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Thread: Host & Admin Day
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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Crap spouted by Caissa:
Have the 24 hours expired?
Much like many interpretations of the Genesis creation account, "Day" cannot be assumed to refer to a literal period of 24 hours.
[ 19. September 2014, 14:19: Message edited by: Marvin the Martian ]
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Jengie jon
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* was precise about that deliberately and Eccles is officially a merger between Mystery Worship and Small Fire boards. Just as * was precise about her being Methodist although former CofS.
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Caissa
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* 'll be staying away until order is made out of chaos.
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Marvin the Martian
Interplanetary
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As you w***.
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Piglet
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This is a bit late - was travelling home yesterday and today after holidays.
Hippie birdie, Spike. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Bernard Mahler
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Glad for Spike!
And splendid to know * 'm not the sole shipmate told to bugger off!
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TallPoppy
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* 'll be pleased when all this nonsense is over. It might have been moderately funny for a bit for those of a robust disposition like me, but a dear friend of mine over on a private board has been genuinely hurt and upset. Where's the fun in that?
Tall 'disgruntled' Poppy
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lilBuddha
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Not a fan of H&A days myself, TP. But can offer no complaint if it mitigates the load for the deluded folk who operate this place.
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Oscar the Grouch
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Crap spouted by TallPoppy:
* 'll be pleased when all this nonsense is over.
You're not alone.
This is all very "in". Too smug for my taste. See y'all later.
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cattyish
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* shall not bugger off! * laughed loudly and had to explain to Mr C why.
Catty***, chuffed at the proper humourousness.
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Enoch
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quote:
Crap spouted by Oscar the Grouch:
quote:
Crap spouted by TallPoppy:
* 'll be pleased when all this nonsense is over.
You're not alone.
This is all very "in". Too smug for my taste. See y'all later.
Agreed. As my late mother used to say at yet another nine year old joke, "small things, please small minds."
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Horseman Bree
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Just to increase the rain on the parade, * also find this buggering about to be un*****-making.
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agingjb
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"bugger off, agingjb". You say, repeatedly. Eventually, * 'll get message.
[ 20. September 2014, 11:13: Message edited by: agingjb ]
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Nanny Ogg
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* 'll be glad when this so called fun is over. There are quite a few upset people on the "Waving not drowning" private board. ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
IMO it should also have been omitted from the prayer thread. Not good to have your prayer requests mocked or made insignificant by * and other stupid changes. Imagine how you would feel if you needed prayer for illness or the death of a loved one. ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
Next year, think first and keep the "fun" to appropriate boards and threads. The Hosts and Admins day is a great idea but the lack of sensitivity has ruined the fun this year.
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Thyme
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quote:
Crap spouted by Nanny Ogg:
Next year, think first and keep the "fun" to appropriate boards and threads. The Hosts and Admins day is a great idea but the lack of sensitivity has ruined the fun this year.
* normally enjoy the Festivals of H&As but not so much this year. Whatever the line is between cruelty/malice and wit and rough and tumble fun seems to have been crossed in places.
The 'Grievances' thread is ace ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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Barnabas62
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* guess some of this is "unintended consequences", Nanny Ogg. * 'm sure the point has got across - it certainly has to me.
A bit of knockabout daftness is something most of us enjoy, and one of our guidelines is 'don't be easily offended'. It's a significant part of the overall ethos here.
But * can appreciate that there are times and places. It may not be possible to insulate the folks who get hurt (rather than those who just take umbrage), but * 'm sure this H & A team will do some evaluating and see what we can learn.
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Ariston
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It's only an inside joke if you keep yourself on the outside. Join in the chaos, get on my lawn you kids, and it will all make sense.
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Horseman Bree
Shipmate
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Telling people to suck it up sounds very much like what a bully says. What happens if we don't enjoy it?
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
# 1984
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* am struggling to understand why something that has been done pretty much annually for a decade, is suddenly a problem this year ?
ETA * think previous feedback had been that it was confusing if you didn't realise it was going on - hence on the last two occasions there being announcements on the front of the board and in The Styx.
[ 20. September 2014, 13:17: Message edited by: Doublethink ]
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Ariston
Insane Unicorn
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Crap spouted by Horseman Bree:
Telling people to suck it up sounds very much like what a bully says. What happens if we don't enjoy it?
First, you put away the accusations of bullying. This has been going on for [* ]years.[/* ] And those of us who enjoy the break from the normal straitjackets and confines of po-faced respectability and Seriousness find this the best part of the Ship.
Second, * don't enjoy football at the local university. Every time there's a game, it mucks up the local traffic. So what do * do? * deal with it. * roll with the punches—and stay off campus for a bit. If this is causing you such insolvable existential distress, maybe you should have a look at that big green warning up top.
Look, we'll all get to go back to our usual hidebound, button-down, serious and respectable selves ready to drink weak tea and make polite conversation here in just a day or two. The inauthenticity and stultifying dullness of average everydayness will return, and we'll all continue on as if nothing had happened. It will be okay. * 'll put away the brimstone scented candles, SPK will lose his (delightfully abused) powers, and those of us who crave the chaos will start waiting for the next H&A Day to return.
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Huia
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quote:
posted by Doublethink:
* am struggling to understand why something that has been done pretty much annually for a decade, is suddenly a problem this year ?
ETA * think previous feedback had been that it was confusing if you didn't realise it was going on - hence on the last two occasions there being announcements on the front of the board and in The Styx.
For some reason changes made to the boards during H&A days have not appeared in the Waving Board in previous years, this year they have.
[ 20. September 2014, 13:35: Message edited by: Huia ]
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
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quote:
From Nanny Ogg:
* 'll be glad when this so called fun is over. There are quite a few upset people on the "Waving not drowning" private board.
IMO it should also have been omitted from the prayer thread. Not good to have your prayer requests mocked or made insignificant by * and other stupid changes. Imagine how you would feel if you needed prayer for illness or the death of a loved one.
Next year, think first and keep the "fun" to appropriate boards and threads. The Hosts and Admins day is a great idea but the lack of sensitivity has ruined the fun this year.
FYI if you preview post you can edit out the changes - providing you replace with text that is not being filtered, the personal pronoun Ii for example could be replaced with myself, me or a sentence restructure.
IRRC the filters and standard message are alterable only for the whole forum, so a single thread or board can not be insulated from those.
As regards, what if needed prayer - Ii suppose Ii would compose it round the filter. Ii have had relatives die at Christmas and on my day of birth - or come home from totally shit work day and all that is on is Comic relief. Sometimes life just doesn't match how you're feeling.
To me there is a difference between a one off event in a space Ii use not matching up, and whether that happens all the time. If its a one off event Ii'll come back when its over - if it is always like that, Ii'll go somewhere else.
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
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quote:
by Huia:
quote:
posted by Doublethink:
* am struggling to understand why something that has been done pretty much annually for a decade, is suddenly a problem this year ?
ETA * think previous feedback had been that it was confusing if you didn't realise it was going on - hence on the last two occasions there being announcements on the front of the board and in The Styx.
For some reason changes made to the boards during H&A days have not appeared in the Waving Board in previous years, this year they have.
* don't know how busy your board is, but when * was on a couple of different private boards a couple of days could pass between posts - sometimes longer. Perhaps noone posted during the last one ?
[ 20. September 2014, 13:42: Message edited by: Doublethink ]
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
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Right the changes made this year have more results on Waving not Drowning. There are a number of reasons:
- more of the changes have been universal and not board specific. Thus, they make differences to Waving as well as the normal boards.
- The ways they have been made this time play on insecurities that are common amongst people on "Waving not Drowning". Doublethink, you will know that with people who find social interaction difficult, that being negative about them there is detrimental to them. There are such people on waving, they tend not to come onto the main boards for just this reason. This is not to say the greeting can not be changed, but please be aware that it goes beyond those on the main board. People on "waving not drowning" would not be upset to be told "Abandon hope all ye who enter here" (* think that was a previous years one) or maybe "More f*** food yum yum!", but are to being told to "bugger off". The first two are general jokes the third they perceive as someone being directly rude to them personally.
- Thirdly the asterisks seem to have been chosen for sequences of letters used rather more often on Waving than previous years.
- Fourthly, mea culpa, by the time * had got around to spotting it, some shipmates were already hurt. Normally, as one of the few shipmates who is regularly on both, * manage to post a warning on Waving before this happens
By the number of people who have outed themselves as Wavers, you can here the level of upset this has caused.
J***ie
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roybart
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***** ****** ** ****:
***** ********* ****** ***** ** * ******** ******* ********
******** ********* *** **** * ****** ***** **** !
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JoannaP
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Crap spouted by Ariston:
quote:
Crap spouted by Horseman Bree:
Telling people to suck it up sounds very much like what a bully says. What happens if we don't enjoy it?
First, you put away the accusations of bullying. This has been going on for [* ]years.[/* ] And those of us who enjoy the break from the normal straitjackets and confines of po-faced respectability and Seriousness find this the best part of the Ship.
Second, * don't enjoy football at the local university. Every time there's a game, it mucks up the local traffic. So what do * do? * deal with it. * roll with the punches—and stay off campus for a bit. If this is causing you such insolvable existential distress, maybe you should have a look at that big green warning up top.
Indeed. There have been times in the past when * have stayed away from the Ship during H&A Days, but * have always accepted that they are a part of "Christian Unrest" and thought that the fault was in me for not being sufficiently unrestful. This time * am enjoying it, having great fun trying to work out what *** should be. As * have said, * did appreciate the bright green warning; forewarned is forearmed and all that.
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Thyme
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One example that made me feel uncomfortable -
changing some shipmates personal titles (the bit underneath the avatar * mean - * have forgotten what it is called) to something very unflattering.
The ones * have noticed this time round may be names that these posters have been called in hell by many including H&A's and may even be justified but there seems to me to be a great difference between that and forcing them to wear a label on all their posts.
* know it has been done before but the feeling this time is of cruelty not a witty 'in' joke for regulars.
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JoannaP
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Speaking as somebody currently struggling with depression, and married to somebody who has suffered from severe depression for several years, * find it hard to believe that anyone truly depressed would be able to notice something so minor.
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Jengie jon
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Wavers is not solely for depressed. It is for all with mental health problems. "Mental illness" is not a synonym for "DEPRESSION". Depression at best is only the commonest of mental illness. There are others and those include ones with social anxiety disorder.
J***ie
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deano
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An apology from the H&A's to the waving Not Drowning members is in order. Not excluding them from your nonesense was stupid. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
Also using "but it's traditional, we've been doing it for years!" as an excuse for H&A days puts you in the same camp as Orangemen parading round nationalist areas of Belfast, and borne from the same sense of entitlement; we have some power and we want to show off.
Other forums * use don't have H&A's that need a day of stress relief in order to cope. They just seem to get on with it. Perhaps they are made of sterner stuff than the Ship's H&As.
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Spike
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Nobody is singling out any board and no changes were made specifically for any of the private board. Some changes, however are forum wide and cannot be excluded from individual boards. These are (this time anyway) the censored words, the "quote" text and the "welcome" text.
As all members of the private boards are shipmates, they will have seen the notice on the front page that it is H&A day. They will also have seen the the message appears on every board and * would hope that would be enough for them to realise that they are not being singled out.
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Crap spouted by Doublethink:
* am struggling to understand why something that has been done pretty much annually for a decade, is suddenly a problem this year ?
Oh but it isn't. People always complain. That's half the fun of it.
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Lyda*Rose
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Sigh. This happens every time. IMO if one can handle being off Ship for a few days during times of maintenance, one can forgo its pleasures during the few H&A days, if it isn't to one's liking.
On some occasions, * enjoy H&A more than others. This time * 'm finding less to get my teeth into, but ho-hum. That's the way it is. Lyda*Rose says carry on, dear Powers-That-Be. Enjoy! Enjoy! And thank you, thank you!
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
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quote:
Crap spouted by Spike:
As all members of the private boards are shipmates, they will have seen the notice on the front page that it is H&A day. They will also have seen the the message appears on every board and * would hope that would be enough for them to realise that they are not being singled out.
No! That assumption is wrong. A number of Waving have withdrawn from using the main ship. You have to have a specific link access Waving. Indeed there is no link from the Front page to Waving! Ι know Ι have tried when Ι have lost my bookmark. So people going to Waving are specifically not going via the main boards.
My personal order is to go to Waving and then from Waving to the main boards, not the other way around.
Jεngiε
[ 20. September 2014, 15:35: Message edited by: Jengie Jon ]
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There's no question that the H and A Day thing is an in-joke. It certainly disrupts discussion, and maybe that's what it wanted? Some sort of reset? Except that it seems to involve more than that.
As for complaining, as a contributor to discussion threads where * 'm not currently affected personally to a significant extent, * couldn't object personally very much. This is the first one where * have kept doing some posts. However, it is significant that there are boards and people discussing things that do indeed affect them personally, and the in-jokes are not found to be particularly amusing. * am wondering in this light if there is a time frame for expiry. Second, if there might be something to do to exclude certain boards entirely by specifically not doing certain types of disruption in the future. Are the controllers of the board examining this?
* have only a vague idea what the history of this sort of thing is, not having been a member so very long. * suspect that Erin, who was gone before * joined, had something to do with it. If * 'm correct on this, * will ask: Most deceased people's influence eventually fades - when will her's? And if not, why not? Shouldn't it fade?
Edit - just checked. The 8th Day appears excluded.
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Spike
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Crap spouted by J***ie Jon:
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Crap spouted by Spike:
As all members of the private boards are shipmates, they will have seen the notice on the front page that it is H&A day. They will also have seen the the message appears on every board and * would hope that would be enough for them to realise that they are not being singled out.
No! That assumption is wrong. A number of Waving have withdrawn from using the main ship. You have to have a specific link access Waving. Indeed there is no link from the Front page to Waving! Ι know Ι have tried when Ι have lost my bookmark. So people going to Waving are specifically not going via the main boards.
My personal order is to go to Waving and then from Waving to the main boards, not the other way around.
Jεngiε
Private boards are part of the Ship. Members of those boards have to have a minimum number of posts before they can join and, even of those private boards are the only ones they ever read, they are still members of Ship of Fools and are bound by the same rules which means they should be checking the Styx board on a regular basis.
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
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Define Regular
Once a year when * have courage would be the definition for some members.
J***ie
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Spike
Mostly Harmless
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quote:
Crap spouted by J***ie Jon:
Define Regular
At the very least, when you see something untoward happening on the board!
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
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quote:
Crap spouted by Spike:
quote:
Crap spouted by J***ie Jon:
Define Regular
At the very least, when you see something untoward happening on the board!
The pain was caused by the untoward which made what they felt was a safe place "unsafe". So they should check the main boards to see if we really meant the pain we caused or if we were just joking. Doesn't sound good does it!
J***ie
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
# 1984
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* am concerned that your posts it makes it sound as if Waving is being used as a therapeutic space. (As for it being a 'safe' space - that may be true to an extent - but it is a non-encrypted site on the internet.)
If so, that is a problem - because there is not the infrastructure for that. Nor, as far as * know, either the insurance or the expertise.
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RuthW
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quote:
Crap spouted by J***ie Jon:
The pain was caused by the untoward which made what they felt was a safe place "unsafe". So they should check the main boards to see if we really meant the pain we caused or if we were just joking. Doesn't sound good does it!
Sounds fine to me. That's the way life and people work sometimes.
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Jengie jon
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Safe was me being lazy when I am careful I use the word "sheltered". It means among other things a place where the cut and thrust of the main boards is muted (not silenced).
We do not do therapy. There are however people who have tried the main boards and found they do not cope easily with them on there due to their illness. So it tends to be more like "Heaven"/"All Saints" than the rest of the ship in tone.
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RuthW
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And has "Bugger off, _____" suddenly caused you all to behave as if Waving were Purgatory or Hell?
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Crap spouted by Doublethink:
* am concerned that your posts it makes it sound as if Waving is being used as a therapeutic space. (As for it being a 'safe' space - that may be true to an extent - but it is a non-encrypted site on the internet.)
If so, that is a problem - because there is not the infrastructure for that. Nor, as far as * know, either the insurance or the expertise.
Of course a forum can be therapeutic. So can a cup of tea or a hug (virtual or real) from someone. Not clear on the concern. People derive support from all sorts of things.
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Jengie jon
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Crap spouted by RuthW:
And has "Bugger off, _____" suddenly caused you all to behave as if Waving were Purgatory or Hell?
No it is read in itself as being part of "Hell" protocol, in that it is read as a personal attack particularly as it has the shipmates name.
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Sorry, the term may be acceptable there and maybe it is just one more pond difference we have to put up with but it really has gone too far. Sometimes jokes just aren't funny.
Staying away for one day obviously didn't work. Have looked over the boards and not seen anything amusing. Instead, it seems like many have left for the duration. If there is something fun going on somewhere, please point me in the right direction.
Will be very glad to see the end of this round.
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M.
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For God's sake! I hate H&As Day as well but it's a private board and we are guests here. Stay away for a bit.
(Actually, about the only bit I do find funny is the 'bugger off' message).
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Crap spouted by Doublethink:
* am concerned that your posts it makes it sound as if Waving is being used as a therapeutic space. (As for it being a 'safe' space - that may be true to an extent - but it is a non-encrypted site on the internet.)
If so, that is a problem - because there is not the infrastructure for that. Nor, as far as * know, either the insurance or the expertise.
Of course a forum can be therapeutic. So can a cup of tea or a hug (virtual or real) from someone. Not clear on the concern. People derive support from all sorts of things.
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Doublethink.
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What I had understood from the safe / unsafe terminology, and I think Jengie understood me to be asking about, was a therapeutic space in the sense an AA group or a counselling session is a therapeutic space.
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Doublethink.
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Crap spouted by lily pad:
Sorry, the term may be acceptable there and maybe it is just one more pond difference we have to put up with but it really has gone too far. Sometimes jokes just aren't funny.
Staying away for one day obviously didn't work. Have looked over the boards and not seen anything amusing. Instead, it seems like many have left for the duration. If there is something fun going on somewhere, please point me in the right direction.
Will be very glad to see the end of this round.
Difficult to predict as I am not up to speed with your sense of humour, but there are some random polls in the circus, some of which are pun based. Do you like puns ? There's a version of Mornington Crescent going in Kerygmania I think and some close textual analysis of Dr Seuss - both of those being spoof based pieces of humour.
What do you think you would find fun ? What threads would you like to start that would be funny ? Have you considered taking up Tubbs' offer of being host for a day, and then running a board in a way you find funny ?
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