Before blending
Sub title – Cameras Do Lie
It’s just after 11am and the soup is bubbling away. I will blend it in a few minutes and add the whole beans. While I was preparing it I realised I’d forgotten to put garlic in the Italian vegetables I’d made earlier. Fortunately, we are English and probably won’t notice. It’s not a very English ingredient, despite the fact you can sometimes smell wild garlic when you walk in the woods.
I became diverted by Facebook. I was looking at the Numismatic Society of Nottinghamshire page when I drifted off and started searching for other coin sites. I wandered into a strange world where spelling and intelligence seem to be optional.
After blending, using the “Food” setting
It’s like a hellish version of WP. WP has writing and pictures and comments, just like Facebook but WP also has people of wit, intelligence and interest. And they can all spell. Or they can at least use a spellchecker, as I do. FB just has people. And even then I’d have to compare them to the generally accepted definition of “people” just to be sure.
One of them, commenting on a picture of Nottingham in the 1950s, rambled on about the good old days when everything was British made by British people etc . . . For “British” I think we can probably substitute “white”. Of course, if you think about it we have never grown tea, coffee, sugar or chocolate in this country. The reason we needed rationing in 1939 was because we imported so much of our food. The days of self-sufficiency probably came to an end some time in the reign of George III. I really must look that up.
The moral is don’t go on Facebook if you want to get some work done.
Or simply don’t go on Facebook.
And if you are really determined to get some work done, don’t keep chatting on WP – it’s just a way of delaying things.
Here are some soup pictures taken using different camera settings. All the same soup. All taken within a couple of minutes. The brightest is actually the most accurate. The greyish and beige ones are typical of all my cameras – they really seem to hate colour.
Beige
Greyish
Proper colour
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The only thing I put on FB is a link to my WP posts for those who don’t use WP. What that says about them or me, I don’t know
Yes. I noticed that you had done that. I used to be linked to Twitter for the same reason. Many sensible people tell me they use FB but I rarely see anything on there that makes me want to engage.
I use Facebook to keep in touch with some local groups, but I avoid expressing any opinions about anything on it.
Me too. I sometimes used to express opinions on sports club forums. I soon learned not to.
I have never ventured onto FaceBook, and have no plans to do so. I enjoy our WP community. 🙂
It is, as far as I can see, much superior here than on FB. I went on years ago, left, then rejoined reluctantly when the Numismatic Society got a page.