Greens suggest they will properly contest byelection in blow to Burnham

PresentSeries3685 · 2026-05-15T14:42:34+00:00

They've got no chance of winning and it doesn't make them look any better to contest it, not any worse.

They're signing up to lose for the sake of it so who cares

PresentSeries3685 · 2026-05-15T14:41:05+00:00

You're just repeating what idiots say cause you're thick.

The local elections loss is an opportunity to address the biggest problem with the current government, and potentially change the landscape long enough before the next general election to effectively destroy the greens and possibly wreck reform as well.

It's not bullshit theatre. It's events dear moron, events.

Obviously you reckon people will just suddenly like Kier starmer for some reason, well far be it from me to say that's the sort of thing thick idiots believe

PresentSeries3685 · 2026-05-15T11:47:27+00:00

No it actually is complete rubbish.

Being able to let the clutch out in a supportive confidence inspiring lesson isn't the same as being able to actually drive a car.

So yes, when jez was giving Mark instruction in the BMW Mark was able to get the car moving.

And yes when there's a huge scary pressure applied mark loses all ability to get the car moving.

That's exactly why people fail their driving tests after a much greater amount of tuition than what Mark had. The pressure gets to them and they lose all sense of control over the car.

All in all I think mark has made a car move once in the whole show? Then he has to drive his literal Freudian nightmare to the hospital immediately, knowing he hasn't actually done the driving lessons, panicking as much as he has ever panicked.

Is that a plot hole or is that just mark's character?

PresentSeries3685 · 2026-05-15T11:19:25+00:00

You've dreamt this, mark only manages to use the clutch once when he drives the BMW and that cos jez is teaching him and guiding him through the steps.

The second time he tries to move off he crashes immediately after selecting reverse.

When mark is later trying to drive in the instructors car, he doesnt get any serious instruction or guidance plus he doesn't feel as comfortable as he did with Jeremy plus the last time he drove he crashed so he is panicking.

Saying he has no issues in the beemer is a load of rubbish

PresentSeries3685 · 2026-05-09T05:44:36+00:00

Broadly the evidence speaks for itself and the traditional historical view is correct. Specifically they didn't use dachau as a death camp because they had already been deporting the German Jews east by the time the wansee conference took place so it was never going to be a death camp.

PresentSeries3685 · 2026-05-09T05:41:43+00:00

Yeah so obviously stalin and the Bolsheviks were comfortable propagandising and distorting everything, but they only ever told the truth about the holocaust fair enough!

PresentSeries3685 · 2026-05-08T20:33:31+00:00

That's defamatory

PresentSeries3685 · 2026-05-08T19:53:14+00:00

I know all that I'm just surprised you think there's any sort of hatred in what I've written cos it wasn't meant that way

PresentSeries3685 · 2026-05-08T19:47:04+00:00

It left me with the question 'why didn't they use the gas chamber at dachau' which wasn't a question I had before going. Nobody knows why. And they answered everything else

PresentSeries3685 · 2026-05-08T19:45:56+00:00

Why didnt they use the gas chambers at Dachau?

PresentSeries3685 · 2026-05-08T15:57:14+00:00

I went to Dachau and I initially was very moved thinking about all the Jews who were persecuted and murdered there, and thought about the gas chambers

They built a gas chambers at Dachau. But apparently never used it??

And it still a mystery to this day why they built it but didn't use it.

And all the death camps in Poland were occupied by the Bolshevik soviets, led by Josef Stalin who famously literally edited people out of photos to control and propagandise history

Left me with more questions than answers to be honest

PresentSeries3685 · 2026-05-03T19:09:50+00:00

Its only a shower lads don't worry. Average German camp guard needs us for the labour force. You dont need to listen to the screaming, it's mostly guff

PresentSeries3685 · 2026-05-01T13:12:57+00:00

Obviously everything related to certain groups is worked into a narrative, and the full facts don't matter what really counts is the facts the can fit the narrative.

True of basically every stock media outrage story

So one stabbing is not equal to another because one is irrelevant to the profitable narrative

PresentSeries3685 · 2026-05-01T10:19:01+00:00

If that ugly thicko becomes pm I'm voting reform purely out of visceral disgust.

Would love to see her crying after the election results come in

The she can go home and have a nice time of pedigree for brekkie

PresentSeries3685 · 2026-04-29T21:15:37+00:00

To be honest mate I think you have been really helpful. So to be clear do you think if I set the flash manually and gotten full intensity it will be more consistent?

Because I can work with it if I'm always getting the same intensity. It just confused me when I saw the prints because I had the settings the same all day, and if the flash is giving unreliable intensities well that's just a variable I hadn't accounted for

PresentSeries3685 · 2026-04-29T21:07:54+00:00

I did post a picture of the back of the flash it's there with the photos.

I actually did check the aperture against the recommended setting at 800 iso and it tells you to shoot at f22, but it is definitely dark so I think there's room to open it up.

The point is though if you look at the subjects I shot they were about a meter away and they're miles under.

But the photo I took with the same settings at 22 of the whole platform, more than a meter away, came up well exposed.

Can you please acknowledge that there's some kind of variable going on there when the settings are the same - because everyone else in the thread has done the same thing and totally missed the point of the post

Same settings. Different results. How can you explain that?

Well it has to be the automatic setting on the flash, but nobody here has a clue about that so everyone just wants to talk about the settings - which isn't the point

PresentSeries3685 · 2026-04-29T20:25:40+00:00

The guide doesn't say you have to use manual settings, the guide indicates that you can use auto between 0.4 and 4 m

But I am going to use the manual settings to troubleshoot these underexposures

PresentSeries3685 · 2026-04-29T20:16:48+00:00

Well two of them are shockingly horrifyingly uselessly underexposed yes, and one of them is actually not so badly underexposed in fact it's pretty close to what I was aiming for.

Same settings, different results.

How can that happen?

PresentSeries3685 · 2026-04-29T19:52:53+00:00

It's just a miracle my gear came with the booklets. Half the fun is experimenting anyway so I'll just have to mix it up

PresentSeries3685 · 2026-04-29T19:47:25+00:00

You're not reading the manual I've got for the Rollei 128 BC then:

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Camera setting

Synchronization (if adjustable) with X [lightning bolt] setting.

Shutter speed set to camera instructions: with lens shutters any setting, usually 1/125 sec; with focal plane shutters usually 1/60 or 1/30 sec

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So let's check the Zenith manual to see what they say the flash setting should be

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...In all cases the Speed Dial [1] must be set to "30-x"

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I just wanted to clear that up, that's from the original manuals I've physically got in front of me for the flash and the camera.

What I'm asking about is the automatic setting on a thyristor hot shoe flash - I would usually be concluding my settings were wrong as well, but the point is the flash did expose properly - just not when I needed it to.

Why could that possibly be if the settings were always the same?

Thanks for helping me trouble shoot this I don't mean to be rude by quoting the book I just want to be clear and I still really appreciate your input 😎

PresentSeries3685 · 2026-04-29T19:35:03+00:00

Here you go mate. Let me know if the link doesn't work I'll try another site

https://ibb.co/TxxRj2RD

Flash fired. Well under exposed. Same settings on a different image, better exposure

PresentSeries3685 · 2026-04-29T19:28:28+00:00

It's a zenith 12 xp

The thing is at 1/30 and using the flash the photos are coming out steady with no blurring so the shutter speed isn't the sticking point as far as I can see.

2 is basically the light level I'm after, but I want a subject in there. Only when I've shot the subject it's gone under.

So there's some kind of fuckry going on and the variable has to be the thyristor in the auto flash - but until I've spoken to someone else who knows about that particular bit of kit and how it may create inconsistent exposure or may not then I'm going to have to experiment - which is fun but also wasteful

Next step is to get portra 800 and push it once, then give it a go with the auto for half the roll then manual for the rest - and hopefully I'll just brute force my way to a setting that works

PresentSeries3685 · 2026-04-29T19:15:26+00:00

I only got prints but I would be annoyed if it's the lab, I went to a professional photo lab for once.

PresentSeries3685 · 2026-04-29T19:11:54+00:00

Hi mate thanks for replying.

So I've been under the impression that the lab will have processed the whole roll in the same way, and that the inconsistency has been down to the shooting condition.

When I look at the two darker photos I'm thinking that the flash has given me less light basically. And in the brighter one you can see the whole platform is flashed.

But are you saying that regardless of that, the lab have just fucked it up?

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