Today I'm angry about.....

[thebish]

Ke7Ba7b, you or the parents were allowed to take photographs? I cannot speak about other schools or dance classes, but my granddaughter participated in an end of year type ballet concert a couple of years ago (she would have been about six years of age at the time) where parents - or anyone else - were forbidden to take photographs of their budding Margo Fonteyns doing their bit.

To this day I don't know whether this was intended to protect the income of a professional photographer (prints available at some extraordinary price) or to protect the children from undesirables (you know what I mean) infiltrating the event.

Whilst my daughter and son-in-law did manage to capture some images, the imperious edict issued by the organisers made them feel like criminals.

actually....

there are stories about this every year in the Daily Mail...

it usually turns out that it is nothing to so with any PC brigade or child-protection scare where paedophile parents sell pics of the nativity play kids on the internet...

it is usually (as you suggest) because the school wants to flog you their own snaps and make some money out of the whole shebang....

[William the White]

Ke7Ba7b, you or the parents were allowed to take photographs? I cannot speak about other schools or dance classes, but my granddaughter participated in an end of year type ballet concert a couple of years ago (she would have been about six years of age at the time) where parents - or anyone else - were forbidden to take photographs of their budding Margo Fonteyns doing their bit.

To this day I don't know whether this was intended to protect the income of a professional photographer (prints available at some extraordinary price) or to protect the children from undesirables (you know what I mean) infiltrating the event.

Whilst my daughter and son-in-law did manage to capture some images, the imperious edict issued by the organisers made them feel like criminals.

actually....

there are stories about this every year in the Daily Mail...

it usually turns out that it is nothing to so with any PC brigade or child-protection scare where paedophile parents sell pics of the nativity play kids on the internet...

it is usually (as you suggest) because the school wants to flog you their own snaps and make some money out of the whole shebang....

actually, in this world of carefully promoted paranoia, it genuinely is fearful school managements who don't want the infinitesimally small risk of anything to happen...

I work in higher ed... everyone who might conceivably use his/her car on any university business has to register details of insurance, licence etc etc, or never use it for anything remotely connected... so don't give a colleague a lift between one campus and another, tell students they have to walk home after the theatre cos you can't give them a lift even though you're driving past the halls of residence and stone cold sober...

I'll register it all... Sigh...

[superjohnmcginlay]

Sod all that. The fookers have put up National Insurance. Again.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ive just found out beer's going up. Again. When VAT goes back to 17.5%.

It certainly didnt go fooking down when it was cut to 15%. Fookers. Im gonna need to take out a second mortgage at this rate.

[KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab]

Ke7Ba7b, you or the parents were allowed to take photographs? I cannot speak about other schools or dance classes, but my granddaughter participated in an end of year type ballet concert a couple of years ago (she would have been about six years of age at the time) where parents - or anyone else - were forbidden to take photographs of their budding Margo Fonteyns doing their bit.

To this day I don't know whether this was intended to protect the income of a professional photographer (prints available at some extraordinary price) or to protect the children from undesirables (you know what I mean) infiltrating the event.

Whilst my daughter and son-in-law did manage to capture some images, the imperious edict issued by the organisers made them feel like criminals.

actually....

there are stories about this every year in the Daily Mail...

it usually turns out that it is nothing to so with any PC brigade or child-protection scare where paedophile parents sell pics of the nativity play kids on the internet...

it is usually (as you suggest) because the school wants to flog you their own snaps and make some money out of the whole shebang....

actually, in this world of carefully promoted paranoia, it genuinely is fearful school managements who don't want the infinitesimally small risk of anything to happen...

I work in higher ed... everyone who might conceivably use his/her car on any university business has to register details of insurance, licence etc etc, or never use it for anything remotely connected... so don't give a colleague a lift between one campus and another, tell students they have to walk home after the theatre cos you can't give them a lift even though you're driving past the halls of residence and stone cold sober...

I'll register it all... Sigh...

That's the thing - more often than not schools are scared of being held responsible for anything untoward going on. It's twisted by the parents and the media as the storm that you read. It's nursery my daughter goes to, and veryone signs a disclaimer saying that it's OK for the place to take photos of the child as andwhen necessary. There's also a form when you accept a place, saying that you are happy if other parents take photos of their child in such events like nativities, etc. and that your child may appear in these photos if stood next to the relevant child. In 15 years of the nursery being open, they've apparently had one parent who's refused to sign it.

The fairies didn't appear as part of the retelling of the nativity - they took part in what is officially described as a "concert", but culd have only best been described as "loads of kids on a stage singing and picking their noses".

[boltonboris]

A chuffing broadband tax?!? Surely it's in the gov's interest for us all to be online?!?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8403273.stm

yeah but, it's only a tax so they can 'improve the nations Broadband' You know because we don't already pay providers enough for their shite service!

[thebish]

A chuffing broadband tax?!? Surely it's in the gov's interest for us all to be online?!?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8403273.stm

yeah but, it's only a tax so they can 'improve the nations Broadband' You know because we don't already pay providers enough for their shite service!

it's a tax on fixed-line phones - so will fall mostly on old people - not you yoof who all use mobiles...

[boltonboris]

A chuffing broadband tax?!? Surely it's in the gov's interest for us all to be online?!?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8403273.stm

yeah but, it's only a tax so they can 'improve the nations Broadband' You know because we don't already pay providers enough for their shite service!

it's a tax on fixed-line phones - so will fall mostly on old people - not you yoof who all use mobiles...

What I mean is that I pay money for 8 meg service, in which I recieve about 5meg. I pay bloody good money for it too, if these providers cannot afford to pay for improvemtns themselves and rely on the government to do it for them, then why the feck are we paying premium prices?

[Il Pirate]

That t wat Alisdair Darling

[Athers]

Providers, ie Virgin & Openreach, don't want to put decent broadband speeds in rural areas as it's too expensive, if the government want them to do it outside of their normal business practice they must be assisted by the government. Pretty understandable for me.

It's inevitable that this would come about once they'd decided that broadband is an essential home service, which they have.

[TANGODANCER]

Providers, ie Virgin & Openreach, don't want to put decent broadband speeds in rural areas as it's too expensive, if the government want them to do it outside of their normal business practice they must be assisted by the government. Pretty understandable for me.

It's inevitable that this would come about once they'd decided that broadband is an essential home service, which they have.

Their speed at getting your money out of the bank each month is amazing. Faster then the speed of light, so to speak.

[Athers]

That's called direct debit Tango, and it'll be at the speed of electricity I assume

[boltonboris]

Providers, ie Virgin & Openreach, don't want to put decent broadband speeds in rural areas as it's too expensive, if the government want them to do it outside of their normal business practice they must be assisted by the government. Pretty understandable for me.

It's inevitable that this would come about once they'd decided that broadband is an essential home service, which they have.

Well then they should offer only the very basic on Broadband services rather than trying to sell you lies at extortionate prices

[superjohnmcginlay]

Ginger people. You shouldn't be allowed out of the house.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nort ... 411894.stm

[Zulus Thousand of em]

Ginger people. You shouldn't be allowed out of the house.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/nort ... 411894.stm

Have you seen the photo? They're not even proper ginger mingers! Muppets.

[boltonboris]

I'm not bothered about things like that, I can laugh about it. However had it been a Black child or as the ginger bird says 'an overweight child' there would have been outrage!

As it stands, I couldn't care less.

[superjohnmcginlay]

Dunno about outrage over fat kids. That would have been funny too.

[boltonboris]

Dunno about outrage over fat kids. That would have been funny too.

At least fat kids have a choice!!

[General Mannerheim]

wanderers fans vacating the ground faster than the hammers fans when our 3rd goal goes in, OUR 3rd not thiers! Fukking dicks! 89 mins ffs, what difference does it make!?

[Prufrock]

Nothing. For once. This wonning or whatever it's called is well good.

[Lord Kangana]

wanderers fans vacating the ground faster than the hammers fans when our 3rd goal goes in, OUR 3rd not thiers! Fukking dicks! 89 mins ffs, what difference does it make!?

They were leaving on 83 around us.