Abusive comments when taking a shot

[lxdude]

Don't kid yourself. They are solely about oil. Without oil we wouldn't give a damn about "projecting power in the region."

Not kidding myself. It is not solely about oil. It is an important pinch point geopolitically, and there is much more than oil at stake. Oil has been no small part of it, though.

 

[mike-o]

Try walking round Marrakesh with a Leica during Ramadan. I was given a bollocking by some local Herbert whilst taking photos of a door (no-one remotely in danger of being in the shot). Not being the smallest of people or a shy, retiring type, I taught him some Anglo-Saxon phrases he probably hadn't come across before.

Later in the week, I had a couple of guys demanding money for being in a "general" shot of the street we were walking down. They got short shrift as well.

The world is full of miserable sods who will chance their arm in the hope that we will shell out cash easily. If you're just shooting a general scene in a public place, then tough it out. If you want to photograph someone specific and you want to get in close, then it's only polite to ask their permission and to accede to their wishes, especially if they say "no". Candid shots can be fun but they can also be very hit and miss.

I got chased and yelled at by some snake charmers in Marrakech a couple of years ago after taking their picture. I used a digital camera so I'm not sure if it counts.

 

[Steve Smith]

I used a digital camera so I'm not sure if it counts.

It does... but only in binary.


Steve.

 

[benjiboy]

China will not want to be at war with us or the rest of Europe or the US in fifty years as by then they will be outsourcing work to us because of our cheaper labour rates (I think it will actually be sooner than fifty years).


Steve.

One of the main reasons for wars isn't about gaining territory, but about securing markets for a countrys manufactured goods (which was why America was so keen for the British Empire to break up after WW11, and the fact that Britain was massively in debt to them), China already has the major markets for western goods, the U.S.A. and many European countrys are already massively in debt to China which is a why she can apply enormous pressure on the west that could actually end in war.

 

[lxdude]

so keen for the British Empire to break up after WW11

Wow, I only knew about two of those...You guys sure like to fight, dontcha?

 

[lxdude]

It does... but only in binary.


Steve.

OK, now that's funny.

 

[Steve Smith]

You guys sure like to fight, dontcha?

It got a bit boring after WW5


Steve.

 

[removed account4]

China will not want to be at war with us or the rest of Europe or the US in fifty years as by then they will be outsourcing work to us because of our cheaper labour rates (I think it will actually be sooner than fifty years).


Steve.

a lot of people are already outsourcing their work
and it isn't only to china


http://www.theonion.com/video/more-american-workers-outsourcing-own-jobs-oversea,14329/

 

[benjiboy]

I once rang Directory Enquirys to get the phone number of somebody who lives in a village about twenty miles away from my home that I have visited several times, the Directory Enquirys man who answered the phone who had an almost unintelligible Indian accent told me the place where the person I needed to contact lives didn't exist, and when I asked him where he was speaking from he replied "Bangalore"

 

[MattKing]

I once rang Directory Enquirys to get the phone number of somebody who lives in a village about twenty miles away from my home that I have visited several times, the Directory Enquirys man who answered the phone who had an almost unintelligible Indian accent told me the place where the person I needed to contact lives didn't exist, and when I asked him where he was speaking from he replied "Bangalore"

For the un-initiated ...

"Directory Enquiries" is the same as "Directory Assistance", and if you are young, the Directory was a book with names and corresponding telephone numbers that you could look up.

And if someone "rang" someone, it means they called them up on the telephone.

Hope the translation services assist you

 

[benjiboy]

For the un-initiated ...

"Directory Enquiries" is the same as "Directory Assistance", and if you are young, the Directory was a book with names and corresponding telephone numbers that you could look up.

And if someone "rang" someone, it means they called them up on the telephone.

Hope the translation services assist you

Thanks Matt, who said we speak the same language ?, I once found to my cost when I was in the military that to "knock someone up" means something completely different in North America
I actually have an American daughter in law, and some of the misunderstandings my wife and I have with her about language are hilarious.

 

[TheFlyingCamera]

The differences between the UK and the US/Canada are not really any worse than the regional variations within the US itself. I had a friend who was from New York City (the Bronx I believe). When he was a little kid, his family took a vacation trip to Maine. He went in a store in a small town and bought a bottle of Coke and some potato chips. The clerk put the chips in a paper bag, then turned to him and said "would you like your pop in the sack?". For a moment he thought she was inquiring if he was into father/son incest.

 

[Toffle]

For the un-initiated ...

"Directory Enquiries" is the same as "Directory Assistance", and if you are young, the Directory was a book with names and corresponding telephone numbers that you could look up.

And if someone "rang" someone, it means they called them up on the telephone.

Hope the translation services assist you

Further to this excellent definition, the telephone had a "keypad" with which to enter the numbers,

before which there was a "dial" which you rotated with your index finger for entering the numbers,

before which you could pick up the phone, and if there wasn't another "party" on the line, you could ask the "operator" to connect something like, "REGENT 3-7833"...

before which a phone was a microwave oven-sized box with a handle on its side which for some unknown (to me) reason you would crank several times and ask "Sue-Ellen" to get you "Hank" on the "line", all whilst holding something that looked like a draft glass to your ear and speaking into a funnel on the front of the phone.

Note: for 99% of this history, photographers used something called "film" in their cameras... and they liked it.

 

[Richard S. (rich815)]

......with a handle on its side which for some unknown (to me) reason you would crank several times and ask "Sue-Ellen" to get you "Hank" on the "line".....

I believe the cranking rang the bell or lit a light at "Sue Ellen's" end so she would "see" or "hear" you and connect to your hole on the board.

 

[Toffle]

I believe the cranking rang the bell or lit a light at "Sue Ellen's" end so she would "see" or "hear" you and connect to your hole on the board.

Thanks, Rich... that is pretty much as I guessed.

And Sue-Ellen listened to every word you said... thereby keeping the whole community up to date.

I might add that before this, some guy with a beard spoke into a petri dish filled with charcoal saying, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."

 

[Roger Cole]

Um, most of them still have keypads. At least phones other than mobile smartphones do.

 

[Toffle]

Um, most of them still have keypads. At least phones other than mobile smartphones do.

Thanks, Roger.
I stand corrected... I was speaking mainly for the benefit of modern folks, to whom Sue-Ellen is known as "Siri"...

and we have come full circle.

 

[Roger Cole]

Thanks, Roger.
I stand corrected... I was speaking mainly for the benefit of modern folks, to whom Sue-Ellen is known as "Siri"...

and we have come full circle.

It's easy enough to have a smartphone and think the world uses them. But I'm sitting beside my cordless home phone (albeit connected to a Vonage provided VoIP port on my home router) with a keypad, and my office desk at work has a keypad on the Cisco VoIP phone that lives there.

I swear when I build out my basement I'm going to finish it like it walked out of the 60s, rotary dial phones and all.

 

[benjiboy]

Further to this excellent definition, the telephone had a "keypad" with which to enter the numbers,

before which there was a "dial" which you rotated with your index finger for entering the numbers,

before which you could pick up the phone, and if there wasn't another "party" on the line, you could ask the "operator" to connect something like, "REGENT 3-7833"...

before which a phone was a microwave oven-sized box with a handle on its side which for some unknown (to me) reason you would crank several times and ask "Sue-Ellen" to get you "Hank" on the "line", all whilst holding something that looked like a draft glass to your ear and speaking into a funnel on the front of the phone.

Note: for 99% of this history, photographers used something called "film" in their cameras... and they liked it.

It's before my time but I think cranking the handle generated electricity to signify to the operator on the switchboard you wanted a line to call somebody, when the operator answered you asked them to connect you with the required number.

 

[Steve Smith]

The differences between the UK and the US/Canada are not really any worse than the regional variations within the US itself.

Same here with differences between North and South.


Steve.

 

[Steve Smith]

It's before my time but I think cranking the handle generated electricity to signify to the operator on the switchboard you wanted a line to call somebody, when the operator answered you asked them to connect you with the required number.

Correct. The handle turned a generator which rang a bell at the exchange. This system was still in use until relatively recently in some railway signal boxes where the phone just connected to the one at the next station rather than through an exchange.


Steve.