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I totally agree with you Cas – in spite of all the many many warnings and publicity around the dangers of giving out personal information or meeting up with people you only know from the ‘net’ – it seems to fall on deaf ears over and over again.
We at JustChat took the decision years ago to make this an “adults only” site for just this reason. Users have to declare that they are over 18 before being permitted access. We found that, despite the Staff’s best endeavours, we couldn’t always identify and ban youngsters and we didn’t want to gain a reputation as a site used by children etc – with all the attendant problems that this brings.
This doesn’t totally stop the pervs etc OR the underage users (who often lie about their age) but at least it discourages them and means that we aren’t knowingly running a chatsite which encourages children to use it.
Turning to the current issue with Facebook. I noticed that the mother of this child in essence blamed the site for permitting her daughter access and by implication being complicit in what happened to her.
I can see her point, probably born out of frustration, but I firmly believe that it is the PARENT who has the primary responsibility for supervising their child’s internet access.
Allowing a young girl to go onto social networking sites or chatrooms etc late at night (in the privacy of her own bedroom) is asking for trouble. At the very least this type of access MUST be constantly supervised if you are to prevent your child from becoming a victim of the numerous internet predators.
Thankfully, there are several more ‘acts’ to be dispatched to the rubbish dump before it starts to get interesting.
My feeling is that, once we get to the last 5 or so, it will be quite difficult to choose whom to get rid of.
BTW: Sorry I’m now off Velvet’s Christmas card list – but quite frankly Mr Bubble was utterly dreadful. Quite how he can give a ‘masterclass’ in singing defeats me. His performance (if you can call it that) was wooden; his movements owed more to a straight jacket than to natural rythm; God only knows what the words were that he was (apparently) singing as he kept moving his mouth away from the microphone. That was probably the best part, on reflection.
(PS: I guess that drops me off the next decade’s list as well huh?)
@melody wrote:
I am seriously contemplating turning off… who the hell is voting for tweedle dee and tweedle dum? I reckon it is rigged! Can’t believe Miss frank out
I can … only too well. They didn’t sing as a ‘group’; they were never in harmony; they kept looking at each other for some sort of support during what passed for their act; and demonstrated their uselessness by a totally inarticulate comment session at the end.
They have now been, quite rightly consigned to the dusbin of failed X Factor wannabees.
As for the terrible twins and their idiot hairstyles …… for once words fail me.
Mind you, the so-called ‘professional (Michael Buble – or should that be ‘Bubble?) was over hyped; over sold; and over here. If you took away the ghastly and distracting flashing lights and the lengthy ‘big band’ musical interludes – his performance (if that’s what it was) was totally underwhelming.
Maybe you could cuddle one of these …. and let him scoff all your teacakes???
Labs are sooooooooooooo cuddly eh?
My default setting is cynicism Cas.
As it happens i know the answer to this matter of the strange goings on in hospitals.
As with so many unproven allegations …. this one can be firmly laid at the door of the Freemasons. Yes that’s right, the Freemasons.
Many years ago, there used to be several “Hospital Lodges” who met, surprisingly enough, in hospitals. What the elderly & confused person thought they saw was in fact a Masonic Lodge holding its regular meeting. There were several of them in London and several more in the Provinces.
Most of them are still active but nowadays choose to meet in masonic centres rather than in the less private hospital rooms.
Sorry to have provided so mundane an explanation to what might otherwise have been a jolly good story.
OK all conspiracy theorists ….. now’s your chance !!!
****** MEMO TO ALL EMPLOYERS ******
Please check your Staff lists today for absenteeism. If you have an employee who should have started work at 10:00am this morning and who called in “sick” with flu …..
….. sack ’em straight away for malingering !!!
I’ve missed the lovely Louie this week with his oh so fashionable ‘tin tin’ hairstyle (last Century maybe) – but then he was making a show of ersatz grief in Ireland wasn’t he?
Still we did have the adorable twins – also with a ‘tin tin’ hairstyle, demonstrating that not only could they not sing in tune, they couldn’t dance together either. Mrs PB commented, somewhat waspishly, that she had seen better singing dancing in one of the less popular school plays.
There are weeks & weeks to go yet and there are several ‘weak’ acts to be got rid of. Maybe we should reserve our judgement for the last 5 contestants.
However, I really hope the the ‘fat girls’ trio get booted out ASAP. They’d be more suited to doing a drunken Karaoke on a slapper’s night out in a Blubberhouses pub. Wobbling around displaying their ‘chav tats’ on national TV is surely not quality entertainment – or is it?
But Cas, I’ve provided a solution to the fiscal issue. Deduct the lost revenue from a total smoknig ban from the vast sums of money that we pour into the NHS.
We are constantly being told by the anti-smoking Nazis how much smokers are costing the NHS in the form of wide ranging and (no doubt) expensive treatments for ‘smoking related’ illneses & diseases. OK let’s accept their argument on cost, ban the sale of tobacco totally ….. and thus eradicate all these diseases & illnesses.
Once the ban has taken effect, the NHS will no longer have this awful financial burden to bear and so its costs will go down enormously. Reducing their income proportionately seems only sensible to me.
Of course there is the irony that the very people who shake their heads and tut at those who choose to continue smoking (NHS workers) will be the ones to lose their jobs when the anti-smoking ban is successful.
But hey ….. you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs eh?
