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Have you had your shots? We don't keep nOObs that don't haev their shots yet...unless they are in the "carries money on them" group, of course... Posts: 15082 | Registered: Jul 2001
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Wow a year ago at this time I had mono. Yeah that's about right mathematically. I don't ever want to get it again though!
(I have a friend who is actually a research subject with doctors all over him because he's gotten it 7 times and doesn't get immunity though he has no other autoimmune disorders)
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less than two months ago I had mono, I guess it's still in my system, but not too bad right now. There is no way I want to get it again, twice would be miserable seven times would be evil.
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I agree with Morbo. (I also had the "yay, Morbo! crap, that was a year ago" reaction). Newbies, and oldbies, get what they give.
Though I was such a weirdo. I didn't check in on any of the threads for newbies when I was a newbie. I don't think I was overly rude most of the time. I'm one of those people who gets in trouble the second they start to do something bad. Like the time I went to 7 11 for lunch in high school and everyone got busted by the cops and I had to do in school suspension. Or the time I started posting as the grinch and it wasn't even December.
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Great, I'm the Descolada. Here I was thinking I was something altogether less sinister. But of course, I understand that newbies can be awful scary. Lurking around the corner, listening to your conversations when you don't even know they're there, and then before you know it, pow! They start talking. "Who the devil is that?" Oh, don't mind me. I'm just the stranger who happened to wander into your living room and join your conversation uninvited. If you promise not to castrate me, I promise not to kill you off one by one until there's only a single poster to fill each ecological niche. Posts: 1814 | Registered: Jul 2004
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the fun thing is, us newbies (like the descolada) can completly change the tone of the message board forever
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Believe me, I have seen it done in the past elsewhere...and seen the oldies of a message board whine that things are not the same...and then flee to a new board only to have the same thing happen again and again. Posts: 1901 | Registered: May 2004
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I just realized to my horror that Telperion the Silver has been landmark avoiding and all the newbies I have squished this week might have been him. Gives a whole new meaning to "That which you do to the least of these, you have done it unto me."
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So if we're the descolada then do we help keep hatrack habitable by controlling global warming or help cooldown/heat-up things when necessary, or something like that? Posts: 32 | Registered: Apr 2004
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quote: So, to be more appropriate to the debates we have had, I propose that a better title for this thread would be The Descolada Theory: How we teat rude newbies.
You nailed it, Icky man. (Though I realize now that you said it a year ago, long before my time.)
There are so many people on Hatrack, it is easy not to get noticed and easy to ignore. As for me, there are plenty of people I don't "know" yet. I read their posts, but their name doesn't really stand out in my mind. Not until something happens that makes them memorable to me.
I think that happens for me with newbies. How do you know if someone will stick around or not, be a solid part of Hatrack? I remember coming back to Hatrack after a hiatus and finding a newbie here, Space Opera, who seemed to be fitting in just like she had always been here. I felt sad that I had missed her "birth" into Hatrack. The things she had to say impressed me, so she really stood out in my mind.
People who come on and are obnoxious might stick out in my mind also, but not in a good way. I like to think that I try to give people the benefit of the doubt though.
Edit: I am snickering right now because I just barely noticed Icarus' typo. *snicker*
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I know a girl named Koi(pronouced like 'guy'), it means "pinky" in Thai. (she was the youngest in her family)
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Slash never called my masculinity in to question either, nor did he eat me, man, now I feel left out.
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