Our Facebook Tale
It all started that evening when we got home and people started to upload their residential photos to Facebook.
First it was just one or two notifications. "You have been tagged", "A new comment has been posted"... the usual stuff.
The first batch were pretty standard: cameraphone shots of us eating breakfast and riding on the coach. But by Monday night the official photographs went up and the true randomness of the CLIC residential was revealed to the outside world: dog costumes, vegetable masks, zip wires, prehistoric phonebooths, the large dog humping Callum's leg... and that was just in the first photograph!
Suddenly the Facebook notifications got a lot more frequent. Most of them were people pointing to bizarre poses and asking "When was this taken?" or "What the HELL am I doing?!?" Instead of answers from the CLIC staff, we discovered that replying to a notification email posts that email to Facebook - and as all the staff had their "out of office" replies on we kept getting loads of Facebook comments that just said "I am out of the office at the moment". It was really annoying because we couldn't get rid of them, but luckily Dan CLIC told the others that they were annoying. Once Lola CLIC came to our rescue and saved us from being heckled with auto messages we finally found out that the amusing photographs were mostly shots of people attempting to sing.
Although even that didn't stop the endless Facebook notifications.
At first it was the group photos that were the most annoying: because everyone had been tagged in them, and some people started having a conversation in the comments, I'd check my email to find 50+ new emails all from Facebook! Eventually that died down though. Then, for some reason I can't quite understand, this photo got 298 comments!
They started out as jokes about Callum's overly-friendly relationship with that dog, but as the thread continued the comments got more and more surreal. So much so that I have tried to piece them together into a story (warning: this story makes less than no sense):
Our Facebook Tale
Based on a true story
Sat at home and playing on Facebook, Victoria decides to make popcorn. However Jazmin, from her own computer, cyber-slaps Vicky and steals her popcorn. Unsurprisingly Victoria retaliates and takes back a handful. Meanwhile, during this petty squabble, Victoria said the picture of Callum's dog-leg-loving looked cool. Well Victoria would say that, however Danial couldn't be bothered with popcorn and enters Facebook with a big bag of Maltesers but Jess gets jealous and implies that she's a chocaholic, guilt-tripping Danial until he hands them over and resorts to finding an old pack of Haribo stuck in the bottom of his bag.
There are some understandable feelings of conflict due to this exchange of sugary goodness, but then Jazmin mentions a hat with ears. And, well... a hat with ears! Jess explodes with excitement. This new trend becomes so great that no one can concentrate on their homework. In fact Jess hadn't been concentrating on her homework at all; she confessed to spending all her spare time hunting for 57 cats.
Jazmin somehow felt overwhelmed after thinking she should do her homework and, well, I just can't help wondering how Jess managed to lose 57 cats (kind of strange she lost her cats and not the hat, don't you think?). Danial: is it cruel to say you found 56 cats under your bed after Jess is hunting for hers? And what happened to cat number 57??
After all that the topic comes back to our residential in Anglesey. Somehow I don't think that bus driver will ever live that down. Then comes the story of the greatest children's tale ever told: The Cat In The Hat.
Well I kind of still watch the film. Wait, I can't remember when I last did. However the banshee that was after the cats tried taking them up to Heaven but Jazmin couldn't help but get a ladder to climb to them.
At this point I stop and think: why do we have such weird imaginations when leaving comments on this one Facebook photo? Have we been invaded by aliens? For every time we turn on our PCs and look back at that one photo the comments stir up something magical in our imagination and thought process. Or could it be Jess's fez corrupting our brains? I guess we'll never know.
4 Comments – Postiwch sylw
Ihavethecyrusvirusx
Rhoddwyd sylw 8 mis yn ôl - 22nd September 2011 - 00:07am
Haha! I love this story! Based on us writing a load of randomness in the style of roleplay! I'm chuffed how I'm in it,too, haha! Awesome story >
Ihavethecyrusvirusx
Rhoddwyd sylw 8 mis yn ôl - 22nd September 2011 - 00:10am
Oh, and Cat number 57 apparently turned out to BE the hat... then I supposedly found a cat... but I think it was Bailey the cat from the residential... who knows? As for weird imaginations, I've always had one. Runs in my family I believe. I think that I've found some long lost relatives in with CLIC because some of you guys think I like I do- I didn't know anyone else in the world did! x
stonerfox
Rhoddwyd sylw 8 mis yn ôl - 22nd September 2011 - 11:08am
omfg lol so much this is better than eastenders well done
GeoffCLIC
Rhoddwyd sylw 8 mis yn ôl - 22nd September 2011 - 21:04pm
Sorry guys I'm not in the office at the moment, if your message is urgent please send it to kranenvuhurr from Flintshire who will take it and make it into a wonderful piece of creative writing - Nice one!