Yup. I avoided it like the plague. I’ll still avoid it like the flu. But as Jubal Early said…Well. Here I am.
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Do us a favor. Do not post on Twitter during coitus. Thx. 🙂
No promises. 🙂
But don’t worry, you’ll ever know when that’s happening.
Nor, BTW, will I ask my girlfriends to promise not to tweet while having sex with me either (also without you knowing).
As those of us in the kink community will tell you…that might be kind of hot.
But then, you’d have to first be comfortable with the fact that people have sex in the world.
Jubal Early? The Confederate general? Is there an interesting story behind this quote of his?
Haha! No. Those in the know know I mean a black bounty hunter in outer space in another solar system in the fictional future. And, like an ancient orator alluding to a story in Homer so the audience gets a whole huge concept, those who get my Jubal Early reference will get a whole deeper level of amusing understanding of what I was saying and how joining Twitter feels (albeit hyperbolically). Google could get you there. 😉
*cough*BlockBot*cough … Although you may enjoy personally blocking all the unlikeable chodes on Twitter, there are quite a lot to get through!
Yeah. I’m sporting with them for now but that will get old. I’ve already presaged I’ll be blocking folks eventually. But for now they are giving me good practice and a little fun. Eventually I’ll master the blocking options and get back to doing something useful. 😉
It really is weird, as someone who is on Level 1 of the blockbot, to find that someone you have had no Interactions with has blocked you.
Level 1 is:
“Accounts that appear to engage in aggressiveness, threats, harassment, dishonesty in an effort to infiltrate social groups, impersonating someone, posting shock images, encouraging self-harm, spouting dehumanizing rhetoric, promoting hate speech, etc. New accounts that appear to be created to circumvent blocks or participate in harassment campaigns are also often added to this level.”
That’s pretty serious. And you should agree anyone who is caught doing that stuff, no one wants on their feed, sight unseen. But if you are sure you haven’t done any of those things (or anything worse), they have an appeals system.
It’s rather pathetic that they’re *still* going on about Atheism+, when one would have hoped they’d be over that by now and out “scoring chicks” or something with all that red-pill knowledge they’ve absorbed over the years. Anyway, glad to see you on there. I’m not very active for the some of the same reasons you avoided it, but thanks for flushing out a fresh set of obsessives that we can preemptively block (I’m old-school, like Popehat).
Wow! A Firefly reference! Don’t see many of those these days.
I shall always. Firefly is to me as Homer was to the ancient Greeks.
Not exactly a soaring entry into the world of social media. What use is a marketing tool if you complain about the drudgery of using it, to people that enjoy using it? I’m not usually a person who tosses random criticism at people, but this post is very strange and self-defeating.
No one who actually loved Twitter would even think this was odd. Notice all the people who heavily use Twitter who said the same, commiserated with me, or have written online even more detailed sentiments of the same kind. Everyone who actually heavily uses Twitter knows what sucks about it, or can suck about it, and what annoyances it produces. Such as but not only Trolls.
That you don’t know any of this, or indeed pretend not to, even suggests you yourself are a troll. Or else living in one of the weirdest bubbles I’ve ever heard of.
Of course Twitter produces annoyances, but I assure you, there are lots of people who enjoy using it. Absolutely, it is a burden for content creators, it takes up time and energy, and exposes you to tons of rabid critics. However, people who are twitter consumers generally enjoy using it, because they get to connect with media figures that they like and/or admire.
Regretfully dragging your feet as you announce that you can now be followed on twitter is like being at a con and giving a panel, then saying to the eager audience, “I hate doing these conventions!” It clashes with the whole point of the exercise, which is to connect with an audience and get people excited about your media.
Twitter makes me glad I’m not a content creator, because it has become a necessary tool, and I don’t think I’d enjoy using twitter at all. But saying so seems counterproductive. Starting off use of a tool to increase excitement / engagement / audience numbers with a wet blanket statement.
Good grief Dr. Carrier, if your girlfriends are getting on Twitter while you are having sex with them then you need some help. If you can’t satisfy your girlfriends or even keep them occupied, I don’t think you are quite the player that you think you are.
Don’t fret though, technology in strap on dildos and clitoral stimulating devices has advanced to the point where even the most meagerly endowed man can satisfy a woman. Since you have previously expressed that you have no fear of getting another man’s semen on your face, there is another solution to your problem. A well endowed cuckold can satisfy your girlfriends leaving you only to worry about satisfying yourself and dodging wayward loads.
Happy tweeting!
Aw. I feel sorry for sad folk who can’t tell the difference between reality and fantasy. And who think the fun of sex is all about orgasms and not, actually, having fun.
Of course, I haven’t had sex with anyone while tweeting yet. As one could have told from my comment.
But as I said, if we did, we’d be giggling and having fun with it. Because that’s actually hot. I’ve debated philosophy with a lover while having sex with her. I’ve had lovers who have blown me while I try to answer comments on this blog. Or to prove they can do every standard sexual thing with a glass of wine in their hand without spilling it.
You, by contrast, evidently have no idea what fun sex can be. Or haven’t had lovers who do. And that’s just really, really sad. 🙂
@”Ronald J. Hyatt”
Why are you trying to obviously invent stuff that isn’t there? Are you trying to make people think you have poor reading skills or an unbalanced obsessed mind? Also, I suspect you are not the famous Ron Jeremy, trolls often use famous names for some reason. I recommend getting a bit of therapy for your illogical decision to post that comment (and who knows how many others across the internet, along with anything similar you do in meatspace).
There’s a kink community? Okee dokee.
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Me, I love Twitter. It’s pretty much the place to be for news, stuff you like and opinions which you don’t necessarily share. Someone can retweet something that you may not agree with but that’s a good thing for obvious reasons.
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It forces you to be concise. Some people don’t get concision. They need to waffle or to tell you their life story. Nope. None of that on Twitter. I say this a lot: some of Steve Jobs’ emails were precisely one word long.
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I hope you get to like Twitter. Some social networks I don’t like and I stay away from. But that’s another matter.
Uh, yeah. Kink community is huge.
Mazel Tov to Doc Carrier! Now all the religious warriors who hide behind their computers can blast Richard on Twitter!
If you do start Tweeting sexy words, prepare for an inundation of pornbots!