Edwardian Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 IIRC, the Cavendishes were the premier Whig family in Derbyshire, while the Curzons of Kedleston were the principal Tories. Architecturally this is interesting because Chatsworth is one of one premier Baroque piles, a style generally associated with Tories, whereas Kedleston was originally a Palladian House*, a style associated with "aristocrats", i.e. the monied Whigs. So, the timing of the respective builds put the family politics out of synch with the matching architectural styles. * IIRC the original facade is pretty text book Palladian. The other, later, facade is the better known as it's a more dynamic Neo-Classical composition by Adam. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caley Jim Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 (edited) 9 hours ago, monkeysarefun said: In fact the only reference I can find here is a Google review where a UK visitor has rated Manly beach one star and says not to bother because it reminds them of Blackpool. Having been to both places, I can't say I see even the faintest resemblance. For a start, Manly has two beaches, Blackpool only one, and Manly has no Tower! Jim Edited June 11, 2022 by Caley Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 (edited) 3 hours ago, Caley Jim said: Having been to both places, I can't say I see even the faintest resemblance. For a start, Manly has two beaches, Blackpool only one, and Manly has no Tower! Jim On the other hand he gave Sydney Harbour Bridge 5 stars without mentioning once that it reminded him of the Tyne Bridge. Edited June 12, 2022 by monkeysarefun 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 Blackpool back in the day 1 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Compound2632 Posted June 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 12, 2022 The use of the same image by several companies is interesting - perhaps it was produced by the council's tourism department - whatever the equivalent of that was in the early twenties. 2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 In a similar vein, and much closer to me .... 3 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welchester Posted June 12, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 12, 2022 23 minutes ago, Edwardian said: In a similar vein, and much closer to me .... Also applicable to Darlaston in the West Midlands (Darlo-on-Cut). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwardian Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 Google's chatbot, Lamda, claims it's sentient? ! . One Google engineer has been sent on gardening leave for making this claim. Other experts consider that the claim is to anthropomorphise a very sophisticated program; ask it if it has emotions etc, its program will tell you that it is. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocor Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 (edited) 20 minutes ago, Edwardian said: Google's chatbot, Lamda, claims it's sentient? ! . One Google engineer has been sent on gardening leave for making this claim. Other experts consider that the claim is to anthropomorphise a very sophisticated program; ask it if it has emotions etc, its program will tell you that it is. I guess that if I invite Hal in, the worst that He/She/It can do is lock me out of the house on the coldest night of the year, not out in space 762 million kilometres from Earth. Edited June 13, 2022 by rocor How can someone miss six orders of magnitude? well I did. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 55 minutes ago, Edwardian said: Google's chatbot, Lamda, claims it's sentient? ! . One Google engineer has been sent on gardening leave for making this claim. Other experts consider that the claim is to anthropomorphise a very sophisticated program; ask it if it has emotions etc, its program will tell you that it is. Ask it to sing "A bicycle built for two"... 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted June 13, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 13, 2022 20 minutes ago, Hroth said: Ask it to sing "A bicycle built for two"... I remember a music teacher playing that at school. I think he and I were the only people in the room who didn’t know about the other words to that song. I couldn’t stop laughing, mostly at the look of horror on his face! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Ian Simpson Posted June 13, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 13, 2022 (edited) A remarkably good recording, if it really is from 1894: Ed Favor was a popular singer in the 1890s and 1900s, so it probably is an accurate date. Edited June 13, 2022 by Ian Simpson 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocor Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 57 minutes ago, Regularity said: I remember a music teacher playing that at school. I think he and I were the only people in the room who didn’t know about the other words to that song. I couldn’t stop laughing, mostly at the look of horror on his face! I have never been aware of any alternative words to this song. But one verse of the original could be suggestive of a double entendre. You'll take the lead in each trip we take Then if I don't do well I will permit you to use the brake My beautiful little Daisy Bell Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted June 13, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 13, 2022 “…I’m half frozen, me b@@@s are going blue. I haven’t got a Johnny, A plastic bag will do. But you’ll look sweet, on the beach, with me on top of you.” 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 42 minutes ago, Regularity said: “…I’m half frozen, me b@@@s are going blue. I haven’t got a Johnny, A plastic bag will do. But you’ll look sweet, on the beach, with me on top of you.” Oh.... I must have had a relatively sheltered upbringing! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted June 13, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 13, 2022 2 hours ago, Hroth said: Oh.... I must have had a relatively sheltered upbringing! I would say that until the age of 13, so had I! 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CKPR Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 Turing test, mate, Turing test... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 (edited) Yeah but its not a very high bar these days to mimic human intelligence. We'll know for sure its gone all human once it goes and gets its lips pumped up to look like a fish or posts pictures of its ar5e on Instagram. Edited June 13, 2022 by monkeysarefun 2 1 1 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocor Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 21 hours ago, Regularity said: I would say that until the age of 13, so had I! I would say that I was also naive in such matters at that age, one instance that comes to mind is seeing a boy (My secondary education took place at an all-boys school) being pushed around by other boys in the playground, they were all shouting omo, omo, omo. I thought it was strange that they were all chanting the name of a well known brand of detergent at him. Not only that, but I wondered if they would diversify their chanting with the names of other brands, such as Tide or Daz. I would like to say that I then became "woke" as to what was occurring, but I can't. I just remembered it as being a strange incident, and have no recall as to when I realized what I had witnessed. 1 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alastairq Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 1 hour ago, rocor said: they were all shouting omo, omo, omo OMO? Old Man Out?? Perhaps he was 'flying low,' as they say? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 21 hours ago, CKPR said: Turing test, mate, Turing test... A new chess move? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted June 14, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 14, 2022 27 minutes ago, alastairq said: OMO? Old Man Out?? I wonder how many people will get that reference to the supposedly “better” behaviour of an earlier generation? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Northroader Posted June 14, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted June 14, 2022 OMO adds brightness, to cleanness and whiteness. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nearholmer Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 (edited) “Washes whiter”, or was that Persil? Anyway, at one stage omo used a cartoon of a black guy in a tin bath scrubbing himself as its logo, which led directly to it being used as a taunt. Edited June 14, 2022 by Nearholmer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Regularity Posted June 14, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted June 14, 2022 Hence this: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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