Why ??!!...The whinging,moaning,complaining,ranting,letting off steam thread !!

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  • edited July 2023 Posts: 1,708
    Venutius wrote: »
    Hooky from Joy Division once admitted to faking Ian Curtis's autograph on items he was selling on e-bay - you can't trust any of em, man!

    Jimi once sgd for another band member when the other guy was drunk , Beatles also forged each others sigs :P

    Kevins forger is a clown : post death items sgd by celebs like Robert Shaw/Bruce Lee , Bowie dated '17 when he died 2016 , un-inscribed West/Newmars despite them being strict about insc at cons - i met them 2015/16 so know this from personal experience. 'Robin' when Ward adds "Robin" or just Robin. (West had been insc since 2004 or so.....I guess Newmar noticed this and started doing this herself.....no point with photos as insc can be wiped off easily)

    Had the forger been clever he wouldve used a chinese record "signed" by Lee but even then the sig would be off. Forgers struggle with the dragon symbol Lee used to write ;)

    Funny how a sharpie Shaw sig i saw had no fading despite alleged being from 70s , already here theres a problem. Also Shaw never finished Avalanche Express cuz he died so how then could he sign a pr still , obviously these printed post death. Same with Way of Dragon french lobby sgd by Lee , premiere was xmas '74 when Lee had been dead 1.5 yrs

    *facepalm*

    There are legit dealers but they struggle due to the conmen
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    So, am on holidays from the job ( we always close for 3 weeks at this time every year!) Dont plan on going away (considering whats happening with soaring temperatures, that's prob a good thing, I dont like extreme heat!) and have tons of work to do on the house, back garden getting redone, and the builders playing silly buggers, not turning up every day, so I thought I would get on and do the few things I need to do on rest of house.....and I've just done my back in, didnt follow my manual handling training and lifted something wrong way!
    So am munching painkillers, and stinking up the house with 'deep heat' Bah!!
  • SIS_HQSIS_HQ At the Vauxhall Headquarters
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    I still have my old twitter (the one with the bird logo),the new one (X) was already available in Google Play for update.

    I still don't want to update my twitter 😅, I still prefer it as it is, even sometimes it's having a hard time retrieving tweets, I'm just going to refresh it and wait for minutes or so, until it goes back to normal again.

    Why to update it?
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    SIS_HQ wrote: »
    I still have my old twitter (the one with the bird logo),the new one (X) was already available in Google Play for update.

    I still don't want to update my twitter 😅, I still prefer it as it is, even sometimes it's having a hard time retrieving tweets, I'm just going to refresh it and wait for minutes or so, until it goes back to normal again.

    Why to update it?

    Oh that's what the X in my feed is? Twitter turned X? I thought I had gone on a porn website or something. (By mistake of course.) No but seriously, what a terrible rebranding!
  • SIS_HQSIS_HQ At the Vauxhall Headquarters
    edited July 2023 Posts: 3,789
    Ludovico wrote: »
    SIS_HQ wrote: »
    I still have my old twitter (the one with the bird logo),the new one (X) was already available in Google Play for update.

    I still don't want to update my twitter 😅, I still prefer it as it is, even sometimes it's having a hard time retrieving tweets, I'm just going to refresh it and wait for minutes or so, until it goes back to normal again.

    Why to update it?

    Oh that's what the X in my feed is? Twitter turned X? I thought I had gone on a porn website or something. (By mistake of course.) No but seriously, what a terrible rebranding!

    Agreed! I just don't liked what they've done with it!
    I still prefer Twitter, that's why I'm not still updating it.

    And I don't know why Elon Musk is so obsessed with X? He tried to align it with Musk X, Tesla X, and just I discovered that his company was also named X.

    I mean, what's with his obsession of X?

    Oh, now, I'm thinking that X Factor should make Elon Musk a judge. 😅
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited July 2023 Posts: 18,271
    SIS_HQ wrote: »
    I still have my old twitter (the one with the bird logo),the new one (X) was already available in Google Play for update.

    I still don't want to update my twitter 😅, I still prefer it as it is, even sometimes it's having a hard time retrieving tweets, I'm just going to refresh it and wait for minutes or so, until it goes back to normal again.

    Why to update it?

    Mine (@Dragonpol if anyone wants to follow me) updated automatically on my phone from the Twitter bird symbol to X. It's a strange rebranding. I'm not really sure what Elon Musk is trying to achieve but he's clearly upset a lot of users, some of whom have defected to Meta's new rival to Twitter, Threads. I have an account over there too (as @dragonpol93 ) but don't have many followers and not much seems to be happening there as yet.
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    I'm sure our next Bond villain will be an Elon Musk type. Satellites, rebranding, control the world.
  • echoecho 007 in New York
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    CrabKey wrote: »
    I'm sure our next Bond villain will be an Elon Musk type. Satellites, rebranding, control the world.

    I'd go banco on that.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited July 2023 Posts: 18,271
    CrabKey wrote: »
    I'm sure our next Bond villain will be an Elon Musk type. Satellites, rebranding, control the world.

    A new Hugo Drax type villain perhaps? There certainly are similarities there.
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    I sure hope not! One real life Elon Musk is enough. And I often find evil businessmen boring.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    I sure hope not! One real life Elon Musk is enough. And I often find evil businessmen boring.

    I imagine much like all the stir about Trump and Brexit somehow featuring in NTTD (even from Purvis and Wade themselves) it'll come to nothing and not be referenced at all. Bond films are often much more subtle in their cultural and political references than that and for very good reason. It helps avoid immediately dating the film, for one thing.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    Judging from Musk's most recent political utterings and reinstatements of the likes of TFG and Kanye West on what used to be Twitter, my best guess is he chose the X since it's so easy to add ninety-degree hooks to the cross bars at some time in the future.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited January 25 Posts: 18,271
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    Judging from Musk's most recent political utterings and reinstatements of the likes of TFG and Kanye West on what used to be Twitter, my best guess is he chose the X since it's so easy to add ninety-degree hooks to the cross bars at some time in the future.

    The Cross Wasn't Heavy Enough yet as a German anti-Nazi poster of the time put it, depicting Christ and the cross being added to by a brown shirted Nazi in order to turn it into a swastika.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    Dragonpol wrote: »
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    Judging from Musk's most recent political utterings and reinstatements of the likes of TFG and Kanye West on what used to be Twitter, my best guess is he chose the X since it's so easy to add ninety-degree hooks to the cross bars at some time in the future.

    The Cross Wasn't Heavy Enough as a German anti-Nazi poster of the time put it, depicting Christ and the cross being added to by a brownshirted Nazi in order to turn it into a swastika.

    I don't know the example you quote but it sounds like it goes in the same direction. See https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/opinion/elon-musk-twitter-x.html for further enlightenment.

  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    Judging from Musk's most recent political utterings and reinstatements of the likes of TFG and Kanye West on what used to be Twitter, my best guess is he chose the X since it's so easy to add ninety-degree hooks to the cross bars at some time in the future.

    The Cross Wasn't Heavy Enough as a German anti-Nazi poster of the time put it, depicting Christ and the cross being added to by a brownshirted Nazi in order to turn it into a swastika.

    I don't know the example you quote but it sounds like it goes in the same direction. See https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/opinion/elon-musk-twitter-x.html for further enlightenment.

    You'll find a picture of the poster here:

    https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-heartfield/concerning-the-german-state-church-the-cross-wasnt-heavy-enough-yet
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    Yeah, I know those John Heartfield (actually Helmut Herzfeld) posters and appreciate them for their anti-Nazi sentiment. Including this one.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
    edited July 2023 Posts: 18,271
    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    Yeah, I know those John Heartfield (actually Helmut Herzfeld) posters and appreciate them for their anti-Nazi sentiment. Including this one.

    Yes, I know he did the famous swastika with axe ends image as well. He was well ahead of the curve and could clearly see early on that nothing good was ever going to come from Nazism/fascism at a time when many were still unsure or even hopeful.
  • SIS_HQSIS_HQ At the Vauxhall Headquarters
    edited July 2023 Posts: 3,789
    As of now, the twitter logo in my phone suddenly changed logo, maybe because it turned off due to drained/low battery, then when it turned on, there it is! 😓

    Urrrrghhhh! This is really terrible! I don't really liked the logo of it! It's really terrible, it looks like a logo or an icon for a bitcoin trading app! 8-|

    Now, I can see to myself that Elon Musk must be laughing on me! 😒
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    X marks the spot where the rot set in.
  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
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    Give it a little time to see what Musk does with Twitter. I'm not a fan of such a household name and logo disappearing, but remember, back around the turn of the millennium, Musk merged his X.com with another company to create PayPal, and I use that service all the time and swear by it and the very handy pay-in-4 option.
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    X really looks like I have a porn app on my phone.
  • CommanderRossCommanderRoss The bottom of a pitch lake in Eastern Trinidad, place called La Brea
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    Ludovico wrote: »
    X really looks like I have a porn app on my phone.

    indeed. Very confusing and a huge turnoff, when you want to watch some nature film and you end up with something politically correct Obama is saying...
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    QBranch wrote: »
    Give it a little time to see what Musk does with Twitter. I'm not a fan of such a household name and logo disappearing, but remember, back around the turn of the millennium, Musk merged his X.com with another company to create PayPal, and I use that service all the time and swear by it and the very handy pay-in-4 option.

    Yes, and I suppose he's entitled to do with it what he likes after he purchased it. He did pay a lot of money for it and I gather it was a losing concern so something has to be done to turn things around and he's hopefully in the process of doing that. Fingers crossed. 🤞
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    Musk can do what he likes with what he purchased, that's not the problem. I just find the decision questionable from a branding perspective. People know Twitter, heck it gave a new meaning to the word "tweet". It's a bit like changing Coca-Cola for Shadow Drink.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    Dragonpol wrote: »
    QBranch wrote: »
    Give it a little time to see what Musk does with Twitter. I'm not a fan of such a household name and logo disappearing, but remember, back around the turn of the millennium, Musk merged his X.com with another company to create PayPal, and I use that service all the time and swear by it and the very handy pay-in-4 option.

    Yes, and I suppose he's entitled to do with it what he likes after he purchased it. He did pay a lot of money for it and I gather it was a losing concern so something has to be done to turn things around and he's hopefully in the process of doing that. Fingers crossed. 🤞

    I guess I'm crossing my fingers in the other direction. I won't miss Twitter (not being a member, to be sure), and much less if it is renamed to a questionable "X", with hooks at the ends of the crossbars or without. Let Musk totally tank with this and lose most of his billions in the process - fine with me. I think those types of deranged gazillionaires are the premier scourge to humanity. And yes, I do buy a lot from Amazon...but only for as long as Bezos does not openly propagate or provide a platform for quasi-fascist nonsense like Musk does.
  • DragonpolDragonpol https://thebondologistblog.blogspot.com
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    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    Dragonpol wrote: »
    QBranch wrote: »
    Give it a little time to see what Musk does with Twitter. I'm not a fan of such a household name and logo disappearing, but remember, back around the turn of the millennium, Musk merged his X.com with another company to create PayPal, and I use that service all the time and swear by it and the very handy pay-in-4 option.

    Yes, and I suppose he's entitled to do with it what he likes after he purchased it. He did pay a lot of money for it and I gather it was a losing concern so something has to be done to turn things around and he's hopefully in the process of doing that. Fingers crossed. 🤞

    I guess I'm crossing my fingers in the other direction. I won't miss Twitter (not being a member, to be sure), and much less if it is renamed to a questionable "X", with hooks at the ends of the crossbars or without. Let Musk totally tank with this and lose most of his billions in the process - fine with me. I think those types of deranged gazillionaires are the premier scourge to humanity. And yes, I do buy a lot from Amazon...but only for as long as Bezos does not openly propagate or provide a platform for quasi-fascist nonsense like Musk does.

    That's fair enough. I know there is a lot of nastiness on Twitter too. I stay within the #BondTwitter limits on there and don't get involved in petty arguments about politics or any other controversial subjects. It makes for a more fun experience that way. The X symbol is not at the correct angle to turn it into a hooked cross or swastika and I doubt that Musk would ever be so overt, controversial as he may be.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
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    I can't stand most of today's popular music. I've come to this conclusion (maybe "again") tonight, since our neighbour's daughter (in a nice section of single detached one-family homes in a suburban/rural community), is celebrating her fifteenths birthday. It was announced to the neighbours, and neither my wife and I are spoil-sports (in spite of my age I remember being fifteen myself), but the fact we are not complaining about the noise (I rarely go to bed before midnight anyway, and it is 22:45 right now) doesn't mean that we enjoy the music. It's all the same stuff with electronic drums and autotune and identical rhythms and so on. My wife says she never enjoyed rock music with guitar solos etc. (of the bands from the 60s to, say, the 90s - she never got into those in her home) either, but for me this is a very big break. The music they play tonight sounds as if it was all created by the same computer program. I refused to listen and quite even turning on any radio station when Rap came out, but it seems to be all over the place now. I'll be glad when the party tonight is over, though I hope those young people have fun until then.
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    j_w_pepper wrote: »
    I can't stand most of today's popular music. I've come to this conclusion (maybe "again") tonight, since our neighbour's daughter (in a nice section of single detached one-family homes in a suburban/rural community), is celebrating her fifteenths birthday. It was announced to the neighbours, and neither my wife and I are spoil-sports (in spite of my age I remember being fifteen myself), but the fact we are not complaining about the noise (I rarely go to bed before midnight anyway, and it is 22:45 right now) doesn't mean that we enjoy the music. It's all the same stuff with electronic drums and autotune and identical rhythms and so on. My wife says she never enjoyed rock music with guitar solos etc. (of the bands from the 60s to, say, the 90s - she never got into those in her home) either, but for me this is a very big break. The music they play tonight sounds as if it was all created by the same computer program. I refused to listen and quite even turning on any radio station when Rap came out, but it seems to be all over the place now. I'll be glad when the party tonight is over, though I hope those young people have fun until then.

    The funny thing is, a lot of the most notable pop artists and acts in the last twenty years+ have songs produced by the same record producers, which no doubt have had an impact on what modern pop sound like. Just look at Max Martin: he's produced hits for famous names like Coldplay, Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, The Weeknd, Ariana Grande, Lady Gaga, just to name a few.
  • VenutiusVenutius Yorkshire
    edited August 2023 Posts: 3,152
    The older I get, the more Meldrew I get! I love music but if I can hear anyone else's I hate it, no matter what it is. And I hate any kind of parties, man. Gatherings of people...it's not for me. No, I'm not a psycho - I'm a nice bloke when I'm in a room on my own and I can't see or hear anyone else... ;)
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