Twitter

[Magic]

Is ten years old today. I signed up in Jan 2012, I really don't remember it being around before at least 2010? Maybe that's because I was a late adopter of smartphones (got my first in 2011 lol). It's fucking brilliant though. Use it daily. At it's best when something serious kicks off and you can get proper on the ground explicit footage of stuff the news don't and won't show. Or FOOTIE RUMOURS.

When did you lot sign up, and if you haven't yet, you're a freak (but why not?).

[phonics]

My original account is April 2009 but I've had to change off of it so it looks like I'm a pleb.

[Giggles]

How do you see the join date?

[phonics]

twitter.com/yourusername

[Giggles]

Ah right, cheers. I don't think I've seen Twitter in a browser in around 3 years, I'll have a look.

EDIT: August 2008. A long time considering my total tweets are in the low 20's.

[Lewis]

I joined in May last year. Tweets 0 Following 125 Followers 4

:cool:

[Pepe]

Still haven't joined and I don't plan to.

[Disco]

Tried it probably six or seven years ago. Found it utterly redundant. Stopped using it.

[Giggles]

Can't see the point in tweeting anything but it's a great news feed. It replaced TTH as my morning newspaper.

[Baz]

I think I must have used it wrong because it was never useful for me. I think I just don't care enough about anything to want to read about it.

Like I can click on the weekend football threads on here and see what games are on, if the first post is good. And I can click on hiphopearly and see what songs have come out lately, and that's all my interests ticked off and read about in two easy clicks; no Twitter required.

What a sad life I live.

[Pepe]

I did lol a bit at Rand Paul's tweets once.

[Giggles]

I think I must have used it wrong because it was never useful for me. I think I just don't care enough about anything to want to read about it.

Like I can click on the weekend football threads on here and see what games are on, if the first post is good. And I can click on hiphopearly and see what songs have come out lately, and that's all my interests ticked off and read about in two easy clicks; no Twitter required.

What a sad life I live.

Well yes if there's only two things you want to know about then there's no purpose to it.

[Baz]

What/who do you lot follow on Twitter to make your feed(?) a good read?

Things I'd like to be alerted about daily:
Football transfers in the premier league
If there are any new ISIS videos
What new rap songs/albums are worth listening to
If there's any beef between UK rappers
What films are out that week
If any of the regular Radio 1xtra DJs are off
What's going on in the world of feminism

[Jeet]

Twitter? Never heard of it.

[Giggles]

What/who do you lot follow on Twitter to make your feed(?) a good read?

Very little that constitutes a good read, but I subscribe to news, weather, traffic, sport, etc accounts and a quick scroll down through tells me all I need to know for the morning.

There's a few tech and other things I'm interested in (that wouldn't be 'news') that I subscribe to but, with the way it's very easy to miss stuff in Twitter, I'll always check out those things by other means anyway.

[Mike]

I'm a big Twitter fan. Signed up in 2008 and haven't looked back

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

It's certainly an eye opener as to how many easily offended folk there are.

[Dark Soldier]

Twitter is great as long as you only follow people/interests you give a shit about.

1,526 tweets purely about jungle/drum and bass, and gaming :drool:

[leedsrevolution]

I'm not really into social media at all. I have a facebook and until this weekend hadn't posted a status in over a year (I think) - I have a twitter that I created once to try and book Wagner for a party and that's it.

[Kikó]

January 09 , 6 years after joining TD. 6.3k tweets,620 following, 319 followers. It's great for a rant during the football or when something interesting is going on.

[CJay]

Twitter + Pocket is a great combo when taking a quick break at work. Trawl through your recent tweets, save any articles you want to read, read them over lunch / when you get home. Assuming you have the data for it / are on wifi.

[Giggles]

Twitter + Pocket is a great combo when taking a quick break at work. Trawl through your recent tweets, save any articles you want to read, read them over lunch / when you get home. Assuming you have the data for it / are on wifi.

Pocket is such a brilliant thing.

[Davgooner]

Only follow and like others use it as a news feed. Bit miffed Michael Cox deleted his football journalists list last week.

[Magic]

@robdelaney - worth a follow, posts some good immature shit and very active.

@natgeo - some cool shit posted on here

@nasa - as above

@tsbible - good for Vines and nothing more

@jihadistjoe - Jihadi baiter

@greenscreendays - posts shit about games from the good ol' days

@causticbob - posts offensive jokes

@prodnose - Danny Baker's account

@jeremyclarkson - yeah

Any of the usual breaking news stuff, local news is hilariously great, Sky Sports etc. A lot of the other stuff is specific to me, i.e LUFC accounts and fans, bikes, cars, drums etc

[Giggles]

Never knew you played the drums Magic. Well, I'm presuming you do.

[GS]

Only follow and like others use it as a news feed.

This is it. It's incredibly useful as a news source - particularly when there's BREAKING NEWS.

[Raoul Duke]

Lulz:
@RAWK_Meltdown
@internetofshit
@Snowden
@BoredElonMusk
@WorstMuse
@SavedYouAClick
@_FloridaMan
GSElevator

Tech:
@gruber
@pmarca
@benedictevans
MagicReqs

[CJay]

Lulz:
@RAWK_Meltdown
@internetofshit
@Snowden
@BoredElonMusk
@WorstMuse
@SavedYouAClick
@_FloridaMan
GSElevator

Tech:
@gruber
@pmarca
@benedictevans
MagicReqs

That mention function is powerful. :drool:

[Magic]

Never knew you played the drums Magic. Well, I'm presuming you do.

Lol at This.

[Giggles]

Lol at This.

Just yes or no would do, or even ignore it, but quit being a smart cunt for once.

Am I supposed to fucking know your hobbys?

[Baz]

He used to be in a band called Modern Culture that Lewis links to on YouTube every so often. He was the drummer.

[Magic]

Just yes or no would do, or even ignore it, but quit being a smart cunt for once.

Am I supposed to fucking know your hobbys?

Being mildly aware of your surroundings would be a start.

[Giggles]

He used to be in a band called Modern Culture that Lewis links to on YouTube every so often. He was the drummer.

He must be working off the assumption that we were all fans. Makes his post reek a bit of 'do you know who I am?' which is actually a bit sad, so I'll leave it there. Bless.

[Adamski]

Giggles response to anyone challenging him at anything is the funniest thing on this forum at the minute.

http://giphy.com/gifs/jurassic-park-wayne-knight-dennis-nedry-q3UEQuCN32ucw

[Giggles]

Giggles response to anyone challenging him at anything is the funniest thing on this forum at the minute.

http://giphy.com/gifs/jurassic-park-wayne-knight-dennis-nedry-DlhrioeeSpOEM

Didn't you try this before little lad? Disappear again.

[Magic]

He must be working off the assumption that we were all fans. Makes his post reek a bit of 'do you know who I am?' which is actually a bit sad, so I'll leave it there. Bless.

Most on here were. 2008 was pretty much all about me on TTH.

[Giggles]

Most on here were. 2008 was pretty much all about me on TTH.

I must just have a really poor attention span, though until very recently most of you just ran into one person. Probably helps now that there's less of you.

[Adamski]

Didn't you try this before little lad? Disappear again.

No, that's my first GIF actually. Seminal moment.

[Giggles]

No, that's my first GIF actually. Seminal moment.

That's amazing.

[Boydy]

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:D

Ha.

[Spikey M]

I don't know who that is or what's going on. I'd eat her meat though.

[Magic]

Imagine finding that funny. Bring back parliawint.

[John]

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My man Abdul at it again.

[Lewis]

https://twitter.com/FunnySexPests

Worth a follow in case Magic/Mahow ever pop up.

[Baz]

https://twitter.com/FunnySexPests

Worth a follow in case Magic/Mahow ever pop up.Class, that. What’s his beef with Wayne Lineker?

[Lewis]

He seems a bit noncey.

[Lewis]

Barry Stanton has been done in. Seething.

[Magic]

Fuck off. Have they banned the account?

[Giggles]

Who? Is that Dr. Barry who was here?

[phonics]

From googling, some account that did racist parody jokes.

Twitter have been banning a shitload of people lately that have been copying/astroturfing tweets lately. If he was known for 'edgy' material while apparently using a member of the publics picture instead of his own it was only a matter of time.

The Nazi's are still there though.

[Lewis]

He was a legend, and his preferred England XI would have won the World Cup.

[Baz]

If someone gets banned does their twitter handle go back up for grabs?

[phonics]

No the account is suspended not deleted.

[Baz]

I emailed the guy who has Bazza a while back cos he hadn’t used his account since 2012 but today he replied saying he’d rather hold onto it. :(

Dunno why but I genuinely thought he might say yes.

The guy who has Baz uses it and Baza is some fake spammy profile that also hasn’t been touched in years, but I’ve no way to contact them. I tried recover password to see the contact details but the email address I guessed from the redacted version it shows me, bounces straight back. What a waste!

I guess I’ll stick with dumbass Baz9torres. I’m disappointed.

[Raoul Duke]

You should get Baztard it works on multiple levels

[Magic]

I've just discovered Seth Everman. What a legend.

[Baz]

You should get Baztard it works on multiple levelsTaken. Everything's bloody taken.

977272272997273601

Well, except bazxbaz. :moop:

[Magic]

Can you publish the results of that poll, please.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Might as well just ask Mike and The Reid to post their votes here.

Hopefully it wont end in a 1-1 tie.

[Baz]

Hopefully it wont end in a 1-1 tie.:D

[Spikey M]

PM me this weeks lottery numbers, ‘how.

[phonics]

lol I just got banned for making fun of Elon Musk.

edit: Twitter, the social media platform where it's okay to be an actual Nazi because 'Freedom of Speech maaaaaan' but this is banning material

https://i.imgur.com/WsOzrJM.png

They want a picture of my passport and my phone number to get back on.

[Lewis]

Tell him he's a bald FRAUD.

[phonics]

I don't want an account that was created in 2018...

[Lewis]

It's a good joke as well. If a popular account had made it it would have got loads of likes/re-tweets.

[Pepe]

Agreed, some of phonics' best work. Except for 'in to', which almost ruins it.

[phonics]

I got a notification that 'I was a scumbag making fun of one of the busiest and most intelligent men in the world' and then I was banned. That reply is more offensive to literally anyone in the world than my joke.

[Pepe]

That's pretty lol. 'Elonmania' must be one of the worst things going around.

[Disco]

Undoes it all by caring about when an account was created. You'll be caring about post count next.

[Mazuuurk]

Show the notification.

[phonics]

Show the notification.

I can't, I'm banned. Just search "@followjaspa" and hit latest.

[Mazuuurk]

Hahaha alright, well when you can then.

[phonics]

Undoes it all by caring about when an account was created. You'll be caring about post count next.

Most users will have mention filters that ignore your account was created post a certain date as 99.9999999999% of new accounts are bots.

[Lewis]

That's pretty lol. 'Elonmania' must be one of the worst things going around.

We were well ahead on this one. :cool:

[phonics]

I caved. The fuckers. Now they have my phone number and my passport on their insecure platform. Can't wait for them to fuck up and have that on the open internet.

Here's the person who reported me.

992374935178874880

[wullie]

That last line is a threat. Flag it up

[phonics]

I've come back to about 6 notifications from this nutter.

https://i.imgur.com/0Bmz3AZ.png

[Mazuuurk]

Call her a precious little cunt. They already have your passport right so the process will be quick the second time :)

[phonics]

I seem to have been stripped off multiple priveleges including seeing who I'm following or what I've fav'd.

[Pepe]

I hope she didn't bet on Tesla stocks.

[SvN]

She's absolutely donned you senseless there Jaspa.

[phonics]

I think I'm going to get stuck in that 'view to see offensive tweets' bucket now so tbh I've been completely destroyed.

[Pepe]

So all it takes is for one person to report you and you get banned? How has the whole thing not imploded yet?

[phonics]

So all it takes is for one person to report you and you get banned? How has the whole thing not imploded yet?

When it's tweets connected to big celebrity accounts.

[Pepe]

Still, how does that not end up in everyone getting banned?

[phonics]

Everyone does get banned.

[Pepe]

I see. So now they have everyone's passports. Not sketchy at all.

[Baz]

I’ve never been banned.

[Spikey M]

Pussy

[phonics]

Banned AGAIN for something that is literally not offensive to anyone. IT'S THE NAME OF A FUCKING WEBSITE FFS.

https://i.imgur.com/Kdl0Yvq.png

[Lewis]

I wonder who keep grassing you up. Probably Magic.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

:harold:

[Pepe]

:harold:

[phonics]

I worked out what happened. I used the word zionist (I was actually quoting the headline, I barely understand what one is) and probably got mass reported for every post (Israel has a very active online astroturfing agency and it's staffed by people far more educated than Russia but we don't talk about that or you're an anti-semite). That one must have triggered the bot due to the word bitch and the @mention being a woman, therefore considered a threat. I've appealed but I'm not optimistic it'll ever get seen by anyone.

[Dquincy]

Perhaps you should consider not posting on there anymore.

[SvN]

You've got a mark against your username now. Stuff like this will continue to happen.

[Kikó]

He's such an anti-Semite.

[Lewis]

He would be on an internal list of alt-right accounts by now if he had any followers.

[phonics]

He would be on an internal list of alt-right accounts by now if he had any followers.

If I was on that side of the argument my account would be greenlit and they'd be promoting my tweets.

[phonics]

Okay, I've worked it out. It's the media and their anti-Arsenal agenda.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DdUkrfuW0AALYqA.jpg:large

[-james-]

What footballers are worth following?

Are there any that don't just post that they're delighted with 3 points today COYS :thbup: :thbup: :thbup:?

[Waffdon]

Batshuayi and Mendy will be right up your street.

[phonics]

Mendy jumped the shark quite early.

Batshuayi on the other hand is a total boss. I think Kyle Walker uses his like a more normal person.

[Spikey M]

Peter Crouch is good value.

[phonics]

Got followed by someone called DS. Wondered whether it was DS from here.

Check last tweet.

https://i.imgur.com/QWWkpHP.png

Confirmed.

[CJay]

The Dork Sirjur didn’t give it away?

[Spikey M]

His fucking photo didn’t give it away?

[Dark Soldier]

Didn't follow back though eh ya cunt

[phonics]

It's now an automatic ban to put 'Elon Musk' in your display name. I'm always ahead of the curve.

[Lewis]

Give up lad.

[John]

1070682867171254273

A+ trolling.

[phonics]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DwfPhwyX4AI-jb_.jpg:large

Come at me now Elon. We got Cop Killaz in the set.

[Adamski]

With the amount you tweet and talk about tweeting, I wouldn't have thought it was possible to only have 55 followers. Fair play.

[Queenslander]

:lol:

[Spikey M]

"FollowJaspa" indeed.

[Smjffy]

I must have had about 20 accounts over the years but it's never been enough to keep me interested for longer than a week.

Same with Facebook and the like although after downloading my data on Facebook not so long back means I'll never log in again. Scary the amount of information that's held.

[Spikey M]

Twitter would be the end of you Smiff.

[Smjffy]

I don't even know how people keep upto date with it. It's a million miles per hour.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Not Phonics' account.

[Kikó]

Twitter is as fast as you make it. You choose who you follow.

[Baz]

1083636458542395392

Queenslander

[Queenslander]

Beautiful North Queensland.

[Greg]

To be fair that could be anywhere in Australia.

[Queenslander]

To be fair North Queensland is pretty touched.

[niko_cee]

Land Cruiser 1, that other vehicle 0.

FNQ > *

[Lewis]

He was like the Australian Baz. Bazza, pushing his car home with the Backyard Footie blokes.

[Queenslander]

More like his bong mates.

[Spikey M]

I do love a living stereotype. That's a top effort.

[Giggles]

If Home and Away has taught me anything then he's a bogan.

[John]

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This is fucking fascinating.

[bruhnaldo]

Oh hell yes is that making the rounds again? :drool:

[bruhnaldo]

Also the fact that that Aussie car crash video doesn't end with the girlfriend's reaction to her car getting demolished is a fucking travesty, especially when she seemingly appears right at the end of the video anyhow.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I want to be addicted to roller skating not crack

What an advert.

[Spikey M]

We've got our little one some of those skates you put on over your shoes,and that barely roll, for her birthday. So she's set for life.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

No crack or teenage pregnancy for her.

[bruhnaldo]

tbh the local skating rink was like our "club" in middle school man. Friday nights :drool:

It's now since been turned into a furniture store in one of the most depressing pieces of my childhood that remain.

[phonics]

I've gone from being banned for making a shitty joke to having a shittier joke be handpicked by Twitter staff in one of those 'moments' in 24 hours.

[Boydy]

Twitter down for anyone else?

[Trancemeister]

Yep. not working.

[Baz]

Yep.

https://i.imgur.com/9SM4A9U.png[

[Giggles]

My timeline won't load past and hour ago.

[Spikey M]

Tommy Robinsons band of mongs probably did it.

[Kikó]

So the Russians.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

He didn't say Trump did it.

[Spikey M]

I mean, he might have done it in response to his lol asylum appeal.

[Boydy]

What the fuck have they done to the desktop site?

[Giggles]

What the fuck have they done to the desktop site?

Is that the preview they've had running on an opt-in for the last while? It's way better once you get used to it.

[Boydy]

Presumably. I can see two twets on my laptop screen at a time. I hate it.

[Baz]

It will definitely take some getting used to.

[Lewis]

They've ruined it.

[Giggles]

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[Lewis]

That's the most insightful thing he's ever written.

[Smjffy]

As someone relatively new to Twitter it doesn't matter a jot to me. I did have to create a new account though as I waded in far too soon with following things. It was too difficult to keep up.

[Offshore Toon]

I just dip in and out whenever. If there's an account where I want to see every tweet then I'll set up notifications.

[Smjffy]

Bit of a late bump but it's the only Twitter thread I can find.

https://i.ibb.co/CJ0fT8f/occ.png

https://i.ibb.co/LJmqszK/oct.png

The impressions is the important one and that means people who have seen the tweets, right? Does anyone have much experience using it so I can maximise the tweets? I've read so many contrasting things about the hashtags, too many mean it gets viewed as spam, emoji's are good and bad etc. Anyone with a bit more experience on social media so I don't have to be so active to get my message across?

[Spikey M]

The key seems to be to keep it short and finish the tweet with a single defining word. Simple.

[Smjffy]

How much shorter can you be with the character limit? I have to include certain hashtags regardless, mostly the hashtag that's trying to raise awareness, with the MPs local area hash tagged too, whilst linking the MP and whatever I'm saying?

There's just got to be an easier way?

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Call people cunts.

[Smjffy]

Nearly 7,500 tweets since June(ish) and I reckon I can count on one hand the amount of times I've sworn.

I prefer the kill 'em with kindness approach.

[Baz]

Decent numbers already though. :thbup:

[phonics]

Bit of a late bump but it's the only Twitter thread I can find.

https://i.ibb.co/CJ0fT8f/occ.png

https://i.ibb.co/LJmqszK/oct.png

The impressions is the important one and that means people who have seen the tweets, right? Does anyone have much experience using it so I can maximise the tweets? I've read so many contrasting things about the hashtags, too many mean it gets viewed as spam, emoji's are good and bad etc. Anyone with a bit more experience on social media so I don't have to be so active to get my message across?

Impressions are false. Mentions and profile visits are really impressive. It basically means for every tweet you did, at least 4 people were interested enough to click onto your timeline. That’s really good.

[Smjffy]

Is there anything more I can be doing to increase that? It's pretty much been trial and error but this month I've been able to rattle things out a lot more due to being back in lockdown and with the furlough scheme ending, I want to try and capture as many of those who are about to get fucked themselves.

I've got a few MPs who retweet me quite often which might be helping and that's why I've tried to refrain from being abusive or insulting. Just tried sticking to facts with verified figures etc. Perhaps point me in the right direction if you're more aware than me?

Best video I did has nearly 16,000 views but that's been up for 11 days now and I don't know if that's good or not.

[Queenslander]

Tease middle and upper middle class white women in your area.

[Spikey M]

There are no middle or upper class people in Tim's area.

[Smjffy]

:dc: What he said.

[Shindig]

Twitter is asking me if I want to manage notifications. Whoop.

[Lewis]

Shame phonics can't manage any roflmao.

[Shindig]

It's really a stupid thing.

1. Someone says a stupid thing.
2. I respond.
3. People like that response.
4. People then reply to the original poster in an attempt to get blocked by them.

It's a shark tank of idiots.

[phonics]

There’s an arrow top right. Just hit mute conversation.

[Shindig]

Never. I need those engagements. 18 people looked at my profile which means I could probably put something in it. Patrick Klepek didn't block me which was nice of him.

[phonics]

It just means you don’t get the notifications about it. Maybe you’re intrigued. I had a week of Turkish people telling me to kill myself so might be different. My two records so far are Turkey wanting me to die working out in 1.2million impressions and a 2 minute photoshop resulting in 1.6 million impressions.

[Shindig]

I've had death threats on facebook before. I just found it hilarious. :D

[Dquincy]

Wasn't sure where to put this, but seeing as I read it via twitter here we go. For some reason, I found this fascinating. Appreciate it's a bit macabre, but thought I'd share it.

This transcript between the pilots in the Air France 447 crash is really tragic, when they realise they’ve messed up and it’s too late to save themselves:

https://t.co/g0nDDO4JRg

[Yevrah]

Interesting read and I'm only part way through, but this struck me:


Human judgments, of course, are never made in a vacuum. Pilots are part of a complex system that can either increase or reduce the probability that they will make a mistake. After this accident, the million-dollar question is whether training, instrumentation, and cockpit procedures can be modified all around the world so that no one will ever make this mistake again—or whether the inclusion of the human element will always entail the possibility of a catastrophic outcome

I mean, I'd suggest as a starter for 10, not letting this happen during storms:


At 2:02 am, the captain leaves the flight deck to take a nap. Within 15 minutes, everyone aboard the plane will be dead

[Shindig]

Is this the one where the men at the controls were cancelling each other out? My personal favourite is a one from Russia where the pilot let his nephew have a go. Straight into the ground.

[Yevrah]

It was indeed. Terrifying, but fascinating read.

[Spikey M]

My "favourite" was the one where 2 planes had different versions of TCAS and rather than being directed away from each other, both pilots were given the same instructions until they ended up smashing into each other. A bit of a design flaw imo.

[Dquincy]

Interesting read and I'm only part way through, but this struck me:



I mean, I'd suggest as a starter for 10, not letting this happen during storms:

:D Yes somewhat of an odd decision. But my take away from it was that the junior co pilot consistently made mistakes. To the point he clearly should not have had any control of that plane. Caveat, I'm sure we'd all panic like fuck in that situation as well.

[Dquincy]

Is this the one where the men at the controls were cancelling each other out? My personal favourite is a one from Russia where the pilot let his nephew have a go. Straight into the ground.

That one is also an interesting read. Transcripts can be read here. The panic that comes across is intense.

https://tailstrike.com/database/23-march-1994-aeroflot-593/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.tampabay.com/archive/1994/09/28/cockpit-transcript-daddy-can-i-turn-this/%3foutputType=amp

[Shindig]

The panic is always the thing that kind of gets me. Whenever pilots talk about their work, it's so routine, so orderly. I guess for 99.9% of the time, it is.

[Spikey M]

It's like driving I guess. You forget you're doing 70 mph with only a balloon and a bit of strapping for protection, but the realisation hits you quick enough when something nearly goes wrong.

[Lofty]

We had to watch a safety video looking at the Staines Air Disaster and essentially the takeaway was they reckoned the old fella was distracted due to a union row before takeoff and none of the junior men wanted to correct his error, so they all died instead :moop:

[Dquincy]

It's like driving I guess. You forget you're doing 70 mph with only a balloon and a bit of strapping for protection, but the realisation hits you quick enough when something nearly goes wrong.

This. The amount of times I find myself daydreaming whilst driving and then have to mentally slap myself for not paying enough attention.

[SvN]

If you enjoy this sort of stuff, then checkout this guy's subreddit - he has dozens of in depth articles about air disasters, and they're fascinating to read.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AdmiralCloudberg/

[Shindig]

We had to watch a safety video looking at the Staines Air Disaster and essentially the takeaway was they reckoned the old fella was distracted due to a union row before takeoff and none of the junior men wanted to correct his error, so they all died instead :moop:

Sounds like Chernobyl at altitude.

[igor_balis]

I assume everyone's seen the video of that Hank hill sounding bloke successfully landing the plane when the pilot died?

[Lofty]

I think boats sinking is almost more terrifying, I was listening to stuff about shipwrecks for a while a few years ago and it was mad how one bad wave or poor decision would sink even massive ships.

[Manc]

If you enjoy this sort of stuff.

Kinky fucker.

[niko_cee]

Ah Bonin, one of the great Frenchmen of modern times. You can only imagine the look on the face of the other two when he dropped the "I've been pulling back the whole time lol" bombshell. Pretty much guess that was the look as they went into the sea.

Still reckon having the co-pilot suicide the plane into a mountain whilst the captain tries to axe his way back into the cockpit is the most traumatic way to go out ion a plane.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I think boats sinking is almost more terrifying, I was listening to stuff about shipwrecks for a while a few years ago and it was mad how one bad wave or poor decision would sink even massive ships.

I know it's the go to for sinking ships, but every few years I read about the Titanic in detail again, and everything about it is absolutely insane. Here's just one bloke, who somehow survived:


Lightoller opted to abandon his post to escape the growing crowds, and dived into the water from the roof of the officers' quarters. He was sucked into the mouth of a ventilation shaft but was blown clear by "a terrific blast of hot air" and emerged next to the capsized lifeboat. The forward funnel collapsed under its own weight, crushing several people, including Charles Duane Williams, as it fell into the water and only narrowly missing the lifeboat. It closely missed Lightoller and created a wave that washed the boat 50 yards clear of the sinking ship.

With a temperature of −2 °C (28 °F), the water was lethally cold. Second Officer Lightoller described the feeling of "a thousand knives" being driven into his body as he entered the sea. Sudden immersion into freezing water typically causes death within minutes, either from cardiac arrest, uncontrollable breathing of water, or cold incapacitation (not, as commonly believed, from hypothermia); almost all of those in the water died of cardiac arrest or other bodily reactions to freezing water within 15–30 minutes.

He then goes on to man one of the little ships at the Dunkirk evacuation 33 years later. Fuck living in the first half of the twentieth century.

[Shindig]

Whatever happened on MH370 must've been intense.

[Dquincy]

Ah Bonin, one of the great Frenchmen of modern times. You can only imagine the look on the face of the other two when he dropped the "I've been pulling back the whole time lol" bombshell. Pretty much guess that was the look as they went into the sea.


:D I still blame the captain for going for a kip whilst flying into a storm.

[Lofty]

I know it's the go to for sinking ships, but every few years I read about the Titanic in detail again, and everything about it is absolutely insane. Here's just one bloke, who somehow survived:



He then goes on to man one of the little ships at the Dunkirk evacuation 33 years later. Fuck living in the first half of the twentieth century.

Yeah it is crazy. This is what I was listening to, might do them again https://www.magic.co.nz/home/archivedtalk/audio/special-feature-archives/shipwreck-tales-archive.html

Apparently there was a ship near the titanic when it sunk that alledgedly ignored the distress signals, the captain was tried for dereliction of duty.

There was an interesting renactment of the distress call log with AI floating around a while ago.

[Shindig]

That might still be on youtube. It was weird being on a ferry a couple of years back and passing the spot the Miracle on the Hudson happened.

[Dquincy]

Twitter is down as well, no?

That's Twitter, FB, Gram, WhatsApp. The Russian's are playing silly buggers...

[Lofty]

Baz needs to start handing out those TTH cards, it's our time to shine lads :cool:

[Don]

It's been fucking nice to have no Whatsapp for 6 hours ngl. Be interested to hear of the stories of this, some are gonna be hit hard by it.

[Raoul Duke]

Twitter is fine. Looks like a network issue somewhere at Facebook. With all the shit going on there at the moment you wonder if it's malicious

[Kikó]

Explained in here https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/

[Don]

Fuck sake, I'm not reading that, take a break from sending Spikey your cock pics in ASCII using SMS and give us a breakdown.

[Kikó]

Simpler version
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[Dquincy]

It's definitely Y2K causing this.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Simpler version
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Simpler.

[Baz]

Telegram's fine. :huhu:

[Waffdon]

Is anyone else unable to watch videos? They all seem to buffer after a few seconds

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Not working for me on Firefox but they do work on Edge.

[Dquincy]

East London at its finest...

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[Baz]

Can someone please explain this SING YOUR DIALECT thing that seems to be popping off?

[-james-]

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That ending.

[Spikey M]

There's alot to unpack there. :D

[Baz]

Soppy bollocks crying on camera :lol:

What’s going on

[Don]

Strong replies.

[Yevrah]

Just brilliant. :D

[Lofty]

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[John Arne]

eLON mUSK HAS JUST BOUGHT A $2.9BN STAKE IN tWITTER, TAKING HIM TO 9.2%

FUCK CAPS.

[Waffdon]

Kiko’s Father in law turning up at Scottish parliament and appearing on my Twitter feed is not what I was expecting tonight :lol:

[Lewis]

Hope he was doing a Michael Stone.

[Kikó]

He seems to have triggered a number of people for speaking Scots again. A lot of people have an issue in accepting it as a language.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's not a language any more than scouse or geordie are a language. It just happens to be located in a place where people are grasping for tenets of nationalism at the moment.

[Kikó]

Sure, that's an opinion.

[John Arne]

Having just read a transcript, it seems to be just the phonetic spelling of English with a Scotch accent :D

[Giggles]

Sure, that's an opinion.

Not an entirely unexpected one either.

[Spikey M]

It's just English in a silly voice.

[Waffdon]

It just sounds like people from Aberdeen or the highlands and that’s the worst accent in the world.

[Kikó]

Not an entirely unexpected one either.

Probably the Europeans fault.

[Jimmy Floyd]

As there are no universally accepted criteria for distinguishing a language from a dialect, scholars and other interested parties often disagree about the linguistic, historical and social status of Scots, particularly its relationship to English. Although a number of paradigms for distinguishing between languages and dialects exist, they often render contradictory results. Broad Scots is at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum, with Scottish Standard English at the other. Scots is sometimes regarded as a variety of English, though it has its own distinct dialects; other scholars treat Scots as a distinct Germanic language, in the way that Norwegian is closely linked to but distinct from Danish.

In other words, it's a dialect with special political interests attached.

[Giggles]

If you’re only picking out the exact bits you want from that passage, with added little englander on top.

[Spikey M]

It just sounds like people from Aberdeen or the highlands and that’s the worst accent in the world.

The worst accent in the world is that croaky voice accent American women do.

The Irish accent that sounds American (Jedward) is bad too.

And then there's Scouse which is offensive on every level.

The best accent is Nigerian.

[Ian]

Most accents are fine if somebody doesn't have a really thick accent and most are awful if they do because they become unintelligible to the uninitiated.

[Spikey M]

Most accents are fine if somebody doesn't have a really thick accent and most are awful if they do because they become unintelligible to the uninitiated.

I'm not sure. Thick American accents from the South are amazing. As is Jamaican, even of it is impossible to understand.

Jamie Carragher is the worst person on earth though.

[Ben]

I agree with Ian. No regional accent itself is really good or bad, it's the thickness that makes or breaks it. I work with a guy from the Wolverhampton area and his accent is very mild so it's absolutely fine; conversely, I used to work with a guy with one of the thickest Black Country accents imaginable. Dreadful.

Thick anything (Geordie, Scouse, Essex) are all equally awful in their own way. My wife is from Sunderland but her accent is barely noticeable; her dad's is horrible.

[Ian]

I'm not sure. Thick American accents from the South are amazing. As is Jamaican, even of it is impossible to understand.

Jamie Carragher is the worst person on earth though.

Listening to the likes of Viv Richards and Michael Holding on cricket coverage would maybe have me venture that old West Indian men are winning the best accent chat.

[igor_balis]

I agree with Ian. No regional accent itself is really good or bad, it's the thickness that makes or breaks it. I work with a guy from the Wolverhampton area and his accent is very mild so it's absolutely fine; conversely, I used to work with a guy with one of the thickest Black Country accents imaginable. Dreadful.

Thick anything (Geordie, Scouse, Essex) are all equally awful in their own way. My wife is from Sunderland but her accent is barely noticeable; her dad's is horrible.

That's the most depressingly centrist, libdem opinion about something non-political (ish) I've ever read.

Oh I love the rich tapestry of regional identities in our country, as long as they're middle class and sound basically like RP with a tiny dash of their local accent.

[Ian]

Somebody's got a horrible West Midlands accent they're feeling defensive about.

[niko_cee]

If 'scots' (scotch) is what 'fifers' speak then maybe there is a case for it being a language as even native wee heavy bawbag speakers generally have no idea what they're on about, in my experience.

My dad had a cousin from 'the Kingdom of Fife' and no one ever knew what he was on about. That said, he was also legally mad for some sort of (scam) benefit reason I think, so maybe that played a part.

[igor_balis]

Somebody's got a horrible West Midlands accent they're feeling defensive about.

Yo am a barmpot, yam half-soaked?

[Kikó]

If 'scots' (scotch) is what 'fifers' speak then maybe there is a case for it being a language as even native wee heavy bawbag speakers generally have no idea what they're on about, in my experience.

My dad had a cousin from 'the Kingdom of Fife' and no one ever knew what he was on about. That said, he was also legally mad for some sort of (scam) benefit reason I think, so maybe that played a part.

He's not from Fife.

[Spikey M]

That's the most depressingly centrist, libdem opinion about something non-political (ish) I've ever read.

Oh I love the rich tapestry of regional identities in our country, as long as they're middle class and sound basically like RP with a tiny dash of their local accent.

You lot sound even worse when you're moping. Pack it in lad.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Ear of the beholder innit.

I love the Brummie accent, probably my favourite in the country, don't think there are many who do.

[Ian]

You lot sound even worse when you're moping. Pack it in lad.

:D

[Ian]

Ear of the beholder innit.

I love the Brummie accent, probably my favourite in the country, don't think there are many who do.

You might be the only person I've ever encountered who thinks that way, and I'm from the Midlands.

[-james-]

Welsh is the one.

I used to fancy this girl from Neath solely because she had the most soothing, melodic accent and anything she said would make me more or less glaze over.

[Waffdon]

If 'scots' (scotch) is what 'fifers' speak then maybe there is a case for it being a language as even native wee heavy bawbag speakers generally have no idea what they're on about, in my experience.

My dad had a cousin from 'the Kingdom of Fife' and no one ever knew what he was on about. That said, he was also legally mad for some sort of (scam) benefit reason I think, so maybe that played a part.

Fife is a proper grim place aside from St Andrews and a few other. Glenrothes, Kelty and Cowdenbeath should all be shut down. Kirkcaldy isn’t much better.

[Ian]

I've been to Kirkcaldy. Once was more than enough. Spoke to at least one bloke who may as well have been talking in Sumerian for all I understood.

[Waffdon]

Considering most trains stop there and it’s one of the biggest places there, the high street in particular is a bomb shell of a place

[igor_balis]

You might be the only person I've ever encountered who thinks that way, and I'm from the Midlands.

Where are you from, I'm trying to remember your voice from the discord...Nottingham? Some sort of east midlands anyway is my guess.

[igor_balis]

My own accent is rubbish, it's like a very nondescript west midlands accent, but without the fun of a proper brummy/black country accent, or even something like a northampton accent. My mate from eastleigh thinks all of us from rugby "sound like yamyams", but he would think that, the thick southern cunt.

[Ian]

Where are you from, I'm trying to remember your voice from the discord...Nottingham? Some sort of east midlands anyway is my guess.

Coventry originally but I've moved about so much my accent is a mishmash of bollocks now. Because of the school I was at in Doha for a few years I was reet posh at one point and then coming back to Coventry, then Lincolnshire and now however many years in Scotland my accent is a bit generic English at this point I think. Though I think while I've probably picked up some Scottish turns of phrase I don't hear it in my actual accent, but then I suppose I wouldn't.

[phonics]

Dentist asked if I was from New Zealand the other day as a confirmation that my accent is a nonsense.

[Ian]

New Zealand? I always just thought you sounded reasonably well spoken English.

I once had one person say they thought I sounded Norn Iron but they're literally the only one so I think they might've just been a bit dim.