Brain Freeze Willie
I'm just having fun with Willie, he's an ok guy.
Posted on 04/20/2005 9:22:15 AM PDT by GOPcapitalist
I'll keep this short and simple. After six years of membership on FR I've decided to resign from the forum today. I'll keep checking my freepmail for a few days and wind down my posts here, so if any of you wish to contact me please do so there and I will provide you with a means to do so. I hope to continue future posting activities elsewhere - perhaps a blog - but only time will tell.
It's truly been a blast and left me with many fond memories, but all good things had to come to an end. My favorites comprise a long list, the most noted being the exposition of Rathergate, leading freeps of Algore in the 2000 recounts, protesting Hildebeast's book tour, and giving her impeached husband a freeper's welcome to Texas on several of his visits. Thank you to all who made these events fun and entertaining. Unfortunately the past few months have made it clear to me that FR and I are drifting apart on key issues of conservatism. I'll spare the details, pausing only to state that it isn't just the usuals like illegal immigration, but also things like religion, the culture of political correctness, an overall decline in reasoned civil conversation that used to flourish here, and the purposes and uses of the site in general. More concerning, for the past few months I have been unable to even obtain rational discourse and commentary on many routine threads and issues without being personally maligned and attacked - many times out of the blue and on topics unrelated to the given thread - by a small, petty-minded, and vitriolic group of posters who conduct themselves in a manner unbefitting of what this forum used to be when I joined in 1999, and do so with apparent impunity.
I also find that I simply don't have the time to post as much as I once did, and regrettably so.
I'll leave it at that, as my fond memories outweigh the unpleasant ones. A time arises when parting courses on friendly terms is best before something less desirable arises. Therefore I have volunteered my resignation. To everyone who has made my FR experience enjoyable, I thank you and wish you only the best.
Willie came back under a new alias, whined like a baby and got his posting rights back. I think.
You should have seen the beating I took from the old-timers there who were defending their own. The argument quickly escalated.
Next thing I did was ask to be removed from the ping list, and I haven't given it a thought, or a look, since then.
Simple.
Newbees go both ways?
Oh, please don't tell me what his new alias is....it will be a fun game to identify him. I'll just look for the black cloud over his posts.....
Tell me and the rest of us here on FR, What is profanity?
I like these goodbye things.
Why can't people do it without being accused of attention seeking, whatever?
For me, it's better than wondering, hey, whatever happened to ???
Never see him/her any more.
Many of his complaints were well founded, if you ask me, which you didn't, and, no, I'm not attention seeking by saying so.
You jsut noticed? It has been the same since I came here and that is loads better than when I posted elsewhere dealing with radical liberals.
I would feel like a fool if I felt compelled to write an opus. An opus, by definition, is dramatic and I loathe drama queens.
Things change, we move on. Period.
Not my style. It'll never happen.
There may be brief periods where I'll quietly reduce my participation, simply to relax and recharge my batteries.
But at 6' 4", I don't think I'm able to stoop low enough to author one of these dramatic exits.
Likewise my friend. I do understand and often wonder why I come back here myself for much of the same reasons you stated. I do hope our paths cross again in future endeavors or events.
heck yes, it's the new liberal version of FReepers- and we should be allowed to marry too!
LOL
I remember that very well. I joined two days after you. I was doing a lot of reading back then and not posting much. I read those posts about you. Talk about a Baptism of Fire. You were put through it, Ma'am. My hat's off to you.
Just give it time. Step back and take a break vs. walking out the door. The disruptive ones will lose interest and fade away. Us on the other hand will still be here.
Especially on the "Day in the Life of President Bush" thread.
It was an example of the type of excrement-flinging that goes on the site that we could do away with.
I'm on every ping-list here it seems.
And yeah, I know what can happen here if you actually voice a different idea...
If I ever leave of my own volition, I'll just FReepmail a few friends and go away.
That'll happen just before I voluntarily turn in my guns to the BATFE.
Amen to that. My mother lurked for years....then signed up late last year...only to be called 'newbie' and criticized by someone the first day!! She said she's not interested in posting again.
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