I hate this word...

[gns]

That sounds more like a latency problem.

Cheers (I don't know better, non-native speaker),

Roland.

So they should say, "If you wanted it done by tomorrow, you should have given it to me last week"?

Ciao,
Gary

 

[wgerrard]

English is not a nationality.

At the Olympic Games when an Englishman wins a medal it's "another medal for England!"

But when a Scot, Northern Irelander or Welshman wins, it's "another medal for Britain!"

Ooh, food fight!

 

[back alley]

lux, cron etc...sounds pompous to me.

when some says they will 'upgrade' to ... like what they had and maybe what i still have is crap...

 

[nikon_sam]

when some says they will 'upgrade' to ... like what they had and maybe what i still have is crap...

I never saw it that way...I must be careful when using this word...😎
Nevertheless that is funny...😀

 

[recent CLA]

Well I suspect the Welsh would like out and Scotland's half way there so English may become a nationality again...

I don't think England ever was a nation but a Kingdom, which is United with Scotland (for the moment).

The Queen of England doesn't exist.
Elisabeth II is "Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", (and one time "Empress of The Indies" and other such stuff).

Queen of Canada too. I noticed her portrait in all the post offices there, but not in English post offices, (except on the stamps).

 

[NIKON KIU]

lux, cron etc...sounds pompous to me.

....

We don't have that issue with Nikkors. 🙂

You know what I hate most?

It starts with L 😱

Kiu

 

[Dave Wilkinson]

recent CLA! - I read that...and go straight to the next camera on sale!

 

[tbarker13]

"Stunning" - when used to describe an ordinary photograph.

"Portrait" - when used to describe a photograph of a stranger who has no idea he/she is being photographed.

 

[Michael Markey]

In four hours this thread has reached five pages . On a camera forum ?

 

[back alley]

In four hours this thread has reached five pages . On a camera forum ?

lots of pent up hostility perhaps.

 

[Dave Wilkinson]

In four hours this thread has reached five pages . On a camera forum ?

the TV programmes are rubbish tonight - too!😀

 

[Walt G]

In four hours this thread has reached five pages . On a camera forum ?

We're just "pushing the envelope".

 

[Roger Hicks]

English is not a nationality.

At the Olympic Games when an Englishman wins a medal it's "another medal for England!"

But when a Scot, Northern Irelander or Welshman wins, it's "another medal for Britain!"

Eh? I think you're confusing 'nation' and 'nation-state'.

England may or may not be a nation-state, but it passes most or all of the tests for nationhood I can think of.

A country (state, save in the American sense, or a German Land) defines itself by brute force: an army, a navy (just as 'a language is a dialect with an army'). A nation, on the other hand, has been well defined as 'a group of people based on a common myth of origin'.

My own country, Kernow (Cornwall, in English), is a nation, as its its twin in France, Kernev (Bretagne in French). We share a language; we could argue that we should unite as a state; but most Cornishmen and Bretons have more sense.

Cheers,

R.

 

[Dave Wilkinson]

We're just "pushing the envelope".

but not many are 'thinking outside the box'!

 

[Roger Hicks]

I don't think England ever was a nation but a Kingdom, which is United with Scotland (for the moment).

The Queen of England doesn't exist.
Elisabeth II is "Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland", (and one time "Empress of The Indies" and other such stuff).

Queen of Canada too. I noticed her portrait in all the post offices there, but not in English post offices, (except on the stamps).

Elizabeth, actually.With a zed (not a zee). Also, ever noticed that Britain is the only country that doesn't say which country it is on the stamps?

Our dear Queen's father was Geo. VI D. G. Omn. Brit. Reg. Fid. Def. Ind. Imp. (Georgius Sextus, Dei Gratia Omnia Britannia Rex, Filedli Defensor, India Imperator, By the Grace of God King of All Britain, Defender of the Faithful, Emperor of India). Read the coins!

Trick question: when did the last Ind. Imp. die?

Cheers,

R.

 

[Michael Markey]

Blue sky thinking ,Dave.

 

[Walt G]

Eh? I think you're confusing 'nation' and 'nation-state'.

Cheers,

R.

If you look in your passport, it will say "British Citizen". A few years ago it would have said "British Subject".

"English" is NOT a nationality.

 

[Walt G]

Trick question: when did the last Ind. Imp. die?

Cheers,

R.

With the demise of your old money and the death of the three-penny bit?

edit: That was a wonderful coin, real "brass".(as they used to say up north.)

 

[Dave Wilkinson]

Eh? I think you're confusing 'nation' and 'nation-state'.

England may or may not be a nation-state, but it passes most or all of the rests for nationhood I can think of.

A country (state, save in the American sense, or a German Land) defines itself by brute force: an army, a navy (just as 'a language is a dialect with an army'). A nation, on the other hand, has been well defined as 'a group of people based on a common myth of origin'.

My own country, Kernow (Cornwall, in English), is a nation, as its its twin in France, Kernev (Bretagne in French). We share a language; we could argue that we should unite as a state; but most Cornishmen and Bretins have more sense.

Cheers,

R.

Dear Roger, I shall now retire - a disappointed man! - I thought Bill M. would have been along by now, to raise the tempo, and try to shoot you all down in flames! 😉
good night all!, Dave.

 

[Roger Hicks]

If you look in your passport, it will say "British Citizen". A few years ago it would have said "British Subject".

Dear Walt,

And?

I don't see how this affects my response. I am a citizen or subject of the British state, just as 100 years ago a Bulgarian was a citizen or subject of the Ottoman Empire.

Within Britain there are, as well as the somewhat pushy Scots, Northern Irish and Welsh, many other nations, including Cornishmen, Manxmen, Fifers, Wessex men (and women, icluding my ex-wife) and more.

Cheers,

R.