it would be quite rare, look you see, that i find myself either falling foul or coming a cropper (if that should be the correct wording for the term) of the laws. this would be all laws, should they be defined by nature, parliament, the judiciary or the prevailing moral code of society. recently, however, such shame befell me. whilst i can, to a degree, protest some innocence, for i was merely party to it and not the protagonist as such, the guilt remains mine.
a number of contemporaries and i - all of a reasonable level of education, i suppose, and generally functioning adults - took to that there facebook thing so as we may converse on an ecumenical matter. to our thinking, that there facebook thing really seemed like the ideal forum, or platform, or indeed if you like conduit, for such an insightful, enlightening conversation.
the rather draconian approach to prohibiting such which facebook has, however, struck. and, if i may say so, struck rather hard. our entire ecumenical conversation was deleted, discarded to the wastelands of some digital landfill, all due to a perfectly forgivable oversight.
one of our party - a good friend, a gifted musician and a gentleman renowned for his ecumenical knowledge - elected to share an image which was relevant to the conversation. it was, i can assure you, a most agreeable one, showing not one, not three, but two nuns in a quite natural state. however, as you will note or otherwise observe in the above, facebook thought differently on the subject, and deleted the conversation entire.
my assumption, or conclusion, looking at the harsh wording off of facebook, is that our friend, my contemporary, upset them what control what is and what is not on facebook by allowing his exposed thumb to appear in the image. to this end, i have taken the measure of obscuring the apparently offensive stark naked thumb, so as to cause no further distress or upset. no, in truth, much i imagine like you, i had absolutely no idea that "thumb nudity" was either a thing, or a source of many of the ills in modern society.
yes, i would have no hesitation at all in likening the deletion of this conversation to the destruction, or if you will the burning, of that massive library of alexandria all those years ago. now, just as was then, the loss of knowledge has probably set back human knowledge and advancement by decades, if not centuries. this is particularly true of the aspects of conversation which explored the magnificent trousers with arse flaps what Vernon Wells wore in Mad Max 2. and, you would think, whenever he went shopping, or visited garden centres.
be ecumenical to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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