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Ye cannae take pictures of yur dinner

The Don

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Argyll and Bute council bans children from taking pictures of their school dinners because catering staff fear for their jobs:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18455348

To me, this is the jackboot of oppression crushing the little guy (or girl in this case). If the council doesn't like the newspaper headline then go after the newspaper not the little girl.

I'm currently listening to the council spokesman Clelland Sneddon on Radio5. I'm glad I don't have his job but their position is indefensible IMO .
 
Francesca R said:
You! Yes, you behind the bike sheds. Stand still laddie!
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If you don't blog yer meat, you can't blog yer pudding. How can you blog your pudding if you don't blog yer meat?

My usual reaction to this sort of thing is that if you don't like what you're doing being reported, then don't do it.
 
when a picture of the food you serve brings up fear you might loose your job, i would search the problem with the food, not with the picture. but i havent seen the picture, maybe the kid is a lousy and untalented photographer?

http://neverseconds.blogspot.ch/

ETA: some of the food lokks like she took the picture after eating it....
 
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I've now read through the blog and I'm stuck by how well she writes for a 9 year old and how broad her vocabulary is. The purpose of the blog was to improve her writing, seems like it has done its job.
 
Government censorship for the purpose of protecting their jobs.
 
From the Twitter account @britishgaming:



“Martha Payne’s blog has been silenced by Argyll & Bute council. Her father, Max, took revenge by shooting everyone, in slow motion.”
 
Matthew Best said:
Once again, if they're so proud of their school meals why won't they let children take photographs of them?
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well seems like the kid only took pictures of one meal per day. wich is outragous missleading :D
 
Duffy Moon said:
From the Twitter account @britishgaming:



“Martha Payne’s blog has been silenced by Argyll & Bute council. Her father, Max, took revenge by shooting everyone, in slow motion.”
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darn Max and his bullettime :D
 
If she was only eating one meal a day, then I don't see it as particularly misleading.

If they really want to, they could always post photos themselves of the other meal!
 
Duffy Moon said:
ETA: The Don - I was just reading about this story elsewhere and opened up JREF thinking it might be mentioned here.

I thought to myself "It'll have a title like 'Ye cannae take pictures of yur dinner'".
Sure enough.... :)
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Casual racism and lazy stereotyping, it's what I do best :D
 
Matthew Best said:
If she was only eating one meal a day, then I don't see it as particularly misleading.

If they really want to, they could always post photos themselves of the other meal!
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you have not seen the picture of the "cheese burger" it seems. would i serve such crap to kids, i would also not want photopgraphic evidence going around on the net.
 
Matthew Best said:
If she was only eating one meal a day, then I don't see it as particularly misleading.

If they really want to, they could always post photos themselves of the other meal!
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Rather worse, from my perspective, was posting pictures of international school dinners. In general, they looked much better.

BTW, the German meal looks pretty much exactly like every meal I've ever had in my German client's staff restaurant.
 
I agree - the school system should be ashamed of these meals. But they claim not to be. I say they should put that to the test and be open about them. If their criticism of veg's blog is that she doesn't show enough photos of school dinners to enable us to make a fair judgment of them, then the solution is obvious: they should upload photographs themselves.
 
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