GRIPES

[old man emu]

What is the only real way that you can prove your age? It is a birth certificate. How many of us actually have an original birth certificate? I just realised that my original document is with my son at the moment as he needed it so my grandson could get a passport. How many parents have an original birth certificate for each child?

 

Then, if you do have an original birth certificate, how do you provide it to a social media operator? There's all that information on the document that is required to establish identity. How secure is it?

 

We believe that we live in a democracy where the majority rules. Has anyone ever seen statistics on how many Under-16s have been affected in a seriously adverse what through social media. I agree that those reported suicides and lesser ills should not have occurred, but what percentage of children do they represent? A minute percentage, I suppose. 

[facthunter]

What does suppose mean? I  seriously doubt it's minute.   We collectively have the responsibility of protecting Kids from predatory acts and that's an  unfortunate fact of modern life..   Nev

[old man emu]

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

What does suppose mean? I  seriously doubt it's minute.   We collectively have the responsibility of protecting Kids from predatory acts and that's an  unfortunate fact of modern life..   Nev

By "minute", I mean a number much less than 1% of the total population. In other words, most kids are not seriously affect. They have contact with it, but pass it by.

 

 

"We collectively have the responsibility of protecting Kids". And the first people who have that responsibility are parents. They are duty bound to gain an understanding of how to deal with the problem and then spend the time talking to their kids to help them develop strategies to meet the problem. The most important thing for parents to instill in their kids is that keeping things bottled up and not talking to parents about them is a sure way to be beaten by the problem.

 

Unfortunately, I don't think that the parents ever got that idea from their own parents.

[facthunter]

I guess we each have our own views. Parents DO have lots of responsibilities but todays complex problems were not present in Past times where what you saw was what you related to. Not a whole world of danger contrived by experts intent on  doing no good. Most good technology is under utilised in benefits and just directed at exploitation. Adults expect help from exposure to FRAUD.  Surely easier impressed young minds more so.. Todays Parents have a really tough Job..  Nev

[old man emu]

4 hours ago, facthunter said:

todays complex problems were not present in Past times

The examples of the problems might be new, but the problems we are trying to help our kids deal with are just new example of things categorised as "DANGER".  Modern parents are as adept with digital technology as their kids are. Those parents, if they are awake to what is going on in their kids' lives have to help them identify approaching danger and show them ways to avoid it, or, if the danger has struck, show them how to get out of its grip.

 

A complete ban on access to social media causes the kids to miss out on the innumerable good things social media provides them and their friends. In our day, our parents happily let us go play in the surf, but they told us of the dangers and that they could be avoided by swimming between the flags. Let young kids today go swim in the social media surf, but show them where the flags are.

[Marty_d]

9 days now with no Internet. Bloody NBN. Their planning and execution of a fixed wireless tower upgrade is similar in effectiveness and timeliness to Putin's Ukraine expedition.

 

 

Edited December 2 by Marty_d

[nomadpete]

1 hour ago, Marty_d said:

9 days now with no Internet. Bloody NBN. Their planning and execution of a fixed wireless tower upgrade is similar in effectiveness and timeliness to Putin's Ukraine expedition.

 

 

You must have been assessed as under 16 years of age.

[spacesailor]

NBN suck's. Never makes a calender month without 

a breakdown , of some reason .

spacesailor

 

[pmccarthy]

Does anyone else find the new ABC news online format impossible to read?

[facthunter]

The sky  is falling in too, chicken Little.   Nev

[onetrack]

The ABC News format is nowhere near as good as it was previously - but this is common with website "revamps", they're done by geeks who have little understanding of what makes a readable webpage.

[nomadpete]

10 minutes ago, onetrack said:

revamps", they're done by geeks who have little understanding

Those 'geeks' are usually much younger than me. And are changing the style to suit much younger audiences - who generally have need for constant attention grabbing stuff. Mind-all-over-the-place.

Hence a page that to me is disjointed and hard to follow.

[old man emu]

Clothing gripe:

 

I need to replace some well-worn T-shirts, so I had a look at what Big W had. Why do 'going-out' T-shirts have to have inane motifs or images of the current crop of American movie mayhem makers? The motifs are most often Wun Hung Lo's interpretation of American college football or basketball names and numbers, or are made to look like merch obtained at some obscure imaginary event.

 

I don't mind wearing a T-shirt with the logo of a team or product I support, if it is worn at the appropriate time, but to wear one that is wholly a fiction irks me greatly. My limit is the small alligator or polo player logo on the clothing of those respective companies. It is hard to find a T-shirt in a plain colour, or even patterned that is free of this motif nonsense. I suppose I should simply join the wearers of Hi-Vis and blend into the crowd.

[Marty_d]

I'm with you OME.  I just bought some plain t shirts from Just Jeans. Even there I had to look for them.

[spacesailor]

I'm peer about the ' Tshirt ' advertising. 

The there's the feminine attire that makes you look at the breast area . 

How about some male attire to entice those feminine eyes to our crotch area . It should get a few giggles .

spacesailor

PS. : remember I had four daughters .

 

 

[facthunter]

THAT might explain a few things. I will try to be more Understanding. IF you want to fascinate Women try looking like Barry Humphries Sir Les Patterson. . Nev

[Marty_d]

1 hour ago, spacesailor said:

I'm peer about the ' Tshirt ' advertising. 

The there's the feminine attire that makes you look at the breast area . 

How about some male attire to entice those feminine eyes to our crotch area . It should get a few giggles .

spacesailor

PS. : remember I had four daughters .

 

 

Gravity affecting all things with age, you may have to direct the feminine gaze lower.

[facthunter]

Genitalia are better to work with than Gaze at.  Nev

[spacesailor]

A I did it again .it should have read !.

peed off .

Very polite,   not as son-in-laws say it .

Dumb A I . How did that ' peer ' make any sense. 

spacesailor

[onetrack]

It's alright Spacey, we all spend a fair bit of time on your posts, trying to figure out if you're making sense! 😄

[rgmwa]

5 hours ago, Marty_d said:

Gravity affecting all things with age, you may have to direct the feminine gaze lower.

Any lower and they'd miss me altogether.

[spacesailor]

Gravity is making me fat .

Turn it down a bit so the trees can grow higher .

Along with me . LoL

spacesailor

 

[facthunter]

Gravity keeps you strong. I find it very attractive actually.   Nev

[spacesailor]

It's this " BMI " , That's worrying. 

According to them I'm 2 ft or half a metre shorter than I should be .

spacesailor

[old man emu]

The application of BMI to health care is pseudoscience. The data it is based upon was collected in the 19th Century as part of a general census of the physical features of Belgians. It does not take into account things like bone density, or the ratio of skeletal muscle to fat.  One could just as reliably base an opinion of a person's health upon the circumference of their skull. 

 

The best data to determine obesity is the circumference of the body, measured at the height of the navel. Roughly speaking, each centimetre of that circumference is equal to a kilogram of weight. If the circumference is in the low 90s to the mid-80s and the person is of average height of about 175 cm, then the person doesn't have a weight problem.