Internet etiquette

[Ulla dances in a silly way]

Add me to the list of people who hate those who cannot be bothered to punctuate, capitalize, or create paragraphs.

I also hate people who try to create an "in crowd" on their boards. This happened at an old board I posted on, if you weren't friends with the ins, you basically were ignored. People might answer you, but no one would remember you or differentiate from the other non-in posters. It's a message board, not high school!

-Ulla

[kathrynne]

I also hate people who try to create an "in crowd" on their boards. This happened at an old board I posted on, if you weren't friends with the ins, you basically were ignored. People might answer you, but no one would remember you or differentiate from the other non-in posters. It's a message board, not high school!

-Ulla

I sometimes think we never actually escape high school. We THINK we graduate. We even believe we've moved away. But the only part of social life that isn't high school is the part that's more junior high school.

[LadyDyani]

No comment aside from all the others here, but I just wanted to let the OP know that her post made me giggle.

BEST POST EVER!  *snicker*

[behindbj]

I also hate people who try to create an "in crowd" on their boards. This happened at an old board I posted on, if you weren't friends with the ins, you basically were ignored. People might answer you, but no one would remember you or differentiate from the other non-in posters. It's a message board, not high school!

-Ulla

I sometimes think we never actually escape high school. We THINK we graduate. We even believe we've moved away. But the only part of social life that isn't high school is the part that's more junior high school.

I have found that people who continue on like that are the ones who would describe the best years of their life as high school.

Oh HELL no - not me.  I like where I am right now and it gets better every day.  I truly feel sorry for people who felt like their best years were in high school - and they stay there.

behindbj

[twinkletoes]

"I truly feel sorry for people who felt like their best years were in high school - and they stay there."

Me, too!  It's so sad to me that people think their lives were basically over when they were 18. 

Although, I will say that the women who think of their wedding day as their "glory day" scare the living snot out of me - they're the ones who are always going on about "at my wedding five years ago..." and use their wedding pictures (months, years, DECADES, even) later on to illustrate a point (e.g., "see, at my wedding, we did such-and-such with the flowers").  *That* was the only good day in your life?!?

[Venus193]

"I truly feel sorry for people who felt like their best years were in high school - and they stay there."

Me, too!  It's so sad to me that people think their lives were basically over when they were 18. 

I love George Carlin's line about high school reunions:  Hey, I know where the captain of the football team is; he's mowing my lawn!

[Cattaby]

I also hate people who try to create an "in crowd" on their boards. This happened at an old board I posted on, if you weren't friends with the ins, you basically were ignored. People might answer you, but no one would remember you or differentiate from the other non-in posters. It's a message board, not high school!

-Ulla

I sometimes think we never actually escape high school. We THINK we graduate. We even believe we've moved away. But the only part of social life that isn't high school is the part that's more junior high school.

I have found that people who continue on like that are the ones who would describe the best years of their life as high school.

Oh HELL no - not me.  I like where I am right now and it gets better every day.  I truly feel sorry for people who felt like their best years were in high school - and they stay there.

behindbj

That reminds me of a line in a book my friend got me for Christmas (Monica Bloom, by Nick Earls), where a past student comes to address the current students at assembly. And he says "If, in the decades to come, you look back on your time here as the best years of your life, your school has let you down".

One of my favourite quotes from that book. And I think it's all too true.

[kathrynne]

That reminds me of a line in a book my friend got me for Christmas (Monica Bloom, by Nick Earls), where a past student comes to address the current students at assembly. And he says "If, in the decades to come, you look back on your time here as the best years of your life, your school has let you down".

One of my favourite quotes from that book. And I think it's all too true.

So those of us who see our time there as one of the inner circles of Hell were well-served by our school? 

[LadyDyani]

That reminds me of a line in a book my friend got me for Christmas (Monica Bloom, by Nick Earls), where a past student comes to address the current students at assembly. And he says "If, in the decades to come, you look back on your time here as the best years of your life, your school has let you down".

One of my favourite quotes from that book. And I think it's all too true.

So those of us who see our time there as one of the inner circles of Hell were well-served by our school? 

I feel the same way.  When I got my ten year reunion invite, I looked at it, thought 'Why would I want to go back to someplace I was miserable, and relive the horror?'.  Then I threw it away.