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I'm afraid that it actually sounded Boring this year.

Last year's sounded fascinating and I thought about going this year. Thank goodness I forgot all about it.

All because not only am I a Storage Hunters (three countries) addict, I too have studied the orientation of door mats (ex paper boy), and, and, all too close to home.

Ken | 06.05.18 - 7:50 a.m. | #

Read the first couple of reports, but didn't bother with the rest. Bored..

Frank F | 06.05.18 - 8:00 a.m. | #

The copyright thing seems to affect Blancmange's fab cover of The Day Before You Came too. Dunno why.

B | 06.05.18 - 8:08 a.m. | #

Looking at Wisdom.Beyond.Fields, how long before a three word address that makes some sort of sense becomes a selling point?

Shame it just deals with surfaces, rather than allowing for height and depth, in built up areas you could be in multiple locations within any 3m x 3m square.

Still Anon | 06.05.18 - 8:09 a.m. | #

Honoured to appear in a photograph on DG's blog (and sorry if others find that observation rather boring...)

Rob | 06.05.18 - 8:45 a.m. | #

I actually enjoyed the back story of British Leyland's fixation with logos (rather than their concern with producing better cars!).

But what happened in the second seats of each row on the right hand side ? That's a whole treatise in itself.

Petras409 | 06.05.18 - 9:00 a.m. | #

I'm rather interested in the networking aspect. After all, the actual talks could have been delivered as podcasts, or blog posts. But the point of a live conference is surely the opportunity to meet other participants. Or is everyone there of the turn up, listen, go home persuasion?

Malcolm | 06.05.18 - 9:14 a.m. | #

Thanks for the review. One year I’ll get along to it! I’ve really enjoyed the podcasts and hope the BBC commission more.

Wheels | 06.05.18 - 9:43 a.m. | #

Boring correction re: 11.38
Her name is Kathryn Ferry, not Kathryn Perry.

dg writes: Fixed, thanks.

Andy | 06.05.18 - 11:51 a.m. | #

I didn't find the whole event this year as good as the previous two.
The two "joke" talks could have been much shorter.

David @DTL | Homepage | 06.05.18 - 3:20 p.m. | #

Which were the two “joke” talks?

Spatula | 06.05.18 - 8:24 p.m. | #

Once again,DG,you have made the very boring quite interesting and twice,quite amusing. 😉

Jo W | 06.05.18 - 8:32 p.m. | #

Spatula : I'd say the damp patches talk and the final talk.

David @DTL | Homepage | 07.05.18 - 8:21 a.m. | #

There seemed to be fewer talks, and I found the damp patches talk completely pointless (it irritated me to the point of anger, actually) - maybe just my perception, but it felt like someone taking the piss. I also found Louise's talk to be one long ramble - and also longed for Peter York to have some kind of coherent point, charming as he may be. Boring, for me, is always going to be about the Watergate hiss, the British Leyland branding disasters, the Hook New Town plans. You'd think, given the growing popularity of the "brand" with additional evenings, the podcast and now the book, there'd be heaps of people queuing up to give their 15 minutes... though maybe in a city now populated with multiple intelligent stand up nights like Science Showoff, Bright Club and even Hannah Cameron's Mapsolutely Hilarious, perhaps the market for entertaining yet intelligent talks is now swamped.

For Malcolm: there's no networking aspect I've noticed - people rock up, listen, then go. Mind you, the real conferences I attend furnish you with things like ice-cream socials to facilitate the networking element. I suppose I could have offered out my Love Hearts...

And I too am in that photo. Fame at last. (Actually given a photo I seemed to see on the mobile version of this post, unless I dreamed it, I was sitting not a million miles from DG, unbeknownst to either of us I'm sure!) As for those empty seats - no idea what was happening but by golly they ensured I got a lovely unobstructed view!

mightymouse | 07.05.18 - 4:43 p.m. | #

No mention of the sudden interruption during the game of Snap, when a woman in the front row opened up a water bottle into which she had put a Berocca tablet earlier, causing it to fire out a huge jet of orange liquid almost up to the ceiling, and then rained down mainly into the central aisle but also onto some of the attendees (self included).

But I suppose that wasn't really in keeping with the rest of the day - far too interesting!

D | 08.05.18 - 11:14 a.m. | #

Oh, is that what it was? I wondered what could possibly cause such a violent eruption!

mightymouse | 08.05.18 - 1:24 p.m. | #











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