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| Posted: Sat Aug 18th, 2012 14:46 |
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Squarerigger
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I keep logging onto the forum and am met by silence. Maybe we should change the name to the "Geriatric Nikon Forum" where we all just sit in our rockers and nod off from time to time and think we said something but really can't remember. :wtf: I've never seen it this dormant. I remember the days when Steve could post 10-15 new items in one setting followed by Eric and JK. Has everything been said? This keeps up and I will have to resort cruising the bar scene getting all my useful information from the graffiti writers in the mens rooms.  Am I the only one left? Has everyone gone over to Canon and forgotten to tell me? :-O
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| Posted: Sat Aug 18th, 2012 16:48 |
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Robert
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Hello! Well my excuse is I have been building my car. Stick Welding, Esab 125 Amps 3.2mm Low Hydrogen Rod. Taken by Michael.  Crop, D200 18-105mm VR lens.  There have been plenty of browses judging from the members visiting each day. For some reason this forum does go quite in late summer. This year I think Olympic fatigue may be another explanation.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19th, 2012 02:41 |
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TomOC
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Did someone say Dog Days of Summer???
____________________ Tom O'Connell -Lots of people talk to animals.... Not very many listen, though.... That's the problem. Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh |
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19th, 2012 03:00 |
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steve of oxford
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"I've never seen it this dormant. I remember the days when Steve could post 10-15 new items in one" .....LOL, I suppose you have a point. Maybe it's something to do with the fact that a few years ago when we had the old site there was no economic downturn (aka screwing of the people in the extreme). I guess people have so many other worries in life these days, and to a large extent people tend to be neutered by the way of things these days, i.e. both public and private sector following the american corporate model, so folk get bummed around at every turn in life. I know when I get home from work I really can't be bothered with anything else. There's also the fact that in most people's places of work the middle managers are thugs & nasty little b*****ds, again specially selected as servants of the corporate model to bash those lower down into compliance. We have one...but what he doesn't know is pretty soon he will have gone too far and could find himself being dealt with the old English way.....i.e. dark alley bin liner & golf club....the way it used to be done in this country. In this global economy, which was an american trick designed to basically shift the worlds manufacturing to China....people are left too stressed out with just trying to survive and have little mental or emotional capacity left for anything else. I sometimes wonder if now that we've adopted the obesity culture from america, might we next move on to their suicide rates? As for me, well, currently dealing with HMRC, having to fill out forms to provide them with information which in the days of English law in England was their responsibility to ask me. Now of course like most other public and crown sector they are using american Oracle software, which assumes England is a US colony. So, when this is over there will be a new ruling for one tiny part of old England.......we don't do forms, we don't respond to CCTV attempts to incriminate us, we don't do 0845, we don't accept american software being used against us. We turn the clock back. You also have a situation nowadays where if you are involved with any hobby or activity you can't get your hands on material needed.....shops have all gone pathetically useless. Lord knows I can't get my hands on this that & the other ultimately for no other reason than US mossie bashing and support of Israel stealing land that doesn't belong to them. It's even very difficult to get hold of heavy metals or anything radioactive these days. Sissy state populated by fat over weight people who have about the same IQ as an amoeba.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19th, 2012 09:14 |
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Eric
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I think its two things. As Robert says, people are on vacation or relaxing after the physical exertion of the Olympics. I personally am exhausted after it...especially the rythmnic gymnastics.  But the other reason is a more serious consideration. We are victims of evolution. Thrown together with a common cause...to understand digital photography...there was initially a lot to discuss. But as Nikon have honed their product quality/consistency, we have bought to our budget and settled into our preferred way of doing things, the instances requiring help or discussion are now few and far between. 
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19th, 2012 10:27 |
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richw
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Well I am on vacation, currently in Ipswich UK, not far from Eric (globally at least a lot closer than Melbourne). Enjoying the company of my family.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19th, 2012 10:44 |
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steve of oxford
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But as Nikon have honed their product quality/consistency.. .....well heres something to discuss; my eldest lad bought himself a nikon compact, from currys pc world of all places. Damn thing lasted 20 mins, then the display latched up. (was made in China) So I ask myself what exactly has Nikon honed it's products into?
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19th, 2012 11:16 |
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Squarerigger
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Eric wrote:I think its two things. Good points Eric. I guess I need to get out and take more photos and less time here.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19th, 2012 11:22 |
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Squarerigger
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On a side note, I have seen Steve (Wingnut) signed in several times but no posts. Hope he is well. We seem to be missing an Irish connection I think and that could be throwing the forum out of synch.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 19th, 2012 11:38 |
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blackfox
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personally i have been glued to the olympics while it was on ,photography has also taken a backseat due to the weather and time of year in the wildlife stakes ,i have also been busy upgrading a caravan we recently bought that had been left to its own devices for 2 + years ,thats now ready to rock and roll so got a week away booked at start of sept ,might have some pics from that ,then back home for a couple of weeks and then off to poland for another jaunt (flying this time ) no doubt after returning from a couple of ryanair flights i will be better equipped to moan and groan than steven of oxford . managed a day out with the camera last week but nothing spectacular to report so thats about it .geriatric report finished :byebye::byebye:
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