The totally off-topic thread

[ozbeachbabe]

Has anyone else noticed that the person charged with the Colorado cinema shootings looks very like Mark Zuckerberg?

 

[Katie]

Has anyone else noticed that the person charged with the Colorado cinema shootings looks very like Mark Zuckerberg?

But with crazy orange clown hair.

 

[markis10]

Who would have thought something said on social media would get repeated!

'Pimp slap': Vodafone staffer goes postal

Still trying to get over the fact athletes are blaming said social media for their performances at the Olympics!

 

[medhead]

I'm not, one of the reported comments was terrible and would put me off my game. Then there is some DH who wrote to the Australian today to question why an Australia athlete who came 5th in the final was even there in the first place. WTF is wrong with people - 5th in the world, why bother?

Really?

And if that's what a paper will publish imagine the cough that gets up in social media.


Sent from the Throne

 

[anat0l]

I'm not, one of the reported comments was terrible and would put me off my game. Then there is some DH who wrote to the Australian today to question way an Australia athlete who came 5th in the final was even there in the first place. WTF is wrong with people - 5th in the world, why bother?

Really?

And if that's what a paper will publish imagine the cough that gets up in social media.

Social media is unfortunately a lot like that. Internet is a lot like that.

We post a lot of pretty strong stuff on this forum criticising the airlines or people who work for them. We expect everyone who reads it (on the airlines side) to have a thick skin without any emotional reservation whatsoever. Pretty significant demand, if you ask me.


We know the popular media in both print and e-space will do anything to get a story out these days. Making people feel good and at ease - or even just reporting the bare facts - is so old school; it's all about controversy and enraging these days. A lion in a cage is a lot more exciting to watch if you shock it with an electric stick rather than feed it a piece of meat.

 

[markis10]

. A lion in a cage is a lot more exciting to watch if you shock it with an electric stick rather than feed it a piece of meat.

Note to self - stay away from any do events involving Zoos and anat0l :shock:

 

[markis10]

SMH does not seem to be shy in publishing peoples phone numbers! Wonder if "Julie" who I suspect is the wife is getting a few calls!

 

[anat0l]

Note to self - stay away from any do events involving Zoos and anat0l :shock:

Sorry - was being facetious there and trying to create an analogy with the mindset of popular media. I wouldn't advocate that kind of cruelty.

SMH does not seem to be shy in publishing peoples phone numbers! Wonder if "Julie" who I suspect is the wife is getting a few calls!

Do you really think SMH or any other media outlet would have the integrity to check that let alone to worry about publishing it at all?

 

[amaroo]

SMH does not seem to be shy in publishing peoples phone numbers! Wonder if "Julie" who I suspect is the wife is getting a few calls!

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Probably a union phone therefore, lost with position that was the best "filing" role in the World

 

[markis10]

Probably a union phone therefore, lost with position that was the best "filing" role in the World

Maybe, however I note they have now cropped the home page image!

 

[whatmeworry]

Only heard Tourism Australia's new campaign song today. Great Song!

[video=youtube;3pOVfJwBd5s]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pOVfJwBd5s[/video]

 

[kpc]

Only heard Tourism Australia's new campaign song today. Great Song!

I like it...shows off Australia at its best...the outdoors!

 

[Must...Fly!]

Look what the nice mail man delivered to me today

My first airline status

 

[Alanslegal]

Im chill'axing poolside here at the Sheraton Grande in BKK .. the last 40hrs of my quick four week RTW holiday (syd-scl-mex-hav-xmex-mia-nyc-xmad-bcn-ibz-bcn-xhel-bkk-syd) and its been a blast!!! ... hope everyones having a great time wherever they are!!

drron, u know this pool well ;-)

 

[straitman]

Look what the nice mail man delivered to me today

My first airline status

Excellent.

 

[JohnK]

Do not let gadgets control your life. There will come a time you wish you hadn't....

 

[Princess Fiona]

Had a little chuckle this evening. Shrek is currently in Sri Lanka and has been busy telling me that he has been exercising and abstaining from alcohol and would come back fit and refreshed
He confessed tonight that his new found fervour for de-Tox is ( at least in part) due to a massive lengthy religious festival taking place with alcohol sales being banned.
Apparently it ends tonight at 6pm local time ( not that he's counting or anything :mrgreen: )

 

[cove]

Gee that looks like Flashware and his +1 at the volleyball tonight at Earls Court. Seated together as you would expect seeing they are newlyweds. The fans around them are trying to scream the place down with Brasil playing USA.

 

[anat0l]

Gee that looks like Flashware and his +1 at the volleyball tonight at Earls Court. Seated together as you would expect seeing they are newlyweds. The fans around them are trying to scream the place down with Brasil playing USA.

I thought he only had tickets for the hockey! What is he, trying to evade the paparazzi like Will and Kate? :mrgreen:



And now for a more wistful moment, though one that was probably deserving of "downfall": both in the real sense and the Internet-meme sense...
Australian Olympic swimmers aren't working hard enough: Susie O'Neill | News.com.au

 

[JohnK]

The world is falling! The world is falling!