A Cautionary Tale!

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I started doing a little reverse image search of some of my more popular landscape/cityscape images, just to make sure none were being used without permission. Rather amused to find that one of my images that was licensed via Getty was used in the following article (not to be opened if you're a delicate flower).

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/lat...ng-poo-Newcastle-quayside-viral-Facebook-post (My image is half way down the page - the night image of Newcastle Quayside).

So there you go, think twice before you delve into the world of stock images :) :)
 
So long as I'm getting paid appropriately I really don't care what my images are used with, no one except maybe other photographers normally look at credits
 
MWHCVT said:
So long as I'm getting paid appropriately I really don't care what my images are used with, no one except maybe other photographers normally look at credits
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Luckily, in this case, they just credited it as 'Getty'.

If I had been credited by name (and in an ideal world) I'd prefer more than the pittance I receive from Getty to have my name in any way, no matter how insignificantly, associated with a chav taking a dump on the street in broad daylight :)
 
danny_bhoy said:
Luckily, in this case, they just credited it as 'Getty'.

If I had been credited by name (and in an ideal world) I'd prefer more than the pittance I receive from Getty to have my name in any way, no matter how insignificantly, associated with a chav taking a dump on the street in broad daylight :)
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To be fair to the girl, whilst the headline said she was pooing, the photo showed she was just having a wee :p
 
There used to be a lot more public toilets. Another victim of austerity budget cutting. I notice that the nearest public toilet to my house, which has been closed for a few years, is now up for sale. It wouldn't surprise me if there's a causative connection between closure of public toilets and increased public weeing.
 
chris malcolm said:
There used to be a lot more public toilets. Another victim of austerity budget cutting. I notice that the nearest public toilet to my house, which has been closed for a few years, is now up for sale. It wouldn't surprise me if there's a causative connection between closure of public toilets and increased public weeing.
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I'm not sure that's the full reason, maybe it's because people can't be trusted to use public conveniences for their intended purposes, I won't elaborate further.
 
chris malcolm said:
There used to be a lot more public toilets. Another victim of austerity budget cutting. I notice that the nearest public toilet to my house, which has been closed for a few years, is now up for sale. It wouldn't surprise me if there's a causative connection between closure of public toilets and increased public weeing.
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Really, every pubic toilet I can think of locally was closed at least 15 years ago, long before any austerity measures, and pretty much all of them we closed for the self same reason, misuse and antisocial behaviour, the last one I remember my dads company having to sanitise before it could be knocked down was about 10 years ago and from memory we used/filled 18 x 20ltr sharps containers clearing all the drugs needles from the building they were literally an inch or two deep of them on the floor and all the WCs had been filled with them

The popular gripe lately is to blame anything and everything on austerity, well rubbish when it comes to public toilets
 
Not rubbish in Wiltshire. One public toilet in a more secluded area in Devizes was demolished over ten years ago because of 'anti-social behaviour' but the district council recently built a new 'pay-to-pee' in one of the main car parks. It's now trying to wash its hands of this (sorry!) and all the other public loos in the county and pass the responsibility over to the town councils.
 
MWHCVT said:
Really, every pubic toilet I can think of locally was closed at least 15 years ago, long before any austerity measures, and pretty much all of them we closed for the self same reason, misuse and antisocial behaviour, the last one I remember my dads company having to sanitise before it could be knocked down was about 10 years ago and from memory we used/filled 18 x 20ltr sharps containers clearing all the drugs needles from the building they were literally an inch or two deep of them on the floor and all the WCs had been filled with them
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yeah that - and not mention cottaging/dogging - when i worked for a council our toilets all had timelock doors so that they could only be opened from inside after a set time
 
And that was just the staff bogs!!!
 
Isn't that Cheryl Cole/Tweedy/Verciny or whatever she's called this week.
 
"They could only be opened from the INSIDE after a set time." Stops shaggers, dopers and other indulgers in antisocial behaviour getting in after the set time, not those who are already in getting out.
 
Nod said:
"They could only be opened from the INSIDE after a set time." Stops shaggers, dopers and other indulgers in antisocial behaviour getting in after the set time, not those who are already in getting out.
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If someone is inside how do they open the door before a set time ?
 
shapeshifter said:
How if the time has not elapsed?
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Are you for real? you surely must realise how such a door works..put simply the external door handle will not open the door out of hours, however the internal handle can still open the door at any time so if someone is inside the toilet it can always be opened, however if someone tried to use the outer handle in the closed hours it will not allow the door to open
 
shapeshifter said:
Can you explain what you mean?
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Yes. Can you understand my explanation?

To make it easier for you, I've copy/pasted the Oxford Dictionaries' definition - used here for educational purposes...

the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. The two main areas are logical semantics, concerned with matters such as sense and reference and presupposition and implication, and lexical semantics, concerned with the analysis of word meanings and relations between them.
  • the meaning of a word, phrase, or text:
    "such quibbling over semantics may seem petty stuff"
Source link. http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/semantics
 
Nod said:
Yes. Can you understand my explanation?

To make it easier for you, I've copy/pasted the Oxford Dictionaries' definition - used here for educational purposes...

the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. The two main areas are logical semantics, concerned with matters such as sense and reference and presupposition and implication, and lexical semantics, concerned with the analysis of word meanings and relations between them.
  • the meaning of a word, phrase, or text:
    "such quibbling over semantics may seem petty stuff"
Source link. http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/semantics
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So where does the semantics come into the question of how the person using the toilet opens the door before the time has elapsed?
 
Let's go back to Pete's post.


big soft moose said:
yeah that - and not mention cottaging/dogging - when i worked for a council our toilets all had timelock doors so that they could only be opened from inside after a set time
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Hard to see in the typed version but what he means is that after a certain time (let's say 10pm), the toilet doors can only be opened from the inside, so someone who goes in to use the facility at 9:59pm and is still in there after 10pm can open the door since they are inside. However, someone needing to use (or abuse) the facility cannot open the door from the outside - the door can only be opened from the inside after the set time. Plain and simple logical semantics.
 
Nod said:
Let's go back to Pete's post.





Hard to see in the typed version but what he means is that after a certain time (let's say 10pm), the toilet doors can only be opened from the inside, so someone who goes in to use the facility at 9:59pm and is still in there after 10pm can open the door since they are inside. However, someone needing to use (or abuse) the facility cannot open the door from the outside - the door can only be opened from the inside after the set time. Plain and simple logical semantics.
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No it's not because the question still applies in both cases. If there could be a misunderstanding of the conclusion raised by the initial statement possibly so. But as the question of "how does the person open the door before the time has elapsed ( be it a period of time from entering or a particular time of day) semantics is not relevant as it is clear there is still an imprisonment either way. I think I know the answer, they climb over the top.:eek:
 
There is no imprisonment - the door can be opened from the inside and only the inside after the set time. Unless you consider the outside to be a place of confinement...
 
sigh - after a certain time you can only open the door from the inside (so anyone who fell asleep doesnt get locked in) , before that certain time you can open the door from both within and without

so basically once the toilet block is empty after say 6pm the doors can't be opened until 8am - thus preventing the block being used for cottaging/drug dealing / prostitution or other purposes for which it was not designed

the pedants are revolting sire...
 
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