User comments: John_Robertshaw

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Crossword	Date	Comment
Indian	20 December 2018, 19:48	To those of you who are young & have grown up in the USA or Europe, & cut your teeth on political correctness - I ask you realise that there are people who are older than you who have had to learn about political correctness. There are also people from other cultures who as I write this have had little or no exposure to political correctness as you know it. This is not their fault & as a result they cannot be accused of being disrespectful towards the subjects of the images that they produce or in their choice of title that they give to their image. Rant over!!!
Indian	20 December 2018, 19:48	This site is Russian - as are many of the contributors & I suspect Kimi. Now put yourself in Kimi's shoes for a minute - living in Russia - never having heard the term Native American - and really ask yourself if was Kimi's intention to be at all disrespectful when naming this truly excellent image? Now onto skin tone! Black & white nonograms are by definition monochrome. In a coloured nonogram Kimi could have matched the image's skin tone fairly closely to that of the Native American. Kimi has chosen to represent it in the image as black. I am expecting comments citing "disrespect" regarding this! Had Kimi chosen white squares for the skin tones - some of you would have called that disrespectful as well. I feel that the artist cannot win.
Indian	20 December 2018, 19:46	Now before some of you go off the deep end and make your usual comments about the image & its title - please read this carefully. I live in England - and when I was a boy - 60 years ago (long before political correctness had reached our shores) - I used to play "Cowboys & Indians." We watched TV & film westerns - where the men wearing hats were called Cowboys & those wearing feathers were called Indians. We read picture books that portrayed Cowboys & Indians. No one had ever heard of the terms Native American, American Indians or Indigenous Americans. We were not being disrespectful in the slightest using the name Indian - it was all we knew. Now I an older & am educated in the minefield that is political correctness - I would never refer to peoples from that ethnicity as Indians.
Swimmer	20 December 2018, 17:16	Absolutely BRILLIANT!
Ram	20 December 2018, 14:56	Very intricate - well done!
Snowflake	19 December 2018, 20:58	Excellent image! [spoiler]Now - I'm not going to be the to say "Snowflakes don't have 8 points - they have 6" (Ooops - I just did!) But my reason for saying that is not to criticise - but to throw down a challenge! Can anyone design a nonogram of a snowflake that is symmetrical & has the magical 6 points???[/spoiler]
Hat and mittens	19 December 2018, 20:13	Well done Olga* - a really crisp image! I'm bored now - so I'm going. Thanks you all for reading!
Hat and mittens	19 December 2018, 20:08	Serious memory alert! When I was a young boy [spoiler]My mother would join the 2 mittens with a length of wool. one mitten would be threaded up inside one sleeve of my winter coat & down the other sleeve, so the when I put the coat on & the mittens on my hands - it was impossible to do what most children do - lose one mitten[/spoiler]
Hat and mittens	19 December 2018, 19:58	His mother's name is Olga*!!!
Hat and mittens	19 December 2018, 19:57	Or - saying "No" to his mother (who knits a lot) - "No more monochrome accessories - I WANT SOME COLOUR".
Hat and mittens	19 December 2018, 19:54	Or - offering two high 5s at once?
Hat and mittens	19 December 2018, 19:52	Or - he could be framing a subject (badly) - before taking a photo?
Hat and mittens	19 December 2018, 19:51	He's surrendering - but to who???
Hat and mittens	19 December 2018, 19:49	I got it straight away (no spoiler required here) - it's the INVISIBLE MAN!!!
Piggy	19 December 2018, 19:23	Love the tail
Water Polo	19 December 2018, 15:11	Very good - but more difficult than indicated by the stars
Shrimp	19 December 2018, 14:25	Brilliant
Bird	19 December 2018, 14:08	Very well done
Parrot	19 December 2018, 13:32	Excellent
In the bottle	17 December 2018, 15:13	Just so brilliant!!!
Funambulist	16 December 2018, 12:38	Also - there is a lot of empty space in the image - but of course there would be - given where the subject is & what they are doing!!!
Funambulist	16 December 2018, 12:35	What a wonderful puzzle - really difficult at first - & then it just falls in place. I just hope the subject doesn't! I also learnt a new word today [spoiler]Funambulist![/spoiler]
Ant	15 December 2018, 14:17	Very good [spoiler]but - is it trying to make the oversized headphones fit its head - or doing a bit of weightlifting??? [/spoiler]
Cat	14 December 2018, 17:23	Very good - but is it touching a live wire?
Sailboat	14 December 2018, 15:10	Excellent - the very best image of the thing in the top left that I've seen on here!
Friends	14 December 2018, 14:12	Excellent!!!
Elephant	14 December 2018, 13:39	Love it!!!
The plane	13 December 2018, 21:40	Excellent - especially [spoiler]the propeller - you can see it whizzing round![/spoiler]
King	11 December 2018, 17:36	Excellent!!!
Clew	10 December 2018, 19:27	I love it!!!
Doggie	9 December 2018, 16:55	Excellent
Dog	9 December 2018, 14:17	Excellent
Rider	9 December 2018, 12:55	Excellent
Kids, let's all get along	8 December 2018, 17:24	Great image - not sure how it relates to the title?
Tank	8 December 2018, 16:38	Sorry - I just don't like the image - it has a good basic structure - but it loses that at the edges.
Santa Claus	8 December 2018, 15:34	I saw a pair of roller skates at first!
Fish and meat	8 December 2018, 14:41	Surf & turf
Bridge	8 December 2018, 13:58	WOW!!!
Table setting	8 December 2018, 13:37	I didn't see the things at each side - I saw a [spoiler]camera lens - ha ha[/spoiler]
Dump truck	8 December 2018, 13:15	Love it!
Dump truck	7 December 2018, 17:29	I like it!
Squirrel	7 December 2018, 15:16	Excellent
Raccoon	7 December 2018, 14:11	Tricky - but well worth the effort!
A bowl of soup	7 December 2018, 12:55	Chicken?
Motorcycle	7 December 2018, 12:37	Excellent
Flower	7 December 2018, 2:09	Kimi - I love all your work - great images - but I HATED this one. It is very worthy of 4*s for difficulty!!! I struggled - BIG style!!! I just wanted to [spoiler]blow on the finished image - it just looked like a dandelion clock?[/spoiler]
Kangaroo	7 December 2018, 1:32	Good - but it didn't jump out at me!!!
The boxer	4 December 2018, 17:23	[spoiler]I am just a poor boy Though my story's seldom told I have squandered my resistance For a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises All lies and jests Still a man hears what he wants to hear And disregards the rest[/spoiler]
Cow	3 December 2018, 14:27	Pantomime cow?
Teapot	1 December 2018, 17:51	Very delicate[spoiler]I'm guessing porcelain?[/spoiler]