Oh, the horror!! (AKB-48 kissing)

[plaid_knight]

I am talking about the fact that the Producer of AKB48 is perfectly happy to objectify and commoditise the daughters of others, and I was speculating on whether he would be happy for his own daughter to receive the same treatment ...

4/20 was yesterday.

[IparryU]

4/20 was yesterday.

I didn't see anyone baked walking down the street... i didn't even remember 4/20 until i got a message from my friend.

[Cyka UchuuJin]

It isn't promoting homosexuality - it is just gratuitous pandering to the sad sexless pedos that keep the singers and more importantly the production company in business.

ding ding ding ding! we have a winner!

tATu (which stands for 'this girl loves that girl') cornered this market 8 years ago already, complete with upskirt shots and girls making out in the rain.

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[Coligny]

'xcept that I don't see them AKB48 lesbos doin' an awesome track with the beefcakes from Rammstein:

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[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I'm quite keen on the idea of having it made obligatory to advertise all products using nubile young lesbians kissing...

[Coligny]

seconded

[Greji]

I'm quite keen on the idea of having it made obligatory to advertise all products using nubile young lesbians kissing...

Kissing what?

[Coligny]

Kissing what?

Another gurl...



Like in all their movies in fact...



Damn them old people... they know all Matlock's episodes by heart but can't name a tv show made earlier than the last 20 years...

[matsuki]

Another gurl...



Like in all their movies in fact...



Damn them old people... they know all Matlock's episodes by heart but can't name a tv show made earlier than the last 20 years...

Starting to think the director is trying to push out the AV parodies by just making the actual girls into AV idols...

[GomiGirl]

I'm quite keen on the idea of having it made obligatory to advertise all products using nubile young lesbians kissing...

It has just been so done and done that I just get bored. It is so fake that I really don't understand the appeal - but you blokes can't seem to get enough of the fake lesbo thing.

The problem is that you see lots of YouTube vids of teen girls thinking that it is sexy to kiss their friend and put it on the internet. Those vids are just going to come back and haunt them when it is time to find a job or get into Uni. I just see these girls getting caught up in the hype without thinking things through and end up on a girls gone wild vid and regretting it later on.

In my day... there was no YouTube.. ie no evidence of any shenanigans.

I am just old!!

[Samurai_Jerk]

It is so fake that I really don't understand the appeal - but you blokes can't seem to get enough of the fake lesbo thing.

You don't expect us to fantasize about real lesbians, do you?

[Coligny]

It has just been so done and done that I just get bored. It is so fake that I really don't understand the appeal - but you blokes can't seem to get enough of the fake lesbo thing.

Like Pro Wrestling... not because it's fake or repetitive that it's not enjoyabul...

The problem is that you see lots of YouTube vids of teen girls thinking that it is sexy to kiss their friend and put it on the internet. Those vids are just going to come back and haunt them when it is time to find a job or get into Uni. I just see these girls getting caught up in the hype without thinking things through and end up on a girls gone wild vid and regretting it later on.

Stupid people, do stupid things, judgemental people use these meaningless things as proof to feel superior... It's some sort of perfect storm of suckittude...

In my day... there was no YouTube.. ie no evidence of any shenanigans.

I am just old!!

Yeah, no daguerreotype either I suppose...

[GomiGirl]

Like Pro Wrestling... not because it's fake or repetitive that it's not enjoyabul...

OK - the pro wrestling connection makes sense.

Stupid people, do stupid things, judgemental people use these meaningless things as proof to feel superior... It's some sort of perfect storm of suckittude...

This is not my point - am not trying to be superior to these girls as I did plenty of silly things when I was young and trying to figure out the world by pushing my boundaries.

My point is that these girls are not necessarily stupid - just young and naive and do things that will haunt them later.

Judgemental - no you have me pegged incorrectly.
Relieved that there I am not a teenager now - definitely.

[yanpa]

but you blokes can't seem to get enough of the fake lesbo thing.

Speaking entirely personally, any trouser-stirring feelings of "phwoaar" are easily overridden by the despair of being exposed to AKB48 yet again.

[Coligny]

This is not my point - am not trying to be superior to these girls as I did plenty of silly things when I was young and trying to figure out the world by pushing my boundaries.

I was not saying this for you since your comment was toward the 'online posting' side of the behaviour... To put it more bluntly:

You: putting it online is not a gud idea -> true
people I wuz aiming my comment at: OMG OMG LESBIUNZ(/SATANISTS/CAT LOVERS/FURRIES/whatever)!!!! BURNZ DEM!!! -> wait ? what ?

Because unless you recruit for the secret service (ahem) usually you don't need to care or know what peeps do off hours... as long as they respect privacy and NDAs from the workplace, everything else is meaningless. Sure employers knows more aboot them than aboot the others employees... but it's borderline -illegal- knowledge, and don't mean the other don't do worse, it highlight a narrow minded spirit where employer care more aboot perception than facts, and it push it to 11 because it's aboot facts that they are not even supposed to know even less to judge in their quality of employer.
It's not because it's there that the boss have a right to watch it (as a boss). It's a bit like when a jury is asked to ignore an evidence that has been found illegally... Complicate... but how it should be...

My point is that these girls are not necessarily stupid - just young and naive and do things that will haunt them later. .

That's the definition of acting stupidly though...

[Cyka UchuuJin]

You don't expect us to fantasize about real lesbians, do you?

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Samurai_Jerk again.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I was not saying this for you since your comment was toward the 'online posting' side of the behaviour... To put it more bluntly:

You: putting it online is not a gud idea -> true
people I wuz aiming my comment at: OMG OMG LESBIUNZ(/SATANISTS/CAT LOVERS/FURRIES/whatever)!!!! BURNZ DEM!!! -> wait ? what ?

Because unless you recruit for the secret service (ahem) usually you don't need to care or know what peeps do off hours... as long as they respect privacy and NDAs from the workplace, everything else is meaningless. Sure employers knows more aboot them than aboot the others employees... but it's borderline -illegal- knowledge, and don't mean the other don't do worse, it highlight a narrow minded spirit where employer care more aboot perception than facts, and it push it to 11 because it's aboot facts that they are not even supposed to know even less to judge in their quality of employer.
It's not because it's there that the boss have a right to watch it (as a boss). It's a bit like when a jury is asked to ignore an evidence that has been found illegally... Complicate... but how it should be...

In the good ol' US of A a company can fire/not hire you for almost any reason unless it falls under a class that is legally protected (minorities, women, old people, the disabled). The latest trend is forcing interviewees and employees to tell their employers their Facebook username and password. America! Land of the Free (if you're a corporation)!

[Mike Oxlong]

In the good ol' US of A a company can fire/not hire you for almost any reason unless it falls under a class that is legally protected (minorities, women, old people, the disabled). The latest trend is forcing interviewees and employees to tell their employers their Facebook username and password. America! Land of the Free (if you're a corporation)!

[Russell]

In the good ol' US of A a company can fire/not hire you for almost any reason unless it falls under a class that is legally protected (minorities, women, old people, the disabled). The latest trend is forcing interviewees and employees to tell their employers their Facebook username and password. America! Land of the Free (if you're a corporation)!

Fornicate. I don't even have a Facebook account. Never mind: I give them my FG account name...

[gaijinpunch]

forcing interviewees and employees to tell their employers their Facebook username and password. America! Land of the Free (if you're a corporation)![/QUOTE]

I saw that. Wrong on so many levels. I'd walk out of the interview there.

[matsuki]

Wrong on so many levels. I'd walk out of the interview there.

THIS

...but posting retarded shit on FB or anywhere online is always risky.

[GomiGirl]

No one can demand a password for anything IMHO.

I would say they can ask what your Facebook handle is - or your public one in any case - in order to check you out some more. Imagine if they ended up hiring you and you have photos of animal sacrifices or other unsavourary material on your FB account and a customer ends up seeing it, then you have tarnished their business reputation by association.

I think they are quite within their rights to check out your on-line presence as a part of the hiring process. How many people from other companies (competitors or suppliers) have you checked on in your work? I know I have looked at the personal FB and twitter pages for people who work in companies that I do business with. I even look at my own staff's twitter and FB from time to time. Just to catch up on news more so than snooping.

But asking for a password is just not on.

A good rule of thumb with SNS - don't write anything that you wouldn't want your Mum to read in the newspaper about you.

[matsuki]

A good rule of thumb with SNS - don't write anything that you wouldn't want your Mum to read in the newspaper about you.

THIS

[IparryU]

I saw that. Wrong on so many levels. I'd walk out of the interview there.

my thoughts exactly. I would also add that I would start off with, "You have got to be kidding me... Thank you for wasting My time Mr. Smith"

[Samurai_Jerk]

No one can demand a password for anything IMHO.

I would say they can ask what your Facebook handle is - or your public one in any case - in order to check you out some more. Imagine if they ended up hiring you and you have photos of animal sacrifices or other unsavourary material on your FB account and a customer ends up seeing it, then you have tarnished their business reputation by association.

I think they are quite within their rights to check out your on-line presence as a part of the hiring process. How many people from other companies (competitors or suppliers) have you checked on in your work? I know I have looked at the personal FB and twitter pages for people who work in companies that I do business with. I even look at my own staff's twitter and FB from time to time. Just to catch up on news more so than snooping.

But asking for a password is just not on.

A good rule of thumb with SNS - don't write anything that you wouldn't want your Mum to read in the newspaper about you.

Some companies ask for you to "friend" the hiring manager instead of asking for a password. There's nothing on my FB that I think is particularly bad or embarrassing but I still think it's out of line. Plus, with all the puritanical Christian assholes in the US I could see things like a few photos of you with a drink in your hand or smoking a cigar getting you disqualified.

[wagyl]

Some companies ask for you to "friend" the hiring manager

Surely the solution there is to say that you do not have FB. That is not a crime ... yet.

The other solution is to realise that if they are going to be all over your FB account like that, they will micromanage other aspects of your work environment, so maybe better off to run for the hills before it is too late.

[waruta]

Surely the solution there is to say that you do not have FB. That is not a crime ... yet.

The other solution is to realise that if they are going to be all over your FB account like that, they will micromanage other aspects of your work environment, so maybe better off to run for the hills before it is too late.

They'll definitely run your name or variants through a search engine or LinkedIn...

A buddy of mine in IT was telling me how he would handle the situation if they asked him for his PW:

"As IT Manager of your company I am expected to protect private and personal data to the highest levels possible, and I believe that includes my own personal information as well. Plus it's against FB ToS to give away my password "

[IparryU]

They'll definitely run your name or variants through a search engine or LinkedIn...

A buddy of mine in IT was telling me how he would handle the situation if they asked him for his PW:

"As IT Manager of your company I am expected to protect private and personal data to the highest levels possible, and I believe that includes my own personal information as well. Plus it's against FB ToS to give away my password "

if your buddy was on FG I would snot him for that.

[waruta]

if your buddy was on FG I would snot him for that.

Red or Green?

*edit: I owe him a beer.

[Coligny]

They'll definitely run your name or variants through a search engine(1) or LinkedIn(2)...

1- if your name is some sort of "John Doe" everybody is wasting their time
2- that's a pro network... the exact opposite of facebook... you'd expect an employer to look at this...