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| hchickpea@hotmail.com: Aug 24 09:41PM -0500 I have to say that the mix of people who made up this group from 1995 on, for close to a decade, made for the brightest and most free group I have ever run across. I'm on forums, and recently poked my head into facebook again, and they simply are not the same. The range of topics gets limited, and more adventurous posters either abandon quickly or get kicked out. Other forums are less forums than filtered sounding boards for the viewpoints of some rigid moderators. If the group could somehow make it into a forum type setting where cancelbots and trolls were excluded, I would love it. I recognize though that it is unlikely. A toast to absent friends. |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Aug 24 08:49PM -0700 > If the group could somehow make it into a forum type setting where cancelbots > and trolls were excluded, I would love it. I recognize though that it is > unlikely. Having participated in starting a moderated newsgroup (and moderating it for a while) I can heartily NOT recommend either the process or the result. The moderation software is NOT user-friendly, and ultimately something stopped working such that even the truly-computer-savvy people involvedcouldn't get it working again. Even before that, there was very little traffic. Apparently it was more fun to carry on the squabble that started in 1999 than to get back to the way the group was back in the dark ages when everybody was decent and helpful. RS seems to have moved elsewhere, operates similarly, and is just as annoying. > A toast to absent friends. Too many. Perhaps they're still subscribed, but don't bother looking unless there are posts. A possible solution suggests itself... ObFrugal -- Costco seems to be the most economical place to go for glasses/contacts. Certainly better than any of the chain optometrists. Can anyone suggest a better option? -- Cheers, Bev "No matter how cynical I get, it's just never enough to keep up." --Lily Tomlin |
| hchickpea@hotmail.com: Aug 25 01:11AM -0500 >ObFrugal -- Costco seems to be the most economical place to go for >glasses/contacts. Certainly better than any of the chain optometrists. > Can anyone suggest a better option? An ObFrugal! As Obi wan said, "I have not heard that name..." I need to get some Stetson frames. I've come to realize that the larger lens size is much more what I am comfortable with. Do they have those? Although... I now have a detached vitreous humor in one eye, and the eye doctor I used who has her practice at Walmart guided me through at no charge, with repeated visits to make sure the retina was ok. She is simply dedicated and when a regular customer has an issue and she knows the insurance company is going to be a problem, she works on her terms. No way will I walk away from that. Now if I could only find some bell-bottoms. :-) (An aside - a friend who loved his embroidered peasant shirt from the late '60s, early 70s has decided to attempt to make his own replacement from scratch. He just made a couple of outstanding quilts, and I expect him to be successful in the making. He may or may not decide to wear the resultant product, that is up to him. If the group gets traffic, I fully expect the return of the sith. |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Aug 25 12:07AM -0700 >>glasses/contacts. Certainly better than any of the chain optometrists. >> Can anyone suggest a better option? > An ObFrugal! As Obi wan said, "I have not heard that name..." Sure you have! > I need to get some Stetson frames. I've come to realize that the larger lens > size is much more what I am comfortable with. Do they have those? Not a clue. Maybe Zenni or Goggles4U have them, although they seem to carry only styles that are fairly current. > to make sure the retina was ok. She is simply dedicated and when a regular > customer has an issue and she knows the insurance company is going to be a > problem, she works on her terms. No way will I walk away from that. I think that can be fixed -- eye surgery is amazing, but I don't want to think about the details. I'm considering getting my nose reamed out so I can actually use it for breathing. Anybody here had it done? > Now if I could only find some bell-bottoms. :-) Every once in a while Old Navy has them -- for women, at least. Would those work? > attempt to make his own replacement from scratch. He just made a couple of > outstanding quilts, and I expect him to be successful in the making. He may or > may not decide to wear the resultant product, that is up to him. Well, Hallowe'en is just around the corner. > If the group gets traffic, I fully expect the return of the sith. So I'm the only one who thinks those movies, along with Harry Potter, are boring? -- Cheers, Bev "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American Public." -- H.L. Mencken |
| root <NoEMail@home.org>: Aug 25 04:40PM > and trolls were excluded, I would love it. I recognize though that it is > unlikely. > A toast to absent friends. I am afraid that many of those absent have died. If I remember correctly, Harry, you stopped active participation because of RS. I know that kill filing isn't the whole solution. Isn't there some way that we can all agree to just ignore his ilk? |
| Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>: Aug 25 01:35PM -0400 |
| Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>: Aug 25 01:39PM -0400 |
| Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca>: Aug 25 01:40PM -0400 |
| Dennis <dgw80@hotmail.com>: Aug 25 01:38PM -0700 On Thu, 25 Aug 2016 00:07:21 -0700, The Real Bev >I'm considering getting my nose reamed out so I can actually use it for >breathing. Anybody here had it done? I had a nasal polyp that was blocking a sinus from draining removed earlier this year. Seems to have done the trick, as the sinus infection that I had been fighting on-and-off for two years prior has not returned since. Not much fun for a few days after, but it was pretty much healed in about two weeks. Performed out-patient by an ENT Dr. at a local surgery center, under general anesthesia. IMHO, steep charges for a 30-minute outpatient procedure - the bills (insurance copays and deductibles) are still trickling in 5 months later - close to $2K out-of-pocket so far. But worth it, I suppose. Dennis (evil) -- I'm a hands-on, footloose, knee-jerk head case. -George Carlin |
| Beaver_Fever@live.com: Aug 25 02:10PM -0700 On Thursday, August 25, 2016 at 1:38:25 PM UTC-7, Dennis wrote: > Dennis (evil) > -- > I'm a hands-on, footloose, knee-jerk head case. -George Carlin I had somehow miraculously snapped out of my near lifelong nasal spray addiction last year after a nasty bout of summertime flu. Then my roommate got another cat and it came raging back. |
| Beaver_Fever@live.com: Aug 25 02:12PM -0700 > and trolls were excluded, I would love it. I recognize though that it is > unlikely. > A toast to absent friends. I get really depressed when I think of how awesome and fresh the internet was from 1998-2001-ish. alt.support.shyness is COMPLETELY dead and alt.true-crime are almost dead. Facebook - it's nice to know I have so many friends but it's also very shallow, like if I wanted to find someone to hang out with outside of local music events or something. And I have so many people hidden but it just keeps getting worse. |
| gheston@hiwaay.net (Gary Heston): Aug 25 08:22PM -0500 In article <v3msrbptouhkg49hgpueevaqv73tuonitu@4ax.com>, >and trolls were excluded, I would love it. I recognize though that it is >unlikely. >A toast to absent friends. Far too many. Cheers! ObFrugal: I paid off my second house last month and am now debt free. Gary |
| gheston@hiwaay.net (Gary Heston): Aug 25 08:36PM -0500 In article <alpine.LNX.2.02.1608251335530.19944@darkstar.example.org>, >On Thu, 25 Aug 2016, The Real Bev wrote: [ ... ] >good compared to new pants, though there was a sturdiness in the surplus >pants. EIther supply has shrunk, or demand gone up, though I don't see >people wearing it these days so I can't imagine the latter. [ ... ] The supply was cut off. Those helpful congress critters passed a law prohibiting the sale of used military clothing. I have no idea what is done with it. The local surplus place has some ex-mil items from European sources; I've seen Swiss and Italian items there. Gary |
| Derald <derald@invalid.net>: Aug 25 10:56AM -0400 +1 -- Derald "...the only traits that are passed down in your family are perversity, ego-centrism, laziness and sociopathic tendencies." --Lynn Barton, Filedheacht Music School, East Bridgewater, MA 2016 |
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