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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by TheSecondStain, Feb 11, 2014.

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  1. PompeyLapras

    PompeyLapras Well-Known Member

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    Am I the only one who thinks writing a blog when you go travelling and then posting it on your Facebook page every time you write an entry is a bit narcissistic?
     
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  2. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    Isn't this the sort of thing Facebook is for..? It's to say that you lead a thoroughly exciting life and you prove it by broadcasting it to all and sundry. If the person had any class they'd do what Stevenson did and walk behind a donkey for 12 days and then write a travel book about it. Mind you, Travels with a Donkey [in the Cévennes] is worth reading.
     
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  3. PompeyLapras

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    Think it's quite pathetic really. It's like you want everyone to know how amazing you are and how you do all these exciting things, but the reason I go travelling is not to make other people jealous or think how amazing I am, but just to experience new places and cultures.... but for some people it seems to be more about the former. Sure, write a blog if you like, but share it privately with your close friends rather than showing it off to your entire newsfeed.

    Admittedly I did check in a few times in Belgium, but that's mostly so I could add it to my map! And checking in is somewhat more subtle.
     
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  4. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    Just had to pop out to the car as I'd left the S2 in it. Looked up at the night sky. Almost totally clear and still. Moon and stars shining with barely a twinkle.

    What bad weather..?
     
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    Is it pathetic? Really?

    Doesn't that make you a hypocrite?
     
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    Just been watching the odd video on Youtube about LENR. I promised a bit of stuff on it, so this might be of interest. These people are not heretics:
    [video=youtube_share;wVK46T6udR8]http://youtu.be/wVK46T6udR8[/video]
    [video=youtube_share;mxeKeuh_2Bw]http://youtu.be/mxeKeuh_2Bw[/video]
    I'll see if I can come up with the odd scientific paper later.
     
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  7. fran-MLs little camera

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    A friend was hiking in thick fog but felt safe edging along holding on to a fence that she came across...fog suddenly lifted and she realised she was the wrong side of the fence and was walking the edge of a cliff. Never happens in dear old Newport.
     
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  8. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    I bet that was a shock.
     
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    In the Alps, I sat down on a log. After a while I looked down and realised there was only space under my feet as the log was sticking out over a mountain. Luckily I weighed considerable less that I do now :)
     
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  10. PompeyLapras

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    Well maybe pathetic is a bit too harsh but it's something.

    No because my intention for checking in wasn't to make people feel jealous or think how awesome I am (although I am :p), but so it would add them to my places map on Facebook. Plus, like I said, checking in somewhere is relatively subtle and people can easily miss them or scroll past them in their news feed, and I have no qualms with that (as long as you don't check in every five minutes), while posting blog entries on your public newsfeed is making much more of a song and dance about it.
     
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    Remembering your friend who was walking along a clifftop; about 30 odd years ago, I was deliberately walking the other side of a safety fence becuse I wanted to get a close view of a rock formation. All of a sudden the ground gave way and my leg disappeared upto my hip. I was about 20-30 feet away from the cliff edge, but I'd found a crack in the surface, that would eventually allow that part of the cliff top to fall away. I got up and very quickly lost interest in the rock formation. :)
     
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    So going on holiday, writing a blog about it and posting it on Facebook is narcissistic...yet going on holiday and checking in there just so it adds it to your places is fine?

    Suit yourself.
     
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  14. fran-MLs little camera

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    Can I just say that posting about holidays sounds fine to me. I hate round robins at Xmas because everyone seems to have a more exciting life than me...but I try to remember that it is my choice to have a ordinary life...I don't really want to yomp the Andes so shouldn't be jealous of others that do.
     
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  15. fatletiss

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    no.
     
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    Do you go round saying you are 17 tho?
     
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    er, no
     
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    I just can't see him being 17. He looks far too old.
     
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