Aibu to be lost for words - Facebook related

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I have a few friends on Facebook who are very religious. One of them shared an inspirational quote about God always being there. The kind with the blue sky background etc.

Someone has posted below this in a very serious manner that God spelled backwards is dog. They are the key to a happy life.

Ploppy If he posts a slowly floating down feather picture, defriend! Once someone posts one of those, they're lost. From then on, 'spiritual' and 'inspiring' pictures make the leap from computer to the sharer's brain, shutting down the parts responsible for original thought, and English spelling, punctuation and grammar.

The friend who had posted the picture, is going through a pretty horrendous time at the moment. I was going to post some words of support, but wasn't sure how to follow up the dog statement. It just took me by surprise.

Dare I ask about the socks?

Ignore the dog statement, and post whatever you were originally going to post - seriously, what's the big deal?

There's no problem. It's just...it can be a surprise how silly some people are.

NB. The word 'ill' is in 'silly' - and neither ill nor silly is a good way to feel. {profound}

Sorry Tilly, I am ruthless at deleting people. The most outrageous ones are long gone.

Post back that God has nearly the same letters as Goo.

• More profound.

@ John. That sums it up exactly.

Dare I ask about the socks?

It's the next craze from "no-make-up selfie for cancer awareness". Men take pictures of themselves partially clothed or totally naked. The key concession to modesty is stuffing their penis inside a sock. Then they take a picture of themselves like this, and stick it on facebook.

Haha, not had any over stuffed socks on my Facebook.

So far, I've had a friend do a "selfie for cancer awareness". Got her to put up a donation link! There's also a really old chain game that has just been updated to be "for cancer awareness" which has evidently made it into my facebook friends, judging by the decidedly odd statuses in my news feed. Someone else made a thread about it. thread about insensitive game

No socks yet, thank Dog!

Can anyone shed any light on this 'get on a train and stay on it' thing? I can't bring myself to give enough fucks to google it....

Never heard of it, Vivi, and google isn't helping me.

It says "I wish I could just stay on a train and travel around the world" - a few totally unrelated people have posted it as a status update. Gah. I'm sucked in. they're WINNING

Vivi, I wonder if that has anything to do with the mumsnet pointless status updates thread. Someone was going to make up something random and see if it caught on.

Ha maybe! Hilarious to think the confirmed bachelor who has most recently posted it is taking his memes from MN...

the first person to post a sock in a cock or tit in a mit will be defriended - but I suspect as I have pruned my FB friend list very hard it won't happen. No interest in seeing someone's sock enclosed sock nor saggy tits in mitts. Bah humbug

• sock enclosed cock . . .

I quite enjoyed the photo of David Cameron in a sock though. (no nudity involved, thank dog).

I first read that quote many years ago in a book by Linda Goodman.
I believe her Star Signs book.

Would that be Linda goodman who is actually 'in da good, man'?

pointythings - that's the point of Christianity though, that God does give us unconditional love, that isn't affected by the things we do??

I'd say that would be the point of God, bobot, but I'd argue without about it being the point of Christianity. There are so many flavours and many of them seem to think they know what God wants people to do. And then they post sanctimonious stuff on FB that gets people's back up, and they go all pearl clutching when they get snarky responses. That's life.

I like the Quaker idea that faith should be between a person and the deity of their choice, even though I'm an atheist.