howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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8 February 2010
21:5440057just had a look in there is a site dedicated to "saving " dover port.
once i cut through the obscenities and assorted rubbish i discovered that a lot of people were under the impression that the white cliffs would be sold as part of the package.
just as amusingly there were others that thought if the "froggies" sic purchased it, english staff would all be replaced by french people.
i know a lot of people love social networking sites, but there does sometimes appear to be "more out than in".
8 February 2010
22:4040063There is an amount of idiocy to wade through, admittedly - but I a rather enjoying the rest of it! The busniness bits are a good aside, and it is a fabbo way to keep tabs on the kids...........not that I do, of course, especially if the little darlings are reading this.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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9 February 2010
08:3640075You do get nutters on ther, no doubt about that but then you get them everywhere.
9 February 2010
20:3840131I don't think the level of public stupidity is essentially any different because of social networking, it's just that social networking exposes it a lot more.
We shud fank Bill G8s, he like owns the inter net and all dem pc world shops and that and wivout him we wdnt have FCBK or Twitter, init. LOL.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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9 February 2010
20:5640134i have to agree there rick, i never knew there were so many mono-syllabic people around until the advent of the mobile phone.
social networking has encouraged more to come out of the closet though.
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9 February 2010
21:07401399 February 2010
21:4040143Atta girl Jeane, you tell 'em
9 February 2010
21:4440145TXT TALK:
f evr Ny of u xprnz Ny probs undrstndN txt lang, thN u cn srf on2 lingo2word.com wich hs a prety gud txt tlk transl8R. I'm nt as fluent as u myt tnk - dis msg hs bn transl8D UzN dis h&d 2l.
ENGLISH TRANSLATION:
If ever any of you experience any problems understanding text language, then you can surf onto lingo2word.com which has a pretty good text talk translator. I'm not as fluent as you might think - this message has been translated using this handy tool.
9 February 2010
22:3140147Oh dear. Google have literally just announced their version of Facebook called Buzz.
Is this going to be part of Google takes over the world or does Facebook have too much momentum to be caught up with?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10449662-265.html?tag=mncol;txthoward mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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9 February 2010
23:2040154this should all be very useful to our younger generation when they go out into the business world and try to compete with their counterparts from asia for important contracts.
a world where "english" is the business language.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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10 February 2010
07:4340169I totally agree with those who hate text talk. I dont understand it at all and will not use it. It is just lazy.
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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10 February 2010
13:1840186I h8 txt tlk2!
However, Facebook is OK providing you can get past the dangers on there (and they are real). I'm on Facebook every day, and I am concerned about the number of nutters on there - I just ignore them, but I can see how some vulnerable people might not be so confident about doing the same.
As a social networking site, I think it's fantastic, and has put me in touch with a couple of old school friends I haven't seen or heard from since 1979, but by the same token I have been contacted by some people I've never known who want to be my 'friends' and I'm worried why a complete stranger would want to befriend me. One was a guy from the middle of nowhere in the USA; I accept that not everyone on there lives in the Bates Motel, but I have genuine concerns that there may be some who do, and it only takes one..........
I can see why the Police are concerned over paedophile entrapment of children.
True friends stab you in the front.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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10 February 2010
14:1740187I joined facebook on Monday just to see what it`s all about. I don`t understand all these names that appear on there, who wish to make freinds with me. I shall possibly dump it at the end of the week. Probably okay if you`ve got plenty of freinds and relation`s to talk to, or as Andy mentions, looking up old school chums. Is that it?
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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10 February 2010
16:5240193True Andy. I turned down two friendship requests from attractive 20 something girls last week!!! Of course it was only the photos, names and infor posted by them that suggest they are attractive, they could be 60 years old beared female hod carriers equipped with builders bum for all I know!
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11 February 2010
17:1540324You should be so lucky Barry!!
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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11 February 2010
18:2740335Have never been on facebook but there does appear too be a consensus that you have to be carefull, as you don't really know from adam who you could be talking to.
Hey Barry as colette said you should be so lucky
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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11 February 2010
21:0940373just looking at barry's post about bearded females reminded me of something i read this morning.
a chap in dubai was going through an arranged marriage, after the imam had declared them man and wife he lifted her veil to see the beautiful woman he had wed.
turns out she had a beard, all the pictures she had sent him were of her sister.
the groom is rather miffed about the whole affair and was last seen running at breakneck speed to a sharia court to get the marriage annulled.
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12 February 2010
17:2840409Arranged marriage, should have no place in this modern world, yet it`s still allowed in this country. See my Religious Murder in England posting.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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12 February 2010
19:3640427colin
are you confusing arranged marrages with forced marriages.?
don't forget the royal families of europe have been doing the same since the middle ages, ours still do for the most part.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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12 February 2010
19:4140429Perhaps an arranged marriage is a more civilised way of saying a forced marriage Howard? Charles and Diane for example. Either way, it`s not freedom of choice I`d have thought.
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