threebikesmcginty
Corn Fed Hick...
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Used to have some of the BBC sound effects LPs, they were great, stuff like: walking on gravel, arm being broken, screaming, creaky door!
Teeny tiny things that drive you nuts out of all proportion
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Used to have some of the BBC sound effects LPs, they were great, stuff like: walking on gravel, arm being broken, screaming, creaky door!
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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I never saw that BBC version of Count Dracula... Was there a "stake going into chest" effect?
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
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No no, I realise only too well - if there is one thing I hate about them, its when there is something on the telly that you know should sound like, but the noise on the telly bears precisely feck all resemblance to it.
One fantastic example are trains actually, I mean, any kind of diesel or electric passing by at speed very often gets that whineing, whish noise that HSTs (Intercity 125s) used to make (they don't even make the noise any more!). The reality is that the train often sounds nothing like that, but no, everything instantly has to be an HST because it sounds dramatic!!
It might not sound like much, but its one of these things that once you notice it, you hear it all the time! In fact, you, hear them all the time for other things, planes, boats, buses....... I could go on.
The irony is that, instead of it being lazy, it actually takes effort to add a new sound in when there is one there already, I mean FFS!!
Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
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And on a similar note, anything historical like a drama, where they go to great effort to get it all authentic.... and then fcuk up on something really trivial. Sorry, but FFS!
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Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
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Actually, if I'm being honest, about 99.999999999999999 of the human population. Hardly a teeny tiny thing, but there you go!
SatNavSaysStraightOn
Changed hemispheres!
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25 pages of hate.... is there an opposing "Teeny tiny things that you love out of all proportion"? could be a touch more positive!
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
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Not yet... I'd hate that.
SatNavSaysStraightOn
Changed hemispheres!
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It has probably been said already
traffic lights that don't detect cyclists (and there is no way I am cycling across the A556 without them).
traffic lights that don't detect cyclists (and there is no way I am cycling across the A556 without them).
Why? why?
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swee'pea99
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All this talk of sound effects brings to mind a story of Spike Milligan walking into the BBC canteen (this during the Goons era), going up to the counter and asking for a jug of custard, then removing a shoe and sock, carefully pouring custard into the sock, hefting it up thoughtfully, then thwacking it on the counter, thinking about it for a moment, then thanking the counter lady and leaving.
He was clearly misinterpreting the Foley-artists' customary method for making the sound of bears walking in snow.
Linford
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He was sectioned a couple of times though wasn't he
My explanation is better.
