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Ah, stand down, just realised it's a video and actually watched it. At first glance I thought those were feline butt plugs!
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1 minute ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:
Want to see and hear the worst thing today?
Jesus H fucking Christ, please tell me that's a wind-up?
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1 hour ago, Archie McSquackle said:
They should have a funniest goal conceded award, I'm sure we'd feature in that.
Feature? Gold, silver and bronze, a clean sweep of the medals!
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58 minutes ago, 2426255 said:
That's interesting. I'd like to understand more about people taking downvoting as a personal attack, it seems to cause a hell of a lot of consternation before or after the old "doesn't really bother me, but this c**t's been red dotting me...."
Slightly different, but related is that I've also notice the 'Karma farming' phenomenon where on twitter or reddit and probably on here something will be posted purely boost positive reputation which is also ridiculous. The whole attachment to online reputation is a phenomenon imo.
Reddit is actually a great source for these sorts of discussions, and has several sub-reddits dedicated to exactly that.
Here are a couple of examples which have the sole advantage of being freely available online; I doubt you’ll learn anything particularly new from either. The first dates back ten years and is less than scientific, while the second is a little more “scholarly” but draws few actual conclusions.
How The “Down-Vote” Leads To A Vicious Circle Of Negative Feedback
The Sociomateriality of Rating and Ranking Devices on Social Media
Perhaps the most interesting observation in the first one is that “authors that receive no feedback (my italics) are more likely to leave the community entirely”. So, red dots do have their benefits
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3 hours ago, 2426255 said:
The reaction to Marshmallo even to this day is actually an excellent example of the red dot phenomenon and it how it can impact on posters.
Aye, doctoral theses have been written on the subject of positive and negative reinforcement on social media, and suffice it to say that the subject is not black and white. (Or in this case, green and red.) One common effect of persistent downvoting, intended or otherwise, is to shut down dissension/debate. When that happens, the technical term for it is “a c**t’s trick”.
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18 minutes ago, Bigmouth Strikes Again said:
Oceaneva Deep Marine GMT, great spec for the money, all titanium, double dome saphire, 1250m depth rating (no bullshit as they strapped one onto a remote controlled sub) ceramic fully loomed bezel, helium escape. £318 would've been less but got stung £50 on import fees. Will be going on the dark blue rubber it came with.
Thank you.
Ooh, nice. I'm a sucker for a proper diver, and that'll look stunning on a blue strap,
That's the automatic too, great value at that price even with the tax.
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Just now, 2426255 said:
I've said my piece on this and I'll move on.
I suppose there's a first time for everything
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36 minutes ago, 2426255 said:
It always amazes me the effect red-dotting can have on people, myself included. Took me quite a while to recognise that red dots aren't that important and more popularity based or if a post gets a laugh than anything else in terms of quality of posting.
Not worth taking red dot's personally, if you feel the need to mention being red-dotted then it has too big an impact in your life imo. I just turned notifications off a while back and it just takes the who karma farming thing away.
Bothers me not one jot, but I see you aren't averse to dishing them out yourself. Each to their own I suppose.
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4 hours ago, Big Bobo said:
Why bring in a person's skin colour to this?
I wasn't completely sure before but, aye, you're at it.
The only "skin" here is your own infinitesimally thin epidermis, irrespective of its colour.
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1 minute ago, PogoStick said:
Also, bit of an unnecessary pile on, tone of some of the responses seem more motivated by his post count than his post.
Nae need.
Didn't notice his post count until after he'd starting spraying the red dots about. He seems to have got the hang of those pretty quickly for a new poster. And as I type I see that's a habit you've adopted too.
Nae need.
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28 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
Too many people assume nothing bad can happen to them.
Then one day it'll be someone of their face behind them who just rams them off the road.
Then you'll be dead or permanently crippled, but at least you'll have the moral high ground.
True story, honest.
Many years ago I was cut up by a van on the Bow flyover in East London. I gave the offender a blast of the horn and a friendly two-finger wave, and was greeted in return by him raising what looked very much like a sawn-off shotgun from the passenger seat, accompanied by a raised eyebrow and body language which I took to be him asking whether I wanted to stop and discuss the matter further. Needless to say, I didn't, and I've been a lot more circumspect behind the wheel ever since.
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34 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
How do you know a hypothetical old lady isn't having a heart attack in the car behind you?
I think we can safely statistically assume that 99.99% of the time this will not be the case. (Rather than xG, this could be classed as xC, for "expected c***s".)
34 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:As someone who genuinely has been trying to smash it down a motorway to reach a hospital, only to be stuck behind someone doing 60 in the overtaking lane,
If I'm on a motorway and in an outside lane I can assure you I'm not doing 60. And if some c**t is up my arse with his lights flashing at 90 I will indeed happily pull in just to be rid of them. For clarity, though, almost all of my driving these days is done on one-lane roads (i.e. not dual carriageways, and certainly not motorways) given that I don't live in mainland UK, which is the scenario I thought we were discussing here. This may have been a wrong assumption on my part, coloured by own everyday circumstance.
I still encounter my fair share of tailgating bellends on these winding country roads, and as a general rule I'll be fucked if I'm going out of my way to pull off the road for them, even where this is possible.
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11 minutes ago, Big Bobo said:
You are creating more unnecessary danger by winding them up.
Assuming you're driving at the speed limit and not one of those "40-in-a-60" types, then pulling in to let them past merely rewards and reinforces their bad behaviour. Better that they're stuck behind me than letting them through to give some hypothetical little old lady further down the road a heart attack.
With more and more Teslas and their like on the road now with 360-degree cameras, you'd hope they'll soon be forced be adopt better habits.
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2 minutes ago, Big Bobo said:
You obviously are not very bright.
Don't need a Doctorate to spot a c**t. Oh look, there's one ^^^
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Just now, 'WellDel said:
Big Bobo the mad tailgater.
You notice how it's almost always people with no "My Team", and/or who comment on EPL threads. It must make them very angry.
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8 minutes ago, Big Bobo said:
How is it?
See you found the red dot button, you puerile c**t.
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14 minutes ago, Big Bobo said:
See my post above.
See my post above.
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15 minutes ago, Big Bobo said:
That makes you as bad as the driver tailgating you. In what way is it good to irritate and wind someone up when you are driving?
All you are doing is making said person more angry and upset which is not good for other road users
You should have pulled over and let said driver go on his way.
Utter shite.
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Todd Cantwell's headband.
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3 minutes ago, Handsome_Devil said:
I really thought you were going to say anyone who has read something we've published this season wouldn't be surprised.
Very true. It's not really an "either/or".
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1 hour ago, LeodhasXD said:
Not sure what the difference the fans make if they make a loss a defeat.
Yes, that's poor, but anyone who has seen us play this season wouldn't actually be surprised.
It was probably originally drafted as "the difference between a narrow loss and an embarrassing defeat".
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6 hours ago, Wacky said:
Why do folks sit at traffic lights with their foot on the brake, the high level brake lights blind the folks at the back of you ya feckin arsehole. Use the feckin handbrake and be a bit more considerate, have you never sat behind a ringpiece like yourself and thought “that’s feckin annoying?
HANDBRAKE!
My wife does this, sad to say. Her car has "Eco Stop/Start", so when she brakes and stops at the lights the engine turns off. If she lifts her foot off the brake, the engine starts again which she doesn't like, so she keeps her foot on the brake.
On the rare occasions I drive it, I turn off the Eco feature before setting off. If I forget, I flick on the park brake and just let the engine start again. As Humza Yousaf would say, f**k the Greens!
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1 hour ago, ropy said:
Auction things off including the right to play in a match at Fir Park (been done before hasn’t it?)
How much did Aaron Chapman's ticket cost him?
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16 minutes ago, O'Kelly Isley III said:
Indeed, but alarmingly most of the media seems to be treating Mr Falter as some sort of brave folk hero standing up to The Lawless Mob and their protectors The Law Itself when the reality is that he was acting like a reckless shit-stirrer, or if you prefer agent provocateur.
A Google image search might not be the most valid approach, but he doesn't seem to wear that blue kippah (or any kippah) much, except when he's launching himself headfirst into a crowd of pro-Palestinian demonstrators.
I wonder how outraged he'd have been with the Met if the copper had just let him go, and he'd subsequently had his head kicked in.
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Wasn't the official (ludicrous) assertion that ours was chalked off because of a deliberate handball by Bair?