The totally off-topic thread

[TomVexille]

Tweet?
The view from my "office"

Lots of postings can be a tweet format but my reading is that one person is hinting to another that his postings should not be posted as an AFF comment and hinting that it should be posted elsewhere

I don’t recall anything about the rules of this forum requiring comments to be of a certain format.

I’m Sorry @JohnK , I agree, such comment is unreasonable.

I think you're reading too much into that. Nobody has suggested that John not post twitter style posts.

Personally it amuses me to no end as he is quite condescending about twitter

 

[serfty]

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[ALH]

I really should get a scooter, never bothered to get my bike license, and whenever I see a tourist riding one (somewhere safe that is), I think, I'd like to do that!

Erika has said she would be game to get on the back, but you need your license for a few years before you can take pillions, I believe.


Mind you she is a little reticent about bikes, about 20 years ago she went into work (ICU) and didn't recognise that her patient for the day was one of my sisters. Once she realised, of course she was moved to another patient.
My sister had been riding pillion, the dropkick rider overtook a car on on a blind bend and sideswiped a truck, my sister now permanently resides in a nursing home and is minus her right leg as well as having a severe brain injury.

Terrible outcome through no fault of her own.
Hubby and I lost a wonderful brother/brother in law to a motorcycle accident at 21, but it didn’t put us off riding until our own accident 25 years ago. I still have my helmet and dream of the open road

 

[JohnK]

I don’t recall anything about the rules of this forum requiring comments to be of a certain format.

I’m Sorry @JohnK , I agree, such comment is unreasonable.

One of these days the 4:00pm 590 bus is going to be 2 minutes late and I won't have to wait for the 4:15pm 590 bus.

 

[get me outta here]

Had a couple over recently and I had to deconstruct a Moussaka as just before I took it to the table she happened to mention she didn't eat red meat.

But they are in appropriate threads, no?

Met many vegetarians over the years that ate chicken and seafood, because it wasn't red meat, it was ok. A lot of people like labels it seems, maybe they feel more secure.

A former girl friend couldn't physically eat meat, well she could then she would lose it all! This apparently was a protein intolerance, she was also afeected if she ate too many eggs or dairy products.

She had a hard time in China in the early eighties, it was winter and she seemed to survive on chinese cabbage cooked in duck fat. We did have some good meals at some vego restaurants though. India for her was a completely different experience.

Maybe this should be in the food thread?

 

[Quickstatus]

I think you're reading too much into that. Nobody has suggested that John not post twitter style posts.

Personally it amuses me to no end as he is quite condescending about twitter

Yes I accept your point that I may have read too much into it. That’s the weakness about online comments, the tone and colour of a comment can often be difficult to discern.

However the person on the receiving end feels unreasonably treated which is what’s important - whatever the intent of the twitter comment

 

[JohnK]

Hot tip: He looks like the actor who played Ron Weasley in the Harry Potter films.

I'm not having a good day. I don't know who Ron Weasley is either. I don't recall watching a full Harry Potter movie. Maybe when daughter is older?

 

[Deleted member]

Twitter and Facebook are very different beasts. As far as social media goes, Facebook is much like this thread. A conversation evolves and develops.

Twitter is more akin to separate statements being posted with no real context to any other. Much like statements you are prone to making say about the weather or golf or such like. Which is why the suggestion that you would fit Twitter well.

I am not a member of Twitter, and I use Facebook only rarely (if that!). AFF/FT are the ideal social media platforms for me.

I don’t do Twitter, apparently it gives you chirpies, which is a canaryial disease and is untweetable

 

[ALH]

Had a couple over recently and I had to deconstruct a Moussaka as just before I took it to the table she happened to mention she didn't eat red meat.

Oh no. I remember a dinner party at my MILs. She had prepared a beautiful Vegan meal for friends. As she proudly started to walk us all through the recipe, we gasped in horror......”then I added the Chicken Stock...”

I don’t do Twitter, apparently it gives you chirpies, which is a canaryial disease and is untweetable

You beat me by about 30 seconds

I'm not having a good day. I don't know who Ron Weasley is either. I don't recall watching a full Harry Potter movie. Maybe when daughter is older?

I’m sure I would be in the same boat if we hadn’t had a houseful of teenagers when the books and movies came out

 

[Denali]

I was excited to see that new London office is near the Harry Potter 9 & 3/4 shop at Kings Cross station.

 

[JessicaTam]

I'm not having a good day. I don't know who Ron Weasley is either. I don't recall watching a full Harry Potter movie. Maybe when daughter is older?

I reckon by the time your daughter is ten, you will be an expert on all things pop-culture.

It was ages before I heard about Ed Sheeran.

 

[Pushka]

Years ago my SIL asked if my kids read Harry Potter. Of course hers all had, advanced children etc etc. I replied that I’d not heard of that author. Oops.

I don’t understand Ed Sheeren either but from what I read - he supplied pizzas to fans who’d been lining up for days - he seems a nice bloke.

 

[Pushka]

There is no emoji for “vomiting”

Does this work???????


Nup.

 

[RooFlyer]

Have you ever thought of using Twitter?

What a brilliant suggestion!

 

[ALH]

Does this work???????


Nup.

 

[Quickstatus]

One of these days the 4:00pm 590 bus is going to be 2 minutes late and I won't have to wait for the 4:15pm 590 bus.

When I’m on time the bus is late and when I’m late the bus is on time.

I sometimes used to catch the L90 (that route now called something else. But I was always amazed how many were unconscious (being a 0645 from Wynyard) but would miraculously wake up at exactly the right stop at Warringah Mall

 

[RooFlyer]

witter is more akin to separate statements being posted with no real context to any other

Hence TheRTMA'S post earlier.

 

[Quickstatus]

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Can this be incorporated into the AFF emoji list?

 

[Denali]

Anyone collecting the Coles sporting tokens for kids or Grand kids school?

I have about a hundred of them.

Edit. TAKEN.

 

[Pushka]

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No carrots?