Read the article then read this

I tried to respond to what i think is a crass article in today's FT. The FT engine says my response contains suspected profanity.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/0e8b2180-9bf4-11e2-8485-00144feabdc0.html

Well, i can't see any and here is what i said anyway.

Isn't this just about the most ill thought out example of setting out
to prove a point and, by goodness, finding it?

This is a travesty: this is NOT what Amsterdam is like at all.

Yes, you will find a large and organised red_light district.

Yes, you will find drugs there.

Yes you will find the other things that Ms Birchill has written about
after her TWO visits in a decade there.

It's a lot like the Sherlock Holmes' dog that didn't bark. What Ms
Birchill has left out is far more representative of Amsterdam that the
lurid bits she's put in.

Are we meant to snigger and tut tut at the suggestion, not so clever
and not so hidden, that Ms Birchill goes to Amsterdam to partake of
noxious substances? Do we really need to know that? No, I for one do
not. Had I been the editor of this piece I would have struck that out
and reprimanded the woman.

I think Ms Birchill is also misrepresenting the availability of
cannabis for foreigners too: I think I am right in saying that they
recently tightened up the laws on the clots who are allowed to go and
smoke themselves silly. I am prepared to stand corrected but I am sure
I am right.

Ms Birchill's representation of the red_light district is misinformed
too. A couple of years ago I worked in Amsterdam with a woman, yes a
woman, who is a red_light district guide and my goodness I am sure she
would love to get her red pen to this article. Yes the red light
district was tightly controlled. Yes there were freeloaders and other
problems. Yes parts of it were closed down. However, what remains is
nothing like the mess that Ms Birchill is claiming. That Julie
Blindell would do well to talk to the red_light district guide too
because what she has apparently written sounds more like feminist
angst than hard reality.

Go to Amsterdam, I recommend it. You could even stay within a street
or two of the red_light district and not know it was there. There is
so much more to do than snigger about cannabis, noxious mushrooms and
alcohol. Oh! and if you do go, talk to someone who knows what they're
talking about.

DW

Answers on a Post Card

Well, what do you think these two bits of rope represent, then?

UPDATE ...

Come on, have a go! Make a suggestion!!

DW

Mr Cool in iBerry

The photos speak for themselves, of course!

DW

More Falang Tripe!

Sitting in a restaurant having a decent meal and behind us is a pony tail wearing foreigner. Fake US accent as he is from Europe somewhere.

He's talking big while his wife/partner sits silently and his audience is a young Thai man.

Maybe he's a genuine big shot, who knows!!

DE

Great Self Portrait!

I took this photo yesterday on automatic EXCEPT for changing the EV to +1.

I took the photo in RAW too!

Zoom in to see the detail and ignore the Alice Band!!

DW