Goodbye, Facebook
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wrote on 19 Nov 2020, 17:11 last edited by
One thing I've noticed on Facebook is how many of my schoolfriends have identical twins who must have been separated at birth, since their childhood appears to have consisted solely of playing in WW2 bomb craters, riding bikes through muddy swamps, climbing on enormous climbing frames and generally having a freaking high-old time filled with poverty, but by 'eck they were 'appy.
All we ever did was drink hard cider behind the bus shelter and complain about how bored we were.
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One thing I've noticed on Facebook is how many of my schoolfriends have identical twins who must have been separated at birth, since their childhood appears to have consisted solely of playing in WW2 bomb craters, riding bikes through muddy swamps, climbing on enormous climbing frames and generally having a freaking high-old time filled with poverty, but by 'eck they were 'appy.
All we ever did was drink hard cider behind the bus shelter and complain about how bored we were.
wrote on 19 Nov 2020, 17:13 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Goodbye, Facebook:
Link to videoAll we ever did was drink hard cider behind the bus shelter and complain about how bored we were.
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@xenon yes, I unfollowed a few, but then started snoozing them for 30 days, because they are still people I care about, family, old friends from places we no longer live, even some forum friends I’ve never met IRL, Seriously the best posts are when people share pictures of what they are up to in their daily lives. The occasional funny meme is ok, but mostly I want to know about them.
wrote on 19 Nov 2020, 17:15 last edited by@jodi said in Goodbye, Facebook:
@xenon yes, I unfollowed a few, but then started snoozing them for 30 days, because they are still people I care about, family, old friends from places we no longer live, even some forum friends I’ve never met IRL, Seriously the best posts are when people share pictures of what they are up to in their daily lives. The occasional funny meme is ok, but mostly I want to know about them.
That's what I want it for. The political stuff I generally stay away from unless I find an article interesting. But even then I take no position on it, sjust share and they can make of it what they will
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@Doctor-Phibes said in Goodbye, Facebook:
Link to videoAll we ever did was drink hard cider behind the bus shelter and complain about how bored we were.
wrote on 19 Nov 2020, 17:19 last edited by@Aqua-Letifer said in Goodbye, Facebook:
@Doctor-Phibes said in Goodbye, Facebook:
Link to videoAll we ever did was drink hard cider behind the bus shelter and complain about how bored we were.
Funnily enough, I saw them play King George's Hall in Blackburn, Lancashire (the place with 4000 holes) in 1978.
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wrote on 19 Nov 2020, 17:19 last edited by
Awesome. Paul Weller's the shit. -
wrote on 19 Nov 2020, 17:21 last edited by
I seem to remember he sang out of tune in Blackburn, and threatened somebody who spat on him.
Or that might have been Stiff Little Fingers. It's all a bit of a blur.
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I seem to remember he sang out of tune in Blackburn, and threatened somebody who spat on him.
Or that might have been Stiff Little Fingers. It's all a bit of a blur.
wrote on 19 Nov 2020, 17:26 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Goodbye, Facebook:
I seem to remember he sang out of tune in Blackburn, and threatened somebody who spat on him.
Or that might have been Stiff Little Fingers. It's all a bit of a blur.
That could really go either way, yeah.
(Would SLF play in Blackburn, though? Were people generally cool with them playing anywhere outside of Northern Ireland? I can see the government not being too cool with their subject matter.) -
wrote on 19 Nov 2020, 17:37 last edited by
No, I definitely saw SLF play. They put on a great show.
They weren't actually particularly controversial, considering what some of the bands were like - they got a lot of airplay on John Peel - the BBC's solitary punk DJ at the time
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wrote on 19 Nov 2020, 17:45 last edited by
Phibes, it occurs to me that there is no place on this planet, no group you could join, where you wouldn't eventually get into trouble.
You're just that kind of guy, dangerously funny but angering to the uninitiated.And you say you left England of your own free will. . .
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wrote on 19 Nov 2020, 18:01 last edited by
Speak softly, and carry a bloody good pair of running shoes.
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Phibes, it occurs to me that there is no place on this planet, no group you could join, where you wouldn't eventually get into trouble.
You're just that kind of guy, dangerously funny but angering to the uninitiated.And you say you left England of your own free will. . .
wrote on 20 Nov 2020, 04:48 last edited by@Rainman said in Goodbye, Facebook:
Phibes, it occurs to me that there is no place on this planet, no group you could join, where you wouldn't eventually get into trouble.
You're just that kind of guy, dangerously funny but angering to the uninitiated.And you say you left England of your own free will. . .
Walk into any bar populated by more than ten people and there's always at least one guy that looks like he needs to have his ass whupped...
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wrote on 20 Nov 2020, 06:48 last edited by
I closed my FB account years ago because of their censoring and privacy policies.
I've opened a test parler account. Only a very small part of the political spectrum is reflected there.
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I closed my FB account years ago because of their censoring and privacy policies.
I've opened a test parler account. Only a very small part of the political spectrum is reflected there.
wrote on 20 Nov 2020, 07:07 last edited by@Klaus said in Goodbye, Facebook:
I've opened a test parler account. Only a very small part of the political spectrum is reflected there.
Maybe it'll grow? And how political is the platform? Is that all that's talked about?
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@Klaus said in Goodbye, Facebook:
I've opened a test parler account. Only a very small part of the political spectrum is reflected there.
Maybe it'll grow? And how political is the platform? Is that all that's talked about?
wrote on 20 Nov 2020, 10:39 last edited by Klaus@Aqua-Letifer said in Goodbye, Facebook:
@Klaus said in Goodbye, Facebook:
I've opened a test parler account. Only a very small part of the political spectrum is reflected there.
Maybe it'll grow? And how political is the platform? Is that all that's talked about?
I randomly searched for the word "Germany" on Parler. It's not a very partisan word.
Look at how often words like "QAnon" or "Nazi" or "Trump" show up in the results.
I'm not saying it can't change or grow. But right now it seems to be populated mostly by hard core Trump fans and conspiracy theorists. -
wrote on 20 Nov 2020, 17:27 last edited by
Parler requires your phone # to create an account, forget it
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@Rainman said in Goodbye, Facebook:
Phibes, it occurs to me that there is no place on this planet, no group you could join, where you wouldn't eventually get into trouble.
You're just that kind of guy, dangerously funny but angering to the uninitiated.And you say you left England of your own free will. . .
Walk into any bar populated by more than ten people and there's always at least one guy that looks like he needs to have his ass whupped...
wrote on 20 Nov 2020, 18:05 last edited by@Jolly said in Goodbye, Facebook:
@Rainman said in Goodbye, Facebook:
Phibes, it occurs to me that there is no place on this planet, no group you could join, where you wouldn't eventually get into trouble.
You're just that kind of guy, dangerously funny but angering to the uninitiated.And you say you left England of your own free will. . .
Walk into any bar populated by more than ten people and there's always at least one guy that looks like he needs to have his ass whupped...
And there's always one who comes back from the bathroom to find that some bastard's put a drawing pin on his chair.
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@Jolly said in Goodbye, Facebook:
@Rainman said in Goodbye, Facebook:
Phibes, it occurs to me that there is no place on this planet, no group you could join, where you wouldn't eventually get into trouble.
You're just that kind of guy, dangerously funny but angering to the uninitiated.And you say you left England of your own free will. . .
Walk into any bar populated by more than ten people and there's always at least one guy that looks like he needs to have his ass whupped...
And there's always one who comes back from the bathroom to find that some bastard's put a drawing pin on his chair.
wrote on 20 Nov 2020, 18:20 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Goodbye, Facebook:
@Jolly said in Goodbye, Facebook:
@Rainman said in Goodbye, Facebook:
Phibes, it occurs to me that there is no place on this planet, no group you could join, where you wouldn't eventually get into trouble.
You're just that kind of guy, dangerously funny but angering to the uninitiated.And you say you left England of your own free will. . .
Walk into any bar populated by more than ten people and there's always at least one guy that looks like he needs to have his ass whupped...
And there's always one who comes back from the bathroom to find that some bastard's put a drawing pin on his chair.
Not down here, buster.
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wrote on 20 Nov 2020, 20:55 last edited by
You need to get out more
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You need to get out more
wrote on 20 Nov 2020, 21:15 last edited by@Doctor-Phibes said in Goodbye, Facebook:
You need to get out more
Nah, you need to hang around a bit more in the kind of bars where the band plays behind a chicken wire screen.
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wrote on 20 Nov 2020, 21:51 last edited by Doctor Phibes
Rough pubs are banned in England. I grew up completely surrounded by people who look and sound like Hugh Grant.