Random musings and general banter.

[HughTwo]

Brilliant - Torchy shoots himself in the foot as he goes on flogging that projector.

"Get this home and eh, I think I'm right, what's the returns policy?
"Ok, right if you open it that will invalidate the return option"

 

[PhædrusR]

This is like something along similar lines that I used to get extremely excited about when Dad used his cine projector to play a black and white Gregory Peck film called Marooned. I thought the film, played large and proud, and shaking and blurred, off my bedroom wall was absolutely amazing. Then again, I was 10 years old, and it was 1972.

Super 8mm colour cine projector: Kidnapped. 1979.

 

[Professor Branestawm]

He also told the tale of his plastic surgeon not having to take skin from his backside to repair his forehead, because of taking collagen. Another tall tale from Pinocchio Pete.

I heard his surgeon took both buttocks to replace his cheeks.
For some reason, no one wants to kiss him on the lips any more.

 

[Professor Branestawm]

That's because no one expects the spanish inquisition.

To torture you now would be simple - strap you to a chair and force you to watch IW.

That was the reason I said it. I guess I was a bit too cryptic!

 

[Muttley]

Best Train Set EVER….at 7 p.m.

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I had something better than that when I was a kid in the early 70s!

 

[Duke of Cheese]

That projector just about sums up everything wrong with their feeble attempts to offer anything that comes close to resembling a credible technology product. If they actually prepared properly to show these products it might have been demonstrated in a manner that showed it in a better light, so to speak. I am sure they ‘meet’ these products for the first time about five minutes before they go to air, and last night was no different.

Who exactly do they think would want something like this? Anybody with a serious craving for a giant screen will have already gone down that road by having the appropriate TV at home. Watching nostalgic old footage from a VCR, a phone or a laptop etc., of drunken Dad smashing the flat up in an alcoholic rage say, can be sourced in exactly the same way this projector works by connecting to a modern day television. Rather than having some grainy and blurred image on a wall. All the fiddling about positioning it, focusing it, getting it out and putting it away again..When you can bluetooth from a phone or computer to your main telly and see it in much better quality- vision and sound. I wonder how many, or more tellingly how few they sold? And streaming from a TV to it? The quality is not there from what I saw to make it a worthwhile proposition.

Also, their draconian returns policy seems abjectly ridiculous if they want people to take a punt and try (yes,TRY) a product. It seems you can wear clothes ordered at home to try them, as long as the tags remain. Fair enough. But for a product like the projector (and many others) you can ‘try’ it by not opening the box if you subsequently want to return the thing successfully? Is that really their policy, or have I got that wrong? For most non-edible things they sell QVC allows you to actually road test goods and will usually honour returns if the goods are returned in an undamaged condition. Not that they would sell something pointless like that projector Ideal World had on last night, but would at least allow you to properly use it if they did.

 

[Jazzydrury]

Wendy James, on one of these clip shows, Sarah Greene said once. As on going live around the music acts, they had the kids, and the cameras were set low, But Wendy had a short skirt on, according to Sarah you could see Wendy’s pants

 

[Jazzydrury]

IW have missed a trick today, they should have had Natalia on this evening, and do a Halloween Special.

Wonder if the press are at Chez Jacks yet or not, any idea what TV Region she would be in, Would be a laugh to watch.

Happy Halloween

 

[TH Today]

IW have missed a trick today, they should have had Natalia on this evening, and do a Halloween Special.

Wonder if the press are at Chez Jacks yet or not, any idea what TV Region she would be in, Would be a laugh to watch.

Happy Halloween

you are so rude. should be ashamed of yourself.

 

[Duke of Cheese]

The frightening thing is for anybody relatively young when they were popular…Baby I Don’t Care will probably be cranked up as an aide memoire for reminiscences groups in the care homes of ten or so years time. That’s if they are not up to later 1980s tracks already in that field of support for dementia sufferers.

 

[Duke of Cheese]

Charley’s back… El Hopping Mad…

 

[Duke of Cheese]

IW have missed a trick today, they should have had Natalia on this evening, and do a Halloween Special.

Wonder if the press are at Chez Jacks yet or not, any idea what TV Region she would be in, Would be a laugh to watch.

Happy Halloween

Nether Regions…

 

[Jazzydrury]

Mikeofthemasons on a double shift again

 

[Duke of Cheese]

That awful tacky Advent calendar from The Somerset Toilet Company. Apparently, the contents cost between £8 and £9.99 individually, he says. Where exactly, he doesn’t say. I got my partner the M&S one, which you can buy for £50 if you spend £35 on homeware and clothing type stuff. Some genuine good things within that.

 

[Hammy60]

Oh man, was anything more exciting in school than when the TV trolley got wheeled in?!

…of course, the teacher wouldn't have a clue how to work it —"JUST CLUNK DOWN 'PLAY' ON THE MACHINE, MISS - NO THAT WON'T BREAK IT, IT'S HOW IT WORKS!!!!"— and once that hurdle was cleared, the remote would've fallen out of the caddy on the way to class so they couldn't turn it to the right channel.

Usually, by the time we were actually watching whatever it was we'd see about 10 mins of it before the 'end of class' bell cut in.

Yeah fun when there was only a few TVs to look after, but in the end with every classroom having Workstation/Laptop/DVD player/Interactive boards, as well as being able to book class sets of chrome books/Ipad minis, it becomes a nightmare having to run around after teachers that haven't a clue about tech.

 

[Niwa]

That projector just about sums up everything wrong with their feeble attempts to offer anything that comes close to resembling a credible technology product. If they actually prepared properly to show these products it might have been demonstrated in a manner that showed it in a better light, so to speak. I am sure they ‘meet’ these products for the first time about five minutes before they go to air, and last night was no different.

Who exactly do they think would want something like this? Anybody with a serious craving for a giant screen will have already gone down that road by having the appropriate TV at home. Watching nostalgic old footage from a VCR, a phone or a laptop etc., of drunken Dad smashing the flat up in an alcoholic rage say, can be sourced in exactly the same way this projector works by connecting to a modern day television. Rather than having some grainy and blurred image on a wall. All the fiddling about positioning it, focusing it, getting it out and putting it away again..When you can bluetooth from a phone or computer to your main telly and see it in much better quality- vision and sound. I wonder how many, or more tellingly how few they sold? And streaming from a TV to it? The quality is not there from what I saw to make it a worthwhile proposition.

Also, their draconian returns policy seems abjectly ridiculous if they want people to take a punt and try (yes,TRY) a product. It seems you can wear clothes ordered at home to try them, as long as the tags remain. Fair enough. But for a product like the projector (and many others) you can ‘try’ it by not opening the box if you subsequently want to return the thing successfully? Is that really their policy, or have I got that wrong? For most non-edible things they sell QVC allows you to actually road test goods and will usually honour returns if the goods are returned in an undamaged condition. Not that they would sell something pointless like that projector Ideal World had on last night, but would at least allow you to properly use it if they did.

Wife and I have only bought two items from the latest IW.
She bought a small shaggy type rug for the bedside and I got a stop leak tape DIY stuff.
She is quite happy with the rug, the stop leak tape didn't work in the application that I tried it in.
Both were free delivery so no P&P issues.
I'm going to add a photo of the standard returns information as stated on the invoice that came with one of items, and I'll let draw your on conclusions.

 

[galesgal57]

Ooh! A giant slipper. Reminds me of An audience with Billy Connolly.

 

[Duke of Cheese]

Wife and I have only bought two items from the latest IW.
She bought a small shaggy type rug for the bedside and I got a stop leak tape DIY stuff.
She is quite happy with the rug, the stop leak tape didn't work in the application that I tried it in.
Both were free delivery so no P&P issues.
I'm going to add a photo of the standard returns information as stated on the invoice that came with one of items, and I'll let draw your on conclusions. View attachment 30290

Thanks for the photo upload. Very interesting. It seems to me that if you try anything i.e. remove it from the box switch it on, etc.. then they can say within their terms and conditions that they won’t refund you. Which makes the whole process of ordering something with the intention of seeing whether you want it or not, absolutely pointless, if you subsequently find you don’t want it and have tried it. Which is probably the only way you’re going to find out that you don’t want it!

 

[Battiola73]

I had something better than that when I was a kid in the early 70s!

I had one better than that n the 1950s!

 

[Battiola73]

That projector just about sums up everything wrong with their feeble attempts to offer anything that comes close to resembling a credible technology product. If they actually prepared properly to show these products it might have been demonstrated in a manner that showed it in a better light, so to speak. I am sure they ‘meet’ these products for the first time about five minutes before they go to air, and last night was no different.

Who exactly do they think would want something like this? Anybody with a serious craving for a giant screen will have already gone down that road by having the appropriate TV at home. Watching nostalgic old footage from a VCR, a phone or a laptop etc., of drunken Dad smashing the flat up in an alcoholic rage say, can be sourced in exactly the same way this projector works by connecting to a modern day television. Rather than having some grainy and blurred image on a wall. All the fiddling about positioning it, focusing it, getting it out and putting it away again..When you can bluetooth from a phone or computer to your main telly and see it in much better quality- vision and sound. I wonder how many, or more tellingly how few they sold? And streaming from a TV to it? The quality is not there from what I saw to make it a worthwhile proposition.

Also, their draconian returns policy seems abjectly ridiculous if they want people to take a punt and try (yes,TRY) a product. It seems you can wear clothes ordered at home to try them, as long as the tags remain. Fair enough. But for a product like the projector (and many others) you can ‘try’ it by not opening the box if you subsequently want to return the thing successfully? Is that really their policy, or have I got that wrong? For most non-edible things they sell QVC allows you to actually road test goods and will usually honour returns if the goods are returned in an undamaged condition. Not that they would sell something pointless like that projector Ideal World had on last night, but would at least allow you to properly use it if they did.

They’ll be selling magic lanterns next or those slotted cylinders that you turn the handle. And the picture inside moves (they had these in the Science Museum)