Reply to: Biting the hand...

[Scary]

"Everyone's pregnant...it's dominated by hoodies...and there isn't a Starbucks."

So two negatives and a positive.

[hyperD]

I'll find someone who is "big boned", middle-aged and lists their interests as "beer".

[NotAllThere]

We insulted a city in the Basel panto. But the city being insulted was Zürich, so it was well received by the audience.

[cojak]

<takes a bow>

[Pondlife]

Probably, but accuracy isn't relevant to this discussion...

CUK business as usual.

[cojak]

Eejit maybe. But is he accurate?

Probably, but accuracy isn't relevant to this discussion...

[MaryPoppins]

Eejit maybe. But is he accurate?

Statistically he may well be.

[ratewhore]

Some people forget that t'interweb is read by more people than just your 'mates'...

Young eejit...

Eejit maybe. But is he accurate?

[MaryPoppins]

What I really hate is when you Google for someone who is due to interview you, in the hope that you'll find something brilliantly in common which you can casually mention in the interview and basically guarantee the job, only to find that they are good looking, young, trendy, live in an ultra-cool apartment and write a state-of-the-art technical blog which is always up-to-date and obviously has a legion of devoted followers. One day I'll find someone who is fat, middle-aged and lists their interests as "beer".

First thing to make me smile today.

[northernladuk]

But then us old foggies never accidently did this.

Boss on Facebook

[Pondlife]

True. There was that story the other day about Stephen Fry taking a break from telling everyone on Twitter what he's doing every hour of the day, so that he can spend more time writing a book about what he was doing a few years ago.

This will surely be a self-perpetuating problem. In a few years time he's going to have to take another break from Twitter so he can write a book about what he was doing this time when he's taking a break from Twitter. And then, a few years after that...

I'm guessing he'll just release his 'twits' in book form and call it his memoirs.

[dang65]

Essentially, it seems that connected young people don't care that everyone can read all about them for years to come, it's only old fogeys who still think there is such a thing as privacy anyway.

What I really hate is when you Google for someone who is due to interview you, in the hope that you'll find something brilliantly in common which you can casually mention in the interview and basically guarantee the job, only to find that they are good looking, young, trendy, live in an ultra-cool apartment and write a state-of-the-art technical blog which is always up-to-date and obviously has a legion of devoted followers. One day I'll find someone who is fat, middle-aged and lists their interests as "beer".

[dang65]

If the BBC published any more twatter stories it might aswell start redirecting news.bbc.co.uk to twitter.com

True. There was that story the other day about Stephen Fry taking a break from telling everyone on Twitter what he's doing every hour of the day, so that he can spend more time writing a book about what he was doing a few years ago.

This will surely be a self-perpetuating problem. In a few years time he's going to have to take another break from Twitter so he can write a book about what he was doing this time when he's taking a break from Twitter. And then, a few years after that...

[cojak]

There's an interesting article on this in New York magazine http://nymag.com/news/features/27341/

Essentially, it seems that connected young people don't care that everyone can read all about them for years to come, it's only old fogeys who still think there is such a thing as privacy anyway.

I'm an anonymous old fogey: if you think I'm a Farquhar you're a wanquhar.

They'll become old fogeys one day, and it will dawn on them why they got fired so regularly...

[Tarquin Farquhar]

There's an interesting article on this in New York magazine http://nymag.com/news/features/27341/

Essentially, it seems that connected young people don't care that everyone can read all about them for years to come, it's only old fogeys who still think there is such a thing as privacy anyway.

I'm an anonymous old fogey: if you think I'm a Farquhar you're a wanquhar.