I read the news today oh boy! Page 1,960

Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 16th October 2017, 1:27 PM

Surely they are safe when turned off, which I'm getting into the habit of doing.

Yeah, but they're not very useful while powered down. Just keep an eye open for an update for your iPhone or Android phone. Also update Windows/MacOS on your laptop and other computers. And your wireless router, assuming that you have one.

When you connect to a password-protected wifi access point a lot of work goes on behind the scenes in order to encrypt your data. There are "handshakes" that take place as your device negotiates an encrypted connection, and the researcher found a way to thwart this process. If they haven't already been created, there will soon be easy-to-use programs that will enable any guy with a laptop or phone to sit somewhere and see all of the traffic that is being sent to/from vulnerable devices. You're still somewhat safe if you're connecting to a properly secured/encrypted website or service, but a lot of sensitive data will still be sent in the clear.

Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ 14th October 2017, 10:44 AM

Women have been happily titillating men with their bodies and sexual personas since we were all in caves

Porn star Debbi Ashe says, 'People criticise my job but I LOVE it! In fact we girls have more fun being photographed than you guys do looking at us.' Do it for free then. Actually no, you pay me.

Wow dude your hatred of any women involved in the glamour industry borders on being psychotic

What's up fella? Your mum walk into your room one day whilst you were chuggin off over a copy of Razzle?

Ok we get it, you don't like to see attractive women in sexy or pornographic poses - but your loathing and vitriol towards these people is pretty vile - they are human beings too

Number of interesting conversations I have: 456508.
Number of people who gives a flying f**k what I think anyway: 0.
Number of people who both give said f**k and would even dream of letting it influence what they thought before: -54659076597635690.
Like my bottom after a curry, this has been running for days so I should put a sock in it.
I'm actually in favour of porn. Yes, in favour - not against or indifferent - as long as it remains limited and honest. What the f**k does that mean?
What I object to is not porn but the constant bombardment with sexual images. When I was a teen, well I'm not saying things were better - they were probably worse as there was more hypocrisy - but at least we had an idea(l) that women should be respected and not degraded into objects. Sure, there were women who used sex for money - Madonna, Sabrina, Sam Fox etc - but a) they were hardly the aspiration, and b) men who enjoyed were not cool, deserving 'lads' mags': they were sad cases who couldn't get any proper sex. Years ago I read an interview with punk band Anti-Nowhere League and they said a nowhere is a type of person and the journo / band pinpointed 'having to look at Page 3 for erotic stimulation' as classic nowhere behaviour.
Now it's the opposite. It seems every female celeb has to have this three-month-in transformation: WOW, she's had a RADICAL CHANGE OF IMAGE!!! This is English for 'looks like a wank study at last, phew'. For me, the Page 3ers, Miley Cyruses, Playboy 'models' etc are far more damaging to society because:
1. Men are fed this stuff every day so they lose their sensitivity. I love a bit of porn occasionally, but it's not healthy to have a pornographic image shoved in your face over breakfast. Sure, most guys don't take it so seriously, but it's a dangerous path to open just cos papers wanna make money.
2. Young girls get the idea that this is the way forward. Porn models do a job, end of story; many Page 3 girls go on to have careers (Jordan the celeb, Sam Fox the singer etc) so women are told that degrading their body is not only OK but respectable. The vibe today is, 'WOW, look at Rihanna etc. Shit songs, but THOSE TITTIES'... I teach girls and it genuinely worries me to see them bombarded with images they can't possibly reach (and even if they could, why? Since when have money and jizz been the greatest goal?). Girls genuinely start thinking this is what Katy Perry loks like first thing in the morning, so why can't they?
Of course I like to see beautiful, sexy women. But there's a limit. If that makes me a prude, fine.

But instead of turning your disgust towards the men who want that culture and enable it, you turn it towards the women only.
Which is odd.

50/50... This is another problem. How many people are actually forced into it?

Quite a number I'd imagine.

Here's a headline you don't see every day:

"Accused cop-killer Travis Boys halts jury selection by rubbing feces on his face"

http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2017/10/accused_cop-killer_travis_boys_4.html

Quote: SSTT @ 14th October 2017, 11:22 PM

The world as we know it would collapse if women downed tools.

Oh no!

Saw this on the news a few months ago. A dog wanders on to a stage while an orchestra is performing an open air concert in Turkey. Watch the conductor look at the mutt and clearly thinking WTAF but he doesn't drop a note.

I don't give a f**k about Halloween. How many Americans give a f**k about Guy Fawkes' Night? F**k you.

There used to be only one good thing about Halloween - it used to stop shops putting Christmas stuff up until November.
But now that role has been taken over by Easter, I agree, Halloween can do one.
As can New Years Eve, IMHO.
We've just had Christmas FFS.

Quote: Lazzard @ 31st October 2017, 10:01 AM

There used to be only one good thing about Halloween - it used to stop shops putting Christmas stuff up until November.
But now that role has been taken over by Easter, I agree, Halloween can do one.
As can New Years Eve, IMHO.
We've just had Christmas FFS.

Is that the first "Bah Humbug!" of the season?

Yeah, and Christmas Day!

I mean we've JUST had Christmas Eve.

Ridiculous.

Quote: Michael Monkhouse @ 31st October 2017, 7:06 AM

I don't give a f**k about Halloween. How many Americans give a f**k about Guy Fawkes' Night? F**k you.

That.