Posted on 05/21/2005 10:12:25 PM PDT by CyberMom
This is a question from me, not a comment on a published article. (Is this okay?)
So basically, what you're REALY saying here is that you know you're going to have to be sending her MONEY for the next few years because of her career choice, and you want her to find the fastest route from "Point A" to "Point B?"
:) <--- (That means I'm teasing you!)
Welcome to Free Republic, CyberMom!
Oh, shoot. Late to the dance, as usual. I hope she comes back, too.
Man, I hate Trolls and Rude People. Is their world so small that they need to lash out in that manner? Sad.
I got a freepmail from her last night... I think she plans on coming back, but she sure was hurt by the incesant harping.
Amen, amen and amen. Pitchfork's language from removed comment #199 deserves a suspension. If there ARE any trolls lurking on this thread (I'm not referring to CyberMom or eddie, I think they're legit) #199 and the previous comment about questionable female judgement are fuel for the fire. I can't stand it when some jerk shoots his mouth off and reinforces the stereotype of knuckle-dragging Neanderthal conservative man.
Eastforker, you are a disgrace to masculinity in general and to all male FReepers specifically.
Ahh, and I didn't think you cared. But it is okay for me to be called a bastard in post 153? I wonder where eddie65 and cybermom are? This is the only thread they posted to. Makes a person go HMMMM.Since I got in trouble for posting a personal response from cybermom I will not do that again but it was far from being something a conservative would say, I will leave it at that, have a wonderful evening.
"But the key word is "NEED"
I'm glad that your "inner" junk yard dog
manifested itself on this thread. It was
very much "needed".
Bumping your #222!
I see you like to "go fast", too. ;o)
"You have been way the hell out of line all up and down this thread."
Thank you! ;o)
Thank you, all!
It was totally unfair for CyberMom and eddie65
to be treated that way, and I hope they will
return to the best forum on the web.
Most folks here are very nice and respectful,
though there are some who get their jollies
by being very disrespectful, and tactless.
Thankfully, the latter is in the minority.
My thanks to all of you!
"Why was I the only one to get called a "twat wad" though?"
LOLOL!
Check badcompany's post.
He c/p part of the removed comment.
The offending term was plural.
We were, all, called that name.
If that's what we are, I feel I
am in very good company, and I am
proud to be associated with y'all. ;o)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1407993/posts?page=214#214
Thanks for a few of you sticking up for us. Eddie65 emailed me privately, and was as upset as I was. I don't know if either of us will come back.
May I please just say how very sorry I am for doing it wrong? I've never done this sort of live chat before, except a "fan club" I was on for a few weeks last year. (That's where I learned LOL means laugh out loud.)
What I did was read at the site for about an hour. I went to your archives hoping to have my simple question answered. I just wanted to help my daughter find some conservative friends in a town that isn't very conservative, or nice. When I couldn't find a 'thread'? is that what you call it? about acting or actors, I decided to try my own question. The site DID say to jump on in, or jump right in, or something, and I took it at its word. I guess it lied. I registered and posted my question. If you don't want other people to do that, will you please WRITE IT ON YOUR HOME PAGE SOMEWHERE??? Gosh!
I think the post that hurt me most was when someone said to the eastcoaster person that they were sorry for answering me without knowing me first. I'm the kindest woman in the world! Everybody tells me that! Thinking that this other person thought I was a horrible troll made me feel like a wrecked train!
Some of you were nice, but some of you were VERY nasty to me. I'm still shaking, but I'm not crying now. I'm mad, and I want you all to know I'm not a troll.
I AM a conservative. I live a block away from a very wonderful (R) state congressman, and since I live on a busy corner, I put his signs in my yard every time he's up for re-election. The BIG signs. My neighbors think I'm nuts. I think I'm patriotic, and since I can't donate to his campaign, I figure I've got to do what I can do.
Now, as to that eastcoaster person, I think he/she should be reported to whomever owns this site. They posted my PRIVATE email??!! They called me names!??? They made me feel defensive, and MOST UNWELCOME!!!??? AND MY HUSBAND didn't LOSE HIS JOB!!!! He's a brilliant, gifted inventor, but he works for a start-up company, and we have gone for five years with and without pay, the longest being a 19 month period of time. I certainly don't BLAME President Bush. It was our decision; but many of his policies do not make life easy for us. Our standard of living has gone down in the past five years--that's all I'm saying; to say otherwise would be a lie, and I DON'T LIE!!!--I continue to vote for conservative values because of right-to-life issues and many, many, many other things.
I am also very ill; I can only sit for a few hours each day, and can't work, and lots of the stuff going on with medicine in this country is WRONG, and you ALL know it! If this is a forum for free thinking and expression of ideas, can't we express them?
I still haven't decided if I will come back to this site. When I told my daughter what happened, she said I should stay away. She said there are good people on these sites, but it is mostly a bunch of people without lives who try to destroy the happy lives of others.
All I know is, if the listowner allows people like that to remain, people like me will find another conservative site to go to, or we'll start our own.
Please don't let the actions of few speak for the hearts of many! I would like you to stay and share your ideas and thoughts with us. Please consider giving us a chance to prove that most of us are good!
Please come see what the effects of troll hunting is doing, when people are accused of being trolls and they haven't posted anything even remotely trollish.
This poster was following the suggestion of "jump right in" from the main page.
Thank you Jim, for all you do to keep this forum going for us. You are appreciated, though you may not always think so.
Speaking for 99.5% of us on this thread tonight, I'm sorry. I wish your introduction to FreeRepublic had been more hospitable. Please don't let the actions of one over-zealous individual sully your opinion of the entire forum. As you can see, you have plenty of supporters and defenders on this thread, and, if you stick around a while, I think you'll find you will have many friends as well.
I can't control how other people behave toward me. I only have control over how I allow them to make me feel, and how I respond to it. When people are rude, insensitive, boorish and hostile toward me, I can CHOOSE to let it ruin my day and make me feel inferior. Or, conversely, I can CHOOSE to ignore them, write them off as hopeless cases, remember that they are still children of God (even when they don't choose to act like it), and I can DECIDE to still be happy and try to have POSITIVE experiences with as many GOOD people as I can.
The choice is up to me.
And your choice is up to you.
Here's hoping you'll choose to stick around.
First, Cybermom, if you are going to be a conservative you gotta have a thick skin. Not a day goes by that we are not called bigot, homophobe, racist, nazi, blah, blah........ But if you are right, you are right. Stick to your guns. I was called a troll my first week here, so I know how intimidating that is. This was in the middle of an arguement. It took me back for a second but then I jumped right back in. I am now one of the troll hunters here. The toad that was so rude to you and others had good reason to be suspicious, but he was tremendously ham handed in his handling of the situation. We get a lot of trolls here and sometimes people get a little on edge. While you were dealing with this thread I was dealing with a troll on another thread. They have been heavy during the weekends. Don't take it personaly.
You might want to ask Dixiechick2000 and trussell to show you around, they are good gals. There are a lot of "unwritten rules" here. This that you posted is called a "vanity". These are generally frowned upon. If you need to post a vanity you must be willing to, at the very least, be made fun of.
The main reason vanities are frowned upon is that this site mainly concerns itself with news stories and current events. We take these things seriously and vanities clutter up the mechanism.
Stick around. There is a place for every conservative here. Just pick your spots well and make yourself comfortable.
No, he didn't.
A new FReeper is not automatically a troll. She posted a vanity--which is NOT explicitly mentioned, much less forbidden, on the welcome page. She even opens her thread admitting it is a vanity. She posted it in Chat, right where it should be. She didn't do anything remotely trollish.
I said it before and I will say it again: All you fearless, noble troll-hunters are doing the forum a disservice if you consider all newbies to be guilty until they prove themselves innocent. Wait until the true trolls show their real colors, then ZOT them. They can't do any harm, anyway.
But what the heck do I know? I'm just a woman. :-)
And as such, we're only counting 3/5 of your opinion.
:o)
Pienso que debemos construir una pared grande. ¡Entonces debemos llamar a los militares!
Which 3/5ths of that would you count? LOL!
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