@pisikopati, yenilebilitesinin pek fazla olduğunu düşünmüyorum. Ancak, iyi bir cerrah ile göğüs kafesi açılarak içime yerleştirilip, özenle göğüs kafesim kapatıldıktan sonra, herhangbir rahatsızlık duymadan yaşayabilirim bu yaratık ile. Tamam, abarttığımı biliyorum, ancak ne yapabilirim ki, kedileri çok seviyorum.
- izmirdenbirisi
@Özer (Wrzl) Dölekoğlu, izniniz olursa bu resmi çalıp sitemde yayınlamak isterim?
- izmirdenbirisi
Keiko, I tend to drink beer with mine, depending on time of day.
- Admiral Anika
I wish there was a good ramen-ya nearby because now, I'm craving ramen.
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
@Mark Davidson>and natto?? wowwww.....wonderful! are you Japanese?? :)))) because, some of Japanese people (especially Kansai area) could't eat natto.....
- Keiko Yamada
@ Admiral Anika >I see...me too! beer is the best! :)
- Keiko Yamada
@Mark Davidson>So, I'll deliver for you from Tokio !! :))
- Keiko Yamada
I bought some frozen natto; not sure what to do with it, since I can't read the package! I may try making okonomiyaki; my Taekwondo Master's wife grew up in Japan and is a good cook; she told me I can buy the sauce I found so intimidating.
- MiniMage TKDteacher of FF
Mage, I've never seen frozen natto, but I'm sure you can prep it like what my husband and kid eat. They have finely chopped green onions, spicy mustard, ponzu, a quail egg and I think soy sauce. Mix that all up into the natto and eat it. If you get some yakinori, you can make a handroll and lay the natto on bean sprouts.
- Admiral Anika
But I don't WANT a post the most offensive possible while staying safe for work picture with :( as the heading meme! The meme committee forbids it!
- Matthew DeVries
chill out people... hardly a bad pic. :o) had to look twice myself to see what the fuss was, so it can't be THAT obvious lol. :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
See, now those COULD successfully teabag the white house.
- Ethan
"I took the liberty of milking your cow for you. Yeah, it took a little while to get her warmed up, she sure is a stubborn one"
- Chris Rivait
What if I just promise not to bump it?
- Josh Haley
How would you precisely phrase this promise? Let's revise and get that language exactly right
- Matthew DeVries
Do your balls hang low? do they wabble to and fro? Can you tie them in a knott? Can you tie them in a bow? Can you throw them over your shoulder like a contenental solgier? Do your nuts hang low?
- Fake Elmo
Nuts or balls, Elmo? (I bet that gets said all the time)
- Josh Haley
Those would be far more impressive than the set dangling from the back of my pickup currently. Is there anything more classy than a scrotum hanging from the back of your car.
- Matthew DeVries
this is the thread that keeps on giving whether you want it to or not
- Cee Bee
[Edit] Show that beastie a photo looking straight down over the edge of the Grand Canyon and those babies will pull up a good 6 inches!
- Mark "DerBingle" J
"Fondo Colanco is a private ranch that I visited on the day of the Spring castration. We watched about 30 bulls get snipped and then retired to a barn for the day. We stripped the balls from the scrota, taking them to a giant plow set over an open wood fire for searing in oil, garlic, and chiles before parking them between two homemade rolls for hand sandwiches. The scrota were sauteed...
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- Josh Haley
Did you know that during the end credits of Borat, there is a picture like this, of a different woman in a similar hat cupping a bull's balls? I found that very interesting and now am trying to figure out what the real meaning of it all is.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
the meaning is... wow, never felt balls like it... :P
- Rob Sellen :o)
Sean, if only I knew. This was delivered directly to me fresh and hot.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Wow, whatever you do, don't google "Asian guys at beach licking" if you want to find the Flickr account for this. No, seriously. Just...don't. o.O
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
changed my life forever...I will always go to the beach with a a few chubby buddies after porking myself up for those bosoms ~ and this image is most definitely going in the ol' spank bank
- sofarsoShawn
Remember ! I bring quality product to Friend Feed !:)
- Akiva Moskovitz
you know what would be funny: ok bear with me, if we blindfolded leather donut (you know the booby man) and...yeah fill in the blanks...something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- sofarsoShawn
Sir, randomly linking to your FriendFeed from one of my posts is oh wait you'll never see this because you're blocked for spamming. Thanks anyway, kaghazrangy.
- Akiva Moskovitz
damn this picture just won't go away - you have forced me to hide it
- William Harryman
Akiva, wasn't that pic taken at your last BBQ?
- Paul
Every time I see this picture I smile. Their joy is infectious, like herpes.
- Sparky
Paul, I surely do wish I had a beach in my back yard!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Sparky, I'm going to have this blown up to poster-size and attaching it to the ceiling above our bed. That'll cause some infections!
- Akiva Moskovitz
makes me want to grow a rack and diddle with my own, know what I'm saying?
- sofarsoShawn
this. . . .this. . . ugh . . . so fucking wrong.
- Peter Ghosh
Akiva - you can put anything you want above our bed.
- Sparky
i've been trying to formulate a comment for this for days, but i just...can't.
- joey
I still want to know the motivation here. is this a gay marriage argument? or are we already pushing group social contracts on friendfeed?
- Noah David Simon
oh man this one keeps popping up on ma friendfeed,....must spread virus nao
- Chris Hofmann
I'm surprised no one's noticed old boy's red-framed glasses.
- Akiva Moskovitz
oh right... the glasses are so important when three asian men are licking his nipples and all the comments are by people who think gay marriage has something to do with equality... when it has everything to do with taking protections away from children. the red glass glasses.... um yeah. chicken and Oklahoma with milk
- Noah David Simon
Mark, you have uncovered the dark underbelly of humanity except in this case it isn't dark but is rather a pasty hue somewhere in the vicinity of undercooked flan.
- Akiva Moskovitz
This should be in the default noobie FF stream. Like the first thing anyone who signs up sees. If they stick around they're part of the family.
- Chrimmus Tad
Perhaps this can replace the kitty pic on the start page for non-members!
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
I'm certain prop8 had nothing to do with Swine Flu
- Noah David Simon
I'm thinking that eventually, it will have been hidden by every user on FriendFeed. It'll be the most hidden post in FriendFeed history.
- Akiva Moskovitz
WHY WHY KEEP BRINGING BACK THE EYES THEY HURT ME
- Neal Jansons
from IM
Herpes (and this): the gifts that keep on giving.
- Sparky
I wonder if the FriendFeed guys see this and say to themselves, 'Well, this isn't exactly what we had in mind when we started started FriendFeed.'
- Akiva Moskovitz
I look at it and think, "Not again."
- Steven Perez
from IM
Just about the time you FF is getting some class .. Oh well we is what we is.
- Brent - Loving Life
I can't believe after all this time some diligent FF'er hasn't dug up the identities (I said "titties") of this bunch and invited them to join the service that made them famous. Mitchell Tsai, get to work!
- Sprague D
i think if you unlike and delete all your comments anna it'll go away, but hide in general would be nice too (this photo makes me smile every time it pops up so don't mind it)...
- mike "glemak" dunn
*sigh* This is never going away, is it? It's gonna end up like James Bond movies and Swedish meatballs - always existing in the same form. never diminshing, never forgotten. :( :( :(
- Steven Perez
from IM
It will go away, to be replaced with photoshops of the original. It's all part of the meme lifecycle.
- Sparky
I am too new on friendfeed to know anything about record comments.. I love gmail tho, puts all the comments in one threaded email and I can delete them all later in one shot or not if I choose..
- David Gross
from email
well we should aim to beat the record.. i mean jeez there are tons of things that could be said about this.. like.. does it taste like chicken?
- ed fry
I'm gonna have nightmares now. thanks ed. ;)
- Alejandro
ok, in Japanese: "an, an, soko dame!"
- Rick Cogley
You can't close this thread. A lot of people say that this place is a Scoble-fest but, truly, it is this thread that is at the very heart of FriendFeed.
- Akiva Moskovitz
I'm officially going to proclaim that this is the FF equivalent of Goatse or FFoatse if you will. Lets all refer to it as that from this point forward.
- Mark Krynsky
Sparky has left 57 comments. The rest of you are slacking. Hop to it!
- Christopher Harley
Chrisitan just walked by and said "It's too early in the morning for Japanese titty licking." It's NEVER too early for Japanese titty licking.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
THIS is the first thing I see here this morning?
- l0ckergn0me
Chris, you just woke up? C'mon, man! It's 10:30!
- Akiva Moskovitz
I knew he would break eventually - it's fitting that it's on this thread *now to find out how to hide a thread once you've commented....*
- WorldofHiglet
As much as I am loathe to bump this post, I have to do it to say, You, sir, are a master. Well played, sir. Well played. This is why I take every opportunity to say, in my next life, I want to be Akiva. I've already called it! Don't anybody go getting any more ideas.
- ♥patricia♥
I, for one, refuse to "bump" posts...it's very unseemly...
- Live4Emma (L4S)
I wish FF-search allowed to do GROUP BY -aggregations so I could COUNT(*) who are the biggest *bump*ers. :)
- Jemm
Makes me laugh everytime I see it. Such a happy yet silly scene by the sea.
- Toby Graham
There is nothing silly about it. This is serious business.
- Sparky
The more I see this, the more I like it. Not for the ironic nipple-licking, but because these kids are genuinely enjoying themselves. :) Carry on.
- felicious
This photo looks so much better in iPhone 3.0!#!~
- Akiva Moskovitz
Seriously dude. What do I have to do to get rid of this disgusting picture!? Doh! Now I've just pushed it back to the top... yuck, I'm so sickened.
- Jason Nunnelley
I love this image, because I have no clue why it's happening. Randomness FTW!!
- Jimminy Fuller
from twhirl
I'm just thinking of all the new folks coming to friend feed and see this and wonder just what the hell did I get into anyway? And why in Gods name can't I spell Friend correctly the first time - GRRRRRR
- Brent - Loving Life
Can't believe I never hit 'like' on this! Consider the situation rectumfied.
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Oops! I hope I didn't just bump this up again... ;-)
- Sprague D
It's just so refreshing to see genuine juvenile humour at work. These kids are no different from any other, I think it's a great happy image, given all the other shite happening in this world on a daily basis. For those that are too pompous and prudish, 'up yours with brass knobs'
- ImJustCreative
Wow. 666. Nice! Actually, the reason Asashoryu is getting a divorce ( http://ff.im/4T0UA ), is because he wants to spend time with this lot.
- Rick Cogley
To this day, the pic still comes back. Just like Herpes. :D
- Danny Minick
Although unlike herpes this photo is fun to share with friends.
- Sparky
I would rather go to http://woot.com and buy the Acer Aspire One for $259.99, I do not care that it is a refurb.. but what would I do with two laptops? Maybe #hive knows? hmm..
- David Gross
from email
What's this? A real question in this thread? Two extra laptops? Make them fancy digital photo frames.
- Jordan Hofker
Reason #696 why the Internet can grant you immortality. ;-)
- darnell
from BuddyFeed
I can't believe this thing is still floating around Friendfeed. These poor guys... ha ha ha
- Bradley Farless
@SeanMcGee sorry about the spam, this thread is sorta spammy.. I get the messages in email perfect for replying with any message because it then gets posted on twitter and facebook.. I do not do it all the time, look at my other posts in this stream..
- David Gross
from email
Lactating, males last resort to save ourselves, now that they can create sperm in labs.
- Jimminy Fuller
This is the thread that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started feeding it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue feeding it forever just because...This is the thread that never ends, yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started feeding it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue feeding it forever just because...This is the thread that...
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- David Gross
from email
I have 89 :( emails since july 10th.. that includes the ones I sent.
- David Gross
from email
gmail comes in handy, it keeps all the email in conversations, 100 messages at a time but because the subject " :( " it will not filter out so they dont go to inbox.
- David Gross
from email
*THOUGHT FOR THE DAY...* Women are like phones: They like to be held, talked to, and touched often. But push the wrong button and your ass is disconnected.
- David Gross
from email
all this oral stuff is just begging the question of when do they start with the money shots?
- Noah David Simon
I just use this image as a way to announce crap. no one really pays attention to my feed... except my enemies. so when I have something important to say I tell the Asian Titty lickers. it is my strong belief that this thread needs it's very own domain name. something like http://xrl.us/TittyLickers
- Noah David Simon
You know, every time this pops up, since FF hides the middle of the comments of which there are 804 or so, I see Akiva say "I'm sorry." at the top. It makes me wonder about how some things are just not possible to apologize for!
- Rick Cogley
wow, I can't believe tomorrow is Friday :o) no, wait, somewhere in the world it's ALREADY Friday :o)
- David Gross
from email
Thanks Rick, thats what I thought.. does that mean I can start with the #followfriday on twitter or do I have to wait till it is Friday here in NJ? would be funny to post it from this post LOL all my friendfeed goes to twitter..
- David Gross
from email
David - yeah, you can get an early start.
- Rick Cogley
Rick, I am not good at lists or #followfriday but there are lotsa good people in this thread.
- David Gross
from email
the thing that strikes me about this (aside from the obvious) is after seeing this thing pop up like 35-40 times since March its just occurred to me that I don't have any (guy) friends that a) would lick my nipples b) would lick my nipples for a photograph. Maybe I should get out more...
- J. Abdul-Qahhar
I'm a little scared that I've this has gotten more than 800 comments and almost 200 likes over nearly five months and I still haven't clicked "Hide."
- Scott of Two Countries
It's just a bit of fun. I mean watching how many comment, not the picture content (although I suspect that is all that was too!)
- Ian May
Allright, you guys ready to shoot "mirth and girth"?
- Rick Cogley
For the life of me, I'll never understand the emotion people have around this picture for or against. There's no nudity at all, not even implied nudity. Less dude nudity than a beer commercial or cigarette ad, yet there are people who really really really hate this picture.
- Matthew DeVries
I found a way to get a Tit Theme, and it involves this picture.
- Jimminy Fuller
Hahahaha! It's like a telethon. And after Joey Bishop goes off stage, they flash this picture on the screen. "Won't you think of the CHILDREN?"
- Spidra Webster
It's been a while, hope the magnetism still prevails...
- Aaman (Clone of FF)
I just had to bump this once more... gives me a whole new excuse to go look at Phoebe again!
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Hmmm, where do you think they're from? My guess is Japan...
- sofarsoShawn
The bumping algorithm includes things like novel people posting to it, in addition to thread age, and rapidity of comments. If the same 3 people are talking in a thread, it quits bumping because it's obviously a closed tea party.
- Matthew DeVries
I forgot, also you're a very handsome guy(saw the wedding images), I don't understand why you don't like to share your face. Rochelle is a lucky lady.
- Jimminy Fuller
Jimminy, it's an irrational phobia. No different than people who are afraid of heights, spiders, clowns, or Canada.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Akiva, now I'm LMAO at the fear of Canada. People are actually afraid of Canada, or just the fact they don't know if they're British or French?
- Jimminy Fuller
I don't think even Canadians know that difference.
- Akiva Moskovitz
If Friendfeed had sound .. this thread would be all licks and slurps
- Mattb4rd
Sorry Akiva, I think it was the display picture.. I have known male and female Akivas.. Oh and by the way guys I am not afraid of Canada LOL will be there this weekend.. Dave Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes...> - "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
- David Gross
from email
I popped the 666 cherry and I will get 1000 also.
- Jimminy Fuller
If it gets to 1000 will Akiva lock it so it can sink from our feeds forever? Please?!?
- WorldofHiglet
I think locking this post would be un-FriendFeedian.
- Jason Huebel
This is the immortal post everyone who uses the service must see it so WoH it just wouldn't be good to lock it.
- Jimminy Fuller
Not everyone see's it, only the people with true class do.
- Sparky
It keeps on going and going and going....
- David Gross
from email
In the Hall of Great Posts at the FriendFeed museum, this shall be hung high on the wall with pride.
- Johnny Worthington
I'M THE ROCK AND ROLL CLOWN.. AND I LIKE COCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAINE
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
*Wispering to Murderface* "Seriously man, I do... A LOT of cocaine."
- Matt Stoddard
It is now September 1st, and this has not reached 1000 comments. I am sorely disappointed. Yet, for some reason, I am uplifted by the smile of this young man, who was fortunate enough to have such great friends that fateful day on the beach.
- Josh Haley
Quick let's add some comments... Gee that guy on the far left is not really getting into the swing of things is he?
- Travis Koger
Travis... bear in mind that we don't know what "main chubby guy's" right hand is doing, or where it's doing whatever it's doing...
- Mark "DerBingle" J
BUT WE CAN INFER WHAT "MAIN CHUBBY GUY'S" HANDS ARE DOING. BOTH OF THEM.
- Sparky
@Mark, of interest (well not really) is the location of Front Left guy's left hand.
- Travis Koger
The photo of Akiva in the jacuzzi with the Texas A&M cheerleaders would be so much more popular. Now if only someone would post it.
- Christopher Harley
Noooooooooooooooooooooo! Posted March 1st and we are still enduring the wrath! "Akiva's posts, now with more staying power than ever before!"
- Nicholas Kreidberg
YAY! OVER 1000 COMMENTS BLAAAARGBLBLLB
- Josh Haley
It feels like Groundhog Day whenever I see this.
- Andru Edwards
Except that unlike Groundhog Day this is AWESOME!
- Sparky
This thread was how I discovered Akiva. ROFL... Y.M.C.A.! BUMP BUMP BUMP BUMP! GAZE AT IT! DON'T LOOK AWAY! >:O I SED DON'T LOOK AWAY!!! ... ^_^
- Danny Minick
You have nothing to fear - I never look away.
- Sparky
On Fark, there was this one thread, that just kept growing and growing. On Fark, it was a single page per thread. And you could post images and gif inline. Well the thread wouldn't die, people just kept posting. I forget which one it was. Anyway, it got so monsterous, that few people going to read/post to it per day (which was only a handfull) accounted for 1/3 of the server load of the site. They eventually had to cull that thread.
- Matthew DeVries
I think everyone who has participated in this thread has 'culled' themselves privately.
- Akiva Moskovitz
What with all the copycat images this has inspired I hope our muse continues to stick around and not get lost in the shuffle of so many knockoffs.
- Sparky
SHUT UP SPARKY!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111!!!!
- Andru Edwards
I refuse to shut up about the glory that is this thread. REFUSE.
- Sparky
Yes, Vezquex, I'm jealous of those guys, it is warm there, nothing like a warm beatch..
- David Gross
from email
Yes, Sparky, they do not know how good they have it there frolicking on the beach while we freeze up here.. Hard to believe it is only 49 degrees, feels like 29.. I bet it's at least 85 degrees on that beach.
- David Gross
from email
Anyone who doesn't appreciate this thread is clearly not developing a FriendFeed iPhone client because this is a great stress test case. (It crashes BuddyFeed, by the way.)
- Akiva Moskovitz
from iPhone
Also it exercises the crap out of your thumb trying to scroll down to the bottom of it.
- Akiva Moskovitz
from iPhone
Do you need to appreciate the pic in order to appreciate the thread?
- Travis Koger
If I un-collapse this thread, will it break my computer?
- Eivind
Every time this thread gets a bumped, god kills a kitten
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, you may have given some people more reason to keep bumping this thread.
- Victor Ganata
How does it give you thumb exercise? Whatever you're doing, why don't you either use the keyboard or switch to Linux so you can middle-click the scrollbar to jump to where you want? :P
- Tanath
actually this thread does not bother me because I get it in email and gmail groups them and starts new thread after every 100 comments. I have it autoarchived so I do not have to see on phone lol and just see when I look at my ffeed label in gmail.
- David Gross
from email
disgusting? HOW DARE YOU, SIR! That is j-love! and it's beautiful (in it's own way.. a way that shouldn't be seen in public)
- Kyle Johnson
this is probably the most popular feed of 2009 in FF. lol.
- Bora Mesut PALAS
I think the one where Robert Scoble gave away money easily beats this one, but this post has staying power. ;-)
- Jason Huebel
I think that Chinese at FF post was a marriage proposal thing. They were all trying to bump the guy's photo so that it would be the first thing his girlfriend would see when she logged onto FF.
- Kamilah Gill
On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me, 1 salty beach, 2 pairs of glasses, 3 lords a licking, 4 chubby men, 5 santa hats(O_o), 6 rolls of fat, 7 ????, and 8 moobs to view.
- Jimminy Fuller
Hey, I'd be willing to let random guys suck on my nipples if it meant I'd lose all my extra weight. *waits for wiseass random guys to suggest it DOES mean that*
- Spidra Webster
via dorothysurrenders.blogspot.com You know, I’m officially excited for this movie now. I was worried; I still have worries. But this first photo from “The Runaways” (formerly “Cherry Bomb”) is so fucking fierce that I don’t care. I just want to go to there. Immediately. It’s not necessarily the ...
- Helen Sventitsky
from Posterous
I was excited until I heard Kristen Stewart was playing Joan Jett.
- cecily
from iPhone
Why is a movie about Joan Jett being made? She's still alive! She was on set! The 80's weren't that long ago!
- Mike Nayyar
Hmmm....I've never seen Kristen Stewart act (I've avoided the Twilight movies like the plague), but I'll take your word for it, Cecily. Mike, lots of movies about the 80's have been made over the last decade. 24 Hour Party People, for example, is about the Manchester party scene in the mid-80's and features people playing members of New Order and Happy Mondays.
- Helen Sventitsky
...which is one of my all-time fave movies, partly for that reason: "That's not how I remembered it..."
- T. Brent, technopeasant
Hollywood studio movers and shakers are mostly 80s kids. This is simply another facet of the same reasons for the 70s/80s remake/reboot bonanza.
- Michael W. May
She's just...one dimensional. Joan is awesome, and I just can't see Stewart doing her justice.
- cecily
from iPhone
When I was younger I couldn't decide whether I wanted to be Joan Jett or Chrissie Hynde.
- Katy S
I have been jonesing for this movie since I first heard about it. I just hope it's as good as I want it to be.
- Ciaoenrico
I wanted to be both Joan Jett AND Chrissie Hynde . Even got the punk shags they both wore.
- Helen Sventitsky
"Brian Bonsall once played adorable baby-of-the-family Andy Keaton on Family Ties; now he’s a druggie who was recently arrested for assaulting a friend with a bar stool—but not all former child stars head down that ugly path. The Frisky rounds up 10 who managed to keep it together"
- chaz2b
from Bookmarklet
Neck tattoos are just so disgusting. :(
- Rochelle
D's got sleeves?!?! TROUBLE! I like the Band of Horses frontman and he has neck tattoos. Looks good on him. And my friend has a neck tattoo - barcode of his favorite book Nietzsche..and he's hot...
- Anna Lynn M.
I only have like a sleeve and a half...maybe three quarters.
- Derrick
Is fully sleeved + chest + full backpiece, with tattoos behind my ears (one creeps down to visibility on my neck). I r not disgusting :(
- Archangel ωαřмaiden
I have sleeves, chest work, and a few 'hidden' tattoos. I'm the man your mother warned you about though.
- Sparky
from iPhone
Sorry Archangel and Sparky, I was agreeing when referencing child actors.
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Is okay. I compensate by looking healthy & agreeable and not like a meth head ;)
- Archangel ωαřмaiden
Sparky, hidden where?! I've seen you, uh, nude, and never noticed any in suspicious places.
- Rochelle
Rochelle - you clearly didn't look close enough ;)
- Sparky
Another good example is Elijah Wood who got into acting when he was 8 or so. And, on that same tip, Sean Astin who got into it at 10.
- Akiva Moskovitz
And tis the season to acknowledge Peter Billingsley, irresponsible handler of the Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle and executive producer of Dinner for Five among other things Hollywoodish.
- Christopher Harley
His grin is exactly the same now as it was when he was a kid. It's really weird to see.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Once again, I made the mistake of being the first poster on a "it's my birthday!" Facebook status update and I'm paying the price. PS Facebook: just because I "like" something doesn't mean I want to be a part of the conversation that follows.
I am slowly learning not to click like in FB.
- Mike Nencetti
Well the paradox is, I actually do want email notifications for some things. But usually not on ones I "like".
- Paul Reynolds
And then there's the Happy Birthday thing. I wished there was a little link that appeared beside the Delete link in my comment that would let me not get notifications for that thread. Maybe "Mute"?
- Paul Reynolds
Under the notification settings, you can turn off email notifications for things that you just "like". It's really fine-grained control, actually. All it's missing is the ability to toggle updates on or off for a particular item.
- James (@willia4)
I saw the bajillion notification settings, but nothing pertaining to like?
- Paul Reynolds
"The country’s business schools tended to reflect and reinforce these trends. By the late 1970s, top business schools began admitting much higher-caliber students than they had in previous decades. This might seem like a good thing. The problem is that these students tended to be overachiever types motivated primarily by salary rather than some lifelong ambition to run a steel mill. And there was a lot more money to be made in finance than manufacturing. A recent paper by economists Thomas Philippon and Ariell Reshef shows that compensation in the finance sector began a sharp, upward trajectory around 1980."
- Shevonne
from Bookmarklet
I thought it was because we have priced ourselves out of the labour market. It's hard to make money manufacturing when there's someone in another country that is willing to work for 50 cents an hour, versus $12 an hour plus benefits.
- FF's Bubba of Arizona
I think I'm old enough that if I don't really get it, she must be doing something right.
- s t e v e
She plays the hell outta that piano, writes her own music, and seems to know how to manage her image. Sounds like star material to me.
- Christopher Harley
Poker Face and Paparazzi are good songs.
- Mike Nayyar
Mike check out the lyrics to pokerface...See if it's still a good song....
- Rasmus Lauridsen
Confession: I *love* her taste in wardrobe. There, I said it. I'm not sure what that means about me, but you are welcome to sexually harass me about it.
- Wirehead
I heard several parodies before I ever heard her sing one of her songs. I still don't think I've heard her sing an entire song of hers. I have zero interest.
- MarkCarras
Know what's sad? Her whole stage show is brilliantly Bowie - her songs are typical early 00s pop garbage. IMHO.
- Ciaoenrico
I did listen to some weird song with weird clothes, can't remember the name. Then I realized it could be every song. :P
- Faraz Mullick
If she made the kind of music she made as Stephanie Germanotta, I'd buy her albums in a heartbeat. If she makes what she is making, she'll become a star but I would not listen to her music.
- Parth Awasthi
I'm going make a bold prediction... now that she's getting her name out there with outrageous costumes and performances, she'll soon (within a year or two, anyway) come out with a "serious, artistic album" that showcases her underlying talent, without (much of) the showbiz glam stuff. I didn't care for Cristina Aguilera until she released her bluesy album and demonstrated what a awesome singing voice she really has. (Of course, now when she sees this she'll change her plan out of spite. ;oP)
- Mark "DerBingle" J
Frankly, FriendFeed, I'd feel comfortably inviting 80% of you to my wedding (if I were getting married, duh) then any of the random chuckleheads I know from high school or real life or something.
Beautiful! Fantastic costume! Did your wife, Johnny, make the costume? (For a moment I confused you with Josh) Sorry! ;) Is she going to be in a ballet?
- Melanie Reed
We got it at our local department store. We had out annual Xmas carols on the weekend and this is what she wore
- Johnny Worthington
That is so great about the Christmas carols! And you have some department store: haven't seen anything as nice for little girls here. :)
- Melanie Reed
She is so adorable... I'm back in my `I want a daughter, I must be a father` thoughts... :)
- meric| zalambOdOnt |kara
Always in my"'want to be mother" thoughts. This is just an encouragement. ;)
- Melanie Reed
Echo's arch has taking the classic Greek heroes myth path
- RAPatton
from iPhone
The last 6 hours of Dollhouse has been very high quality; excited to see what the final three episodes bring
- RAPatton
from iPhone
Yup. Clearly they're seriously condensing the season. they didn't plan to double-up episodes for the last three weeks and last Friday's should have run in January. 3 more episodes! Ack! I hope they don't kill of Anya!
- Kevin Fox
Lindsay has been reading this for a while. I picked it up a week ago or so and just finished the first volume. This is some seriously f'ed up stuff. Dang. If you like Dexter, you might like this - it's about 100 times freakier and darker though...
- Chrimmus Tad
from Bookmarklet
It's also confusing as hell. Beautiful art work and very compelling story though. Would totally recommend it. I'll be reading the rest of it.
- Chrimmus Tad
Oh - if you're interested in reading the series, DO NOT read the Wiki article. Sorry - I just noticed there are tons of spoilers in it.
- Chrimmus Tad
The controversy is that the tweet was time stamped before the 911 call, not that someone tweeted during a tragedy or used twitter to update online friends of the accident and asking for prayers. (Or at least that's the part that concerns me about this whole situation that's escalated WAY OUT OF CONTROL.)
- Trish R
That's not how I read it here, Trish: http://www.inquisitr.com/52731... I read it that she was tweeting random crap, then her son fell in the pool, then the 911 call, then the "pray for us" tweet. My kids are in the other room right now and some horrible accident could be happening to them while I type stuff on FF.
- s t e v e
I'm not sure I agree with what this tweet is saying. Let me read about the whole thing and then I'll get back to you guys... EDIT: OK, no, I don't totally agree with this tweet and a lot of this defense for the mother. Like Trish said, the timing is the problem here: "No one but Ross knows what happened between her tweet at 5:22 and the 911 call at 5:38."
- Kamilah Gill
Wait, I made a small mistake... I guess she *did* tweet after calling. Still...
- Kamilah Gill
By age four I was spending hours roaming the woods with my twin sister only sometimes with an aunt five years older. Hours between meals we were not seen. Child services would be called on my mother today for that, yet /every/ family in school I knew growing up raised their kids the same then. As for the tweet, in emergency situations, you act on with what you know and often people don't act at all. She spent 3 seconds to ask for prayer, something she could "do" while help was yet minutes away.
- Michael W. May
Yup, that's how I see it too, Michael.
- s t e v e
All I can say is, if it were me, Twitter would not enter anywhere into the equation in a situation like this. But everyone is different.
- Kamilah Gill
Yeah, I think that was Matt's point. Everyone is different, but for many people, Twitter is an important way to keep people informed.
- s t e v e
The time stamp is not a "small mistake", IMO - it's key to the story. This poor woman is being raked through the coals for something lots of parents do every day - talk to people on the internet while their kids are off doing something else. I look at her reaction the same way I'd look at the reaction of someone who picked up the phone to call a loved one immediately following a family emergency - she was reaching out to inform and to gather support.
- cecily
And I think Matt has a point here. I do think women are judged more harshly.
- cecily
I think a father would be questioned just about as much in a situation like this, though of course I can't prove it. The "small mistake" was a comment I made in error and then deleted. Tweeting publicly is different from privately informing friends and family on the phone or by texting.
- Kamilah Gill
All my closest friends are on friendfeed. If something terrible happened to me, and I had an open net connection and was sitting waiting to find out just how terrible it was, I would probably post here. If I believed in the power of prayer, I would *certainly* post here.
- s t e v e
Oh women are definitely judged more harshly. Man leaves child in car, child dies, it's a terrible mistake. Meanwhile the women who do the same thing have served jail time for involuntary manslaughter and get slapped with child endangerment/negligence.
- Admiral Anika
I'm also thinking that between the 5:22 post and the 5:38 pm 911 call, she probably tried CPR, or some other means to rouse her kid. Finding that her efforts weren't working, she decided to call the authorities. I just wish people would be more kind in situations like these, instead of looking to burn the monster at the stake, so to speak. Nobody knows how we'd react in a situation like...
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- cecily
My close friends are here on FF too, but I'm fairly circumspect when it comes to sharing very personal news, good or bad. I waited to announce my engagement until after I'd told my family. If anyone very close to me were to die, public FF & Twitter would be one of the last places that knew about it, and I'd be extremely careful about sharing the news. I wanted to post my wedding dress here, but my mom and fiance told me it would be bad form, so I didn't.
- Kamilah Gill
Kamillah, that's why I like Matt's post. I'd hope it can make people who think like you understand better people who think like me.
- s t e v e
I don't find the tweet to be especially helpful. Posting about one's own cancer is obviously different from posting about one's child getting into an accident. I think gender is not so much the problem here. It's more about the fact that Twitter was used such a short time before and after the incident. On further reflection, I don't think that it's especially significant that she...
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- Kamilah Gill
Not the tweet, the post to Matt's blog.
- s t e v e
I'm sorry, I thought you meant the tweet when you said post. I'll read it now and modify what I said if necessary.
- Kamilah Gill
I think this thread's just as fascinating as Matt's analysis (which I like, a lot). Because here's Kamilah, who's clearly a user of these services, who has the same mindset of them being "inappropriate" for certain uses... but *I* would have posted my wedding dress, and my engagement, if I'd been using Twitter and FF at that time. I recently Tweeted about my divorce so it'd spawn into...
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- Jenica
Okay, here's one important main piece of new information I took away after reading that post and the comments: "There was one person, however, who within minutes of the story breaking began a crusade to "verify" and later vilify the mom in the original story. Most if not all of this has been pushed to the forefront by her actions, which I feel to be heartless and cruel. She began with...
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- Kamilah Gill
not disagreeing that women are judged more harshly but there is obviously a difference between tweeting about your own cancer and the mom situation. Maybe if he had tweeted, "too lazy to put the pool cover on" and then an hour later "oh no son drowned in pool" it would be similar.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
I think the similarity lies in the fact that both people used Twitter because they needed to contact a large group of people rapidly, or because they wanted to reach out to their circle of friends and family in an easy and fast way. It IS similar, if you look at it from that angle.
- Jenica
Kamilah, I certainly didn't think you were on the side of the crusading blogger. I respect that you wouldn't use social media at a time like that, and I hope through this discussion, maybe you respect people would would choose to do so.
- s t e v e
Jenica I don't think so, what would people have said if he had died? He was in the hospital getting treated. She was in the hospital while her son was treated, but the problem most people seem to have w her is not actually the request for prayer but that she posted so much before the accident, it's completely different.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
Also in general if you are the cause of your own death, people will just say Darwin and move on. So if a man who twittered 80 times a day got in a car accident and died (bc of twitter), no one would care. But if he had his son in the car when it happened there would be outrage.
- Andrizzle Gizzle
I do respect people's choices to use social media in general, I just think it's important to keep in mind how public some social media formats are. Twitter specifically is generally too public in my opinion, but that's just my opinion. I guess it would better all around in this case if she had been able to tailor who could and could not see her update. A Facebook update would have been better suited. She just happens to be a Twitter user...
- Kamilah Gill
Sorry, Andrizzle, but I disagree. As I read it, it's two people reaching out, using the internet as a tool, during their daily life and during a time of personal crisis. The rest of the reaction about the mother is, in my opinion, judgemental bullshit. This kind of reaction is only justified if you believe that a parent should be watching their child 24 hours a day, 60 minutes of every...
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- Jenica
She's a pretty popular mommy blogger (I gather), and had more than 5,000 people following her tweets. I'm guessing the people who follow her on Twitter can also consider themselves part of her blog audience. So rather than writing a blog post, she probably sent out a quick message in the most direct way possible.
- cecily
See, for me a Facebook update would do exactly jack shit in a similar situation. It would take hours or days for my friends to see it.
- s t e v e
Right, Steve -- I'd tweet it, because it'd spawn to enough places that way that everyone'd see it. Because we all use the internet differently, because it's a very versatile tool used by very different people.
- Jenica
I also wonder to what degree the reaction is part of an "internet is bad" dogpile... what if she'd been watching another child, or doing the laundry when it happened?
- cecily
Yes, thank you Jenica. I think people are scared when they hear this stuff and look for a way to say "I'd never do that!" Also the idea that Twitter in general is frivolous makes people feel even more superior about all this.
- s t e v e
When I was in the hospital for knee surgery, I tweeted up until the last minute they moved me down the hall to the OR. I didn't expect anything to go wrong, but you never know. If I had died, I wonder if anyone would've chastised me. Hm..
- cecily
Just to toss something different out what would have happened if she tweeted she fucked up? Would we be discussing this?
- Sir Shuping
and for the record no, i don't think she messed up. I get why she tweeted and I think the whole jumping on her for doing so is absolute bullshit
- Sir Shuping
I'd still be sympathetic to her, Sir Shuping. She just lost a child. Maybe there is an appropriate time and place for pointing fingers, but I just don't know when that is.
- cecily
I don't think that her own sense of culpability is relevant, personally -- tragedy happens. But I think that the world at large would still be doing this, possibly even worse, because they could gleefully say "She was wrong and she admits it!!!!", which lets the judgers judge, and gives those who are frightened by these events a way to say, "Ok, then, I won't do the wrong thing that she did, and my family will be safer." Not much different than now, I think.
- Jenica
And it's not like she was sitting in a darkened room, oblivious, surrounded by empty cans of red bull and empty hot pocket sleeves, typing away while her kid was drowning. She was actually OUTSIDE! The whole family was outside cleaning the freakin' chicken coop! "According to Public Information Officer Lt. Bruce Barnett, the mother and older son had been cleaning out a chicken coop...
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- (dot)lizard kelly
Red Bull and Hot Pocket sleeves? Kelly, you promised you'd never tell anyone about my place!
- cecily
A few years ago I passed out on my kitchen floor and split my head. The wound ended up needing 8 staples to close. My daughter rode with me in the ambulance to the hospital and I told her on the way, that as soon as her dad got to the hospital to go back home, get on my computer, use the IRC client I had open, and tell everyone in a particular channel what happened, and that I would be ok. I am very close to a lot of people in that channel and consider them part of my family. Was I wrong too?
- April Russo (app103)
April, no, I don't think that was wrong. That type of announcement was closer to something like a mass email to a list and was not nearly as public as Twitter is. I think that's the problem here. She has exposed herself to our judgments, positive and negative, because Twitter is so wide-open and public. I think that's one of the sources of the problem here. We were not the intended recipients of this terrible news, but here we are all seeing it and analyzing it to death.
- Kamilah Gill
There are different publics, as danah boyd is fond of saying. Every person's definition of what is public differs from the next. If it's an open IRC channel that anyone with an IRC client and the name of the network could join, I don't see how that's really any different from someone happening across Twitter and seeing a post. What I'm sensing is that the medium is what's really a...
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- cecily
Thanks, all, for the interesting and restrained discussion, which I am now calling closed.
- s t e v e
"If you don't have enough evidence to charge someone criminally but you think he's illegal, we can make him disappear." Those chilling words were spoken by James Pendergraph, then executive director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Office of State and Local Coordination, at a conference of police and sheriffs in August 2008. Also present was Amnesty International's Sarnata Reynolds, who wrote about the incident in the 2009 report "Jailed Without Justice" and said in an interview, "It was almost surreal being there, particularly being someone from an organization that has worked on disappearances for decades in other countries. I couldn't believe he would say it so boldly, as though it weren't anything wrong."
- LogEx
from Bookmarklet
We sold our collective soul in an an orgy of post 911 hatred and fear and I don't know if we'll ever ever get over our cowardice to restore our constitution
- WarLord
I am afraid that I agree with Warlord's comment. We live in fear these days.
- Mathew A. Koeneker