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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 15-05-2015

May 15, 2015 12:00

Tenant evictions reach six-year high amid rising rents and benefit cuts
(tags: austerity rental housing )
How would people vote in an EU referendum?
(tags: Europe referendum polls )
Should we value extremism?
(tags: freespeech OhForFucksSake )
My Dad Tried to Kill Me with an Alligator
(tags: stories life parenting )
Why is Wedding Photography so ( Read more... )

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Comments 41

gonzo21 May 15 2015, 11:13:16 UTC

Hmm, Firefox just pinged up a 'threat detected' warning on the Channel 4 blog website, and refused to open it.

andrewducker May 15 2015, 11:58:03 UTC

I'm sorry citizen, Channel 4 content has been deemed to be unacceptable for people of your security clearance.

gonzo21 May 15 2015, 12:35:50 UTC

But Citizen Computer, how else am I supposed to read their filthy commie propaganda?

bart_calendar May 15 2015, 11:15:15 UTC

In the mortuary story I bet the guy buying the pituitary glands wasn't really giving them to a hospital. In the 60s there were people using that glad to make a weird sort of haluncenigenic speed. (I forget the name of it.)

andrewducker May 15 2015, 11:57:24 UTC

I would not be even slightly surprised!

bart_calendar May 15 2015, 12:01:28 UTC

Adrenal glands were used too.

People did weird s hit back then.

cmcmck May 15 2015, 12:11:58 UTC

S'pose it makes a change from monkey glands! :o)

Thread 6

eatsoylentgreen May 15 2015, 11:54:44 UTC

what if it's Cameron who is undermining democracy or the British values of tolerance

andrewducker May 15 2015, 11:56:40 UTC

Then off with his head!

bart_calendar May 15 2015, 12:01:44 UTC

Can the Queen still order that?

andrewducker May 15 2015, 12:02:48 UTC

The Queen can't order anything.

She can politely suggest things, but tends to only do so in private, for stability reasons.

Thread 10

cmcmck May 15 2015, 12:08:28 UTC

Documents and name changes?

Oh yes! Know that one! :o/

naath May 15 2015, 12:13:30 UTC

The flip side to that article about wedding photography is that if you *don't* place any value of what a pro photographer brings over your Uncle Bob then let Bob do it and buy him a beer. Personally I probably couldn't even tell the difference, because I'm uneducated in the ways of art and a cultural no-hope I guess, but still, I'm not paying anyone thousands of pounds to do a job when I don't care about how well it is done.

andrewducker May 15 2015, 12:22:38 UTC

Oh yes, if you really can't tell good framing, lighting, etc. then there's no point paying for it.

ajr May 16 2015, 21:32:51 UTC

If you do buy Uncle Bob a beer in return for him taking your wedding photos, do be prepared for the fact they may be utterly shit, and if that's the case you should rue your own decision rather than taking it out on poor Uncle Bob.

Honestly, if you really don't care about how it's done, instead of singling out Uncle Bob, just tell all your guests to send you their cameraphone snaps after the wedding.

naath May 16 2015, 22:01:28 UTC

I think if you want "wedding photographs" you have to get *someone* to organise and take the big "group shots" that are usual. I'd probably ask several someone's to do it, and for everyone to send along all their snaps.

But realistically I *hate* commemorative photographs, so probably if I was getting married (one of) the other party/ies to the marriage would organise photography, because a)I can't tell the difference between "basically OK" and "brilliant" and b)I usually hate photographs of *me* anyway.

But "the dress"? I'd spend thousands on the right cloth for that special once-in-a-life-time excuse to spend thousands on a dress. ;-p