I am sure that this topic already exists, but I can't find it. Anyhoo, I just made a myspace page:
www.myspace.com/sunbaneglasses
My Space and Other Blogs.
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Mine, too, I believe
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
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Well, right below it. The www button.
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
-George Steiner
I have a cautionary tale for those of you using MySpace. Last year I went down to Portsmouth for my brother's birthday and we went to a club on the end of Southsea pier (I can't remember the name but I'm sure one of the Pompey Watchers does). One of our friends was at the bar when a woman with a strong Northern Irish accent turned to him and said "If you don't buy me a drink, I'll tell the bouncers that you just tried to rape me." He told her where to get off and she didn't actually go to the bouncers, but she did point our group out to her boyfriend and his small band of pikey thugs. Not long afterwards, and completely without warning, the boyfriend ran across the club and threw a haymaker straight at my brother who, caught completely by surprise, was struck square in the mouth. The combination of the pikey's rings and Rich's bottom teeth produced a two inch tear, right through his lower lip and he was knocked down, where the pikey proceeded to kick him and stamp on his head.
They hung around long enough for a stand off at the top of the pier, where they were eventually arrested by the Police, and I forced my reluctant brother to go to hospital (seriously, he would've just gone to bed had I not been there
). The Police later came to the hospital with a camera to take pictures of Rich's wounds, and several hours and 24 stitches later we went home. The Police wanted to press for a grevious bodily harm charge agaist the pikey and when Rich was unsure about pressing charges, they encouraged him because of the guy's previous record.
So, and here's where the story gets relevant, it went to court and all was going well until the defence lawyer asked my brother if he was familiar with a website called MySpace. Now my brother, make no mistake, is a dyed-in-the-flesh beer monster and this is reflected in his MySpace page. Lots of pictures from boozy nights out and comments from people he'd met from the recent 'Summer Break' gathering in Torquay, one of which even referred to him as "Mr Beer". Now even though, Rich has no record of violence, drunk or otherwise, the defence lawyer proceeded to fabricate a story of how our group of "tanked up college boys" had been aggravating the defendant and his group of "working class" friends (in actual fact they were a charming mixture of pikeys and football skinheads) and that the defendant was reacting to the 'attempted sexual assualt' against his girlfriend. This was not helped by a throwaway comment on MySpace where my brother actually called the friend who'd been at the bar "dirty old perv" in jest. Despite the testimony of the club security, who saw him charge at the oblivious Rich, the MySpace stuff tipped the jury the other way and the pikey walked. To make matters worse his girlfriend, spurred on by the success of the MySpace comment, is now trying to press charges against the friend who supposedly assualted her at the bar.
So there you have it, a little information can be a very dangerous thing. Especially if you're attacked by someone who can afford a cutthroat lawyer because they and their family have never paid a penny in tax! So be very careful about what you put on MySpace.
They hung around long enough for a stand off at the top of the pier, where they were eventually arrested by the Police, and I forced my reluctant brother to go to hospital (seriously, he would've just gone to bed had I not been there
). The Police later came to the hospital with a camera to take pictures of Rich's wounds, and several hours and 24 stitches later we went home. The Police wanted to press for a grevious bodily harm charge agaist the pikey and when Rich was unsure about pressing charges, they encouraged him because of the guy's previous record.So, and here's where the story gets relevant, it went to court and all was going well until the defence lawyer asked my brother if he was familiar with a website called MySpace. Now my brother, make no mistake, is a dyed-in-the-flesh beer monster and this is reflected in his MySpace page. Lots of pictures from boozy nights out and comments from people he'd met from the recent 'Summer Break' gathering in Torquay, one of which even referred to him as "Mr Beer". Now even though, Rich has no record of violence, drunk or otherwise, the defence lawyer proceeded to fabricate a story of how our group of "tanked up college boys" had been aggravating the defendant and his group of "working class" friends (in actual fact they were a charming mixture of pikeys and football skinheads) and that the defendant was reacting to the 'attempted sexual assualt' against his girlfriend. This was not helped by a throwaway comment on MySpace where my brother actually called the friend who'd been at the bar "dirty old perv" in jest. Despite the testimony of the club security, who saw him charge at the oblivious Rich, the MySpace stuff tipped the jury the other way and the pikey walked. To make matters worse his girlfriend, spurred on by the success of the MySpace comment, is now trying to press charges against the friend who supposedly assualted her at the bar.
So there you have it, a little information can be a very dangerous thing. Especially if you're attacked by someone who can afford a cutthroat lawyer because they and their family have never paid a penny in tax! So be very careful about what you put on MySpace.
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A. Because proper tea is theft.
A. Because proper tea is theft.
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Or you can make your profile private. Meh, either way- putting personal information out on the interweb for the world to see isn't the smartest thing ever.Nav wrote:So be very careful about what you put on MySpace.
That said, my url is in my profile, or the www button
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I tried to add Syl as a friend on myspace but he requires all sorts of secret passwords and crypic information scrambled in hackerproof codes.... 
Now if I could just find a way to wear live bees as jewelry all the time.....
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nope. not goin there.
i'll just keep my happy little blogger page.
myspace is so...well...myspacey.
thanks for the story Nav and so sorry for the way it turned out and for your poor brother's wounding.
i'll just keep my happy little blogger page.
myspace is so...well...myspacey.
thanks for the story Nav and so sorry for the way it turned out and for your poor brother's wounding.
you're more advanced than a cockroach,
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
have you ever tried explaining yourself
to one of them?
~ alan bates, the mothman prophecies
i've had this with actors before, on the set,
where they get upset about the [size of my]
trailer, and i'm always like...take my trailer,
cause... i'm from Kentucky
and that's not what we brag about.
~ george clooney, inside the actor's studio
a straight edge for legends at
the fold - searching for our
lost cities of gold. burnt tar,
gravel pits. sixteen gears switch.
Haphazard Lucy strolls by.
~ dennis r wood ~
Hahahaha, gutted.James wrote:there was this one guy on a forum I visit that put his credit card info there... and then a load of people bought stuff.
But if you're all about the destination, then take a fucking flight.
We're going nowhere slowly, but we're seeing all the sights.
And we're definitely going to hell, but we'll have all the best stories to tell.
Full of the heavens and time.
We're going nowhere slowly, but we're seeing all the sights.
And we're definitely going to hell, but we'll have all the best stories to tell.
Full of the heavens and time.
Oh, you haven't seen his website...Warmark wrote:Hahahaha, gutted.James wrote:there was this one guy on a forum I visit that put his credit card info there... and then a load of people bought stuff.
DEFINITELY NOT WORK SAFE!
www.gloryhood.com
I have nothing on my 'Space that no one who knows me even a little bit can testify on.
So unless writing angry blogs about various stupid Forwards and Government mistakes is illegal, I'll be safe.
Ohterwise, I don't really have a blog. I just rant on the 'Space and hope I show some of the kids from my generation that they're being stupid, or I write it down on paper.
So unless writing angry blogs about various stupid Forwards and Government mistakes is illegal, I'll be safe.
Ohterwise, I don't really have a blog. I just rant on the 'Space and hope I show some of the kids from my generation that they're being stupid, or I write it down on paper.
Avatar wrote:But then, the answers provided by your imagination are not only sometimes best, but have the added advantage of being unable to be wrong.
I was once on a World of Warcraft raid where a guy ordered a pizza over the phone and read out his credit card details to 40 people over teamspeak. At least it taught him to use push-to-talk, he was a real mouth breather.James wrote:there was this one guy on a forum I visit that put his credit card info there... and then a load of people bought stuff.
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A. Because proper tea is theft.
A. Because proper tea is theft.
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I have one, I don't know why, maybe so I can scream at the walls! Seems pointless tho...these "friends" are dang strange (especially that Tom guy
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fall far and well Pilots!
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If anyone wants to add me, I think they just need my last name. Frost.
"It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.”
-George Steiner
-George Steiner
This is my favorite blog, for no reason other than it's the Bob Loblaw law blog (say it out loud).
appellatedecisions.blogspot.com/
For those who don't get it, it's sort of explained here...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=66mu3lwqtbI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TewF6FX_8k
appellatedecisions.blogspot.com/
For those who don't get it, it's sort of explained here...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=66mu3lwqtbI
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TewF6FX_8k
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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