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Be Kind to your Fellow Freepers
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Posted on 10/03/2024 7:10:15 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp

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To: Jamestown1630
Well, it was pretty cool back then; even if it seems primitive now.

Some things were never cool no matter how pretty the girl in the ad was.

221 posted on 10/03/2024 11:44:38 AM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: DiogenesLamp
I feel bad for both the Russians and the Ukrainians. This war is a horrible tragedy for them both, and it has already greatly damaged their ability to rebuild their populations in the future.

Trump is right. Losing a human life is tragedy. He'll try to end the war on Day One if he gets elected in office.

222 posted on 10/03/2024 11:44:54 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: philman_36

LOL - no, that was not cool.

I remember the first time I heard someone talking on a mobile phone in public, in a store. I thought it was a crazy person talking to herself...


223 posted on 10/03/2024 11:55:10 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

Confusedshus says: Remember Grasshopper, Hindsight is always 20/20.🤪


224 posted on 10/03/2024 12:01:15 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: DiogenesLamp

ty for your post!!!

I remember the days of healthy debate. I also remember the days of us all pulling together.

I remember the days of so many FUN threads, or FUN photo shopped pic and memes.

I miss those days


225 posted on 10/03/2024 12:10:04 PM PDT by MrsMNJohnnie (you may remember me as eeevil conservative. great to be back)
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To: DiogenesLamp

What if the posts are absolute idiocy? Still be kind, turn a blind eye, or try and correct it?


226 posted on 10/03/2024 12:11:06 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Allegra
Also, be kind your web-footed friends. Including platypuses.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PUAw8dRPqEk

I can't watch youtube videos on my old operating system and old browser anymore, but I do remember a song about being kind to your web-footed friends. I suspect what you have linked me to is this song.

:)

227 posted on 10/03/2024 12:25:07 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: MinorityRepublican
Trump is right. Losing a human life is tragedy. He'll try to end the war on Day One if he gets elected in office.

There is no "winning" this war. No matter what happens, both sides will have lost far too much.

I've read that the CIA pretty much started this conflict, and I hope to God Trump starts firing a whole bunch of the management (and a lot of the rank and file) from these agencies.

Trump needs to go Elon Musk on the incompetent, arrogant bureaucracy.

228 posted on 10/03/2024 12:27:39 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: mabarker1
Confusedshus says: Remember Grasshopper, Hindsight is always 20/20.🤪

Ain't that the truth!

229 posted on 10/03/2024 12:28:22 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: MrsMNJohnnie
ty for your post!!!

You're welcome!

I remember the days of healthy debate. I also remember the days of us all pulling together.

I remember the days of so many FUN threads, or FUN photo shopped pic and memes.

I miss those days

Before my time I think. I came here around 2008 during the Obama campaign, and I just lurked. I didn't join until 2011 because I had always been led to believe that Free Republic was just a bunch of extremists.

I remember it being a lot of acrimony from the git-go, but that was okay, because I liked it!

230 posted on 10/03/2024 12:31:15 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Fungi
What if the posts are absolute idiocy? Still be kind, turn a blind eye, or try and correct it?

Always try and steer people in the right direction. A lot of people don't realize they are idiots, and it is a shock to some of them when they find out.

231 posted on 10/03/2024 12:32:48 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

🦇💩🤪


232 posted on 10/03/2024 12:33:16 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: philman_36

If you don’t know what a flame job is,
While no longer available on FR...from 2002...
The Ultimate Flame

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Guy Macon is the original writer, and he calls it a “collection” gathered over the years.

The link you provided works.

also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x9fI5Ov91M

I have the original text file (I think) but it’s kinda long to be posting here.

Guy Macon is at

https://www.guymacon.com/index.html

but it’s just a title page right now.

An entertaining little piece of internet history from back in the fun days.


233 posted on 10/03/2024 12:33:54 PM PDT by dagunk
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To: philman_36

14.4k dial up modems. We were moving. LOL

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System at work. Baud rate 50 (or was that $5.00?). Teletypes on current-loop lines.


234 posted on 10/03/2024 12:45:03 PM PDT by dagunk
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To: dagunk
...he calls it a “collection” gathered over the years.

Gathered. What an interesting word choice.

235 posted on 10/03/2024 12:59:58 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: DiogenesLamp
It is said, “They said.”

I took my lamp and went looking for They, for everyone knew what They meant, and who They were. But no one could light the way to They without pointing in opposite directions.

It may be They were out, very busy, looking for me. It may be, maybe. If They didn't, Someone should.

Tomorrow I will again take my lamp — or maybe yours — and search for Someone. They might be able to help, if They somehow know Someone, somewhere.

We could perhaps then go together, but then wouldn't we be They? Someone should know.... No?

236 posted on 10/03/2024 1:10:36 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time
Tomorrow I will again take my lamp — or maybe yours — and search for Someone.

If you took Someone's lamp as you propose then They will come looking for it.

237 posted on 10/03/2024 1:19:32 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: DiogenesLamp
There is no "winning" this war. No matter what happens, both sides will have lost far too much.

Trump is neutral. He does not have a vested interest in the war. All he wants is for the war to end.

Which is the way it should be. It's not about taking sides.

238 posted on 10/03/2024 1:31:36 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: philman_36

Sing with me -— “They, there, you with the lamp in your hand....”


239 posted on 10/03/2024 1:41:38 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time
"They", like many other things, is in the eye of the beholder.
240 posted on 10/03/2024 1:47:37 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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