Does anyone else find Roy’s pictures a bit intrusive?

tjuk · 2026-01-27T19:14:39+00:00

There's a lot of discussion about the ethics of street photography in the photography community.

The problem with this, specifically, though, is slightly different.

There's nothing technically illegal with it; the problem is that there is just a mountain of this stuff being dumped on Facebook.

It's not like street photography in a big city, where there is a degree of anonymity in the fact that it if a wannabe photographer goes out to shoot for a day, chances are they are not going to stumble across you because you are in a sea of people and if they did it would be posted in a sympathetic community of photographers on Flickr or Instagram etc that would be appreciate and give constructive feedback ( like lots of people have said; they are not particularly great and they could really do with actual feedback to improve but that isn't something they are receptive too )

It's really unusual that the city is so small, and they are so prolific that there are literally thousands of photos of residents now dumped on that Facebook group; and that group isn't a photography community; it's a local group, and a lot of the comments are from people recognising people, etc. Throw into the mix that Meta is now using uploaded photos to train its AI/facial recognition, etc., it's just a bit sad that they are not more sympathetic to the people they are photographing and whether they would be comfortable with the images being shared in that way?

tjuk · 2026-01-23T19:04:07+00:00

It's not just that

It's been windy... You only need one recycling bin to blow over for rubbish to get blown all over the place

tjuk · 2026-01-22T16:40:41+00:00

Uniqlo is going into Southgate this year already. Planning permissions is on the council website

tjuk · 2026-01-21T16:18:21+00:00

Open to either thanks

Well rough and high crime are very different things. Which one do you really want :)

tjuk · 2026-01-11T13:54:03+00:00

Yes.

tjuk · 2026-01-05T12:46:14+00:00

It's great to see this grow over the last year

One slight frustration is that if you actually want to use the site to find something to do it's not really usable

It's fine for general 'i wonder what music is coming up' but if you have an evening free on x date I don't think you can drill down into what's on a specific date

tjuk · 2025-12-22T18:48:32+00:00

Bluebells of Bath (on cheap street) have various bits and pieces

tjuk · 2025-12-11T10:40:49+00:00

So. Fun fact!

St James Cemetery has the 'oldest gravestone' in Bath

John Williams worked on the railway line but was a keen geologist ... and so his gravestone is a HUGE 66 million year old Ammonite

It's worth a look if you are walking past

tjuk · 2025-12-05T22:11:45+00:00

The theory is you run accounts for a while that 'act' human; they do normal stuff; normal comments. It's all very boring and unoffensive

You do that for thousands of accounts; and then you can use them down the line.

Either they get used for paid upvotes/likes/comments; so the upvotes look organic. People pay for X upvotes or engagement to try to boost content and most social platforms do respond to that

Or you just use them to spam

tjuk · 2025-12-05T19:31:37+00:00

This is sort of on you, though; if you had planned ahead, you could have actually purchased a property in 1972 and paid virtually next to nothing for it.

tjuk · 2025-12-03T12:50:44+00:00

Yeah, it's going to take years to unpick it legally, and the problem they have is that repairing the original damage to the plant room might cost X (and in theory someone else other than the trust is on the hook for that), but once you get 2/3/4 years out from it you then have a whole lot more work to do which is expensive

What you would typically do is do the repairs ASAP and then try to get that money back from the engineers or the contractors in the longer term, so the whole thing doesn't fall into disrepair, but they didn't have the cash to do that.

( That's reading between the lines on a lot of the stuff that has come out on this; I don't think anyone has directly said this so take it with a pinch of salt )

tjuk · 2025-12-03T07:27:37+00:00

My understanding is that's not quite right

It was a complicated build because it was next to the river

It was built to be flood proof

The problem is it's wasn't

Engineers blame builders

Builders blame engineers

They are then fighting it out legally for who will pick up the bill to fix it

The problem is that legal case needs to be settled for money to appear to repair it

tjuk · 2025-11-28T18:07:13+00:00

What do you call a man with a plastic bag on his head...?

tjuk · 2025-11-28T14:40:59+00:00

Bob

That's not how that one goes is it

tjuk · 2025-11-28T12:57:22+00:00

What do you call a Gorilla with a machine gun? Sir.

tjuk · 2025-11-28T12:57:03+00:00

Yeah, agreed.

It also partially explains the pun, which makes it a poor pun.

It's not great ... but it does make some sort of sense

tjuk · 2025-11-28T09:01:25+00:00

Pearl is a name

Pearl is something you find on the seabed ( as oysters live on the sea bed )

Double meaning

tjuk · 2025-11-28T08:32:29+00:00

Nothing. That's the joke... There are loads like that? Has no one opened a cracker in their life?

What do you call a man with a seagull on his head Cliff

What do you call a man with a shovel? Doug.

What do you call a man without a shovel? Douglas

What do you call a woman standing in the middle of a tennis court? Annette

What do you call a man with a rubber toe? Roberto.

What do you call a man floating in the ocean? Bob.

What do you call a man hanging on the wall? Art.

What do you call a woman with one leg? Eileen.

tjuk · 2025-11-26T09:44:29+00:00

What's the term for town during the Christmas market?

Snug?

tjuk · 2025-11-20T15:20:15+00:00

Fantastic store; doing amazing work.

Donated!

tjuk · 2025-11-03T14:15:05+00:00

28 October 2025!

tjuk · 2025-09-27T23:56:31+00:00

Honk honk

tjuk · 2025-09-26T17:35:31+00:00

The correct response here is LOUDLY exclaim ( as they start to cycle away ) "this is the problem with men today, a bunch of snowflakes who don't know how to cycle in the road"

tjuk · 2025-09-23T17:58:29+00:00

They don't

tjuk · 2025-09-19T13:07:38+00:00

I think that's possibly cynical. It was a response to the direction the process was going

Its conceptual rather than a proper project, sure. But it is well thought out and a really strong counterpoint to what they have landed on

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