Ben's Randomness

I could go on for years about this; I’ll probably come back to this at some point, but for now, enjoy the useless disorganised collection of rants....
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Recently, after killing some headphones, I was shopping for some more on Amazon. And something rather concerning started to become apparent. Looking through the specs and reviews for most headphone, everyone seemed only concerned about one thing about them. Bass. Now don’t get me wrong, bass is important, but then again so is treble. And mid-range....
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Unfortunately, there are some areas of this country, which are rotten to the core with hatred of authority, and jealousy of the “rich”, where people have been given everything for free, not needing to work for it.; being allowed to get away with nothing short of murder, with no consequence. With soft jail terms, suspended sentences, useless other “punishments”.  To add to this, we bought in draconian “laws”, to stop “terrorism”. Stupid stop and search powers that did nothing but create a culture of hatred towards the police, towards the government. Sure in the good times this was half acceptable, sure the powers against “terrorism” were acceptable the minute you mentioned Afghanistan etc. But this has done nothing in the long run but create this hatred, this jealousy towards authority....
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So the other day I’m watching a DVD boxset of a TV series, and there’s one thing that fucking bugs me about these things....
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So after rummaging around at my Grans house looking for pictures one boring afternoon, I found an envelope of old negatives. Really old. After some  discussion me and my dad estimated about 1963. Anyways, I thought I’d take them home and try and scan them to see if I could make anything of them. After my first attempts at scanning them, most of them turned out…badly. This was the best of them, after much playing about in various programmes:...
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