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Post by samsam on Jan 22, 2020 5:57:59 GMT
I have tried to understand and failed.
Who is a sock or glove puppet?
How do you become one? Sooty or Sweep?
Is it only a forum thing?
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Post by phil70 on Jan 22, 2020 8:10:15 GMT
My belief is that it's a choice made by you for one of two reasons
1/ you wish to use a forum denide to you as you have been deemed to be norty
2/ to engage with a forum to be norty
The how is to open an account with a different ISP etc so you are not detectable, this would mean using a different pooter, phone etc so your new persona cannot be linked to your known persona. I think this is right, if it's not it comes pretty close
Phil aka Flappy (LOL)
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Post by JohnV on Jan 22, 2020 8:15:31 GMT
often one can get suspicious over the choice of a forum name but as some have found, it is wisest to keep that under your hat until you are 100% certain otherwise you can end up looking like a total pillock
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Post by metanoia on Jan 22, 2020 8:18:43 GMT
 Flappy seems unnervingly expert on these matters …. met x
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Post by Jim on Jan 22, 2020 12:27:01 GMT
Sock puppetry is an artform. It takes a lot of practice to keep your hand in.
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Post by Jim on Jan 22, 2020 13:57:23 GMT
I see we have a new member @jesus. For Christ's Sake I was about to teach him the other trick, changing your visible name, but that needs to be logged in on a 'puter not a mobile.
I was going to rename myself Thomas and ask to poke my finger in his wounds.
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Post by naughtyfox on Jan 22, 2020 16:23:02 GMT
To tell the truth, Sooty & Sweep was a lot better than a lot of what's on TV these days.
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Post by Jim on Jan 22, 2020 16:43:41 GMT
To tell the truth, Sooty & Sweep was a lot better than a lot of what's on TV these days. I heard lately that Harry Corbett of Steptoe fame was up for an OBE or similar. The civil servant in charge of the list sent the invite out to Harry Corbett of Sooty fame by mistake and he got the gong instead. |
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Post by oldlagg on Jan 22, 2020 17:18:50 GMT
I've just crawled out of my sock draw  |
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Flappy seems unnervingly expert on these matters ….
