What bemused you today?

[ABERS]

I have 279 unread emails. Plus I probably got a load of spam.  I get about 5K per month.

the price of being popular 

Yes the Viagra merchants have been very active of late! I wonder why they pick on me.

[Cabbyjohn]

Yes the Viagra merchants have been very active of late! I wonder why they pick on me.

I have had a very nice email from a charming Nigerian chappie. He has offerered me a large sum of money if I will assist him with a small financial problem. it looks as though all of my money troubles will soon be over! 

[Alfonso_Frisk]

My viagra spam seems to have drooped a little of late.
They now feel the need to bombard me with messages about parcel tracking at UPS

[Jonathan]

The best bit is that I actually did some work for Pfizers just before Christmas.  I've had to edit my spam rules so that I can get emails from their accounts department.

Oh and as if email wasn't enough apparently I now have to get my head round Facebook to keep in touch with the models etc I've been working with....

[picsfor]

Oh and as if email wasn't enough apparently I now have to get my head round Facebook to keep in touch with the models etc I've been working with....

You have my complete sympathy on that one. I won't touch it with a barge pole. I've had several e-mails from friends and family inviting me to sign up and become a "face book friend".
MySpace, Twitter, Facebook - can't stand any of them. Refuse to engage in any of them and up until recently they were all blocked sites at fire wall level.
Sadly, step daught being a DJ uses My Space has a point of promotion so i've had to unlock that one...

Some times i think it's just easier to close port 80 altogether 

[Mick]

Sadly, step daught being a DJ uses My Space has a point of promotion so i've had to unlock that one...

In that case, you forgot  MyDjSpace 

[picsfor]

Please - don't. we've had this site mentioned and i gave them a choice as to which one was gonna be accessible.

Needless to say - it's another battle i don't need to fight again!

[picsfor]

OK, popped down to Southampton today for a change of photographic scenery.
Whilst out i got a phone call off family asking how things were going.
Innocently i said "wrong kind of sunlight" referring to the extremities in lighting it was causing by way of shadows etc.

"Only a train driver would come up with that as the reason for taking rubbish pictures!" was the reply chortling down the phone...

[irv_b]

Oh what a pity! I could have joined you in that"wrong kind of sunlight" today as I was working in s**********  (sorry cant say that word being a Pompey supporter) I went on into Portsmouth were the sun was better when I had finished and took some shots

[CML-1591]

Oh and as if email wasn't enough apparently I now have to get my head round Facebook to keep in touch with the models etc I've been working with....

You have my complete sympathy on that one. I won't touch it with a barge pole. I've had several e-mails from friends and family inviting me to sign up and become a "face book friend".
MySpace, Twitter, Facebook - can't stand any of them. Refuse to engage in any of them and up until recently they were all blocked sites at fire wall level.
Sadly, step daught being a DJ uses My Space has a point of promotion so i've had to unlock that one...

Some times i think it's just easier to close port 80 altogether 

At uni we have kind of been forced to join twitter, thanks to our lecturer Jonathan Worth (he did an article in Photo Pro last issue or one before on social media and such). Being a teen I already have a facebook and myspace account lol 

[ABERS]

Highly pleased and somewhat annoyed, leading to bemusement.

When I was a lad it was the ambition of every boy to represent your school at whatever sport that took your fancy, and you were supported by your fellow schoolmates, parents and above all teachers and especially the headmaster.

I went to see my youngest grandson play soccer for his school 1st. eleven, the local comprehensive, in the schools area semi-final. It took place after school hours with a K.O at 15.45 so no excuse for a poor turnout of supporters. O.K. it was cold and there weren't many brass monkeys in the crowd. In fact the only one there was me. Not one single member of staff turned out to see the lads, in what for them was an extremely important match.

The P.E teacher turned up to referee the match, other than that no-one! We are told that teachers are extremly busy and so overworked that they have no time for such activities, especially if there are disconsolate losers who musn't be made to feel inadequate.

What's going on in our schools? Are they too busy planning the next inset day, whatever that is?

By the way we won and are in the final in March!

[skellum]

Well done to your Grandson and his team... wish them well for the Final....    As for teachers someone once said  " Those who can, do and those who can't teach "  wish I new who said it....No offence to any teachers out there by the way !...

[Forseti]

As for teachers someone once said  " Those who can, do and those who can't teach "  wish I new who said it.

Take your pick (or so the teacher saysl):  

"Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, teach education." -- Nicolas Martin
"Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, teach gym." -- Woody Allen
An early quote of similar meaning comes from George Bernard Shaw in "Maxims for Revolutionists" in Man and Superman (1903).

[skellum]

I like the Woody Allen quote....... ...

[Cabbyjohn]

When my eldest grandson was 8 years old, he played in his first football match for his school. He told me, " I scored today grandad, my teacher said that I was the best player on our team". "That's great news" I replied, "Did you win"?
"No" he said, "We got beat 19-1.