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Tyrone Slothrop 10-22-2008 05:38 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by bold_n_brazen (Post 368281)
I have a few friends on facebook from high school, but I went to a pretty small school (just over 100 in my graduating class). I'm glad to have caught up with them and to know what's going on in their lives. But I am engaged to marry the guy who took me to my senior prom, so maybe my perspective is all fucked up.
Of the people I have befriended on Facebook, most are people who I know from the last 10 years. I didn't use the thing at all until recently, and it seems like there has been a big move of people in my circles getting onto Facebook just lately.

Pretty Little Flower 10-22-2008 05:43 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 368282)
A friend recently noted that within minutes of signing up for facebook, she was immediately barraged with messages from a chick she went to grammar school with. My friend loathed this chick and everyone else who went to that school. Chick, apparently thinking that time heals wounds, banters on about everyone else who went to the school and gives updates. An excerpt from my friend's post on the subject:
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And the best part? The BEST part? The kid who was the biggest asshole in the group and made my life hell? DIED.

DIED.

I am such a horrible person, but my first thought was actually, "Take THAT Joey!" Yes, he died young, very sad, very tragic.

But he was an asshole and made me cry almost every day for three years. So, seriously. Joey? I win.
Some people do hold on to shit.
Wow. Hank has made me cry almost every day for more than three years. Indeed, the pain of trying to make sense of some of his posts has, at times, caused me to let loose prolonged and blood-curdling wails of despair. But I still don't think I would rejoice in his tragic death.

Pretty Little Flower 10-22-2008 05:44 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 368284)
Of the people I have befriended on Facebook, most are people who I know from the last 10 years. I didn't use the thing at all until recently, and it seems like there has been a big move of people in my circles getting onto Facebook just lately.
You have circles?

Pretty Little Flower 10-22-2008 05:47 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by bold_n_brazen (Post 368281)
I have a few friends on facebook from high school, but I went to a pretty small school (just over 100 in my graduating class). I'm glad to have caught up with them and to know what's going on in their lives. But I am engaged to marry the guy who took me to my senior prom, so maybe my perspective is all fucked up.

How did you take the news about Joey?

Hank Chinaski 10-22-2008 05:54 PM
Re: Congratulations Slave and Catrin!!!
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch (Post 368283)
So my question about "Mad Men"? The one about Betty's unspoken motivations? About lunch with Arthur? The one that got no responses? Yeah, well, nevermind, I got my answer, no thanks to you lot.
give a man a fish,,,,,,,,

Gattigap 10-22-2008 05:55 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by bold_n_brazen (Post 368281)
I have a few friends on facebook from high school, but I went to a pretty small school (just over 100 in my graduating class). I'm glad to have caught up with them and to know what's going on in their lives. But I am engaged to marry the guy who took me to my senior prom, so maybe my perspective is all fucked up.

Depends. My wife uses it to catch up with her HS friends, but she grew up in a tiny little town and a small HS.

I, however, have not run into any HS friends on Facebook, and that's just fine, because I don't really give a shit about my high school years.

sebastian_dangerfield 10-22-2008 05:57 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 368276)
Then I guess it doesn't surprise me that the people who weren't that cool in HS seem to have the most friends on facebook...

Honest question, and I think I know the answer: do a lot of people still dwell on HS? It rarely even crosses my mind. It seems like another world that really wasn't all that great (and I was fairly popular). Now, college is a different story. I can relate to it and remember it well (and fondly), and I was probably less popular in college (if one can be "popular" in the college setting) than in HS.

I have the feeling someone on facebook is going to remind me of how much of a dick I was to him/her in HS, and I'm not going to remember who that person was/is.

For the record, I was a dick.
I was at a party a few months back with a couple dudes who made silly, silly cash on the sale of an internet start-up and they still talked about being geeks in HS. Dwelled on it almost at times. I was tempted to say, "Dude, you won. I mean, really, REALLY, won the game. You can do anything you want. Why on earth would you even think about HS?"

Pretty Little Flower 10-22-2008 05:57 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 368244)
Holy crap. Less took out ads.

ETA: This has nothing to do with facebook. I hit reply to the post instead of the generic reply.

Hint to Coltrane: make it so you don't get e-mails from facebook. Makes for a happier time on there. And ignore mercilessly.
If the ad says "There's Probably No God," wouldn't the advertiser be an agnostic, and not an atheist? I know, I know, Google is my friend. But I am lazy.

Hank Chinaski 10-22-2008 05:59 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Gattigap (Post 368289)
I, however, have not run into any HS friends on Facebook, and that's just fine, because I don't really give a shit about my high school years.
my high school doesn't even seem to have a group on Facebook. it closed 10 years ago, but still I would think there would be some people there.

bold_n_brazen 10-22-2008 06:00 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower (Post 368287)
How did you take the news about Joey?
Actually, no. But I did find out about John. It made me cry.

Tyrone Slothrop 10-22-2008 06:00 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower (Post 368286)
You have circles?
Circles within circles. Epicycles, if you will.

ThurgreedMarshall 10-22-2008 06:02 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 368276)
Then I guess it doesn't surprise me that the people who weren't that cool in HS seem to have the most friends on facebook...

Honest question, and I think I know the answer: do a lot of people still dwell on HS? It rarely even crosses my mind. It seems like another world that really wasn't all that great (and I was fairly popular). Now, college is a different story. I can relate to it and remember it well (and fondly), and I was probably less popular in college (if one can be "popular" in the college setting) than in HS.

I have the feeling someone on facebook is going to remind me of how much of a dick I was to him/her in HS, and I'm not going to remember who that person was/is.

For the record, I was a dick.
2 on all of it.

(And what's really weird is when you ignore someone you barely know and they ask for a friend request again. Why?)

TM

Pretty Little Flower 10-22-2008 06:03 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 368290)
I was at a party a few months back with a couple dudes who made silly, silly cash on the sale of an internet start-up and they still talked about being geeks in HS. Dwelled on it almost at times. I was tempted to say, "Dude, you won. I mean, really, REALLY, won the game. You can do anything you want. Why on earth would you even think about HS?"
Exactly! And Joey's dead now, so that's, like, the icing on the cake.

Not Bob 10-22-2008 06:03 PM
This guy says the horse can do.
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by bold_n_brazen (Post 368260)
Why are geldings uh... gelded?

(Yes, I know google is my friend,but I am lazy.)
Based upon my extensive knowledge of The Sport of Kings (translation: I read Jane Smiley's "Horse Heaven" and Hunter S. Thompson's "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved"), it is to make it easier to keep the horse from having an aggressive and nasty personality around people and mares, and is seldom done if the owner and/or trainer thinks that the poor stallion's DNA is going to be worth anything.

eta: Scroll, then post, Not Bob. But your re line makes it totally worth it. I'm singing "Luck, Be A Lady Tonight" as we speak. Carry on.

Pretty Little Flower 10-22-2008 06:07 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 368295)
2 on all of it.

(And what's really weird is when you ignore someone you barely know and they ask for a friend request again. Why?)

TM

Because one of these times, in a moment of weakness, you will accept my friend request. Then, I will slowly but surely pique your interest with a relentless stream of occasional witty messages. Soon, you will realize that you were wrong for thinking me a loser and a geek for all of these years. You will probably even think to yourself, "Wow, he has really turned out to be a cool guy. I'm surprised, but mostly I am disappointed in myself for pre-judging him the way I did." Then, we'll become good friends, go out for drinks, and share a few laughs over Joey's tragic and untimely passing.

Replaced_Texan 10-22-2008 06:07 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 368294)
Circles within circles. Epicycles, if you will.
Certainly there's a Venn diagram that would be helpful.

Pretty Little Flower 10-22-2008 06:07 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 368294)
Circles within circles. Epicycles, if you will.
I will not.

Hank Chinaski 10-22-2008 06:10 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 368290)
I was at a party a few months back with a couple dudes who made silly, silly cash on the sale of an internet start-up and they still talked about being geeks in HS. Dwelled on it almost at times. I was tempted to say, "Dude, you won. I mean, really, REALLY, won the game. You can do anything you want. Why on earth would you even think about HS?"
look at the back of Kiss Alive! Two stoners are holding a poster. That's Bruce and Lee from my graduating class. Behind you can see Tommy and Bob!

They were very cool after that came out.

Over the years, when Kiss came to Detroit they always invited Bruce and Lee backstage.

At our 20 year reunion that's still all they could talk about. I don't think it gets them as much pussy now as it did in the 70s.

ThurgreedMarshall 10-22-2008 06:10 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower (Post 368298)
Because one of these times, in a moment of weakness, you will accept my friend request. Then, I will slowly but surely pique your interest with a relentless stream of occasional witty messages. Soon, you will realize that you were wrong for thinking me a loser and a geek for all of these years. You will probably even think to yourself, "Wow, he has really turned out to be a cool guy. I'm surprised, but mostly I am disappointed in myself for pre-judging him the way I did." Then, we'll become good friends, go out for drinks, and share a few laughs over Joey's tragic and untimely passing.
Nah. Thanks, though.

TM

Not Bob 10-22-2008 06:12 PM
Flower, if you're hurting, so am I.
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower (Post 368296)
Exactly! And Joey's dead now, so that's, like, the icing on the cake.
You can try to hide the pain with the witty quips, but we know better, Flower. It's ok to admit that you need a hug.

Hank Chinaski 10-22-2008 06:12 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower (Post 368298)
Because one of these times, in a moment of weakness, you will accept my friend request. Then, I will slowly but surely pique your interest with a relentless stream of occasional witty messages. Soon, you will realize that you were wrong for thinking me a loser and a geek for all of these years. You will probably even think to yourself, "Wow, he has really turned out to be a cool guy. I'm surprised, but mostly I am disappointed in myself for pre-judging him the way I did." Then, we'll become good friends, go out for drinks, and share a few laughs over Joey's tragic and untimely passing.
even Jay Leno knows a third joke is the end, and that's for a good schtick.

Pretty Little Flower 10-22-2008 06:18 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 368304)
even Jay Leno knows a third joke is the end, and that's for a good schtick.
I am glad to see you have discovered irony.

sebastian_dangerfield 10-22-2008 06:32 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 368301)
look at the back of Kiss Alive! Two stoners are holding a poster. That's Bruce and Lee from my graduating class. Behind you can see Tommy and Bob!

They were very cool after that came out.

Over the years, when Kiss came to Detroit they always invited Bruce and Lee backstage.

At our 20 year reunion that's still all they could talk about. I don't think it gets them as much pussy now as it did in the 70s.
You mean they can't jerk off as much these days due to arthritis?

I'd blame it on tennis elbow, but I don't want to kill any of the street cred those cats built up digging Kiss.

sebastian_dangerfield 10-22-2008 06:34 PM
Re: This guy says the horse can do.
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Not Bob (Post 368297)
Based upon my extensive knowledge of The Sport of Kings (translation: I read Jane Smiley's "Horse Heaven" and Hunter S. Thompson's "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved"), it is to make it easier to keep the horse from having an aggressive and nasty personality around people and mares, and is seldom done if the owner and/or trainer thinks that the poor stallion's DNA is going to be worth anything.

eta: Scroll, then post, Not Bob. But your re line makes it totally worth it. I'm singing "Luck, Be A Lady Tonight" as we speak. Carry on.
"A riot? My God, no! Not on derby day!"

"Black Panthers, peace freaks... they're all over the place, lurking, waiting..."

notcasesensitive 10-22-2008 07:24 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 368273)
That you're not a friend anymore. But if he's friending any and everyone, then he's likely not going to notice that you're gone.
This reminds me of the story my friend (on facebook and in real life) told me the other day about defriending some guy who she dated a few times, slept with and then didn't hear from for two weeks. Apparently when she defriended him, he noticed (sounds like the type to have been scouring her page fairly regularly but not actually calling her) and sent her some creepy e-mail asking why she didn't want to be his friend. If nothing else, this makes a strong case for not friending casual dates. I'm glad not to be casually dating in the age of My Space and Facebook.

As to who uses it, it may be because I've moved around so much, but there are people who I lost touch with from high school, college, Dallas, family members (I haven't done a great job of keeping in touch with my dad's family in the 20 years since his death), etc., along with all the local friends who tend to use it. But by far the most active group of people -- people who actually plan most of their outings on facebook -- are people from my graphic design classes. I have no problem with accepting friend requests from people I didn't know that well in high school (the only friend requests that have been of the "who is that again" variety so far have been people from my high school). I don't care if they know what is going on with me and it isn't like I really interact with them other than occasionally seeing their status updates scroll by.

It has been far better for me than My Space ever was, though I'm still there too mainly for a couple of people who are there but not on the Facebook bandwagon yet. And for some bands that I follow.

Some people fear the internet connections thing and some don't. I guess I'm squarely in the camp that doesn't. Probably because e-mail is by far a preferable means of keeping in touch over talking on the phone for me.

Diane_Keaton 10-22-2008 08:15 PM
Re: Annoyances
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 368279)
is there an AARP group on facebook?
On the topic of old farts on facebook...the creepiest thing is to get a friend request from a 60+ partner at your firm. And they're using the pic from the firm intranet. Sorry, but there is no fucking way I want a partner reading my comments, the stupid ass groups I've created or to see in that little box that he's on the thing ready for to IM. Ew.

Hank Chinaski 10-22-2008 08:16 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower (Post 368305)
I am glad to see you have discovered irony.
that is two Hank jokes. don't waste the third. if you want I'll go read through your past ones and suggest something to clone. pm me.

Hank Chinaski 10-22-2008 08:17 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 368309)
You mean they can't jerk off as much these days due to arthritis?

I'd blame it on tennis elbow, but I don't want to kill any of the street cred those cats built up digging Kiss.
i bet you think dazed and confused was satire.

sebastian_dangerfield 10-22-2008 08:23 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by notcasesensitive (Post 368311)
This reminds me of the story my friend (on facebook and in real life) told me the other day about defriending some guy who she dated a few times, slept with and then didn't hear from for two weeks. Apparently when she defriended him, he noticed (sounds like the type to have been scouring her page fairly regularly but not actually calling her) and sent her some creepy e-mail asking why she didn't want to be his friend. If nothing else, this makes a strong case for not friending casual dates. I'm glad not to be casually dating in the age of My Space and Facebook.

As to who uses it, it may be because I've moved around so much, but there are people who I lost touch with from high school, college, Dallas, family members (I haven't done a great job of keeping in touch with my dad's family in the 20 years since his death), etc., along with all the local friends who tend to use it. But by far the most active group of people -- people who actually plan most of their outings on facebook -- are people from my graphic design classes. I have no problem with accepting friend requests from people I didn't know that well in high school (the only friend requests that have been of the "who is that again" variety so far have been people from my high school). I don't care if they know what is going on with me and it isn't like I really interact with them other than occasionally seeing their status updates scroll by.

It has been far better for me than My Space ever was, though I'm still there too mainly for a couple of people who are there but not on the Facebook bandwagon yet. And for some bands that I follow.

Some people fear the internet connections thing and some don't. I guess I'm squarely in the camp that doesn't. Probably because e-mail is by far a preferable means of keeping in touch over talking on the phone for me.
Have you seen the David Gilmour "Live in Gdansk" video? It's a great show. I can't say there was anything spectacular, but the sound was great, the song selection conservative but well chosen and the guitar, well, there were numerous moments recalling that peak in "The Fletcher Memorial Home." I'd also forgotten how well he translates to acoustic guitar. Knowing little of the mechanics of playing of music, I'll probably never figure out how somebody can make a note last so long without aid of electricity.

If somebody knows, don't tell me. I'd rather think he knows something most guitarists don't.

You should watch it. It's available on cable on demand in this part of the country. It's also on Itunes.

sebastian_dangerfield 10-22-2008 08:25 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski (Post 368314)
i bet you think dazed and confused was satire.
I have never spanked a person (even in my frat days), but as to most of the rest of it, No... No satire there.

Well, perhaps a satiric lifestyle. But isn't that everyone's?

ltl/fb 10-22-2008 08:39 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 368316)
I have never spanked a person (even in my frat days)
Really?

Hank Chinaski 10-22-2008 08:43 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 368316)
I have never spanked a person (even in my frat days), but as to most of the rest of it, No... No satire there.

Well, perhaps a satiric lifestyle. But isn't that everyone's?
i just meant being on a kiss album could get one laid at one point in time, like in that school.

Tyrone Slothrop 10-22-2008 08:44 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower (Post 368300)
I will not.
This is how I roll:

http://physics.ucr.edu/~wudka/Physic...www/img127.gif

ltl/fb 10-22-2008 08:45 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 368319)
Mars orbits Earth in a perfect circle? Huh.

ETA, no, I guess it does this weird swirly thing around a perfect circle orbit.

LessinSF 10-22-2008 09:45 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 368244)
Holy crap. Less took out ads.
Cool, although mine would have been more "in your face, Bill Maher "Religulous"-like.

sebastian_dangerfield 10-22-2008 10:04 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ltl/fb (Post 368317)
Really?
Male.

I never hazed a person, either. I mean, I made people drink a lot, but torturing pledges physically was always sort of a toolish thing, IMO.

sebastian_dangerfield 10-22-2008 10:07 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by LessinSF (Post 368321)
Cool, although mine would have been more "in your face, Bill Maher "Religulous"-like.
Is that movie any good? I want to see it, but then I worry it will be preachy and annoying. Maher is funny and I agree with him a lot, but when he gets on his high horse he's as annoying as the stridently religious.

pernsky no account 10-22-2008 10:47 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by notcasesensitive (Post 368311)
It has been far better for me than My Space ever was,..........

Really? Is there sex or money involved, because I have been really hestitant to pick up another online communitary but I am now officialy wourried that I am missing something.

I suppose I could de-list myself from Obama's textmessaging updates which would free up 8-11 minutes a day....

pernsky no account 10-22-2008 10:48 PM
Re: Facebook
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 368323)
Is that movie any good? I want to see it, but then I worry it will be preachy and annoying. Maher is funny and I agree with him a lot, but when he gets on his high horse he's as annoying as the stridently religious.
Were Mayher and Obelmann frat brothers at Cornell?

Bucco Bruce 10-22-2008 10:52 PM
Go Rays!
 
Dear B'nB,

Perhaps not tonight, but I am convinced that the Rays will do to the Phillies what the Bucs did to the Eagles (repeatedly) and the Lightning did to the Flyers.

Why? God hates the gays and therefore Philidelphia. City of Brotherly Love, indeed.

Love,

Bruce


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