What should you be doing less of?

[Susan]

I believe I might see if I can do a little punishing of mine tonight.

[Emily]

I've started taking milk thistle to try and help mine out. Not sure how effective it is when taken with wine...

[Brittany]

watching tv. and reading.

[Amy]

I still think that in 100 years medical science will learn that the liver was actually a muscle that improves the more you work it.

At least that's what I'm putting on my tombstone when I die of cirrhosis.

[Susan]

Kroger Night Time Cold and Flu. I have been in a headache infested stupor complete with the shakes for the greater half of this day. No wonder you need to show I.D. to buy the stuff.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

This is a really bad flu year. Chicago's emergency rooms are full of flu patients. A bunch of hospitals have gone on bypass because all their beds are filled.

[Susan]

Lobstergirl wrote: "This is a really bad flu year. Chicago's emergency rooms are full of flu patients. A bunch of hospitals have gone on bypass because all their beds are filled."

A guy that works with my BIL died on New Years Eve. He had the flu and was badly dehydrated. Bad, bad stuff.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Scary.

[ms.petra]

Facebook

[Susan]

Facebook is becoming more and more pointless to me. No one really communicates with anyone. Besides seeing videos of my niece and nephew, I really see no reason to log on.

[smetchie]

Finally, music has embraced Facebook and I can find out about bands on there. There was a huge lag between Myspace and Facebook but it seems to be rolling now. Prior to that, it only annoyed the crap out of me.

[Jim]

Kyle ~Special K: Rebel Leader~ wrote: "Posting in this group, so I've been told."

If you could keep away from the penis references or innuendo for awhile I think that all may be good, but you go on streaks where that seems to be all that you post, and it seems to wear thin. You have some good things to share so if you could make a concerted effort to stay above board I think that it would be a win win.

[Susan]

How true about the Myspace vs. Facebook lag! I was not aware bands could be found on there, now. That is a good reason to log on.

[Susan]

Kyle, I think you are just being too sensitive about the whole thing. You do have some good stuff to say. I can appreciate a good innuendo or two but for it to be humorous for me, it needs to happen with less frequency and have an element of the unexpected.

Sorry about all my swears, Dubs! I will try to be better about them. I am so good around little but apparently the sensor does not travel down to the fingers.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Kyle ~Special K: Rebel Leader~ wrote: "However, being told that people dread my posts and that I post too often..."

Yeah, personally I feel this is rude.

If someone doesn't like the majority of your posts, they can always block you. Perhaps that is a better solution, better tailored to the individual, than constantly telling you you are annoying, which is a stance I find bullying, myself.

I'm sure there are many people who read posts from various different people, are either mildly or majorly annoyed by them, and then simply move on without comment.

I've been seeing an increase in bullying here in TC and I'm not a fan.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Perhaps you should treat members like adults, which they are, rather than 6 year olds. If making sexually suggestive or dirty or off-color posts is something mods find inappropriate, then it should be against the rules. But all this "tsk-tsking" and giving a member "a lot of rope" is treating them like a wayward child for doing things that are not actually against any rules.

Our own mod Sally has posted many penis-related comments, including pictures of penises, and she has not to my knowledge been reprimanded by mods. (Which she should not be.)

I've been called anal (by you) for various posts, but the modding of late has been extremely uptight. Maybe the mods need to relax a little, or go on vacation.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

But people have left the group because they felt bullied. (Not referring to Kyle or Ed/Rock.) The bullying was coming from a combination of mods and non-mods.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Perhaps blocking me would help you there.

[Heidi]

smetchie wrote: "Finally, music has embraced Facebook and I can find out about bands on there. There was a huge lag between Myspace and Facebook but it seems to be rolling now. Prior to that, it only annoyed the cr..."

I love Smetchie's music post likes... For real!

[Susan]

I can only imagine how good they are, Heidi.

[smetchie]

I love YOU, Heidi.

[Sarah]

Being a musician on facebook is really annoying, unfortunately, since unless you're paying to broadcast, anything you post is only seen by a fraction of the people who have clicked 'like.' When I click 'like' on a band I assume I'm going to see their posts, but that isn't the case at all.

[Sarah]

They pulled a bit of a bait-and-switch. They said authors and musicians etc. should have 'pages' not regular accounts. They encouraged us to migrate people over and get people to like our pages. Then they sent out notices that not everyone who liked our pages would see our pages unless we paid for a full broadcast. There's some additional box to click if you want to see all updates from that artist, and if you don't click that box, you'll only see some smaller portion.

[Amy]

Sarah Pi wrote: "They pulled a bit of a bait-and-switch. They said authors and musicians etc. should have 'pages' not regular accounts. They encouraged us to migrate people over and get people to like our pages. Th..."

Do you have a FB page, Sarah? I'd love to check it out.

[Sarah]

Just add an "nsker" to the Pi and my music page comes up, but to be honest I haven't kept up with keeping everything on it. My .com has songs and fiction even though it needs some updating as well.

[Aliyah]

Stop watching crappy movies/TV-series and reading crappy books

[Félix]

Welcome to TC, Aliyah.

[Jim]

I second that welcome.

[~Geektastic~]

Worrying.

Also, welcome Aliyah.

[Susan]

::sticks tongue out at FeLarryix::

Hey Aliyah!

[Aliyah]

~Geektastic~ wrote: "Worrying.

Also, welcome Aliyah."

Thanks, but it was 2012 that made me decide to detox from mindless junk immediately.

My top list of tripe of 2012 is as follows:

1) Batman: TDKR
2) The Amazing Spiderman
3) The Vampire Diaries
4) How I Met Your Mother

video games is Mass Effect 3

books that I read in 2012 is The Lovely Bones

[mark]

i'm very happy to see that someone else does not like The Vampire Diaries, even in a so-bad-it's-good kinda way. i literally cannot stand even looking at Ian Somerhalder. he upsets my stomach. that lead girl whatshername is even worse.

[Aliyah]

mark wrote: "i'm very happy to see that someone else does not like The Vampire Diaries, even in a so-bad-it's-good kinda way. i literally cannot stand even looking at Ian Somerhalder. he upsets my stomach. that..."

yeah, they completely Bellafied her (i.e. made her into Bella). Somerhalder is a pussy IMHO. There's better looking guys and actors for the matter. E.g. Jake Gyllenhaal.

[mark]

agree, especially with the Jake Gyllenhaal part.

[Susan]

Donnie Darko!

[mark]

one of my all-time favorites! i really identify with that lead character. or at least i used to. still do? i dunno.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

Me too. I've been eating too much chocolate.

[Félix]

Okay, folks. Lay off the junk. It's poison, I tell ya, it's poison.

[Susan]

But it tastes so good.

Why does it taste so good?!

[Félix]

Because sin is always pleasurable. Didn't you learn that in Sunday School?

[Susan]

No. I am a true heathen. I have only been to church a handful of times.

We won't discuss what I have done in church parking lots.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

It doesn't all taste so good. Half the time I buy something that I hope will be delicious, it's deeply average. The orange cranberry scones I bought at Target are very average.

[Susan]

Okay. I concede. It doesn't all taste so good. Then there are the times I overindulge and feel horrible afterward.

But most of the time it is rapture.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

The Frontera Mango Lime Salsa is not what I was hoping for.

[Lobstergirl, el principe]

The only candy that has met my needs in the past month is Hershey's Cherry Cordial Kisses which are now vanished from the face of the earth. Gone, I tell you, gone. Apparently they are not part of the Valentine's Day seasonal candy array.

[Félix]

I am also a heathen. Church gives me the willies. (Our Australian friends will probably comment on that. The "willies" part, I mean.)

[Susan]

Yes, I have extreme issues with church. Yet, I am a somewhat spiritual person. Does that make any sense? Probably not.

We need to find those cherry cordial kisses for LG! I feel a curt and terse letter to the Hershey Corporation in the making.

[Félix]

It makes perfect sense. It's all the churchy dogma that I can't stand.

[Aliyah]

Susan wrote: "Donnie Darko!"

Kicks Inception's ass!

Also something I should do less of is watching Christopher Nolan films

[Susan]

Félix wrote: "It makes perfect sense. It's all the churchy dogma that I can't stand."

Yup. Exactly!