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Just scrolling through random threads on here.....

People want me to name their dog, help them buy a coat, help them pick a car.. do vat returns for them, suggest options as to how to light x y and z, and then get all grumpy when you don't explain it 100% for them in detail...... :shrug:

"Dave" for the dog. If you've never owned a dog called Dave, you have not lived!

Coat? Go to go Outdoors if £50 is upper limit. Avoid flourescent.

Vauxhall corsa. (Sorry you gave no requirements!)

Yes of course. It's £150 an hour to do so.

Lighting.. please explain a bit more as to the effect you are hoping to recreate... I would suggest a huge ball of flaming gas approx 93 million miles away as a rimlight, with one or two off camera flash through softboxes to provide contrasting light to the sun...
 
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Looking for a new camcorder it`s a minefield out there.
What mobile upgrade can I get for my Dad.
Where is the best place to buy a PC at a decent price.

Well in answer to your question. F*** knows!!!
 
The web :bonk:

Great rant but I'm fed up of hearing it

The irony :lol:
 
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Didn't people used to do weird stuff like ask their mates or even, maybe, though this sounds extreme, get off their asses and find out for themselves?
 
Remember these? :D

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http://www.genxtinct.com/2011/03/tell-me-why.html
 
simon ess said:
Didn't people used to do weird stuff like ask their mates or even, maybe, though this sounds extreme, get off their asses and find out for themselves?
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Now that's a shocking thought.

If you get really stuck, maybe google??? :shrug::lol::lol:
 
Not as dangerous as too little!

Before the internet, I (for one) spent far more on magazines to read plenty of kit reviews and to check out retailers' prices. I've never been a fan of computers as a medium for sharing shots - the quality of even the best monitors leaves a lot to be desired compared to a good (or even just decent!) large print. I still prefer shopping on the High Street to the internet but also like saving a bit on some things (memory, paper and ink mainly). Handy to get stuff delivered to the front door too - current car isn't as versatile as to load space as the old one!
 
Pretty much the same way as we coped without PCs, digital photography, auto-exposure, autofocus, fax machines, cellphones and quite a few other things that weren't around when I grew up. They didn't exist, and we had other ways of doing things.

By and large, I prefer the convenience of what we have now, but I don't regard any of this 'stuff' as essential, or even very necessary in my life.
 
Nod said:
Not as dangerous as too little!

Before the internet, I (for one) spent far more on magazines to read plenty of kit reviews and to check out retailers' prices. I've never been a fan of computers as a medium for sharing shots - the quality of even the best monitors leaves a lot to be desired compared to a good (or even just decent!) large print. I still prefer shopping on the High Street to the internet but also like saving a bit on some things (memory, paper and ink mainly). Handy to get stuff delivered to the front door too - current car isn't as versatile as to load space as the old one!
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ah so the mondeo in the posh frock, is not ideal!!! ;)
 
It could be we spend too much time on here, as we used to ask friends and family those silly little questions. We now ask the silliest of questions on here first. Most of us have done it, I know I have asked loads.

But there again all those silly and not so silly questions are what keep this forum one of the busiest and most visited around :)
 
Quite well really, didn't need to make a phone call every ten seconds either

Internet is fine as entertainment and a resonably accurate information source, just another form of media you can use if you want to.

I work in complaints for a telecomms company and more than once have been told that internet loss is the same as having no gas or electricity in this day and age

Trust me in the depths of winter you would soon know which of those three you could do without.
 
I hate my mobile phone, it annoys me seeing people walking up and down town with thither a phone to the ear or hands going ten to the dozen texting.
And don't get me started on that pile of ***** facebook
 
Gr8Shot said:
I hate my mobile phone, it annoys me seeing people walking up and down town with thither a phone to the ear or hands going ten to the dozen texting.
And don't get me started on that pile of ***** facebook
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what's this to do with you hating your phone???:shrug::shrug::shrug:

if you don't like.. bin it...
 
Gr8Shot said:
I hate my mobile phone, it annoys me seeing people walking up and down town with thither a phone to the ear or hands going ten to the dozen texting.
And don't get me started on that pile of ***** facebook
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I have deleted all my iphone apps apart from the TP app. I got fed up of people saying I will send you a message on facebook, or I will post the pic or link on facebook wall. I want people to ring me like they did in the old days :|
 
Lynton said:
what's this to do with you hating your phone???:shrug::shrug::shrug:

if you don't like.. bin it...
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I have a wife and 7 week old child, she insists on me being contactable.
 
I have a wife and twenty one year old daughter so make sure i'm non contactable :)
 
MartynK said:
Pretty much the same way as we coped without PCs, digital photography, auto-exposure, autofocus, fax machines, cellphones and quite a few other things that weren't around when I grew up. They didn't exist, and we had other ways of doing things.

By and large, I prefer the convenience of what we have now, but I don't regard any of this 'stuff' as essential, or even very necessary in my life.
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Fax machines were around when I grew up and I'm 50.
 
Gr8Shot said:
I have a wife and 7 week old child, she insists on me being contactable.
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Congratulations. :thumbs: I have 2 x 5 month old... you would not believe how poor the mobile phone reception is around Norfolkshire.. ;) :nuts::nuts:
 
nilagin said:
XF isn't a Mondeo in a posh frock. It was based on the Lincoln/ Thunderbird platform.:thumbs:
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Damn got confused beteen the XF and the XJ I think..........

I am sure one of the Jags was a dressed up Mondeo.
 
The answer to OP's question is


The Pub


Which is where I do all my social networking
 
I should probably add it's the same place that people moaned about stuff...







.....before out of focus areas of forums :D
 
Lynton said:
Damn got confused beteen the XF and the XJ I think..........

I am sure one of the Jags was a dressed up Mondeo.
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X Type, although both floorpans were slightly different Jag had a few holes missing and also a few holes the Mondeo never had. Also if you took a close look at an X Type from underneath or removed the carpet, you might be forgiven for thinking the car was a cut and shut. It was pressed from two metal thicknesses laser butt welded together. Mondeo floorpan was pressed from a single thickness sheet. (It was my job to get both sets of press tools working after our toolroom built them;) ).
 
MartynK said:
By and large, I prefer the convenience of what we have now, but I don't regard any of this 'stuff' as essential, or even very necessary in my life.
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And none of it improves the quality, just the convenience.


Steve.
 
Gr8Shot said:
I hate my mobile phone, it annoys me seeing people walking up and down town with thither a phone to the ear or hands going ten to the dozen texting.
And don't get me started on that pile of ***** facebook
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I don't have a mobile phone as I like to go out and not be contactable. They just appear to be remote control devices for humans.

Facebook is as good or as crap as you want to make it.


Steve.
 
Lynton said:
Congratulations. :thumbs: I have 2 x 5 month old... you would not believe how poor the mobile phone reception is around Norfolkshire.. ;) :nuts::nuts:
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I know I have the same issues, plus on the occasion I get to okay golf, mobile phones are banned off the course :thumbs:
 
Byker28i said:
I should probably add it's the same place that people moaned about stuff...







.....before out of focus areas of forums :D
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With the added bonus that if they became too annoying you could actualy Tw.t them!:lol:

Would you like to buy a vowel? :D
 
You got a hangover dude?
 
Haven't read through the whole thread, but in response to the OP.
What is wrong with asking for an opinion on something?!
I appreciate some people don't thank you when you give an opinion, some are rude, and sometimes they can be very vague, but there is nothing wrong with asking for an opinion on something online, and most people do it in a decent way and appreciate the views of others.

If you don't want to answer them, then DON'T. Ignore it, it's not hard!
Don't open the threads up full stop.
 
We just worked in other ways. In the pre-internet days I used to spend time in the local library if I wanted to know something.

It may be because I am the sort of person who likes to find things out for myself (so for me the 'net is brilliant) and only ask if I am stumped but the internet seems to make some folks lazy. I have seen questions on internet forums where a few minutes use of Google would have delivered the answer.

Dave
 
Not all friends or family maybe able to answer your questions so asking on forums or search engines will get you a more speedy reply, may not always be the right one however.
Now if your asking what Joe Scrivens did before the internet, well the mind just boggles.:lol:
 
joesmith said:
Haven't read through the whole thread, but in response to the OP.
What is wrong with asking for an opinion on something?!
I appreciate some people don't thank you when you give an opinion, some are rude, and sometimes they can be very vague, but there is nothing wrong with asking for an opinion on something online, and most people do it in a decent way and appreciate the views of others.

If you don't want to answer them, then DON'T. Ignore it, it's not hard!
Don't open the threads up full stop.
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yeah ok ~Joe....!"
 
I like the internet generally, but do not like Facebook and don't do Twitter.
Before the internet it was difficult to shop around, and nowadays you can get a lot of helpful information from forums (such as this one), which in turn can save you shedloads of money.
I cannot remember the last time I read a newspaper (fond memories of black fingers, and that smell of the newsprint).
All our holidays since the mid nineties have been planned via the internet, and they have been great, a lot more enjoyable than before.
The internet is like anything else, it is as good as you allow it to be, and as long as you are careful and sensible, then it shouldn't bite you back.
 
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