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General Discussion => The Laughter Zone => Topic started by: Clive on August 02, 2009, 12:26
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Good manners are what separate us from lower animals such as pigs and estate agents,
and that is why we herewith present our guide to the gadget use that brings social shame.
If you catch anyone doing any of the following, advise them to mend their ways at once.
Twitter is a means for the terminally dull to inflict their innate awfulness on the rest of us.
Over 2.5 million people 'follow' Britney Spears; Jonathan Ross has 380,000 people hanging on his every tweet,
and yet we’re still waiting for them to say anything at all interesting.
Civilisation is being slowly dissolved, 140 characters at a time,
and when Twitter does finally bring the world to an end,
all that will be left will be cockroaches and Stephen Fry, tweeting about his lunch.
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Amen. :)
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I'll second that, Rik. :)
And add that twitter is an apt name, for twits! ;D
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I really don't see that it's important to tell everyone what I am doing, second my second, in bursts of 140 characters. It seems only suitable for large egos to me. Maybe I'm missing something? :dunno:
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Or people that suffer from verbal diarrhoea.
I'm a fairly quiet person, I prefer to be left alone most of the time. I don't like answering the phone most of the time, and if you show up on my doorstep, well that's about as far as you'll get. I like my privacy and hate people who intrude on my personal space.
Friendly bugger, ain't I! ;D
So I suppose twitter, really wouldn't suit me. A little like the mobile phone Michael gave me, I used it that much, that our provider disconnected me. (for lack of use)
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Now I do confess to using the phone, when I need to. :)
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I'm a fairly quiet person, I prefer to be left alone most of the time. I don't like answering the phone most of the time, and if you show up on my doorstep, well that's about as far as you'll get. I like my privacy and hate people who intrude on my personal space.
Same here, MB. The phone irritates me, as people obviously think it doesn't matter what I'm doing, they have the right to disturb me by calling. That's why, 9 times out of 10, I let the answer phone get it. I also hate unannounced doorstep callers, and even my best friends know to ring me before they visit. It's just politeness, in my book. My home is my home, and nobody has the right to intrude into my personal space, at their own convenience.
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A little like the mobile phone Michael gave me, I used it that much, that our provider disconnected me. (for lack of use)
Must check I'm still connected! :D
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Instead of opening the door to unexpected callers, I open the window adjacent to the door (if I bother to open it at all). The last caller's opening gambit was a cheery, "How are you today?"
I smiled, "Fine, thank you for asking," and closed the window.
He was lucky. I have a choice vocabulary specially reserved for unsolicited callers. But I will never forget one Christmas morning when I was helping my mother get the Christmas dinner ready. She was desperately trying to get all the components of the meal to come together simultaneously when she was interrupted by a knock on the door. Opening it, she was confronted by a pair of Jehovah's Witnesses who wanted to tell her how much God loved her. It was the only time I ever heard my mother swear, and boy, did I extend my vocabulary that day! It was a good job she only had a wooden spoon in her hand, not the carving knife.
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Yes, I've done the "Oh, F**k off!!" thing on JWs too. ;D
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Same here, MB. The phone irritates me, as people obviously think it doesn't matter what I'm doing, they have the right to disturb me by calling. That's why, 9 times out of 10, I let the answer phone get it. I also hate unannounced doorstep callers, and even my best friends know to ring me before they visit. It's just politeness, in my book. My home is my home, and nobody has the right to intrude into my personal space, at their own convenience.
When I was starting to have problems with the management committee, the man in charge used to come by first thing in the morning. He'd ring that damn bell like he was wringing the neck of a chicken. At first I used to get out of bed and answer the door, thinking that he was really quite sweet to care about how things were going. That changed after I had told him that I'd ring if there was a problem and that he didn't need to come over. But he just keep ringing that damn bell and I stopped answering the door. I finally took the bell off the door, so he would pound on the door, not knock, POUND, on the door. I felt besieged in my own home.
I would also find him in the backyard.
One morning he was in the backyard painting the stairs, and he was ripping out the tarragon I had growing under the stairs, telling me it was a weed and I had to get rid of it. I finally convinced him that it was a herb and not a weed, he promised to compensate me, yeah, right!
I put a lock on the side gate.
Later at the tribunal, I was accused off being uncooperative and denying them access. F*&#@!!!!!!!
It's enough to make anyone want to go bush!
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Go bush... Hmm... There's an opening in there somewhere. :devil:
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You wish! ;)
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:D
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I have no idea what Twitter is..........and no wish to find out ;D
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In that case, we won't tell you. :)
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:hee-hee: :splat:
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Go bush... Hmm... There's an opening in there somewhere. :devil:
Simon you appear to be (like me) stuck in a 1980's time warp. The bushes to which you wistfully refer appear to have been under biological attack by a strong defoliant since the 1990's. :cry:
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;D
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Why cant I get the word Mohichan out of my head ;D
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Defoliation is just fine by me. The more the better. :devil:
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:kidding-2: :lol:
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Defoliation is just fine by me. The more the better. :devil:
Must make you happy when you look in the mirror then, Clive. :)x
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:aarrgh: :bawl:
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Think of the positives, no expensive hair cuts, save money on shampoo and conditioner, no dandruff, no split ends....... ;D
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My haircut costs just £3. ;D
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3 pounds for a single hair.... :o
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Its the polish ;D
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:pmsl: I have more than one MB. But they are not evenly spread out. ;D
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I wasn't including ear and nasal hair, Clive. :)x
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I keep mine well plucked MB. ;D
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:shh: :welldone: ;D Thats nice 8-)
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My haircut costs just £3. ;D
Bloody pensioners, always moaning they're hard up! ;D
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:pmsl:
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Bloody pensioners, always moaning they're hard up! ;D
Thanks to Viagra. :)x
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:)x
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I keep mine well plucked MB. ;D
I'm sure you do..... ':|
............. oh, sorry you said plucked.
Bloody reading glasses...... ;D
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:pmsl:
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Thanks to Viagra.
;D ;D
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:rofl: :lol: What cant speak ;D
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:haha:
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:haha: You hit the nail on the head MB.
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Trust the poms. ;)
Don't know why you're laughing Clive, look at the third one down. ;D
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:rofl: poor Clive
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But I don't use it MB. ;D I can't deny I'm geriatrc though. :bawl:
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Maybe in age Clive, but there's nothing feeble about your mind. :-* (Most of the time anyway) :)x
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You are far too kind MB. :hatoff:
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:shh: You'll ruin my reputation. ;D
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That's the last thing I would want to do MB. :laugh: