mostly david ephgrave

Either people don’t like jokey Facebook statuses any more, or I’m no longer funny. When I first joined the social networking service back in 2008 (I remember the year because it coincided with me and Glyn taking The Balloon Debate to Edinburgh) that was pretty much all anyone did, apart from those annoyingly vague, fishing-for-sympathy-without-telling-you-what-the-problem-is posts; if there’s something wrong, tell us, or don’t if you expect us to tease it out of you. (I’m an irritable, impatient person in case haven't guessed. ) You were initially encouraged to write in a ‘David Ephgrave is…’ format, which cried out to be completed with surreal statements like ‘...half-Alsation’ or ‘...his own dad’. Then they simplified things by removing the prefix, opening the door to post anything you liked, from how tired you were to what you had for lu nch . Back then, we were all younger, and people of my generation probably didn’t have kids or mortgage payments to contend...