who knows what the best deal is? You can come back to me for advice when you’re buying your next mandolin!

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:14 UTC

There was a leopard and it looked like they’d gone mad with the “emboss” effect in Corel Photopaint like every album sleeve that one week in 1995.

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:22 UTC

Yeah I watched a big Hollywood movie once on a screen that was stuck in a mode that made it all look like a behind the scenes documentary shot for local TV, very odd.

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:17 UTC

those gritty BBC dramas hit different when everyone looks like they’re made of fabric and their heads are pulsing with light and the policeman looks like a flat piece of card about half an inch infront of the screen is this how you all cope with so much shite on the box? tripping on the visual FX?

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:14 UTC

There was a leopard and it looked like they’d gone mad with the “emboss” effect in Corel Photopaint like every album sleeve that one week in 1995.

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:10 UTC

I’m coeliac so I’ve been told to avoid May Contain. Sometimes if I get an assurance from the manufacturer there are controls in place and it’s just a legal / testing thing I feel confident taking a controlled risk, but here there’s no further information :(

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:07 UTC

I went to Currys and all the cheap TVs looked amazing, and the really expensive ones sort of looked odd and unnatural, like if there was black it looked like actual oil pooling across the screen and everyone’s eyes were glowing

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:05 UTC

haha if you gave an Ulsterman a drink with a straw in it, he might take the straw out and slap you vigorously before drinking it ;)

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:04 UTC

extraordinary!

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 21:03 UTC

Haha sadly that is the worst of it for me, I could risk a little milk but no, absolutely no gluten! Hence my frustration…

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:49 UTC

Why don’t you try no wheat, no oats, nada strict for like two weeks and then come back here and tell me how dodgy your guts are. Seeds, nuts, fruit all good. Everyone is different, but it’s really working for me.

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:47 UTC

No, because annoying it still contains cow’s milk and wheat gluten - see the second picture! Very frustrating.

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:13 UTC

Used to love Montezumas from Brighton, their chocolate buttons were superb.

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:12 UTC

Just makes me really ill to have more than one or two bites, cause of the high milk content, and I don’t much like dark. I do love Bouja Bouja but at those prices (£6 for 8 tiny truffles) I don’t indulge often. There are some soya and nut things coated in a fake chocolate I can tolerate.

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:09 UTC

Ah yes old school veggies, apparently they call them “ovolacto vegetarians” now to distinguish whether or not they eat eggs or milk.

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:07 UTC

I drink coconut milk in any coffees or chia lattes when my wife drags me to a Costa or Nero.

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:06 UTC

aye but I tend not to like it when it gets that dark

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:06 UTC

I really like oat milk, but I had to eliminate it because of the avenin, made a huge and instant improvement to my IBS-like symptoms to remove as many cereals as possible from my diet.

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:04 UTC

I’ve had other brands and no it’s not great. The best remaining chocolate I can eat safely is the ludicrously expensive Bouja Bouja stuff.

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 20:02 UTC

I don’t really eat a lot of chocolate anymore sorry :(

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:10 UTC

I get that, just a frustrating pointless product as a result

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:00 UTC

wait, a lot of dark chocolate still contains milk, just less of it…

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 18:00 UTC

another one, absolutely hopeless, now eggs are vegetables it would seem

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 17:01 UTC

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:59 UTC

I guess my point was - why make a product for a vegan / allergen customer base that contains non-vegan / allergen contamination?

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:51 UTC

Someone tell me what the point of this is - slow handclap #cadburys

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 16:41 UTC

that’s magic, I’ve been here a while now, hardly even check the twitter these days!

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 08:02 UTC

Back then, before *everything* was connected, a well setup 98 or XP machine could last forever. I could do everything you would ever want offline. Ran 24 tracks of super smooth audio in a DAW, could edit print quality images up to about 1200dpi. No bloat, no bollocks.

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 07:59 UTC

My mate figured out the technical reason for this, to do with conflicting versions of FAT. In effect a clean install of Win 98 was substantially different from a 95 to 98 upgrade version, which I think was sold on a different cd rom.

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 07:56 UTC

When I setup my 1st (non-internet PC) for editing photos and mastering music to cd I had an old windows 95 boot floppy for the cdrom drivers, and to format the hard disc, then my mates 98 disc. It would sort of install but windows would be an absolute mess. Eventually worked using a proper 98 floppy

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 07:27 UTC

its the video that came free with Windows 95 - we watched it over and over again because it was amazing to see a video on a computer screen - even though it had like 8 pixels

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 07:12 UTC

haha I never knew that game, I mostly hungout around Out Run, Streetfighter, Gauntlet and Operation Wolf

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:54 UTC

I mean if the last film was “satisfactory”, I’m ready to go wild.

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 21:52 UTC

Wow, Ridley Scott is really drawing me in with the “economic sense” of the Gladiator sequel. I’d hate to watch a film that didn’t have a sound commercial grounding. That, and plenty of those ultrahigh definition pixels. And channels of sound, the more channels of sound, the better.

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:31 UTC

I think some people technically consider any framework or philosophy an ‘ideology’, but that’s not the meaning I understand from political research. And I was clear in my message when I said ‘political ideology’. But *everytime* someone comes at me over it!

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:28 UTC

the guy tried to crowd fund a movie to conclude things, but it must not have got off the ground and of course everyone is probably a bit to old to reprise the parts - maybe the zombie makeup and a bit of CGI would help but it would be pushing it!

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Ryan Shirlow @ryanshirlow.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 17:27 UTC

there’s so much more it could have explored, but strangely the open ended ending also works

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