{"id":557,"date":"2011-03-02T23:56:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T23:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adendavies.com\/?p=557"},"modified":"2011-03-02T23:56:23","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T23:56:23","slug":"i-just-cant-help-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"I just can&#8217;t help myself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a very dull confession to make. I love playing those lovely little hashtag games on Twitter. You know the ones. Where someone takes a category of culture e.g. film, book, song, band, celebrity and then adds something to the mix such as a witty satirical angle or just links to food or booze.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/16.60.115.84\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Hashtag1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-563\" title=\"Hashtag1\" src=\"http:\/\/16.60.115.84\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Hashtag1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Hashtag1.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Hashtag1-300x126.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So you get a random group of people coming up with something very(?) amusing as shown above.\u00a0 I am not sure why I am so drawn to these things? I think the reason is that I like the little mental challenge they present. They also provide a little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adendavies.com\/the-distinctly-lacking-joy-of-banking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moment of joy<\/a>. They are essentially a task to combine two pieces of existing information that you have e.g. a celebrity name and something related to alcohol, and come up with something new and preferably funny. As you can see from the screen shots I am also not that good at them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/aden_76\/statuses\/34744855171178496\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-564\" title=\"hashtag2\" src=\"http:\/\/16.60.115.84\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/hashtag2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/hashtag2.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/hashtag2-300x47.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They offer up a little bit of lateral thinking to exercise the connection of neurons.\u00a0 I wish their were more banking related ones although I can imagine that would quickly descend into banker bashing territory (it is where the laughs are though).\u00a0 I remember Chris Skinner doing a post <a href=\"http:\/\/thefinanser.co.uk\/fsclub\/2009\/06\/michael-moore-sticks-the-boot-in.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">which had a banking crisis and films mixed together<\/a> type list. I even submitted my own rip roaringly funny suggestion of &#8216;A few dud men&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/aden_76\/statuses\/24505734448291840\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-565\" title=\"hashtag3\" src=\"http:\/\/16.60.115.84\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/hashtag3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"89\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/hashtag3.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.adendavies.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/hashtag3-300x49.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What I would also like is someway of replicating a similar thing inside my  place of work. A well populated and well used Twitteresque network would  make things a bit easier&#8230;maybe one day, but I am sure it would work.\u00a0  Start off playing for fun using project\/product names and food to  create hilarity. Segue sneakily into making them work related by trying  to get people to join two ideas around a central theme to make an  innovative (or funny) idea? Yes I agree it is a long shot and I am beginning to think this post is just a vague attempt to justify the time I spend playing hashtag games.\u00a0 #BankerPlayingGamesJustificationFilms Go&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a very dull confession to make. I love playing those lovely little hashtag games on Twitter. You know the ones. Where someone takes a category of culture e.g. film, book, song, band, celebrity and then adds something to the mix such as a witty satirical angle or just links to food or booze. 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