Comments on: And the 13th highest ranked trend on Facebook goes to… http://www.moredigital.com/blogging/and-the-13th-highest-ranked-trend-on-facebook-goes-to-2.html Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:23:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: liamkirk http://www.moredigital.com/blogging/and-the-13th-highest-ranked-trend-on-facebook-goes-to-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-6 liamkirk Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:19:58 +0000 http://www.moredigital.com/?p=268#comment-6 No problem. I liked your theory, so thanks for the quote. I think you might be on to something here. We must uncover the truth, Howard. No problem. I liked your theory, so thanks for the quote. I think you might be on to something here. We must uncover the truth, Howard.

]]> By: Howard Yeend http://www.moredigital.com/blogging/and-the-13th-highest-ranked-trend-on-facebook-goes-to-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-5 Howard Yeend Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:02:20 +0000 http://www.moredigital.com/?p=268#comment-5 Hey, thanks for the mention.<br><br>As a non-app user I hadn't thought about the Farmville explanation - and I'm amazed the FB folks didn't either, it does sound more plausible than my conspiracy theory. But then maybe that's what they want you to think ;-) Hey, thanks for the mention.

As a non-app user I hadn't thought about the Farmville explanation – and I'm amazed the FB folks didn't either, it does sound more plausible than my conspiracy theory. But then maybe that's what they want you to think ;-)

]]> By: crepuscularsilhouette http://www.moredigital.com/blogging/and-the-13th-highest-ranked-trend-on-facebook-goes-to-2.html/comment-page-1#comment-4 crepuscularsilhouette Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:59:17 +0000 http://www.moredigital.com/?p=268#comment-4 There is a transatlantic divide about the word 'yard' - in the UK it tends to mean 'an enclosed area outdoors', like a prison yard or builder's yard. In the USA, the yard is the area surrounding a house/building - what for Americans is a yard, is the garden in the UK. <br><br>In Jamaica, however, the yard has come to mean one's entire home - 'mi yard'. Jamaican gangsers are known as Yardies <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yardie" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yardie</a> because these rude boys were from the poorest area of Kingston - the government yards or state-built tenements.<br><br>I don't know what sort of yard the FB massive are on about, but if we apply US and Jamaican logic to the situation in the UK, we might end up calling our gangsters 'gardenies' or perhaps 'gardeners'. But then some people might already think of Alan Titchmarsh as the Al Capone of horticulture. Blud. There is a transatlantic divide about the word 'yard' – in the UK it tends to mean 'an enclosed area outdoors', like a prison yard or builder's yard. In the USA, the yard is the area surrounding a house/building – what for Americans is a yard, is the garden in the UK.

In Jamaica, however, the yard has come to mean one's entire home – 'mi yard'. Jamaican gangsers are known as Yardies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yardie because these rude boys were from the poorest area of Kingston – the government yards or state-built tenements.

I don't know what sort of yard the FB massive are on about, but if we apply US and Jamaican logic to the situation in the UK, we might end up calling our gangsters 'gardenies' or perhaps 'gardeners'. But then some people might already think of Alan Titchmarsh as the Al Capone of horticulture. Blud.

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