Forum posts made by alphamagus

I think an 87% chance of contracting cancer makes this decision a no-brainer.

The really brave decision that she has made however is to publicise it.

I think personally that her reasons are humanitarian rather than being a media whore. She is clearly bringing this into the public consciousness and making women who are are perhaps in the same situation but not having the surgery due to vanity reasons, (And I am in no way judging anybody for that) Think to themselves "Well if one of the worlds most beautiful women can do this without feeling any less of a woman...Why can't I?"

For that reason, I think that she should be applauded.

What you're saying though is that we shouldn't even presume to debate the subject.

On the contrary. Debate is one of the healthiest pursuits of the mind.

What I am saying is that no thought has really gone in via this debate to the creators.

Somebody designed the mark, They were probably quite proud of it. It was then probably approved by some other people....Who lets face it, probably help run this site without getting any wages for doing so. Gav then had to spend some time coding, to allow the badge to be used. We are already talking probably over 12 man-hours worth of work. It just seems a little ungrateful to me that it is now being run down by a select few.

This site is a community but not a democracy. The site is Nicola's.....And long may she continue with it.

Who are we? We're the end users! Without end users there isn't any point to development.

If this how Google put stuff out for testing, no wonder they fail so spectacularly whenever they try to launch their own social networking tools

Currently there are 4655 active users on this site!

So far there has been in this thread around five or six people complaining. Would you change your software on the basis of a what a handful of users do not like, or would you look at the 4649 who have found no cause for complaint?

The economics are obvious.

The team here very obviously DO care, or they would not keep making improvements to what is a very well put together site.

Sometimes you have to just realise that some people do not like change. No matter what improvements you make, These people will still find fault.

What's the point of giving it to you then? When I hand stuff out to testers I want them to tell me how everything about it works for them - even at beta testing stage. And if there's something wrong with it for them - no matter what it is - they should tell me. It's then up to me to decide whether their concerns are valid or helpful. User experience is holistic, it's not just if a button does what it says it should.

It is never in the remit for the testing. They are interested in whether the product works, Not in whether or not it is aesthetically pleasing.

The same thing applies here. We are not being asked to comment on whether or not we like the symbol. The Lush admin and design team designed, coded and have voted to use it. Who are we to question them?

Sorry, I am probably only speaking from my perspective over here......We tend to use the tick throughout our national agencies etc, to demonstrate excellence. In fact UKAS (UK accreditation service) uses the tick as their main symbol.

I guess what I am trying to say is the tick in this case, is a new way to provide recognition of something well done. I think on a personal level, that any encouragement that a person can get is a good thing.

Again, my other point is that the management of the site did not open the designing of the new award to offers..... They just decided that they were going to implement what they saw as a step forward as part of the continual improvement of the site. Who are we to argue the point?......It certainly did not cost us anything!

Well I actually like the check...(Working as a quality professional, the check sign is universally known as something of good quality). I appreciate that it is not everybody's cup of tea, but I think that it probably took Gav quite a bit of time and effort to get it right and I think that we should all just sit back and appreciate another new feature that has been served up to us.

I do a lot of beta testing for various bits of google software. I would never think that it is my right to question their logos, buttons or reasons behind the software....I do it, because it is an honour to be asked and I appreciate the fact that they are trying to make peoples online experiences a little better.

So on behalf of me.....I appreciate all of the new features and know just how much coding it must have taken!!

Glasgow

Incest stories and their popularity.

Complicated

Intelligent, Graceful

When at the end of an evening nightclubbing, there was always an erection section to finish off the night. Slow dances with the girl of your choosing to the latest slow song.......

REM - Everybody hurts

http://www.youtube.com/embed/qZ6OrrkeVFo

Hearing his heart almost break when he shouts the final notes, kills me every time. It is made even more poignant when you understand that he died one year after recording this at the ripe old age of 27.

Well unless he has changed job recently and has started working in some military capability, then I can see no normal need to do so.
I would ask him outright. If he is still cagey, then I am afraid that it does sound highly suspicious and I would bail while you can. I am sorry for the blunt reply, but that is how I see it.

Good Luck

I adore Red Wine but i can honestly say that I have no favourite. I forever change the types I buy as I hate sticking with one grape or producer. My favourite wine producing country at the moment however is tied. it is between Sicily and Chile. They are both making extraordinary reds currently.

This thread has made me angrier than any other I have read on this site.

A fair few years ago, there was another program on British television called "Noels House Party". This was supposed Saturday night entertainment and was the usual dumbing down that litters the UK's screens on a continual basis. One segment of the show if i recall correctly, involved people humiliating themselves by doing ever more ludicrous and dangerous challenges for a chance to win a holiday. The UK public loved this also....So great to watch people whore themselves for a week in Ibiza.

Then one gentleman took part and was hung . It took this one death to make people realise the ridiculousness and insanity of how far we had come as a supposed race of intelligent creatures before the segment was dropped, never to be heard of again. There was hardly any coverage of the young man, just another life snuffed out for entertainment purposes of the moronic.

Fast forward to 2012. Some of you have called this a harmless prank that has gone wrong.

This nurse had no history of mental illness before being publicly humiliated by these mindless idiots from Australia, in fact she was referred to as a quiet professional who always smiled and was superb at her job.

She then committed suicide leaving behind a loving husband (Who now has to live with that for the rest of his life) and two now orphan children (Or had some of you forget about those two who will never see their mother smile again?).

Suicide is never rational by its very nature, It is caused by a sick and despairing mind that cannot see any other alternative. (And believe me when i say that I am very knowledgeable on this subject).

I am sickened that some people on this site that I had previously thought of as reasoned and intelligent individuals have shown that they have lost their humanity by sticking up for this lowest form of entertainment. To me, this was a preordained act (There is no way that they did this off the cuff) that resulted in the death of a woman who worked in an underpaid, overworked profession. A woman that had decided to devote her career to caring for other people.


Thank you Stephanie for posting this thread. It has certainly made me realise that some people here are certainly not the people that I thought they were.

I hope your day is wonderful xxx

I love this book. It is definitely Hardys greatest. But then I am a wessex man and as it is set here, it has more appeal.

Brief Encounter hands down.

Well i have grown one for Movember, the trouble is, having a shaved head, I now look a little like Fu Manchu....xxx
Bring on December, so I can shave it off again!!!

Yes

I value every comment truthfully, but the most humbling one was from the fabulous "Swollen" when she left this comment on my poem "You"

"Alpha, this is without doubt the best poem I've read on Lush. To capture such emotion in rhyming verse requires the ability to knit words with imagination and skill - you've done just that. Beautiful and heartfelt x"

http://www.youtube.com/embed/-4A4UnFi2C8

Cheesy I know, But it still sends shivers down my spine today. xxx

I am starting to really enjoy Battlestar Galactica online. its free and appeals to my inner geek. xx

The look in her eyes as "La petite mort" hits her, when you are making love to her with your tongue.

My third bottle of Merlot

1) Angie
2) Indira Varma
3) Racale Weisz
4) Jayne Seymour

The Beatles....Something

Intellectual curiosity for me

Sunrise by Grieg from the Peer Gynt suite