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To: Rambi who wrote (544)8/23/2001 11:44:19 AM
From: epicure   of 51757
 
I am a little hurt you don't find me as fascinating as I like to think I am.
Or at least you don't find your own idea of me as fascinating as I think I am.
And I am SHOCKED you don't find me a fitting subject for 1000's of posts- I think it would take many, many more than that to really do me justice.
But I forgive you.

Kiss kiss

I think people find it necessary to be nasty about threads where people talk about their children and books because they feel excluded. And I can understand that. People are excluded from here. For good reasons (imo) but still, they are excluded. I can't understand caring about being excluded from a place where people exclude you- but it must have something to do with wanting to be a member of a club that doesn't want you. I never really understood that. I only ever wanted to be a member of a club that wanted me as a member. I LIKE that. I always felt that way about feelies. Of course we had an unusual group of women there. I think often of Janice and her ratlings. And her small appliances. Sigh.

I think the problem here is, very basically, that in 3d you don't crash into the party the people down the street are having. And you especially don't barge in and argue off the wall. These are sort of like living rooms. And arguing can be fun, if you are doing it with people who you understand. You have a relationship, you know how not to let the argument get our of hand. You know how to keep it a friendly argument, in other words. Not that THAT always worked :-) But on SI sometimes you meet people you cannot understand. Or you understand them only too well and they are everything you disapprove of. Or they are something in the middle, something that doesn't mix well with you. And when you try to have a conversation, it goes places you never dreamed. It can be a surreal experience. I found watching some of the conversation on the boxing thread as good as a Luis Bunuel film. As long as I didn't need to participate, it made good theater.

Do you remember how people used to join feelings? People used to introduce themselves. They'd jump in slowly. Now everyone is comfortable hopping from thread to thread, leaping in and getting very personal, with no introduction. I am sure that is part of the change from 3d manners to net customs (I won't all them manners).

Interesting post Rambi. I will think about it some more.

edit: I forgot- KISS KISS again
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