Posted on 08/13/2004 1:56:31 PM PDT by KingsKindred
I graduated from high school 40 years. I went through a lot of agony in life being "sensitive" about stuff. It was miserable. Now I am insensitive and silly and have a lot of fun. It could happen!
You'll be back. There is no other board where you can get the latest international news of import and discuss issues at any level you wish. Of course if you speak Arabic, Hindi, Chinese, Tagalog, Polish, Russian, and a few other languages, you can go to the international sites to at least get some news even if they don't discuss much.
"Expectation is the corpse of
a possibility that has died."
~~~ and taking things personally will lead you to feeling sorry for yourself. :)
First time I've ever seen a newbie zot FReepers.
You got potential!
So long whoever you were. You're a little too sensitive for the Freeper Crowd.
Go toughen up a bit.Ane come on back.
Never trust anyone under 35 ...
Excellent vanity. What does it mean? Chocolate chip cookies to all FReepers with a sign-up date before 1998 is the best way to win friends...
Welcome to FReeRepublic!
:o)
Even though there are many who may subscribe to this kind of behavior, I hope you won't give up on us! I am from your generation and subscribe to all the values that you cherish. I think it is worth hanging in there!
One bit of advice: don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Oops! You forgot "clymer," moose, cheese, and sister. And now I have to go take a shower.
I am sorry you have chosen to stereotype the entire site after reading some of the postings on this forum. At times it gets hot in here and if you are timid, can't accept some criticism and non-adult comments you should (IMHO) turn on your tv and watch and listen to static. You won't find Utopia here or on any other board! Perhaps Yoga and meditation would serve you better. I will not say so long as others have done but just ask that you stop and reconsider, keep posting and deal with reality. By posting you tweek the minds of others albeit they may be twisted minds at times but at least you participate. So, with that said the decision is yours.
Nice Opus.
Adios.
You have an ironic name considering your age bias, no?
May I ask for some slack to be cut here for a particular reason? I work with older folks (the person who started this thread admits to being a grandmother, that's at least 34 years old in my neck of the woods!), and many of them make the honest mistake of applying face-to-face ettiquite standards to online interactions. We already know that body language cannot be conveyed by the written word, and emoticons are a strange type of symbol for those not accustomed to them.
Older people coming to the Internet are often not prepared for the informality of the interactions that take place, and are unaccustomed to the apparent forthrightness, aided and abetted by anonymity, which comes across as rudeness. It would be easy for a newbie to rapidly misinterpret things, and a downward spiral could result. Some here would toss the older newcomer back to the print and television media worlds, but I'm more inclined to educate, and let the late bloomer make a decision based on new information.
Many of our older citizens worked hard to make a nicer world for us to live in, I'm more than willing to show them the new world we have created without judging their initial impression of it.
Here's what I do: I scroll past the posts that characterize someone new as "troll", that are just absurd, have no meaning or content, etc. There do seem to be a lot of folks lately that are pretty quick on the "troll" trigger, however. That being said, there have been quite a few trolls dropping by of late. Unless the posts are really obvious from a troll, I like to give the new poster the benefit of the doubt. After all, I was a newby once myself.
I think that the CFR legislation signed by George Bush is a Constitutional failure of all three branches of Government. Bush could have vetoed it and did not (or is it "vetod"...where's Dan Quayle when I need him?).
I do not think that George Bush is a Reagan Conservative in the sense that Reagan thought that a large Fed was the enemy of the people.
Ok somebody, call me a troll. Plaster me with the DU label. I dares ya!!
Roger that ~ me too!
Be Ever Vigilant!
Anyway, if you are interested in etiquette, I would point out that when you post a vanity like this, it is considered incumbent upon you to stay in the thread and answer your interlocutors.
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