I hate Tags. I hate Memes.
When I was a kid we used to play chasing, or tag.
When I got bored with the game, I used to hit the tagger with a rock. End of game.
But you can’t do that on the Interweb. If someone tags you there is nothing you can do except ignore them. And that’s a bit rude. And I don’t think Diane has been here since the beginning so I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt.
I have been tagged / memed a few times before so THIS IS THE LAST TIME.
I have run out of things to say about myself, but I’ll try.
I’m over 1000 years old but I’m not yet 40.
Most of me didn’t exist fifteen years ago.
I am who I say I am, but yet I’m not.
I received a written invitation to join Mensa, but I didn’t see the point.
I know all my bank account numbers, credit card number and library account numbers but I can’t remember my friends’ names.
I have only been on a bus twice since 1971.
I recognise people not by their faces, but by how they walk.
I have a lower than average body temperature.
Now. Make what you wish of the above. That’s your lot.
I won’t pass this on, because I already have in the past.
One last one I nearly forgot –
I don’t have a sense of humour
I think you might be lying about the sense of humour bit 😉
“I hate Tags…”
I read that as something else, was gonna open a can of whoppass. Honest I was…
What a grumpy old fart of a carmudgeon are you.
Just for that, I’m seriously thinking of memeing you with the ‘109 things you didn’t know about me’ yoke.
And if you think about ignoring it (if I decide to go ahead with it) I’ll confiscate all your t-bags.
It gets wierder everyday.
I also received an invitation to Mensa and I have a lower than normal body temp.
People think it’s odd that I do not write down phone numbers. I remember them. In college I rarely took notes. I tend to remember what people say to me.
Grandad tells Porkies!
Go on K8 I dare you.
(note to self) Never tell Brianf a secret.
Is this one of those riddles posed by a troll that we have to solve before moving on?
Diane, it’s funny you should say that.
My 2 year old gasped when she saw my Murgatroyd, and shouted “It’s Gwandad!!!!”
Out of the mouths of babes!
Pardon my absence – I had to go for my Electro-convulsive Therapy.
Robert – I am the most boring person you could meet.
Manuel – what the f**k is ‘whoppass’? Even Google doesn’t know!
K8 – Meme me if you like. Rob my tea-bags if you like. Just think of one word – ‘inheritance’
😉
Brianf – Rock on, Brother! Though I never took notes and forgot everything people said, so I didn’t do too well in my exams.
Grannymar – Stop sh*t stirring. I’ve warned you before. Everything I have said above is true.
Diane [the Troublemaker] – Yes. You may not send me any more memes until you have worked the first two out. As a clue, Brianf is more likely to work out what I’m on about [and it has nothing to do with Mensa].
In the tradition of medics who ask athletes with possible concussion “How many fingers am I holding up [don’t go there, Grandad – it’s a different number in the U.S.]?” my answer is “vanilla”.
Then again, since you mentioned body temperature, and being “over 1000 years old but I’m not yet 40” could it be that you’re a dashing young man-about-town who was tragically injured while saving the free world from unspecified danger and being cryogenically preserved until medical science can restore you to full vigor while fortunately maintaining a tenuous contact with the world via a thought-activated laptop?
Or are you a time traveler? Or an old fraud?
None of the above. ‘Vanilla’ is the nearest. Just an old fart.
By the way, have you ever contacted Speilberg? I think you could have a good film in the making there..
WOW Brianf and Grandad. Me too was asked in writing to join Tempsa and I have a lower than normal IQ. Oooops!
But can you remember all your numbers?
Whoppass – chronic mis-spelling of Whoopass.
Hey it’s not a real word so I shall spell it as I feel like spelling it, now where is my can opener…..
Thanks Elly. I have just been going around in circles between Manuel’s comment and UrbanDictionary, and I think I know what it’s about now. I think. But it helps, Manuel if you spell proper. Real world or not. You had both Google and myself confused.
So I take it Tag is another word that has a meaning I’m not aware of?
Jayzus! Why can’t people just use ordinary English?
Hmmm… Tag can also mean the mark left by a graffitti artist indicating his/her ‘name’.
But I reckon that manuel when mis-reading it thought that there was an ‘i’ in there…
And popping an extra ‘i’ into ‘I hate tags’ can certainly open up a whole can of whoopass…. Most definately where I originally come from…
Yes. I agree with that last paragraph. Speaking as one who was supposed to bear a remarkable resemblance to Gerry Adams, and who had to walk the streets of Belfast during a tense time in its history, I am very sympathetic to the nuances of political statements in Norn Iron!