Random question, but when a radio station plays a cut version of the song, whose decision is that? The reason I ask is because I listen to greatest hits radio in the evening and between 7 and 10, it's a woman called Jacquie Brambles and she played a cut version of I Still Haven't Found What I'm looking for by U2 and Don't Stop Believing by Journey which isn't even that long a song. Yesterday, when Heather Small was covering for Jacquie, the whole U2 song was played. So why would the whole song be played this time and an entire verse and chorus cut the previous time? Same show, same station, roughly the same time of day... The only difference is the DJ
It won't be the DJ, it'll be the producer. The shows are worked out ahead of time, so it'll often just be a question of fitting the songs they've chosen into the time period the programme is on for. If you play a full version of a song, you might lose another track off the end, or often it's a question of fitting around the news updates etc. Basically, it's maths. If a track is over around 4 minutes 30 in it's full form, a radio station will often want a radio edit of the track to take it down to 4 minutes or under. That's very often the version that will be played (although that stipulation is more around new tracks, rather than classic/greatest hits stations).
I’ve never done any of those things apart from the food pictures, but that’s mostly because I’m not a ****. I must be super young
Any fishermen who can identify these fish? Fresh water and in an irrigation canal. Not the clearest video but the water wasn’t at it’s cleanest either.
I recently realised that I had forgotten my mobile whilst on a car ride of 5 miles. Instant panic....OMG.... what if I break down!!! Then sanity hit....for most of my life I managed to travel happily without a phone.
Someone just called my phone, sneezed and then hung up. I’m getting sick and tired of these cold calls.
A fascinating bit of trivia gleaned from Facebook: The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Well, because that's the way they built them in England, and English engineers designed the first US railroads. Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the wagon tramways, and that's the gauge they used. So, why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they had used for building wagons, which used that same wheel spacing. Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break more often on some of the old, long distance roads in England . You see, that's the spacing of the wheel ruts. So who built those old rutted roads? Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (including England ) for their legions. Those roads have been used ever since. And what about the ruts in the roads? Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match or run the risk of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome , they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. Therefore the United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. Bureaucracies live forever. So the next time you are handed a specification/procedure/process and wonder 'What horse's ass came up with this?', you may be exactly right. Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the rear ends of two war horses. (Two horses' asses.)  Now, the twist to the story: When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory in Utah . The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains, and the SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds. So, a major Space Shuttle design feature, of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system, was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass. And you thought being a horse's ass wasn't important? Ancient horse's asses control almost everything!
Fair enough. I just wonder why the same song needed to be cut in the same show, like why did it fit one day and not the other? Presumably being the same show, they'd have the same running times... But it was during the 'most requested ' segment so maybe on that particular day longer songs in general were requested, requiring a couple to be shortened (shame they shortened two great songs)... But then I always figured they'd get way more requested than they had time for so they could select songs of appropriate length that they wouldn't need to cut any
Information for those who use postage stamps. ROYAL Mail customers are being urged to swap existing stamps for new ones before they are phased out. But one critic claimed the firm has kept people in the dark about the scheme, which has a deadline of January 31 for exchanges. Royal Mail is introducing barcoded stamps which will allow customers to track their letters through the firm’s app. Consumer expert Martyn James said: “For a company that’s all about communication, Royal Mail has singularly failed to communicate the most radical change to postage in decades. “It doesn’t matter that you can exchange existing stamps. Many people simply won’t learn of the changes till after the deadline.” There are fears customers may be left with stamps they cannot use after next year’s date to swap them for the new ones unless they act soon. The cost of a first class one increased by 10p to 95p in April, compared to just 60p a decade ago. It means a book of 12 stamps is worth £11.40. Royal Mail said it was “keen to ensure that no customers are left out of pocket following the transition”. The firm added: “People who cannot use their stamps before January 31 can swap them for barcoded equivalents for free.” Details of the scheme can be found on the firm’s website. It said special stamps with pictures on and Christmas ones without a barcode will continue to be valid and do not need to be swapped.
A weasel walks into a bar. “Wow! I’ve never served a weasel”, says the bartender, “What can I get you?” “Pop” goes the weasel
