POLL: Do you want a Like button? Poll has ended!

[Swithin]

ANTI is so over! Like old fogies, you are dying out! LOL.

So you're Swithin? Didn't realize.

Yes. I tried to be Swithin here, but they wouldn't let me. So I had to pick another Anglo-Saxon saint.

[Hibi]

So you're Swithin? Didn't realize.

Yes. I tried to be Swithin here, but they wouldn't let me. So I had to pick another Anglo-Saxon saint.

LOL. Who is that guy?

[LawrenceA]

LOL. Who is that guy?

Alan Turing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

[Swithin]

LOL. Who is that guy?

Alan Turing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

Thanks Lawrence, I wasn't sure which guy Hibi meant. Thought possibly he wanted to know more about St. Cuthbert.

I visited Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire in October and took that photo of a photo of Alan Turning, who did much of his renowned work there.

[LawrenceA]

Thanks Lawrence, I wasn't sure which guy Hibi meant. Thought possibly he wanted to know more about St. Cuthbert.

I visited Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire in October and took that photo of a photo of Alan Turning, who did much of his renowned work there.

You're right, I didn't even think of Cuthbert. Oops!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuthbert

[Hibi]

LOL. Who is that guy?

Alan Turing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

Thanks.

[Hibi]

Never heard of St. Cuthbert. When was he canonized? The dark ages?

[Swithin]

Never heard of St. Cuthbert. When was he canonized? The dark ages?

St. Cuthbert's dates are ca. 634-687. He is associated with Northumbria in the northeast of England (St. Swithin is associated with Winchester, in the south). St. Cuthbert is also associated with Durham Cathedral, which I've visited; and with the monastery at Lindisfarne.

[Hibi]

Isn't that the dark ages? I get my dates mixed up. Or was that before the dark ages?

[LostHorizons]

Never heard of St. Cuthbert. When was he canonized? The dark ages?

St. Cuthbert's dates are ca. 634-687. He is associated with Northumbria in the northeast of England (St. Swithin is associated with Winchester, in the south). St. Cuthbert is also associated with Durham Cathedral, which I've visited; and with the monastery at Lindisfarne.

Cuthbert is mentioned a few times in the Canterbury Tales. A brief Google search says he is mentioned in the Reeves Tale but also the one where the Princess beheads a man with a curse. The tale is set in Pagan Northumbria I believe.

[Thompson]

Old fogie, huh? Anti is so out, huh? We are only down by two votes , so don’t give me none of that corn. I think we still have a good chance of winning. And really, when you look back on it all, Hibi made the button obsolete with his very cool LIKE! post. That’s what I wanna see from a fellow poster — LIKE!

[Swithin]

Never heard of St. Cuthbert. When was he canonized? The dark ages?

St. Cuthbert's dates are ca. 634-687. He is associated with Northumbria in the northeast of England (St. Swithin is associated with Winchester, in the south). St. Cuthbert is also associated with Durham Cathedral, which I've visited; and with the monastery at Lindisfarne.

Cuthbert is mentioned a few times in the Canterbury Tales. A brief Google search says he is mentioned in the Reeves Tale but also the one where the Princess beheads a man with a curse. The tale is set in Pagan Northumbria I believe.

[EP Millstone]

After briefly searching the Web for Pro and Con arguments regarding the Like button, I discovered that . . .

There ain't many likes for Likes.

Lotta angst about the deterioration of society. Lotta pearl-clutching and Sturm und Drang from psychologists, sociologists, social scientists, and folks who have waaaaay too much free time on their hands IMO about the pernicious and corrupting effects of the upright thumb and beating heart. Oh, Lawdy! This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a . . .

Meh. Much ado about nothing, methinks.

If the Like button wins the SSO poll vote (and truth to tell, I hope that it does) . . .

See you in HELL, Y'all!

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[Swithin]

And here's Bobby's opinion (I actually worked with him once. This was his theme song.)

[Dargo]

After briefly searching the Web for Pro and Con arguments regarding the Like button, I discovered that . . .

There ain't many likes for Likes.

Lotta angst about the deterioration of society. Lotta pearl-clutching and Sturm und Drang from psychologists, sociologists, social scientists, and folks who have waaaaay too much free time on their hands IMO about the pernicious and corrupting effects of the upright thumb and beating heart. Oh, Lawdy! This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a . . .

Sorry, but I just don't understand the reasoning in this. With all the negativity in the world today and especially so expressed via the internet, how and in what possible way could a simple expression of a POSITIVE response to something one has said or shown on the net become viewed as somehow being a "negative", and as long as what was said or shown does NOT press some sort of negative or intolerant thoughts or ideas???

(...nope, just don't get it here...sorry)