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Post by lfbarfe on Mar 3, 2006 15:10:46 GMT
It seems to be a modern day thing to label anyone slightly eccentric or having passion for a subject as having Aspergers. Just because the TD guys have a passion for 60's TV companies / presentations / clocks / Jack Parnell, it is not right to label them as having Aspergers. Speaking as the person who wrote the Jack Parnell piece, and as someone who compiles separate discs of continuity when dubbing my old tapes to DVD, I can safely say that you're right in this instance. However, quite a few Transdiffusion contributors do have Asperger's. This is not an assumption on my part, this is because they've told me they have it. My main problem with Transdiffusion is that there is such a lot of bad writing on it. The historical stuff is usually quite good, but when they get into the realms of comment, it all goes awry. |
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Post by lfbarfe on Mar 3, 2006 15:12:16 GMT
Hmmm...? That was a bit random Louis... Oh, the converting media files thing? Yeah you've been doing that for some time now, haven't you? You've got a few years on me - I'm still trying to get the missus to show me how...  Sorry, Bevan. Was a crap innuendo. Must resist temptation in future. |
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Post by Pete Seaton on Mar 3, 2006 15:38:42 GMT
I have Aspergers too (aka a/s)
but im nor a trainspotter or an anorack
possiby a coat hanger : )
and I do say please
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Post by Andy Henderson on Mar 3, 2006 15:42:17 GMT
I guess there are degrees, liked any condition. At the most severe end, you get the total 'speak and spell' monotone that comedians love to parody. Benny Hill used to do a character with such mannerisms. Possibly the 'trainspotter' tag was developed from this.
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Post by Pete Seaton on Mar 3, 2006 15:45:56 GMT
getting a bit o/t and into the sillies....
anyway, as a fellow a/s (non sufferer)
i must say a lot do have obsessive behaviours
ie shopping / spinning things / juggling
(and forgetting capital letters)
mine is filling my home with rotating plastic demons
(ie vinyl/CD's/ DVD's and videotapes)
pretty harmless and keeps one out of trouble,
as long as you don't become a pirate
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Post by john g on Mar 3, 2006 16:21:54 GMT
Does anyone know what this thread is about?
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Post by Nosmo King on Mar 3, 2006 16:28:37 GMT
Does anyone know what this thread is about? It's about 4 pages ... so far! |
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Post by yorkshire on Mar 3, 2006 16:39:03 GMT
I am replying to cliveUK's earlier message. I do hope to get a good grade from this project as i am into all aspects of TV, but TV station presentation sticks out like a sore thumb in my interests. I don't know how to explain my goals as they are complicated. I do know one of them though. This is to compare yeaterday's (not literally, yesterday's) television presentation, not necessarily the programmes, as the manner of them (apart from the programmes getting smuttier), hasn't really changed at all, apart from the introduction of "reality" programmes. i mean, you still get sitcoms, soaps, dramas, game shows etc. today like you got in the '60s. Although some say that the sitcom is a dying breed, personally, i think that it is CHANGING. A good example of this would be The office/The Royal Family. these are what i call "sitdoms" as in they are sitcoms, but they are not using a laugh or clap track or nor are they using the traditional "dolly" cameras. they are filmed using the ENC cameras (shoulder cameras). Anyway, back to the topic. things were very different in the past to today. 1) We used to get closedowns 2) ITV was actually more decent in those days as you had a local little television station rather than a commerical BBC with downmarket programmes. 3) television was in black & white. 4) You had the "glorius" testcard when you got home from school or work. 5) You had simultaneous broadcasting (as in you had BBC-1 & ITV simulaneously broadcast on VHF 405-lines & UHF 625-lines) so if you were a real weirdo, you could see what a programme was in black & white & what it was in colour. 6) some ITV regions (not yorkshire) & the early days of the BBC had in-vision announcers. 7) You had a clock to count precisely up to whatever time the news or sport was on. i think that the BBC used their clock on all live events such as Match of the day or grandstand. 8) You had no video recorders so a programme was permanently in your head & that couldn't be recorded over (unless your'e Homer simpson). 9) You could easily tell if someone had a B/W or colour telly by simply looking at their aerial. some good sites for aerial physics if your'e interested: www.sub-tv.co.uk, which also has good articles on ATV. www.wrightsaerials.co.ukwww.mb21.co.uk (for transmission aerials). anyway, i know this was a long message & i really must be off now! see ya! |
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Post by URA Burke on Mar 3, 2006 16:46:52 GMT
i really must be off now! Hooray .. don't hurry back. Not if I see you first |
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Post by pete on Mar 3, 2006 21:25:00 GMT
so whats is the addy for transdiffusion I should keep my mouth shut about 'transdiffusion'. The site itself appears to have been designed by an aspergers collective or the inhabitants of 'hut 3'. On the surface, it appears packed with information, but as you dig deeper it all falls apart into a schizoid version of a good early television website. Anyone finding the main page is likely to wonder what it all means. It claims to record broadcasting history, but contains a multitude of inside jokes and irrelevant articles attempting to assemble themselves into something coherent. If someone told me that it was all a parody, it wouldn't worry me as much as it does. |
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Post by James Phillips on Mar 3, 2006 21:33:57 GMT
the same with the BBC before BC-2 came out, was it really necessary to put the "TV" bit on the end?) Ah well, in fact yes it was, to differentiate it from BBC Radio. In the old days of 405-line telly, being transmitted on VHF*, it was possible to tune in your radio and pick up the sound! *that's FM to you young whippersnappers |
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Post by James Phillips on Mar 3, 2006 21:35:01 GMT
Don't know what all this ol boys chat all has to do with missing tv. Smug point scoring by having a go at Asperger's sufferers? Very grown up. You are Russ Graham and I claim my five pounds! |
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Post by Laurence Piper on Mar 4, 2006 2:19:47 GMT
It seems to be a modern day thing to label anyone slightly eccentric or having passion for a subject as having Aspergers. Just because the TD guys have a passion for 60's TV companies / presentations / clocks / Jack Parnell, it is not right to label them as having Aspergers. Yes, it's just convenient another way of one anorak doing down another anorak with differing views on sites like this, by saying "i'm normal, you're abnormal". This thread seems to have gone astray, by the way! |
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Post by peter kennedy on Mar 4, 2006 3:48:24 GMT
This post started off with bad manners with someone making a request for footage.
To that person ,ive learnt over time that please and thank you are the most important bit of information you need to provide when asking for help from others ,then follows the items you need .ive gained help from here a few times by using those 3 simple words that people rember most,and im sure that the person who is looking to help me with another item i asked about remembers my manners too.
peter
p/s before anyone trys to corect my grammer i have a verticle imbalnce learning disaiblity that efects my processing so i do what i can.
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Post by B Thomas on Mar 4, 2006 6:42:20 GMT
Hmmm...? That was a bit random Louis... Oh, the converting media files thing? Yeah you've been doing that for some time now, haven't you? You've got a few years on me - I'm still trying to get the missus to show me how... Sorry, Bevan. Was a crap innuendo. Must resist temptation in future. No worries mate - no offence taken.  |
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