Oh dear!

[Roy Mathers]

I've just taken delivery of a new pair of prescription glasses and the optician recommended that I buy a bottle of lens cleaning spray and a special cleaning cloth, which I did. They were both Nikon brand - and I felt like a traitor! :D Still, they were made in England, so I suppose that's something :D

[Woolburr]

You probably have noink glass in the glasses too. The horrors!

[20droger]

Nikon glasses!!! God!!! Now everything you see through your Canon viewfinder will be distorted! You'll never be able to compose properly again!

Just remember to remove your new glasses when you're with your girlfriend, Roy. After all, some things in life are more fun by Braille.

[Roy Mathers]

Nikon glasses!!! God!!! Now everything you see through your Canon viewfinder will be distorted! You'll never be able to compose properly again!

Just remember to remove your new glasses when you're with your girlfriend, Roy. After all, some things in life are more fun by Braille.


Very true! :D

[LeesaB]

I think the only thing you can do is well...either switch (god forbid)

or get yourself some contacts! throw that nikon stuff away! We don't want to have to pretend we still like you or anything :-)

[FlyingPhotog]

So now you'll be able to see at 11fps but with too much sharpness and anything red will be blown, sorry...

<Grin, Duck, Run>

[Roy Mathers]

I think the only thing you can do is well...either switch (god forbid)

or get yourself some contacts! throw that nikon stuff away! We don't want to have to pretend we still like you or anything :-)

:D I must make something clear - it wasn't the glasses that were Nikon, only the cleaning fluid and cloth. The actual spectacle lenses are Zeiss. I couldn't bring myself to buy Nikon lenses now could I?
Do you still like me now?:D

[LeesaB]

*ready*

*aim*

<FIRE> ......

did I get him?

[Roy Mathers]

No!

[LeesaB]

:D I must make something clear - it wasn't the glasses that were Nikon, only the cleaning fluid and cloth. The actual spectacle lenses are Zeiss. I couldn't bring myself to buy Nikon lenses now could I?
Do you still like me now?:D

Okay you are liked again! :-) I always did like you! but I'd have to pretend and play nice in the threads LOL

[LeesaB]

No!

dang, must be that noink cleaning fluid on the scope! :-)

[Roy Mathers]

Whew, that's a relief!

[20droger]

Zeiss, huh?!! Does that mean you see everything with a German accent?

Or perhaps your vision is so bad that your "glasses" are really binoculars with ear straps!!!

[Roy Mathers]

I do believe that Zeiss and Nikon make the best spectacle lenses. And, if I thought for one moment that I had to view things with a German accent, I would have gone without glasses and just stumbled around. :D

[FlyingPhotog]

I do believe that Zeiss and Nikon make the best spectacle lenses. And, if I thought for one moment that I had to view things with a German accent, I would have gone without glasses and just stumbled around. :D

So much for EU solidarity... :rolleyes: :lol:

[Roy Mathers]

I don't think the average Brit is very keen on being lumped in with the Continent!

[FlyingPhotog]

I don't think the average Brit is very keen on being lumped in with the Continent!

Rule Britannia, Wot? ;)

That's why there'll always be an England.

[Roy Mathers]

Quite right (apart from the fact that it's Britannia! :D

[FlyingPhotog]

Quite right (apart from the fact that it's Britannia! :D

:oops: Good thing we had that little break up a few hundred years ago then...

Fixed it...

[Roy Mathers]

Just a friendly little tussle (and thanks for fixing it - the word not the tussle):)

[FlyingPhotog]

Just a friendly little tussle (and thanks for fixing it - the word not the tussle):)

My abilities stretch back into history only so far... ;)

[20droger]

I don't think the average Brit is very keen on being lumped in with the Continent!
Too bad the current royal family is essentially German. Can you say Saxe-Coburg-Gotha?

[Roy Mathers]

That's about as silly as saying that all Australians (and most Americans) are British, as they are descended from British ancestors. The Royal Family are not German - the are merely of German descent. And their name is not Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, it's Windsor.

[Robert16]

After three...(salutes) You chaps over in the colonies can join in . . one two three God save our gracious queen

[Robert16]

;););)

[20droger]

That's about as silly as saying that all Australians (and most Americans) are British, as they are descended from British ancestors. The Royal Family are not German - the are merely of German descent. And their name is not Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, it's Windsor.
George V, the Queen's grandfather, changed the family name in 1917. Something about the Kaiser and a little skirmish called WWI. Some, however kept their German ties and pro-German sentiments, such as the Queen's uncle, Edward VIII, a.k.a. the Duke of Windsor.

And I, while an American, am not descended from Britons. I am descended from the French. More specifically, from Celtic Bretons (my father's people) and Provençal Langedocians (my mother's people). My people kept their heads during the Revolution and left, or, more literally, by leaving.

[20droger]

After three...(salutes) You chaps over in the colonies can join in . . one two three God save our gracious queen
Good tune. But, not having either a king or queen, we revolting colonials stuck in some different words.

[LeesaB]

This is great...only on POTN can a thread about ones glass wipes turn into an ongoing thread ahhahahah :-)

[Roy Mathers]

George V, the Queen's grandfather, changed the family name in 1917. Something about the Kaiser and a little skirmish called WWI. Some, however kept their German ties and pro-German sentiments, such as the Queen's uncle, Edward VIII, a.k.a. the Duke of Windsor.



Yes, I know all that. However, even as far back as George III, the monarch was born in Britain. My main point, though, was to point out that to say the British Royal Family is 'essentially German' is akin to saying that the future leader of the US is essentially Kenyan:)

[Roy Mathers]

This is great...only on POTN can a thread about ones glass wipes turn into an ongoing thread ahhahahah :-)


Yes, it invariably happens! :D

[20droger]

Yes, I know all that. However, even as far back as George III, the monarch was born in Britain. My main point, though, was to point out that to say the British Royal Family is 'essentially German' is akin to saying that the future leader of the US is essentially Kenyan:)
Ah. George III. We over here remember him well. Didn't care for him much, but remember him well!

And maybe he is essentially Kenyan, mixed with English, Irish, and some German. Doesn't bother me. America is, after all, a melting pot. And he at least knows how to speak in public, unlike another "leader" of ours.

[Roy Mathers]

:D:D

[20droger]

:D:D
'Nuff said!

And I concur fully! That is, when I'm not crying.

[20droger]

Hey, Roy. It just hit me. If a person is half English and half Irish, who does he tell jokes about?

[Roy Mathers]

Americans! :D

(No, not really - that's a joke).

[20droger]

Americans! :D

(No, not really - that's a joke).
Heh, Heh, Heh! Bravely spoken!