Just found this place tonight and sailed ashore :)

Nice to see another good VBB site!! (My favourite SW is VB 3.x and lower)

Sadly alot of sites I am on are ditching this wonderful SW and going with stuff thats NOT AS GOOD (Xenforo or even worse: VB4 or 5)

Xenforo isnt BAD but its certainly not as good as this! (Or as fast) I know some sites running still on VB2.x and they are fast as anything :)


Nice to be here with ya'll!!

You are certainly jumping right in.

What's your story? Why do you have to post so much? My first impression of you is that you are irritating. Is that the first impression you want to make?

Don't mind glatt, his morning commute is on light rail where before the 2nd or 3rd coffee, exuberance is cause for suspicion. :haha:

Sorry if I came off as a bit surly. It just looked like a Dude111 bomb had gone off in the Cellar at the moment I logged on.

Welcome, Dude111.

Sokay, it's your sworn & affirmed duty to be wary, that's what we pay you for. :lol2:
What, oh the check's in the mail.

Hallo Dude, nice to meetcha. Welcome to the Cellar.

Meh. He mentioned "using up all the film" in bbro's camera thread. My money is on foreign spammer.

Really?


I am so shit at spotting this stuff. Which is pathetic for someone who has basically lived online for 20 years.

More like time traveling spammer. It is Back to The Future Day.

Foreign, yeah probably, possibly Aussie or Canadian, even South African.
Spammer, don't think so... yet.
But I was wrong once in 1998... :haha:

Oh!!! The 80s games...


I'm thinking not a spammer - just an enthusiast for a particular forum/bb platform

Huh - I didn't even notice that. I just didn't respond because we are on page 5 and he quoted part of the first post - lol

He does say "mate" a lot. But surely Australians and Canadians have ubiquitous digital like we do? South Africa, though, I'll buy that.

I thought he was just being funny with that film comment. I considered a quiz, but I get the feeling we will know all about this dude in the next 24 hours.... Says, 'I' a lot.

I don't see a picture in the profile ... I wonder if Dude looks like a lady?

Douche111

Ain't that a little harsh, I mean he is harmless so far.

Could be, but it's "He", until proven otherwise.
It's a man's world, baby.


Sorry, Dana. :blush:

Well that explains the fucking mess it's in :p

Well, maybe a Dude's world (virtual world that is):

http://dslrpedia.com/wiki/Dude111

Wow.

No not @ all Glatt,im sorry.... I just love VB 3.x and Im sorry if I seem a bit forward.....

Yep I sure was :)

Touché Mon Cheri. :lol2:

Dude, do you have any other interests? It's very interesting that you like bulletin boards, but it's kind of like introducing yourself as a gearhead because you like to sniff petrol

I see :)

Yes I love collecting Records,etc..... I really love analogue...... The naturalness of it compared to artifical digital stuff that isnt as nice........

any particular artists/genre? Just 33s? Are you a musician?

the machine is the message

Well I mostly like 70s music and earlier (Before the digital stuff started ruining it)

There are some 80s stuff I like but since I want straight analogue,it gets hard in the 80s to find it (After about 1984 it starts getting less and less)


I Have Ratts first album ON CASSETTE (1984) and thats sadly thier only analog album! (I had the next on cassette AND RECORD and both sounded crappy to me)

Dont wanna bore you guys with all this talk or anything,just speaking out loud I guess :)

You're cutting off your nose to spite your face, with your analog snobbery. I also prefer 70' and even some 60's and 50's music, but that's because it invokes some ... uh, interesting memories of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. :lol:

There are some absolute gems from every year since, to my ear, just a smaller selection. Shit, thousands of albums are issued every year and in all that music there has to be some I like, no matter how many whippersnappers I'm chasing off my lawn.

Speaking of ears, from the preferences you've stated in a bunch of threads , you're no kid. That means your ears have changed, even if you don't realize it, or vehemently deny it, they have... it's science. I've got very near a thousand vinyl albums, and listened to them on pretty high end equipment for a home stereo setup. Yes they were "warm" sounding, but a lot of that was because they weren't all that clear. Living near philly I've seen a shitload of those same albums played live, and most weren't all that clear at most venues. A few friends also had high end setups, but all different, and certain albums would sound better on certain stereos, depending on what frequencies were dominant in the mix, and what frequencies that stereo reproduced best. Vinyl is really a crap shoot.

I made hundreds of casstttes for the car, and there again different brands/types of tape worked better with certain albums and certain car stereos. I never met a prerecorded cassette I liked... never ever. But that's just personal.

I also have hundreds of CD's, many of them are albums I already owned, and quite a few of them are remastered. I love 'em for the convenience and the lack of degradation from repeated use, but the digital sound on new equipment is great. Yes, it doesn't have the "warmth" because it's clearer, and not muddy like many of the vinyl albums, you can actually pick out different instruments and how they play off each other. Like hearing bees instead of hive hum.

I agree the newer recordings are usually mixed and compressed so they don't have as much dynamic range. But how much dynamic range did the Beatles/Stones, Beach Boys, Zeppelin, Dead, Eagles, Brown, or ZZ Top need to do their thing. Maybe ELP, Floyd, Yes, or Heart were fuller, but most people listened on equipment that couldn't reproduce it anyway.

I suppose if your bag is opera, or orchestration you'd be looking for less compression and more dynamic range, but if the producers feel their recording should be mixed with more range, even cheap digital players will reproduce it better than 95% of analog players ever could.

Now my ears are shit, I think half of what I hear comes from the recording and half from memory.:rolleyes: But I'm absolutely certain digital reproduction of recorded music is superior to analog, with even cheap players giving most of what's recorded, and your dislike should be directed at the producers massaging the sound into a commercial product.

God damn, I miss our resident musician/recording engineer, I learned so much from him, and the whys to what I already knew. :(

I have to completely agree. Prerecorded cassettes are very inferior. They wouldn't even use chrome dioxide tapes for them. Just the regular old normal ones. I would get a brand new record and tape it carefully to a chrome dioxide tape and then listen to that more than I would listen to the record. Decades later, my records are still in mint condition. Maybe not the covers, but the vinyl is.

dude:

I like the OLD vbulletin,
I like the OLD video games
I like the OLD music
I like the OLD ________

seems like you are living in the past, dude.

I've been helping my old relative and trying to orgnanize his house now that he's moved into assisted living. Anyway, I found an OLD dial phone hooked up in his basement, and so I brought it home to show my kids. I tried plugging it into my wall, and never thought it would work since we have FIOS and fiber optic cables. But it worked! The kids had fun dialing numbers.

That is fun to see kids react to our "old, old, old school" ways.

My youngest G-kids did the same with a manual typewriter we had stored away... and it still worked too !

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FIOS converts the analog phone signal to internet before it leaves your house, for the trip around their circuits.

I figured that out, but for some reason thought they wouldn't bother with the pulse dialing bit. I knew touch tone dialing worked.

They thought the cord was pretty cool. My oldest remembered when we had a corded phone on the wall when she was a baby. But neither of them had seen a dial phone before. The funny thing was, they saw me demonstrate it to them, and then tried to use it themselves, but neither of them could get it to work on the first try. They were dialing without lifting the receiver first. My daughter went first and made that mistake, and figured it out. My son was watching, and then he made the exact same mistake when it was his turn.

When I was a kid, we had 5 digit phone numbers. Now, to call across the street here, you have to dial a 10 digit phone number. That takes a long time on a dial phone.

I still have a corded phone. Lots of people do.

I remember our first telephone as a kid. I think I was probably about 6 or 7. It was wall mounted with groovy sleek lines instead of the rounded old fashioned receivers :p Like an office phone. But with a dial.

I even remember our first telephone number (not so astounding given Dad still had that number til about 20 years ago ;p) 0204 388917

dude:

I hate modern books. They're RUBBISH. The last thing I read was cave writing. That was good enough in my day, and we LIKED it. :p:

:D:D

Yeah, well a lot of 2nd world people have them.

Corded phones are a must if you live in an area where there are power cuts. It's amazing how many of my island neighbours have gone totally cordless and cannot be contacted in a power cut (mobile signal here is virtually non-existent).


Sent by thought transference

We still have a corded phone, too. If you gotta have the line coming in for internet, may as well have the phone.

I have both cord and cordless, for the reason Limey stated. I also have the same # from when you only had 4 numbers. Maybe over 65 years.
Talk about drift.

FIOS/other new phone service powers old style phones from a battery on your premises. This power used to come from batteries at the central phone office. You can power your wireless phones during outages by connecting a UPS (i.e., a battery) to the base station.

Around here Verizon wants you to pay to replace your battery when it dies. The price is about the same price as a UPS...

We have a corded phone, it is the only phone in the building when the power goes out for days.

We use the UPS to keep the Internet going. Satellite router and WiFi router.

Sent by thought transference

I miss regional codes.

When I was a teen, my friends in villages (all my friends bar one) had four figure numbers, with a three figure local code. Haddenham - as far as I recall - was 953. I can't remember the code for Winslow, where my best friend lived, as it merged into the number in a splendid way - my memory suggests something like 997. Dyscalculia, pah.

The Reverend Richard Coles, in reference to the 1980s:

So you're the one behind skynet. :vader1: