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@Patchouli we are fortunate on here that everyone is supportive and willing to offer any information about prepping that the other person wants to learn about. I saw how a community came together for gumpy when he was in trouble and helped to the best of their ability, some with cash, some with helpful information and a lot with love and genuine concern. We have a great community here thanks to everyone.
 
Patchouli said:
thanks, baby girl. It is nice to read kind words on crappy days. Like today. Actually days are okay, it's nights what get to me. But I digress.

I haven't scouted around on many forums at all. One I was on before this one got to the point where people were bullies, argumentative, insulting. I check back in there once in a blue moon, it has grown a lot after it shrunk into near nothingness, but the attitude and some same core people are still there bullying.
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Patch ... they say haters gotta hate. Sometimes you just have to leave toxic people behind

You have been nothing but a sweetheart in the time I have been here.
 
Bacpacker said:
That right IK.
Timmie has the right idea.
Lady, I dont smoke a pipe but I am old and got a beard. Lol
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I don’t have a beard because I like them and my wife doesn’t ... so we compromised. I can still like them but can’t have one.

I don’t smoke a pipe either but confess that I love the smell of a good pipe tobacco.
 
I wasn't allowed a beard or long hair when I lived at home so now I have both.
wife's nephew used to have long hair but now dosent, his current wife says he's banned from having long hair!! hmmmh! I wonder how long that marriage is going to last(his 3rd her 2nd).
 
The day the Aircraft carrier was leaving a guy I didn't recognise walked into the shop. I asked if he needed something and he said no. It was one of shop crew, I had never seen him clean shaven. He was the ugliest guy I had ever seen. He said his wife only let him shave when he went to sea and he had to have his beard when he returned.
 
My daughter has a friend, a man almost my age, whom I had only seen with long hair and a long beard. He had come into some money and decided to not work for a couple years, and not shave or cut his hair during that time.

One day, I was at my daughter's place and a man knocked on the door. I did not know who it was. I told my daughter that there was a man at the door I did not know. It was her older friend. He was applying for work and was clean shaven and had a new hair cut. Amazing what a difference that makes.
 
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When we got married my honey had a mustache with extremely pokey but long hairs, kissing him was like kissing a wire bristle brush, he also had a ponytail. Eventually he cut his hair, eventually he shaved. He grew a beard a few times, that was ok.
People change, some become more tolerant, and some more intolerant. Facial hair and ponytails should be the least of our worries.
 
The Innkeeper said:
Not an earth shattering question, more curiosity than anything else, rightly, or wrongly, as I read the posts on this forum or others, I form a mental picture of what a person is like. Not so much physically, but more along the lines of I could work with this person, or I would never hire that person. Maybe it’s this person can teach me a lot or that person is an arrogant so and so that I want to choke (those I usually put on ignore pretty quickly). I know internet/forum personas may not match with the person in real life but I do categorize them.
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Knowing Sewing Creations is from Australia causes me to read her posts with an Aussie accent.
I am always surprised to learn someones real age age on the forum. I usually have a different mental picture based on their writings.
I think that in person, half of the forum would not care for me and vice versa. That's America I guess.
 
From the time I was about 14 until basic training, I had a moustache (such as a teen can grow) after basic I grew it back. My wife said she has never seen me without so I shaved it, that lasted one day, from then until about a year ago I always had a moustache or goatee (never the full beard). My eldest is pushing 40 and he has never seen me without facial hair. As a kid and young adult it made me look older, nor the absence makes me look 10 years younger. Many people don’t recognize me without it.
 
The Innkeeper said:
Not an earth shattering question, more curiosity than anything else, rightly, or wrongly, as I read the posts on this forum or others, I form a mental picture of what a person is like. Not so much physically, but more along the lines of I could work with this person, or I would never hire that person. Maybe it’s this person can teach me a lot or that person is an arrogant so and so that I want to choke (those I usually put on ignore pretty quickly). I know internet/forum personas may not match with the person in real life but I do categorize them.

It came to mind today as I was reading posts on another forum and found myself thinking “if you worked for me I’d fire you” or in “reality tv” terms I’d “vote them off the island.” I haven’t found many like that here.

There are things I could learn from the annoying ones, it’s just harder to read them/listen to them.

If you do this, please don’t tell me who the annoying ones are, my feelings might get hurt. I am not fishing for compliments, I just wondered if I was normal or not.
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You know, I never thought about it but I guess I do have a mental image of the members. Of course I've seen pics that a few have shared here or at other forums I've been part of. But I guess the images come from what y'all say that you do...BlueZ is a muscle man, because I read his fitness posts. Amish I always see in a long dress, just because of the name. And LazyL, well that avatar kind of overpowers any mental image I can make of you. :D and I always imagine Backlash on a ship wearing dungarees.

Most of you know what I look like - it's in the top left corner. No mystery here.
 
Sewingcreations15 said:
@Amish Heart ample cleavage is not good when your head is stuck between them let's just say that ;) .
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Not sure I agree with that.
I had a long discussion with school kids on a train from Fremantle to Perth. I said I liked their accent and they said it was me with the accent. One little girl finally said it was their country so I had the accent. She won the discussion.
 
Spikedriver said:
You know, I never thought about it but I guess I do have a mental image of the members. Of course I've seen pics that a few have shared here or at other forums I've been part of. But I guess the images come from what y'all say that you do...BlueZ is a muscle man, because I read his fitness posts. Amish I always see in a long dress, just because of the name. And LazyL, well that avatar kind of overpowers any mental image I can make of you. :D and I always imagine Backlash on a ship wearing dungarees.

Most of you know what I look like - it's in the top left corner. No mystery here.
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40 years ago you would have been correct. Today it's strictly blue jeans so I guess you aren't far off.
 
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