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Old = Expensive. Especially cars.

Bob — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 13:30:02 +0000

So this morning I was driving my 1978 Merc Coupe to the office, when my fuel cage suddenly dropped to 0, and I ended up pushing the car to the side of the road. Ok, no big deal, I have a 5l jerrycan for situations just like this. Unfortunately, I forgot to fill it up after I took out the petrol for the lawnmower last week!

Ah well, got a lift to the nearest petrol station, got my jerrycan filled up, and drove to the petrol station again to fill up the car. While I was there, I figured it’d be a good idea to pump up the tires, and top up the engine oil. So I spend $120 on petrol, $50 on engine oil, and a fiver for a can of red bull (yes, terrible idea for breakfast, I know!)

After pouring the engine oil in, I went ahead and tried to close the bonnet, when I heard a SNAP! somewhere – crap. So now, my bonnet somehow leans to the right hand side, and wont close properly anymore. Had to drive it to the nearest garage going 30k/h on a 70k road, because all I had was a shoestring to hold the bonnet down! Figured I might as well let them do a service on the car, seeing it hasn’t had one in a few years now.

I have the feeling I’d better bring in an extra credit card when I go pick it up…

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Worst Captcha Ever

Bob — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 05:37:45 +0000

wtf.

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PayPal Limited your account? Don’t worry!

Bob — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 05:50:01 +0000

You are still allowed to use PayPal logos in your auction listings or website!

If you have a PayPal donate button on your site, make sure you are a registered non-profit organization or charity, otherwise PayPal will ban you. Just like that.

Russian Robber Turns Sex Slave in Russia – Again?

Bob — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:02:00 +0000

I don’t know why, but it looks like some newspapers are really struggling to get new material, so they rehash old stories, which were probably never real in the first place.

Whatever happened to the Principles of journalism?

Democracy depends on citizens having reliable, accurate facts put in a meaningful context. Journalism does not pursue truth in an absolute or philosophical sense, but it can–and must–pursue it in a practical sense. This “journalistic truth” is a process that begins with the professional discipline of assembling and verifying facts. Then journalists try to convey a fair and reliable account of their meaning, valid for now, subject to further investigation. Journalists should be as transparent as possible about sources and methods so audiences can make their own assessment of the information. Even in a world of expanding voices, accuracy is the foundation upon which everything else is built–context, interpretation, comment, criticism, analysis and debate. The truth, over time, emerges from this forum. As citizens encounter an ever greater flow of data, they have more need–not less–for identifiable sources dedicated to verifying that information and putting it in context.

This is the oldest copy (15 April 2009) I found of the Russian Robber story, who became a tied-up, viagra fed, sex slave to a martial arts hairdresser in Moscow. Link.

*Edit Looks like I wasn’t the only one who noticed this.

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How to get 236.000 visitors in 2 weeks

Bob — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:04:21 +0000

You copy and post a funny top 21 reasons why English sucks list in 2008 – wait for three years till someone stumbles it, and profit!

Perv

Bob — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 07:05:50 +0000

Definition

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Google Priority Inbox – Please Work.

Bob — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:37:24 +0000

Google mail, or gmail, introduced something new just now – Priority Inbox helps you get through it faster by putting the most important mail at the top of your inbox.

Wonder if this will do me any good.

And to think I completely emptied this account 2 months ago. Guess thats what you get for having one of the most generic email addresses in the world. You wouldn’t believe all the account details, order details, private emails and membership details that I get every week, because people used my email address for some reason.

From amazon login details, to password resets for myspace, twitter, facebook and other accounts, to billing statement, love letters, business memos, cheating housewives, and personal holiday pictures.

Here’s an example you might enjoy
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And yes, feel free to try that free bangbros account. Some John Jones is taking care of the bill.

Did Imran Naseem really just say this?

Bob — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:35:31 +0000

Woohee! This one nearly made me wet my pants! Imran is now calling out other Warrior Forum members, accusing them of rehashing money making methods!

Because last time Imran was caught, stealing someone elses report, and flogging it as his own WSO, he managed to cry hard and long enough for the WF mods to remove his thread. No body, no case right? So I got the Google Cache links for this thread.

Anyway, I am referring to: Part 1 – Part 2

And look at this screenshot. Notice how he has a hard time justifying a $27 purchase, yet in his signature, he’s claiming that he is making thousands of dollars per month from facebook, another couple of thousand from offline schemes, and how he makes a fortune on YouTube.

Then he goes ahead, pretends to buy the product, and have a ~250 review just 10 minutes later, trashing the report (der!) So spiteful and petty that he’s trying hard to ruin someone elses WSO.

Here’s a few astonishing things that Imran actually said to this WSO seller:

The report is just a rehash of existing methods you can find on the Internet.

I can show you proof but for a measly amount of money I think you have shot yourself in the foot by not only making yourself look like a complete fool but also someone who I have no intention of doing business with.

And now that we’re on the subject of Imran Naseem (yet again) I’d also like to make a quick reply to “Jim” who left a comment on one of the other Imran posts here. “Jim” seems to be the only person who loves Imran.

1. Bob, I think this blog is bullshit. You start a blog to bash a guy whose products you’ve never purchased? – No, I did not start this blog to bash a guy whose products I never purchased. It just so happens that he caught my interest when he was acting like an assclown. I wrote a few posts regarding Mr Imran Naseem himself, not his products. That’s all.

2. Sounds like most of the people on this forum have never bought anything from Imran, so your credibility as an “authority” is dubious, at best. – Hold on, back up there. We’re talking about a post on my blog here. Not any forums. You didn’t just copy and paste your comment as a “damage control” effort did you? And hey, I never claimed to be an authority, on anything for that matter.

3. Regarding all your “rehashing” points – I think you’re a bit off comparing Imran’s steal-copy-paste-sell-profit “business model” with teachers, athletes, coaches, and surgeons, that practice a respectable profession.

4. Would you give up on a profitable niche if you were making great money with it? – Would you show everyone else how you are making thousands and thousands of dollars per week, in a $5 report? Wouldn’t that be shooting yourself in the foot?

5. so you have to bash someone else in a feeble attempt to make yourself look better – You mean like constantly throwing around accusations of scamming and slurs, shouting at the top of your lungs that you have proof, but when people ask for it, you don’t have any proof to present?

6. I am not here to defend anybody, but those of you who are bashing someone who does an effective job at providing GOOD training information to his buyers (at a reasonable price), without your even having read the material you are bashing, must have your own hidden agenda, which is more transparent than you may think. – The only agenda I have is to make sure as many people as possible are aware of what a scammer Imran Naseem really is, and hopefully they can save a bit of money and some frustration.

Seriously “Jim” I’m just wondering how much Imran paid you to write up that 711 word comment. And on how many blog posts/forum threads you’re spinning it to help salvage whatever is left of your reputation, Imran.

My advice to people who found this post while searching on Google for Imran Naseem products, do not waste your time or money.

Funny Facebook

Bob — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:15:17 +0000

Mark Suckerberg must be having a chuckle or two, emailing me these, AFTER my account was disabled by him.

Jerk.

*Names of friends were erased.

I Quit Facebook

Bob — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:00:26 +0000

Well, actually Facebook quit me. I tried to login today and found myself staring at this screen…

Uhhhh, what? I didn’t receive the memo to let me know that the last 4 years of my facebook life have been eradicated by one of the facebook support drones.

Suddenly for the online world I have ceased to exist. My wife is no longer married to me according to her profile. All my Facebook friends think I deleted them from my friends list. My 110,000 members fanpage has been deleted. My family and friends who literally live on the other side of the world have no way to get in touch with me anymore.

Guess they’ll all have to miss out on the baby photos I was going to post in a few days, when my firstborn is scheduled to login to the world.

It’s kinda scary how dependent people become on 3rd party services. Facebook has quietly taken mass control of a whole lot of people’s online identities. And they can do with it as they please. Why do we call it a “social network” if they can so easily put someone in social isolation? I have no idea what most of my friends are up to now.

Like this morning, I got an update from a family member, who needed some emotional support. As soon as I found out about her situation, I gave her a call. She felt a lot better afterwards. Well tough titties for anyone else from now on. If you’re having a cry on Facebook, don’t expect me to know about it. I’m not allowed to play with the other kids anymore.

We really should take a step back and make sure we see the big picture – don’t take ANYTHING online for granted. What’s here today might easily be gone tomorrow. And it doesn’t take a hurricane or a war to blast you back into the middle-ages. All it takes is the click of a mouse, or the touch of a button of one of Mark Zuckerberg’s minions.

The bright side of a situation like this, is that I did some research and found a lot of troublesome information regarding Facebook. We’ve all heard about the privacy issues with Facebook, but did you know for example, that Mark Zuckerberg stumbled upon the creation of facebook, because he was trying to create a site where he could judge and compare people, based on the way they looked?

I’m a little intoxicated, not gonna lie. So what if it’s not even 10 p.m. and it’s a Tuesday night? What? The Kirkland [dorm] facebook is open on my desktop and some of these people have pretty horrendous facebook pics. I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive.
—9:48 pm
Yea, it’s on. I’m not exactly sure how the farm animals are going to fit into this whole thing (you can’t really ever be sure with farm animals…), but I like the idea of comparing two people together.
—11:09 pm
Let the hacking begin.
—12:58 am

He managed to get some sort of system going, by hacking into the Harvard University Network, and copying PRIVATE dormitory ID images. (identity theft anyone?) Soon after that, he and three other students started working on a site called HarvardConnection.com, but just a week into the project, Zuckerberg’s intentions turned out to be the opposite of a cooperation – He used their ideas to build a competing product; Facebook.

Zuckerberg then abused his website, by going through the logs, retrieving users passwords, and accessing their private emails. What a great guy eh? I guess the dumb fucks deserved it.

There’s a big ‘ol list of questions and doubts regarding Facebook as a company. But, what can we do? Facebook is MASSIVE. There’s no stopping it. Zuckerberg will own the world one day, and there is nobody that can stop him.

(PS I do have a slight suspicion as to why my Facebook account was disabled – I added some advertising on my 110K+ fanpage two days ago. Perhaps they didn’t like that).