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MrBen

MrBen

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> WTF are you wittering about SJ it's nothing like

> local businesses choosing to ignore the forum!

> What a bizarre conclusion. I am on social media

> and engaging just amazed at so much ill thought

> out rubbish that goes round.


I think SJ means it's just another conduit for the human voice. Plenty crap from people in papers, on radio talk shows, on the telly too. But the problem with the web is that it has become a kind of dumping ground of information that's now hard to erase and which can be googled for years to come (good or bad) and secondly it's a medium that can hit millions across the globe instantly making it hard to control (again good or bad). It's potential to damage an individuals or businesses reputation overnight scares me. Freedom of speech is one thing but it surely needs at least *some* controls.

Otta

Otta

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red devil Wrote:

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> MrBen Wrote:

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> -----

> > In Edinburgh airport's passenger security hall

> > there is a life size cardboard cut out of a

> woman

> > in a BAA uniform and where her mouth is they

> have

> > some kind of mouth shaped video screen of

> moving

> > lips trying to tell you something. You can hear

> a

> > disembodied voice that doesn't sync with her

> > flashing video lips whilst her eyes and nose

> and

> > cheeks are frozen in cardboard. The overall

> effect

> > is terrifying.

> >

> > Edit: I've been getting the train lately.

>

> Does she come with real hair?..



LOL!!!


Have to say that does sound pretty freaky.

red devil

red devil

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MrBen Wrote:

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It's

> potential to damage an individuals or businesses

> reputation overnight scares me. Freedom of speech

> is one thing but it surely needs at least *some*

> controls.


I don't normally side with Tory multi-millionaire businessmen, but I hope Lord McAlpine successfully sues the arses off all those Twits, starting off with Alan Davies...

El Pibe

El Pibe

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I got caught in the Cotswolds as a tropical style thunderstorm descended on the area. That was pretty ball-sac reducing I can tell ya.


In my late twenties, burning the candle at both ends and with a stressful job, I used to suffer occasionally from sleep paralysis. Stuck helpless at the mercy of your own psyche, now that's scary!!

Huguenot

Huguenot

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I'm increasingly lucid when I dream - particularly in the mornings.


So I know I'm dreaming, and that the situations I'm in are being generated by my own diseased imagination.


Like a spectator in a Hieronymous Bosch landscape, I'm quite frankly scared of the thoughts that cross my mind when asleep compared with the rose tinted spectacles I wear when awake.

maxxi

maxxi

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Huguenot Wrote:

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> I'm increasingly lucid when I dream - particularly

> in the mornings.

>

> So I know I'm dreaming, and that the situations

> I'm in are being generated by my own diseased

> imagination.

>


This is what happens when you give up the 'mellow' woodbines - that stuff takes ages to leave the system.

Gingerbeer

Gingerbeer

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Huguenot Wrote:

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> I'm increasingly lucid when I dream - particularly

> in the mornings.

>

> So I know I'm dreaming, and that the situations

> I'm in are being generated by my own diseased

> imagination.

>

> Like a spectator in a Hieronymous Bosch landscape,

> I'm quite frankly scared of the thoughts that

> cross my mind when asleep compared with the rose

> tinted spectacles I wear when awake.



Bosch and double-Bosch! His painting are equisite, but I daren't call you lucky. (is daren't even a word?)

Fabricio the Guido

Fabricio the Guido

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Dont know about scared, but am mightily pissed off that the Tories are back in government. 10 years to deal with Stephen Lawrence, and it wasn't easy. All we got was Macpherson and then the 2010 Equality Act which placed a duty on public bodies to have due regard on the impact of policies on disadvantaged groups in reaching a decision. Affirmative Action it is not. Dave gets on tv yesterday and calls equal opportunity 'red tape', which is holding up government. I have to hold my breath again and wait for these bastards to get voted out. The Lib Dems are going to loose a whole generation of voters for this charade.


Scared? Yeas, we walk on the same planet and share the same planet but these dinosaurs cant wait to dismantle the things which are supposed to represent the values of our community in favour of filthy lucre.

maxxi

maxxi

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Gingerbeer Wrote:

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> Either way it looks crazy!


Crazy or not it's part of at least one Great American Novel - thar she blows...


"I should like to see him try it; I'd give him such a pair of black eyes that he wouldn't dare to show his face in the admiral's cabin again for a long while, let alone down in the orlop there, where he lives, and hereabouts on the upper decks where he sneaks so much. Damn the devil, Flask; so you suppose I'm afraid of the devil? Who's afraid of him, except the old governor who daresn't catch him and put him in double-darbies, as he deserves, but lets him go about kidnapping people; aye, and signed a bond with him, that all the people the devil kidnapped, he'd roast for him? There's a governor!"


Moby Dick

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