Dave_the_Proc

Dave_the_Proc

  • Commented on Yet another novel I will no longer write
    Consider this another regular successfully harassed from these pages. The unrepentant piece-of-shit that masquerades as some enlightened life-form wishes to have it both ways: to claim both unimaginable power to predict and influence events beyond this blog, and to deny...
  • Commented on Yet another novel I will no longer write
    Well, I certainly wouldn't want anyone to get "worked up" for no particular reason....
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    Not sure whether I will post further on this, as I'd rather like to let the subject drop at this point and anger is exhausting. The original threats came in a nicely packaged cluster starting around comment 2195 in Charlie's...
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    As TMN no doubt is aware, there is very little that can meaningfully be done about any threats or harassment on Charlie's blog. The only direct action that can be taken is to start reporting posts containing harassing or threatening...
  • Commented on Yet another novel I will no longer write
    No. I do not consider you to be swimming in the same cesspool as TMN and the fools who court their attention and lionise their contributions. It would be better if you completely ignored them. Refuse to engage at all....
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    Frankly I’ve reached the point of seeing anyone who excuses the behaviour of TMN and interacts with them, let alone defends their odious posts, as nothing short of unforgivably amoral. They are excusing on line harassment and occasional outright physical...
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    Greg, not just a troll, they are also a vicious hypocritical bully. They have directly harassed at least two posters off this forum (one of whom cited mental health concerns resulting from the level of harassment as the reason for...
  • Commented on Update to Public Appearances in a time of pandemic
    Greg @761: Moronic (at best), but not unexpected from the DUP’s usual band of religious extremist cockwombles. You may also have missed the attempts by both Unionists and Nationalists to make political hay from the crisis by finding ways to...
  • Commented on Update to Public Appearances in a time of pandemic
    Heteromeles @640: Thank you! That provided a much needed belly laugh today. EC @634: Please feel free to delve as far into explanations drawing on your career in maths and stats as you wish. I may not always understand the...
  • Commented on Update to Public Appearances in a time of pandemic
    While not wanting to muscle in on the oracular monopoly currently operating on this blog, I now predict: 1) You will called an idiot. 2) You will be called a fucking idiot. 3) You will be told "you're fucked". 4)...
  • Commented on COVID-19
    This is not a situation where logic or common sense applies. Picture a culture that has spent over 300 years establishing it's "victim" narrative, even to the point where when they unambiguously held all the levers of power and oppressed...
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    I'm well aware of this. The implications of this in Northern Ireland, where this policy intersects with the height of certain "cultural celebrations" which have typically taken a very dim view of being cancelled or restricted, become complex and difficult...
  • Commented on COVID-19
    Whole different kettle of miscellaneous swimming things! And that's before we even start to think about what will happen if the crisis extends into the summer months with further bans on public gatherings and events....
  • Commented on COVID-19
    So far the reaction has been muted, and mostly of the variety: "Ah well. That seems reasonable." St Patrick's Day in Ireland as a bit different to the big NorAm events, and even more so in Northern Ireland. The big...
  • Commented on COVID-19
    Two school closures and first large office closure here in NI. All St Patrick’s Day celebrations across Ireland (North & South) “postponed”....
  • Commented on COVID-19
    Absolutely. In most cases it is of course a case of “being seen to do something”, rather than actually doing something effective. In most cases the “secure pods” provided for out of hours storage could be opened in about 3...
  • Commented on COVID-19
    Dirk is trolling, don’t feed him. Along with sneering superciliously at all the “fuddy-duddy” commenters, it seems to be the only reason he pops up these days....
  • Commented on COVID-19
    I will add (as other posters have commented) there are valid security reasons for having a clear desk policy, or at the very least ensuring that all paperwork and notes are cleared, but the objectionable part in my anecdote is...
  • Commented on COVID-19
    You’re thinking wrong about the clear desk policy: 1) Ensure that membership of “good practice groups” feeds into employee’s regular performance reviews. 2) Create a “Good Security Practice” group. 3) Fold the “clear desk policy” into the company security standards...
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    Not wanting to divert the thread, but apropos of the comments up thread I have to express my utter visceral bone-deep hatred of open-plan offices, exacerbated by the fact that the senior management who blabber on about how it increases...
  • Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
    I live here and there’s plenty of areas I’d avoid wandering around on my own! Hope you got one of the tours with a real live guide, and not the bland pre-recorded one....
  • Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
    Spend a day in productive work and miss out on the wholesale denigration and slagging of the north-west corner of your homeland! Ho hum. Seriously though, Derry (please don't bother with the "Stroke City" Derry/Londonderry stuff, it only matters to...
  • Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
    The wholesale vandalism of the rail network in NI was truly despicable, and to this day, public transport west of the River Bann is atrocious — some bus service, no rail links (except the line to Derry; which I do...
  • Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
    And even if Brexit wasn't happening, and the money was there, and the engineering problems were solved, there are still the NI politics to be resolved that ensured no motorway link between Dublin and Belfast for 50 years, and no...
  • Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
    We also have an all-singing all-dancing chorus line of rainbow unicorns on crack. The leprechaun-staffed construction crews are also standing by......
  • Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
    Preaching to the choir, Charlie. Preaching to the choir. I'm less depressed by Johnson's obvious misdirection and smoke-and-mirrors vanity projects, than by the expected reaction from certain elements of the NI political landscape (who will be unable to help themselves...
  • Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
    In today's today's "Is it satire or is it real" news: Real possibility of Sinn Fein being part of RoI government; and Number 10 spokesperson announces that Johnson has commissioned a serious study of a Scotland-Ireland bridge. I've had enough...
  • Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
    Thanks Greg! That is indeed the right link. Not sure how I banjaxed it. [[ 'smart' quotes I'm afraid - mod ]]...
  • Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
    Very off topic, but since we’re way into the 700’s I think there might be a few folks who find this interesting. Does anyone remember the occasional commenter David C Shipley, a proponent of Brexit and self-confessed producer of the...
  • Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
    "Bake Off" is a bit of an outlier. Strictly speaking it falls within the "incompetence porn" category, but seems to have taken pains to remove the hyper-competitive and confrontational aspects. I suspect it is highly successful by tapping into the...
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