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Had a few looks at FaceAche and no matter when I have a gander I always come to the sme conclusion: that its 99% full of oxygen thieving twats who can't wait to tell you what they had for dinner. Not to mention those who seem to think ut makes them a celebrity of some sort oe that its a popularity contest for like minded vacuous bastards. Too many skeletons in my cupboard to be splashing my incredibly ugly mug and details over the web anyhow!

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  Hirst said:

imagine what it'll be like in 5 years - everyone going round permanently staring into their phones, reading the increasingly more frequent/irrelevant details of what everyone else is doing, whilst broadcasting the same out to everyone else. And people who choose not to are social rejects and outcasts. It's happening already! It's happening! We're all doomed.

'Just walked into bus, ouch - on way to hospital in ambulance. shame as I had a nice lunch of pasta with crayfish and great glass of wine. Paramedics' looks tell me I might not make it to th'When I terminated my Hyves account a year or so ago after a few days I got an email stating: "We think a mistake was made, if we didn't know better we'd think you want to permanently delete your account. With this you would delete all your photos, videos and friends as well, and it would strike a blow to your social life that quite often turns out to be a fatal one."That was a big help in deciding all this internetworking stuff wasn't for me.
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LOL! /\"Help I'm no longer on the internet all the time. What has happened to my social life?!"

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  michiel said:

it would strike a blow to your social life that quite often turns out to be a fatal one

Fatal?! Might want to check the Florian for bombs etc.
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What's happened to people's driving standards now that the kids are back at school? Have they suddenly gone "No kids to run over, let's all drive with undue care and attention" or what? I've nearly been impaled twice today, and my journey's under a mile!

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I hate Facebook.I never really really liked it, but I found it useful. I've tracked down a few people from uni, and it's fun to see what they're up to, their photos etc.However, now I have phone numbers for said old mates, so I don't actually need facebook. So I deactivated(*) my account. This means all I miss out on is the slack-jawed ramblings of people from work whinging about how there's nobody going out drinking every single night of the week, who's having what for dinner etc etc. Oh and my whore of an ex-wife and her twelve-fingered moronic bloke no longer get to abuse me remotely.I don't miss it. I might re-activate it when they figure out the privacy settings, but not until.(*) Yes, you can't delete your account, just de-activate. And you get such a whingy pseudo-heartbreaking message when you do so (Are you sure %friendname% will miss you, %friendname2% will miss you....) that I was really bloody happy to click the "Yes I bloody well am" button.

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  Cavette said:

Had a few looks at FaceAche and no matter when I have a gander I always come to the sme conclusion: that its 99% full of oxygen thieving twats who can't wait to tell you what they had for dinner.

A banana and a mug of coffee.I do use arsebook, but here is a quick comparason - I have 33 "friends" who are all people I know and have met, some now live quite far away and its a lazy way for me to keep in touch and share photos and stuff. All my privacy settings are so high that if you dont know me, you cant find / see me. I spend maybe 5 minutes a day checking it.The wife spends fucking hours on there and has 200 odd friends, including (I jest ye not) the neighbours dog. Yes - the neighbours dog has a fucking arseache page.
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I blocked my dad from seeing my facebook profile because he was horrified I swore.I dip in and out of facebook. I know people get very arsey about it being an invasion of privacy \ pointless, but if you don't put any sensitive information on there it's a laugh for five minutes or so every night.P

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I have to admit that I am "friends" with a stuffed tigger toy :oops:Although it is all a prank. The tigger was swiped from a mates house and now posts photos of himself in all different locations.I still dont know who set up the account or posts the pics, but it was a giggle at the time.For about 2 minutes!

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  Pete-M said:

Facebook is simple. You don't HAVE to advertise where you're going to be on it. It's not compulsory to tell anybody anything. I use facebook and I find it rather amusing. I've also got in touch with some people I've not seen for 20-odd years, and it has generally been a good thing. I don't put all kinds of personal shit on it, it's rare my status is even remotely linked to me or to what I'm doing. More often it's a quote from a book or similar.Pete is going to Sheffield is hardly going to have MI5 scrambling the black helicopters.Facebook can be fun, but if you go at it with the attitude "I don't like this" then you're hardly going to enjoy it.

Exactly mate. You get out what you put in. Take it as it's intended, and it's a nice little diversion.Start reading Foucault esque schemes of power into it, and you're going to go mental at the prospect.
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  Pillock said:

(*) Yes, you can't delete your account, just de-activate. And you get such a whingy pseudo-heartbreaking message when you do so (Are you sure %friendname% will miss you, %friendname2% will miss you....) that I was really bloody happy to click the "Yes I bloody well am" button.

Unless they've changed it you can delete your account, they just don't make it easy to find out how.I joined again but I've blocked everything I can.
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Mine said that Reallyloud off here would miss me, I just assumed he was a bit weird.

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So can anyone explain whose bright idea it was to commence road mending on the very day the kiddies went back to school? Not only have I got the pleasure of school run mummies pratting about once more but I have to contend with the stop/go man every 5 minutes too.I mean they've had 7 friggin weeks to do this, why now? And it's everywhere round here, all at the same time. :roll:

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Another rant . Electric cables , extention leads .Why oh why do they have an ability to tie themselves in a multitude of complex fishing knots , Just been and mowed the lawn , mower lead in a knot at the end , strimmer lead did the same , when bodging bodywork on my jalopies i often have loads of stuff out at one , extension lead , grinder , welder , sander , drill etc , HOW on earth does it all end up like a load of snakes having bondage sex and i have to spend ages untanging the mess when ive finished and havnt got the patience to do this without throwing all my rattles out the pram.

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X Factor.Now I could very well be alone here but I quite like it. HOWEVAH!......why do the weird/spotty/obese/painfully FUCKING AWFUL ones think getting arsey will help their cause? I blame the dickheads who've been on before and now the latest crop of spotty yoof think it's cool to get all twatty when they're told they're shite.Also why aren't parents/siblings/friends more fucking honest with these ****s? Honest to God if my daughter sounded like a cat being run over by a steamroller after she swallowed a whistle and a fog horn I'd pissing well tell her, not let her make a twerp of herself in front of millions of people.

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  Cavette said:

where the parents at

Exactly Billy, well said. :D
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  Cavette said:

X Factor.Now I could very well be alone here but I quite like it. HOWEVAH!......why do the weird/spotty/obese/painfully FUCKING AWFUL ones think getting arsey will help their cause?

Because merely being rubbish gets you nowhere.Being awful, and then inflating your part by getting stroppy is guaranteed you a place on the 'catch up' show, the DVD, the trailers for next season, the website, the outtakes programs in three years, Youtube....... your 15 seconds of fame becomes hours upon torturous hours.And to some people, that's better than being a 'nobody'.
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Ads trumpeting the 50th anniversary of the mini... yeah, the new one is just like the one that came out in '59...Arsewipes... :roll:

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Just got back from taking Mrs 9000 out to dinner and at least 3 restaurants lost our custom through the car parkWHY DON'T PEOPLE LEARN TO PARK BETWEEN THE CHUFFIN LINES!The car is a Vectra not a unicycle. Two little gems of parking my son would have trouble parking his bike between!

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And as one who is red/green colour defective (I think about 10% of men are) why are lawnmower/hedgetimmer/strimmer cables orange? They just blend in. If the cable was white, or yellow or blue then I could see it and wouldn't risk zapping myself if I cut through it. GRRR

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Modern cars.....why are they getting bigger?THe current "mini" is quite large, in fact has a bigger footprint than a Land Rover 90...............but the Corsa......it started life as the Nova, quite a small car. Then the Corsa B, similar size but lumpy....Then the Corsa C, larger, and still lumpy, but crap with it, and now the Corsa D....It's bigger than a Mk2 Astra! (I'd prefer a Mk2 Astra though) We have customers trading in their Mk3 Astras (The "F" model) and would like to keep with Astras. But the new ones are too wide to fit in their garages....And 18 inches longer.....WHY???!!!!!The current Focus is a full 12 inches wider than a Mk1 Escort surely? Lets think about the name, and the slot in the range of cars. Prefect/Popular/Anglia/Escort.....basic model, narrow, short, no toys.Mk1 Escort....little larger, smoother and cheaper to run.Mk2 Escort....made square but the same underneath.Mk3 Escort....turned the engine round, made more space inside, but stayed small outside.Mk4 Escort....more economical engines but similar.Mk5/6/7/8 etc Escort...bloated underpowered rotboxes that suddenly went all "Marlon Brando"...Mk1 Focus....Tidy if startling design back in 1998....but BIG!MK2 Focus..Kinell! Will it fit down my street guv?This is why we should all drive Anglias....They take up loads less space!Rant over.

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Hey Peter, there was/is a restaurant in Hull that would park your car when you arrived - you had no choice in the matter and that really pissed me off.I went once with the ex Mrs P in the Fiat 500. For those who don't know (and the gorilla parkers didn't!) it starts with a lever on the floor. So the poor sods had to park it shoving it by hand as they couldn't get it to start :D

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Compare Mk 1 Fiesta with Mk 5 - WTF??? Who ate all the pies Mr Ford?

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The Mk1 and Mk7 transits are the same. Odd for something that makes it's living carrying a load. More unladen weight means less load.

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  FredTransit said:

The Mk1 and Mk7 transits are the same. Odd for something that makes it's living carrying a load. More unladen weight means less load.

I was just thinking how incredible it was that MkI and Mk VII weighed the same ammount. :shock: Then I read it properly! :roll:
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  Albert Ross said:

Modern cars.....why are they getting bigger?THe current "mini" is quite large, in fact has a bigger footprint than a Land Rover 90...............but the Corsa......it started life as the Nova, quite a small car. Then the Corsa B, similar size but lumpy....Then the Corsa C, larger, and still lumpy, but crap with it, and now the Corsa D....It's bigger than a Mk2 Astra! (I'd prefer a Mk2 Astra though) We have customers trading in their Mk3 Astras (The "F" model) and would like to keep with Astras. But the new ones are too wide to fit in their garages....And 18 inches longer.....WHY???!!!!!The current Focus is a full 12 inches wider than a Mk1 Escort surely? Lets think about the name, and the slot in the range of cars. Prefect/Popular/Anglia/Escort.....basic model, narrow, short, no toys.Mk1 Escort....little larger, smoother and cheaper to run.Mk2 Escort....made square but the same underneath.Mk3 Escort....turned the engine round, made more space inside, but stayed small outside.Mk4 Escort....more economical engines but similar.Mk5/6/7/8 etc Escort...bloated underpowered rotboxes that suddenly went all "Marlon Brando"...Mk1 Focus....Tidy if startling design back in 1998....but BIG!MK2 Focus..Kinell! Will it fit down my street guv?This is why we should all drive Anglias....They take up loads less space!Rant over.

I feel this helps explain the increase in congestion, as larger cars take up more room on the road, hence even without increasing numbers of vehicles, the amount of cars you can fit into a traffic jam is less.
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It's a bit scary when modern superminis make my mid-sized '90s family car look like an Austin A30 or something equally archaic in comparison.

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This is so correct & is something that has bugged me for some time. The VW Golf is the perfect example of the whole age/weightgain phenomenon.

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