Group Announcement: This is No Longer a Private Group, Hippies.

[Susan]

Thank you!

[Félix]

Beautiful boy.

[Susan]

Awww, guys!

Dubs, that is hilarious about your brother! What in the world was he saying to those girls, I wonder?

It is funny, there is much controversy over who little looks like.

[Susan]

Ha! That is so funny. Girls do love a mystery. Funny that they surmised his short answers spoke of the essence of their souls.

Little is a nonstop jabber jaw of baby babble sprinkled with recognizable words. If right now is any indication of how he will be when he is older, he will never be laconic (no thanks to me).

[Jammies]

*hugs Little and Suz*

*gives mods a standing ovation*

[Félix]

I like them thar mods.

[Susan]

::Hugs Jammies::

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^A hug from little.

[Aliyah]

BunWat wrote: "Aliyah wrote: "what does this mean? exactly? I remember that I had to get TC's approval before I signed up?"

Hi Aliyah, this is how things work around here. There are eight moderators, you can te..."

BunWat wrote: "Aliyah wrote: "what does this mean? exactly? I remember that I had to get TC's approval before I signed up?"

Hi Aliyah, this is how things work around here. There are eight moderators, you can te..."

Hey Bunwat, thanks for highlighting some important points

[Susan]

I like everything you said but this "If I left the board, I'd do so and no one would notice or care and that is life as well" which I am certain is very far from the truth.
So put that back in your time machine and drop it off at the land of Not True and then come back and stay.

[[deleted user]]

((hugs the Tardis))

[Susan]

As always, you are miles and miles ahead of me Z.

[janine]

Gail, your avatar was confusing enough before, but now you look even more like Susan. I only noticed because you told Susan little is adorable :)

[Phil]

Oh come on, she doesn't look anything like Susan!

[Susan]

Yes. We look nothing alike.

[Susan]

::Glomps the becrapus out of Phil::

[janine]

I'm dizzy now.

[Jim]

janine wrote: "I'm dizzy now."

Time to stop drinking.

[janine]

Jim wrote: "janine wrote: "I'm dizzy now."

Time to stop drinking."

I haven't had a drop yet today.

[janine]

Probably.

[Jim]

BunWat wrote: "Time to start drinking?"

Well if it's not time to stop it must be time to start!

[janine]

I will start then. I should also celebrate the surprise 10% raise I got today - which sounds a lot more impressive than it actually is, I just went from 10,09 an hour to 11,18 an hour.

[Heidi]

Misha wrote: "I learned yesterday that I have to take a week of unpaid furlough. Also cause for drinking, I think."

FUCKERS!!!

[janine]

Fuckers indeed, but I did learn a new word from that.

[janine]

I've decided on my drink for the night: Beerenburg (made by adding herbs to jenever) + Coke, which I've been craving lately. Must be the cold weather.

[Sarah]

A ten percent raise is nothing to sneeze at!
*raises a glass with janine*
(but not Beerenburg + Coke)

[Jim]

Congrats J9

[janine]

Especially if they're a surprise. No sneezing here, I'm just amused.

[Susan]

Yay for raises!!

Boo to the fuckers for unpaid furloughs!!

::looks at clock to see how much longer until drinking time::

[Jonathan]

Congratulations, Janine. Raises are very good news.

[[deleted user]]

Congrats Janine!

Yay to dizzy drinking!

Hearts, Phil!

[Susan]

I like the twist Jim put on things, too.

::Awards points to Jim for creativity::

[smetchie]

I like the word "becrapus."

[Félix]

It's a good one.

[Susan]

Becrapus might be my newest favorite word.

[evie]

I raise my glass to Janine's raise!

[Félix]

Hear hear!

[Cam]

Heidi wrote: "This is a very bizarre thread. What was your motivation in posting this, LG? It seems very aggressive to have started a discussion of this sort in the way you did. I take no issue with making an..."

I did not feel that lobster girl's posting was very aggressive. She was only stating a fact which I was unaware of.

[Scout]

Cam, I agree. I'd rather be aware of what's happening.

[[deleted user]]

Barb wrote: "Excellent explanation, Misha.

Rosanne, in November and December we were having a hard time with a particular person who kept setting up account after account and joining the group with the sole pu..."

Guilty. Sorry again, Sooz.

I for one am thrilled the mods took some action. And, I'm not really bothered whether they announced it or not. It isn't a secret; it's posted at the top of the TC homepage. Plus, that's why we have mods, to watch our back.

Thanks, guys. Ed was making me twitchy.

[[deleted user]]

Gail wrote: "You were awesome Susan. There was no way I would have survived the Ed bashing you received."



She finally met Ed, then she kinda understood...but was totally offended.

*hangs head*

Sorry again.

*wipes tear*

[[deleted user]]

Scout wrote: "Yay. This is a private 18+ group. Let's keep all those OTHERS out. I feel much more comfortable now."

Once again...participation and membership in TC is not compulsory. If you don't like it/us, you don't HAVE to be here.

*sighs for the hundredth time*

I just don't get it.

[Susan]

Yes. Twitchy. And for a hot second, cyber-stalked. But maybe that was just paranoia.

Ames, I think you began the earliest defending of me. And, you know, I bound, splash and what not. :)

Though, for the record, I was clearly much cooler than Ewhateverhisnameis could ever be or was or anything.

[[deleted user]]

Yeah, that came through pretty loud and clear. I only doubted for a sec.

BTW, little is seriously adorable! I just finally made it all the way through this thread. So sinkin cute. If I was you that lil guy would get away with murder just cause every time I tried to get stern those big eyes would melt my heart!!

[Susan]

Thank you! He laughs at me when I get mad. Laughs! He is a pretty sweet little thing most of the time. He also knows right when to give me a hug and pats my back while doing it. He is such a sugar. If you do happen to tell him no he throws himself on the floor. That's it. He doesn't make any noise. It is so hard not to burst out laughing when he does it.

[[deleted user]]

When I was a nanny that was my #1 problem, maintaining a stern face when they were clearly being hilarious...but, you couldn't let them know that or they wouldn't learn. Sometimes I had to hide it behind a cough.

[Susan]

I do a quick turn of my back and tell him I don't even care about that. But, man, is it funny. He sometimes just starts looking around like he has forgotten why he is even on the floor. Ha!

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Amelia wrote: "Scout wrote: "Yay. This is a private 18+ group. Let's keep all those OTHERS out. I feel much more comfortable now."

Once again...participation and membership in TC is not compulsory. If you don't like it/us, you don't HAVE to be here."

Yes, we all know participation and membership is voluntary. Also, members are allowed to express their opinions. As the group box says, "Be authentic. Get mad." Let's not browbeat anyone for being authentic, getting mad, or expressing an opinion that may not necessarily be a majority opinion. Let's not inform people that if they don't like something, they can leave. They're aware they can leave. Presumably they are members here because they want to be, and because they enjoy interacting with other members, or just expressing their opinions, or hanging out. Let's not bully people.

[[deleted user]]

I'm the bully?

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Amelia wrote: "I'm the bully?"

I'm not calling you a bully.

But what I will say is that encouraging people to leave the group, unless they are actually a troll, is borderline bullying. I'm not going to call it bullying, but to me it is approaching bullying.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

I think it's presumptuous of anyone to assume Scout is not enjoying the group or having fun. It's entirely possible that she is enjoying it and having fun.

There's also no rule you have to be positive and cheerful all the time. Or ever. If you want that to be a rule, make it a rule.

We don't all have to be alike in every way.