Missing Members

[Christo]

There's many people here I'm missing, since my own return after prolonged illness, but one name for now: who knows what happened to our Polish friend Maciek (forgot his nickname)?

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

@hopefullytrusting I hope you reconsider leaving. It would be sad to see you go out this way. Please think about returning --- just ignore those who give you grief.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

There's many people here I'm missing, since my own return after prolonged illness, but one name for now: who knows what happened to our Polish friend Maciek (forgot his nickname)?

Yes, I miss his contributions. I believe I just had started posting on GMG when he was posting regularly and then he just stopped. IIRC, he is married and had a child, which is perhaps a good reason as any for him to find his time limited and not contribute any longer. But it is a shame he never came back or, at least, to pop in and say "hello".

Perhaps, one day, he will return and, Johan, I hope that you're feeling better now and things have improved for you.

[Karl Henning]

Has @Kalevala posted lately?

[JBS]

Has @Kalevala posted lately?

She posted in the Diner and the Purchases thread this afternoon.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Has @Kalevala posted lately?

She posted in the Diner and the Purchases thread this afternoon.

Good to see she hasn't fled. She really is a nice lady.

[Karl Henning]

She posted in the Diner and the Purchases thread this afternoon.

Thanks!

[Spotted Horses]

Thanks!

To can tap any username and it will bring you to a page where you can tap "show posts" to see all of their posts, most recent first. If they haven't disabled it you can detect lurking via "last active."

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Does anyone know what happened to @TheGSMoeller (aka Monkey Greg)? It seems he hasn't been active since 2022. A shame as I always enjoyed his contributions.

[steve ridgway]

I won't delete my account, as I get how that is annoying, but consider it deleted.

If you'd like to remain in contact, my email is krdnull@gmail.com

It was a true pleasure to chat with most of you, but the negativity on here, for me, I find soul sucking, so I need a break, probably a long one.

One does sometimes benefit from a break; hope to see you here again in future.

[Que]

I do hope Philo (the name I know best) doesn't take too long a break. There are members who will be missed and he is one.

But there are threads I totally ignore and members I try to ignore, in preference to donning the cyberspace version of a hazmat suit.

Regarding Todd: US tax season lasts another week, and there's all the new tariffs to sort out, and if my memory is correct his job involves both. So I expect him to be away from here a bit longer. He does generally step away from the forum during the winter.

He'll have an absolutely swell time with those tariffs, I'm pretty sure... 

[Que]

I won't delete my account, as I get how that is annoying, but consider it deleted.

If you'd like to remain in contact, my email is krdnull@gmail.com

It was a true pleasure to chat with most of you, but the negativity on here, for me, I find soul sucking, so I need a break, probably a long one.

O dear, always the term negativity, we are no mongrels on GMG, things go smoothly and nicely, and for a long time now. Such posts makes us all look bad!

Time wasting and needless arguments over a pointless game thread. I don't get it...

[Madiel]

Time wasting and needless arguments over a pointless game thread. I don't get it...

It wasn't called a game thread. And it was claimed not to be pointless.

I said it was pointless and the creator of the thread did not like that.

Honestly, I'm beginning to feel that people around here wouldn't care if somebody sold a fluffy toy as a cure for cancer because it genuinely was a fluffy toy.  Theranos would have been fine, if only Elizabeth Holmes hadn't made the silly claim that her blood test was useful, because the drawing of blood was harmless.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to do one of those fun quizzes where they capture your personal data and use it to guess your passwords. Because they were honest about the purpose.

[ChamberNut]

Does anyone know what happened to @TheGSMoeller (aka Monkey Greg)? It seems he hasn't been active since 2022. A shame as I always enjoyed his contributions.

Yes, I've been wondering for quite some time about Greg, Herr Sock Monkey. Always enjoyed his contributions, participation and wit.

[foxandpeng]

Yes, I've been wondering for quite some time about Greg, Herr Sock Monkey. Always enjoyed his contributions, participation and wit.

Herr Sock Monkey. Probably the best handle I have ever seen.

[Spotted Horses]

It wasn't called a game thread. And it was claimed not to be pointless.

I said it was pointless and the creator of the thread did not like that.

Honestly, I'm beginning to feel that people around here wouldn't care if somebody sold a fluffy toy as a cure for cancer because it genuinely was a fluffy toy.  Theranos would have been fine, if only Elizabeth Holmes hadn't made the silly claim that her blood test was useful, because the drawing of blood was harmless.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to do one of those fun quizzes where they capture your personal data and use it to guess your passwords. Because they were honest about the purpose.

You are comparing someone who defrauded people out of hundreds of millions of dollars and endangered peoples lives by peddling faulty medical tests to someone who started a pole here that you didn't think was what he said it was. Well thank god you've saved us from that, even if you've driven two members off the board.

[Madiel]

You are comparing someone who defrauded people out of hundreds of millions of dollars and endangered peoples lives by peddling faulty medical tests to someone who started a pole here that you didn't think was what he said it was. Well thank god you've saved us from that, even if you've driven two members off the board.

It's called using hyperbole to get people thinking about the importance of dealing with what something is and also what it's claimed to be.

It's quite bizzare to have people now declaring the series of threads was useless. You know what, most of you didn't bother saying it was useless. Two of us did. So to the extent I drove someone away, it was by actually saying what you were all thinking.  We're not dealing with what I thought, we're dealing with what LOTS of people have subsequently revealed they thought. People lining up to say they couldn't see the point and that it didn't make sense.

Apparently the lesson most people here learned from reading Hans Christian Andersen was that you shouldn't point out the emperor has no clothes. Just admire the procession. But then maybe after the fact admit that you knew he was naked.

When the story only got as far as the procession because of all the people before that who didn't say anything.

The goal wasn't to get the emperor to leave. The goal was to get the emperor to put some goddamn clothes on. But you, all of you, would rather watch while the emperor angrily declares he's wearing the most beautiful suit and that Andrei and I just don't have the wit to see how beautiful it is.

[Spotted Horses]

It's called using hyperbole to get people thinking about the importance of dealing with what something is and also what it's claimed to be.

It's quite bizzare to have people now declaring the series of threads was useless. You know what, most of you didn't bother saying it was useless. Two of us did. So to the extent I drove someone away, it was by actually saying what you were all thinking.  We're not dealing with what I thought, we're dealing with what LOTS of people have subsequently revealed they thought. People lining up to say they couldn't see the point and that it didn't make sense.

Apparently the lesson most people here learned from reading Hans Christian Andersen was that you shouldn't point out the emperor has no clothes. Just admire the procession. But then maybe after the fact admit that you knew he was naked.

When the story only got as far as the procession because of all the people before that who didn't say anything.

The goal wasn't to get the emperor to leave. The goal was to get the emperor to put some goddamn clothes on. But you, all of you, would rather watch while the emperor angrily declares he's wearing the most beautiful suit and that I just don't have the wit to see how beautiful it is.

The appropriate response to a thread which is useless is to ignore it and it drops off the bottom of the thread lists.

[Madiel]

The appropriate response to a thread which is useless is to ignore it and it drops off the bottom of the thread lists.

The goal wasn't to make the emperor go away or to just wait until he went away. The goal was to get the emperor to put some clothes on. I was trying to get what was useless to become useful.

If you think the appropriate response is to leave him naked until he's left your neighbourhood, that's on you.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

No matter who is right or wrong, GMG has lost two members and I only hope they will return.