Times Sure Have Changed Here in the Garden!

Post by **jones jones** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 10:48 am

Once upon a time when I was still an Internet virgin, I joined a Social Forum. I had the audacity to take over a thread that had been posted by another member. The kindest thing she did to me was to call me "psychotically disturbed!"

Yep the times they are a changin'!

:yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:21 am

Come gather 'round people

Wherever you roam

And admit that the waters

Around you have grown

And accept it that soon

You'll be drenched to the bone

If your time to you

Is worth savin'

Then you better start swimmin'

Or you'll sink like a stone

For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics

Who prophesize with your pen

And keep your eyes wide

The chance won't come again

And don't speak too soon

For the wheel's still in spin

And there's no tellin' who

That it's namin'

For the loser now

Will be later to win

For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen

Please heed the call

Don't stand in the doorway

Don't block up the hall

For he that gets hurt

Will be he who has stalled

There's a battle outside

And it is ragin'

It'll soon shake your windows

And rattle your walls

For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers

Throughout the land

And don't criticize

What you can't understand

Your sons and your daughters

Are beyond your command

Your old road is

Rapidly agin'

Please get out of the new one

If you can't lend your hand

For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn

The curse it is cast

The slow one now

Will later be fast

As the present now

Will later be past

The order is

Rapidly fadin'

And the first one now

Will later be last

For the times they are a-changin'.

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:26 am

So you think the members here are now much nicer and more restrained? Huh.

Post by **jones jones** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:41 am

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here's a a Jj original quote taken from one of my own stories:

"Images in a mirror gazing back at us, reflecting not what we would like others to see, but what we really are."

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:53 am

Did that answer my question? I'm a bit thick.

I posted my photo on another forum and I'm getting a ration of **** from one of the members that insists I'm a sad, lonely old hag that has no friends because I took the photo in a mirror. The old hag part might be right but I don't know how he came up with the rest based solely on a single photo.

My point is... what's with all the mirror comments lately? I'm getting a little self conscious now.

Post by **jones jones** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:06 pm

SnoozeAgain;1379192 wrote: Did that answer my question? I'm a bit thick.

I posted my photo on another forum and I'm getting a ration of **** from one of the members that insists I'm a sad, lonely old hag that has no friends because I took the photo in a mirror. The old hag part might be right but I don't know how he came up with the rest based solely on a single photo.

My point is... what's with all the mirror comments lately? I'm getting a little self conscious now.

Yours was not the only reply to this thread so don't be so self-conscious Snooze, and do not obsess over what you perceive as your shortcomings. Actually I like you because you have in the past had the chutzpah to stand up for me.

BooBoo has been away in Phoenix tending to her ill sister and has only just arrived back in Maryland, so my support base here has been very thin of late. For that reason I have been posting in my journal lately where I have been recharging my battery.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:09 pm

Bruv;1379186 wrote: Come gather 'round people

Wherever you roam

And admit that the waters

Around you have grown

And accept it that soon

You'll be drenched to the bone

If your time to you

Is worth savin'

Then you better start swimmin'

Or you'll sink like a stone

For the times they are a-changin'.

Come writers and critics

Who prophesize with your pen

And keep your eyes wide

The chance won't come again

And don't speak too soon

For the wheel's still in spin

And there's no tellin' who

That it's namin'

For the loser now

Will be later to win

For the times they are a-changin'.

Come senators, congressmen

Please heed the call

Don't stand in the doorway

Don't block up the hall

For he that gets hurt

Will be he who has stalled

There's a battle outside

And it is ragin'

It'll soon shake your windows

And rattle your walls

For the times they are a-changin'.

Come mothers and fathers

Throughout the land

And don't criticize

What you can't understand

Your sons and your daughters

Are beyond your command

Your old road is

Rapidly agin'

Please get out of the new one

If you can't lend your hand

For the times they are a-changin'.

The line it is drawn

The curse it is cast

The slow one now

Will later be fast

As the present now

Will later be past

The order is

Rapidly fadin'

And the first one now

Will later be last

For the times they are a-changin'.

I hear Flower of Scotland playing faintly in the background as well.

Bruv · Post by **Bruv** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:39 pm

This is the sort of thread that you can't go off topic, it all appears to be in code to me........but I can be a bit of a doughnut.

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:40 pm

Bob Dylan is Scottish?

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:47 pm

SnoozeAgain;1379199 wrote: Bob Dylan is Scottish?
Dunno, but the music style is similar.

Post by **Oscar Namechange** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 1:10 pm

SnoozeAgain;1379192 wrote: Did that answer my question? I'm a bit thick.

. No you are not my little sperm whale. I'd share my warm mince with you any time.

Bridget · Post by **Bridget** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 2:14 pm

Yes, times have changed here in the Forum. When i first joined so many years ago there was always a rant or a rave going on. Some of it was fun some so not. If I didn't like it at the time I just backed off and when somewhere else. I suppose a lot of your more challinging members have found other spots to stir up trouble.

Snooz · Post by **Snooz** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 2:41 pm

Oscar and I are still here.

Bridget · Post by **Bridget** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 2:56 pm

Yes Snoozie I know that. I unfortunaly have only been here sporatic in the last two years as my husband suffered from cancer and passed May 5,2011. It has been so long I had to get a new password. Missed all of you even tho I'm not a big responder. Maybe I can join in more now that my life has slowed down a great deal.

Accountable · Post by **Accountable** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 4:08 pm

Bridget;1379218 wrote: Yes Snoozie I know that. I unfortunaly have only been here sporatic in the last two years as my husband suffered from cancer and passed May 5,2011. It has been so long I had to get a new password. Missed all of you even tho I'm not a big responder. Maybe I can join in more now that my life has slowed down a great deal.
That's a sucky kind of change. I hope you made it through okay. Maybe being here will be a kind of balm. :yh_flower

Lady J · Post by **Lady J** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:57 pm

Bridget;1379218 wrote: Yes Snoozie I know that. I unfortunaly have only been here sporatic in the last two years as my husband suffered from cancer and passed May 5,2011. It has been so long I had to get a new password. Missed all of you even tho I'm not a big responder. Maybe I can join in more now that my life has slowed down a great deal.

Bridget I send my best and strength to you.

No, you do not know me as I recently joined here but know the feeling of lost when a loved one passes.

Lady j

Lady J · Post by **Lady J** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 10:15 pm

jones jones;1379185 wrote: Once upon a time when I was still an Internet virgin, I joined a Social Forum. I had the audacity to take over a thread that had been posted by another member. The kindest thing she did to me was to call me "psychotically disturbed!"

Yep the times they are a changin'!

:yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl :yh_rotfl

It is rude an immature in a Social Forum for someone to step over your thread by name calling and ignorance. Those who seek you out for pretended injustice are not worthy of your time, dust them as you would wipe your shoes on the mat Baby.

Yes, times are changin' and let's hope they move forward in a positive mode.

:driving:

Lady j

Squid · Post by **Squid** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 3:32 am

I started hanging out on forums in -96 and there has really been a lot of changes since then.

I wonder if we are at a time when internet is such a big part of everyday life that the social rules applies here as well?

But there will always be trolls and other people just in it for the rant