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| Aegon | | 1144308. Thu Aug 06, 2015 2:21 pm |  |
| | Hello QI! I was watching Jonathan Creek (yeah, sue me :)) and noticed a particular sound, like a short high-pitched shriek. I've noticed it before in British series (the Sherlock episode in Dartmoor, Midsomer Murders etc) simply not in other ones. It usually appears when information technology is nighttime and is supposed to be scary.
Information technology reminded me a fiddling of the Wilhelm scream stock audio and now I'm very curious as to what it is. Could you aid me? Thanks! | |
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| Spud McLaren | | 1144310. Thu Aug 06, 2015 2:40 pm | |
| | Pure gauge; information technology may exist a fox - second soundfile hither. | |
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| Posital | | 1144315. Thu Aug 06, 2015 3:xiv pm | |
| | So we all have to sign up to listen - ah well... EDIT - ah I clicked on the wrong flake... EDIT2 - click on the big round light-green push - non small orange oblong...
Last edited by Posital on Thu Aug 06, 2015 iii:nineteen pm; edited 2 times in full | |
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| Murphy McLaren | | 1144316. Thu Aug 06, 2015 3:15 pm | |
| | Do we? I didn't. | |
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| Aegon | | 1144318. Thu Aug 06, 2015 3:twenty pm | |
| | That's it! All correct, at present I know what a red fox mating phone call sounds similar.
Is it really that common a sound in Britain to incorporate it whenever it's dark and stormy in series? Cheers, Murphy! (Btw, I didn't have to sign up either. Just click the play button.) Thank y'all also for the visual, Posital! | |
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| suze | | 1144334. Thu Aug 06, 2015 4:58 pm | |
| | Aegon wrote: | All right, now I know what a red fox mating call sounds like.
Is information technology actually that common a sound in Uk to incorporate information technology whenever it'southward dark and stormy in series? | Foxes are mutual animals in Britain, certainly. Plainly they are hard to count, just the guess is that there are around 250,000 developed foxes in the UK. Historically, foxes were primarily rural animals and most city dwellers would rarely come across 1. Only farmers tend to consider them as vermin and are allowed to exterminate them, while urban center dwellers seem happier to accept them around and the number of foxes living in towns is increasing. And now that I've heard those pull a fast one on noises, I know that at that place'southward at to the lowest degree one fox which lives somewhere nearly my home. Where we live, the garbage truck comes on Thursdays and so the trash goes out last thing Midweek night - and I've often heard noises similar that coming from outside on Wednesday nights. | |
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| Alfred E Neuman | | 1144362. Fri Aug 07, 2015 2:07 am | |
| | I discover information technology mildly agreeable that the English don't know what a fox sounds like. Peculiarly when so many have strong opinions on lion hunting. | |
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| CharliesDragon | | 1144364. Fri Aug 07, 2015 2:13 am | |
| | I gauge that answers the question of... what does the play a trick on say? *Goes to dig a deep hole to crawl into* | |
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| Spud McLaren | | 1144366. Fri Aug 07, 2015 2:25 am | |
| | Alfred E Neuman wrote: | | I find it mildly agreeable that the English don't know what a fox sounds like. Peculiarly when so many have stiff opinions on lion hunting. | Apart from Pos, I'm the only English language person who's commented. Merely that aside, information technology's truthful that almost townees (of which at that place are proportionally more and more than) wouldn't know, despite the proliferation of urban foxes. | |
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| Alfred East Neuman | | 1144373. Fri Aug 07, 2015 2:53 am | |
| | Spud McLaren wrote: | | Apart from Pos, I'm the only English language person who's commented. | I sometimes make the fault of assuming that everyone on here is English by default. Red foxes are the most abundant wild carnivores though, and are found throughout Europe and Canada. And as well, apart from Aegon, anybody who had posted is English language. Suze might be able to call herself many things, but she chose to become a citizen and that makes her as English equally your cricket squad is. :-) | |
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| Spud McLaren | | 1144376. Fri Aug 07, 2015 3:08 am | |
| | Alfred Eastward Neuman wrote: | | [...] as English equally your cricket team is. :-) | I wouldn't know. They might all exist Latvian as far as I'm concerned. | |
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| White potato McLaren | | 1144378. Fri Aug 07, 2015 3:31 am | |
| | Anyway, nosotros seem to take solved Aegon's query, so just for kicks here'due south a slightly less-heard natural sound. | |
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| 'yorz | | 1144385. Fri Aug 07, 2015 3:49 am | |
| | Notwithstanding another link that wants to install itself in My Documents. | |
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| Tater McLaren | | 1144387. Friday Aug 07, 2015 three:51 am | |
| | Is your computer set oddly? No issues of that sort found here. | |
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