Sidepodcast Hangout - Awards season
Who would you give an award to if you could?
Published by Christine Blachford
It's that time of year when all the industry bigwigs pat themselves on the back for a job well done. We've seen the Brits this week and the Oscars are later today, so music and film are fully covered! Who would you give an award to if you could, either in music, film or something entirely different? Has anyone missed out at a recent award ceremony, robbed of their rightful statue and speech?
Afternoon.
Hullo all.
Afternoon all. Looked at my watch at 1400 - meant to be :)
As someone who co-ordinates one of the most important awards ceremonies of the F1 year, i can't understate their importance ;)
Stuff like the Brits passes me by though. I watched Muse on them the other day but couldn't get past another 10 minutes or so of the actual awards for a variety of reasons
We are out and about for an impromptu Ikea visit today. I wonder how much stuff we will come back with.
I've still never been to an Ikea!
Needs to be done once.
Me neither. Must be something with still living at home.
Argos is closer for stuff like that :)
True. But the whole experience of being directed through the store and having to walk through every department (for fear of getting lost/missing the part you actually want) does need to be had.
I can't stand stuff like that though so it's probably not the best idea to go. even when I go to The Range I'm in and out within 5 minutes because it's just too much.
In general shopping isn't one of my stronger points :)
You must. They have great stuff.
Argos does not do meatballs and they are a must every time you go to Ikea. Although I should say I have never eaten at Ikea
I think the first award should go to Ryan for his work in promoting the Eurovision Song Contest within the sidepodcast community
Is it the Oscars today?
Erm, yes?
This is the very tentative first step in actually sorting out our setup. Studio 2.0. First stop - furniture that doesn't squeak.
Oh, I didn't know until I read the thread blurb. Seems to have popped up out of nowhere
Hello. I saw the film BAFTAs the other day, Fry was good despite a fairly bad script. The back-slapping annoyed me a bit. Didn't bother with the Brits this year.
Then you get meatballs and that chocolate dessert thing.
I have only ever noticed the squeaky furniture once or twice in all the time I have been around SPC
or ligonberries
I think so... but I do know that the NFLNetwork are putting Ravens Safety Ed Reed on the red carpet, then will be podcasting the results at some point this week.
Same here
Red Bull need an award for Crashed Ice but they need to stop doing it on Saturdays
https://twitter.c…129344512/photo/1
Sundays are the best days to burn afterwards though.
although I did notice eric bouiller is presenting the oscars :(
Oops, that should be a :)... damn keyboard
But I am always out on Saturdays.
Anyone fancy Crashed Ice in 3-D
https://twitter.c…04983200600555521
Not when they keep holding it at strange times or at the same times as other things I want to see.
I miss a lot of hangouts because I'm out on a Sunday afternoon or evening. I'll be out again in an hour or so.
Hello! Can't stay, it's after 1am and I'm catching up on the big reunion.
I mean....sleeping
*hums bwitched*
That'll never work with us :)
What reunion is this?
How was the pizza?
only the greatest tv show ever
disappointing :(
It really is!
I think I need another clue unless there was a BSB TV show
BOO
i don't think amy can offer a bigger clue seeing as she's already given you the name of it!
(psst.. it's called the big reunion..)
I'm kind of mad Blue have joined in. They haven't been missing for a decade like everyone else.
I mostly can't get over Richie having an Australian accent and just how much ill advised surgery Atomic Kitten have had.
I have no idea what any of you are on about.
you should, I don't even live in a country where it is broadcast :D
en.m.wikipedia.or…i/The_Big_Reunion
That kind of detail has never stopped you before
in big BSB news, Nick Carter is engaged. Now they're alllll old and taken.
I think I can cope without that in my life
Right, they did Eurovision and everything.
Australian/Brummie is my new favourite accent mix.
Your loss!
it's so odd, he was way too old when he moved here to pick it up that much. I kind of want to go to Sydney and see it in person.
Hello from Hong Kong airport, just to be different.
I saw your tweets about long flights. How is Hon Kong?
Ooh, airport! Where are you going?
Home, thankfully.
Two weeks in Mongolia & China.
Steven, Hong Kong is fine but then I'm only here for a few hours.
Mongolia? I had no idea people even went to Mongolia
Apparently people do ;)
It's for a mine site.
About -32C...............
What are you mining for
I experienced -30ºC-ish in the Ukraine 20odd years ago and I am not sure I have quite recovered yet
Holy cow
I now know the feeling.
My company is doing rfid tracking of bags of copper. Well we would if everything actually worked (and not due to the cold). Too much "yes, that's been done" when it hasn't.
I think I've got to -17, but that was due to quite a bit of windchill.
That doesn't include wind chill.
The mine site was warmer, about -10--15 but windier.
Not sure if it is the same in Mongolia but one thing I learned in a few eastern European countries is if you tell someone to do something and they say yes that does not mean yes they will do it. It means yes I understand what you want me to do. There were times when I was convinced a conversation meant one thing and the other person had a very different view of what the agreement had been
There's was definitely some of that but also the need to please the boss now. The Chinese side was worse, though compared to the wooden beds (literally) and generally poor conditions plus I got food poisoning on top of the cold I just got...
Sounds like a really tough trip. You must be looking forward to getting home if not to sitting on a plane for hours
Quit! It's enough to want an office job for life.
The trick will be to stop coughing long enough to pass through immigration.
It's great experience and great to look back on even if it is no fun at all. Plus it means you stick out in job interviews against the people with identical backgrounds
I have one!
Ok, see you all later. That's my flight being called now.
Have a good flight
Have a good flight.
If he doesn't die of cold!
I don't have a statue! FOR SHAME!!!
That's minor. I worked for a French company and we were building two electronics plant in the Soviet Union. One was in Ukraine and the other in Azerbaijan and I was supposed to be doing all the chemical stuff for both even though I was based in Ukraine. My boss turned up one day and asked when I wanted to go to Azerbaijan. We had a discussion of the details then he dropped in that he would need to arrange for me to eat somewhere other than the hotel restaurant. I asked if it was no good and he said it used to be good but some troops had been there on leave from the fighting in Nagorno Karabakh. They had been playing something like pass the parcel with a hand grenade when one grabbed the grenade and another grabbed the pin.
But it is perfectly safe he told me. Needless to say I refused to go anywhere near it
I am shocked. I hereby nominate you for an award for the Giggles advent calendar, Giggles Radio and anything else you care to add in
Haha, that's amazing. Sounds like Darwin Awards candidates.
Never thought of that. I really turned down an award nomination. Damn :)
Wow! I think that sounds like a reasonable refusal!
My Russian cousin told me a joke the other day which given where you were working you might appreciate. A guy came from South Africa to St Petersberg for a year job placement. When he went home, his colleagues asked him how it was. He said, "I liked the green winter better than the white one".
Ikea has let us down. They don't have what we want. Have to go to plan B... Just as soon as we figure out what that is!
en.wikipedia.org/…Plan_B_(musician)
I arrived in Ukraine in the August and it was +30-35ºC. I left the week before Xmas and it was -20-30ºC. The green winter was very hot
Ooo you're still here! Hello
Go with Lukeh's suggestion of Argos. You can even do it all on the web without going outside
Hello. After every hangout I see you tweet that you missed it and promise myself I will tweet you at the start of the next one. So far I have failed miserably
I turned everything off for an hour save I screamed at the world... see tweet at 13.59...
Oh, I accidentally went all usenet on the quoting on that last comment. 0-0
You are just out of practise with SPC
People always shouted at me on usenet when I quoted that way there
So have you ever found that your favourite song just isn't long enough?
musicmachinery.co…infinite-jukebox/
This takes any song and makes it go on forever and ever and ever and ever...
*tries*
I think Martin Whitmarsh should get an award for the best April Fools joke ever when he told us that he was hiring Sergio Perez to replace Lewis Hamilton
They were probably reading from AOL...
Love the pics. Very reminiscent of Christine's movie barcodes
mrschristine.com/…codes-movies-art/
Talking of infinate songs... That was eternal september
Heh, it's pretty nifty
OK it just went from nifty to amazing on the song im trying
Right I have to go and feed some ducks...
Quack you later
My guess... is that this is something to do with Muse
Feed them oranges. Saves time later
Useful tip
Think you may be onto somethere there detective inspector giggles :)
*something
Here's a question for you all: has anyone got any other suggestions for tech-y topics that they'd like speculating about?
I've got Modesty Panels, Coanda effect, Suspensions, Overtaking aids, and a few more things, but what do you think?...
I am happy to speculate about just about anything.
How about pullrod vs pushrod. Tyres compounds and from that number of pit stops
Different variations on the Fibre Optic kit...
(LPG wonders if that chap still works there...)
I'm trying to get the motivation to go out when I just want to hibernate. I suppose I'd better go now or I won't be back for Daytona. See you.
Pull/push rod is on the drawing board.
I like the tyres idea, I'll have to see what data is out there :)
Not sure the data is easily available but it would be interesting to see how ambient temperature/humidity affects the result of a race
Well the weather/outcome data is available is it not? Quite a lot could be inferred from that, historically if not for current season?
The data is all out there but it may take a lot of effort to get it all in the one spreadsheet
It's gone chilly again, hibernation is very attractive right now.
I might suggest that might be tricky... not sure the teams know themselves ;)
due to Giggles i have now been listening to Madness for 10 minutes and it's still going. It's driving me m-m-m-m-m-mad
I am not setting foot outside for any reason today. Much more fun just sitting here nice and warm
I wish that this was an option... *somebody* decided that he was well enough to go to work but not to take himself... and now he's posting pictures of a new 'crocs' shop in town onto twitter. (shudder)
Which means that I shall be having to take myself out again in a couple of hours to fetch... this is not doing productivity any good what so ever.
Mind you, I have the worlds warmest-yet-still-well Tinyboy asleep against my back so right now I am warm in an otherwise chilly house. (bliss)
I saw the tweet. Clearly he is not a Crocs fan
I approve of the idea of using kids as hot water bottles
What craziness has Giggles been instigating now?
Christine - what was the IKEA trip for? Is it anything that I could source in this one for you?
I'm going to go with this little kids called Derryn: doeverything.org.uk/
Short story: cancer since he was 10 and recently diagnosed with a type of cancer so few people have had, there's no data to base a treatment programme or prognosis on, so they're just going to do a bone marrow transplant. He's 13 now.
musicmachinery.co…infinite-jukebox/
Aww, thank you! I think we have another idea, but I'll let you know :)
It's like a musical version of spirograph.
Reminded me of your movie barcodes
Talking of movies, bit of a ping: mrschristine.com/…atch-298-skyfall/
I watched that last week but I think I slept through 20 minutes of it and was confused after that so I need to watch it again
Sleeping definitely doesn't help follow plots!
Reminds me I want to see that again...
Most Bond films are so formulaic that it wouldn't matter but this one seemed a bit different
It harks back to earlier formats, and references so many different films (not just bond ones) and social & political bits and bobs....
Ooh, five minute warning. Time flies!
Thanks for the chatting again today, peoples. More soon, no doubt :)
Better get my goodbye in now then :) Thanks again.
Bye all
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