You need to wait a bit to get a clearer image, (to load).
I’m off. Good evening everyone.
Brendan,
If you read, this. I occasionally remember your funniest comment “I was like… he was like.. and Jamie”. This reminded me the comment. Don’t ask why.
Amusing
Yes, Levent, I vaguely remember … something to do with Amicus, I think (as usual). 🙂
Nice post (I think … didn’t read all of it).
I’ve given up on MyT, by the way … I asked them to delete my account, and they did.
Brendano: really? I must admit I’ve been tempted recently to do the same. Each time I visit the site, it feel like I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole into the Underworld. It is becoming a totally unreal or surreal experience.
I only go for the Creative Writing page generally. Occasionally comment on a few other blogs.
Yes, Araminta. It has become highly unreal and surreal, due to being run extremely badly.
Also, the stalking means that it’s not worth the hassle … yesterday a stalker rang my house twice asking to speak to my wife.
So … no going back this time.
Ah, I’m really shocked to hear about that, Brendano. I have to admit that those who dismiss this sort of thing may just take note.
Have you contacted the police? They are taking this sort of thing rather more seriously of late.
Godd grief Brendano, via MyT? That is scary.
BTW I don’t get this ‘story’. Please could someone explain?
Hi Isobel: if you mean the post, it is a rather amusing comment on Realpolitik or shifting relationships.
Brendano’s tale is not in the least bit funny though, and the people who do these things are sick.
Araminta. Hmmm. Ok.
Re stalking etc, yes I think there are some people who frequent MyT and I’m sure all blogsites, who at the least do have quite serious mental health issues, and at the most, severe personality disorders. But it’s one thing to hound and bully someone on the net, another to track him down to his own home and make ‘phone calls there.
Brendano
Don’t forget about the addictive ingredients My T is peddling. Soon you’ll find yourself reading it, laughing at it, questioning posts and bloggers….and then comes the moment that makes sign back in to rectify things in the name of the human race.
So never say never, but enjoy the break and reflect on the fact that there is more to life than blogging, or fighting with rigid opinions.
I had a bit of time latley to think about this, due to my IP adress being suspended, for nothing else but advertising this site and having a go at the moderators. I kind of came to the conclusion that maybe the right wing bloggers should be left to their own and run My T, but then the whole Idea of blogging is to comunicate and challenge opinions, so lets face it, they did deserve the fight you put up. Your problem is that you are out there on your own and a pack of wolves will get what they want if their numbers are sufficent.
See you around here for a while, lets make this site as interesting as My T was all those years ago.
should read…..that makes you sign back in…
Isobel: yes, but it is quite difficult to tell exactly what this will lead to. I’m sure most of them are disturbed or lonely individuals who don’t have normal family relationships, and are frankly in need of help. They are hardly a threat.
How does one know though? It now appears that this sort of thing is escalating. There was an instance quite recently where it was considered reasonable for some idiots to actually phone a bloggers employer, anonymously of course, to complain about blogging from work. I have no idea if the intention was just to silence his comments or to actually try to deprive him of employment.
Are these people really sane? I think not.
And by the way, My T management do not like the extreme right wing to take over their site, judging by the rate of deletion of certain bloggers. Every newspaper has a certain political leaning but for the sake of journalism has to incorporate different points of view.
That’s where My T has become an embarrassment for the Telegraph.
And that’s all I have to say about that.
It does have a certain imbalance Rainer. At the moment is would appear that the lunatics have taken over the asylum.
Let’s see what the Management do, if anything. Pity, it was a good site, but not any more.
Ara
Jamie McNab posted something about My T in its heyday, long before I got there. Whow, what a site!
But I think what is there now is a reflection of the times we are going through and the frustration most people feel. A sad reflection on the population, for even if times are tough and difficult, roses still grow and ought to be smelt!
Jamie is sadly missing from MyT these days, and so are many of my favourite bloggers. It is not too difficult to work out why. I have a tremendous loyalty to MyT, as do most of us, and happy memories of different times, but there is a limit, and when one’s personal life and family become involved, that is it!
Some interesting comments; I agree with them all. Thanks for that sound advice, Rainer. 🙂 It’s a sad reflection on MyT that most of the good people, like yourselves, have come here.
And yes, it was a great site in its time, though it always had a dark side and was always badly run.
‘It’s a sad reflection on MyT that most of the good people, like yourselves, have come here’ … that may sound as if I’m being negative about this site … I didn’t mean to be.
It’s a good reflection on this site that it’s attracted most of the good people from MyT.
If you check out e-safety sites for children – Think-U -Know is the name of a v good one, you’ll see that cyberbullying is being taken extremely seriously in education circles, or rather schools and there’s a lot of work going on to guide children and young people into safe usage.
The behaviours of some of the people on MyT makes me wonder what they are like as neighbours or work colleagues.
Exactly Isobel.
Another angle, Brendano, which you may have already considered, is to devote a little time and money to this. Report it to the police, register it with the Telegraph in the strongest possible terms and then take take legal action against the Telegraph. They will fob you off, but if the Police are involved they are obliged to reveal IP address and this will enable you to nail the bastards.
They may think they are anonymous but this is not the case.
It would appear that it has been noticed, Brendano.
Now expect The Muddled to try and entice you back! 😉
Godd grief Brendano, via MyT? That is scary.
BTW I don’t get this ’story’. Please could someone explain?
Isobel (and possibly Araminta if she was not being ironic), you can not be serious!
The’story’ is World War II, told as if it had been a social networking site. and it’s one of the funniest things that I have seen in a long time.
Unless you’re being ironic too and knew all along as well, of course. In which case, Doh!
Levent, thanks.
Going off post, Brendano, good evening. Sad to see your decision, personally.
Nudge nudge, wink wink! Quite amusing really, if it were not so pathetic!
I’m frequently ironic, John, I must try to give it up! 😉
Hello Brendan,
I’m angry.
Brendan, to see the bright side. Obviously you gave those creeps a good shake, see how they cheer. Gave a reason to get out of bed to little gossips. After all it’s kind of charity to help old, impotent, pathetic people.
Sorry JM, I didn’t get it at first, maybe because I commented before the images got clearer, maybe because I was being a bit slow! But once the penny dropped, yes, I agree v witty.
BTW, any action on your page yet?
Isobel, gonnae gie’s a break?
I’m far too busy being ‘Featured Author’ to actually write anything.
Signing autographs I suppose?
Or writer’s block?
Fighting talk, eh?
Fine that, I’ll be back (or possibly not, if it really turns out to be writer’s block).
It’s a bit of a worry, in truth. Thank you for depressing me. Natural state of mind for a Jock, of course, and it might just get the old creative juices flowing.
Oh John, no, how dreadful. But you know how eagerly I am witing for part 5.
Ok pressure off.
But it’d be nice to go to your page and see some new photos or something. And I still haven’t heard Mrs John’s final opinion on Wolf Hall.
I’m finding blogging here a wonderful way of not doing housework. But it is catching up on me. I shall have to mend my ways.
Totally irrelevant. I was furious. Opened facebook and listened to this and cooled down. Not exactly for yor taste though.
Very calming, Levent. Thank you. 🙂
Irony or generousity Araminta? 😉
Gratitude, Levent.
You are embarassing me ma’am.
I took the advice and waited for the picture to clear. It’s excellent. 🙂
I’m glad you liked it Boadicea. Have y seen the directions at the bottom of the page. “FOR PSEU” “FOR BO”? Some one should write “you are here” at the middle. 🙂
Very clever Levent. Thanks. I learned a lot about the language of social networking! What does that tell you?
You are very virtually anti-socail Sipu. 🙂
Good night/morning all!
Levent –
The title should be “A story told differently” “Differently” is the adverb, which correctly qualifies the verb. “Different” is an adjective, which qualifies nouns.
To miss off the adverbial ending makes the phrase sound uneducated, or “low class”. It is extremely bad English.
Please try to avoid posting enormous image files, particularly virtually unreadable blurry ones. A link would have been infinitely preferable. Thanks.
‘The funniest thing I have seen for a long time.’ ‘Very amusing.’
Trivialising the deaths and suffering of millions of people? Nice.
I know, Levent, lets put up a game next. How about, ‘ Blow up some innocent Turkish people?’ You play a PKK terrorist and get points for blowing up markets, buses, houses around police stations and extra points if you kidnap and murder soldiers or policemen.
Brendano. What happened is totally unacceptable. If you would like some advice email me on tjudge@rocketmail.com
It’s also so delicately politically correct, and historically inaccurate. This was the German National Flag from 1933.
I take your point Bravo. I saw it as a way of explaining WWII to some ‘less than interested’ children, many of whom don’t seem to have even heard about it.
Bearsy, errr thanks.
Bravo,
I see your point. However when I change it to WW1 I don’t feel bad.
Levent, even if you put in a post on the lines of ‘Turkey play combined UK/Australia side. Match drawn.’ ?
Still no, Bravo. But, as you know, I meant no disrespect.
Morning, Bravo
I take your point too. And I knew, of course, that the German flag was wrong but did not feel the need to point it out. I just assumed, as you say, that the website where the piece first appeared might have had a problem with the swastika symbol.
To put my previous remark in context, I am an Army brat. Some of my earliest memories are of attending Remembrance Services in various Army camps and bases, standing next to soldiers, including my father, who had served through World War II and who had all lost friends and family members. I make a point of visiting Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial places where ever and when ever I can. We are friends with an Israeli couple who are both survivors of concentration camps.
To this day, I never miss a Remembrance Day service of some sort in honour of my father and mother and of a generation that gave so much to this country.
I am fully aware of the horrors of WWII having studied the topic in Sixth Year at school and having read extensively on it since. I would never dream of
‘trivialising the deaths and suffering of millions of people’.
I do not believe that I was doing so by finding this particular presentation of the bare historical facts of WWII to be one of the funniest things that I have seen in a long time. I am sorry if my remark offended you.
A bit fuzzy, but very amusing, Levent. Thanks. 🙂
I’m sorry to hear about the phone calls, Brendano; it’s bad enough being stalked on site, but very shocking when some sick person takes it further. I do hope you take it up with the Police and the DT.
Boadicea's Chariot 
You need to wait a bit to get a clearer image, (to load).
I’m off. Good evening everyone.
Brendan,
If you read, this. I occasionally remember your funniest comment “I was like… he was like.. and Jamie”. This reminded me the comment. Don’t ask why.
Amusing
Yes, Levent, I vaguely remember … something to do with Amicus, I think (as usual). 🙂
Nice post (I think … didn’t read all of it).
I’ve given up on MyT, by the way … I asked them to delete my account, and they did.
Brendano: really? I must admit I’ve been tempted recently to do the same. Each time I visit the site, it feel like I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole into the Underworld. It is becoming a totally unreal or surreal experience.
I only go for the Creative Writing page generally. Occasionally comment on a few other blogs.
Yes, Araminta. It has become highly unreal and surreal, due to being run extremely badly.
Also, the stalking means that it’s not worth the hassle … yesterday a stalker rang my house twice asking to speak to my wife.
So … no going back this time.
Ah, I’m really shocked to hear about that, Brendano. I have to admit that those who dismiss this sort of thing may just take note.
Have you contacted the police? They are taking this sort of thing rather more seriously of late.
Godd grief Brendano, via MyT? That is scary.
BTW I don’t get this ‘story’. Please could someone explain?
Hi Isobel: if you mean the post, it is a rather amusing comment on Realpolitik or shifting relationships.
Brendano’s tale is not in the least bit funny though, and the people who do these things are sick.
Araminta. Hmmm. Ok.
Re stalking etc, yes I think there are some people who frequent MyT and I’m sure all blogsites, who at the least do have quite serious mental health issues, and at the most, severe personality disorders. But it’s one thing to hound and bully someone on the net, another to track him down to his own home and make ‘phone calls there.
Brendano
Don’t forget about the addictive ingredients My T is peddling. Soon you’ll find yourself reading it, laughing at it, questioning posts and bloggers….and then comes the moment that makes sign back in to rectify things in the name of the human race.
So never say never, but enjoy the break and reflect on the fact that there is more to life than blogging, or fighting with rigid opinions.
I had a bit of time latley to think about this, due to my IP adress being suspended, for nothing else but advertising this site and having a go at the moderators. I kind of came to the conclusion that maybe the right wing bloggers should be left to their own and run My T, but then the whole Idea of blogging is to comunicate and challenge opinions, so lets face it, they did deserve the fight you put up. Your problem is that you are out there on your own and a pack of wolves will get what they want if their numbers are sufficent.
See you around here for a while, lets make this site as interesting as My T was all those years ago.
should read…..that makes you sign back in…
Isobel: yes, but it is quite difficult to tell exactly what this will lead to. I’m sure most of them are disturbed or lonely individuals who don’t have normal family relationships, and are frankly in need of help. They are hardly a threat.
How does one know though? It now appears that this sort of thing is escalating. There was an instance quite recently where it was considered reasonable for some idiots to actually phone a bloggers employer, anonymously of course, to complain about blogging from work. I have no idea if the intention was just to silence his comments or to actually try to deprive him of employment.
Are these people really sane? I think not.
And by the way, My T management do not like the extreme right wing to take over their site, judging by the rate of deletion of certain bloggers. Every newspaper has a certain political leaning but for the sake of journalism has to incorporate different points of view.
That’s where My T has become an embarrassment for the Telegraph.
And that’s all I have to say about that.
It does have a certain imbalance Rainer. At the moment is would appear that the lunatics have taken over the asylum.
Let’s see what the Management do, if anything. Pity, it was a good site, but not any more.
Ara
Jamie McNab posted something about My T in its heyday, long before I got there. Whow, what a site!
But I think what is there now is a reflection of the times we are going through and the frustration most people feel. A sad reflection on the population, for even if times are tough and difficult, roses still grow and ought to be smelt!
Jamie is sadly missing from MyT these days, and so are many of my favourite bloggers. It is not too difficult to work out why. I have a tremendous loyalty to MyT, as do most of us, and happy memories of different times, but there is a limit, and when one’s personal life and family become involved, that is it!
Some interesting comments; I agree with them all. Thanks for that sound advice, Rainer. 🙂 It’s a sad reflection on MyT that most of the good people, like yourselves, have come here.
And yes, it was a great site in its time, though it always had a dark side and was always badly run.
‘It’s a sad reflection on MyT that most of the good people, like yourselves, have come here’ … that may sound as if I’m being negative about this site … I didn’t mean to be.
It’s a good reflection on this site that it’s attracted most of the good people from MyT.
If you check out e-safety sites for children – Think-U -Know is the name of a v good one, you’ll see that cyberbullying is being taken extremely seriously in education circles, or rather schools and there’s a lot of work going on to guide children and young people into safe usage.
The behaviours of some of the people on MyT makes me wonder what they are like as neighbours or work colleagues.
Exactly Isobel.
Another angle, Brendano, which you may have already considered, is to devote a little time and money to this. Report it to the police, register it with the Telegraph in the strongest possible terms and then take take legal action against the Telegraph. They will fob you off, but if the Police are involved they are obliged to reveal IP address and this will enable you to nail the bastards.
They may think they are anonymous but this is not the case.
It would appear that it has been noticed, Brendano.
Now expect The Muddled to try and entice you back! 😉
Chuckle!
Isobel (and possibly Araminta if she was not being ironic), you can not be serious!
The’story’ is World War II, told as if it had been a social networking site. and it’s one of the funniest things that I have seen in a long time.
Unless you’re being ironic too and knew all along as well, of course. In which case, Doh!
Levent, thanks.
Going off post, Brendano, good evening. Sad to see your decision, personally.
Nudge nudge, wink wink! Quite amusing really, if it were not so pathetic!
I’m frequently ironic, John, I must try to give it up! 😉
Hello Brendan,
I’m angry.
Brendan, to see the bright side. Obviously you gave those creeps a good shake, see how they cheer. Gave a reason to get out of bed to little gossips. After all it’s kind of charity to help old, impotent, pathetic people.
Sorry JM, I didn’t get it at first, maybe because I commented before the images got clearer, maybe because I was being a bit slow! But once the penny dropped, yes, I agree v witty.
BTW, any action on your page yet?
Isobel, gonnae gie’s a break?
I’m far too busy being ‘Featured Author’ to actually write anything.
Signing autographs I suppose?
Or writer’s block?
Fighting talk, eh?
Fine that, I’ll be back (or possibly not, if it really turns out to be writer’s block).
It’s a bit of a worry, in truth. Thank you for depressing me. Natural state of mind for a Jock, of course, and it might just get the old creative juices flowing.
Oh John, no, how dreadful. But you know how eagerly I am witing for part 5.
Ok pressure off.
But it’d be nice to go to your page and see some new photos or something. And I still haven’t heard Mrs John’s final opinion on Wolf Hall.
I’m finding blogging here a wonderful way of not doing housework. But it is catching up on me. I shall have to mend my ways.
Totally irrelevant. I was furious. Opened facebook and listened to this and cooled down. Not exactly for yor taste though.
Very calming, Levent. Thank you. 🙂
Irony or generousity Araminta? 😉
Gratitude, Levent.
You are embarassing me ma’am.
I took the advice and waited for the picture to clear. It’s excellent. 🙂
I’m glad you liked it Boadicea. Have y seen the directions at the bottom of the page. “FOR PSEU” “FOR BO”? Some one should write “you are here” at the middle. 🙂
Very clever Levent. Thanks. I learned a lot about the language of social networking! What does that tell you?
You are very virtually anti-socail Sipu. 🙂
Good night/morning all!
Levent –
The title should be “A story told differently” “Differently” is the adverb, which correctly qualifies the verb. “Different” is an adjective, which qualifies nouns.
To miss off the adverbial ending makes the phrase sound uneducated, or “low class”. It is extremely bad English.
Please try to avoid posting enormous image files, particularly virtually unreadable blurry ones. A link would have been infinitely preferable. Thanks.
‘The funniest thing I have seen for a long time.’ ‘Very amusing.’
Trivialising the deaths and suffering of millions of people? Nice.
I know, Levent, lets put up a game next. How about, ‘ Blow up some innocent Turkish people?’ You play a PKK terrorist and get points for blowing up markets, buses, houses around police stations and extra points if you kidnap and murder soldiers or policemen.
Brendano. What happened is totally unacceptable. If you would like some advice email me on tjudge@rocketmail.com
It’s also so delicately politically correct, and historically inaccurate. This was the German National Flag from 1933.
I take your point Bravo. I saw it as a way of explaining WWII to some ‘less than interested’ children, many of whom don’t seem to have even heard about it.
Bearsy, errr thanks.
Bravo,
I see your point. However when I change it to WW1 I don’t feel bad.
Levent, even if you put in a post on the lines of ‘Turkey play combined UK/Australia side. Match drawn.’ ?
Still no, Bravo. But, as you know, I meant no disrespect.
Morning, Bravo
I take your point too. And I knew, of course, that the German flag was wrong but did not feel the need to point it out. I just assumed, as you say, that the website where the piece first appeared might have had a problem with the swastika symbol.
To put my previous remark in context, I am an Army brat. Some of my earliest memories are of attending Remembrance Services in various Army camps and bases, standing next to soldiers, including my father, who had served through World War II and who had all lost friends and family members. I make a point of visiting Commonwealth War Graves Commission burial places where ever and when ever I can. We are friends with an Israeli couple who are both survivors of concentration camps.
To this day, I never miss a Remembrance Day service of some sort in honour of my father and mother and of a generation that gave so much to this country.
I am fully aware of the horrors of WWII having studied the topic in Sixth Year at school and having read extensively on it since. I would never dream of
‘trivialising the deaths and suffering of millions of people’.
I do not believe that I was doing so by finding this particular presentation of the bare historical facts of WWII to be one of the funniest things that I have seen in a long time. I am sorry if my remark offended you.
A bit fuzzy, but very amusing, Levent. Thanks. 🙂
I’m sorry to hear about the phone calls, Brendano; it’s bad enough being stalked on site, but very shocking when some sick person takes it further. I do hope you take it up with the Police and the DT.