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3 minutes ago, vogie said:

Touched with genius!

Spoke with a forex broker mate yesterday and he reckons the Pound could reach 34 to the Baht, perhaps lower. It's only just begun.

1 minute ago, keemapoot said:

 

Not really. Trump is truly a nutter. Clinton is a calculating, shrewd, and wicked witch of the east, but is capable of leading a nation. She needs to be watched like a hawk, but she clearly has all of her marbles, unlike this cartoon character.

Can't we (as a World) have a normal person?

I didn't realise there were other options, so please, will all Americans use their protest vote and vote for Jill Stein.

That way the next four years will be spent on the great US national parks and an attempt to eradicate poverty . . . rather than the military industrial complex. Now that would make America great again!

1 minute ago, keemapoot said:

 

The desperation is in the hearts of those who refuse  to see, or cannot see this nutcake for what he is. 

They're nutters, Trump and Clinton both.

Faced with the option I'd sooner risk the Trump nutter than the Clinton nutter.

19 minutes ago, canuckamuck said:

A third party would be a way to try and re-democratize the States, but I am sure the establishment would plant their puppets shortly, in order to manage the threat of actual civilian rule

1000 likes be upon you.

Why is Donald Trump orange?

Is it natural?

(These little folks are orange by the way, in case you didn't already know)

1 minute ago, SaintLouisBlues said:

Chicken Little is alive and well

5hit happens.

That was on a bumper sticker.

8 minutes ago, Ulysses G. said:

 

I heard that even she said Trump was the lesser of two evils.

Yup, is true.

This is a dire situation. World on the brink. Financial collapse, possible WWIII being threatened. If it was any other country it wouldn't really matter, but because the US is so powerful and often brutal and has the World's reserve currency to defend this election bothers us all.

Lesser of two evils? This says the option is either evil or evil and I've seen nothing to discredit this hypothesis. 

I dream of Ron Paul with Jill Stein as his running mate. In a perfect World, right?

13 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Except she has zero chance of winning. However, a good choice for a protest vote.  Most voters, IMO, will be voting against the candidate they don't want to win.

What the World needs right now is sensible, normally balanced people to lead these nations. Not the nutters presently on offer. Jill seems the best option. 

Here's hoping for a 1 in a million. But worried, yes I am. 

If I was American I'd be voting for Jill Stein. Seems like a perfectly normal, reasonable person.

Honestly, does no one question why you have one Bush, then a Clinton, then another Bush, now likely another Clinton as President in what's supposed to be the greatest democracy on earth?

For us looking on from the outside we'd be lying not to say it all looks like one big fiddle.

Even the Greens don't want Clinton . . . 

Green Party's Jill Stein Says Hillary Clinton's Policies Will 'Start a Nuclear War'

http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/u-s-election-2016/1.747294

2 minutes ago, Thaidream said:

It's not a question of not being able to find good candidates such as Bernie Sanders; Paul Ryan or others.  It is a question of the nominating system; the massive amount of money needed to run; the media distortions on both sides; the actual election protocols; and the length of time the whole process takes. It is complete madness; Democracy at its worst; and an exhausted electorate that is disgusted with the whole system. The whole thrust of Bernie Sanders agenda was to take the money out of politics; reform the whole system and bring sanity and accountability into elections. Sadly, we are left with what we have now.

Yes.

What I can't understand is how the US goes around the World preaching democracy, hell, even killing in the name of it when it doesn't really have democracy itself.

3 minutes ago, off road pat said:

Are you telling me out of an estimated population of 322,762,018 .....the US of A could not find better candidates than those two. Trump or Hillary ?????

 

What happened to Bernie Sanders ? media Blackout !?!?!?

Shame Dr. Ron Paul wasn't in the running.

2016 will go down as the Montgomery Brewster of Presidential races.

None of the above.

17 minutes ago, CharlieK said:

 

Because the UK will not leave the EU, and will join the Euro when there is parity with the Euro ie 1for 1. The more I think about it, the more I feel this was never about leaving the EU, because as I said in a previous post. Cameron never really negotiated with the EU prior to the vote, there was no exit plan in the event the vote was to leave. Article 50 hasn't been enacted. If you're going, GO. no need to wait till March, not when there is two years to negotiate! 

 

The British public are being played. The way the US, UK and EU are ganging up on Putin war is more likely to happen before brexit. IMO   

^^This.

I actually make you right. To remove all uncertainty and, well, it's uncertainty that's causing the problems, the UK could have gone straight to WTO rules and issued visa rules and tariffs very quickly, then got on with securing trade deals with other countries. EU citizens working and living in the UK could have been granted leave to remain with easy work visas for other EU folks based on offers of employment. 

All this nonsense about access to the single market is just that, nonsense. The US sells more into the EU than the UK, but it isn't part of "Europe", the Chinese even more so. The UK trade deficit with the EU is colossal.

The war thing is a much bigger worry. Nothing is being handled right anywhere over anything right now.

The £ was screwed as soon as they hit the QE button way back when. UK's been living on borrowed time and borrowed money for way too long. It was going to happen regardless. I see 36-38THB to the quid coming.

At least the UK gets to devalue its currency . . . unlike those stuck in the Eurozone.

Hardly abuse. People don't come here anymore because there's no sense of humour.

7 hours ago, FracturedRabbit said:

Just trying to give you feedback based on how it appears to my eyes as posted on the web.

Get down the opticians 

10 hours ago, FracturedRabbit said:

My eyes were drawn to the brim of his hat which appears to be the most in focus/contrasty, so rather distracts from the face.

I have inspected at 100% and the eyes as well as the glasses are in perfect focus. My only issue is with the brightness of the top of the hat.

4 hours ago, Aladdin said:

 

WOW! That was a lot of equipment. I just carry my (the smallest canon flash I could find) with me. I use it more in day light than in the dark as I try to take pictures with out flash in the dark. Or with a minimum flash exposure trying to make it look like it is ambient light. And it is fun to experiment with the flash exposure and the angle of the flash. I'm just a beginner so I have a long way to go. But it is fun

 

But your picture above shows me that you already master the technique to use flash without any glare from the reflexes, something I have tried many times and only manage a very few times. But plenty practice...

 

I bought a underwater house and a strobe and I tried it on dry land. BOOM! The strobe filed a whole room with light. Way more powerful than anything i have used before

 

Now I just wait for my wet suit. And yes, I had to buy a "SPECIAL EDITION" with so many X's I could not believe it and I will hopefully be off to Tonga to swim with the humpback whales

 

 

 

 

 

 

The reason for the powerful Metz flash with a guide number of 64 is power is lost in HSS mode. I can turn up the EV in TTL-HSS and retain sufficient power at higher shutter speeds/lower ISO. I have six Cactus RF60's and a V6II HSS transceiver for off-camera flash work (using light stands and modifiers, Wescott Halo and Orb, shoot through umbrellas) or I can mount three RF60's on a SmallRig grip and use handheld. The Godox PB960 power packs are needed to reduce flash recycle time, down well below half a second.

It's the first time I've ever really put strobist technique into practice and I'm hooked.

1 hour ago, Grouse said:

 

And that's why they they voted to leave the EU; to reduce the number of Muslim immigrants. Very intelligent, the Brexiteers ?

Did they? All Brexiters?

I voted leave and so did my MUSLIM friends. In fact my friends in the UK who are immigrants voted leave in the referendum. Indian, Bangladeshi, Somalian, Nigerian and even a friend originally from Djibouti. 

We did so to prevent any more transfer of power to the EU.

By the way, our order books here in the UK are full. More tenders for regen projects rolling in every week.