LOL!! I hate fluff on my scarf!!
Then don't let them sit on it !
It was a serious question, I wouldn't want you to go away from here...
Oi, over here everybody, bleachy said the naughty phrase !
but was just wondering if your views were more accepted, or at least more willingly debated elsewhere?
The LTUAE type forums began way back when in echoland on fidonet, back where everything was overly moderated and ya couldn't even say sh!t online without somebody threatening to tell telecom on you for using a public carrier to transport naughtiness. Freedom loving anti-totalitarianismists created the LTUAE echo (life the universe and everything, credit to Douglas Adams, but of course) and we elected a moderator for the forum on the sole proviso that the moderator would do no moderating.
Then we proceeded to get stuck into each other on any topic that took our fancy and much to the disgust of the bulletin board sysops who had to carry That Forum with all its naughty words used and unsavory topics. We so enjoyed each other's online arguing and disagreeing and ganging up on the local FRZ (me ... Fanatical Religious Zealot
) that for a number of years a goodly portion of us travelled to Cantberra to celebrate Oz day together. As per lots of the photos in the youtube slide show I have listed as "an ode to a little bit of green putty ...".
So, to answer your question, yes, I have a long history of my views being willingly debated elsewhere. Accepted ? lol, which in this case is short for "what do you reckon ?".
Anyhoo, the trouble will partying with online folk in the real world, everyone gets to know what everyone is really like and before too long debate dries up and acceptance really does kick in.
Since 2005, these BB forums have been kinda like LTUAE reborn for me. Everybody vs the local FRZ again. I reckon I've kinda mellowed over the last couple of years though, and believe it or not, I'm actually trying to be more positive and try for the "do the walk in other's shoes" before hitting reply.
Obviously there are some things I'm never gunna be shifted on though, and hey, if somebody wants to try for some sort of showdown, then I'm generally always gunna be prone to be their huckleyberry. Yet to encounter anyone in these forums that I couldn't out-dance, mind you.
You probably fit in quite nicely at Bolt's blog and WUWT.
I don't post there as "derspatz" mind you.
Fess up... you only go to JoNova cause she is hot? #amirite?
She's married (and to a David), dontcha know ? She's a lovely lady and yes, pretty pleasing to the eye I must agree. We've met/chatted on a couple of occasions and swapped the odd email re: various functions. The last occasion was when James Delingpole came to town. He and I had a good old chat on the balcony of the Royal Perth Yacht Club prior to the evening's proceedings and I've got a signed copy of his "
Killing the Earth to Save It"
Nah, I used to moderate the first season X Factor website, then moderated and was admin of the the Official Australian Idol forums for a few years.
Oooer, that sounds like hard work. So you're here to relax, eh ?
You are certainly a polarising character (I think I have used the word 'obtuse' in the past... remember... your angle
)
Heh to the latter, and Good/Yes/I Agree to the former. No flying under the radar for this glinty eyed "shot on sight in W.A." little bird.
.. but some of your videos are very cool. NOT the nekkid ones, but the honeymoon GoPro and underwater stuff was super cool, and your music is definitely not bad, I just hope it gets more appreciated elsewhere...
Cheers Bleachy. Life is too short to get to do everything, I reckon, but at least with youtubes we can all get an idea about things that we might never get to try ourselves. As you can see from comments on the lagoon snorkel one, somebody appears to have enjoyed the virtual experience ... and didn't even realise they were doing it upsidedown at the time. lol.
There is another angle to why so much personal stuff (including the odd bit of numba1son) goes up there though. Tis to do with the fact I'm adopted. I would like to think that my Very Internut and IT Savvy (don't ask how I know this) biological mum takes the odd peek every now and then.
I think I would actually have a good conversation with you IRL
I'm sure we would. After all, my awesome muso mate Will Shepherd is prolly more of a Abbott hating left-ard than a wack-a-mole arcade machine populated by a labor of humphrey vox pops !
Just got home from another afternoon of jamming with him and the lads again, and this time (due to him falling off his bike and hurting his wrist) I was using his guitar all arvo. As you can see from the various "the jam" tubes, plus the youtube of gigs we've done in left-ardic Fremantle, plus the fact that he and the lads were The Band for The Wedding of LSCP and I, not only am I not in even the slightest bit allergic to left-ards, but also they can be quiet fond of me.
Online is Online, Real World is Real World ... and most my friends are left-ards, can't you see their collectivism shine ?
And so it goes, goes 'round again, and now and then we wonder who the real Left are ?
I actually agree with some of what you say ...
Oooer, naughty phrase alert !
I'm just not a fan of your delivery. If I'm being honest I think it's counter-productive. Not that that makes me right and you wrong at all, it's just my observation/opinion.
Hey, at least I'm not an adult talking like a two year old. Like, I made the mistake of watching an episode of the current BB the other night, and was utterly bewildered by "skye".
Is she for real ?
Has she been speaking like a toddler the entire season, or is it a more recent thing and the result of some sort of melt down ?
If the former, then I shudder to think of what she must be like in the Real World / her job.
"how to I put staples in this staple thingy, don't leave me on my own, pout pout, blub blub, noooo, waa, they don't fit, how do you do it, its too hard, why is paper white and ink black, why do we say ten and not tenty like we do for twenty and thirty, waa, blub blub, awwww" ... etc.
Anyhoo, after what I saw there, I ain't going to be tuning back into the current season any time again soon.
Would rather be watching The Legend of Dick and Dom, even if only for all the "dad jokes".
regarDS
