Just ban the whole premise of Twitter. I know the character limit is supposed to encourage people to express their thoughts concisely, but what it actually does is encourage people to talk in over-confident yet meaningless soundbites.Quote Tweeting.
(Great way of presenting one Tweet in a thread totally out of context to make it look ridiculous)
Just ban the whole premise of Twitter. I know the character limit is supposed to encourage people to express their thoughts concisely, but what it actually does is encourage people to talk in over-confident yet meaningless soundbites.
A proper discourse requires discussion with some level of nuance and room for people to provide detailed reasoning. Twitter is not conducive to that in the slightest.
I mostly agree. A lot of social media just seems very toxic to me.Just ban the whole premise of Twitter. I know the character limit is supposed to encourage people to express their thoughts concisely, but what it actually does is encourage people to talk in over-confident yet meaningless soundbites.
A proper discourse requires discussion with some level of nuance and room for people to provide detailed reasoning. Twitter is not conducive to that in the slightest.
If I still attended football matches, that was something I'd never do, for very good reason. The only football matches I've ever been to were in the 1950s with a primary school friend and his father, destination Charlton Athletic's Valley. If we'd left the Charlton v Huddersfield match half an hour early in 1957, with Charlton down to ten men and losing 5-1, we'd have missed one of the most stunning turn-rounds of all time with Charlton winning 7-6, the peerless Johnny Summers scoring five times and been instrumental in the other two of Charlton's goals. I've learned more recently that Huddersfield's manager was one Alex Ferguson, which amuses me no end.Leaving football matches early because your team is losing.
Who?Could I please ban one Adele Atkinson? Am I the only person in the world that takes no joy from her music?
Yes, every time I hear that it signals a person with no understanding of the word. Then there's the drama queens who insist on describing every price/cost that they don't like as "eye watering". Pathetic!The common use of over-dramatic language.
Such as ‘carnage’ to describe something chaotic. Carnage of course means ‘the killing of a large number of people’. I’m not sure that spending half an hour queuing up for petrol is quite the same thing….
I'd ban people who when posting a whinge about a famous person they dislike think they are clever by using their rarely stated name - then getting it wrong. It is Adele Adkins!Who?
That usually means that they have run out of ideas and/or have low memory capacity...All those lists called ‘The ten (*) best songs about armadillos/films about proctologists/TV series set in a car showroom ever.’ They always turn out to be from the last ten to fifteen years and are almost all American made, although usually so obscure that only insomniacs who surf channels at 4 a.m. will ever have heard of them.
* - Some of them have odd totals: nine, seventeen, twenty-two (BINGO!), which suggests some very sloppy journalism.
I blame a 12 and half shift yesterday and auto correct, although I thought it was Aitkins?Yes, every time I hear that it signals a person with no understanding of the word. Then there's the drama queens who insist on describing every price/cost that they don't like as "eye watering". Pathetic!
I'd ban people who when posting a whinge about a famous person they dislike think they are clever by using their rarely stated name - then getting it wrong. It is Adele Adkins!
I rather like The Who, Mamas got a squeeze box is one of my favourite tunes.Who?
The best one of those I've come across was something like "5 reasons why the M3 is sooooooooo much better than the A3" in something like Hampshire Live. Needless to say, the article content was dire.All those lists called ‘The ten (*) best songs about armadillos/films about proctologists/TV series set in a car showroom ever.’ They always turn out to be from the last ten to fifteen years and are almost all American made, although usually so obscure that only insomniacs who surf channels at 4 a.m. will ever have heard of them.
* - Some of them have odd totals: nine, seventeen, twenty-two (BINGO!), which suggests some very sloppy journalism.
Bill Shankly was the Huddersfield manager at the time. Alex Ferguson was 15 years old thenIf I still attended football matches, that was something I'd never do, for very good reason. The only football matches I've ever been to were in the 1950s with a primary school friend and his father, destination Charlton Athletic's Valley. If we'd left the Charlton v Huddersfield match half an hour early in 1957, with Charlton down to ten men and losing 5-1, we'd have missed one of the most stunning turn-rounds of all time with Charlton winning 7-6, the peerless Johnny Summers scoring five times and been instrumental in the other two of Charlton's goals. I've learned more recently that Huddersfield's manager was one Alex Ferguson, which amuses me no end.
Vets bill to pay?Pets getting old.
Vets bill to pay?
I'm sure self-service machines have been mentioned previously, but I'd like to give them another mention after my experience in Lidl last night. I'd scan one item and in the time it took me to put it in the bagging area, pick up my next item, find the barcode, and scan it (so approximately 1-2 seconds) it would bark at me "please scan another item or select finish and pay". Given I had around 15 items, so heard this multiple times, it's safe to say I was getting a tad frustrated at it by the end.
So they've programmed their self service tills to perform like the staffed ones? Love it!The ones in Aldi are the same.
They also nag you to "Please take your items" every 10 seconds whilst you are packing your shopping away.
The ones in Aldi are the same.
I'm surprised they haven't mentioned the government-control microchips contained in the coronavirus vaccine will be controlled by that 5G mast...Nimbys.
The ones around here have been leafletting the street the past few days advising us a 5G mast is being installed and we should all contact the council planning department to object, the strapline to the leaflet is "Do we really want this eyesore at the entrance to our estate?".
The estate in question is a fairly pleasant but otherwise utterly bog standard 1960s housing estate. Amongst the views this 'eyesore' will obstruct are the HGVs driving along the main road at the entrance to the estate and a McDonalds (complete with obligatory gangs of teenagers hanging around in the evenings) directly opposite.
I'm surprised they haven't mentioned the government-control microchips contained in the coronavirus vaccine will be controlled by that 5G mast...
Nimbys.
Incredibly difficult to know what to do in that position. One of our old cats had a long term health condition and had been very slowly deteriorating for a year or so. The uncertainty was horrible, from both directions, ie did we let her suffer longer than we should or conversely was she still relatively happy when we made the decision. It's harder to judge with cats than dogs as they're far less likely to show they're in pain or discomfort.Well a bit of that but more the inevitable decision on the horizon. You know you’ve got to do the correct thing when the time’s right but putting yourself in their erm, paws:
“So four legged loyal friend, would you rather be a bit incontinent at times and have slightly wobbly back legs? Or would you rather be dead..?”
Not easy.