Matt Gibson (@gothick)

Hotwells, Bristol

The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @gothick ever

February 26th, 2012

jamiesmart Hoping this’ll be the year that Hudson Hawk FINALLY wins something at the Oscars.

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 10:19 PM, Feb 26th, 2012 via Tweetbot for iOS)

@MrJonnyJones Oooh, are they talking about Saab? I might turn the telly on, then.

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@ShabbyBean Crunchy dry oddball.

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@ShabbyBean If I were a king, I’d have the fool who forgot to buy milk executed.

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@rabidbee It’s just possible that you need to get more kip. Unless it was _Moneybox Live_.

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@ahcstevens I believe @Phooto is planning on running up and down a touchline :)

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(That last RT being the best description of an MRI scan I’ve ever heard :) )

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tomroyal Glad that’s done. Like being trapped in an airline overhead locker while someone plays the first bars of Placebo’s Nancy Boy over and over.

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@Phooto Cool! Hope you like them. And glad to hear I wasn’t imagining Adidas’s odd sizing.

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You know, I think it might be lunchtime.

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@rabidbee Oh! Yeah. I’d noticed that was coming up, then promptly forgot.

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Right. I am off for a nice, short, flat jog in the sunshine. Will make a pleasant change.

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@ahnlak @KaveyF @goodshoeday …which reduces the problem quite a lot.

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@ahnlak @KaveyF @goodshoeday Which I’d pay, because it kicks ass. But GR is forum, not blog, and we require registration + valid email…

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@KaveyF @goodshoeday Or I’ve just been blogging for too long :D

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@ahnlak @KaveyF @goodshoeday That’s why I use on the Get Running forums for registration, and it’s worked well so far.

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@KaveyF @goodshoeday It may simply depend on whether the spambots find you. Luck/chance/links/keyword targetting/whatever.

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@KaveyF @goodshoeday @ahnlak There are CAPTCHA comment-guard plugins for WP, too. But I try to avoid CAPTCHA where I can.

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@KaveyF @goodshoeday My site got 4,923 real visits that month, if it helps for comparison.

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@KaveyF @goodshoeday Yes. Which is why even a 99.97% accuracy rate still sometimes gets me annoyed.

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@KaveyF @goodshoeday Akismet is pretty good. Hang on a mo.

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@ahnlak @KaveyF And do they get comments? :)

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@ahnlak @KaveyF Yes, it’s called “deliberate linkbait.” Try a “Bearded CAMRA Tossers Know Nothing About Real Beer” article, and see it goes.

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@KaveyF So, how many spam comments do you get in a month, say?

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@KaveyF Maybe they hate innocuous comments :)

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@KaveyF Also, depends why you’re blogging, I guess. Some of my blogs are notes-to-self-that-might-be-helpful-for-others…

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@KaveyF Those are the ones of my blogs where I’ve got commenting turned off. The spammers still find them, so all I was getting was spam.

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@KaveyF Maybe those people just got more. All it takes is one persistent troll to put people off.

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@KaveyF Some people just get tired of the spamming and idiots, and prefer to interact in other ways.

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@chris_j_hughes …rather than it all being “iCloudy”. Which is fine until you get on a plane.

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@chris_j_hughes Anyway. I have now done a “Restore”, and it’s happier. Though I don’t know how to get my music back on the phone…

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@chris_j_hughes I’ve never seen that state before, and I’d have thought an unsuccessful sync wouldn’t have left it like that?

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@chris_j_hughes Possibly, but I’d done a full, apparently-successful sync before leaving the house, and this was half an hour later.

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