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A new record was
...set this morning for amount of absolute shit that dropped into my inbox after just one night - 457 messages. Yes, that's 457 people who I suspected might love me for a fraction of a second, before realising it was actually *NO-ONE*. Harumph! Anyway, onto slightly less whingey matters. I am being interviewed by a reporter from The Rag this evening. The subject of his piece is 'The Dangers Of Blogging'. Now, I have already devised wot I think is a moderately comprehensive list of the associated perils and pitfalls. But I would like to know what you think The Dangers Of Blogging are, please.
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lemonsquash
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(17.11.06 13:09)
So the dangers here can be roughly categorised as 'being indiscriminate when handing out megaphones'. What are the potential dangers of you blogging ?
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gamba
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(17.11.06 13:46)
I would say addiction is a big danger.
Also paranoia of many different types.
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Daxy-babe
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(17.11.06 13:56)
Agree with the Gambia... it is addictive. I spend rather too long just seeing who's been saying what to whom and then tossing a comment in for good measure, rather like a dog lifting a leg on a tree to tell all I have been there.
*lifts a leg on Lemon's tree and one hears the plish-plash of sparkling urine*
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lemonsquash
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(17.11.06 14:02)
Sme - do you get this a lot ?
Gba - yes, addiction is a good one. I should certainly be doing something more constructive right now.
And paranoia ? Like the concern that people are reading your blog that really shouldn't be ?
Dxy - I'd thank you not to wee on my tree!
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sammy
(17.11.06 14:06)
a bit, yes
also you get the ones who go aroudn hitting on anyone and everyone, kind of makes you feel like you're in a grotty bar
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Solis
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(17.11.06 14:08)
That these people might actually find out where you live and turn up at your house and drink all your wine and try to steal your dog.
That bloody Heathen.
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lemonsquash
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(17.11.06 14:17)
Sam - oh dear. Sounds like you're going to have a job beating them all off.
Sol - those rotten parasites. Well, at least they didn't drink your dog.
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heather
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(17.11.06 15:00)
that you may go on holiday with weirdos who won't let you take their dog home with them.
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gamba
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(17.11.06 15:09)
Paranoia - that you will be caught - either by your employer or by people you don't want to know about your blog. And just general paranoia.
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lemonsquish
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(17.11.06 15:25)
Heathen - how unforgivably covetous. Of them.
Gamba Brascoigne - blogging is a drug, you say ?
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foxinthesnow
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(17.11.06 15:39)
Accidentally sleeping with other bloggers. Not me, you understand.
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quips
(17.11.06 15:42)
fox, it would be an interesing one to have done "something" with "someone", only to find out that that person is one of your co-bloggers. especially if you were terrible. it would probably rule out a blinks performance for a while...
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lemonsquash
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(17.11.06 15:47)
By the way, how does one 'accidentally' sleep with other bloggers ?
Please note the emphasis on 'accidentally'. I do not need a lesson on the whole birds and bees thing. Well, actually I do - but I fear we would be veering too far off topic.
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foxinthesnow
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(17.11.06 15:54)
You know, one day you're whingeing about comment tracking in the pub, the next you're whingeing about comment tracking in bed. It happens.
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quips
(17.11.06 15:56)
i think it comes down to pride. when one of your "cool" mates asks "did you sleep with someone who blogs", your response would automatically be, "yes, but it was an accident .... geeks", thereby maintaining the impressive facade.
and goths are brilliant. I mean look at them. Downcast, ill-looking, malnutritioned - don't they make you feel GREAT.
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lemonsquash
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(17.11.06 16:02)
Well, knowing how I will be painted afterwards, I shall be sure not to sleep with you.
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gamba
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(17.11.06 16:11)
Oh yes, and inappropriate dreams about male bloggers you have never met.
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em
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(17.11.06 16:20)
generally you 'accidentally' sleep with people when you are too drunk see.
spamcatcher says 'rabble' - ain't we just?
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heather
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(17.11.06 16:26)
I think Dr Tripswitch really means that he would be worried that he would accidentally make a promise to another blogger and then accidentally forget to sort it out.
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lemonsquash
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(17.11.06 16:28)
Gumby - but we have met!
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm - yes, being Welsh on purpose is unforgivable. Being accidentally Welsh is ok. It usually happens to me when I'm drunk. Unlike sex.
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c-side
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(17.11.06 16:32)
"Accidentally" you say Fox? I thought it was only virtual contact, I didnt realise it extended to the physical? What a mine field that could be...
I digress. Doc you hit the spot. For me, the potential to get THE SACK! Being PC and upholders of the law, Work monitor our internet usage - some of you guys discover some strrrannnge links. The definition of "dead animal" being just one today Lemon 
I repeat. I have so much to learn.
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gamba
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(17.11.06 16:38)
That's true, Lems. I did have a dream about you too. But you must not tell the breakdancer.
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doctortripswitch
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(17.11.06 16:40)
I was going to say that, Heather, but I thought it might seem provocative.
It's nearly done anyway.
When do you leave Switzerland?
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lemonsquash
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(17.11.06 16:45)
Tiddley-om-pom-pom - well, it was a legit news website, and an interesting discourse on semantics. The fact that it included a man sexing a dead deer is incidental.
Gambino - my seals are lipped.
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undercovercookie
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(17.11.06 17:03)
gamba is not alone. I too have dreamed of the one who calls himself lemonsquash. You'll be disappointed to note it wasn't at all inappropriate. And if it was, I wouldn't tell, anyway.
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lemonsquash
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(17.11.06 17:12)
I suspect that one of the most serious Dangers Of Blogging is that a host of women might have entirely appropriate dreams about you, before you even meet them.
What happened in the dream ? Did we have a leisurely game of chess over a cup of (herbal) tea ?
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c-side
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(17.11.06 17:16)
I dont know you guys well enough yet, but I'm sure you'd be in my dreams if I did. As to being inappropriate, that depends on the definition. But it's sure got me thinking...
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Moobs
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(17.11.06 17:22)
You speak frankly about the shortcomings of a family member only then to remember that you gave them your blog address during a drunken evening weeks before.
Finding out after two or three days that you really have nothing of interest to say after all. Rather than having a dammed up supply of fascinating material desperately seeking an outlet you just chime like an empty vessel smacked with a shitty stick.*
* By "you" I mean "me". No hang on I mean "someone who I know who is also a blogger but is not you ...er ... or me".
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disgruntled
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(17.11.06 19:54)
My dad had the police round after someone complained about his blog. That's what happens in small villages...
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lilo
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(17.11.06 21:21)
Ha! at the joke.
Danger: Not realising the 1D nature of online relationships.
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emma
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(18.11.06 00:31)
Getting addicted to blogging and sometimes waking up at night and writing a blog post, just so sad and tragic to have ended up like this.
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emptycup
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(18.11.06 02:34)
My former boss stumbled on one of my old blogs which included him shortly before one of my colleagues kicked him in. The kicking had nothing to do with my blog but it was another way of venting the same frustrations.
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lemon
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(19.11.06 15:38)
ManNorks - yes, people finding out that you've been bitching about them online is a proper 'mare. I used to blog quite a bit about the folk I used to live with (the Odd Couple, if anyone remembers them); until one day the Odd Female fixed me with a knowing look, and said "You don't blog about us, do you ?" I suspect the look was a bluff, but that was certainly enough to cause me to U-turn dramatically on this blog.
Plus, I wrote an entry in praise of an ex girlfriend having come through on the other side of a very tough time. She texted me demanding I take the entry down, and then sent me a furious email, accusing me of being exploitative. My heart sank, and I very nearly burst into tears. I could certainly see her point, but I told her that the tone of the entry was intended to be reverential. Fortunately she accepted my apology, and we were very quickly best buddies again. But it was a pretty awful hour as I suspected I'd ruined our friendship. I think that is my worst blog-related episode.
Disgruntled - the police ? Really ? Gosh. Wot had he written ?
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disgruntled
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(19.11.06 18:59)
He had posted a photograph and someone complained he must have trespassed to take it (not true). My dad pointed out it was a civil offence anyway so not a matter for the police and the policeman had a nice cup of tea and spent a happy half hour chortling over the blog before suggesting he take the offending picture down. Like I said, it was a small village. Most of his real crimes are crimes against punctuation, but they don't send the police round for that. Not yet, anyway
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