Is it just me or is there a distinct lack of interesting posts

ester said:
I'm going back in my over invested unappreciated hole now. or paper bag as that is the best I can find
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This is a very good and pertinent point. The main thing wrong with this forum is the lack of good smilies. If anyone wants to post one of a bunny with a pancake on its head, for example, they need to go off and find one, when that should (obviously) be offered by HHO as an option in the forum reply box.

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Irish gal said:
How is she criticising, shes making a simple observation that the threads are 'samey'. It's nothing that hasn't been said plenty of times before yet individuals are taking it personally.

So people here have problems and you're right we all do. But none of us knows just who might be on a cliff edge tonight, needing very little to tip them over the side. Especially someone who has told us they're in a state. Just a shove from a hostile bunch of of strangers could be enough to do it.

But doubtless that won't bother people here much...
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Then why create that position in the first place, people posting on here have their own views and how can they know the mental state of another poster. Im sorry to make a big deal of your problems and then still slam into others ,I just dont see how they expect sympathy.
 
milliepops said:
What a strange thread :confused3:
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I know right?! I think between this one and the 'feeding a 2yo native a balancer' thread my concept of what subjects/innocent response observations are likely to get people hot under the collar has been blown away
 
Irish gal said:
So people here have problems and you're right we all do. But none of us knows just who might be on a cliff edge tonight, needing very little to tip them over the side.
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That is a good point.

If I am feeling fragile, I just don't post on here. I know how easy it is for people to misinterpret the intent behind the written word (which is a serious reason for using smilies - to try to show the 'tone' that the reply is written with), plus I can be very ham-fisted at explaining myself which doesn't help. So really if I can't cope with people getting the wrong end of the stick and sending me PM's telling me how wrong or awful I am, then I just don't post a reply. Like others, I sometimes type it, but then delete it.
 
Faracat said:
This is a very good and pertinent point. The main thing wrong with this forum is the lack of good smilies. If anyone wants to post one of a bunny with a pancake on its head, for example, they need to go off and find one, when that should (obviously) be offered by HHO as an option in the forum reply box.

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I think you've hit the nail on the head there.
I dread to think of the posters that have been lost due to pancake-headed bunnies :(

ETA: I actually find this bunny rather irritating- why is he taking one hop to the right, but two to the left? Is the pancake making unlevel?
 
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Whereas if I am fragile I know I very much do the opposite :( for the most part - special interest/bit of a stim whatever you want to call it, though sometimes that is of course an issue.

I'd actually say people being on the edge bothers people a lot on here too, and countless pms have been sent on this forum when that is the case so I really don't think it is fair to say it wouldn't bother people on here much, but they probably need to have more than just a side comment about a family situation to go off if that is truely the case.
 
DabDab said:
I think you've hit the nail on the head there.
I dread to think of the posters that have been lost due to pancake-headed bunnies :(

ETA: I actually find this bunny rather irritating- why is he taking one hop to the right, but two to the left? Is the pancake making unlevel?
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can't be, because mine does it too....
 
Faracat said:
That is a good point.

If I am feeling fragile, I just don't post on here. I know how easy it is for people to misinterpret the intent behind the written word (which is a serious reason for using smilies - to try to show the 'tone' that the reply is written with), plus I can be very ham-fisted at explaining myself which doesn't help. So really if I can't cope with people getting the wrong end of the stick and sending me PM's telling me how wrong or awful I am, then I just don't post a reply. Like others, I sometimes type it, but then delete it.
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I know Faracat, that's the sensible thing to do but life isn't always like that. This person is a non poster who likes to read. She's at her wits end with her son, gets a break from him, tears into a bottle of wine and thanks to feeling brave sticks up a thread. She then gets the head taken off her for what are really quite innocent comments that have been said many times before.

Now instead of getting a break from the stress of her awful family situation she has a firestorm on a forum and is fending off a fair bit of heavy criticism. I say give the lady a break, we all need one. So what if she downed wine and waded in here. There are far worse things someone can do. And I wouldn't envy her situation, it sounds like heavy going.
 
She didn't get criticised for what she posted, IG, she got criticised for her reaction to people's perfectly reasonable responses. 'Ouch', when it was pointed out that this thread was neither new nor interesting itself, and on it went from there. At which point it actually got really entertaining, so thanks Tihama.

If you think this is a 'firestorm' of a thread, you haven't been on the forum long enough!
 
I feel that the camel needs some music... but I'm not sure exactly what music.
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PS, sorry for distressing you with pancake bunnies YCBM, I thought it was cute.
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Faracat said:
I feel that the camel needs some music... but I'm not sure exactly what music.
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PS, sorry for distressing you with pancake bunnies YCBM, I thought it was cute.
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Sultans of Swing?

Bunnies and pancakes. Pancakes and bunnies. My head hurts.
 
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Faracat said:
Well the humps are certainly swinging about! For some reason I suddenly thought of the music used in the Morecambe & Wise breakfast sketch... the stripper maybe?
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I love that you are using Morecambe and wise as the reference for that tune!
 
ycbm said:
If you think this is a 'firestorm' of a thread, you haven't been on the forum long enough!
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So true!
The demise of those threads through reporting is one of the reasons many highly knowledgeable posters left and it has become less used . C&T used to be the most used section until the muppets came along ! ;)
 
ycbm said:
She didn't get criticised for what she posted, IG, she got criticised for her reaction to people's perfectly reasonable responses. 'Ouch', when it was pointed out that this thread was neither new nor interesting itself, and on it went from there. At which point it actually got really entertaining, so thanks Tihama.

If you think this is a 'firestorm' of a thread, you haven't been on the forum long enough!
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But hasn't it turned out to be quite interesting on all sorts of levels. I might not be here that long Ybcm but I've been in a fair few firestorms myself, so I know what it's like.

I only dip in and out of here as I'm too busy, just don't like to see people being put through the wringer for no good reason I can see.
 
Well this thread livened up my evening, not least the jumping bunnies and wobbly camels.

Mission accomplished op I reckon. Even if you did say we're all a bunch of boring b******* :D :p
 
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