Sunset Rose

Helping a coworker understand how scan to network options work.

If you're talking about making threads and profile posts about leaving, it could be that person has a lot of social circles on this site alone and they wouldn't want to disappear without letting their friends know why. Or it could be the person wants some attention and 'threatening' to leave is their way of asking for it. But if you mean people just not having logged into their account in a long time, that seems the most organic way of moving on from a forum in my opinion. People get bored of something and/or find something better and just move on.

Schooling should indeed be mandatory and mandatory until adulthood as it is now, but I believe there's a lot in the average curriculum that can be radically overhauled. Much of what is taught is fine, (with some historical inaccuracies, particular in elementary school kids, needing a beating with the truth stick in almost every country...) but how it's taught needs a closer look as each kid grows. Nobody learns the same way, and I feel like so many kids end up with poor grades and no self-confidence because nobody teaching them can take the time to figure out how to reach them. It's not always the teacher's fault- in fact I'd say in my experience it hardly ever is. Most of them want their lessons to sink in but don't have the tools or the time to make it happen. Anyway, I do think that while it's most important for schooling to be a part of a person's life in their most formative years, I also think formative is, at least in some part, a relative term to any time before that person becomes an adult. I do feel like learning must be more dynamic and also a student's desires should be more of a factor when they're in their later teens but to not be learning at least something in the prime time of your life for learning is just self-destructive intellectual sabotage in my opinion.

"You can't... it's time to offend!"

I don't for a lot of things, it is a big flaw of mine. I don't forget things easily and I don't often forgive them when I probably should.

I think with most people it's true. Some very withdrawn people have a tendency to not know how to comport themselves physically when interacting with others, I've noticed. But you can just tell those people aren't comfortable talking to another human face-to-face and it definitely makes it much harder to 'understand' the person, I've found. I myself am not much of a people person and do a lot of acting in my day to day life- a lot of very overly cheerful greetings and uncomfortable eye contact with an almost customer service-y demeanor. I am definitely not that kinda person in real life, but I just don't want to immediately jump on someone's bad side I guess.

Funny enough the worst experience with anesthesia was when I finally got my last two wisdom teeth removed. I've woken up from anesthesia and knew exactly what was going on every time except that one where I apparently tried to immediately get up and on my feet but fell straight down. At least that's what I'm told because I had no memory of it at all, the only thing I remember was going under and then I woke up at home.

People fighting, storms, various pregnancy-related things, hub and his mates being loud with sports. I'm not sure which has been the rudest

I have lived in the US a few times now and it's always been in the midwest. If I were to move back, it would probably still be there. I like the less brutal summers and smaller populations.

Far from it, unfortunately. Fan forums like this have a number of critical flaws that limit them, mostly being in the fact that they ARE fan forums and not likely to attract people who are not fans. It's not impossible, but not likely. And unfortunately that niche makes it impossible to maintain any kind of growth or even grow in the first place, which means the user base will taper off sharply and eventually fizzle out. But also in that there is no professional moderation or administration team maintaining it on the back end. Just a group of people doing whatever they think is best. Which is about par for the course, really. But that means there is no real structure for support, and unfortunately my experience of having worked as a member of the moderation/administration team in the past has left me with a uniquely jaded perspective and there are a number of unfair and biased decisions made that lead to me leaving that role in the first place. But I won't get into that... If I were to say what MLPF does best, it's that it's a place where pony people talk about pony things. Simple. But when it begins to generalize outside of that niche is when its own ideological sphere of forum decorum works against itself and things begin to fall apart. This is why we can't have more serious discussions and there are no things like visible user statistics. Just because of the nature of the target user base. And unfortunately that works against its shot at my and others' interest in these boards. The lightning-in-a-bottle nature of Friendship is Magic's popularity will eventually peter out and this place will go the way of all other fan sites. And I have to say because of the socio-political era that MLPF exists, all the restrictions and my general laundry list of bad interactions with users and staff alike, I can't say my experience has been particularly good on top of it. But on a more fair note, forums just don't have the ubiquity they used to 20 years ago. Fan forums least of all. Reddit is probably the forum with the most potential longevity of all being the most ubiquitous place of discourse on the internet. At least in my opinion. As far as fan sites go, I've probably seen a little too much drama here and it could be colouring my opinion a little, but a sub-par experience is a sub-par experience. I don't log in very much anymore, only when I'm bored on my laptop in bed with no work to do and there are no interesting topics to get into on Reddit. My interest in pony topics kinda went cold when the show ended as well, so...

I finally gave in and started reading the Hobbit and LOTR series. Always late to the party... I'm only a few chapters into The Hobbit but it's actually very charming so far, Tolkien does a great job of making the Hobbits' lifestyle seem like a true fantasy.

One of the problems I have with answering the phone these days is that I live in a country where English isn't the spoken language but work for a company that's based in a country where it is, and unfortunately if I don't catch a glimpse of the number and answer with sveiki, I always get a bit of confusion on the other end. I think most people who call me from work are used to it by now but it is a little inconvenient. But I always answer with hello in Latvian or if it's for work, "Hello, this is Bea".

I have to walk a lot every day so I haven't had a structured exercise regimen in a long time. All of the walking gets me plenty of exercise!

Relatively I guess? It's more for social/familiar reasons that I even have a faith. But I wouldn't say faith has always been a big part of who I am. There are tenants that I find respectable and many aspects I find archaic and unreasonable for modern society, and of course there's always the kind of people who take it way too seriously. But it's never been too serious an aspect of my life to where when I meet someone or have a profile on a website that I talk about my religion or anything. If it weren't for my husband's family I probably wouldn't be religious at all, and I'd probably only talk about it if people asked.

Without entrepreneurs there are no businesses. Without business, the world would not exist nearly as you know it. I recognize that. I don't think the world would be a better place without business. But if what you're asking is more related to whether or not I have an issue with the sterotypical way entrepreneurs and CEO-types carry themselves or talk to people, it really depends on the business but in general... not particularly? I tend to feel that if you know the name of a company's CEO, (unless you somehow know them personally) it's either due to negative press or because they're one of the richest people in the world and not hearing their name in general media is practically impossible. And even then finding negative in them is all but a certainty. I also believe there's a huge difference between a person who was hired to be the CEO of a company and the president/CEO who built the company themselves from the ground up. One was hired to do a job, the other -built- that position for themselves and I find that a lot more respectable.

Very very catchy song, I've had it in my head all day.

Many slightly older Nintendo game are ones I don't have to take very seriously or invest a lot of time in, and they're easy to get my hands on.

Yogi Bear

Something something char cap, something something energetic song.

Disagree, I think. My hair has always been long but I sometimes wish I'd have the courage to cut it to shoulder length so it's not so much of a pain to maintain. But my husband likes it long and I honestly don't think I'd look very pretty with short hair haha. The song you listen to most is not a popular song.

Sometimes but not often.

4,900 miles for long stretches of up to a year for work.

Nice