@slimfern posted:Didn't know there were such beasts El...
I thought, unless provoked, Elephants were pacifists.....like me!
In the past, elephants were trained for use in battles to charge the enemy and cause mayhem. That continued in south-east Asia to the end of the 19th century.
Generally elephants are peaceful though sometimes they can go rogue.
@El Loro posted:In the past, elephants were trained for use in battles to charge the enemy and cause mayhem. That continued in south-east Asia to the end of the 19th century.
Generally elephants are peaceful though sometimes they can go rogue.
Can't we all 
Using Elephants...any animal in battle is just mean IMHO !
Except maybe those dogs that suss out bombs ...worthy of praise 
@El Loro posted:In the past, elephants were trained for use in battles to charge the enemy and cause mayhem. That continued in south-east Asia to the end of the 19th century.
Generally elephants are peaceful though sometimes they can go rogue.
love elephants- very intelligent
@slimfern posted:Can't we all
Using Elephants...any animal in battle is just mean IMHO !
Except maybe those dogs that suss out bombs ...worthy of praise
agree slim
night EL slim moonsiee
Anyone who has been using a Santander account to make online payments have been having big problems this morning. Also other bank users who have tried to make a payment to a Santander bank account is likely to find that the payment hadn't worked.
My anti-virus s/w is a business one and is managed by a local computer business just round the corner from me. Got their invoice this morning, tried to pay it out of my Lloyds account and discovered that it didn't go through as the computer business has a Santander bank account. I rang my computer people to let them know, they said to leave it until after the bank holiday and try again on Monday (they aren't about to stop my anti-virus s/w and in any case the current subscription runs to the 9th).
@El Loro posted:Anyone who has been using a Santander account to make online payments have been having big problems this morning. Also other bank users who have tried to make a payment to a Santander bank account is likely to find that the payment hadn't worked.
My anti-virus s/w is a business one and is managed by a local computer business just round the corner from me. Got their invoice this morning, tried to pay it out of my Lloyds account and discovered that it didn't go through as the computer business has a Santander bank account. I rang my computer people to let them know, they said to leave it until after the bank holiday and try again on Monday (they aren't about to stop my anti-virus s/w and in any case the current subscription runs to the 9th).
I've had problems the last two times I tried using it ..in the last two weeks.
Payments have gone through okay eventually but it took a lot of refreshing for it to happen.
No problems with Natwest though.
@slimfern posted:I've had problems the last two times I tried using it ..in the last two weeks.
Payments have gone through okay eventually but it took a lot of refreshing for it to happen.
No problems with Natwest though.
I think Santander have been having quite a lot of problems in recent weeks 
I noticed that a film called "John Luther" is being released tomorrow. It's about a missing school teacher who is reported as missing and John Luther is the investigator.
I wonder how many people will assume this is the Idris Elba film version of the tv series "Luther" that he's been making.
It's not. It's an Indian film and doesn't have Elba in it 
@El Loro posted:I noticed that a film called "John Luther" is being released tomorrow. It's about a missing school teacher who is reported as missing and John Luther is the investigator.
I wonder how many people will assume this is the Idris Elba film version of the tv series "Luther" that he's been making.
It's not. It's an Indian film and doesn't have Elba in it
I've never seen 'Luther'
I wonder if the title name is deliberate...clickbait?
@slimfern posted:I've never seen 'Luther'
I wonder if the title name is deliberate...clickbait?
I did start to watch the series but quickly gave up as I didn't like it.
According to the wiki article about the film "John Luther" the director says that it's not inspired by the series.
The Idris Elba film version is expected to be released this year.
@El Loro posted:I did start to watch the series but quickly gave up as I didn't like it.
According to the wiki article about the film "John Luther" the director says that it's not inspired by the series.
The Idris Elba film version is expected to be released this year.
I'd never heard of him until his name came up in reference to being a possible next James Bond 
@slimfern posted:I'd never heard of him until his name came up in reference to being a possible next James Bond
I think he became well known back in 2002/4 when he was in the first 3 series of "The Wire", not a series I ever watched but it was popular. He's been in some blockbuster films such as "Thor", its sequel, one of the Avengers films, the voice of Sheer Khan in the 2016 version of "The Jungle Book", one of the Star Trek films.
His first name is Idrissa rather than Idris.
There was a teacher at my school whose first name was Idris. He had Welsh ancestry. He was quite tall and well built. At one speech day he sang. It came as quite a surprise to us boys. To demonstrate this here's a short piece of music by Handel. It's not the teacher but the singing voice is the same.
That's countertenor by the way which is a genuine singing voice.
@El Loro posted:I think he became well known back in 2002/4 when he was in the first 3 series of "The Wire", not a series I ever watched but it was popular. He's been in some blockbuster films such as "Thor", its sequel, one of the Avengers films, the voice of Sheer Khan in the 2016 version of "The Jungle Book", one of the Star Trek films.
His first name is Idrissa rather than Idris.
There was a teacher at my school whose first name was Idris. He had Welsh ancestry. He was quite tall and well built. At one speech day he sang. It came as quite a surprise to us boys. To demonstrate this here's a short piece of music by Handel. It's not the teacher but the singing voice is the same.I've not watched
That's countertenor by the way which is a genuine singing voice.
I've not watched 'The Wire' either El, nor 'Thor', and I don't follow the 'Star Trek' films. I might have caught 'The Jungle Book' you mention, caught one halfway through not so long ago, but don't know if it's the one you are talking about.
Countertenor is quite high for a male singer isn't it
@El Loro posted:I think he became well known back in 2002/4 when he was in the first 3 series of "The Wire", not a series I ever watched but it was popular. He's been in some blockbuster films such as "Thor", its sequel, one of the Avengers films, the voice of Sheer Khan in the 2016 version of "The Jungle Book", one of the Star Trek films.
His first name is Idrissa rather than Idris.
There was a teacher at my school whose first name was Idris. He had Welsh ancestry. He was quite tall and well built. At one speech day he sang. It came as quite a surprise to us boys. To demonstrate this here's a short piece of music by Handel. It's not the teacher but the singing voice is the same.
That's countertenor by the way which is a genuine singing voice.
gorgeous voice and can reach quite high notes -loved this
night EL slim moonsieee
@slimfern posted:I've not watched 'The Wire' either El, nor 'Thor', and I don't follow the 'Star Trek' films. I might have caught 'The Jungle Book' you mention, caught one halfway through not so long ago, but don't know if it's the one you are talking about.
Countertenor is quite high for a male singer isn't it
It is probable that it was that adaptation of "The Jungle Book" you saw in part as that was the Disney "live action" remake of their animated film, both have been shown on television more than once in recent years. There was a British 1942 adaptation which might have been shown. That adaptation was in colour, was the definitive version until eclipsed by the Disney animated film - it didn't have any songs in.
@Rocking Ros Rose posted:gorgeous voice and can reach quite high notes -loved this
Countertenor is the highest male singing voice and fairly rare. There were a lot more men with that voice back in the days when women weren't allowed to sing on stage, just men and boys. At that time they were called castratos - I think you can guess as to why.
Falsetto voice may sound as if at similar range of notes as a countertenor but clearly sounds like a false voice rather than natural,
When I first started my own accountancy practice, the first printer I has was an Epson dot matrix printer. That was in the days before inkjet printers became commonplace and laser printers cost thousands. Print resolution was primitive by modern standards which meant that I bought an A3 printer rather than an A4 one.
To show what sort of printer it was, here's a short clip of a very similar printer though it's A4 rather than A3. Beware, the sound of those old dot matrix printers is painful so don't have the sound volume high.
@El Loro posted:It is probable that it was that adaptation of "The Jungle Book" you saw in part as that was the Disney "live action" remake of their animated film, both have been shown on television more than once in recent years. There was a British 1942 adaptation which might have been shown. That adaptation was in colour, was the definitive version until eclipsed by the Disney animated film - it didn't have any songs in.
Countertenor is the highest male singing voice and fairly rare. There were a lot more men with that voice back in the days when women weren't allowed to sing on stage, just men and boys. At that time they were called castratos - I think you can guess as to why.
Falsetto voice may sound as if at similar range of notes as a countertenor but clearly sounds like a false voice rather than natural,
I've been looking but there are so many adaptations...it wasn't a cartoon.
I have a good idea as to why castratos were so called
World's largest plant discovered:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-61655327
It covers an area of 77 square miles 
@El Loro posted:World's largest plant discovered:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-61655327
It covers an area of 77 square miles
wow
@El Loro posted:World's largest plant discovered:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-61655327
It covers an area of 77 square miles
Impressive 
If you go to this webpage on the University of Western Australia there's a short clip of that largest plant:
https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/Ar...d-its-4500-years-old
The clip is at the start of the article and can be viewed full screen.
Although it's on Youtube, it's not a standard Youtube clip and it can't be embedded here.
@El Loro posted:If you go to this webpage on the University of Western Australia there's a short clip of that largest plant:
https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/Ar...d-its-4500-years-old
The clip is at the start of the article and can be viewed full screen.
Although it's on Youtube, it's not a standard Youtube clip and it can't be embedded here.
It's not the prettiest of plants is it El....but from an aerial view it looks quite spectacular
For it's age
Just watched a very minor 1940 film called "British Intelligence". It was made as a programmer (a B movie). A spy thriller but who are the goodies and who are the baddies? For an obscure film, it's surprisingly enjoyable and is only an hour long. (Best not to read about it in case that gives away too much)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LURgEHMHSNY
@El Loro posted:World's largest plant discovered:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-61655327
It covers an area of 77 square miles
wow that is amazing EL
@El Loro posted:It is probable that it was that adaptation of "The Jungle Book" you saw in part as that was the Disney "live action" remake of their animated film, both have been shown on television more than once in recent years. There was a British 1942 adaptation which might have been shown. That adaptation was in colour, was the definitive version until eclipsed by the Disney animated film - it didn't have any songs in.
Countertenor is the highest male singing voice and fairly rare. There were a lot more men with that voice back in the days when women weren't allowed to sing on stage, just men and boys. At that time they were called castratos - I think you can guess as to why.
Falsetto voice may sound as if at similar range of notes as a countertenor but clearly sounds like a false voice rather than natural,
thankyou EL -that's interesting
@El Loro posted:When I first started my own accountancy practice, the first printer I has was an Epson dot matrix printer. That was in the days before inkjet printers became commonplace and laser printers cost thousands. Print resolution was primitive by modern standards which meant that I bought an A3 printer rather than an A4 one.
To show what sort of printer it was, here's a short clip of a very similar printer though it's A4 rather than A3. Beware, the sound of those old dot matrix printers is painful so don't have the sound volume high.
wow it was very loud EL - its amazing how quickly we have move on
