The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread ΛΕ

[Cutlass]

Why are so many of the women in comic red haired?

 

[Takhisis]

If you start a new thread about electric cars make sure to post a link, hobbs.

Why are so many of the women in comic red haired?

Male authors' fetish, for one; also, it's probably the rarest hair colour which is a cheap way of showing that the character is ‘special’, especially if she has powers that have something to do with fire.

 

[cardgame]

Comics are still a visual medium; red (and blonde) stands out a lot more than brown and black.

 

[Traitorfish]

Charitably, red hair is also traditionally used as shorthand that a woman is a bit wild or dangerous, a bit outside the norms of polite society- so, y'know, Irish- and that's the sort of characters that tend to thrive in comic books.

Less charitably, a lot of comic artists can drawn exactly one (1) female character, distinguished exclusively by the colour palette, so every fourth woman is going to be a redhead out of necessity.

 

[metatron]

I could - hypothetically - talk about Anglospherian racism towards the filthy Continentals.
But you never listen.
So i won't.

 

[Silurian]

You've been in the same place for 50+ years? You must have seen a lot of changes!

Getting nearer to 60 than 50.

Back in the 70s the beaches were rammed in the summer. At the height of summer we would walk to beaches out of town that were not full of people on holiday. Now the beaches have plenty of space as the bucket and spade brigade have gone too Spain, we get stag parties and people on short breaks.

Did not start going to the pub until the end of the 70s but there were many decent pubs then. Many of them are now closed, or show football but are dead when nothing is on. Not sure how many nightclubs there are now, maybe three next too the harbour, back in the 80s there were over seven; but ther are more bars now that open late.

The shopping street used to have a decent range of shops but now I do not really think of going there to buy something.

Tourism used to be the biggest employer but now there is more light industry which is better.

Its still a beautiful place to live and the people are a lot more laid back than London.

https://www.englishriviera.co.uk/explore/the-english-riviera/torquay

 

[Cutlass]

Back when beer was brewed and they used wooden kegs, how long would beer last before it went bad? Did it break it's way out of the keg in time?

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Less charitably, a lot of comic artists can drawn exactly one (1) female character, distinguished exclusively by the colour palette, so every fourth woman is going to be a redhead out of necessity.

Take a look at the Archie comics. If you disregard the hair/hairstyle, there is no difference between Betty, Veronica, and Midge. The female characters who have undergone the biggest changes are Mrs. Andrews, Mrs. Jones, and Big Ethel.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Here's a bit of a mystery.

I have a book that was printed the UK (not sure if relevant) in 1969, pre-ISBN era. However, on the back cover is a series of numbers in a similar format as the ISBN, although looking it up in several databases brings up nothing. Does anyone know what this is?

 

[Chukchi Husky]

During the silent era, were films made at a higher frame rate than films made after?

 

[Takhisis]

They used to be made at a different frame rate than they are made today, for sure.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Here's a bit of a mystery.

I have a book that was printed the UK (not sure if relevant) in 1969, pre-ISBN era. However, on the back cover is a series of numbers in a similar format as the ISBN, although looking it up in several databases brings up nothing. Does anyone know what this is?

The Poster (formerly known as Gori) sez that Wiki says that ISBNs date back to 1965.

 

[Hrothbern]

During the silent era, were films made at a higher frame rate than films made after?

They were made at 18 frames per second instead of 24 frames per second.
When those old ones are played by mistake or because the device can only play at 24 frames per second, everything goes 33% faster.

 

[Takhisis]

I think it was 16 fps.

 

[Hrothbern]

I think it was 16 fps.

my bad !
it is 16
both the silent movies as the old 8 mm

 

[Chukchi Husky]

They were made at 18 frames per second instead of 24 frames per second.
When those old ones are played by mistake or because the device can only play at 24 frames per second, everything goes 33% faster.

In The Mummy from 1931, there's a flashback scene that's intentionally made to look like a silent film, so that it's slightly sped up and stuttering. I thought that would mean a lower frame rate, but someone who studied film at university said that silent films were made at a higher frame rate.

 

[Hrothbern]

In The Mummy from 1931, there's a flashback scene that's intentionally made to look like a silent film, so that it's slightly sped up and stuttering. I thought that would mean a lower frame rate, but someone who studied film at university said that silent films were made at a higher frame rate.

They were made at a slower fps.
When I checked that 16 fps of Takhisis I looked it up at wiki.

That stuttering.
The fps of those silent movies when recording were done manually. So in practice the fps was variable and often also higher than that base 16 fps.

 

[Cutlass]

In The Mummy from 1931, there's a flashback scene that's intentionally made to look like a silent film, so that it's slightly sped up and stuttering. I thought that would mean a lower frame rate, but someone who studied film at university said that silent films were made at a higher frame rate.

In the silent film era, movie cameras were hand cranked, and did not have electric motors. So speed was irregular.

 

[caketastydelish]

I'm having fits of anger lately, with nothing particular to be angry about. No one is bothering me, no problem in my personal life to justify the anger. Angry just because... like a mood.

Anything I can do to get over this?

 

[dusters]

I'm having fits of anger lately, with nothing particular to be angry about. No one is bothering me, no problem in my personal life to justify the anger. Angry just because... like a mood.

Anything I can do to get over this?

Breathing exercises.