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Did you just call me Coltrane? 11-24-2009 12:33 PM
Re: Smart lad, to slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay
 
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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 408031)
Like I said, I don't mind "look at me" posts. I just don't understand the updates that come every two minutes and contain nothing. For example, there is someone in my friends list who has a 1 in 20 interesting update average, but when it's interesting, it's really interesting. And it's a daily fight to keep from deleting her so I don't have to read the 3 scriptures, 1 horoscope cut-and-paste, 3 descriptions of food cravings, 2 aimless, misguided and amorphous political rants, 4 complaints about love life and 6 pointless "tgif"-type posts.

TM

PS-But what I really look forward to from everyone are those quotes that people seize on that they think are so deep. Those really keep me going!
Anything political, left or right, gets you dinged.

sebastian_dangerfield 11-24-2009 12:35 PM
Re: Smart lad, to slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay
 
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 408028)
I like the updates more than anything else on Facebook. I don't want to post my own pictures there, and I don't particularly want to see other people's pictures, although it's nice that they're there if I do. But I do like seeing status updates, even when I don't understand what they're talking about. There's one person who I've screened because I tired of her incessant, boring posts, no one here of course, but that's the exception rather than the rule. YMMV.
Twitter's preferable. If I'm going to get my dumb-and-vapid on, best to do it in the shortest span of time possible.

Not Bob 11-24-2009 12:35 PM
Re: Smart lad, to slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay
 
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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 408017)
Right. My point is super-convoluted now. I can see how it would be really difficult to understand why I think working through one's feelings of loss by posting a facebook update is retarded--as retarded as posting, "I like cupcakes. Mmmmmm. So yummy!"

Besides, everyone knows one should only mourn on twitter.

TM
Got it. Your point is the usual -- "why don't these idiots all act like me?" This therefore covers where you started and ended (tributes to the dead on Facebook suck) and all points in the middle (why does Aunt Agatha insist on posting Bible verses on her status updates?)

Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) 11-24-2009 12:47 PM
Re: Smart lad, to slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay
 
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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 408018)
Why do people feel the need to tell everyone what they had for breakfast?

TM
What are your thoughts on Twitter?

sebastian_dangerfield 11-24-2009 12:49 PM
Re: Smart lad, to slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay
 
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Originally Posted by Not Bob (Post 408036)
Got it. Your point is the usual -- "why don't these idiots all act like me?" This therefore covers where you started and ended (tributes to the dead on Facebook suck) and all points in the middle (why does Aunt Agatha insist on posting Bible verses on her status updates?)
No. His point is that a tribute on Facebook is tacky, and more about the originator wanting attention for his melodrama than actually lauding the deceased. And he's right. Objectively, it's a gaudy, pathetic behavior that ought to be shunned. Taking that position might seem cold or unnecessary (Who's harmed by the tributes, right?), but it's these little allowances we make that add up to a society of assholes annoying us on social media pages because no one took the time to tell them, "This shit you're writing right now? This is horrible, annoying drivel. You're a fucking irritant. Go somewhere, read a goddamned book or magazine, listen to a piece of music or have a discussion with someone that grants you some unique insight to offer to the conversation, and, when you have something useful to write, come back here and write it. If this is unacceptable, I suggest a more productive expenditure of your time: masturbation."

Sidd Finch 11-24-2009 12:56 PM
Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 
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Originally Posted by PresentTense Pirate Penske (Post 408001)
Indeed it was good advice and I am indebted to Mr. Sidd as without him I may very well have been righteously embarrassed in my meeting, but instead I was smooth as an 89 Petrus.

Having said that, I have a follow up query as this bilingual cultural competency stuff is tres hard.....after we finished the introductory chitchat, and then wrapped up the business portion of the meet, the conversation turned personal and eventually to sex (as that is where most of my convos end up).....she confided that there are some "issues" in her marriage and at the same time I realised that she was slowly running her now unshoed foot up the inside of my right calf......and when my jaw dropped she licked her lips, seemingly lasciviously.....

what exactly does such behaviour mean in French?

Pretty much what it means in English, only more so and without the guilt. Vive la difference!

Sidd Finch 11-24-2009 12:57 PM
Re: Smart lad, to slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay
 
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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall (Post 408010)
Good fucking grief (npi). Nobody could possibly be as over-the-top nice as you seem to be.

Sure. In some cases it may help people deal with their feelings of loss. But, like almost everything else posted on facebook, it's done for attention. From the people who post scripture constantly (maybe they are working through problematic feelings they are having with their faith) to the people who post that they like cupcakes (maybe it helps them deal with their cravings and is a major reason for their possible improvements in diet and therefore health), you can find a reason to justify any of it. So, I guess my question is, how much could a halfass post on facebook about someone who died possibly help one deal with the loss of a friend? I bet there are some people it may actually make feel really better. But if that's true, then I'm making fun of those people...because they're using facebook to work through their feelings of loss. Good God, man.

TM

So stop paying attention.

PresentTense Pirate Penske 11-24-2009 01:24 PM
Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 
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Originally Posted by evenodds (Post 408008)
That you ended the meeting in a hotel room.
Sheesh, I thought we had an agreement to keep this stuff on the dl....dl

I fear that the honesty of my postings has left me too exposed...... ;);)

PresentTense Pirate Penske 11-24-2009 01:31 PM
Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy (Post 408012)
Time for dessert. Nothing like a hungry French woman.
Indeed, it was the best dessert ala francais I've had since the time I dined with a Crazy Horse dancer.

PresentTense Pirate Penske 11-24-2009 01:37 PM
Re: Smart lad, to slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay
 
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 408035)
Twitter's preferable. If I'm going to get my dumb-and-vapid on, best to do it in the shortest span of time possible.
The synopses of my sex life are too entertainingly complicated to condense to 140 words let alone 140 characters......

Not Bob 11-24-2009 01:37 PM
He was my North, my South, my East and West.
 
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 408038)
No. His point is that a tribute on Facebook is tacky, and more about the originator wanting attention for his melodrama than actually lauding the deceased. And he's right. Objectively, it's a gaudy, pathetic behavior that ought to be shunned. Taking that position might seem cold or unnecessary (Who's harmed by the tributes, right?), but it's these little allowances we make that add up to a society of assholes annoying us on social media pages because no one took the time to tell them, "This shit you're writing right now? This is horrible, annoying drivel. You're a fucking irritant. Go somewhere, read a goddamned book or magazine, listen to a piece of music or have a discussion with someone that grants you some unique insight to offer to the conversation, and, when you have something useful to write, come back here and write it. If this is unacceptable, I suggest a more productive expenditure of your time: masturbation."
Precisely, my dear Sebby. That was my original point. Houseman and Auden can share their pain and loss for public consumption, but your cousin in Wilkes-Barre, whose bit of memorial doggerel is maudlin and mawkish, cannot. Unlike Starkist, we only want Facebook friends with good taste.

PresentTense Pirate Penske 11-24-2009 01:41 PM
Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 
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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch (Post 408040)
Pretty much what it means in English, only more so and without the guilt. Vive la difference!
I'm inherently guilt free. Perhaps I'm french?

ThurgreedMarshall 11-24-2009 01:45 PM
Re: Smart lad, to slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay
 
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Originally Posted by Not Bob (Post 408036)
Got it. Your point is the usual -- "why don't these idiots all act like me?" This therefore covers where you started and ended (tributes to the dead on Facebook suck) and all points in the middle (why does Aunt Agatha insist on posting Bible verses on her status updates?)
Yep. You've got me cold.

But how is that different than any criticism about anything that annoys anyone? In fact, how is it different from your posts about how things should be? "If only everyone could be nice to each other the world would be a better place!" Right.

I think posting a message on facebook to someone who died is as stupid as the anon "Happy Birthday to someone special on the FB!" posts we used to have to wade through here. Some shit is just stupid. And since there isn't a Standard Book of Stupid,* when I point out something stupid, it is necessarily subjective.

TM

*Hi Sarah Palin!

Sidd Finch 11-24-2009 01:46 PM
Re: Smart lad, to slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay
 
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 408034)
Anything political, left or right, gets you dinged.
Plus posting your poetry, song lyrics, or raps. Unless and until they subtitle Facebook "Where People Not Good Enough For YouTube Go To Perform", keep that self-expression shit to your own bathroom mirror.

ThurgreedMarshall 11-24-2009 01:46 PM
Re: Smart lad, to slip betimes away/From fields where glory does not stay
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.) (Post 408037)
What are your thoughts on Twitter?
Have only looked at the fake Christopher Walken page. I don't understand the point of it otherwise.

TM


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