DEAR NEW FRIENDS

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I am going to give you a piece of potentially useful advice:

If you identify a person here who has some good ideas, and you would like to get their input on a subject of interest to you, start a thread with some of your own thoughts and analyses of the subject. 99% guarantee that if you put some thought and effort into your post, you will get some really good input from a lot of people, including the one whose input you desire. It's even probably a good idea to mention in your thread that you would like to hear what they think.

It works way better than approaches like "THINK FOR ME, THINKMONKEY!" which is what it can sound like when people request that someone else write about their topic of interest, without putting themselves out there with their thoughts and analysis. HEY ROGER, I WANT YOU TO WRITE ABOUT THIS THING I'M REALLY INTERESTED IN rarely goes over well.

I know, you're probably thinking "What, who would even do that?" Right? But you'd be surprised.

So, if you're INTERESTED in something, your best bet is to be INTERESTING by starting a thread about it, and people will talk about it.

Do it.

(modified to make sticky - Dok)

[Cain]

I will answer any questions so long as they are part of a formal request, with a 10-signature petition.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

No way man. It can't be that easy. This is PD. There are all kinds of loop-holes and hoops to jump through. Your suggestion REEKS of common sense Nigel. Which tells me right off the bat it's wrong. There's an evil cult of big personalities here, just waiting to land on anyone who has an opinion, like a ton of bricks.



I know it because I'm insecure and don't really know how I feel about a certain topic because if you disagree then I'm going to feel stupid because I don't know how to back up my position because really, I haven't given it that much thought. I mean, I thought about it. But just not that much. Because, you know, there was this TV show on that I wanted to watch and then I had to do school work/homework/work work and, well.

It's so much easier to ask you what I should think instead of spending precious time thinking about it for myself. Because you're way smarter than me and if I agree with you then I'll feel that special little glow that tells me I'm running with the right crowd and doing the right things. That's all I really want.

Thinking is too hard and putting myself out there like that, when I could be WRONG, is just so much harder than thinking in the first place.

Clearly you're setting me up for an elaborate prank. Probably involving lasers and fishhooks.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Alternately, excellent advice. The above post was, if it isn't entirely obvious, me being silly.

[AFK]

Thinking for yourself is for people with way too much time on their hands.

[LMNO]

And I can tell you, from personal experience, that something as simple as, "Cain, what the hell is going on in Greece? They can't REALLY be ready to vote Nazis into office, can they?" Is often sufficient to get the ball rolling.

[Count Chocula]

Interesting point Mr. Salt, but I'm curious as to what constitutes "new." Please elaborate

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

Interesting point Mr. Salt, but I'm curious as to what constitutes "new." Please elaborate

Random observation : If you think it might apply to you in a way that involves you getting butthurt, you are more than welcome to assume it applies to you. It says more about you than it does anything else.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Interesting point Mr. Salt, but I'm curious as to what constitutes "new." Please elaborate

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

For the purposes of this conversation, let's just say that "new" refers to anyone who hasn't been around long enough to have figured out that I'm not a mister.

[Eater of Clowns]

For the purposes of this conversation, let's just say that "new" refers to anyone who hasn't been around long enough to have figured out that I'm not a mister.

Yeah, really. 
I mean, everyone knows M. is the abbreviation for Monsieur, not Mister.

[Reginald Ret]

For the purposes of this conversation, let's just say that "new" refers to anyone who hasn't been around long enough to have figured out that I'm not a mister.

Yeah, really. 
I mean, everyone knows M. is the abbreviation for Monsieur, not Mister.

I assumed it stood for 'Mother of God! Put down the Boathook!'

[GrannySmith]

And I can tell you, from personal experience, that something as simple as, "Cain, what the hell is going on in Greece? They can't REALLY be ready to vote Nazis into office, can they?" Is often sufficient to get the ball rolling.

haha that gets me started usually    but i get too pissed off too soon and leave to forget everything usually 

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

For the purposes of this conversation, let's just say that "new" refers to anyone who hasn't been around long enough to have figured out that I'm not a mister.

hahaha!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

For the purposes of this conversation, let's just say that "new" refers to anyone who hasn't been around long enough to have figured out that I'm not a mister.

Yeah, really. 
I mean, everyone knows M. is the abbreviation for Monsieur, not Mister.

I assumed it stood for 'Mother of God! Put down the Boathook!'