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  1. Richard

    Feedback Site down

    Kevin wasn't pedalling fast enough.
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    Challenge! Guess What and Where

    I think this a variation (for advertising purposes?) of a saying which goes: "The Tuscans have heaven in their eyes and hell in their mouths", which means that the immoderate use of foul language by the Tuscans is well known, but their eyes are filled with the beauty of their landscape. So I...
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    Film Humor (aka getting photos developed at the Drugstore)

    I used to work for a business which hired out and repaired video equipment. One day a guy arrived, somewhat sheepishly, with a camcorder which belonged to his company. He'd 'borrowed' it for the weekend and now there was a cassette stuck in it. He wondered if we could discreetly extract the...
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    Your FIRST Flickr* photo

    This one, I think. -R
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    Art show advice

    The first image is the one which immediately appealed, if that's any help. -R
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    Photobombed!

    Meanwhile, in ancient Herculaneum ...
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    College Certificate vs Online Photography School

    There's another skill needed if you're going to take pictures at social events, and that's being good with people. The technical and artistic ability won't count for anything without a certain amount of charm, diplomacy, humour, patience and other such personal qualities that you either have or...
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    North America Total Solar Eclipse, April 8, 2024

    I'd love to see a total eclipse. I've witnessed a partial eclipse, and been disappointed by cloud on one occasion too. I think if I had a chance to see a total eclipse I would drive a few hours to a location with less likelihood of cloud, if that's possible. The time I did see a partial...
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    "Aviation Photo Thread" (Planes, Helos, Balloons, etc)...

    I remember going to an airshow in the 1980s when stealth technology was very new to the general public. The announcer on the PA had some fun getting us all to crane our necks to catch a glimpse of a stealth plane supposedly approaching - "It's coming in now from the left, keep looking, you may...
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    Show: Italy

    Up Pompeii (taken by my partner, processed by me) -R
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    How's weather at your place?

    As I submitted that post I noticed the ambiguity and thought someone would pick me up on it. For the record, they were two separate insects. I'm not sure why, but the bumble bees you get at this time of year seem to be huge. Maybe only the big tough ones venture out this early? -R
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    Completed Want to Buy: Fuji X100V | Location: USA | Ships: World

    Good luck in your quest (and you're not getting mine). -R
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    How's weather at your place?

    The weather today is freakish warm. I've got mixed feelings about a temperature of 16C in mid-February. On one hand it's very pleasant out there compared to what we could be getting, but on the other hand it's somehow Not Right. Just chased my first wasp out of the house - yesterday it was a...
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    Hello from NW Minnesota

    Welcome to the forum. I didn't know where NW Minnesota was until I clicked the link underneath your name, but I do now. It looks ... thinly populated. -R
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    What books are you reading for pleasure these days?

    Latest purchase in my accidental collection of aviation books: I bought this one because Iā€™ve read and enjoyed other books by Rowland White (particularly ā€œVulcan 607ā€, which is terrific) and Iā€™ve always been interested in the de Havilland Mosquito and its exploits. Iā€™m about halfway through...
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    Documentary Jodrell Bank Radio Telescope

    Apparently, it's still the world's third-largest steerable dish radio telescope (the Green Bank telescope in West Virginia and the Effelsberg telescope in Germany being nos. 1 and 2 respectively). -R
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    Show: Italy

    Positano, Amalfi Coast
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    Take The Shot When You See It

    This reminds me of something which happened to a friend of mine while we were studying A-level biology many years ago. Part of the coursework was to undertake a ā€˜tree studyā€™ ā€“ we each chose a tree and recorded what happened to it over the course of a year. Every month we would comment on any...
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    Crashed the car on the weekend.

    The US version seems very mild by comparison, almost a deliberate manoeuvre compared to what's going on in the Australian car. Where's the driver - in the footwell? -R
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    Crashed the car on the weekend.

    That's the kind of complacency that's going to result in the council getting sued one of these days, when someone gets seriously injured or killed and it can be shown that there was a long history of accidents on that stretch of road and they did nothing about it. -R
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    Crashed the car on the weekend.

    Is there even a sign to warn motorists that the stretch of road is unusually slippery after rain? You'd think it would cost less to put a sign up and to improve the road surface that to keep fixing the barriers. Not to mention the council having a legal duty of care to stop people getting...
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    Show "Water"

    This is water which shouldn't be here. Unauthorised, superfluous water. A flood, in fact. -R
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    Show "Signs"

    Sometimes I pass a road sign and I'm not sure what it means (it's been a while since my driving test). Others are completely clear - like this one. I wanted to get a bit closer for a photo, but unfortunately I was at the limit of navigation for my wellington boots. -R
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    How's weather at your place?

    Out by the back door doing my King Canute impression again this morning. The water level in the garden went up a bit after my photo yesterday, but it's now back where it was 24 hours ago. No rain forecast, so we should be OK. About half a mile from here, close to the river, people have been...
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    How's weather at your place?

    The weather at my place is wet. We've had a lot of rainfall recently, but hopefully there isn't much more to come. It should be reasonably dry for the next few days. Meanwhile, here's the view from the back door. -R
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    Challenge! Guess What and Where

    I think that's the bridge to the Isle of Skye, but which side are we? -R
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    What books are you reading for pleasure these days?

    I haven't started it yet, but this is a Christmas present from my partner. Now we're talking ...
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    The TOY NERD thread!

    Run for your lives, it's Nikonosaurus Rex ! -R
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    Crashed the car on the weekend.

    I've had a succession of automatic cars, all from the VW group. The current one and the one before that (perhaps all of them) have shifted down on long declines to apply engine braking without my involvement. The current car (a Skoda) is quite noticeable and will shift down the DSG gearbox from...
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    Challenge! The Colors Game

    Yellow
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    How do I recover photos from my camera after accidentally formatting my SD card?

    Perhaps if several programmes are reporting that 80% of the material on the card has been overwritten / corrupted, that's truly the case. -R
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    Challenge! The Colors Game

    Green
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    Challenge! The Colors Game

    Blue
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    Crashed the car on the weekend.

    I think I'm right in saying that choice of tyres counts for more than 4WD when it comes to traction on snow and ice. I remember watching a motoring programme years ago (probaby Top Gear) when 4WD cars on summer tyres raced regular 2WD drive cars with winter tyres around an icy oval track. It was...
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    New old guy!

    You would have been a useful guy to know when we were agonising over which flooring material to use in our new shower room a few months ago (glue-down LVT, since you ask) but welcome aboard anyway. -R
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    Crashed the car on the weekend.

    Quite possible. I imagine the police took a look at the depth of tread on the tyres and whether they were properly inflated too. -R
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    Strange YouTube trends

    There was a TV series shown here a few years ago which scientifically investigated various cryptids, including Bigfoot and the Yeti. The main method used was to collect hair samples at places where the supposed cryptid had been seen and subject them to DNA analysis. In each case the sample was...
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    Strange YouTube trends

    When my partner and I got into cycling a few years ago, along with the helmets and gloves we needed, I wondered if I should get some underpants intended for tough days in the saddle. People on cycling forums said that was important. So I did some research, and actually I didn't buy anything in...
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    Use For Empty Canon Ink Bottles

    A strip of old carpet stuck to the wall in my case (a trick I learned from my father). -R
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    Use For Empty Canon Ink Bottles

    We have a car port - a covered area alongside the house, under which I park the car. This is a feature unknown to insurance companies, who only offer the choice of "in a garage", "on a driveway" or "on the road" when it comes to specifying where the car is normally kept overnight. There's no...
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    iPhone creates fascinating photo

    For a moment I thought you meant that you took a picture of a piece of ground and the Samsung software inserted that dog, but I see the artifacts now. Yuck. -R
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    Birds Three Guys and a Gal

    It was like that when I was studying for an engineering degree. Worse actually - three gals among about fifty guys (and two of those were ... well, let's leave it there). -R
  43. Richard

    How's weather at your place?

    Today is one of those November days when it's a pleasure to close the curtains and turn the lights on. -R
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    Architecture Show: Bad Architecture

    Better to be inside looking out ...
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    How's weather at your place?

    Mine's come up a bit since my last post. The needle is now back on the scale at 965-ish, which roughly agrees with the weather app on my phone. I think we were in the middle of the 'low' earlier, which is why the barometer reading was so low and the winds were light. Now it's moved off into the...
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    How's weather at your place?

    CiarƔn has passed to the south of us, I think. Some heavy rain in the night but that was about it, nothing like the damage and disruption reported along the south coast and in the Channel Islands. Do we have any members in the Channel Islands? I just checked the barometer in the hall and I...
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    Do you keep your boxes?

    I generally keep boxes. Apart from anything else, cardboard cartons full of air and polystyrene standing on the floor of the attic act as additional insulation, in my book. -R
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    Binoculars anyone?

    I have a pair of Minolta 8x22 binoculars which I've owned for thirty years or more. As they are light and compact I tend to take them to places where larger and heavier binoculars would be an encumbrance. I think their last outing was to the top of Mt Vesuvius. Thinking back, I first bought...
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    Reset your camera clock

    I try to keep mine on the right time, it helps when merging pics from various cameras and phones in one folder. -R
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