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Emma wrote: "Dorothy wrote: "Emma wrote: "🙄🤣"🤔🤨"
Sorry, I just think it funny that you responded to Meg on here when you could just tell her. 😂"
Maybe if I don't get online as much we'll actually start talking to each other in person! 😋🤣
Pamela wrote: "Dorothy wrote: "Oh, so that explains why the Christmas Special won't be on anymore. I thought maybe they considered it offensive. Thankfully, we don't have TV anyway, and watch everything online, s..."So do you know what on earth was inappropriate about it?! Good grief is right!
Meg wrote: "Emma wrote: "Dorothy wrote: "Emma wrote: "🙄🤣"🤔🤨"
Sorry, I just think it funny that you responded to Meg on here when you could just tell her. 😂"
Maybe if I don't get online as much we'll actual..."
That is so horrible! 🤣
That really is aggravating about them thinking Charlie Brown that way. It must be too good of a show for people these days.
Emma wrote: "That really is aggravating about them thinking Charlie Brown that way. It must be too good of a show for people these days."Yeah, I cannot grasp the way people must think these days!
Meg wrote: "Emma wrote: "That really is aggravating about them thinking Charlie Brown that way. It must be too good of a show for people these days."Yeah, I cannot grasp the way people must think these days!"
I know, it's so sad.
AND I HAVE HAD IT WITH GR!!!
Emma wrote: "AND I HAVE HAD IT WITH GR!!!"Ugh, yeah it's kicked me off 3 or 4 times! And it's driving me crazy not knowing what my friends are reading! 😂
Meg wrote: "Emma wrote: "AND I HAVE HAD IT WITH GR!!!"Ugh, yeah it's kicked me off 3 or 4 times! And it's driving me crazy not knowing what my friends are reading! 😂"
Yeah, I've been kicked so many times!!! 😠
What do you mean? You can't see what we're reading?
Emma wrote: "Meg wrote: "Emma wrote: "AND I HAVE HAD IT WITH GR!!!"Ugh, yeah it's kicked me off 3 or 4 times! And it's driving me crazy not knowing what my friends are reading! 😂"
Yeah, I've been kicked so m..."
I haven't had a any new updates in my news feed for over 48 hours!
Meg wrote: "Emma wrote: "Meg wrote: "Emma wrote: "AND I HAVE HAD IT WITH GR!!!"Ugh, yeah it's kicked me off 3 or 4 times! And it's driving me crazy not knowing what my friends are reading! 😂"
Yeah, I've bee..."
Oh my! My updates aren't right, definitely, but I can still see what everyone else is reading. Well, you know what I'm reading...🙄🤣
Emma wrote: "Meg wrote: "Emma wrote: "Meg wrote: "Emma wrote: "AND I HAVE HAD IT WITH GR!!!"Ugh, yeah it's kicked me off 3 or 4 times! And it's driving me crazy not knowing what my friends are reading! 😂"
Ye..."
Well I mean, I can see what others are reading if I go to their pages and look but it's not showing in the updates.
Well I mean, I can see what others are reading if I go to their pages and look but it's not showing in the updates.Hmm...🤔 Strange. I can't understand why it's working in different ways for different people. I think your notifications are just going on strike with you. 🥺🤣
Meg wrote: "Pamela wrote: "Dorothy wrote: "Oh, so that explains why the Christmas Special won't be on anymore. I thought maybe they considered it offensive. Thankfully, we don't have TV anyway, and watch every..."Well, at the risk of being politically incorrect, I'll tell you what it said online. The fact that Charlie Brown only has one friend of color, which is Franklin, is inappropriate. On the Thanksgiving special, Franklin is seated at the picnic table, on a lawn chair across from the other characters, and that is is inappropriate. The Christmas Special is inappropriate because it is called a Christmas special instead of a "winter holiday" special. Also, the entire Christmas Special is focused on the birth of Jesus Christ, which is politically incorrect. Newsflash..."Christ"mas IS about Jesus' birth, like it or not.
I have no idea why the Great Pumpkin is offensive. Perhaps because the Great Pumpkin is overweight? Oops, I should say "weight-challenged." Or, perhaps it's because Charlie Brown gets rocks in his Trick-or-Treat bag instead of candy. Who knows? Things are really getting out of hand.
Political Correctness is basically censorship, in my opinion. I'm not attacking anything or anyone, but isn't there a fine line between censorship and Communism? Forgive my bluntness, but many of my friends and family members fought against that...a few of them died fighting against it. Have we, as a so-called civilized society, forgotten all about that?
Dwight D. Eisenhower, my favorite President, said it best when he said "Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong."
That's all I have to say about that...for now.
Pammy Jo
Infuriating Madness! Charlie Brown is a tradition, it represents
innocence and family.
What the network did was sold away old
fashioned values in the name of political
correctness.
Be blunt, Pammy!
I'm sick of the p.c. movement telling people
with with decency, values, morality their wrong,
trying intimidating them from speaking up and
taking away individuality with homogenized
thinking. "Don't tread on me!"🐍
Emma wrote: "🤨🧐🤣"I couldn't get the one I really wanted to post...it basically says that in 1776, Americans said "Don't tread on me", and now the be like, "Pwease no steppy!" 🤣
Meg wrote: "Emma wrote: "🤨🧐🤣"I couldn't get the one I really wanted to post...it basically says that in 1776, Americans said "Don't tread on me", and now the be like, "Pwease no steppy!" 🤣"
🤦🏻♀️🤣🤣🤣
I tell ya...the conversations we have on here...😳🤣
Meg wrote: ""They have stepped in it, alright!!!😉😃😄😆🤣😂😁🤫
I know the one you refer to, Meg. The "Gadsden Flag" used by the Continental Marines during the American Revolution..."Don't Tread On Me!" With a rattlesnake beneath those words.
I wanted to share this yesterday, but forgot. My mom and I went grocery shopping and we got in the checkout line with our cart full of groceries. A man came up behind us with his arms full of groceries and no cart. My mom and I turned around and told him to go ahead of us, feeling bad that he had his arms full. He didn't want to at first, but then he finally agreed to go ahead of us.Meanwhile, another checkout opened and the clerk told us to go there. My mom and I started putting our groceries on the conveyer and then the man we had told to go ahead of us came over and stood at our checkout lane. He told the clerk not to finalize our sale yet because he wanted to pay for our groceries! He did just that! He said he appreciated our kindness in letting him go in front of us and he wanted to repay us! With tears in my eyes, I told him I have serious health issues and my mom supports me and it was such a blessing that he paid our grocery bill. He had tears then, too, and said he was especially glad to pay for our groceries, knowing that. He said "God Bless both of you!" I am still emotional about it this morning.
God really does put Angels in our path when we need it most. Anyway, it was the kind of situation that shows us there are still kind and Godly people around us!
Pammy Jo
Oh, that is so wonderful, Pammy! I love hearing stories like that, and it is great to know there are still good, Godly people out there. 🙏🤗💕🙌
Pamela wrote: "I wanted to share this yesterday, but forgot. My mom and I went grocery shopping and we got in the checkout line with our cart full of groceries. A man came up behind us with his arms full of groce..."Such an angel! That was so kind of him, and it's always wonderful to hear about such things. There still are good people out there!
Here ya go, Emma...
Dorothy wrote: "Here ya go, Emma..."
🤦🏻♀️🤣🤣🤣
Meg wrote: "Dorothy wrote: "Here ya go, Emma..."
🤦🏻♀️🤣🤣🤣"
You are not Emma.
Dorothy wrote: "Meg wrote: "Dorothy wrote: "Here ya go, Emma..."
🤦🏻♀️🤣🤣🤣"
You are not Emma."
You woke me up to tell me that?! 🤣
Dorothy wrote: "Here ya go, Emma..."
🤣🤣🤣 We are going to get to that one of these times!! 🤣
Meg wrote: "Dorothy wrote: "Meg wrote: "Dorothy wrote: "Here ya go, Emma..."
🤦🏻♀️🤣🤣🤣"
You are not Emma."
You woke me up to tell me that?! 🤣"
What were you doing in your destiny so early?! 🤨🤣
Emma wrote: "Meg wrote: "Dorothy wrote: "Meg wrote: "Dorothy wrote: "Here ya go, Emma..."
🤦🏻♀️🤣🤣🤣"
You are not Emma."
You woke me up to tell me that?! 🤣"
What were you doing in your destiny so early?! 🤨🤣"
I was quoting Col. Hogan. 😂
Meg wrote: "Emma wrote: "Meg wrote: "Dorothy wrote: "Meg wrote: "Dorothy wrote: "Here ya go, Emma..."
🤦🏻♀️🤣🤣🤣"
You are not Emma."
You woke me up to tell me that?! 🤣"
What were you doing in your destiny ..."
Ohhh...🤣
Well, Emma already knows about this, but I decided to tell the rest of you...I'm just about dying right now! 🤣 I was just reading a verse from a beautiful poem in 'The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady' and was googling the first line to see if I could find the rest of it. Well, it starts out "Like as the thrush..." and when I typed that much the suggested search said, "Like as the thrush, but not itchy"! 🤦🏻♀️🤣
Meg wrote: ""Thanks, Meg!
That was just the fierce snake I had in mind.😋
I received a notice late last night that one person is "following" me on goodreads. I checked it out because I was curious who it might be. The individual has 0 friends. Has 0 books listed. The unnerving thing is that when I checked to see who it was, I was inadvertently linked to a completely inappropriate site! I was shocked, as that has never happened to me on goodreads. Has that ever happened to anyone else? I feel as though I no longer want to use Goodreads.Pamela
Pamela wrote: "I received a notice late last night that one person is "following" me on goodreads. I checked it out because I was curious who it might be. The individual has 0 friends. Has 0 books listed. The unn..."Oh, that's horrible!! I have heard that when GR shut down everyone's notifications awhile back, a lot of people were having that exact problem. So I don't what the deal is!! 😒
Emma wrote: "Pamela wrote: "I received a notice late last night that one person is "following" me on goodreads. I checked it out because I was curious who it might be. The individual has 0 friends. Has 0 books ..."Well, I won't be on Goodreads much for a while. I'm not pleased about it. I have also decided to cut down on my activity with some Groups. I will be leaving a few entirely. I like to spend time on Goodreads to relax and get some enjoyment out of participating. I feel that some groups are not conducive to that. I like to read what I enjoy and not to be made to feel "required" to read certain books and participate if it doesn't interest me. That's happening on some other groups.
Have a good day!🤗
Pamela
Pamela wrote: "Emma wrote: "Pamela wrote: "I received a notice late last night that one person is "following" me on goodreads. I checked it out because I was curious who it might be. The individual has 0 friends...."Aww, how sad! 😔 I'll miss you! 😢🤗💕
Pamela wrote: "I received a notice late last night that one person is "following" me on goodreads. I checked it out because I was curious who it might be. The individual has 0 friends. Has 0 books listed. The unn..."😲😢 I'm sorry that happened to you. I would say best to block that person, if you can.
Pamela wrote: "I received a notice late last night that one person is "following" me on goodreads. I checked it out because I was curious who it might be. The individual has 0 friends. Has 0 books listed. The unn..."Hi Pammy,
The same thing happened to me last year.
I had to block the reprobate.
Another degenerate was using his widower
status to collect women as a dating service.
He had the temerity to be upset because I
rejected his letter of introduction.
Flag and block them. G.R. will take notice
if they find more women are flagging and
blocking the same person.
The best thing to do to safeguard yourself,
and screen people, is to change your settings
to private and on friend invites add a question
(i.e.Why do you want to be my friend) and
accept friends that are in your group- at least
there is a history of that member.
Don't let them frighten you off the very thing
that has brought you new friends.
"Don't Tread on Me" is a strong message for this age.
I just removed them. I didn't see anything about flagging.
I'm still going to go quiet for a time. Too much drama. I have enough of that in everyday life. This used to be the place I came to for pleasant distractions. No longer the case.Pamela
So sorry to hear this, Pammy Jo. I recently changed my profile settings to private, so I don't think anyone can follow me anymore anyway (I do have followers from before I set it to private but they all seem to be legitimate people with similar book tastes).
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That is insane!