Okay, here we go... by Niki2

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Okay, here we go...

POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Sunday, March 17, 2013 08:43
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Saturday, March 16, 2013 9:54 AM

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

I'm ready to take my medicine and give our less civilized members the opportunity to wail on me and have a ball. I'm staying.

What changed my mind? First hearing from all those good voices, some of them out of the blue privately, some of them I didn't think would give a flying shit whether I was ever here again or not. And you can blame Riona and KPO for the final straw if you want to; whatever their reasons, to have both of them say they might leave, whether KPO is serious or not, has been the final push to get me to stay. What I've learned is that the good voices I'd thought we'd lost are OUT THERE, they're not all gone, and there are too many of them and they're too good to let a few assinine bullies kill this place.

For whatever little it's worth, I'm going back to looking for interesting issues to put up to counter the flood of PN "expletive deleteds" and the nastines that pervades this place. Maybe it will help, maybe it won't, and I'm going to try like hell not to spend as MUCH time doing it as I have in the past. But the OB died; a large part of why it died was that the bullies DID take over, over run the place and drive the good voices off. Maybe it will happen here, but I'm not willing to let RWED go down without a fight. It's part of what keeps this place alive, and it's valuable.

So let the poor slobs who have nothing better to do with their life than come and harrangue people anonymously do their thing, I've learned two lessons. One is that I need to try LESS to sort things out with people I thought were my friends--not a new lesson, but one I obviously need reminding about. The other is that there are far more good people here, and lurking, which means they might return, and they're WORTH IT! I've been enormously touched by things people have said and realize I had friends here I didn't know WERE friends--as much as friendship is possible on an anonymous forum.

So take your best shot, assholes. You could never hurt me before, you can't now; the difference is that I'll guard myself better around those I might have thought were friends, that's all. It's a small lesson, and those of you I respect and admire are WAY worth it.

That includes you, Riona; your voice has always, consciously at least, tried to be a gentle one--whatever your motives might be for publicly saying you're going, I don't care and I'm not about to judge you. You're more valuable here than a dozen of some others; we're all human and screwed up in our own wonderful ways, and the devil take the hindmost!

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Saturday, March 16, 2013 10:11 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Welcome back.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

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" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Saturday, March 16, 2013 10:16 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Somehow that is so totally appropriate--I've long noticed how you dog my posts, Rap, to the point where if I put up a thread, it was all but guaranteed the first response would be a snark from you. So this just makes me feel all the more like everything's back to "normal", my favorite frenemy. En garde!

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Saturday, March 16, 2013 10:31 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Of the multiple threads you started, I replied to one, and welcomed you back to RWED.

Not sure how that qualifies as a 'snark', but as you wish.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

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" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Saturday, March 16, 2013 10:54 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Didn't say it was a snark; don't get defensive on me. I DID take it in the vein in which you offered it, okay? We'll have plenty of chances to piss each other off, you don't need to get a jump on it!

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Saturday, March 16, 2013 11:24 AM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT

This all seems to have happened while I was MIA. No need to recap it- I'm glad I missed it. Just sorry I wasn't here to support and encourage you- you know we agree about most things. Welcome back.

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Saturday, March 16, 2013 2:07 PM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Hey NewOld, yup, you didn't miss anything; Riona asked where Anthony and I were, I responded, the usual suspects came out of the woodwork to be assholes, I got a lot of PMs, e-mails and posts from people saying they were sick of how RWED had gotten too and that's why they hadn't been posting, hearing from all of them made me miss them all the more, I went to Talk Story and posted there, intending to stay there, Riona posted she's leaving, KPO remarked in her thread that HE might leave, all of that combined to make me decide to try staying.

That's it in a nutshell, you didn't miss anything. ;o) I have to add, however, yours is yet ANOTHER of the voices I have prized and missed, thereby giving even more impetus to the above. Thank you for being you. That's probably the biggest thing for me; I came to realize just how many great voices there are, and how few assholes--it's just that the assholes make the most noise and we let them take over. Bah.

Mostly just thank ALL you intelligent, civil, wonderful people for being who you are.

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Saturday, March 16, 2013 2:54 PM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.

Welcome back Niki

No, I was only kidding when I talked about leaving - but I'm glad if it helped convince you to stay! No, this site's like my original internet home. I've been quite busy of late, and went away on holiday for a few weeks (so I missed what happened between you and Frem) but I've never seriously thought of leaving. No I'd rather stay and do my bit to try and keep RWED alive, contribute to discussions, post the odd thread... I figure if enough of us do that PirateNews' voice will be drowned out into insignificance (that it deserves).

Good to have you back Niki, the board already looks a brighter place

(Also I'm sure you'll patch things up with Frem over time)

It's not personal. It's just war.

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Saturday, March 16, 2013 3:05 PM

HERO

I'd welcome you back but you didnt really leave.

It was all an act. Pity me. Look at me. Poor me. Boo hoo hoo.

Now its still an act. Look at me, saving this board from PN. Look at me leading the fight against the trolls.

Crap, crap, and more crap. Just like always.

But your still here, I'm still here, nothing has changed, so ding, ding, ding...come out swinging.

H

Hero...must be right on all of this. ALL of the rest of us are wrong. Chrisisall, 2012

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Saturday, March 16, 2013 3:18 PM

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America loves a winner!

Quote:
Originally posted by Niki2:
Didn't say it was a snark; don't get defensive on me. I DID take it in the vein in which you offered it, okay? We'll have plenty of chances to piss each other off, you don't need to get a jump on it!

" Rap, to the point where if I put up a thread, it was all but guaranteed the first response would be a snark from you"

Guess I mistook the meaning of that sentence.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

Resident USA Freedom Fundie

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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Saturday, March 16, 2013 3:42 PM

MAL4PREZ

Hey Niki! I hope all us lurkers spend more time here. One thing that seriously turns me off is how often I get logged out. Really, it's annoying. I haven't moved my computer, haven't even put it to sleep, and I get logged out. I'm lazy enough that that's enough to make me bale on posting.

Oh, and Niki - ignore the trolls.

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Saturday, March 16, 2013 6:45 PM

FREMDFIRMA

You know, just because someone bitterly disagrees with you on specific points does not in any way mean they do not value your company or input.
Heaven knows that input is better fodder for discussion than the endless plethora of rightwingnut tripe.

-F

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Sunday, March 17, 2013 8:35 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Thanx KPO, it's excellent news you were kidding, I'm glad to hear it. It's been my "home" too for a long time; now at least it's my "second" home 'cuz I'm involved in the urban mushing groups, but those are on Facebook and only about mushing, so they still don't fill the empty hole RWED left. I reeely appreciate you and others putting stuff up, I find it interesting and, well, "what you said". ;o)

No, Rap, you understood the sentence, and you know it's true. I suppose I wasn't clear enough that the first RESPONSE being from you was what made it seem like "old home week", not that I took your response as a snark, that's all.

Mal4, that is my intent. We'll see how well my willpower holds up. That logging-off thing would drive me nuts; I wonder why it happens to you? Never happens to me unless I go to FFF on my cell--then it insists I re-log in, and when I go back to the computer, does it again. One reason I no longer check in anywhere but on my one computer! It drove me nuts the few times it happened to me!

I edited this to remove my response to Frem; this doesn't need to be dredged up in public. I will reply privately.

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Sunday, March 17, 2013 8:43 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Quote:
Originally posted by Niki2:

No, Rap, you understood the sentence, and you know it's true. I suppose I wasn't clear enough that the first RESPONSE being from you was what made it seem like "old home week", not that I took your response as a snark, that's all.

I do love being told what i know or what I understand.

I am a bit confused at the " old home week " remark though.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

Resident USA Freedom Fundie

" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall

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