Man Behaving Dadly – Mediocre Middle Aged White Man

The title of this blog post was inspired by CrackingOwlSanctuary from Tattle, by inspired I mean I stole it. The full quote is “Lord give me the confidence of a mediocre middle aged white man”. It’s absolutely perfect!

Simon Harris posted something to the Saint Pierre School Facebook page last night without sharing it to two of his pages that would put it in front of 100k people. That wasn’t so hard was it Simon?

Simon, I happen to know that you have been trying to find out who I am. Unfortunately you are looking in all the wrong places.

I’m a complete nobody. You have been looking into all the groups and people who you seem to think are actively caring enough about you to be doing some huge conspiracy against you. The lib dems, people you have worked with in the past, other parenting bloggers, staff from ECC, and others who you have fallen out with over the years who you then blame when bad things happen to you.

There is no conspiracy, people are just very annoyed at your actions, it’s you, not them.

I am a nobody.

A nobody who was pissed off regarding the whole ECC social media malarkey, especially regarding the amount you were paid. I, like many others, still have more questions than answers. Essex County Council doing their usual and making it all go away as quickly as they could.

More questions needed answering, emails needed to be found. Something just isn’t right.

Then we have Simon Harris, who for some bizarre reason that nobody else can fathom, thinks that he was actually worth all of that money. £90 per post on Essex is United someone worked it out to be. I put more effort and originality into writing one of these posts, and I have a lot more unique content, despite the amount I get from other places. The crap I write is not worth £90 per post. Though I may put my Octopus link below in case anyone is interested.

It’s not to get £50 off your electric bill, I want to buy an actual Octopus.

Simon thinks he is a content creator and thus should get paid for his content.

Simon, you are the epitome of a mediocre middle aged white man, and you have the confidence to go with it. Mate, you post on Facebook, that is it. A lot of what you post is actually sharing content from others. No reasonable person would expect you to get paid for that. You are literally just posting to Facebook in the same way I do, except you aren’t as funny as me. You are not a content creator, you post on Facebook, you don’t create a thing.

Content creators put effort it, they get paid through views. They get paid to advertise products. They do things like have Patreon accounts, and memberships where you pay a monthly fee and get more content. I love YouTube. I have premium so no adverts, although the content creators still get paid. I have memberships to some channels and for members only content, and i’ve also subscribed to a couple of Patreon accounts.

The content creators I in effect give extra money to, work hard to create the content I enjoy watching/listening to. On YouTube some of the content can be an hour long. That takes a lot of effort. Research, planning, filming, editing etc. If they have paid ads as part of their content, i’m okay with that as well. Content creators deserve to get paid.

Then you have other platforms. Instagram with all the photos. Not my cup of tea, I have an account, but I never go and have a look. That said, you have a content creator whose thing is fancy clothes in fancy destinations and acting like they someone others should aspire to be. That sounds like hell to me but it takes a lot of effort, and money, and time. Content creators deserve to get paid.

Then you have the short videos, YouTube shorts, Facebook Reels, and of course TikTok. I adore all of that and i’m not ashamed to admit it. Again, a lot of work goes into them. Content creators deserve to get paid.

Of course not everyone who makes content will get paid. Not everyone makes it big. Sometimes the content is subpar, other times the algorithm works in your favour. However, once you make it big you have to make sure you continue to make quality content and that is what takes the time, skill, and money.

These are the latest 4 posts on Simon’s Facebook. These are from his Man Behaving Dadly page, but he shares the content on his Simon Harris page as well.

As you can see in the screenshots they all have the “send a gift” thing enabled. They all also have Simon’s Octopus referral link in the comments which if people take him up on it he would get £50 credit on his energy bill.

Let’s be crystal clear here, I have put more effort into this blog post than Simon puts into his content creation. He’s mostly just sharing things, sometimes with a comment, and he expects to be paid for this.

Mediocre middle aged man with a high opinion of himself.

Then there is Threads. Where Simon posts the exact same things he posts on Facebook, and then of course, his Octopus link.

Simon, nobody has trusted a bit.ly link in over a decade. If you can’t see the web address, don’t click on it. That bit.ly link could go anywhere, a naked photo of you with only a small toilet roll covering your penis and testicles, or even worse, a video of you trying to be funny. It could be a scam, spam, or your content. None of which anyone wants to see.

Simon, while reading all of this you need to keep in mind what I said at the start of the post. I’m a nobody, i’m not important, I am a nobody on social media, I have about 200 friends and my account is set to friends only. I am not trying to make you look bad because you are threatening my own social media greatness. I’m a nobody. YOU make yourself look bad, it’s the only thing you are actually good at.

If you found out my name the first thing out of your mouth would be “Who?”. Then you would research me and you would still be saying the same.

I have no ulterior motive in writing these posts, not quite true, i’m venting about something I find desperately unfair, and i’d be lying if I said I wasn’t addicted to the complements I keep getting on Tattle

Given that 3 out of my 4 adult children have autism it has taken me a while to write this. Which means while Simon managed once not to share Saint Pierre School onto his pages for reach, it only lasted for one post. Simon, mate, you are not good at this social media lark are you?

Simon, you made a post about the biggest negative of the school. If a parent who was looking for a private school in the area saw that, they would cross Saint Pierre off their list. You don’t lead with that. You tell them all about the good stuff so they are hooked, and then, and only then you explain there is no playing field exclusively for school use but you use council land instead.

You are making these posts to advertise the school, your posts are meant to be the first thing people will see about the school. You want to try and grab their attention and entice them to want to know more. Not instantly cross the school of their list because the one thing they do know about the school is it doesn’t have playing fields.

It will now be in their heads as the school that doesn’t have playing fields, not even worth visiting. They may like it when they visit, they may find many things about it that makes not having a playing field unimportant, but they need a chance to get a positive view of the school before you hit them with a huge negative.

Here are the shares. The comments are on the post that was shared to the Leigh-on-Sea page. Given that the posts on there rarely get any interactions it shows what a dumb decision it was to post a huge negative about the school

That is a massive social media fail, huge fail, my cat could do better.

Talking of fails, was this you Simon? The flooded people UK logo? This abomination? We know you work with them and have likely promised to make them the most bestest group on social media, or whatever it is you say you do.

The obvious is obvious, both of them are missing a finger. What strikes me the most however is that the whole Flooded People UK thing is all about helping those who are the victims of flooding. You have the person being saved clinging on for dear life with all 3 fingers and their thumb, they have the rescuers hand in a death grip, they are not letting go.

The rescuers hand is giving ‘whatever’ it’s not actually holding on to the victim at all and if the rescuer was in possession of a middle finger they would probably be showing that to the victim. The rescuer is just not giving it any effort at all. That flooded person is dead, the rescuer put in zero effort.

I’m not about to write a long backstory for the rescuer based off a logo, that would be ridiculous.

However, I do think they are most likely a serial killer whose hunting ground is wherever and whenever a flood hits. They reach out to save people from the floods only to dramatically let them go and watch them drown. The four fingers are due to the serial killer having lost a finger in a flood at a knife factory when he was young. His bloodlust knows no bounds and he takes a finger from each of his victims just before he lets go.

He was training to be a glove model when he lost his finger, he hopes that with each finger he collects, the nightmares will stop but they never do. So he goes once more into the night, into the flood, the four fingered man inflicting his vengeance on all those who have five digits on each hand.

This has taken ages to write because I have three autistic adult children, I don’t know what to do, i’ve told them to stop doing an autism for your mother, but that didn’t work. I will of course now post that all over the internet and feel smug that i’m so funny and clever.

Simon, if you want to support your family I suggest another career path. You are not a decent content creator, most of the content you post isn’t even yours. You’ve got the Flooded People UK gig and the Saint Pierre School gig, but the big money has gone and you never should have gotten it. You are not a social media expert, you are not good at what you do. You are a mediocre middle aged white man who thinks he is more talented than he is. You need a healthy does of realism in your life Simon.

You know it’s all over when you are having to make out things are more than they are. Simon posted this:

When I read it and listened to the ‘interview’ I took it as Simon had been invited to be interviewed by Nicky Campbell regarding the social media ban. That’s because Simon strategically cut off the beginning and the end of his segment. Just a couple of seconds but the couple of seconds is important. Simon is nothing but a caller to the show. He is introduced as Simon from Hockley and at the end Nicky Campbell cuts him off so he can hear what Tanya, another caller, has to say.

Receipts are on Tattle, just put “Simon Harris Tattle” into google and it will lead you to see the good stuff.

Then we have this, Simon posted this on Essex is United and shared it to his Man Behaving Dadly Facebook account.

Simon, you make it sound like they approached, i’m guessing “chatted briefly” means that you put something on a comment on their Facebook page or sent a message. Given that you’ve also put the EIU logo onto the blue background along with “Essex Carers Network” could fool the public that there is some kind of partnership or involvement between yourself and the Essex Carers Network.

A hamper for the EIU staff? What a wonderful idea, they will all like that i’m sure. 80% of the content is created by an admin sitting on a toilet? Firstly that is gross, secondly, you have tied the Essex Carers Network into something gross by the way you have presented your post as being linked to them in some way.

80%? are you saying that 80% of the Admin’s of EIU sit on the toilet to make content? Or are you saying that 80% of content is made by you on a toilet?

I know all of the Admins of EIU made a huge amount of money from the whole Facebook thing during the Pandemic. I can’t be bothered to check, but i’m absolutely certain it was about £350k each.

Hang on, that isn’t right is it? It was only YOU who earned that much money wasn’t it Simon? The rest earned nowhere near that, some of them were paid very little. That’s okay though, you told us on your blog that you didn’t all do the same work.

£90 per post you were paid for that. £90 per post. Did everyone else involved with the whole Facebook project get paid £90 per comparable piece of work they did or posts they made? No they did not, not even remotely. Now you are all about getting a hamper, for yourself, by getting carers in Essex to follow a link.

As a carer in Essex i’m not very happy about any of your involvement with anything to do with carers especially after your attitude after everyone found out how much of Essex residents money was given to you.

Oh, and the absolute best thing is that after paying you all of that money, Essex County Council didn’t get to keep the Facebook page or group. I do have a lot more to say about you and Essex CC, but i’ll save that for another day. I’ll have to do a lot of research (read through old threads on Tattle) and put it all together.

TLDR version of this blog post is that a complete nobody thinks Simon Harris sucks at Social Media. This post will also seem a bit off with the days because it’s taken me days to write this due to me being a carer. I really should look into monetising my kid’s autism.

Just one more thing..

Not one single person would be shocked at your reaction to this given that you have a long history of monetising your children. They are in fact your entire brand. You couldn’t be Man Behaving Dadly without being a Dad. You attempt to monetise your son’s autism as often as you can.

Of course you would have no interest in someone who has just issued a statement talking about how he feels that his whole life has been being part of a brand. Having everything monetised, even his baby photos were sold to the highest bidder. Everything he has ever done has been put out there in a controlled manner by his parents. His whole life has been about publicity, he didn’t ask for that. I can’t even begin to imagine how that feels like and what it is like trying to forge a life for yourself outside of that, with everyone watching what you are doing.

I am shocked you haven’t used the situation to side with his parents in that throwing your children to the social media wolves is absolutely what a parent should do. Because you know that you are doing the same thing, albeit on a much smaller scale, a very much smaller scale, but you have made your children a part of your brand, you have made your son’s autism part of your brand.

This could be your kids saying things like that in the future. It could actually be sooner rather than later due to your eldest now being in secondary school, and his peers finding your social media.

You are a mediocre middle aged white man, you are not good at social media, your numbers are dropping on all of your accounts. EIU is about to be admitted to social media hospice as it’s on it’s last legs. The best thing you could do for your children is delete your public social media and erase every single record of your children. Especially all of the ones where you have mentioned them and something sexual in the same post. There are a few of them, i’ve seen them, I felt utter disgust multiple times.

You won’t, you truly believe your are a social media god, and that any time you fail it’s because of other people. In your mind the lib-dems have a whole army of people whose goal is solely to try and do random things against you, like criticise you. You are not that important, you really aren’t.