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Easy for you to say...

Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

I am off for a fortnight's serious pampering at
Coconut Residence in The Gambia - terrible name but a fabulous place,
with the best restaurant in West Africa and some of the best fish
anywhere in the world.

Of course, if you want to get 'the authentic feel of Africa' and go on
one of those pre-packaged village visits with 'authentic local food',
then you are likely to get what you deserve. Even Andre wouldn't be
*that* crazy! :-)
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

Pinkerton, leave me out of your smug bragging about your ostentatious
consumption right in the faces of starving children.

The last time I was in West Africa I did not stay in luxury hotels. I
slept on a bunk in the cab while someone else drove the relief truck
loaded with food for the famined.

There's no point in even expressing my contempt for you; you wouldn't
understand.

Andre Jute

On 28 Jan 2006 06:55:24 -0800, "Andre Jute" wrote:


Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

I am off for a fortnight's serious pampering at
Coconut Residence in The Gambia - terrible name but a fabulous place,
with the best restaurant in West Africa and some of the best fish
anywhere in the world.

Of course, if you want to get 'the authentic feel of Africa' and go on
one of those pre-packaged village visits with 'authentic local food',
then you are likely to get what you deserve. Even Andre wouldn't be
*that* crazy! :-)
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

Pinkerton, leave me out of your smug bragging about your ostentatious
consumption right in the faces of starving children.

The last time I was in West Africa I did not stay in luxury hotels. I
slept on a bunk in the cab while someone else drove the relief truck
loaded with food for the famined.

There's no point in even expressing my contempt for you; you wouldn't
understand.

Andre Jute

Well gee I guess we can all stop this pursuit of High-End audio and
give the money to the starving children of Africa.

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 12:38:04 +0000, Pooh Bear
wrote:

Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:08:58 +0000, Pooh Bear
wrote:

Does it exist somewhere on the net ? I'd be interested to see it.

It does now. :-)

My ISP filters binaries. abse perhaps ?

I put it up on ABSE a year ago.
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

On 28 Jan 2006 06:55:24 -0800, "Andre Jute" wrote:

Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

I am off for a fortnight's serious pampering at
Coconut Residence in The Gambia - terrible name but a fabulous place,
with the best restaurant in West Africa and some of the best fish
anywhere in the world.

Of course, if you want to get 'the authentic feel of Africa' and go on
one of those pre-packaged village visits with 'authentic local food',
then you are likely to get what you deserve. Even Andre wouldn't be
*that* crazy! :-)

Pinkerton, leave me out of your smug bragging about your ostentatious
consumption right in the faces of starving children.

Actually, my 'ostentatious consumption' keeps quite a few of them
employed. Also, if you actually *knew* anything about The Gambia,
you'd be aware that it doesn't *have* any starving children, being one
of the most food-rich countries in all Africa. No money, for sure, but
plenty of food, in fact they *export* lots of fish and ground nuts,
and they have an excellent local brewery. The Gambians, of whom there
are only 1.3 million, are one of the few nations which has learned
God's basic lesson - stop breeding when the food's getting short.

That's the basic reason for the continuing Cold War between Senegal
and The Gambia, as Senegal would just love to have the super-fertile
banks of the Gambia river as part of its own agricultural
infrastructure.

The last time I was in West Africa I did not stay in luxury hotels. I
slept on a bunk in the cab while someone else drove the relief truck
loaded with food for the famined.

Oh dear, more bull**** from Jute.

Hey Andy, I'm confused about the timeline here. Was this before or
after you had some poor kid put up in front of a firing squad, as per
one of your previous 'Tall Tales from Darkest Africa'?

Also, was it before or after you were training police drivers in
pursuit techiques?

Also, was if before or after you rescued Nelson Mandela from Robben
Island?

Please select whichever deranged fantasy is your particular preference
this week...........

There's no point in even expressing my contempt for you; you wouldn't
understand.

My understanding far exceeds your literary capabilities, dear boy.....

BTW, please leave me out of your pathetic ravings about starving
children, as that's down to corruption, tribalism and over-breeding,
not tourists like me who bring in lots of hard currency.
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 14:37:38 GMT, dizzy wrote:

Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

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Easy for you to say...

Yes, it was..... :-)

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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 12:14:09 GMT, "Ian Iveson"
wrote:

Stewart Pinkerton wrote

No binaries please Stewart. Too many alarms to cope with, panic,
mayhem, meltdown.

You know better.

I do, but I'm an idle sod, and still officially on holiday...........

While you're here though (have you just come from Africa?)

I have - the drumming is interesting.

, can you tell me if

"Music is Art - Audio is Engineering"

is an expression of the dialectic?

It is of course a dialetic, as the search for truth by good testing is
the name of the game, although I'd consider it more an expression of
the dielectric, myself.

Does the vector product define
the direction of progress?

Absolutely.
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 12:38:04 +0000, Pooh Bear
wrote:

Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:08:58 +0000, Pooh Bear
wrote:

Does it exist somewhere on the net ? I'd be interested to see it.

It does now. :-)

My ISP filters binaries. abse perhaps ?

I put it up on ABSE a year ago.

I'm afraid that means it won't be there now though.

Graham

jt wrote:

On 28 Jan 2006 06:55:24 -0800, "Andre Jute" wrote:


Stewart Pinkerton wrote:

I am off for a fortnight's serious pampering at
Coconut Residence in The Gambia - terrible name but a fabulous place,
with the best restaurant in West Africa and some of the best fish
anywhere in the world.

Of course, if you want to get 'the authentic feel of Africa' and go on
one of those pre-packaged village visits with 'authentic local food',
then you are likely to get what you deserve. Even Andre wouldn't be
*that* crazy! :-)
--

Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

Pinkerton, leave me out of your smug bragging about your ostentatious
consumption right in the faces of starving children.

The last time I was in West Africa I did not stay in luxury hotels. I
slept on a bunk in the cab while someone else drove the relief truck
loaded with food for the famined.

There's no point in even expressing my contempt for you; you wouldn't
understand.

Andre Jute

Well gee I guess we can all stop this pursuit of High-End audio and
give the money to the starving children of Africa.

I don't imagine it would make very much difference. Africa is a sink of
corruption, incompetence and violence.

I don't care what you do with your money, JT; I have no opinion on
where you should spend it; it is yours; do with it as you please.

What I object to is slime like Pinkerton trying to make me complicit in
his immoral choice of a pensioner's all-inclusive luxury holiday in
Africa.

That the Organization of African Unity, which is the club which
protects those guilty of the corruption, incompetence and violence
which kills so many millions every year in Africa, chooses to meet in
the hotel in where Pinkerton went on his pensioner's package holiday,
tells you why those of reasonable everyday sensitivity would never stay
there, never mind brag about it.

This isn't the place to discuss the evils abroad in Africa, and no one
here except me knows enough about them to discuss them anyway, so,
while you are of course free to reply, you will forgive me if I don't
take any further part in this thread.

Andre Jute