Roll Call...
#76
Auntie Fa
Joined: Nov 2006
Location: Seattle
Posts: 7,344
Re: Roll Call...
You're taking this all very seriously, Gordon.
#78
BE Forum Addict
Joined: Jun 2004
Location: Hills District
Posts: 1,399
Re: Roll Call...
Look in every now and again but don't normally post. I must say that it is good to see so many of the old crowd posting once again.
#79
Re: Roll Call...
How is me stating my opinion aggressive but you calling us names not? Why on earth do you think I would use my supposed discretionary powers to censor a poster just because they have a differing opinion to mine?
#80
Lost in BE Cyberspace
Joined: Oct 2005
Location: Hill overlooking the SE Melbourne suburbs
Posts: 16,622
Re: Roll Call...
I like the idea of Facebook keeping people honest via less hiding.
I find though more and more peole are leaving FB in droves or keeping off it apart from emergencies or to use it to keep up to date with old friends or monitoring notifications from closed groups. I've noticed also more and more people who do not have accounts at all and they often seem to have very healthy attitudes to life.
All the Dads I know have not posted in 3 years or so. A definite flight.
Prefer forums as you can get better discourse and advise on say that fishing rod or new ski.
I find though more and more peole are leaving FB in droves or keeping off it apart from emergencies or to use it to keep up to date with old friends or monitoring notifications from closed groups. I've noticed also more and more people who do not have accounts at all and they often seem to have very healthy attitudes to life.
All the Dads I know have not posted in 3 years or so. A definite flight.
Prefer forums as you can get better discourse and advise on say that fishing rod or new ski.
#81
Re: Roll Call...
I don't think Facebook is that much better at "keeping people honest". I don't use my real name on there either. The people who I know and care enough for to be on my page know my FB name. Anyone else doesn't need to see what little I post. Including my employer or perspective employers.
#82
Auntie Fa
Joined: Nov 2006
Location: Seattle
Posts: 7,344
Re: Roll Call...
I use Facebook and forums for very different purposes.
My FB is tied down tightly, my friends really are friends, they know where I live. I am a member of very few groups and leave them when they're no longer useful (e.g., just moved to Seattle - joined a few local pages, left some when I realised they were not helpful or were full of FWs). In groups I am careful what personal information I divulge; though membership is restricted, it's easy to answer the qualifying questions and most of them are still strangers.
On open forums such as this I'm very careful about what personal information I divulge. I've met four current posters (who became friends in the real world), I may feel like I know a few more of you from years of reading your stories, but there are many thousands of people I wouldn't know from a bar of soap, and you're not all who or what you say you are. I'm honest, WYSIWYG, but you'll never know my address. That's just common sense.
My FB is tied down tightly, my friends really are friends, they know where I live. I am a member of very few groups and leave them when they're no longer useful (e.g., just moved to Seattle - joined a few local pages, left some when I realised they were not helpful or were full of FWs). In groups I am careful what personal information I divulge; though membership is restricted, it's easy to answer the qualifying questions and most of them are still strangers.
On open forums such as this I'm very careful about what personal information I divulge. I've met four current posters (who became friends in the real world), I may feel like I know a few more of you from years of reading your stories, but there are many thousands of people I wouldn't know from a bar of soap, and you're not all who or what you say you are. I'm honest, WYSIWYG, but you'll never know my address. That's just common sense.
#83
Australia's Doorman
Joined: Jan 2005
Location: The Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia
Posts: 11,056
Re: Roll Call...
I swing by extremely rarely. Sometimes I'll read something and I'll remember one of the many stand-up rows I had here, including the one about climate change with one of the Super Moderators that lead me to quit the forum, and I'll drop by and see what's going on. Seems like it's on its last legs, judging by the sporadic posting.
I think one of the central problems with this forum is that most of the people using it are not expats in the traditional sense, but simply migrants, seeking a new (and hopefully better) life away from the United Kingdom. And it seems to me that the people that prospered in their adopted countries were the ones who knew they were migrants and lost the 'expat' mentality pretty soon after making the leap. I certainly never saw myself as an expat and never sought to cling to the company of other Brits here. So once I was settled here (and it's been 14 years now) I realised my world view was at odds with the whole basis of this forum and with the world view of many of the regular posters here. Anyway - just my 10 cents - I'll **** off back into the wider Internet now. As you were.
I think one of the central problems with this forum is that most of the people using it are not expats in the traditional sense, but simply migrants, seeking a new (and hopefully better) life away from the United Kingdom. And it seems to me that the people that prospered in their adopted countries were the ones who knew they were migrants and lost the 'expat' mentality pretty soon after making the leap. I certainly never saw myself as an expat and never sought to cling to the company of other Brits here. So once I was settled here (and it's been 14 years now) I realised my world view was at odds with the whole basis of this forum and with the world view of many of the regular posters here. Anyway - just my 10 cents - I'll **** off back into the wider Internet now. As you were.
#84
Re: Roll Call...
I swing by extremely rarely. Sometimes I'll read something and I'll remember one of the many stand-up rows I had here, including the one about climate change with one of the Super Moderators that lead me to quit the forum, and I'll drop by and see what's going on. Seems like it's on its last legs, judging by the sporadic posting.
I think one of the central problems with this forum is that most of the people using it are not expats in the traditional sense, but simply migrants, seeking a new (and hopefully better) life away from the United Kingdom. And it seems to me that the people that prospered in their adopted countries were the ones who knew they were migrants and lost the 'expat' mentality pretty soon after making the leap. I certainly never saw myself as an expat and never sought to cling to the company of other Brits here. So once I was settled here (and it's been 14 years now) I realised my world view was at odds with the whole basis of this forum and with the world view of many of the regular posters here. Anyway - just my 10 cents - I'll **** off back into the wider Internet now. As you were.
I think one of the central problems with this forum is that most of the people using it are not expats in the traditional sense, but simply migrants, seeking a new (and hopefully better) life away from the United Kingdom. And it seems to me that the people that prospered in their adopted countries were the ones who knew they were migrants and lost the 'expat' mentality pretty soon after making the leap. I certainly never saw myself as an expat and never sought to cling to the company of other Brits here. So once I was settled here (and it's been 14 years now) I realised my world view was at odds with the whole basis of this forum and with the world view of many of the regular posters here. Anyway - just my 10 cents - I'll **** off back into the wider Internet now. As you were.
You were before my time here, but nice seeing you anyway
#85
Re: Roll Call...
I swing by extremely rarely. Sometimes I'll read something and I'll remember one of the many stand-up rows I had here, including the one about climate change with one of the Super Moderators that lead me to quit the forum, and I'll drop by and see what's going on. Seems like it's on its last legs, judging by the sporadic posting.
I think one of the central problems with this forum is that most of the people using it are not expats in the traditional sense, but simply migrants, seeking a new (and hopefully better) life away from the United Kingdom. And it seems to me that the people that prospered in their adopted countries were the ones who knew they were migrants and lost the 'expat' mentality pretty soon after making the leap. I certainly never saw myself as an expat and never sought to cling to the company of other Brits here. So once I was settled here (and it's been 14 years now) I realised my world view was at odds with the whole basis of this forum and with the world view of many of the regular posters here. Anyway - just my 10 cents - I'll **** off back into the wider Internet now. As you were.
I think one of the central problems with this forum is that most of the people using it are not expats in the traditional sense, but simply migrants, seeking a new (and hopefully better) life away from the United Kingdom. And it seems to me that the people that prospered in their adopted countries were the ones who knew they were migrants and lost the 'expat' mentality pretty soon after making the leap. I certainly never saw myself as an expat and never sought to cling to the company of other Brits here. So once I was settled here (and it's been 14 years now) I realised my world view was at odds with the whole basis of this forum and with the world view of many of the regular posters here. Anyway - just my 10 cents - I'll **** off back into the wider Internet now. As you were.
#86
BE Forum Addict
Joined: Jan 2017
Posts: 2,900
Re: Roll Call...
The poster is encouraged to come back, irrespective of his/her views on climate and what others think about that. Good gosh.
Last edited by BEVS; Sep 30th 2019 at 6:03 am. Reason: Quotes
#88
Re: Roll Call...
I just want to know when “brian.w” will turn up again. He always gave me some good laughs!
#89
Re: Roll Call...
Hey people of BE. I was coming on here to see whose about, how everyone is. I’ve been a bit absent from here for a while. Settling in SA fantastically. Absolutely love it here, work is going well, I even got a promotion. Baby clacfart is due in just 10 weeks (yay). Clearly Australia has done me the world of good as I had many, many miscarriages beforehand re leaving the uk.... as soon as I got pregnant here, one stuck!!
hope everyone one is going okay. It’s nice to pop on and give back to the forum after I was helped so much on my journey. I still do as advised to me last year, explore one new place every few weeks... that’s going really well for us
hope everyone one is going okay. It’s nice to pop on and give back to the forum after I was helped so much on my journey. I still do as advised to me last year, explore one new place every few weeks... that’s going really well for us
#90
Re: Roll Call...
Hey people of BE. I was coming on here to see whose about, how everyone is. I’ve been a bit absent from here for a while. Settling in SA fantastically. Absolutely love it here, work is going well, I even got a promotion. Baby clacfart is due in just 10 weeks (yay). Clearly Australia has done me the world of good as I had many, many miscarriages beforehand re leaving the uk.... as soon as I got pregnant here, one stuck!!
hope everyone one is going okay. It’s nice to pop on and give back to the forum after I was helped so much on my journey. I still do as advised to me last year, explore one new place every few weeks... that’s going really well for us
hope everyone one is going okay. It’s nice to pop on and give back to the forum after I was helped so much on my journey. I still do as advised to me last year, explore one new place every few weeks... that’s going really well for us