Goodbye, Facebook

[Doctor Phibes]

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.

[Aqua Letifer]

@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.)

[Doctor Phibes]

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

[Rainman]

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. . .

[Doctor Phibes]

Speak softly, and carry a bloody good pair of running shoes.

[Jolly]

@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...

[Klaus]

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.

[Aqua Letifer]

@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?

[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.

[Copper]

Parler requires your phone # to create an account, forget it

[Doctor Phibes]

@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.

[Jolly]

@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.

[Doctor Phibes]

You need to get out more

[Jolly]

@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.

[Doctor Phibes]

Rough pubs are banned in England. I grew up completely surrounded by people who look and sound like Hugh Grant.

[Klaus]

@Jolly said in Goodbye, Facebook:

Nah, you need to hang around a bit more in the kind of bars where the band plays behind a chicken wire screen.

Do those actually exist? Where would I find one?

[George K]

@Klaus said in Goodbye, Facebook:

Do those actually exist? Where would I find one?

Link to video

[Catseye3]

Also, the movie Road House would give you a good idea of what they're like.

[Jolly]

@Klaus said in Goodbye, Facebook:

@Jolly said in Goodbye, Facebook:

Nah, you need to hang around a bit more in the kind of bars where the band plays behind a chicken wire screen.

Do those actually exist? Where would I find one?

When I was a lad, you could find those on the TLO (Texas/Louisiana/Oklahoma) bar circuit. Usually, small dive bars with a mixture of cowboys, rednecks and roughnecks. You couldn't buy a beer except in cans, because they weaponized long necks, mugs and pitchers.

[jon-nyc]