[mmcp42]

Just watched episode 4 of Arthur Williams fling round Britain
Flying into Sywell he called up Radio Hackey Hackey
Wha it is that?
Mr google doesn’t seem to know so it must be obscure!

[Paul_Sengupta]

Golf Echo Yankee?

[chevvron]

Maybe he had a cough

[Talkdownman]

All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio goo goo
Radio ga ga
All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio blah blah

[chevvron]

All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio goo goo
Radio ga ga
All we hear is radio ga ga
Radio blah blah

You'll have to forgive him; obviously his nurse didn't turn up last night.

[Paul_Sengupta]

[mmcp42]

hmm
as I'm hard of hearing (and thinking but that's another thread) I had the subtitles on
they said radio hackey hackey as well ?!?

[stevelup]

I’m sure I’m stating the bleedin’ obvious here but.

The subtitler clearly didn’t understand and wrote the nonsense. You then read the nosnsense and it convinced you that’s what you heard?

[Paul_Sengupta]

As he called up, it was "Gold Echo Yankee". As he landed, he replied "Roger, Echo Yankee" which would probably be the closest to "Radio".

[lobstaboy]

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2018 ... tles-work/

This gives an insight into how subtitles are made. Basically voice recognition software, but the words spoken are repeated by an intermediary with a clear voice that the computer can recognise. So if the intermediary gets it wrong...

[mmcp42]

ah

[joe-fbs]

We have subtitles permanently on and they are usually pretty hopeless for anything vaguely technical. Presumably produced either by voice recognition or (Ed Reardon mode on) by twelve year olds who don’t research properly (Ed Reardon mode off).

OK I confess, my Ed Reardon mode is never off.

[morticiaskeeper]

We have subtitles permanently on and they are usually pretty hopeless for anything vaguely technical. Presumably produced either by voice recognition or (Ed Reardon mode on) by twelve year olds who don’t research properly (Ed Reardon mode off).

OK I confess, my Ed Reardon mode is never off.

Ed Reardon mode is more a way of life for me!

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[TLRippon]

When it’s pantomime season and not many are around after the initial I’ve been known to use the call sign Golf widow twankey instead of golf papa yankey. Nobody has noticed yet.

[chevvron]

We have subtitles permanently on and they are usually pretty hopeless for anything vaguely technical. Presumably produced either by voice recognition or (Ed Reardon mode on) by twelve year olds who don’t research properly (Ed Reardon mode off).

OK I confess, my Ed Reardon mode is never off.

Wonder what it would make of 'hectopascals'.