Cortese's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

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PompeyLapras said:
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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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.
 
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.
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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.
 
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.
 
TheSecondStain said:
Ooh Dear..!

I was stuck overnight on the top of Ben Fell, in the Lake District, once, when I used to do a bit of fell walking. Jeez, that was cold, and it wasn't even winter. I have since been colder, but there is a singular feeling of cold dread when you can't put one foot in front of the other for fear of going over the edge of some precipice.
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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.
 
Is it pathetic? Really?
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Well maybe pathetic is a bit too harsh but it's something.

Doesn't that make you a hypocrite?
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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.
 
fran-MLs little camera said:
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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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. :)
 
PompeyLapras said:
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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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.
 
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.
 
fran-MLs little camera said:
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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no.
 
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