I like these forums because we start out with one subject and then sometimes go off in tangents. I have learned a lot of useful information regarding my fiancée visa application and on the way picked up a lot of other stuff. Oh, while I remember, do you get any of the paperwork back that you submit with your application, the young lady seems to think so but I doubt it?
Its a milkshake I think. I gave up drinking over 10 years ago, it was only meant to be for a week. I have maybe had a couple of sips of the good ladies cocktail when she says it tastes funny but that's about it. I use to drink quite a lot when I worked overseas full time and still to this day the bar is the first port of call when I'm somewhere new. I don't believe there is a better place in the world than a British pub for a good old chin wag and a bit of banter, its often copied around the world but never equalled.
Well................some say yes. But some say not quite so. I recall we did. Trouble with that is the weight for the wife or fiancee.....
I thought that as well. Because I've known the missus for 7 years I have obviously built up a bit of a collection of paperwork as you can imagine. For example I have just printed off over 30 plane tickets this afternoon. I have around 50 pictures I want to print off showing us together over the years so to speak. I don't want to show any gaps in the relationship so I feel obliged to offer all of it up. I think I mentioned before that I have over 600 pages of chat logs, even taking your advice of giving them one for each week of chat, all in all it amounts to a lot of paperwork. I begin to wonder whether a large amount of paperwork might piss them off, on the other hand it could work in my favour and they just stamp the passport LOL She works in downtown Manila so I will get her to take a taxi.
Well thats it. Whichever way you go it will naw away a little in your head while you wait for the outcome. I believe you cant give them too much. Thats my opinion. But there has to be a cutoff somewhere. With the photos, we submitted about 40, careful to select different settings, dates and clothes. Then embedded them in A4 with 3 to the page.
I was working in London for a week and stopping at a small hotel on Hanger Lane which is a main artery going into London from the west. Directly across from the hotel the police always had a check point set up in the morning either set up for checking vehicle over or checking tax discs and so on. I was afraid that one morning that they would call me over as I was getting into the car as that would have been very convenient for them. I was frightened I might still be over the limit from the night before. Because of that I gave up for a week and never started again, which by coincidence coincided with my local pub closing which made things easier. I got a DWI years ago when I was working in Fresno CA and spent three days in jail which was a very unpleasant experience so I didn't want to repeat that LOL Even though I no longer drink I still have a strong affiliation with the pub, there isn't a better place to be. I will leave the 3 days in a US jail for another thread, its funny to look back on it now but it was frightening at the time LOL
I knew a chap who was a big drinker. Easily 8 pints a day, every day, without fail. He has a funny story about walking the line and all that in Houston. But he was done for drunk driving in Norway and went to jail. The funny thing was that he worked 2 weeks on the rig then did his time off in jail. Amazing.
I'm thinking of doing the same with the photos, unfortunately I don't have any dated ones but I'm sure they will suffice and we look very much like a happy couple in most of them.
Always makes me cringe when I watch those cop programmes and it shows drink drivers trying to walk the line. I always think that one day that I might be starring in one LOL
None of our photos were date stamped. Cheap camera. Though I wished at the time they had been. But it didnt make any difference anyway.
It is not that easy to remove EXIF data from any image unless you deliberately try, I would expect that date information is embedded in your photos and any good program would extract that fairly easily.
You mean when you right click on the picture and select properties, the info there? I would like to extract it and put it on the picture LOL It would be great if I could submit my pictures online and the case handler could verify the dates by the above method.
Bit late to the thread but I'm a couple of years older but but I'd agree with everything you've put here. The music thing makes me smile, I work with a few blokes who areabout 10-12 years younger than me and look at me a bit daft when I say I can remember this dance / hip hop track the first time round!! God I sound like my dad. The young girl thing worries me as well, obviously not too young!!! But girls who are are in their very late teens / early 20's etc but I think this is generally a male thing anyway. I think we are wired to look at women which give the best chance of breeding. Plus they tend to grow up faster with each generation. My rambling list: The wife says I'm going grey / white but I say its very blond. In my mind I've not grown mentally since my ealry 20's. Weight is getting harder to shift. I can't mix my drinks as I once did, I can't drink as much as I did and hangovers are worse. I think the yuff of today don't have the same values as I did when I was growing up. Technolgy is starting to pass me by. I don't like crowds (never have done to be fair). Want pubs where I can sit down and the music isn't too loud. I start to worry if some clothing is "too young" for me. I'm actually concerned how long the grass is in my garden. Can't think of any more as my mind isn't what it once was.........
LOL lots of very true statements there, I can personally relate and agree with the majority of it, I'm starting to run parallel with my father now god bless him. I'm 53 is that the new 33 yet?
If you are just viewing your pictures in Windows explorer or preview window and doing a right click | details then you will get EXIF data as long as it has not been stripped from the file, almost all digital cameras will record a significant amount of data against the photo when it is taken and written to the internal memory card. There is much more there than you may see in Explorer, look at my example below, that is my favourite photo management program, the selected image is from my Nokia Phone, look at the bottom right that is just a small part of the information available, also note that the image is categorised by year/camera/lens and label, lable being freetext that I might add to the library, it is also filed in the file system according to the date the image was taken but because of the exif metadata the filing system is fairly irrelevant. As you can see there are vertical scrollbars on the right, there is much more data than I am showing here, on my better cameras there is a huge amount of information
