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Post by Verbivore on Mar 22, 2018 4:54:29 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Mar 23, 2018 5:40:26 GMT
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Mar 23, 2018 15:11:47 GMT
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Post by Verbivore on Mar 23, 2018 21:49:13 GMT
Thanks for that, LJH. It seems we are fellow Dumbledores. The questions about Facebook were a bother; as I don't use the (anti)social media platform I had to hypothesise.
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Post by Geoff on Mar 24, 2018 4:38:05 GMT
Likewise, I'm a Dumbledore.
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Post by Twoddle on Mar 24, 2018 11:17:02 GMT
Hermione Granger, I.
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Post by Dave Miller on Mar 24, 2018 13:56:22 GMT
Following the recent revelations of personal-data-capture-by-quiz, I refuse to let some machine know what character I am (or what would make me so)!
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Post by Twoddle on Mar 24, 2018 23:08:27 GMT
Following the recent revelations of personal-data-capture-by-quiz, I refuse to let some machine know what character I am (or what would make me so)! Dave, as I was fond of telling Tone when he posted here, the people we have watching your every move, reading all your communications, and recording all your 'phone calls report that you're not at all paranoid.
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Post by Verbivore on Mar 25, 2018 3:32:38 GMT
Following the recent revelations of personal-data-capture-by-quiz, I refuse to let some machine know what character I am (or what would make me so)! While that's a valid consideration, I did the quiz because I use a good VPN that hides my IP address, and there was no personally identifying info for me to submit. Without those two conditions, however, I'd be loth to participate.
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Post by Twoddle on Mar 27, 2018 19:56:50 GMT
For Monty Python and the Holy Grail buffs, because no-one else will understand the joke. The Little Englanders among the Brexiteers were orgasmic at the news that, once the UK leaves the EU, British passport covers will revert from the current burgundy colour of the EU to their pre-EU blue colour. However, their ecstatic joy was somewhat diminished by the discovery that the contract to produce the new passports had been won by a French company. Personally, as a staunch Remainer who thinks the Brexiteers need medical help, I nearly wet myself laughing.
Here's the design proof for the passport. Read the wording carefully.
I don't think I'll be very keen. I've already got one, you see. (That's another Monty Python and the Holy Grail reference, by the way.)
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Post by Verbivore on Mar 28, 2018 22:06:01 GMT
Twod: I just now noticed your tagline: Introverts unite! (Separately, in your own homes.)
Love it! And I fully subscribe to the notion.
When I was fifteen, my school headmaster accused me, in front of Mater, of being "an introvert and an intellectual snob". As he was dismissing me he added, sotto voce: "But we introverts win in the end".
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Post by Twoddle on Mar 29, 2018 9:44:08 GMT
Twod: I just now noticed your tagline: Introverts unite! (Separately, in your own homes.)Love it! And I fully subscribe to the notion. When I was fifteen, my school headmaster accused me, in front of Mater, of being "an introvert and an intellectual snob". As he was dismissing me he added, sotto voce: "But we introverts win in the end". A couple of T-shirt slogans were e-mailed to me recently by people who know me too well: "Introverts Unite. We're here, we're uncomfortable, and we want to go home", and "I hate group hugs. And groups. And hugs."
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Post by Verbivore on Mar 29, 2018 9:55:31 GMT
A couple of T-shirt slogans were e-mailed to me recently by people who know me too well: "Introverts Unite. We're here, we're uncomfortable, and we want to go home", and "I hate group hugs. And groups. And hugs." You'd hate it in the town where I work, Twod! As Australia's first hippy (i.e. Alternative Lifestyle from the '70s) town, Mullumbimby is perhaps the huggiest town in the nation. People at my work (and probably many other workplaces here) frequently hug – though not group hugs – as do folk on the streets. I'm sure a hug is a more common greeting here than a handshake. Just yesterday I encountered my boyfriend in the main street with his mum, dad, and siblings. Each of them insisted on giving me a hug, but I'm so used to it that it doesn't bother me at all. Even the English emigrants who've settled here hug; they've lost their British reserve. Better not visit, lest you be similarly corrupted. LOL
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Post by Little Jack Horner on Mar 29, 2018 11:59:43 GMT
I blame television for the hugginess of modern society (and for all other flaws in today’s world!). A few years ago, I joined a local group which is very huggy. I think it is a defect in my character that I have still not learned to participate gracefully in the ritual hugs and cheek-to-cheek embraces that are a part of every meeting. I think I need another twelve months — perhaps.
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Post by Twoddle on Mar 29, 2018 21:52:13 GMT
The hugging phenomenon has arrived from somewhere in the past few years, and I wish it would go away again. In days of yore, people would shake hands with me when we met or parted, but now they - mainly women - insist on assaulting me by hugging or, even worse, pretend-kissing my cheek (and don't you detest the prats who make a bloody silly "Mwaa" sound when they do that?). Why can they not appreciate that I DON'T LIKE IT!. Desist! Stop it! Cease! Return to the handshake or, even better, say "Hallo" and "Goodbye" and avoid the physical stuff completely.
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