Lemon's Story, 25 years and counting

lemon_and_mint · Post by **lemon_and_mint** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 3:54 pm

I'm near Cambridge

Post by **spot** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 3:55 pm

Right lads, the January meet's in Cambridge this year, we just got an invite!

YZGI · Post by **YZGI** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 3:57 pm

This was all an elaborate ruse to see if you can handle having your leg pulled. You passed with flying colors. We have a strict code around here, that if you don't have a sense of humor and can't take a little razzing we burn you at the stake. Whew for a sec there I thought you were a goner.:wah:

Welcome and enjoy the mayhem..

lemon_and_mint · Post by **lemon_and_mint** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 3:57 pm

great if so.

can i finish my topic now, or does nobody care about my 25 years?

They;ve all forgotten what we were talking about.........

lemon_and_mint · Post by **lemon_and_mint** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:00 pm

ha ha too funny.:-6

Chezzie · Post by **Chezzie** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:01 pm

lemon_and_mint;733177 wrote: ha ha too funny.:-6

well done Jimbo ya fruit:wah:

lemon_and_mint · Post by **lemon_and_mint** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:02 pm

ok, then but as you;ve all been horrible to me yu can stay here and keep me company for a little while, but we wont mention my 25 years,

What shall we talk about, or does anyone have a chessboard with them?

Chezzie · Post by **Chezzie** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:05 pm

lemon_and_mint;733180 wrote: ok, then but as you;ve all been horrible to me yu can stay here and keep me company for a little while, but we wont mention my 25 years,

What shall we talk about, or does anyone have a chessboard with them?

you may go first.....:-4

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lemon_and_mint · Post by **lemon_and_mint** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:07 pm

ok i wasnt expecting that, chezzie, you win!

Chezzie · Post by **Chezzie** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:10 pm

jimbo;733182 wrote: no chess board but we have a bored chezz

:D

Jimbo sits at his desk in a stupor,

his brain starting to decompose,

And there on the end of his finger,

Sits a bogey, picked fresh from his nose.

He fiddles around with the bogey,

Pulling it this way and that,

Then he hurls it towards his computer,

Where it lands on his screen with a 'splat'.

He looks at the bogey before he goes to bed,

Where it sits, now dried up, on his screen.

It's quite a big bogey, he thinks to himself,

And really, quite pleasantly green.

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lemon_and_mint · Post by **lemon_and_mint** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:11 pm

disgusting :-6

SuzyB · Post by **SuzyB** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:13 pm

Chezzie;733187 wrote: Jimbo sits at his desk in a stupor,

his brain starting to decompose,

And there on the end of his finger,

Sits a bogey, picked fresh from his nose.

He fiddles around with the bogey,

Pulling it this way and that,

Then he hurls it towards his computer,

Where it lands on his screen with a 'splat'.

He looks at the bogey before he goes to bed,

Where it sits, now dried up, on his screen.

It's quite a big bogey, he thinks to himself,

And really, quite pleasantly green.

That is just wrong on so many levels, one being that I share the puter with him......:wah:

Chezzie · Post by **Chezzie** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:18 pm

SuzyB;733190 wrote: That is just wrong on so many levels, one being that I share the puter with him......:wah:

and on that snote ill bid you good night god bless yer bogeys:wah::wah:

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lemon_and_mint · Post by **lemon_and_mint** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:19 pm

me too its late, night all

x

SuzyB · Post by **SuzyB** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:23 pm

Night Cheezie :-4

Night L&M :-4

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:11 pm

No offense meant to you Lemon, but during the last few months there have been sooo many trolls or some unhappy former members logging on in different accounts. FG members opened up to them with heartfelt welcomes only to be fooled by the trolls. So now, some members are wary and keeping a careful eye on new members just to make sure they're not a troll. You can tell after awhile if someone is sincere or not.......it's like real friendships sometimes...true colors will emerge when one gets comfortable.

I observed 4 trolls at the FG during the last few months.....and their true colors showed, and now they're gone. But, sure and begorra they'll return and we'll be ready for them:guitarist

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:26 pm

I apologise lemon head..Your opening story was so much jj's it is uncanny..:-2

mea culpa...

Post by **spot** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 5:47 pm

While this thread's quiet, can I drop in a couple of observations?

Firstly, I made exactly the same error of judgement last year over what turned into a tremendous poster from the Midlands called shelleybelle and I grovelled, I absolutely grovelled, the next day. She was very kind but I still wince whenever I remember being that idiotic and it's been a lesson to me ever since.

Secondly it's my considered opinion, after much thought, that there's no such things as trolls any longer. It's a term which applied and had practical meaning when newsgroups were at their height - say around 1994. They were full of earnest posters who'd kept their patch scrupulously clean and suddenly, within months of each other, Green-card spammers, feeble Kibo imitators and Armenian Genocide fanatics were fly-posting up their sanctums. It was not a pretty sight. The rule of don't react to trolls became a necessity once the amplifying effect of fifty outraged residents shouting in response to each intrusion was discovered.

Forums aren't like that. The investment of time involved in someone coming here and pratting about is far higher than buzzing a dozen newsgroups with a single cross-post. Anyone, absolutely anyone, coming onto a forum should be given as much room as possible to settle in and get to know people. Yes there are malignant returnees but if they get outed after fifty posts instead of five they still can't really hang around and just laugh it off and they've wasted a week for nothing instead of just a day. There might even be even sock-puppet accounts if people want to be extremely daft and talk to themselves. None of that is on the same level of concern as a willingness to engage what might well be contrary opinion in a civil manner.

We also get the odd poster registering just because they're bored and want a fight. That's not an abuse of the forum, it's a macho challenge. They can't be personally abusive (I speak of ideals here but we do try at least for that ideal) but they can stretch to the limit whatever bee they might have in their bonnet. It might even involve recommending the execution of eleven year old children who kill but it's still not trolling, it's opinion. If we could get out of the habit of ever using the T-word we might find that at least a small area of consensus exists between even the most polarized posters. Just because they're new and abrasive doesn't mean they're uninteresting. I was new and abrasive myself once and the fact that I could bore for England is irrelevant to my point. Some people might end up changing minds and that's a good thing, not a bad thing.

L&M's thread has been entirely the wrong place for me to say any of this in except that it's been lurched already. I'm sure it can get back on track in the morning.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 6:14 pm

jimbo escaped from someplace

thats all I really know

and sometimes he logs in as cherry blossom

draw your own conclusions

koan · Post by **koan** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 6:37 pm

back to the story... I somewhat sympathise with that.

I believed for a long time that I'd never fall in love again. I adored some people and greatly respected many more but had never stopped loving my boyfriend that I met when I was 16. It took me 20 years to realise that I'd never even known what love was until now. I had given up on all that. I fully expect that, now my plans of being a hermit have been shattered, I will learn more and more about love every year and every decade I'll look back at now and think how silly it was to have thought this great feeling was love in the fullest.

There is no trick to finding love. You don't even have to believe it will happen. It just does.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 6:44 pm

There might even be even sock-puppet accounts if people want to be extremely daft and talk to themselves.

Ok I see where youre going with is.

Post by **spot** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 6:51 pm

Nomad;733288 wrote: Ok I see where youre going with is.

Just so long as everyone's fully aware that the term doesn't apply to lemon_and_mint that's fine, it wasn't remotely in reference to her.

Kathy Ellen · Post by **Kathy Ellen** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 6:56 pm

spot;733236 wrote: While this thread's quiet, can I drop in a couple of observations?

Firstly, I made exactly the same error of judgement last year over what turned into a tremendous poster from the Midlands called shelleybelle and I grovelled, I absolutely grovelled, the next day. She was very kind but I still wince whenever I remember being that idiotic and it's been a lesson to me ever since.

Secondly it's my considered opinion, after much thought, that there's no such things as trolls any longer. It's a term which applied and had practical meaning when newsgroups were at their height - say around 1994. They were full of earnest posters who'd kept their patch scrupulously clean and suddenly, within months of each other, Green-card spammers, feeble Kibo imitators and Armenian Genocide fanatics were fly-posting up their sanctums. It was not a pretty sight. The rule of don't react to trolls became a necessity once the amplifying effect of fifty outraged residents shouting in response to each intrusion was discovered.

Forums aren't like that. The investment of time involved in someone coming here and pratting about is far higher than buzzing a dozen newsgroups with a single cross-post. Anyone, absolutely anyone, coming onto a forum should be given as much room as possible to settle in and get to know people. Yes there are malignant returnees but if they get outed after fifty posts instead of five they still can't really hang around and just laugh it off and they've wasted a week for nothing instead of just a day. There might even be even sock-puppet accounts if people want to be extremely daft and talk to themselves. None of that is on the same level of concern as a willingness to engage what might well be contrary opinion in a civil manner.

We also get the odd poster registering just because they're bored and want a fight. That's not an abuse of the forum, it's a macho challenge. They can't be personally abusive (I speak of ideals here but we do try at least for that ideal) but they can stretch to the limit whatever bee they might have in their bonnet. It might even involve recommending the execution of eleven year old children who kill but it's still not trolling, it's opinion. If we could get out of the habit of ever using the T-word we might find that at least a small area of consensus exists between even the most polarized posters. Just because they're new and abrasive doesn't mean they're uninteresting. I was new and abrasive myself once and the fact that I could bore for England is irrelevant to my point. Some people might end up changing minds and that's a good thing, not a bad thing.

L&M's thread has been entirely the wrong place for me to say any of this in except that it's been lurched already. I'm sure it can get back on track in the morning.

Spot:-:-4 Thank you for all that info... You are the best, truly you are...

G-man · Post by **G-man** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 7:08 pm

koan;733280 wrote: back to the story... I somewhat sympathise with that.

I believed for a long time that I'd never fall in love again. I adored some people and greatly respected many more but had never stopped loving my boyfriend that I met when I was 16. It took me 20 years to realise that I'd never even known what love was until now. I had given up on all that. I fully expect that, now my plans of being a hermit have been shattered, I will learn more and more about love every year and every decade I'll look back at now and think how silly it was to have thought this great feeling was love in the fullest.

There is no trick to finding love. You don't even have to believe it will happen. It just does.

Excellent advice, Koan. I feel for your situation and apologise for the misunderstanding, Lemon.

Perhaps, the fastest way of finding it is to simply stop searching?

lemon_and_mint · Post by **lemon_and_mint** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:58 am

Good morning all :-6

Just a thought, if you really have heard this story before, and jj is male, maybe he is one of the people involved in the story, and told it from the other point of view?I'm intrigued now.

Post by **spot** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:12 am

That was in another country and besides, the wench is dead.

Treat last night's nonsense as a bit of unavoidable rough and tumble. If you will go out with scruffs like us on the razzle you can expect the occasional bruise and a night in the lock-up. Just be thankful you don't have a hangover to go with it.

kazalala · Post by **kazalala** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:48 am

Chezzie;733058 wrote: starting to wonder of my own insanity....If anyone sees me making a complete arse of myself with these people could they please pm me

-1

Chezz, being kind and supportive could never be classed as you making a complete arse of yourself:-4

To be honest i must walk around her with big blinkers on:wah: I never notice anything untoward till its too late or blatently pointed out:rolleyes: But i like to give people the benefit of the doubt until im proved wrong.

by the way,,,,HI lemon ,,

lemon_and_mint · Post by **lemon_and_mint** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:52 am

hi kazalala

Chezzie · Post by **Chezzie** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:30 pm

kazalala;733497 wrote: Chezz, being kind and supportive could never be classed as you making a complete arse of yourself:-4

To be honest i must walk around her with big blinkers on:wah: I never notice anything untoward till its too late or blatently pointed out:rolleyes: But i like to give people the benefit of the doubt until im proved wrong.

by the way,,,,HI lemon ,,

Awww thanks Kaz. feel better now and I really believed Lemon was ok so im glad I stuck to my instincts and we pm'd each other and I could tell she was a genuine member so I wasnt so mad afterall lol....Not suprising peeps are edgy with the amount of peeps who do it on here though eh xxx

lemon_and_mint · Post by **lemon_and_mint** » Wed Dec 05, 2007 1:34 pm

Actually, i have been taken in by people pretending to be other people on the internet, and I swear i will be more careful the next time, and yet i still get taken in, and try to say helpful things to people, and then later find out it was a joke.

It isn't funny at all.

Maybe one day someone is going to really need kind words said to them (you never know a person's personal circumstances as to why they may be looking for company) and I may just turn my back. That would be awful.

kazalala · Post by **kazalala** » Thu Dec 06, 2007 6:03 am

lemon_and_mint;733893 wrote: Actually, i have been taken in by people pretending to be other people on the internet, and I swear i will be more careful the next time, and yet i still get taken in, and try to say helpful things to people, and then later find out it was a joke.

It isn't funny at all.

Maybe one day someone is going to really need kind words said to them (you never know a person's personal circumstances as to why they may be looking for company) and I may just turn my back. That would be awful.

Thats why you sould stick to being yourself, if you try to help or give support to someone and they were just having a laugh at your expense, it dont matter. But if they are geniune,, it will matter