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#442023 - 12/06/17 03:57 PM
I'm curious again........how many of you, etc
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Registered: 10/23/06
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Loc: USA
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How many of you get pretty ticked off when any post goes South, either immediately or they very rarely stay "north" beyond 4-5 replies (but I do remember one staying stable for at least seven replies back in 2001). How about those who write posts with a topic that's important to them......and then it goes south anyway. And what about the posts written by others and you're just getting into the topic, and boom, wham, there it goes, taking off faster than Superman on steroids. And posts that break records with 600 replies and you read the original opening remark, something to do with music, and you go to post #600 and the original topic transitioned to something like the sinking of the Titanic? How many think that a qualifier should precede each heading in the list with an icon that says "any and all replies welcome?" Or an icon signifying only "topic replies allowed?" And that if you break the rule more than 3x you get taken to a recycling plant for installation of a new personality? How many think the Synthzone should be renamed the Jokezone? How many think anyone that goes off topic should, a) forsake their Internet diplomatic immunity, b) be required to do 50 pushups and, c) watch 10 hours non-stop of Kim Kardashian, videotape it and post the videotape as proof?
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#442027 - 12/06/17 04:43 PM
Re: I'm curious again........how many of you, etc
[Re: Mark79100]
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Loc: Forest Hill, MD USA
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No post really goes south here, a bit off kilter, maybe, but due south - NAH! Gary
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#442066 - 12/07/17 05:01 AM
Re: I'm curious again........how many of you, etc
[Re: Mark79100]
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Registered: 09/29/05
Posts: 6703
Loc: Roswell,GA/USA
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People don't always respond the way you want them to. What you call 'going south' happens in normal, live, group conversations as well. You can't expect 2-300 total strangers, many from different cultures and backgrounds, to all be on exactly the same page. If that were the case, we'd probably have world peace . In a previous post you criticized Americans for their spending habits and for not doing things that YOU enjoy instead of what THEY enjoy. If a person enjoys shopping and can comfortably afford it, what's wrong with that? That's one of the reasons we're the number 1 economy in the world. You simply can't get upset over the things people do THAT DON'T AFFECT YOU. What's wrong is not so much what they are doing as it is your expectations of what they SHOULD be doing. People bring their own biases to every situation; we all need to be more tolerant of the other guy's position. Also, we tend to remember things from the past as being better than perhaps they were. Apples were sweeter back when we were kids, bacon tasted better (THAT'S TRUE ), girls were prettier, etc., etc. Everything was better in Europe.....and yet, here we are, back in the good ol' USA. WAIT A MINUTE. Did I just take this post SOUTH? Sorry. chas
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