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      09-08-2021, 02:46 PM   #111
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FaceCrook marketplace?
You can buy stuff off of there now?????
People actually enter credit card details and buy something on FaceCrook?
I think that they operate it sorta like Craigslist, but can't tell you a thing about it since every device that I own has every one of their IP networks and CDN blocked so that my info never leaks to them.

It seemed like a quarter of the cases on Judge Judy as the series ended were for FleeceBook Marketplace purchases gone bad. Those same cases used to be Craigslist deals for years before that.

On a positive note, our 11 year-old OCD psycho weather dog indirectly came into our lives as a result of PuppyScam, er, I mean PuppyFinder.com. A friend was looking for a Westie puppy, to replace his elderly dog that had just moved on. EVERY puppy that he inquired about on that site turned out to be located in Africa, where the "owner" had to travel for emergency missionary work...bringing a 6-8 week old puppy that you had to send $$$ to ship back home. My DW went onto eBay's Marketplace, and found them a legitimate puppy with cash payment in person after meeting the puppy. Long story short, a second puppy from that litter followed my DW home a day later, and he visits his sister frequently.

Christmas Eve on the beach at Jekyll Island a few years ago.....




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FaceCrook marketplace?
You can buy stuff off of there now?????
People actually enter credit card details and buy something on FaceCrook?
I think that they operate it sorta like Craigslist, but can't tell you a thing about it since every device that I own has every one of their IP networks and CDN blocked so that my info never leaks to them.

It seemed like a quarter of the cases on Judge Judy as the series ended were for FleeceBook Marketplace purchases gone bad. Those same cases used to be Craigslist deals for years before that.

On a positive note, our 11 year-old OCD psycho weather dog indirectly came into our lives as a result of PuppyScam, er, I mean PuppyFinder.com. A friend was looking for a Westie puppy, to replace his elderly dog that had just moved on. EVERY puppy that he inquired about on that site turned out to be located in Africa, where the "owner" had to travel for emergency missionary work...bringing a 6-8 week old puppy that you had to send $$$ to ship back home. My DW went onto eBay's Marketplace, and found them a legitimate puppy with cash payment in person after meeting the puppy. Long story short, a second puppy from that litter followed my DW home a day later, and he visits his sister frequently.

Christmas Eve on the beach at Jekyll Island a few years ago.....




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^^^^^ ROTFLMAO @ MuphRy's (sic) Law!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ^^^^^
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Amen, luckily the ignore ftn is a godsend, like my most recent exchange online; invariably there are pricks who just come outta the woodwork because they simply lack tact, manners and common decency.

Like I said earlier, social media is great to get any information you want at your fingertips, but sometimes having to deal w rude and toxic ppl because they think they're safe being relatively anon is super annoying and dulls the online experience.
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People nowadays especially youngsters are looking for validation and acceptance through likes and views on social media. So I guess the best we can do is just be kind to one another. and learn to ignore the mean comments fired at us for no reason.
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      10-28-2021, 03:05 AM   #120
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Bane.Not a member of any social media,I prefer to have a life.
Ditto.
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      10-28-2021, 04:03 PM   #121
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People nowadays especially youngsters are looking for validation and acceptance through likes and views on social media. So I guess the best we can do is just be kind to one another. and learn to ignore the mean comments fired at us for no reason.
Yup, too many social media/internet zombies. Brainwashed and heavily-influenced into doing/believing whatever the overclass via MSM wants them to do/think.
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Bane.Not a member of any social media,I prefer to have a life.
Same here. Never had it, never will. Facebutt, Twatter, etc., do more damage than good. If you have it, do yourself a favor and shit-can it.
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Exactly.

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So I send a couple of Lady Jane's images to my son that I thought were funny.

I get this...
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So I send a couple of Lady Jane's images to my son that I thought were funny.

I get this...
Should post that in the "you know you're getting old" thread instead.
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A poem from 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' by Roald Dahl
November 29, 1996

By ROALD DAHL

The most important thing we've learned,

So far as children are concerned,

Is never, never, NEVER let

them near your television set --

Or better still, just don't install

The idiotic thing at all.

In almost every house we've been,

We've watched them gaping at the screen.

They loll and slop and lounge about,

And stare until their eyes pop out.

(Last week in someone's place we saw

A dozen eyeballs on the floor.)

They sit and stare and stare and sit

Until they're hypnotized by it,

Until they're absolutely drunk

With all that shocking ghastly junk.

Oh yes, we know it keeps them still,

They don't climb out the windowsill,

They never fight or kick or punch,

They leave you free to cook the lunch

And wash the dishes in the sink --

But did you ever stop to think,

To wonder just exactly what

This does to your beloved tot?

IT ROTS THE SENSES IN THE HEAD!

IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD!

IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND!

IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND

HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND

A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND!

HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE!

HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE!

HE CANNOT THINK -- HE ONLY SEES!

"All right!" you'll cry. "All right!" you'll say,

"but if we take the set away,

What shall we do to entertain

Our darling children? Please explain!"

We'll answer this by asking you,

"What used the darling ones to do?

"How used they keep themselves contented

Before this monster was invented?"

Have you forgotten? Don't you know?

We'll say it very loud and slow:

THEY . . . USED . . . TO . . . READ! THEY'D READ and READ,

AND READ some more. Great Scott! Gadzooks!

One half their lives was reading books!

The nursery shelves held books galore!

Books cluttered up the nursery floor!

And in the bedroom, by the bed,

More books were waiting to be read!

Such wondrous, fine, fantastic tales

Of dragons, gypsies, queens and whales

And treasure isles and distant shores

Where smugglers rowed with muffled oars,

And pirates wearing purple pants,

And sailing ships and elephants,

And cannibals crouching 'round the pot,

Stirring away at something hot.

(It smells so good, what can it be?

Good gracious, it's Penelope.)

The younger ones had Beatrix Potter

With Mr. Tod, the dirty rotter,

And Squirrel Nutkin, Pigling Bland,

And Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle and --

Just How The Camel Got His Hump,

And How The Monkey Lost His Rump,

And Mr. Toad, and bless my soul,

There's Mr. Rat and Mr. Mole --

Oh, books, what books they used to know,

Those children living long ago!

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,

Go throw your TV set away,

And in its place you can install

A lovely bookshelf on the wall.

Then fill the shelves with lots of books,

Ignoring all the dirty looks,

The screams and yells, the bites and kicks,

And children hitting you with sticks --

Fear not, because we promise you

That, in about a week or two

Of having nothing else to do,

They'll now begin to feel the need

Of having something good to read.

And once they start -- oh boy, oh boy!

You watch the slowly growing joy

That fills their hearts. They'll grow so keen

They'll wonder what they'd ever seen

In that ridiculous machine,

That nauseating, foul, unclean,

Repulsive television screen!

And later, each and every kid

Will love you more for what you did.
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It breaks my heart when I hear stories about tweenies committing suicide because of on-line bullying. It affects a lot of adults as well.

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Yup, too many social media/internet zombies. Brainwashed and heavily-influenced into doing/believing whatever the overclass via MSM wants them to do/think.
Complains about social media and MSM, links to a Joe Rogan spot. lol

Anyway, social media is a net negative it seems. Mostly because people are bad at filtering information and now any idiot can reach massive audiences.

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