Perfectly flawed with an unfinished ending
I am entitled to make my mistakes and learn from them.
I am entitled to live my life for me or for someone else.
I am entitled to share my voice or keep silent.
I'm myself, which is a little collection of all the people I've met and places I've been.
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That time in *Jordanhill* when we went an adventure and our cupcakes froze over. Share a memory from a place you’ve been.
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you are being watched, my friends.
- have you ever downloaded a picture you don’t own the Copyright to?
- have you ever linked someone to a Copyrighted song on YouTube?
- have you ever streamed an episode of a TV show?
Statistically speak, it’s likely you have. If you think “illegal downloads are killing the music industry”, one must conclude that quoting Neil Gaiman is destroying the publishing industry, one must conclude that downloading a picture is destroying the photography industry, one must conclude that sharing a thought is destroying the thought industry.
If you’re on your high horse about intellectual property rights, it’s time to get the fuck off it. If you’ve never quoted song lyrics, shared songs illegally, streamed copyrighted content or taken a photograph on private property, then your friends have and your family have. Saying you’ve never infringed on someone else’s intellectual property rights is a lie, and if you claim that it’s destroying the livelihood of professionals, then you have only yourself to blame. I don’t believe it is destroying the livelihood of these professionals, and I think it’s only a testament to how far we’ve progressed in the last twenty years.
Downloading music illegal doesn’t and hasn’t destroyed the music industry. Illegally producing remixes and covers of songs isn’t destroying the music industry. Linking your friend to an animated gif of Tina Fey isn’t killing the television industry.
We are living in exponential times.
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Introducing our new game called:
“Don’t Be A Di*k During Meals With Friends.”
The first person to crack and look at their phone picks up the check.
Our (initial) purpose of the game was to get everyone off the phones free from twitter/fb/texting and to encourage conversations.
Rules:
1) The game starts after everyone has ordered.
2) Everybody places their phone on the table face down.
3) The first person to flip over their phone loses the game.
4) Loser of the game pays for the bill.
5) If the bill comes before anyone has flipped over their phone everybody is declared a winner and pays for their own meal.
Variations/house rules:
-Starting the game after everyone is seated.
-In the rare event that multiple people flip their phones simultaneously, the bill is split between said players.
- Feel free to invoke penalties/strikes systems.
Notes:
- No touching or messing with anybody else’s phones.
- You don’t have to stack the phones. This was done for picture taking purposes.
- I realize I should perhaps think of a different name for this awesome game. Because I don’t mean to imply that everyone who checks their phone during meals is a di*k.
- I recommend not being such a stickler or hardass on people about the rules and even initiation of the game. Basic premise is to just get people open to the idea of staying active and attentive to one another. But if someone has to take a call; they have to take a call =).
- Have fun! It’s really more of a fun concept in this new age high tech life of ours. Conversation is the spice of life.
This is a GREAT idea.
Oh my goodnes, THIS. It bugs me so much when I go out with mates I haven’t seen in ages and all they do is text people whilst I’m with them.
I’m going to start introducing this when I go out for meals. Usually I’m the one sitting on my phone but it’s just rude at a dinner table.
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