I'm sorry to bring this up again. This what happens when you live on the opposite side of the world.
blueapple_x wrote:
In this instance timtam, I'm personally curious why one seems better than the other since you mentioned looking at/comparing plans with their bus was ok to you?
Chloek88 has really summed it up for me below, I agree that it blurs the line between sleuthing and stalking. I feel there is a different intent behind looking some photos available online compared to ringing a company to weedle information out of them. Not to mention I'd feel bad ringing a company and them thinking they might have another sale when really you are just lying to them to get information. It just feels morally wrong to me. For example if someone found out when I was working at my job by looking at my Facebook or my other social media sites I'd be like okay cool but if they say rang up my workplace to find that out I'd be beyond creeped out. It's not quite the same because that's quite an extreme example. And also I realise that D&P are famous and this kind of stuff comes with the job, but I personally have to draw the line somewhere.
chloek88 wrote:timtam wrote: Looking up bus plans and comparing it to pictures from real life. Yep I'm cool with that. Calling or contacting the bus company however makes me completely uncomfortable. There's a difference between looking at publicly available material and actually investigating things.
I completely agree. Can you imagine if it got back to d&p that people had been directly contacting their bus company? i feel like it blurs the line between sleuthing and stalking, and kind of breaks the fourth wall of being a fan in that it is actually engaging with people that they work with, in order to try and weed out information about them that they haven't provided themselves. if i were them, it would make me feel very trapped and smothered by my own audience, as well as kind of skeeved out. obviously you can do far worse, more invasive things. still makes me feel uncomfortable though.
Anyway! I loved the Thomas Sanders video. I'm a tall person myself so I found it so hilarious. But you guys are right. Dan looks as tall as Leo in that video and yet Phil looks short! I'd say it's just the angle because I doubt Dan is as tall as Leo? Although more prove that Phil is shorter than Dan.