Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 4]

[BigBen]

Shakermaker said:

BigBen said:

SpeckledJim said:

If I held the rights to a good-but-old pop song I think I'd offer all the smaller radio stations a 50% royalty on all my royalties.

They'd probably play it twice a day then and I could have half a very big cheque instead of all of a tiny one.

I reckon (but have no evidence) that film studios cut royalties to get films played, for instance if a sequel or new release with the same actor are imminent.

I used to travel to the US quite a lot and noticed that the films being shown on TV were often the same as in the UK at the same time and for likely the same reason.

Can any PH movie moguls confirm?

Ben

Going to Google for this question, and one of the top results is a similar question being asked on PH in 2010. No answer then either!

If it was asked by me in 2010 it does show it is something I always wanted to know the answer to.

[glazbagun]

NoVetec said:

theplayingmantis said:

Can professional boxers have big beards?

Dunno.

Would it offer an advantage - unfair or otherwise?

Maybe a good beard would hold the blood, making tickly boxer's blood chin a thing of the past.

IIRC, Tyson Fury's coach had asked for clarification on beard length, only for him to shave it off anyway.

Related- is Queensberry rules bareknuckle boxing legal anywhere? In light of what we now know about concussion, it might be a far more civilized form of boxing than protecting the fists allowing multiple blows to the head.

[StevieBee]

V8mate said:

Johnspex said:

singlecoil said:

Johnspex said:

PRS royalties- how does an artist know how often his song is played on radio stations all over the world?

The stations have to declare the songs they play, and there are people who listen and do random checks.

As simple as that? Is it true it's about £8 a time?

IIRC, the BBC pay c.£100 per record played. I guess the fee is determined from listenership figures.

When I ran a Community Radio station, our annual PRS licence was £880.00. We were obliged to make available on request a list of songs played that was generated from the playout software that we used (Myriad) which generated the various reference coding for the songs automatically - providing the song loaded onto the system was bone-fide and not grabbed from You Tube via an MP3 converter. When a presenter played a song from a CD, they had to manually enter the information (though very few ever did as it was a pain in the bum).

Whilst the playout reports were always done and available, in the six years I was at the station, not once were we asked to submit it.

This was the lowest cost broadcast PRS licence available to us and was restrictive in what we could do. For example, we could only provide shows on a listen-again platform if all the songs had over 80% of their content stripped out. A licence that would allow entire shows to be available on Listen Again complete with music would have cost us something like £5k a year!

[captain_cynic]

anonymous said:

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Back in the olden days of bare knuckle boxing, boxers would strike at the chest and stomach (soft tissues) so breaking hands weren't really a big issues. Neither were deaths in the ring.

[glazbagun]

anonymous said:

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Which may explain the old-school boxing stance. With headshots being rarer, defensive priorities were different.



Many prize fighters would keep going for decades, which would be interesting- Would AJ have won his fight against Klitschko without gloves? Wilder vs Fury would have been even more one sided, it's a whole different sport all of a sudden.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

glazbagun said:

Which may explain the old-school boxing stance. With headshots being rarer, defensive priorities were different.



Many prize fighters would keep going for decades, which would be interesting- Would AJ have won his fight against Klitschko without gloves? Wilder vs Fury would have been even more one sided, it's a whole different sport all of a sudden.

The video that goes with that picture gives more information:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFqpWGL_EQE&t=...

[captain_cynic]

glazbagun said:

Which may explain the old-school boxing stance. With headshots being rarer, defensive priorities were different.

And where a boxer could be judged by the quality of his moustache

I'd always wondered why boxing had up to 15 (or 12) three minute rounds when most boxers where rendered near unconscious in less than half that until I learned about how bare knuckle fights actually happened.

I'm not really a fan of boxing but would be more interested in it if they went back to those days where it became a test of skill and endurance rather than who's lights got knocked out first.

[captain_cynic]

anonymous said:

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Some of it... but professional footballers keep going well into their late 30's if they're good enough. Oldest current player in the Premier league is 38.... after that they often go off and play American Football. I don't think bare knuckle boxing under the old rules will be strictly a young mans game, sure hanging in at 50 might be a stretch, but retirement in the 40's would be a thing.

[glazbagun]

anonymous said:

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I'm sure, but it would still be a sport where skill would matter disproportionately more tham today as your chances of getting caught would be reduced.


The above website also mentioned this guy, who's "scientific" defensive style allowed him to beat larger opponents, though people of the time found it a bit dishonourable that he wasn't just wading in and trading blows.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Mendoza

[Clockwork Cupcake]

anonymous said:

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Have a look at the video I linked.

Part of the longevity was due to the lack of gloves, which meant that punching the head was less often used due to the fact it would wreck your hands. Thus there was less of the "beating your opponent around the head until they lose cognitive function" that we have with modern gloved boxing. Ironically.

[schmunk]

captain_cynic said:

Oldest current player in the Premier league is 38....

...and he's fitter than any butcher's dog, plus has a beard of which any boxer would be proud.

[Frimley111R]

Why do some gearboxes crunch or are difficult to get into gear when the oil is cold? Surely it either lubricates or it doesn't?

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Frimley111R said:

Why do some gearboxes crunch or are difficult to get into gear when the oil is cold? Surely it either lubricates or it doesn't?

Many oils have different viscosity at different temperatures. When the gearbox oil is cold it is not doing the same job as it does at operating temperature.

[SimonTheSailor]

glenrobbo said:

I am thinking that perhaps Chris Goffey is a Neil Chambers prototype.

As for his height, it should be quite easy to ascertain:

Just lay him down with his feet pointing vertically and measure his length.

But then you would have to be a close friend of his to get him to do that.

Does anybody know where Chris Goffey lives ?

I think I'll just have to start stalking him........

[48k]

StevieBee said:

V8mate said:

Johnspex said:

singlecoil said:

Johnspex said:

PRS royalties- how does an artist know how often his song is played on radio stations all over the world?

The stations have to declare the songs they play, and there are people who listen and do random checks.

As simple as that? Is it true it's about £8 a time?

IIRC, the BBC pay c.£100 per record played. I guess the fee is determined from listenership figures.

When I ran a Community Radio station, our annual PRS licence was £880.00. We were obliged to make available on request a list of songs played that was generated from the playout software that we used (Myriad) which generated the various reference coding for the songs automatically - providing the song loaded onto the system was bone-fide and not grabbed from You Tube via an MP3 converter. When a presenter played a song from a CD, they had to manually enter the information (though very few ever did as it was a pain in the bum).

Whilst the playout reports were always done and available, in the six years I was at the station, not once were we asked to submit it.

This was the lowest cost broadcast PRS licence available to us and was restrictive in what we could do. For example, we could only provide shows on a listen-again platform if all the songs had over 80% of their content stripped out. A licence that would allow entire shows to be available on Listen Again complete with music would have cost us something like £5k a year!

Back in the olden days when I was freelancing in the radio industry I had a job as a programme assistant for a local BBC station. I had an A4 pad of forms from PRS and when the presenter had finished playing a record (remember those?) I had to fill in the details on the PRS form from the label on the record, plus the time to the second that it was played on air for. At the end of the show I had to fax (remember those?) the form to the radio station HQ.

[Riley Blue]

How come many (most?) people can whistle or hum in tune but when they open their mouths and sing they sound like a cat with its tail caught in a door?

[Jimmy Recard]

Riley Blue said:

How come many (most?) people can whistle or hum in tune but when they open their mouths and sing they sound like a cat with its tail caught in a door?

I think because plenty of people (including me) are not that good at controlling their voices finely but this only becomes really obvious when they try to sing.

Whereas humming or whistling don't require the same fine control


I'm sure there's a more scientific explanation to the talent of singing, but humming and whistling and singing are discrete operations

[singlecoil]

It's also harder for them to hear the notes they are producing and correct the pitch if required.

[davhill]

I haven't always wanted to know the answer to this because I only just found it, at the local Costa.
The snag is, I can't work it out.



I mean, how can the staff enter the toilet by pulling the cord when the cord is in the toilet cubicle?
Perhaps thay stay in there with the disabled person when he or she goes in.
Then, one of them can pull the cord to enter the toilet...

....er, hang on a moment.

[Jonboy_t]

davhill said:

I haven't always wanted to know the answer to this because I only just found it, at the local Costa.
The snag is, I can't work it out.



I mean, how can the staff enter the toilet by pulling the cord when the cord is in the toilet cubicle?
Perhaps thay stay in there with the disabled person when he or she goes in.
Then, one of them can pull the cord to enter the toilet...

....er, hang on a moment.

You may be overthinking things here, bud