Photography for Phogies (Rant)

Anyone else had this thought?

I've been seeing an ad on television for some hand-held electronic gizmo that is supposed to exercise your brain and stave off dementia etc.

Cameras, instruction manuals, light meters, and flash units are hand-held gizmos that require far more mental gymnastics than that piece of junk they're trying to sell me.

Plus I wind up with pictures. Gee, something actually creative.......

Next time somebody asks me why I need all this gear instead of just using the digital camera in my phone, I'll simply say I'm slowing the on-set of senility, and recording the trip.

Meanwhile, do a crossword puzzle, read a book, write a letter, have an intelligent conversation - (without text messaging - IMHO!)

Geeezzeeee......

Now, where'd I put that three-legged thing, you know, the whatchamacallit, the ....

George!

unfortunately, like physical activity, many people will not deliberately exercise the mind unless it's in the form of a 'game'.

Actually thinking for oneself has gone out of fashion, being replaced by mind numbing TV, drinking oneself into a stupor and eating until sick.

The western world is diseased. I've just come back from a walk with the dog and the state of the forestry is terrible, a mound of 20+ tyres dumped in the middle of nowhere, they drove past several recyling centres to get to the forest.

I'm not a three-legged thing! More like four, these days.

But I do take your point. And of course, far more mentally challenging than a camera or even a video recorder is the instruction manual, especially one written in China.

I'd find it easier to translate a manul from the original Mandarin into English than to try to transcribe the Chinglish one into English.

Perhaps there's a retirement job for us in some new Chinese industrial city.

G
Szczesliwego Nowego Roku
Blein Vie Noa
Bliadhna mhath ùr

Merry Christmas to all.
George Ne How. What was that last bit? It looked like a cross between Chineeeeeese and wwwwelsshh and gibberish? Sounds like me after a few bevvies. CHEERS Vic

the very last bit is happy new year in Gaelic, no idea what the other two are!

Scottish Gaelic, to be precise. You win the bottle of Bowmore (Vic C pays!).

The other two are Polish and Manx for the same thing.

Chinese New Year (gōngxǐ fācái) is not until 7 February.

G

PS: You can't spell. It should be "Norf Lunnun".

Ah I was going to write 'Scots Gaelic' but me dinner was ready. Cheers!

I was brough' up proppah, wunnigh