What bemused you today?

[Graham]

I was going to get it but you cannot get filters for it evidently 

  Tupperware do a lens cap for it!

[ABERS]

If only I could afford it.

Think what a wonderful photographer I would be. Would it fit on that Leica that recently sold for a couple of million or so. Then I'd be even better!

[Reinardina]

If only I could afford it.

Think what a wonderful photographer I would be. Would it fit on that Leica that recently sold for a couple of million or so. Then I'd be even better!

Don't you go spreading the idea, that it is the camera that makes the photographer!

[skellum]

WBMT  ( Well recently )  A Centurion Tank has been placed next to a roundabout on one of the main roads leading to Leyland.
The Centurion Tank was built in Leyland during and after WW2 and is obviously part of our local history but must be quite a shock to strangers visiting the area.

[Hinfrance]

Don't reckon that it's a monument Dave; it's more likely to the British Army's entire ordnance depot the way successive governments have been cutting defence spending.

[skellum]

It may help keeping potential terrorists away from Leyland...

[Oldboy]

It may help keeping potential terrorists away from Leyland...

I though it was to keep locals in order!   

[Oldboy]

This: 

Camera giant Canon is set to inject up to £10 million to prop up retailer Jessops amid fears its turnaround is in danger of stalling, it has been reported.


The Japanese camera maker is expected to step in to help the Leicester-based chain, which operates more than 200 stores and made a loss last year, according to the Sunday Times.


Canon is prepared to pump cash into the chain, which it sees as vital to its future in the UK because customers can test goods before buying.


Jessops, Britain's only specialist nationwide camera retailer, came close to collapse three years ago but was rescued by its main lender HSBC in a controversial debt-for-equity swap that saw it taken off the stock market. The bank took a 50% stake in the business in return for writing off £34 million of loans.


But Jessops fell £12 million into the red last year on sales of £304 million.


The firm, which began life in 1935 when Frank Jessop opened his first shop in Leicester, initially reaped the rewards of the boom in digital cameras.


But it struggled when high street and internet competitors entered the market, forcing a major overhaul of the group in 2007 and a swathe of store closures before the restructuring with HSBC in 2009.


Jessops has since been revamping stores and boosting its online business as part of efforts to get the business back on track.


It has rolled out a completely new format, with a new black store frontage and so-called play tables that allow customers to look at cameras, in a move away from traditional cabinet displays.

[Jonathan]

You're surprised that a single camera manufacturer wants to be able to control what cameras are seen on the high street for only £10 million?

Very very shrewd move by them.  It's nice that there will be a shop in most large towns where people can see practically any brand except Nikon.

[Simple]

You're surprised that a single camera manufacturer wants to be able to control what cameras are seen on the high street for only £10 million?

Very very shrewd move by them.  It's nice that there will be a shop in most large towns where people can see practically any brand except Nikon.

If you can't beat them with the product, you will have to beat them on the market! Meanwhile Nikon is expanding into the make-up business.
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[Oldboy]

This: 

http://aolbroadband.welcomescreen.aol.co.uk/video/meet-the-vampire-woman-from-guadalajara/517370119/

[spinner]

This: 

http://aolbroadband.welcomescreen.aol.co.uk/video/meet-the-vampire-woman-from-guadalajara/517370119/

Mother of 4??

[ABERS]

Just been watching Nick Clod giving his speech and outlining his aspirations on Social Mobility. It basically outlined the fact that most poor kids stand no chance when it comes to going up against rich kids as far as opportunity is concerned, and he and his cronies were going to set up several quangos to address the matter, making sure that social mobility is available to all, especially those with well trousered parents!

When I switched channels I noticed the Jeremy Kyle show was about to start.

[Hinfrance]

Quangos are definitely the answer. There was a quango set up to prove that quangos work - or if there isn't there soon will be.

I went to a (direct grant) grammar school on an assisted place, like about half of my classmates. Education is at the crux of social mobility. The UK has the worst social mobility index in Europe and perhaps the werst edewkashun sistm to. Perhaps I should have run that separately through the spell checker.

[Reinardina]

Tony Blair's priorities in '97 were 'Education, Education, Education.'

If he had started with the nursery schools and made discipline priority number one, and demand teachers were well educated, well dressed and well behaved, he could have 'worked his way up' to primary and secondary education over the years. We'd be in a much better situation now.

In stead they made clever kids suffer, as being more intelligent than your peers is elitist. And they would make damn sure elitism would be punished and 'bred out' of the population. While educating their own kids privately, or manipulating the system to get them in a good state school.

In almost every other aspect elitism was praised, and the sports and music elite was regularly being entertained at number 10.