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| David can I suggest to you that sometimes a pile of shit is just a pile of shit. |
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stui magpie 
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David 
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stui magpie
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It's all a trick of contrast. I see the photo as light blue and gold, but if I squint my eyes, particularly at the lower half of the photo, I can make it go Blue and Black.
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| the dress is black and blue! it has been confirmed. people are getting other colours because of the light and gold above the neck line |
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Tannin 
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Sigh.
How farnarkling ignorant are these people? All that that endless yammer-yammer demonstrates is that none of them have the remotest idea about colour or light or photographs.
Read up on the basics if you wish. Start here: http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/white-balance.htm
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David
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| stui magpie wrote: |
It's all a trick of contrast. I see the photo as light blue and gold, but if I squint my eyes, particularly at the lower half of the photo, I can make it go Blue and Black. |
Interestingly, if you squint enough, everything looks black. 
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David
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Well that may seem crazy, but I also remember my daughter as a 2 year old bringing me a white tail spider in her bare hands, luckily the thing was dead. She was once bitten by some kind of spider in the sand pit, and her ankle blew up massively, she was on fernergan to combat the allergic reaction. We have some bloody scary lethal spider in Australia, so I get where this comes from!
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Pies4shaw 
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| Does this mean that "Cars" will be banned (I mean, other than for artistic reasons)? |
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Jezza 
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You have valid points TP without question and trust me I hate spiders but what would be argued against such censorship is that parents have to take personal responsibility in educating their children about the dangers of many things with spiders being no different here rather than having governments and pressure groups telling us otherwise and controlling what all children can and cannot watch on television.
For example, if I was a parent and I felt concerned by this show then possibly I wouldn't allow my children to watch the cartoon if I felt it was in there best interests but I wouldn't advocate the complete censorship for everyone else who may hold different views to myself. I just think we're becoming too melodramatic about these types of things.
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| Jezza wrote: | You have valid points TP without question and trust me I hate spiders but what would be argued against such censorship is that parents have to take personal responsibility in educating their children about the dangers of many things with spiders being no different here rather than having governments and pressure groups telling us otherwise and controlling what all children can and cannot watch on television.
For example, if I was a parent and I felt concerned by this show then possibly I wouldn't allow my children to watch the cartoon if I felt it was in there best interests but I wouldn't advocate the complete censorship for everyone else who may hold different views to myself. I just think we're becoming too melodramatic about these types of things.
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Fair enough. And the age it's aimed at, not sure they would associate that figure with a real spider anyway!
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stui magpie
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Where's that smart arse with his picture of a 7 legged spider when you need him?
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| stui magpie wrote: | | Where's that smart arse with his picture of a 7 legged spider when you need him? |
Ugh god Stui no more of your spider pics please! Ewwwwww
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/04/isis-terror-joke-egyptian-wedding-fake-kidnap
| Quote: | Egyptian groom springs Isis kidnap prank on bride
Video of wedding reception – including knives and a cage – angers some Egyptians, but new wife says it shows defiance towards jihadis
The threat that Islamic State (Isis) poses to Egypt has become ever more apparent in recent weeks. Isis’s murder of 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya last month, as well as the killing of at least 30 soldiers by an Isis-affiliate in Egypt’s north Sinai desert, made the group’s once-distant terror seem much closer to home.
But while fear is a common response for many, one Egyptian wanted to laugh in the face of adversity. And he decided his own wedding was the best forum in which to do so.
In an attempt to surprise his bride and their guests, Ahmed Shehata, a 25-year-old medical graduate, arranged for relatives to dress up as Isis militants and pretend to kidnap his new wife at their wedding this week.
To the soundtrack of the notorious Isis anthem, masked men entered the wedding of Shaimaa Deif, a 23-year-old medical graduate, and strong-armed her and Shehata into a cage reminiscent of the one in which a Jordanian pilot was burned alive last month.
“I knew there would be a surprise,” she later told the Guardian, after a video of the bizarre incident went viral on Egyptian social media. “But I never imagined that the surprise would be like that.”
Deif’s momentary panic soon subsided into amusement after the music merged into a dance-track, one of the masked men revealed himself to be her brother, and it turned out the groom had been in on the stunt all along.
Deif admitted that she had not expected the dark cloth she gave her fiance in the run-up to the wedding to be used to make fake Isis masks: “I thought it was for something romantic,” she said.
But she gamely argued that the prank sent a strong message to Isis. “The cage you’re scaring us with, we are dancing inside it,” said Deif, addressing the transnational jihadi movement.
Some Egyptians have reacted angrily to the prank, arguing that it was in poor taste given the recent massacre of 21 Egyptians in Libya, and murder of several more on Egyptian soil by unknown perpetrators this week. But Deif argued: “We aren’t making light of other people’s blood. We’re showing that we’re not scared, and that Egyptians meet any crisis with laughter and comedy.”
Deif’s father, Mohamed, a nose and mouth doctor, was momentarily less amused – rushing across the wedding hall to save his daughter in the belief that Isis members really were about to kidnap her. But the groom said that once his new father-in-law realised it was all a joke, he relaxed. “He was happy because it was such a new idea,” said Shehata.
Weddings in Egypt are sometimes formulaic, Shehata added. So when planning his own a fortnight ago, he wanted to do something that would surprise his bride, and took inspiration from the recent Isis murders in Libya. He did wonder whether the prank came too soon to be tasteful. But he concluded that it was best to strike while the iron was hot. “I couldn’t do it after everyone had forgotten it. We did consider people who knew the victims in it. But we had to deliver this message now.”
By dressing up as pretend Isis fighters, his friends had given Isis a loud and clear message: “Whatever happens because of this [massacre], you are not going to scare us,” Shehata said. “We will scare you, because our enjoyment, our happiness and our weddings will continue whatever you do.”
Shehata’s antics are among several attempts by Egyptians to use humour to undermine Isis’s image. Others have uploaded Isis’s anthem to YouTube, and overlaid it with incongruous footage, including that of old movie footage, belly-dancers, singing schoolchildren, and a gyrating news presenter. |
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