Off Topic The Goodhand Arms

Yep USA intel is that it was a bomb planted by ISIS. If so ISIS have ****ed up. Russia will bomb them to bits.

 

Just wait for the conspiracy theorists to now suggest that the bomb was planted deliberately by the CIA so that the Russians would turn against ISIS. You heard it here first.

 

Nah. Deliberately planted by the Russians so Putin has full rein to go all out more like.

 

Just been to see Spectre.


It was...............alright.

 

This photograph disturbed me when I saw it in the times.

 

Nope, that one has genuinely got past me St.G. I'm bound to exclaim WHAT..?

 

The dog has more prominence than the boy in this picture. It says children enjoy reading books but the boy is marginalised. There are some very subtle feminist inspired images being placed in our newspapers and magazines at the moment. This photograph has been posed so what inspired the positioning of the dog, the boy and the girls? This picture says a great deal about our media and the portrayal of boys. Any one who says I am imagining things has to be the most naive person on this earth.

 

Tbf, St.G they've been marginalising girls and women since media became the media. Perhaps they can get a little payback. But, to be honest, I don't see what's so disturbing. To me it looks like two girls looking at the same book. There's an Alice in Wonderland illustration that is very similar. By the way, I think the photo is posed.

 

While you have a point about marginalising males in general, throughout advertising and the wider media, I think this may be more an issue of depth of field. If you look at the busy background, imagine it fully in focus and the distraction it would cause. Opening the aperture and throwing most of the background out of focus(including the boy) is the only way to maintain the impact of the image. Yes, the boy could have been brought forward into focus, but that would have looked even more contrived. Personally, I have more of an issue with the universally acknowledged fact that males in adverts are terminally stupid and helpless.

 

His son's the chap in front...looks like he IS trying to get away!

I chose this particular one because there was another of the same road, but it basically shows a nutter riding it at speeds up to 130mph. Insane on any minor road, but particularly so when sheep, horses and tractors (not to mention the odd SAS trooper) could be round the next bend.

PS You're right about the weather! Some of the roads are more like streams.

 

It's why I felt the photo was posed. Lots of clichés there including that girls are often seen as bookish while the wee boy is seen as not-bookish, or a bit dim. Anyway, it's not exactly disturbing, just a bit clichéd, [in my book - sorry].

 

The boy's ginger so he probably doesn't have the mental capacity to read.

Vin.

 

It's just a picture...two pretty girls and a dog. The boy just happens to be there. Don't see any hidden message, though sadly boys are held back by the fact they are less likely to read. I just don't think there was any intention to point that out.

 

St.G is a very underrated troll.

 

Ah there was a hidden message. The caption said "read" but it is clear the book is a picture book with no words. The young boy thought it was a couple of intelligent girls reading so just before the picture was taken, he wondered off to the side having realized they weren't up to his intellectual standard. He is now looking for girls reading Peter and Jane books, with words.

 

Well that is a first. I've never been called that before. I'm a Saints fan, a season ticket holder and have watched the Saints for over 40 years ever since I stopped playing football myself. My contributions to these threads may be a little quirky but that is the sort of person I am. Troll I most definitely am not. Under ratted I most definitely am and for those who doubt it I have to tell you the very lovely Mrs Godders most definitely does exist. So there you go.

 

It's taken at a bandstand in Cheltenham. Bandstands are synonymous with hard drug use, and the dog is is looking ahead mournfully, which symbolises looking to the future.

All our children will be junkies.

 

Oooh I don't think I'd like that

 

Godders is Richard Gere and I claim my five pounds...

 

A picture symbolic of the fact that women will let a man talk when he has something worth saying...hard luck, guys.