Recent comments on currybetdotnet

"I'd almost forgotten what it was like to have a thread where real people that I actually know really discuss the thing I've written."

If you want to sit around with people you know try sitting around a campfire with your parents, the internet is for those who like meeting new people.

As for the "dofollow" spam, you should know you are listed at or near the top of multiple dofollow lists floating around out there. Get your name removed from them and you will solve all your problems and go back to happy land where you don't have to meet new people. Simply Google High PR dofollow blogs or something of the sort, and you will be in every article on page 1. Just a heads up "mate"....

what was the law before the age of consent? what did 16year old looklike then? i remember seeing a 16 y.o girl as the centerfold in penthouse magazine, in full school uniform! how does that make make me anything other than a horney trucker then but now i would be a pedo!

Twitter is like that in a way, much like the mutation of news reporting both online and on television. A reporter might give certain content back to his editor, by the time it gets published it says something totally different, then people read it and take what they want from it, and those people mutate the information yet again on to the their friends. People just have a sense of possession on information, even if they didn't find it, they want to "own" it in a way.

I used to work at Walthamstow Bus Garage as a bus driver.
First in 1968 till 1971 at which time I was promoted to Bus Inspector which I did for about 3 years before leaving the buses all together.
I returned to Walthamstow Garage as a bus driver in the late 1970s and worked their untill it closed in 1991 at which time I was transfered to Palmers Green Garage.
I was the TGWU Union Rep at the time that Walthamstow Garage closed.
Your photos of the garage brought back some nice memories.
Kind regards.
Lucien Hoebeeck.

I trusted Chris (@qwghlm), Alistair (@duckorange) and yourself enough not to click through - knowing that if I did I'd be confronted with a page of hate.

I suppose if I were enough of a social media wanker I'd go on about it being a great example of the power of a standalone tweet, news from trusted people and all that.

I retweeted your tweet sans link (though can't remember if it arrived to me already without the link via another retweet). Thought nothing of it, other than to say the original tweet said everything that needed to be said given it seemed to quote the original comment at length. Didn't occur to me to look for the original link either, as I took it on trust ... which is kind of the point of Twitter for me - news from trusted sources.

If it is the character conventions, then retweeting everyone who retweets it before you is just stupid. I always retweet the originator and whoever I saw retweet (thats a lot of uses of the word retweet).

I am sure those in between won't lose sleep over silly 'twetiquette'....

I was curious and had a look for the original comment (around 9pm last night). I found it by clicking on the "worst rated" tab, and sure enough it was there at number 2. This morning it looks like the Mail has disabled comments on that story altogether.

I'm not surprised the link fell off on the retweeted versions. People retweet this sort of thing because it reinforces their prejudices about Mail readers, and they retweet it to like-minded people in order to reinforce such prejudices.

So in that sense the "evidence" becomes irrelevant, or of secondary importance. Think how many people saw the link and assumed the quote was accurate simply because a link had been provided. I only clicked on the link when I wanted to pass the quote on to someone else, and thought I'd better double check (having worked as a journalist I'm aware of how easy it is to be stung by this sort of thing).

It's an education, education, education.