I may be or may be not. I do agree with all of the quote if only because I was banned from facebook for 30 days without recourse while in the midst of a RPG campaign that ran only via facebook just because I posted a photo of three tunas hanging upside down with the subtitle of “Bonito Mussolini” (bonito being a fish similar to tuna, basically a pun in spanish).
Or because I lost a full day of work because of the confluence of three facts: the fact I did not knew word doesn’t autosave anymore unless you’re working directly on onedrive; the fact that windows update will forcefully (and unsafely) terminate applications in order to reboot; and the fact that I did not understand that what I was being offered read-only was not the document I was working on, but the only copy of my data. So, being read only, I closed word, repoened the document and discovered I lost a day of work.
I won’t let companies dictate what is good for me, if I can avoid it.
Again, I won’t say if he’s talking about other kind of experiences, but I’m pretty sure Cory has experienced similar and worse things from big companies, and heard enough horror stories from others to draw these conclusions without dramatic tales of betrayal from smaller places
No, not really. They’re about the articles, mostly thoughtful or snarky like the before times. But there’s no riffing on comments, no discussions. Kinda sad and boring, really, not like here where it’s more like a big ol’ party with everyone flitting in and out of discussions.
My guess is that a certain cimments are closed to prevent the Nazi trolls from coming and shitting all over the place.
Sadly, there is. Hugh Hefner, the Playboy founder based in Chicago, made a big point of wearing smoking jackets (and robes) in public photos.
And that is how, once the elbows wore out on my dad’s red velvet smoking jacket from the 1960s, I was able to convince him to give it to me so that I could add elbow patches and use it as a base for my 4th Doctor costume!
ETA: OMG, I’m an idiot! I just realized…my dad’s name was Edward, so it WAS an Edwardian smoking jacket!
And you see, sir, here is where your argument falls apart:
You see, this is a Victorian Smoking OR Dressing Jacket.
The specialisation into strictly Smoking Jackets only occurred in the second year of Edward’s reign.
Check-mate, I think you’ll find.*
* Okay, today’s theme at the pub was "talking like a posh twat, as we had some Oxford-accented-airs-and-graces-dickhead visit us for an annoying couple of hours. So please disregard everything I have posted, as it’s all a completely obvious pack of lies. But, it was a bit of fun, no?
