Amusing Picture Roundup

[andrewducker]

via Nicky over on FB.


via Padmini also on FB.


via Neil also, also over on FB


via Dr Jon, also, also, also over on FB.

Anyone remember when people shared things with the world, rather than just their friends?

Comments

[matgb]

It would appear FB has messed up my setting again, my shares are supposed to be public, not friends. But, y'know, clicking share is silly easy over there, it's the only effort I can be bothered with currently.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

That's a bunch of good stuff. Thanks.

How feasible was it for most people to share things with the world? It's always a communications channel with a limited audience, and it isn't feasible for the vast majority of people to pay attention to the vast majority of stuff.

[andrewducker]

True - but there's a difference between sharing it on a channel that's locked down, and one that theoretically anyone with access to the internet can read if they choose to.

I've met friends on LJ, I've never done that on FB, because it doesn't work that way.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

I noticed people I know but haven't friended on FB when they post comments. Admittedly, both they and I needed to be on FB, and that's a sort of constraint that LJ and usenet don't have.

[alextfish.livejournal.com]

I've done 4 a few times, including once or twice when nobody in the lift knows me. It is indeed fun ^.^

[skx.livejournal.com]

3.5. After handing out the lemons chase the recipient(s) shouting:

* Lemon stealing whore!

[widgetfox.livejournal.com]

I adore the private investigator one.

[simont]

Oh, I dunno. Any fool can get two people to follow each other. For proper style, you have to confuse a single person into following himself.

[pennski.livejournal.com]

How did I miss that the first time round? That's wonderful.

[chess]

No; it's just that access used to be limited by knowing where to find the posts, rather than logging into a site. (Were they actually posting non-publicly, even? You can post to 'world' on facebook...)

[pennski.livejournal.com]

Also "There's no such thing as a psychic pig!"

[andrewducker]

I'm confused!

[pennski.livejournal.com]

It was Victoria Coren on "Have I Got News For You" and for some reason just resonated with the QI link.

[andrewducker]

Aaah, gotcha!

(Not seen HIGNFY in an age)

[pennski.livejournal.com]

Nor had we. It was one of the random "sky plus recording has finished - oh look, it's Victoria Coren being entertaining" moments.

[andrewducker]

That is one of the things I miss about largely watching downloaded TV - I rarely end up happening across things.

Although I happen across oodles of stuff on the internet instead, so I guess it's still happening!

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure that last one is shopped. The T. Rex - like all sauropods - has always used Heckler & Koch submachine guns exclusively, and that looks like an Uzi to me.

[andrewducker]

*applause*

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

I was going to point out that it has to be 'shopped -- they clearly removed Jesus riding the T. Rex, probably so as not to offend more delicate religious sensibilities

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

People who think Jesus had that very specific level of awesomeness just above "being God" and just below "riding a T-Rex riding a Shark"... :)

[skreidle.livejournal.com]

Precisely!

[sttatus-quo.livejournal.com]

My skin's not thick enough to share my opinions with the world. Maybe that's not very brave but it is much better for my blood pressure.

[andrewducker]

I can understand that. Some people out there get downright tetchy.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

I remember when people thought they were sharing things with the world, but only a handful of friends actually saw.

It is funny how insular FB encourages people to be though.

[mair_in_grenderich]

No... I remember when people shared things by sending massive email forwards to their entire address book. I think I prefer facebook.

[andrewducker]

The main people that used to do that for me was elderly relatives, who _still_ do it.

The rest of us used mailing lists :->

[apostle-of-eris.livejournal.com]

*L*O*V*E* that first photo.

#6 -- recently saw a post (somewhere) from a guy who'd made a shiny future-suit; ran into a bar, asked what year it was, shouted "Dammit!" and ran out; he was about to go back on the same date to ask again, shout "It worked!" and run out.

#9 -- One of the bits of irrelevant filler in Illuminatus! was the self-destruct mynah birds. Someone trained mynah birds to say, "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty!" and turned them loose in Washington Square Park.

[reverancepavane.livejournal.com]

Cool. Done 1,4,6, and 9 and I didn't even know there was a list!