TableDancer
Well-Known Member
*TD wanders rather unsteadily over from the bar where she's been since jhoward invited everyone last night, to participate in Figjam's group hug*
It really is the silly season, isn't it??
I'll hold my hand up to largely lurking on here in recent months, partly due to nothing much to report (sold latest youngster to the States last summer) and partly because I seem to remember flouncing off with my toys, offended by the stupidity, rudeness and general ignorance of the arguments being expressed on a thread - can't even remember which one now, there are so many it could have been they all melt into one 
But as people keep reminding me, there are good things about CR and good people in here, both posting and lurking
Perhaps as someone's already said, we all (me included/especially) need to keep a thick skin and a sense of humour, and just ignore the irritating/ignorant/bitchy/plain old wrong people and their opinions just as we would try to do in RL rather than get drawn into arguments that make us mad or miserable. If you enjoy a good argument then fine, go for it 
As far as a rift between new and old forumites is concerned, I don't buy it. I think it has more to do with generosity of spirit and a shared sense of humour. There are people I've met on here who have ended up as RL friends, and we do tend, I guess, to comment on each other's threads and generally support each other's views - that's because we generally (but not always) view things from a similar perspective, that's why we are friends... Does that mean we are a clique?? I don't believe so in that I will interact with and embrace (in a cyber sense ) anyone who shares my sense of humour wjether I know them or not and regardless of how long thwy've been posting: I can think of a certain half Danish new member I'd love to hear more from, given her start in the forum
*Wanders back to the bar, wondering what time it opens...*
It really is the silly season, isn't it??
I'll hold my hand up to largely lurking on here in recent months, partly due to nothing much to report (sold latest youngster to the States last summer) and partly because I seem to remember flouncing off with my toys, offended by the stupidity, rudeness and general ignorance of the arguments being expressed on a thread - can't even remember which one now, there are so many it could have been they all melt into one But as people keep reminding me, there are good things about CR and good people in here, both posting and lurking
Perhaps as someone's already said, we all (me included/especially) need to keep a thick skin and a sense of humour, and just ignore the irritating/ignorant/bitchy/plain old wrong people and their opinions just as we would try to do in RL rather than get drawn into arguments that make us mad or miserable. If you enjoy a good argument then fine, go for it As far as a rift between new and old forumites is concerned, I don't buy it. I think it has more to do with generosity of spirit and a shared sense of humour. There are people I've met on here who have ended up as RL friends, and we do tend, I guess, to comment on each other's threads and generally support each other's views - that's because we generally (but not always) view things from a similar perspective, that's why we are friends... Does that mean we are a clique?? I don't believe so in that I will interact with and embrace (in a cyber sense
) anyone who shares my sense of humour wjether I know them or not and regardless of how long thwy've been posting: I can think of a certain half Danish new member I'd love to hear more from, given her start in the forum *Wanders back to the bar, wondering what time it opens...*
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, I probably owe a bit to the CR of old, it kept me going through many a veeeeeeeeeeeeeeery late night in my Canary Wharf glass tower, and probably contributed to my mistaken belief that I could just about manage another crack at this pony stuff, before I retired into my zimmer frame. Old forumites, you know who you are, and I salute you with a sloe gin (or ten!) 
