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Although I understand how Facebook works, it doesn't stop me from obsessively going through people's photos and posts and worrying that they're much more successful and happy than I am. This is particularly galling if they're people that I don't like, and who I feel are not as clever or talented as I am. Which is basically everyone on my friends list.
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Excellent summing up of Facebook there, Thorn. Of course, all the best people don't actually go on it at all, which leaves one feeling completely worthless when searching for people who aren't even on there and wondering what they must be doing that is so fabulous that they don't even have time to advertise it on Facebook, and then a small twinge of relief as you think, well they're probably dead or dying or in a vegetative state and that's why they don't post, but then the anguish comes back as you realise that even those things are far cooler than anything you do.
quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: Also don't post any pics of the time they managed to get into the roll of barbed wire in the shed because you were busy in the loft, surfing for porn.
I was thinking about barbed wire the other day whilst walking through an unsavoury neighbourhood (which I forgot to change my Facebook status to and that would have been really cool) and also bits of broken glass on top of walls, and guard dogs, and fucking razor wire as well. What I want to know is, how is that stuff allowed, but they always say that if you booby-trapped a harpoon gun to your front door, or wired up five thousand volts through your car's bodywork when you parked it, then you'd be liable for assault charges if someone hurt themselves. What if I put razor wire all over my car, would that be ok? Why is a guard dog not a dangerous weapon like an armed guard would be?
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I had a dream last night that I was lying in bed with the actress Jewel Staite. I was pretty happy about this situation, even though it was kind of platonic. In this instance Jewel Staite also happened to be Dang's wife. I kept trying to put my hand on her tit, and she kept taking it off. Eventually she said "I feel like I'm betraying Dang by doing this", and got up and left the room and I found myself hoping that she didn't tell Dang that I'd been trying to touch her tit.
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I have learned today that I have been pronouncing concatenate and segue incorrectly my entire life. I don't think I've ever said either of these words out loud so it's not a big issue, but I've been mentally pronouncing them wrong.
(I though concatenate was Con-Sir-Teen-Ate and segue was Seeg)
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It's like that running gag on the Controller Throw podcast where that one guy picks a certain word each week to pronounce in a really bizarre way and the other guy sort of chuckles along and doesn't correct him.
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quote:Originally posted by Cherry In Hove: concatenate
What in the hell is this word, anyway? I've never seen it before. What's it for? What does it do? Is this one of those iPad things I keep hearing about?
Seriously - I've read dozens of the greatest works of literature in the English language and not one of them has ever used this word. What is it? What's so good about it?
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Just ate three randomly picked Jelly Belly™ jelly beans from the massive jar in the office kitchen and washed them down with a swig of black coffee.
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£150 of that was on a dual action electric polisher, so I suppose it's 'not that bad' when you take that into account. And £20 was on a 'bag'
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I hate Valentine's Day. Stupid commercialised crap
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: £150 of that was on a dual action electric polisher, so I suppose it's 'not that bad' when you take that into account. And £20 was on a 'bag'
Elbow grease is cheaper... wax on, wax off etc. [does Karate Kid hand movements]
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It certainly is, believe me I'm no stranger to it. But the DA Polisher is able to give a finish you couldn't possibly get by hand, and allows you to remove every single minute scratch and swirl mark so the paint ends up with an absolute mirror sheen to the paint. Just impossible to get that result by hand, unless you had about a month to spend on it and arms like popeye
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Will we hear you typing in the background on tonight's podcast, and NWoD reading your comments out? Perhaps he could put on a Benway voice so listeners could tell who was saying what.
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I would like to hear Benway type his thoughts into a text 2 speech program and we can hear it as if Steven Hawkings was doing the podcast.
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quote:Originally posted by MiscellaneousFiles: Will we hear you typing in the background on tonight's podcast, and NWoD reading your comments out? Perhaps he could put on a Benway voice so listeners could tell who was saying what.
The temptation the make benway say what you wanted would just be overwhelming, surely? "Oh - yep - looks like Benway agrees with me again. And what's this he's just typed? 'Not only were you right about what you just said, but you were right about everything we've ever argued about ever. I like pigfuck'."
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