RR
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This is what I nearly did
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This is what I nearly did
TT
OK, sorry if my last post was a little lengthy, but I wanted to explain how I got into this game of TV Channel Codes in the first place. Do you now understand? Read that post again if you want to clarify it further.
Jugalug posted:
Fascinating read that, really was. However, I still don't understand why us, TV Forumers, should revert from using simple channel names to complicated codes. Don't give me reasons why its not complicated, I just want my question answered, and preferably in no more than 3 lines.
OK, sorry if my last post was a little lengthy, but I wanted to explain how I got into this game of TV Channel Codes in the first place. Do you now understand? Read that post again if you want to clarify it further.
JO
OK, sorry if my last post was a little lengthy, but I wanted to explain how I got into this game of TV Channel Codes in the first place. Do you now understand? Read that post again if you want to clarify it further.
But for heaven's sake, you didn't answer the question I asked you. Why should us people enter into your little deranged private game and start using these mental codes when channel names are simpler?
Tumble Tower posted:
Jugalug posted:
Fascinating read that, really was. However, I still don't understand why us, TV Forumers, should revert from using simple channel names to complicated codes. Don't give me reasons why its not complicated, I just want my question answered, and preferably in no more than 3 lines.
OK, sorry if my last post was a little lengthy, but I wanted to explain how I got into this game of TV Channel Codes in the first place. Do you now understand? Read that post again if you want to clarify it further.
But for heaven's sake, you didn't answer the question I asked you. Why should us people enter into your little deranged private game and start using these mental codes when channel names are simpler?
RR
OK, sorry if my last post was a little lengthy, but I wanted to explain how I got into this game of TV Channel Codes in the first place. Do you now understand? Read that post again if you want to clarify it further.
Yes TT, we understood everyword, but I didn't notice a bit where you mention why people would care.
Tumble Tower posted:
Jugalug posted:
Fascinating read that, really was. However, I still don't understand why us, TV Forumers, should revert from using simple channel names to complicated codes. Don't give me reasons why its not complicated, I just want my question answered, and preferably in no more than 3 lines.
OK, sorry if my last post was a little lengthy, but I wanted to explain how I got into this game of TV Channel Codes in the first place. Do you now understand? Read that post again if you want to clarify it further.
Yes TT, we understood everyword, but I didn't notice a bit where you mention why people would care.
RD
Anyone would think that was a Love story.
But still it's no good introducing your system to the world as it makes no logical sense. When you say people about BBC1, they're going to know what your on about as that what the channel is called. But when you say to someone B1, it's not going to make any sense as thats not what the channel is called.
Also it just dosen't work in the digital age. It might of worked in the 80's and early 90's where there was only 4 channels but having like 100 different codes is more hassle than it's worth.
Tumble Tower posted:
I never forgot that moment 
Anyone would think that was a Love story.
But still it's no good introducing your system to the world as it makes no logical sense. When you say people about BBC1, they're going to know what your on about as that what the channel is called. But when you say to someone B1, it's not going to make any sense as thats not what the channel is called.
Also it just dosen't work in the digital age. It might of worked in the 80's and early 90's where there was only 4 channels but having like 100 different codes is more hassle than it's worth.
JR
That sentence makes you sound like you have a fetish for channel codes and phonetic jingles.
Tumble Tower posted:
I never forgot that moment
That sentence makes you sound like you have a fetish for channel codes and phonetic jingles.
RR
lingie whangue gbnien utem norgen lomngrrabhousen grotalscrunge.
that should keep he and his hand busy for the rest of the night.
that should keep he and his hand busy for the rest of the night.
:-(
A former member
Ronnie Rowlands posted:
lingie whangue gbnien utem norgen lomngrrabhousen grotalscrunge.
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is it polish
RR
is it polish
No, that is a written jingle. That's how TT usually presents them.
623058 posted:
Ronnie Rowlands posted:
lingie whangue gbnien utem norgen lomngrrabhousen grotalscrunge.
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is it polish
No, that is a written jingle. That's how TT usually presents them.
NI
But can you decode it in a longwinded fashion explaining how it all winds back to one misheard statment of BBC 2 by some **** with odd pauses in their speech and in a fit of general ennui in life as a whole expound on something most people would strain to remember even if prompted and spread the archaic system like the clap?
If not, well then you're several leagues behind our friend there, aintcha. I wonder what would have occured had that programme not been rescheduled, could have found much more interesting and less personally investing things to do. Says I who shall now proceed to take apart everything Mr. Tumble of Tower has just posted.
Oh really? Do tell, sounds nearly enthralling... 20 years is quite some time though.
That recheduling was a bad idea, had they only known what terror they had unleashed in some little mites' brain.
Wait, what were you doing earwigging in on this conversation anyway? Butt out, t'aint owt tuh do wit' yuh. Unless it was shouted.
So you took something you probably shouldn't have heard anyway and kept a particular note of it because it meant something to you? Maybe she didn't pronounce the C fully, ever figure that, rubberneck?
No, it shouldn't be and why couldn't you forget? It wasn't anything groundbreaking or even that notable unless it was something you mean to mention to your psychoanalyst if you were slightly precognitive given your evident downfall in later years.
Pff, logic took a running leap out of your life a while ago, sonny.
As would most normal, rational thinking souls. I'd be miffed too if someone said I2 to mean Channel 4 and didn't give recourse as to why they may as well said "dirty gravel child" to mean Channel 4 where Channel 4 works just fine.
Keen eye there, Sherlock. Got a new TV around that time I reckon, no?
Did the advent of digital not serve as notice to your fraying sanity that this code idea wasn't working and was barely flexible in it's general use? I mean, it links directly back to how TV sets identified their channels in the early 80s! What made you think it'd work, what?!
Do you not look at this sentence and the link and wonder exactly why the general machinations of your mind took such a wrong turn? Nice to know I coulda used Lynx to get to DS in '86 though, didn't know it had such a legacy.
And you haven't asked yourself "why" yet, please do and be honest as to why your idea (don't go blaming teachers allegedly mispronouncing something in private conversations which didn't inculde yourself and taking that you knew was incorrect to new depths of inanity) even exists here, in the public eye, right now. It's stupid and inane that you'd do this, for five years! It's bafflingly erractic to create a system where one exists anyway and quite pathetic in a way. Do you expect others to take it and say "Yeah, that's one crackerjack idea!"? It's foolhardy and if you got to fritter away your days thinking of how this very fractuous code will work for everyone then do so, just don't do it here. The people at DS have taken to it well, ask them to persist.
Ronnie Rowlands posted:
No, that is a written jingle. That's how TT usually presents them.
But can you decode it in a longwinded fashion explaining how it all winds back to one misheard statment of BBC 2 by some **** with odd pauses in their speech and in a fit of general ennui in life as a whole expound on something most people would strain to remember even if prompted and spread the archaic system like the clap?
If not, well then you're several leagues behind our friend there, aintcha. I wonder what would have occured had that programme not been rescheduled, could have found much more interesting and less personally investing things to do. Says I who shall now proceed to take apart everything Mr. Tumble of Tower has just posted.
Tumble Tower posted:
OK it started back in autumn 1986. At least, so the opening gambit to my DS thread would have you believe.
Actually it has its roots further back in time than that.
Actually it has its roots further back in time than that.
Oh really? Do tell, sounds nearly enthralling... 20 years is quite some time though.
Tumble Tower posted:
Going Back In Time To The Moment
The date is some Friday about half way through spring term 1981 (Feburary 1981).
I was at primary school. My class was watching a BBC Schools programme on BBC2. One which was originally scheduled for transmission on BBC1 the first week of term (January 1981, just after Xmas), but for some reason wanted, so Auntie rescheduled it for the said Friday morning in Feburary 1981 on BBC2.
The date is some Friday about half way through spring term 1981 (Feburary 1981).
I was at primary school. My class was watching a BBC Schools programme on BBC2. One which was originally scheduled for transmission on BBC1 the first week of term (January 1981, just after Xmas), but for some reason wanted, so Auntie rescheduled it for the said Friday morning in Feburary 1981 on BBC2.
That recheduling was a bad idea, had they only known what terror they had unleashed in some little mites' brain.
Tumble Tower posted:
Someone came into the class, and the teacher started talking to that person. I heard her say something, which (to my ears anyway) went "It's on B2 today"
At least, that's what I thought she said.
At least, that's what I thought she said.
Wait, what were you doing earwigging in on this conversation anyway? Butt out, t'aint owt tuh do wit' yuh. Unless it was shouted.
Tumble Tower posted:
My interpretation was: It's (the programme we were watching) on B2 (BBC2) today. I do remember there being a noticeable pause between the B and the 2 though.
I never forgot that moment
I never forgot that moment
So you took something you probably shouldn't have heard anyway and kept a particular note of it because it meant something to you? Maybe she didn't pronounce the C fully, ever figure that, rubberneck?
Tumble Tower posted:
I was now at secondary school, and still couldn't forget the aforementioined moment. It dawned on me, I could add to what I thought I heard in 1981. If B2 = BBC2, then it should be B1 = BBC1. Regarding the IBA channels, how about
I1 = ITV1
I2 = Channel 4 / S4C.
I1 = ITV1
I2 = Channel 4 / S4C.
No, it shouldn't be and why couldn't you forget? It wasn't anything groundbreaking or even that notable unless it was something you mean to mention to your psychoanalyst if you were slightly precognitive given your evident downfall in later years.
Tumble Tower posted:
So you see at the time, Channel 4 or S4C was to all intents and purposes the ITV2 of the day, so I2 was a logical code for it.
Pff, logic took a running leap out of your life a while ago, sonny.
Tumble Tower posted:
At the time another boy in my class seemed miffed at my codes. When I said B2, he said BBC2. He was really confused by I2 for Channel 4.
As would most normal, rational thinking souls. I'd be miffed too if someone said I2 to mean Channel 4 and didn't give recourse as to why they may as well said "dirty gravel child" to mean Channel 4 where Channel 4 works just fine.
Tumble Tower posted:
By the nineties, I realised C4 would be a more appropriate code for Channel 4 (but overlooked S4C). When Channel 5 launched, C5 would be the code to use.
Keen eye there, Sherlock. Got a new TV around that time I reckon, no?
Tumble Tower posted:
When BBC News 24 launched, I wondered what I'd do about a code for that. Then along came BBC Choice, BBC Knowledge and BBC Parliament.
Did the advent of digital not serve as notice to your fraying sanity that this code idea wasn't working and was barely flexible in it's general use? I mean, it links directly back to how TV sets identified their channels in the early 80s! What made you think it'd work, what?!
Tumble Tower posted:
I then launched my thread "TV Channels - A Shorthand Code" on Digital Spy Forums in February 1986, a quarter of a century after it all started with what I thought my teacher said.
Do you not look at this sentence and the link and wonder exactly why the general machinations of your mind took such a wrong turn? Nice to know I coulda used Lynx to get to DS in '86 though, didn't know it had such a legacy.
Tumble Tower posted:
So you see, going back to grass roots level, the channel coding wasn't my idea at all. It all started with me having thought I heard someone else say B2 thinking it meant BBC2 way back in February 1981. I then, five and a half years on expanded it, and it took until 2006 for me to go public with it and bring it up to date to suit the digital era
And you haven't asked yourself "why" yet, please do and be honest as to why your idea (don't go blaming teachers allegedly mispronouncing something in private conversations which didn't inculde yourself and taking that you knew was incorrect to new depths of inanity) even exists here, in the public eye, right now. It's stupid and inane that you'd do this, for five years! It's bafflingly erractic to create a system where one exists anyway and quite pathetic in a way. Do you expect others to take it and say "Yeah, that's one crackerjack idea!"? It's foolhardy and if you got to fritter away your days thinking of how this very fractuous code will work for everyone then do so, just don't do it here. The people at DS have taken to it well, ask them to persist.