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It Gets Better, My pick of the day #lgbt #itgetsbetter #bullycide
2010-10-27 17:35:00 The It Gets Better Project can't do it alone, even with its new web site. It's up to random bloggers to help feature random videos from the It Gets Better stable until the IGBP can catch up. Folk can upload videos faster than IGBP can favourite them! I'm using Google's video search to pick mine because there are thousands there that the project hasn't yet had the time to get to. So I'll feature More About: Pick
Bigots have no place anywhere near children
2010-10-27 13:57:00 I wish that could include their own children, too. Sadly everyone has a right to breed and foment hatred of others in their kids. Are you listening, Fred Phelps? But having a role that involves the safeguarding and education of children, that is quite another matter. Those who reveal bigotry should be terminated at once. And thus we come to Clint McCance a school board member at Midland School More About: Children , Place
The US Elections Bring the Taliban Christians Out From Under Their Stones
2010-10-26 15:24:00 Even from England I can see that the US election season has turned very nasty indeed. We're usually immune to it over here. We have no real idea what mid term elections are, and we pretty much don't care. Though, since the USA's politics affects us here, I wonder why I don't get a vote. Usually I stay well away, keep my opinions to myself and smile benignly at a nation going through a pretty More About: Elections , Christians , Taliban
Ah Wikipedia, Home of Strangers and Strangeness
2010-10-26 11:54:00 Following the recent spate of LGBT teen bullycides I have added some well cited articles to wikipedia. Spirit Day was absent. So was Bullycide. Both of those affronted me. So I created and added the articles. I know how Wikipedia works, so I found a large and increasing number of citations in what they term 'Reliable Sources' to back them up. Wikipedia needs something to be both 'notable' and ' More About: Home , Strangeness
It Gets Better, My pick of the day #lgbt #itgetsbetter #bullycide
2010-10-26 11:16:00 The It Gets Better Project can't do it alone, even with its new web site. It's up to random bloggers to help feature random videos from the It Gets Better stable until the IGBP can catch up. Folk can upload videos faster than IGBP can favourite them! I'm using Google's video search to pick mine because there are thousands there that the project hasn't yet had the time to get to. So I'll feature More About: Pick
It Gets Better, My pick of the day #lgbt #itgetsbetter #bullycide
2010-10-25 20:07:00 The It Gets Better Project can't do it alone, even with its new web site. It's up to random bloggers to help feature random videos from the It Gets Better stable until the IGBP can catch up. Folk can upload videos faster than IGBP can favourite them! I'm using Google's video search to pick mine because there are thousands there that the project hasn't yet had the time to get to. So I'll feature More About: Pick
Smart Home Protection is at it still
2010-10-25 12:22:00 I've blogged about these turkeys before. Odd how we are TPS registered and they keep on trucking. They got the details from their database, and their database obviously doesn't flag Telephone Preference Service information. Now what does interest me is that someone who says he doesn't work for Smart Home Protection made a comment on Saturday on my previous article about this outfit. He says his
Cyberbullying?
2010-10-25 10:25:00 This is an interesting resource. The quiz makes you think. Have a look at the video. No, actually watch it. Properly. Then visit A Thin Line Then pass the message on. Help prevent child suicide.
And Now Google Starts to Admit the Truth About Clandestine Data Collection
2010-10-25 00:58:00 Back in May this year they were all sweetness and light. We were not taken in for a moment. Just momentary grabbing of unsecured WiFi transmissions, eh? How long is a moment? Long enough to capture login ids, passwords and emails, it seems. Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to update one point in my May blog post. When I wrote it, no one inside Google had analyzed in detail the More About: Truth , Data , Clandestine
What if a Fundamentalist Christian Kid Were Bullied and Committed Suicide B
2010-10-24 22:22:00 I'm still working with thoughts about Rob Donaldson's article about Dan Savage's letter to the bigot. After you read it, look at the comments. Rob always has intelligent and useful comments, yes, even mine! One of the regulars there, pen named Original Mohomie, asked an important and difficult question" ...let's say you live in a predominantly non-theist society and have children at school, and a More About: Christian , Suicide
Should we use logic or use invective when we fight for LGBT equality?
2010-10-24 19:46:00 I never thought I'd be an activist, let alone a Gay Rights Activist. And it's not a simple thing to be. When I hear a bigot telling me that I ought to have different rights from the heterosexual majority I feel much more like lashing out than arguing with calm and quiet logic. Yet my instinct tells me that calmness will win a day which slash and burn invective will not. Two article made me think More About: Fight
It Gets Better, My pick of the day #lgbt #itgetsbetter #bullycide
2010-10-24 18:14:00 The It Gets Better Project can't do it alone, even with its new web site. It's up to random bloggers to help feature random videos from the It Gets Better stable until the IGBP can catch up. Folk can upload videos faster than IGBP can favourite them! I'm using Google's video search to pick mine because there are thousands there that the project hasn't yet had the time to get to. So I'll feature More About: Pick
The never ending insanity that is Wikipedia
2010-10-24 17:50:00 I looked for the term "Bullycide" in that august collection of some real facts and a load of trash earlier today. And it had been there, once. But, in 2006, that weighty organ of pompous self interest decided that the term was a non notable neologism, and chose to delete it. Don't you love the surgical precision of the ignorance? The article is back. I created it earlier today. I'm experienced More About: Wikipedia , Ending , Insanity
It Gets Better, My pick of the day #lgbt #itgetsbetter #bullycide
2010-10-23 21:20:00 The It Gets Better Project can't do it alone, even with its new web site. It's up to random bloggers to help feature random videos from the It Gets Better stable until the IGBP can catch up. Folk can upload videos faster than IGBP can favourite them! I'm using Google's video search to pick mine because there are thousands there that the project hasn't yet had the time to get to. So I'll feature More About: Pick
It Gets Better, My pick of the day #lgbt #itgetsbetter #bullycide
2010-10-22 19:06:00 The It Gets Better Project can't do it alone, even with its new web site. It's up to random bloggers to help feature random videos from the It Gets Better stable until the IGBP can catch up. Folk can upload videos faster than IGBP can favourite them! I'm using Google's video search to pick mine because there are thousands there that the project hasn't yet had the time to get to. So I'll feature More About: Pick
Facebook is not quick to remove hate speech
2010-10-21 22:49:00 This page, making fun of, supporting, teen suicides has not been deleted despite reports. It was created in response to the campaign to raise awareness of teenage LGBT suicides after bullying, bullycide. That idiots will create this ordure is inevitable. But why is it still online? You can embiggen the picture by clicking it. This is nothing to do with some right to free speech, this is simply More About: Hate , Quick , Facebook
Bad things lead to good
2010-10-21 18:47:00 Remember that beastly Charles Carter and his indefensible set of nasty videos and his deeply disturbing web site, now trashed by yola.com his web hots? Yup, me too. The thing is, I almost confused Carter's unpleasantness with something good. I'll bet a great number of other people did, too. Carter termed his vile bile 'The Lot Project', and I searched for it on the web and found not only Carter's More About: Things , Good
It Gets Better, My pick of the day #lgbt #itgetsbetter #bullycide
2010-10-21 15:51:00 The It Gets Better Project can't do it alone, even with its new web site. It's up to random bloggers to help feature random videos from the It Gets Better stable until the IGBP can catch up. Folk can upload videos faster than IGBP can favourite them! I'm using Google's video search to pick mine because there are thousands there that the project hasn't yet had the time to get to. So I'll feature More About: Pick
I've been following "Wear Purple" or Spirit Day today. I wore purple.
2010-10-21 01:18:00 Facebook is an astounding site. I've been following a couple of events there, both are pages supporting the following two statements: READ: ****This event was not created by me. It was created by someone who cares deeply on Tumblr, and I am only spreading the word.**** It’s been decided. On October 20th, 2010, we will wear purple in honor of the 6 gay boys who committed suicide in recent weeks/ More About: Today , Purple , Spirit
It Gets Better, My pick of the day #lgbt #itgetsbetter #bullycide
2010-10-20 17:18:00 The It Gets Better Project can't do it alone, even with its new web site. It's up to random bloggers to help feature random videos from the It Gets Better stable until the IGBP can catch up. Folk can upload videos faster than IGBP can favourite them! I'm using Google's video search to pick mine because there are thousands there that the project hasn't yet had the time to get to. So I'll feature More About: Pick
How much do you love your child?
2010-10-20 17:14:00 If you are a parent and love your child, have you said to them this simple thing:"Some people fall for girls, some for boys. If you come home with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, we will love you just the same, and we hope we will like them. But the most important thing for us is that you are happy." Copy this and pass it on as far as you can. Most folk won't. Will you? Remove the power of the More About: Love , Child
It Gets Better, My pick of the day #lgbt #itgetsbetter #bullycide
2010-10-19 15:08:00 The It Gets Better Project can't do it alone, even with its new web site. It's up to random bloggers to help feature random videos from the It Gets Better stable until the IGBP can catch up. Folk can upload videos faster than IGBP can favourite them! I'm using Google's video search to pick mine because there are thousands there that the project hasn't yet had the time to get to. So I'll feature More About: Pick
Waiting for the Cuts. Will the Britannia Royal Naval College survive?
2010-10-19 11:43:00 "Navy to close Dartmouth's Royal Naval College as part of defence cuts" is the bald headline in yesterday's Daily Telegraph. The article goes on to be a typical Daily Telegraph scaremongering piece, but there is no smoke, etc. The college is a historic naval institution. It's where Liz met Phil The Greek, not that this is a reason to save it, but it's a good reason to think of the cost of More About: Survive
It Gets Better, My pick of the day #lgbt #itgetsbetter #bullycide
2010-10-18 18:03:00 The It Gets Better Project can't do it alone, even with its new web site. It's up to random bloggers to help feature random videos from the It Gets Better stable until the IGBP can catch up. Folk can upload videos faster than IGBP can favourite them! I'm using Google's video search to pick mine because there are thousands there that the project hasn't yet had the time to get to. So I'll feature More About: Pick
History, A reminder of all sorts of things
2010-10-18 11:52:00 Today I'm being half lazy. I'm sitting in my front bedroom, the room with the best view in the house, looking across the park and the river to the hillside opposite, seeing the trees start to change into their Autumn colours, and the history of the place struck me. The park used to be a muddy creek and a shipyard. Wooden and other boats were built here. At the head records show a timber More About: History , Things
My mobile phone is under attack!
2008-04-22 09:36:00 I have just entered the 21st century. I have changed my mobile contract and got a new phone that has video capability. And suddenly, out of the blue, I am getting video messages arrive from unnamed senders in my phone. They come from http://w03.v762.net which is registered as below. The messages are videos, which doubtless cost me money that I do not choose to spend, and are videos that I most assuredly do not wantdomain: v762.netcreated: 05-Jul-2007last-changed: 05-Jul-2007registration-expiration: 05-Jul-2008nserver: ns55.1und1.denserver: ns56.1und1.destatus: CLIENT-TRANSFER-PROHIBITEDregistrant-firs tname: Markusregistrant-lastname: Schmitzregistrant-organization: Venista Holding GmbH & Co. KGregistrant-street1: Landgrafenstr. 106aregistrant-pcode: 50931registrant-city:... More About: Mobile , Phone , Mobile Phone , Attack
Ideal World TV refuse to refund me for non delivery until I return the item
2008-04-07 13:47:00 I ordered a large item from them on 15 March 2008. They stated that they shipped it via the ParcelForce 48 hour service on 19 March, but, despite several calls to their outsourced customer service centre (DO use 01733 887123 - it is far cheaper!), there is no prospect of delivery.The did give me a tracking number. That tracking number does not agree with ANY consignment that ParcelForce has used. I explained this to the customer service agent and he said "Our software is better than yours. Ours is right." Interesting attitude, since they use the ParcelForce website, like I do!Today, on 7 April, I got fed up, called yet again (I have spent over 90 minutes on hold so far), and explained that they now have 14 days to deliver, or to process a full refund. I was told "We will not give you a refund. We have a process to follow. No-one will change this process for you. When the item arrives then you may return it for a refund"I have told them that I will sue them in the county cou... More About: World , Item , Return , Ideal , Delivery
Individual Voluntary Arrangements (mini bankruptcy) sold by phone fromthe U
2008-04-03 16:58:00 I have just received another unlawful call selling me IVAs. ITt started with a long, pre-recorded spiel, and then transferred me to an agent in the USA who grilled me and then refused to put me through to the calling company. Pity. The call was from (616) 980 2239, which appears to be Michigan based.The agent was thick as two short planks, spoke more like a machine than a real person, and refused to give the name of the company. More About: Phone , Mini , Bankruptcy , Voluntary , Individual
Does Idealworld.tv understand customer service?
2008-04-01 11:11:00 I often kick myself. I should make more use of the "You KNOW you will be disappointed" button before I order things. But I ordered a thing from a TV shopping channel. Ideal World TV. And you would think, since these are just sales and service organisations, that they would have the trick to it by now. It is not rocket science.I ordered a home gym thing. I've been looking for a pilates "reformer" for several years that had the features I want and the price I can afford. Gym based units are £1,500 or so each. This was £200. I'm a tubby chap with a neck problem and these units are perfect for me, but weren't perfect for my wallet.I ordered it "for immediate delivery" on 15 March 2008. It was despatched on 19 March 2008. My credit card has been charged, naturally. After the obligatory 5 day wait I called and asked where it was.The outsourced call centre said, in accent with a hint of English, that there had been a delay and it was despatched on the 24th, and that I woul... More About: Customer Service , Service , Customer , Understand
Misplaced brand loyalty
More articles from this author:2008-03-17 22:40:00 I needed a new batphone. The battery on my old one has finally given up the ghost, so I went to my local and very helpful Vodafone store, extended my contract and came away with another in a long series of Nokias.I hate mobile phone menus, and I know my way around the Nokia. I want a phone to make phone calls with and send a very occasional text. I use a hands free fully installed car kit and I need voice activated dialling.The Nokia is fine for that. It says so on the label.So I tried it out. I paired it with the car kit, and tested it by speaking my son's name. And it dialled a friend in Hull. His name is nothing like my son's. My son is not in Hull. We are friends, though.Nokia use "intelligent voice recognition" based on the names typed into the phone book.I called the Nokia hotline."Ah," said the very professional gentleman. "Yes," he added. "I have bad news for you," he went on. "All Nokia phones have gone to the intelligent voice recognition system. It is, unfo... More About: Brand , Loyalty 1, 2, 3 |
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