Adverts Denied!

Admittedly I did not really want them I was just curious as to what adverts would appear but Google Adsense sent me an email, excerpt below:

"It's our goal to provide our advertisers sites that offer rich and meaningful content, receive organic traffic and allow us to serve well-targeted ads to users. We believe that currently your site does not fulfil this criteria."

Oddly enough they cannot spell 'fulfill' correctly despite the fact Google spells it correctly for you.

Obviously I am not offering "rich and meaningful content" too bad!  This blog has always been about me putting my thoughts down when I want to.  If people want to read it fine by me,  I do like to share my wandering mind unfortunately it has been somewhat sporadic of late.  I blame my muse who is mostly likely holidaying is warmer climes.

The winter months are always quiet, pretty sure my mind avoids all forms of inspiration when its cold outside.  Probably a primal instinct, it tends stay in its cave.

It is currently snowing outside first snow we have had in nearly four years. 2010 & 2011 we had some snow, pretty sure I bought my snow shovel for the car from Amazon in 2011 which of course meant no more snow, til now.  It is meant to snow for four hours tonight and a couple tomorrow morning so perhaps finally my purchase will come in use.  Pretty big flakes too twas a pain to drive in, I hate driving in the snow.

Looking at the news is just pointless these days I mean what is fake news and what is real?  Intelligence agencies are leaking all over the place if you believe the news to be true, more like NOT!  Unless of course it is disinformation then it is probably true well false.  Oh! Hell! You know what I mean.

The Truth truly has become an Urban Myth!

I am sure Trump loves the irony.

Tied & Knotted

My pet hate is Neckties, a men's fashion that should of gone out with flares.  I hated wearing a tie in school not to mention it is somewhat dangerous. I mean come on who thought it would be a good idea to wrap a a piece of cloth round one's neck with a slip knot commonly used to hang people with?

I'm not the only one that thinks this: Question Everything?

Okay a little heavy on the sauce but you get my drift.

It is like Superheroes and capes pretty much the kiss of death, 32.5 people die every year from wearing a necktie.  I can only assume they brought back only 0.5 of person to get that figure, probably because the necktie was still attached.

Apparently we can blame the Chinese for this ludicrous idea, ta very much NOT!  Looks like the rest of world cloned your idea for a change and ironically a stupid one at that.

The following businesses: Google, Amazon, Apple and Ikea have banned neckties in their offices and promoted casual wear instead. They want their staff to feel relaxed and open caused that's when good ideas pop into the grey matter above their unrestricted necks.  Probably saves on higher life insurances premiums too. 

These businesses make oodles of cash based upon ideas invented by their staff which basically tells you neckties are evil to every other business out there that forces their staff to wear them, of course I maybe generalising like I always do.

The irony is that nowadays I just wear a polo shirt to work, I will no longer wear tie for anything.

Selfish Meme

Social media is selfish, people on Twitter for instance will follow expecting to be follow back.  Even people’s profiles state that they will follow you back if you follow them.  And how many friends do you have on Facebook that you actually know personally in the flesh, spoken to face to face.

I have noticed recently having promoted this blog using Twitter using various hash-tags for each post that more people are following me and based upon their own tweets it would seem that they had not bothered to read my actual blog post.  If they had they probably not have followed me, they have assumed from the hash-tag that I would be interested in their tweets.  I have been added into an addiction list based upon the #drug I put on blog post about coffee, so if you want people to follow you use lots of hash-tags.

It is not necessarily just the Internet, how often do you ask someone how they are expecting them to ask you the same so can tell them what bad day you are having?  The Internet (Social Media) however seems to have extended our selfish capabilities by giving us different tools to let the world know you exist.  Would this then be also a selfish blog?

I would like to think my blog is my altruism kicking in, whilst I do promote on Google+ and Twitter the reason I want people to read it is because they may find it interesting and/or informative.

Social Media is the perfect transport for the selfish meme, not all memes are Internet based at least not yet.

Here is an example of a Meme that never dies: Downfall

Particularly funny and very topical, some might say it is not actually selfish?!?