Social Media - Kings and Queens of Fake News
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Topic: Social Media - Kings and Queens of Fake News
Posted By: ThreeBears
Subject: Social Media - Kings and Queens of Fake News
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2018 at 12:11pm
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Philadelphia president of basketball operations Bryan Colangelo quit yesterday after it emerged his wife operated fake Twitter accounts to praise his work and criticise players. The 76ers commissioned a New York law firm to investigate. Colangelo's wife Barbara Bottini admitted setting up the accounts and posting content, but the investigation found no evidence of Colangelo's involvement. ( Herald Sun ) I like that her name is Bot( tini ). Quite apt. After all the problems with the US elections and various other polls around the globe the fake news from social media keeps on keeping on ( until exposed ).
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Posted By: Dr E
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2018 at 1:09pm
... but it's only RUSSIANS who have the technology and willingness to corrupt social media, and they only invented it when Hillary was going to win the election!!!
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Posted By: Carioca
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2018 at 1:42pm
Them damn Ruskies their in everything , better check my chicken soup, ya never know. 
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Posted By: Dr E
Date Posted: 09 Jun 2018 at 7:10pm
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It's Ok ... Comrade PT has already checked it for you ... all clear ... please speak clearly into the noodles.
------------- In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT! |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 10 Jun 2018 at 5:08pm
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Here's some social media news from Ireland. This one especially for Maccamax - https://twitter.com/eoinyk/status/1004830131079311360/photo/1" rel="nofollow - https://twitter.com/eoinyk/status/1004830131079311360/photo/1
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Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 10 Jun 2018 at 5:13pm
Donald talking into his noodles, getting lectured by the leader(real one) of the free world.  ------------- |
Dr E wrote:Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 10 Jun 2018 at 10:59pm
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Posted the real image for you on the Trump thread. Nice doctored shot does belong here.
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Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2018 at 6:37am
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So you are the self appointed arbiter of of what should be posted and where posts belong? Does it apply to everyone or just me? I haven't seen you call out anyone else. ------------- |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2018 at 2:49pm
Nope. You're a chip on the shoulder sook though. You like to dictate but have trouble being spoken to don't you. 
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Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2018 at 2:54pm
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Why didn't you chip horlicks for that meme posted in the Trump thread, or any other meme posted anywhere on the site? You only ever take exception to mine. Makes you sound like a sniper with a chip on your shoulder ''champ'' ------------- |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2018 at 3:07pm
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LOL. I'll take that under advisement from the sook that tries to dictate rules he doesn't adhere to himself along with his oxygen thieving friends. Keep trolling other forumites with your stalker files too.
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Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2018 at 3:12pm
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Have you found where I claimed this yet? You declare winners like you declare Trump family impeachments. ------------- |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2018 at 3:15pm
| LOL. What a Fibber. You're an Oxygen Thief too like your friends. |
Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2018 at 3:18pm
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Are Trump's family elected officials? NO. So how can they be impeached? You gave yourself away with such a stupid over-reach. To be a good troll you have to have a clue. ------------- |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2018 at 3:28pm
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That's the way tone setter. Keep trying to make every thread all about you and your vendettas. LOL trying to rewrite the definition of impeachment now to fit a singular purpose. You really should look a word up before you try to define it fool. Why did you wait so long with the impeachment issue if it was so important to you? Having a bad day are we? Sorry you're feeling down and aggrieved. Get over it soon.
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Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2018 at 3:30pm
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for those without the desire or care factor to look it up ...... I don't use a US dictionary either impeachment ɪmˈpiːtʃmənt/< width="14" height="14" ="" =":/png;64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAA4AAAAOCAQAAAC1QeVaAAAAi0lEQVQokWNgQAYyQFzGsIJBnwED8DNcBpK+DM8YfjMUokqxMRxg+A9m8TJsBLLSEFKMDCuBAv/hCncxfGWQhUn2gaVAktkMXkBSHmh0OwNU8D9csoHhO4MikN7BcAGb5H+GYiDdCTQYq2QubkkkY/E6CLtXdiJ7BTMQMnAHXxFm6IICvhwY8AYQLgCw2U9d90B8BAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg=="> noun noun: impeachment; plural noun: impeachments
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Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2018 at 3:30pm
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I asked you about the impeachment issue in that thread, and you refused to answer because it was yet another obvious lie. ------------- |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2018 at 3:41pm
| Gee I obviously missed it yet you're trolling me to get a response elsewhere. Strange that. Double standards are really your forte. |
Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2018 at 3:48pm
Just for you ------------- |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2018 at 3:55pm
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for those without the desire or care factor to look it up ...... I don't use a US dictionary either British So again you can't read Oxygen Thief? You really should stop while you're so far behind. Call a gamblers helpline and stop wasting my time.
a charge of treason or another crime against the state |
Posted By: Second Chance
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2018 at 4:02pm
| Under the law of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" rel="nofollow - United Kingdom , high treason is the crime of disloyalty to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crown" rel="nofollow - the Crown . Offences constituting high treason include plotting the murder of the sovereign; committing adultery with the sovereign's https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/consort" rel="nofollow - consort , with the sovereign's eldest unmarried daughter, or with the wife of the heir to the throne; levying war against the sovereign and adhering to the sovereign's enemies, giving them aid or comfort; and attempting to undermine the lawfully established https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_of_succession_to_the_British_Throne" rel="nofollow - line of succession . |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 11 Jun 2018 at 10:35pm
| I was speaking definition not law and I didn't say "high treason". Another one changing the goalposts. Crikey why do you lot bother when you obviously don't like reading what others actually say? |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 14 Jun 2018 at 12:07am
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In amongst all the dross there are still some real journalists out there. Please not that the "President's Club" scandal has nothing to do with Trump. http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/journalists-behind-cambridge-analytica-files-presidents-club-scandal-and-oxfam-sex-scandal-scoops-among-finalists-for-2018-paul-foot-award/" rel="nofollow - http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/journalists-behind-cambridge-analytica-files-presidents-club-scandal-and-oxfam-sex-scandal-scoops-among-finalists-for-2018-paul-foot-award/
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Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2018 at 3:03pm
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Posted By: stayer
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2018 at 5:30pm
Good stuff. 
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Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 15 Jun 2018 at 10:14pm
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Please not that LOL. There's another one with a dropped E. PT and Softy are slipping. |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 19 Jun 2018 at 10:05am
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Here's one for you Stayer - A Tweet from God. A very funny thread if you read the responses ... https://twitter.com/TheTweetOfGod/status/1008731496184606721?s=03" rel="nofollow - https://twitter.com/TheTweetOfGod/status/1008731496184606721?s=03
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Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2018 at 10:03pm
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@susie_dent Entirely trivial, unofficial, but sometimes necessary word of the day: a snaccident is the inadvertent consumption of an entire packet of biscuits when you meant to have just the one. |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2018 at 10:11pm
| Also known as a snactivity if that's what you really meant to do. |
Posted By: stayer
Date Posted: 21 Jun 2018 at 6:18pm
There used to be a universal (all times and places) concept of "natural law." We must be making great progress to have evolved beyond that.
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Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2018 at 11:21am
| A line from An Honourable Man, by Michael McManus: “The British attitude to Europe reminds me of my parents’ cat. It scratches the door, desperate to get out, and when you open the door it just sits there licking its balls.” Hard to find better description of our current cabinet.@gweccles |
Posted By: Dr E
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2018 at 12:00pm
... long live democracy! ------------- In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT! |
Posted By: Tlazolteotl
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2018 at 5:08pm
Slavery, just to name one thing off the top of my head, must be a natural law. There is nothing natural about natural law.
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Posted By: stayer
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2018 at 5:43pm
Slavery gets brought up a lot in natural law scholarship. An interesting one. But I don't want to derail the thread, and I doubt there'd be enough people here with an interest in the topic to start a new one. Just a comment about something someone posted, probably best left at that. Maybe one relevant link to the thread - 2 of the only things all cultures seem to have agreed on are that lying and theft are wrong. Social media, fake news... a lot of both going on maybe more than ever these days! |
Posted By: stayer
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2018 at 5:44pm
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Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 22 Jun 2018 at 8:37pm
| Still a lot of slavery about particularly in Asia. But, as you said, that's another topic. |
Posted By: Dr E
Date Posted: 23 Jun 2018 at 3:46am
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Rife in Australia ... just ask the Greens/ALP Collusion!
------------- In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT! |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 24 Jun 2018 at 9:50pm
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Here's the politician the world really doesn't need .... https://twitter.com/jamescrisp6/status/1010418619287834624" rel="nofollow - https://twitter.com/jamescrisp6/status/1010418619287834624
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Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 27 Jun 2018 at 9:16am
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Another heat wave in England and a solution is offered to stop the population dropping like flies ... https://twitter.com/kenchengcomedy/status/1010800181489623040?s=03" rel="nofollow - https://twitter.com/kenchengcomedy/status/1010800181489623040?s=03
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Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2018 at 11:54am
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paul bassett davies (@thewritertype) tweeted at 10:45 pm on Thu, Jun. 28, 2018: The Queen is laying the groundwork for a major sickie to avoid meeting Trump. This is the subtle first stage, where you miss a day’s work. Then you return and heroically struggle on, plainly suffering. Finally everyone persuades you take some time off, exactly when you wanted to. https://t.co/tEq9lZCA1m" rel="nofollow - - https://twitter.com/thewritertype/status/1012316159310516224?s=03 ) |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 29 Jun 2018 at 10:05pm
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Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2018 at 10:16am
 Muff is a small village on the banks of the Foyle estuary in Donegal Ireland and yes it has a diving club..
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Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2018 at 11:00am
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Billy 🏴 (@Billy_WHUFC) tweeted at 10:39 pm on Thu, Jul. 05, 2018: My mate has two tickets for the England vs Sweden game on Saturday. He didn't realise that it's going to be on the same day as his wedding, so he can't go. If you're interested and want to go instead of him, it's at St. Andrew's Church in Cambridge and her name is Sarah |
Posted By: acacia alba
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2018 at 2:00pm
There is a small village of about 3 houses and a celtic burial mound, in the Scottish Highlands, called Lost, and I have pics, ( that I cant post, ) to prove it, having ridden thru it when I was, you guessed it, "lost " . ------------- animals before people. |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2018 at 2:43pm
| I'm guessing that's the only was anyone ever finds the joint in the first place AA. |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2018 at 2:44pm
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F-F-S auto correcton this machine is diabolical I'm guessing that's the only WAY anyone ever finds the joint in the first place A |
Posted By: maccamax
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2018 at 3:39pm
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Slavery ???? When we have struggle street for people on minimum wages and Lawyers & their clients on $10,000 a day or minute. Probably more slaves in the world today than ever. I would go into Politics tomorrow if I could be sure of getting my hands on Sarah Hanson Young's seat.... 
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Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2018 at 11:42am
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The Twittersphere is off tap with the Trump visit to the UK .... here's some of the comedians at bay |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2018 at 11:43am
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Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2018 at 11:45am
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Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2018 at 11:45am
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Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2018 at 11:50am
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Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2018 at 12:09pm
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And the Queen training her new puppy to walk down a line of troops ..... https://twitter.com/DustinGiebel/status/1017845983345078272?s=03" rel="nofollow - https://twitter.com/DustinGiebel/status/1017845983345078272?s=03
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Posted By: maccamax
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2018 at 12:33pm
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Teresa May showing some leg ... That's just a ploy to stop us looking at her head |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2018 at 12:39pm
| LOL Max. I vote her dial just behind your favourite royal .... by a furlong. |
Posted By: Dr E
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2018 at 2:29pm
Trump will be loving all this attention from the UK!  They are certainly are proving themselves to be more intelligent and creative than the "OUTRAGED"!!! FCUK TRUMPER morons back home - not hard! ... however, they clearly don't get it either!  Foreigners, who's economy, culture and political scene is in complete disarray, schite-bagging the Winning POTUS? ... it just feeds to his base back home, PLUS serves to sway a few lost patriots here and there, who have been disgusted by the FBI traitor. He can expect a little uplift in his approval ratings next week! 
------------- In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT! |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2018 at 4:00pm
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All true but at least you can laugh at the English sense of humour - A facet sadly lacking in the rest of the worldwide Anti Trump campaign. Here's some of the best material thanks to the Spitting Image crew at the BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b94wzc" rel="nofollow - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b94wzc |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2018 at 4:01pm
| Oops that's Dead Ringers .... not Spitting Image. Same dog different ... well, you'll see if you click the link. |
Posted By: stayer
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2018 at 7:00pm
No kidding there's a bit of originality there - "Feed him to the corgis!"
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Posted By: Dr E
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2018 at 7:36pm
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English Humour > US Humor for as long as I can remember.
------------- In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT! |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2018 at 12:33am
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Tweet of the day - J. Elvis Weinstein (@JElvisWeinstein) tweeted at 3:43 am on Sun, Jul. 15, 2018: Donald Trump is every kid on the Wonka tour but Charlie. |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2018 at 10:58am
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Tweet of the day ... https://twitter.com/_HelenDale" rel="nofollow -
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So I muted all the Trump in the UK hashtags & deliberately set out to send (& receive) lots of cute fox, cat, and general wildlife pics. And so my feed is now full of Elon Musk calling one of the Thai cave rescuers a ‘pedo’. I can’t win. |
Posted By: acacia alba
Date Posted: 17 Jul 2018 at 11:02am
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See Ellon is copping a hammering again this morning for his idiot plans to dig thru a hill to reach the boys in the cave. ------------- animals before people. |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2018 at 12:40am
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Getting all he deserves AA. Tweet of the day -
Susie Dent (@susie_dent) tweeted at 7:17 pm on
Tue, Jul. 17, 2018: My word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’: a 19th century wooden toy puppet whose limbs jerk about at the whim of the puppet master. It soon became used for a politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else. |
Posted By: Dr E
Date Posted: 18 Jul 2018 at 7:01pm
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Bullgelati Bill Quockerwodger-Shorten! I's a mouthful, but I like it!
------------- In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT! |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2018 at 12:30pm
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And for some light relief courtesy of social media - Pachelbel's Canon in C(hicken) https://twitter.com/ArtyBagger/status/1019346611271536641?s=03" rel="nofollow - https://twitter.com/ArtyBagger/status/1019346611271536641?s=03 |
Posted By: stayer
Date Posted: 20 Jul 2018 at 6:51pm
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Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 02 Aug 2018 at 12:35pm
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Try again without all the garbage ..... Tweet of the day https://twitter.com/KarenKilgariff" rel="nofollow - I’m going to start throwing wild dinner parties like in the 50s where everyone gets gelatifaced and no one cares about your food allergies |
Posted By: Dr E
Date Posted: 02 Aug 2018 at 6:26pm
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------------- In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT! |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 03 Aug 2018 at 1:01pm
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Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 03 Aug 2018 at 1:02pm
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A brief section of the article .... One beleaguered 31-year-old female administration official described at length her “very, very frequent” scraps with her matches on dating apps. “You do the small talk thing, and you have a very good conversation, and then they might say, ‘You didn’t vote for Trump, right?’” she says. “As soon as I say, ‘Of course I did,’ it just devolves into all-caps ‘HOW COULD YOU BE SUCH A RACIST AND A BIGOT?’ And ‘You’re going to take away your own birth control.’” In one recent star-crossed exchange, the official told a match she worked for the federal government. When he pushed, she revealed she was in the administration. He asked her, “Do you rip babies from their mothers and then send them to Mexico?” Evasive answers will get you only so far, though, since many dating apps provide enough information for inquisitive users to sleuth out their matches’ identities. “I literally got the other day, ‘Thanks but no thanks. Just Googled you and it said you were a mouthpiece for the Trump administration. Go kiss yourself,’” says the official. It’s all enough to drive her and some of her colleagues away from at least some of the apps. “I’m no longer on Bumble,” she says. |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 08 Aug 2018 at 11:37pm
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Tweet of the day ..... Davenant (@SirWilliamD) tweeted at 4:12 pm on Tue, Aug. 07, 2018:
Just imagine the good you could do for the world if you had a Tardis, a tranquilliser gun and a vasectomy surgeon. |
Posted By: acacia alba
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2018 at 12:00am
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Sounds good to me. But whats a tardis ?? The others are all good. ------------- animals before people. |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2018 at 1:20am
| A time machine/spacecraft. |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2018 at 3:48pm
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Tweet of the day .... https://twitter.com/ArenaFlowers" rel="nofollow - Cats account for over 30% of the population, but contribute 0% to the economy. Tomorrow, give your cat a briefcase: SEND THE CAT TO WORK |
Posted By: acacia alba
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2018 at 4:21pm
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My cat would be smarter than some of the weirdos that are dreaming up all the nonsense these days, like not referring to people as "him" or "her " . ------------- animals before people. |
Posted By: Tlazolteotl
Date Posted: 09 Aug 2018 at 5:46pm
I would certainly have to wonder about the ethics and morals of a Trumpie. But aren't there Republicans on those dating apps?
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Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2018 at 5:38am
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You'd think so Tlaz. Perhaps people should put their political preference just after their sexual one.
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Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2018 at 5:48am
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Live report from Bear News ..... Mrs Bear and I often stay at the Royce Hotel on St Kilda Rd when we're in town. Last week we saw Senator Derryn Hinch looking bloodshot and bleary eyed moaning into his phone on one of the outside tables at the bar. Not the first time either. He's keeping that donated liver in good shape. There was also a Real Estate seminar in one of the conference rooms this week with the speakers sounding more desperate every time we walked past. One was telling a story about another agent present where the fellow had managed to get a listing standing in the queue at a supermarket. Trying to impress the others present the speaker exclaimed "Howzat?! Howzat?!" Mrs Bear couldn't resist and called out through the open door "NOT OUT" and kept walking. I think one or two agents will be OUT of business soon if they're scrounging for sales in supermarket queues.
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Posted By: Dr E
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2018 at 1:45pm
Republicans don't seem to have to use online apps for dating as much as the Socialists, who have been taught to lodge a rape complaint if someone from the opposite sex makes eye contact for more than a few seconds ... and Democrats can't hook up with each other, because they can never agree who is going to be the victim! ------------- In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT! |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2018 at 6:15pm
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Tweet of the day ..... "When your spouse notices you're about to respond to a provocation on social media" https://twitter.com/joecarter/status/1027933726418841600" rel="nofollow - https://twitter.com/joecarter/status/1027933726418841600
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Posted By: Dr E
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2018 at 7:09pm
... and then there is this - straight from the experts - seems that the science is settled!Hunky Tory? Attractive people more likely to be rightwing, study findsIt is a finding unlikely to prove popular with Guardian readers, but a study has concluded that attractive people are more likely to be rightwing.  Previous research has found that those who are good-looking are generally treated better, achieve higher social status and earn more money, leading them to see the world as a just and fair place. Now an American study published in the Journal of Public Economics based on comparing multiple surveys has concluded that the attractiveness of a person can correlate with their political beliefs. Various studies over the years have shown that a person’s physical appearance significantly colours their life experience, and Peterson and Palmer say these life experiences mould our political views. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/jan/31/hunky-tory-attractive-people-more-likely-to-be-rightwing-study-finds ------------- In reference to every post in the Trump thread ... "There may have been a tiny bit of license taken there" ... Ok, Thanks for the "heads up" PT! |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 13 Aug 2018 at 11:13am
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A few quotes from Henry Louis Mencken an American writer of the early twentieth century. He was known as "The Sage of Baltimore" and "The American Nietzsche" Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 13 Aug 2018 at 11:13am
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Mencken would have been a riot on Social Media
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Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 13 Aug 2018 at 11:35am
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More from Mencken .... https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/h_l_mencken" rel="nofollow - https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/h_l_mencken
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Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 13 Aug 2018 at 11:46am
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And on a lighter note the tweet of the day from Ricky Gervais - DO YOU EVER VOTE IN TWITTER POLLS? |
Posted By: Tlazolteotl
Date Posted: 13 Aug 2018 at 11:52am
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The diaries show Mencken as an antisemite, a paternalistic racist, a
mean-spirited critic of colleagues who considered him a friend, and a
Germanophile who never denounced Hitler but ranted against American
participation in World War II. On the subject of Jews, Mencken wrote in
December 1943 that the Maryland Club had no objection to a Jew from out
of town eating there occasionally. "There was a time when the club
always had one Jewish member, but the last was Jacob Ulman. Ulman was
married to a Christian woman ... and had little to do with the other
Jews of Baltimore. When he died the board of governors decided that he
should be the last of the Chosen on the club roll. There is no other Jew
in Baltimore who seems suitable," Mencken wrote. Of blacks, he wrote in
1943, "... it is impossible to talk anything resembling discretion or
judgment to a colored woman. They are all essentially child-like, and
even hard experience does not teach them anything." On Oct. 24, 1945, he
wrote, "... The course of the United States in World War II ... was
dishonest, dishonorable and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, in
supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace." Mencken
scholar Charles A. Fecher of Baltimore, who edited the book, writes in
his introduction that Mencken's hatred of Franklin Roosevelt "was,
indeed, maniacal -- there is no other word to use." https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1989/12/05/menckens-dark-side/e0eb19d6-f09d-4d97-9afa-9d8d3acf0f60/?noredirect=on" rel="nofollow - https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1989/12/05/menckens-dark-side/e0eb19d6-f09d-4d97-9afa-9d8d3acf0f60/?noredirect=on
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Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 13 Aug 2018 at 2:28pm
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An overly simplistic reflection on Mencken typical of the cut and paste era of analysis. The man advocated against all religious belief. Read some of his actual work instead of some lame analysis by third parties.
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Posted By: JudgeHolden
Date Posted: 13 Aug 2018 at 3:18pm
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I enjoy Mencken. He certainly has a gift for compressing ideas into short, memorable phrases. Perhaps he held some opinions that might seem “unenlightened” by today’s standards, but that’s a charge you could level at quite a few historical figures. And probably more unfair with Mencken, as he seemed to pretty much not like anyone.
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Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 13 Aug 2018 at 10:02pm
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Now that analysis is closer to the money.
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Posted By: Tlazolteotl
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2018 at 9:12am
Some?
The man was a racist, extreme Social Darwinist who hated the poor, democracy, Jews, America, but loved Germany and the Prussian ruling class and didn't mind the Nazis. |
Posted By: JudgeHolden
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2018 at 10:11am
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With someone so prolific, you need to be careful cherry picking singular quotes. Gore Vidal: Far from being an anti-Semite, Mencken was one of the first journalists to denounce the persecution of the Jews in Germany at a time when The New York Times, say, was notoriously reticent. On November 27, 1938, Mencken writes (Baltimore Sun), "It is to be hoped that the poor Jews now being robbed and mauled in Germany will not take too seriously the plans of various politicians to rescue them." He then reviews the various schemes to "rescue" the Jews from the Nazis, who had not yet announced their own final solution.[52] As Germany gradually conquered Europe, Mencken attacked President Roosevelt for refusing to admit Jewish refugees into the United States and called for their wholesale admission: There is only one way to help the fugitives, and that is to find places for them in a country in which they can really live. Why shouldn't the United States take in a couple hundred thousand of them, or even all of them?[53] |
Posted By: Tlazolteotl
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2018 at 10:30am
| "The Jews could be put down very plausibly as the most unpleasant race ever heard of. As commonly encountered, they lack many of the qualities that mark the civilized man: courage, dignity, incorruptibility, ease, confidence. They have vanity without pride, voluptuousness without taste, and learning without wisdom. Their fortitude, such as it is, is wasted upon puerile objects, and their charity is mainly a form of display." |
Posted By: JudgeHolden
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2018 at 10:36am
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And that’s a sentiment he disowned. Again you need to look in a broader context. Churchill once said he was all for gassing “uncivilised tribes” of northern India. How much does that define the man? |
Posted By: ThreeBears
Date Posted: 14 Aug 2018 at 11:04pm
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As I said earlier Tlaz you're a copybook Google expert with no idea on the subject. And a quote from Gore Vidal on the subject of Mencken's so called anti semitism -
Far from being an anti-Semite, Mencken was one of the first journalists to denounce the persecution of the Jews in Germany at a time when https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" rel="nofollow - The New York Times , say, was notoriously reticent. |
Posted By: Tlazolteotl
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 8:35am
Where?
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Posted By: JudgeHolden
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 8:43am
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Presumably from the same place you got the quote: That passage was removed from subsequent editions at his express direction. |
Posted By: Tlazolteotl
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 8:50am
Are you making this up as you go along? Evidence?
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Posted By: JudgeHolden
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 8:56am
| That line comes via wiki from a book on Mencken by Fred Hobson. |
Posted By: Passing Through
Date Posted: 15 Aug 2018 at 8:59am
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http://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-160/leading-myths-churchill-advocated-the-first-use-of-lethal-gas/" rel="nofollow - http://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-160/leading-myths-churchill-advocated-the-first-use-of-lethal-gas/
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