Missy Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 Thanks Girls! So relieved that I can 'now be with in crowd' ..... Sorry Mama Cass.... [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 One more for this evening..... [IMG]http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r116/Missyesbut/Thailand2004part2077.jpg[/IMG] got to get back to my studies [:(] .... Edit : Sorry got uploaded sideways..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 [IMG]http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r116/Missyesbut/Thailand2004part2077.jpg[/IMG]Hopefully this is the right way up.... if not back to the drawing board... Thanks Fluffy Kitten and Bugbear for writing such 'blonde-at-the-keyboard' proof instructions!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayJay Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 Beautiful clear photo, I love it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christine Animal Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 Mon Dieu Missy, where have you been ? ! Keep 'em coming ! The first one (the avatar) looks as if you are saying "Hi", well come on in ! The last one is absolutely stunning. Forget your homework, more please ! [:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verviale Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 I took this through a window in December,not brilliant but it always gives me goose bumps when I catch sight of it,too me this is one of Londons finest and now you can get married on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 Isn't it horrible! I hate it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 I have to admit I'm a bit ambivalent about the one with the girl and the rings around her neck. Is that normal? But there again, I eat foie gras so I shouldn't be concerned, I guess! [8-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
verviale Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 Why do you hate it fluffy,I love bridges of all shapes and sizes, I was looking at it quite closely when I was up there and the base of it fascinates me,am I right in thinking the person who designed it died before it was finnished.I did not realise until I saw a programme the other day, that people actually used a man made beach beside it years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 I guess London Bridge is iconic but it doesn't have a great deal of architectural merit, does it? It's not exactly graceful. But personally, I like it despite its "blockiness" and gothic jimcracks. A bit of archetypical England like the Houses of Parliament and St Stephen's Tower. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonzjob Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 [quote user="Mister Fluffy"]Isn't it horrible! I hate it![/quote]I must admit that I don't like London or owt to do with it and before anyone shouts, I was born there! Have you ever seen the mechanics of the bridge Fluffs. That is the fantastic part. It is a wonderful bit of engineering and lovely to see, but from the outside, not for me.As for the rings round the neck me awd Saus. It used to be a punishment in the girraffe peoples tribes, in Africa, that if one of the women was caught being unfaithful to her man she had the rings removed from her neck. It was a death sentence, because her neck muscles were so weakened by the rings being there that she could not hold her own head up, couldn't breath or eat and she died. The blokes could oat it around as they liked, but gawd help the woman that was caught!!! Politically correct now, peut etra par... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 Exactly, Jon. The bridge is a marvel of engineering, and then the bl00dy Victorians go and build some fantasy castle all around the good bits! It was a major controversy when it was built - people pointed out that the Eiffel Tower didn't need stone cladding, and that good engineering was beautiful in its own right - and to my mind it still is. It doesn't fit in with the tower or the Edwardian buildings around it. Look how beautiful the exposed ironwork is, painted blue and white! Look at how tedious the Walter Scott Revival stonework is! Victorian bad taste at its most extreme, I am afraid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoddy Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 CassisI'm glad I'm not the only one worried about that girl's neck. Even though it's a beautiful picture my first thought was, "Poorgirl".Hoddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 [quote user="Cassis"] I have to admit I'm a bit ambivalent about the one with the girl and the rings around her neck. Is that normal? ... [8-)][/quote]Cassis that girl was certainly real. She was weaving in front of me and her attention was taken away from the loom as children were shouting and playing nearby. I guess her child was amongst the group. I just went click!. It was taken in North Thailand almost at the border with Laos. I don't know the story about the African giraffe women but the story that our guide gave us about these women was that they were an ancient tribe from the Laos/Burma region and that their land had been taken away from them and they came to refuge in Thailand. The women had these rings put around their neck to remind them of the fact that their homeland was in 'the enemy's hand' and only when the land is restituted to their tribe that they will no longer have to wear these ringneck things.... Little girls of 10 or so also had these rings but not so many. They also wore these metal bracelets just below the knee. Now I am no feminist by any mean but if there ever was such a believable story ... then fine... I just saw it as man keeping woman by his feet and under his thumb to tender his every need. A woman laden with all of that metal is not in a hurry to run away even if she really wanted to.... but then that day I was a European and I had to accept that this was their culture and who was I to interfere.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted January 14, 2007 Share Posted January 14, 2007 Missy, it's like Chinese footbinding, you are right when you say it is a subserviance/dominance thing. The other end of the range from genital mutilation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 [quote user="Cassis"]I guess London Bridge is iconic but it doesn't have a great deal of architectural merit, does it? It's not exactly graceful. But personally, I like it despite its "blockiness" and gothic jimcracks. A bit of archetypical England like the Houses of Parliament and St Stephen's Tower.[/quote]London Bridge ? Take another Butchers me old Soz !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valleyboy Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 [quote user="verviale"] .I did not realise until I saw a programme the other day, that people actually used a man made beach beside it years ago.[/quote]I worked at the old Royal Mint on Tower Hill for 5 yrs (1959/64), and there was definitely a beach between Tower Bridge and Traitors Gate, where children played at at low tide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted January 15, 2007 Author Share Posted January 15, 2007 [quote user="Miki"][quote user="Cassis"]I guess London Bridge is iconic but it doesn't have a great deal of architectural merit, does it? It's not exactly graceful. But personally, I like it despite its "blockiness" and gothic jimcracks. A bit of archetypical England like the Houses of Parliament and St Stephen's Tower.[/quote]London Bridge ? Take another Butchers me old Soz !![/quote]Maybe somebody should try selling it to him, Miki! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Look, you know blimmin' well I know the difference! That's enough! [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayennaise Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 I have a similar photo of TOWER Bridge taken at night last October. We must have been staying at the same hotel !!! If I can get my head around this 'photobucket' thingy I might try and post it.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted January 15, 2007 Author Share Posted January 15, 2007 Here's another one for you Mayo - any chance you can make it a bit smaller, it's widened the screen. Sorry![:$] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayennaise Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Second go:[IMG]http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p57/mayennaise/Towerbridge.jpg[/IMG] Is that better? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassis Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Is that the one in Arizona? Also, have you checked you are allowed to publish pictures of the Tower of London at night? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooperlola Posted January 15, 2007 Author Share Posted January 15, 2007 Sorry to say, no, it's still doing it, Mayo. Doesn't this happen to you or do you have a wide screen? The second pic' is great but you need to delete the first one as that is what is causing the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Thank you Mods for putting my photos the right way up! [:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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