As we approach Black Friday...
On November 22, 2011 at 9:40 AM Pacific Time, paranoidmother21 wrote:
Love this Sue - and agree... but...Here's another view of Black Friday. Every year my grown daughter and I get up early and go to one or two stores to get specific things we've earmarked. Usually we have to wait in line in the dark, but that's fun with her too. Maybe gifts, maybe just stuff we've been waiting to get until they went on sale. Then we go have breakfast together and have had a good start to our day.
The insanity of trying to do all my shopping on that day, in those lines... ugh! Never even considered it!
However, we mostly buy clothes for ourselves.
It's too crazy for me to do much actual Christmas shopping and we generally need clothes this time of year anyway. (I just started a new job and I need dress pants this year and she just had a growth spurt and needs new everything.) And Mini-Mac pretty much always gives Mr. Mac shirts for Christmas so that works out.If you decide you are only going to spend $X for Christmas, there's no reason that spending X on Black Friday is any worse than spending it some other day. But you have to enjoy the craziness. If you don't enjoy it, I don't see the point.
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on 11/22/11 3:56 am - Califreakinfornia , CA
on 11/22/11 3:56 am - Califreakinfornia , CA
Ignore this message, I am just screwing with the mods.
By their own butt-hurt personal feelings standards, from what I can see.
I posted to Sarah recently - AS A PERSON, NOT AS A MOD - in which I disagreed with her about something she said that was snarky to DSers, in a way that did NOT violate TOS - which she did NOT bother to respond to directly, although she made excuses for her attitude in a response to someone else. http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/DS/4467729/Stages-of-WLS/ I wonder if she got butt-hurt by what I said, and that may be coloring the heavy-handed moderation I am receiving now. Frankly, although she has portrayed herself as someone who deserves special treatment because of her medical issues, I have long since tired of her thinking it gives her dispensation for some of the crap she posts - but you'd think I tipped over a cripple's wheelchair by not giving her a pass or by disagreeing with her.
I sense a growing Amy-vibe from her. Including the aspect that seems to reflect DS-envy - the DS would clearly have been better for both of them, statistically, and both of them seem to take pro-DS/anti-RNY stuff personally. Which is fine with me - I don't give a rat's patoot what she thinks of me personally - but I think it is affecting her "professional" judgment in her role as a moderator.
I have also disagreed with Kathy S personally, though I don't recall if there has been a recent incident.
Barbara C is beyond annoying with her cross-posting every little thing that she thinks gives her a reason to put her face and "title" on every page on OH. Most of the time when she posts that drivel on the DS forum, it is UTTERLY irrelevant to any of us - and I often say so.
I have also told Eric Klein - when he took a brief spin at posting publicly and ostensibly as a MEMBER - that I would NOT help him when he "invited" me to - for free - write an article for his OH rag that he didn't have time to write. And I criticized his incomprehensible and factually inane postings here: http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/amos/4431266/Lap-Banders-W rite-a-Letter-to-Washington/#36630036 I wonder if he is butt-hurt about that? I kinda doubt it - I don't get the sense that he has feelings that can get hurt, other than being frustrated that his attempt to interact with me didn't go his way - and OH is just his cash cow.
So, overall, it appears to me that the mods can't separate their feelings about my criticizing them as MEMBERS with their roles as moderators, and are using that as an excuse to apply different standards to my posts, and moderating them - or putting ME on moderation. That's how it appears to me. In my opinion, if they can't maintain professional impartiality as moderators, they should resign. Am I allowed to have an opinion about this?
By their own butt-hurt personal feelings standards, from what I can see.
I posted to Sarah recently - AS A PERSON, NOT AS A MOD - in which I disagreed with her about something she said that was snarky to DSers, in a way that did NOT violate TOS - which she did NOT bother to respond to directly, although she made excuses for her attitude in a response to someone else. http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/DS/4467729/Stages-of-WLS/ I wonder if she got butt-hurt by what I said, and that may be coloring the heavy-handed moderation I am receiving now. Frankly, although she has portrayed herself as someone who deserves special treatment because of her medical issues, I have long since tired of her thinking it gives her dispensation for some of the crap she posts - but you'd think I tipped over a cripple's wheelchair by not giving her a pass or by disagreeing with her.
I sense a growing Amy-vibe from her. Including the aspect that seems to reflect DS-envy - the DS would clearly have been better for both of them, statistically, and both of them seem to take pro-DS/anti-RNY stuff personally. Which is fine with me - I don't give a rat's patoot what she thinks of me personally - but I think it is affecting her "professional" judgment in her role as a moderator.
I have also disagreed with Kathy S personally, though I don't recall if there has been a recent incident.
Barbara C is beyond annoying with her cross-posting every little thing that she thinks gives her a reason to put her face and "title" on every page on OH. Most of the time when she posts that drivel on the DS forum, it is UTTERLY irrelevant to any of us - and I often say so.
I have also told Eric Klein - when he took a brief spin at posting publicly and ostensibly as a MEMBER - that I would NOT help him when he "invited" me to - for free - write an article for his OH rag that he didn't have time to write. And I criticized his incomprehensible and factually inane postings here: http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/amos/4431266/Lap-Banders-W rite-a-Letter-to-Washington/#36630036 I wonder if he is butt-hurt about that? I kinda doubt it - I don't get the sense that he has feelings that can get hurt, other than being frustrated that his attempt to interact with me didn't go his way - and OH is just his cash cow.
So, overall, it appears to me that the mods can't separate their feelings about my criticizing them as MEMBERS with their roles as moderators, and are using that as an excuse to apply different standards to my posts, and moderating them - or putting ME on moderation. That's how it appears to me. In my opinion, if they can't maintain professional impartiality as moderators, they should resign. Am I allowed to have an opinion about this?
One year, when I was looking for a television, Super Wal Mart had a good Black Friday deal, so we got up early and went. It was my first time and it was surreal. There were so many people there it was crazy. There was this complicated system where you had to get a ticket for your items and then they would go pull them for you. If you were there to purchase multiple items, it would take forever.
Some people came and shopped in teams.
It was soooo cold that night. I remember being very happy that we found our good deal and were heading home with the prize. As soon as we got home we set it up.
It didn't look right.
It was little.
Turned out it wasn't the same size as the one we'd scoped out in the store the week before. Took that puppy right back to the store.
I'll never do another Black Friday again.
Some people came and shopped in teams.
It was soooo cold that night. I remember being very happy that we found our good deal and were heading home with the prize. As soon as we got home we set it up.
It didn't look right.
It was little.
Turned out it wasn't the same size as the one we'd scoped out in the store the week before. Took that puppy right back to the store. I'll never do another Black Friday again.
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