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Zumbi, I'll be serious here for a moment and respond. Some people are jerks because the world is filled with jerks. In my experience, less than 90% of TRF are jerks. Your experience is different because of the way you interact with people.

 

Think about this for a moment—you've come online and made dozens of threads about whether the band should play this song or that song. Those threads get old very fast. You ask why people don't consider Feedback to be a "real" Rush album, then when they answer you you tell them you are wrong. You make a thread that's all about your 2112th post and tell us how that's going to be your last, then you come back. You posted something childish about how someone on the bus said something less-than-good about Rush so you were going to "punch them in the face"--was that to impress us? If so, it didn't work. All it did was show us you are a jerk.

 

You are a huge Rush fan—great! So are we! And most of us are here to hang out, talk about whatever, and maybe make friends. I realize you are young and still have a lot to learn about social interaction (I know I certainly did when I was a teenager, and when I was in my 20s) so maybe you can take the opportunity to start learning now. Try saying nice things. Stop caring about how many posts you've made. Start realizing we all have different tastes and nothing you say is going to change that.

He's gonna think this is mean but you did him a favor. Very brave and beautifully written. I just hope he takes it to heart and appreciates it....

 

It wasn't written to be mean, just to let him know what others are thinking. And that he can change that.

 

In a related subject, I wonder how different my life would have been if I grew up with the Internet and the ability to chat with all sorts of different people. Maybe I would have learned more social graces sooner? Maybe I would have been less naive? Maybe I would have found some older people (old, like 30!) who could have given my very lost teenage self some guidance.

 

The Internet is cool.

 

Indeed it is.

 

I found this place when I was 12 and I've been active ever since.

 

But yet

 

I still cant get into SOCN

 

You mean you can't get into it as in, it's just not your thing? It's really not my thing. Too much arguing and too few open minds.

 

Nono,

 

I can't be in it as in I dont have access. I've PM'd 73 but he never replied.

 

The first time you asked on the board, back when you were 14, I told you I thought you were too young for SOCN, and a few others agreed. Sixteen seems old enough. You're in.

 

Remember when this was the most talked about thing on the Forum? Pepperidge farm remembers

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Zumbi, I'll be serious here for a moment and respond. Some people are jerks because the world is filled with jerks. In my experience, less than 90% of TRF are jerks. Your experience is different because of the way you interact with people.

 

Think about this for a moment—you've come online and made dozens of threads about whether the band should play this song or that song. Those threads get old very fast. You ask why people don't consider Feedback to be a "real" Rush album, then when they answer you you tell them you are wrong. You make a thread that's all about your 2112th post and tell us how that's going to be your last, then you come back. You posted something childish about how someone on the bus said something less-than-good about Rush so you were going to "punch them in the face"--was that to impress us? If so, it didn't work. All it did was show us you are a jerk.

 

You are a huge Rush fan—great! So are we! And most of us are here to hang out, talk about whatever, and maybe make friends. I realize you are young and still have a lot to learn about social interaction (I know I certainly did when I was a teenager, and when I was in my 20s) so maybe you can take the opportunity to start learning now. Try saying nice things. Stop caring about how many posts you've made. Start realizing we all have different tastes and nothing you say is going to change that.

He's gonna think this is mean but you did him a favor. Very brave and beautifully written. I just hope he takes it to heart and appreciates it....

 

It wasn't written to be mean, just to let him know what others are thinking. And that he can change that.

 

In a related subject, I wonder how different my life would have been if I grew up with the Internet and the ability to chat with all sorts of different people. Maybe I would have learned more social graces sooner? Maybe I would have been less naive? Maybe I would have found some older people (old, like 30!) who could have given my very lost teenage self some guidance.

 

The Internet is cool.

 

Indeed it is.

 

I found this place when I was 12 and I've been active ever since.

 

But yet

 

I still cant get into SOCN

 

You mean you can't get into it as in, it's just not your thing? It's really not my thing. Too much arguing and too few open minds.

 

Nono,

 

I can't be in it as in I dont have access. I've PM'd 73 but he never replied.

 

The first time you asked on the board, back when you were 14, I told you I thought you were too young for SOCN, and a few others agreed. Sixteen seems old enough. You're in.

 

:facepalm:

 

If I could turn back time...

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So eager to please they can even be trained???

 

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Basically, they're Brine Shrimp.Good to feed bigger pet fish for live food, and they are sold frozen also in order to keep them longer.FUN!

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http://www.longisland70skid.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Sea-monkeys.jpg

 

So eager to please they can even be trained???

 

Sign me up.

 

Basically, they're Brine Shrimp.Good to feed bigger pet fish for live food, and they are sold frozen also in order to keep them longer.FUN!

hYaxaAk.gif

 

Oh yes! Remember the sea monkeys discussion? :LOLsign: Happy days. :cheerleader:

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http://www.longisland70skid.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Sea-monkeys.jpg

 

So eager to please they can even be trained???

 

Sign me up.

 

Basically, they're Brine Shrimp.Good to feed bigger pet fish for live food, and they are sold frozen also in order to keep them longer.FUN!

hYaxaAk.gif

 

Oh yes! Remember the sea monkeys discussion? :LOLsign: Happy days. :cheerleader:

 

I can tell you're into sentimentality, Lorraine! To an extent, I am as well! Memories that tickle your funny bone. I have cassete tapes from the '70s that I made, thinking that I could keep them forever and re listen over and over...etc. Every night when I go to sleep, I listen to tapes I have put onto MDs from a party summer of '77. Wow. The memories...

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