Say what you like about Buddhism…
…but it will come back to bite you on the bum.
Not really. Little Buddhism gag, there.
Say what you like about Buddhism… but it’s nothing if not a colourful religion. Just take a look at the temples I visited today:
I like that last shot; it makes me think that that’s what a Buddhist temple would look like in Florida.
One of these temples contained a 100ft reclining Buddha -
- which as you can see, is pretty big. Although not as big as the Statue of Liberty (I know, I just looked it up). But then the Americans always have to do things bigger and better, don’t they? I mean, theirs even stands up.
Mind you, I bet there’s not a sign like this on Liberty Island:
March 25th, 2008 at 2.43am
May I be the first to say “For monk’s only what?” Saw a plug for this new ill-apostrophied show today - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0862755
(that’s not even an IMDB misprint!)
March 25th, 2008 at 3.20am
the light there is amazing. All your photos look straight out of a photogarphy manual. I mean, I am sure it is down to the photographer’s skill as well. Have been trying to photograph here but it is grey and cold and the photos all turn out, well, shit. even the Leica lens can’t make anything of it.
March 25th, 2008 at 4.04am
Don’t forget, the Statue of Liberty was given to us by France, so you can blame them if you like.
March 25th, 2008 at 9.10am
Andrea,
You have shoot so many pictures but there is none on the Jazz Trio,
we wish to have a pix of them preferably while they are performing.
Thank you in advance and have a nice day.
March 25th, 2008 at 11.35am
Suraya - I did actually take some of the trio, for the agency website… and I’ll put them on here, and on Flickr, before I leave. I will probably do that about most of the friends I’ve made out here. I’ve deliberately kept this blog slightly anonymous and not wanted to fill it with pictures of people; because I want people to see these characters in their own head.
March 25th, 2008 at 11.42am
Will - that’s shocking! as for the sign, it’s shorthand for monk’s bottom, of course. although that really should make it monks’. ‘monks’ bottoms only’.
Phil - typical American, blaming the French for everything!
Peter - I find that, in that instance, it’s normally best to convert all one’s shots to black and white ;-). and you’re right - the light definitely helps.
March 25th, 2008 at 11.51am
PS Will - I have a to say I’m with Lynne Truss and couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw the posters for the Hugh Grant/Sandra Bullock romcom ‘Two Weeks Notice’. did no one in the entire procedure of the creation of that movie and its posters know there should have been an apostrophe? or did they know, but just left it out anyway?
March 25th, 2008 at 5.57pm
I think the missing apostrophe was the least of that film’s problems. It’s just a shame that Hugh Grant and Sandra Bollox weren’t missing too. (good soundtrack though)
March 25th, 2008 at 6.32pm
Micky Bubble, now Sandra Bollox. Like it
The grocer’s apostrophe is one of those things that gets me from time to time (cue Victor Meldrew type rant).
The number of times “its” is written as “it’s” when used to show possession is amazing really. Must be the top English grammatical error.
March 25th, 2008 at 6.36pm
its true.
March 25th, 2008 at 7.04pm
is’t?
March 25th, 2008 at 7.08pm
actually, I am pretty liberal about these things. Language changes and one day the split infinitve will be as natural as the post-Chaucerian inflective. BUT the one thing which really gets my goat is not being able to distinguishe between less and fewer!
March 25th, 2008 at 8.34pm
I’ve noticed that fewer people are less able to spell, Peter.
March 25th, 2008 at 8.36pm
Just the one goat?
March 25th, 2008 at 8.52pm
oooh yes! I have that one too, about ‘less’ and ‘fewer’.
the other one is the use of I instead of me or vice versa. as in ‘John came with Sarah and I’. arrgggghhh.
but I too have a fairly liberal stand on the organic changes in language. I just find the above two examples inexcusable when coming from the mouths (or pens) of edjucated people ;-).
March 25th, 2008 at 9.30pm
I’ve seen things in company documents like:
“So and so should of done this or that”
‘Should of’ what’s all that about ?
March 25th, 2008 at 11.23pm
yeah, and ‘myself’ when they mean me.
Rachel, I can spell, I just can’t tipe.
March 25th, 2008 at 11.24pm
distinguishe is the Chaucerian version anyway. I thought you’d get that reference Rachel.
March 26th, 2008 at 1.55am
actually, John, that’s exactly one of the organic changes in the English language that I’ve noticed, and is entirely natural.
step one: people abbreviate ‘could have’, in speech, to ‘could’ve’
step two: ‘could’ve’ sounds like ‘could of’
step three: the grammar, and written form, changes as a result to ‘could of’
to be fair to ‘could of’, it’s what happened with ‘goodbye’ (which was originally ‘god be with you’. and then later, good-bye. like thank-you).
apparently the original form of ‘crikey’ was, likewise, something to do with Christ. crikey.
March 26th, 2008 at 1.55am
Pete - do you mean: when they just mean you? because in that case, yes, ‘myself’ is completely wrong.
Rachel - you win todays prize for best usage of correct grammar. coming next: spelling bee competition…
March 26th, 2008 at 2.08am
no, I meant phrases like “if you could just send the completed form back to John or myself” etc.
March 26th, 2008 at 2.13am
erm, I realise that. it was a joke.
March 26th, 2008 at 2.13am
hang on though Andrea and Rachel, it depends whether you mean things are getting worse or better. It is not clear from your grammar. Technically if fewer people are less able to spell that means that more people *are* able to spell. Double negatives etc.
March 26th, 2008 at 2.14am
oh bloody hell..
March 26th, 2008 at 2.17am
in my defence: I wasn’t commenting on the meaning behind Rachel’s grammar, merely commending her on her correct usage.
unless she didn’t mean the double negative at all. in which case, she was totally wrong.
March 26th, 2008 at 3.01am
yes, i think. Or no. One day, will we find out what the Horrible Incident (from now on HI) was? My natural human inquisitiveness wants to know, even though i know it is none of my business and that you want to get over it. Maybe therapy is just the analyst’s way of being nosey?
March 26th, 2008 at 7.11am
Bein me as Bristolian as I be, I did soon nawledge tas twas wridden there that there be a d’dubble negatiff there - honesdaleedy that there’d be un there tas zoon as Iyad ridden it like. Was durst waietin til therd be a comend af zort like. Bein dthere I waz wid me parendals, in situ like. Ark at ee! oo nick’d me daps like.
March 26th, 2008 at 7.14am
And with that, she sips her cup of tea and decides that it’s best to head off to Bedfordshire. Night night grammartarians x
March 26th, 2008 at 12.18pm
Pete - I will tell you all about the Horrible Incident when I next see you. I just don’t think anything was served by writing about it here; plus it was an anonymous attack on me, and therefore had to be investigated, so I didn’t think it was right to talk about it in detail while those investigations were being carried out.
March 26th, 2008 at 5.57pm
cooo, investigations. Sounds like a job for Columbo.
March 26th, 2008 at 5.58pm
That would be a good episode, him in is mac in the sweltering Penang heat. Is one allowed to smoke indoors in penang still?