Absolutely. I know people that have tried similar and were indeed shot down (my dad). The magistrate pointed out it was his responsibility to keep correspondence addresses up to date.
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Absolutely. I know people that have tried similar and were indeed shot down (my dad). The magistrate pointed out it was his responsibility to keep correspondence addresses up to date.
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Have had five days off and back in work tomorrow. So why the hell did I leave it until today to all my shopping?
I got a snail on the inside of my 5 story high window thats been sat there all day long, its south facing so probably got kinda warm...
hopefully it finds it's way back to the outside cos I ant touching it and a mosquito net stops it coming in.
Gave it a misting of water to hopefully wake it up and move it along!
if it comes to it i will spray oil os silicone shine ont he window and let that intruder drop.
probably a better death than being cooked on a window.
hopefully it finds it's way back to the outside cos I ant touching it and a mosquito net stops it coming in.
Gave it a misting of water to hopefully wake it up and move it along!
if it comes to it i will spray oil os silicone shine ont he window and let that intruder drop.
probably a better death than being cooked on a window.
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Give him a wee tap on his shell and he'll release his foot so you can manually remove him. Much more effective and you can place him elsewhere to go on his merry way.
Now that the sumo wrestlers have left London, they presumably know how many holds it takes to fill the Albert Hall (Letters, 19 October).
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extract from the Guardian. Made me chuckle
Mike Abbott
Chiswick, London
extract from the Guardian. Made me chuckle
Decided this morning that i am no longer going to be a pushover.
First order of the day, ring a mobile operator complaints department.
Then hopefully celebrate by going to buy myself a bacon sammich
OK so that was not successful, once again i am infuriated.
First order of the day, ring a mobile operator complaints department.
Then hopefully celebrate by going to buy myself a bacon sammich
OK so that was not successful, once again i am infuriated.
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Clearly expecting Hasselblad x2d II 100C image quality
This person is now asking for the RAW file because she thinks this will be clear and thinks an image “weight” need to be 15mb or higher for this coffee table book that they are making.
How big is this coffee table book? Size of a house? I have printed many wedding albums with photos out of this camera no problem.
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I totally understand your problem here and think they're probably wrong. That said... I once helped someone do guitar photography for their eBay listings. Pro studio setup with lights, flash sync, portrait lens etc etc.
When my partner was using the finished images the guy had sent, he had cropped everything to within an inch of its life instead of moving the camera closer or using a zoom lens. Logos were pixelated, details were blurry, it was just a mess. And there was nothing we could do because the issue had been at the photography stage. Gah, flashbacks
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I totally understand your problem here and think they're probably wrong. That said... I once helped someone do guitar photography for their eBay listings. Pro studio setup with lights, flash sync, portrait lens etc etc.
When my partner was using the finished images the guy had sent, he had cropped everything to within an inch of its life instead of moving the camera closer or using a zoom lens. Logos were pixelated, details were blurry, it was just a mess. And there was nothing we could do because the issue had been at the photography stage. Gah, flashbacks
She also is going to run into the problem that the printing software won't be able to read RAW files and it won't print at all (besides all of the editing I have made like cleaning up the backgroun, adjust and exposure adjustments). All the printing companies I have used asks for JPEG, TIFF, PNG etc.
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I got told off yesterday for using the term "Chinese Whispers" as apparently it's offensive. 
I hadn't realised it was (my wife and I both use it, she's half Chinese (Malaysian)), the person that told me was really lovely about it and didn't give me a hard time or anything just dropped me a note to suggest it wasn't the best use of language and was very diplomatic about it.
So there you go, learned something new today. I had no idea it was considered offensive.
My first reaction was clearly being mortified that I could have offended someone, but my second was "huh... so what IS the expression I should use?!".
I've never been particularly PC in my private life or amongst friends and family but always try hard at work to be mindful of my language, but this one slipped through the net.
I hadn't realised it was (my wife and I both use it, she's half Chinese (Malaysian)), the person that told me was really lovely about it and didn't give me a hard time or anything just dropped me a note to suggest it wasn't the best use of language and was very diplomatic about it.
So there you go, learned something new today. I had no idea it was considered offensive.
My first reaction was clearly being mortified that I could have offended someone, but my second was "huh... so what IS the expression I should use?!".
I've never been particularly PC in my private life or amongst friends and family but always try hard at work to be mindful of my language, but this one slipped through the net.
I got told off yesterday for using the term "Chinese Whispers" as apparently it's offensive.
Anything joking about race in a non-private context is best avoided these days - awhile back one of my older colleagues, of a different generation, was cracking a couple of fairly harmless Chinese jokes and the face of my boss standing behind him was a study - did his best to gently steer him onto other topics as he was becoming more risqué with them but he didn't take the hint, later got a complaint put in about him by another colleague.
I got told off yesterday for using the term "Chinese Whispers" as apparently it's offensive.
I hadn't realised it was (my wife and I both use it, she's half Chinese (Malaysian)), the person that told me was really lovely about it and didn't give me a hard time or anything just dropped me a note to suggest it wasn't the best use of language and was very diplomatic about it.
So there you go, learned something new today. I had no idea it was considered offensive.
My first reaction was clearly being mortified that I could have offended someone, but my second was "huh... so what IS the expression I should use?!".
I've never been particularly PC in my private life or amongst friends and family but always try hard at work to be mindful of my language, but this one slipped through the net.
Ive worked with a lot of Chinese engineers and techs. I can assure you not one of them would ever have been offended. Its the usual thing of some sad act being offended on behalf of someone else.
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Yeah or just whispers and rumours probably gets the point across - it's just such an ingrained saying I just have to unlearn it.
Yeah absolutely, I'm not challenging it at all, I fully accept that I was in the wrong, I just was completely taken aback as I hadn't even appreciated the nuance behind it. It's just a relic of generational differences.
