Knock Knock
me: “Come in!”
Two pupil’s I’ve never talked to before come in to my office.
them: “What do you call them people who pull faces for a livin’?” Complete with demonstration.
me: “Gurners”
them: “Ah yea we thought it was grinder or somethin’, thanks.”
Pupil’s leave.
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I’m always slightly impressed by the Facebook advertising. If we are happy enough to ply them with our personal details why shouldn’t they use them to target the advertisements. Sure credit card companies have been doing it for years.
Often the ads I get are slightly mocking e.g. “over 30 and still single, meet nice girls on …”, sometimes the manage to home in on the fact I’m a christian & single with ads like “meet Christian girls at ….”. Both of these are nothing spectacular since my profile lists that’s I’m single, 31 and a Christian but today they surpassed themselves with the advertisement shown here.
They must have taken the fact there’s a fishing album in my photos and added that to my advertising profile. The lower ad isn’t anything special since half the world thinks their a webdsigner and I probably have that listed in my profile somewhere.
Just for the record despite admiring their advertising strategie I’ve never clicked on any of their ads.
I’ve been putting off this post for when the euphoria had worn off a little after the weekend’s victory over Chelsea but it’s midweek, Liverpool are about to cement their spot on top of the Premiership with a victory over Portsmouth. Hopefully Hull will continue their good run by beating Chelsea themselves and it’ll be a perfect football night if Spurs and Middlesbrough can raise their games to beat Arsenal and Man United respectively.
On realising that the game won’t be on TV or 5Live I started trying to think how I could keep tabs on the game and once again the BBC have come through. I’ve three two online options: 1) BBC Live text updates, 2) Final Score streamed live or 3) use BBC iPlayer to listen to Merseyside Radio’s coverage. I may not have enjoyed working for the BBC but I still love them. The downside of the latter meant I had to install Realplayer (which I don’t like) but it’s a small price to play. (tip if you are installing real player use the one on the BBC site as it works better).
Update: They don’t play the matches out online 