The Misdirection Thread

Look! Behind you! It's your BOSS!!!

Work hazards #43: delayed action pop-ups. There'll you'll be, all offending windows minimized and - boo-yah! - there'll be an ad, like a face-hugging alien, leaping up, giving the lie to the carefully prepared, active-looking speadsheets.

Well, the spreadsheets are misdirection. Alt-Tab is the most commonly used misdirection in the office! But also, quickly hitting "print" and asking "Hey, can you pick up my printout from over there for me?" is also good misdirection.

How much of politics is simple misdirection? Almost all of the activity we actually see? Is The Hutton Enquiry the most well orchestrated piece of political misdirection of recent years? Or is the way itself simply misdirection? Enquiring minds want to know!

Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by this son of York.

The Hutton enquiry - misdirection. The controversial Today programme broadcast was on about 29 May; it took three weeks for Campbell to go ape. That's some evidence of misdirection: very few people heard about the initial 'upsexing' broadcast before Campbell made a fuss on C4 news at the end of June.
To what end, though?
I fear the print button, it could be an ILE thread. If it was that Vice Mag thread, then I'd be in trouble alright.

God, my threads are going down like lead balloons lately. Sniff.

Dammit, the one day that the internet filtre goes down along with the rest of the network and phone and databases and stuff, and I can post ALL DAY LONG and no one wants to talk about the stupid crap I wanna talk about. I'm going to go and boil my head.

Maybe I should just talk about ass.

HSA nearly set his ass on fire last night, and I didn't even notice.

Maybe he failed to misdirect you from SOMETHING ELSE HE WAS LIGHTING ON FIRE with that ?

Probably. Or perhaps it was just one of those "you know you've reached that stage in your relationship when..." moments.

I was watching television, and HSA came out of the kitchen, plonked himself in front of me, ass-first. I just ignored him because I was watching television and, you know, every now and then HSA just acts like a monkey for no apparent reason. (Usually simply because I'm busy doing something else that isn't paying attention to him.)

After about a minute of this, he gives up. I change position on the couch, and notice a smell of sulpher in the air. "Is something burning?" I ask, worriedly, thinking that someone has left the gas on.

HSA starts groaning as I look at him blankly, not understanding why he isn't answering. He cannot believe that I have not noticed him standing in front of me, trying to set his farts on fire, as a protest because I made him eat baby cabbages at dinner. I cannot believe I was actually able to tune him out like that where I actually did not notice him setting his ass on fire.

What's with some old Holly Valance records from last year? [this is misdirection, btw] In the first she says 'some things I just won't do', all the while suggsting that she would, and it's quite saucy; in the second she's on about things 'a girl shouldn't know', and that she has actually done, but in girl next door way. I pity her boyfriend - what kind of a mindfuck is she playing here?
Reason this has whiskers on it: I only just discovered my local TV station and its wonderful music video hour.

Holly Valance videos = classic misdirection! All those whizzing around lights and things serve to distract from her being BUCK NEKKID!!!

I think it's the other way round.

But I must say, the vids are quite, well, how to put this delicately, crotch-centric. I frown on it, personally.

The misdirection is... she's BUCK NEKKID to distract you from how crap the song is, and her total lack of talent.

What about misleading ppl with your identity. I mean, in Vic's world, I was a gay man until recently!