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  • Doozergirl
    Doozergirl Posts: 34,082 Forumite
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    edited 11 January 2022 at 11:43PM
    What is a bit upsetting is that I think some people that have disappeared might be neurodivergent and a bit blunt in their nature, with no harm intended. 

    People like PasturesNew who was almost totally isolated in the real world.  I think she may have found a home on a forum that sprung up as a result of some
    boards here being shut during lockdown, but I forgot the name of it.  
    Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
  • elsien
    elsien Posts: 36,478 Forumite
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    Pastures always made me laugh, I used to look forwards to her posts. She did join the other forum but stopped posting there a while back, 
    All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.

    Pedant alert - it's could have, not could of.
  • FreeBear
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    canaldumidi said: and later I added a (I thought) light-hearted post about taking in a suitcase of cash.

    Nah. Suitcases of cash is so last century. It is bin bags or bags for life for smaller quantities
    Any language construct that forces such insanity in this case should be abandoned without regrets. –
    Erik Aronesty, 2014

    Treasure the moments that you have. Savour them for as long as you can for they will never come back again.
  • YoungBlueEyes
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    elsien said:
    Pastures always made me laugh, I used to look forwards to her posts. She did join the other forum but stopped posting there a while back, 
    The other forum…? 
    Shout out to people who don't know what the opposite of in is.
  • Bendy_House
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    Doozergirl said:
    YoungBlueEyes said:
    Yeah AdrianC, DavidMcn (..?), also where's davesnave? God they did make me laugh!
    Omg.  Davesnave doesn't exist. How on earth did he get banned?  He is lovely!

    We're being picked off!   This is ridiculous.  

    AdrianC, I can see how that might have happened (it wasn't me!) but I miss telling him off 😕

    Reports of @davidmcn's death may be exaggerated 

    Adrian and the two Daves gorn?!! Surely not thrown off?
    Perhaps just having a deserved break... :-(
  • getmore4less
    getmore4less Posts: 46,882 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper I've helped Parliament

    As said everyone comes new to a subject at some time that's why we have schools, apprentice, university, mentors etc.

    All involve people sharing their experience repeatedly with someone new.

    As you get older you can start to take your own knowledge for granted and see it as obvious then can't understand why others don't know such basic stuff.


  • Norman_Castle
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    YoungBlueEyes said:
    elsien said:
    Pastures always made me laugh, I used to look forwards to her posts. She did join the other forum but stopped posting there a while back, 
    The other forum…? 

    https://moneyskiversarms.createaforum.com/index.php

  • Doozergirl
    Doozergirl Posts: 34,082 Forumite
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    edited 12 January 2022 at 11:54AM
    Bendy_House said:
    Doozergirl said:
    YoungBlueEyes said:
    Yeah AdrianC, DavidMcn (..?), also where's davesnave? God they did make me laugh!
    Omg.  Davesnave doesn't exist. How on earth did he get banned?  He is lovely!

    We're being picked off!   This is ridiculous.  

    AdrianC, I can see how that might have happened (it wasn't me!) but I miss telling him off 😕

    Reports of @davidmcn's death may be exaggerated 

    Adrian and the two Daves gorn?!! Surely not thrown off?
    Perhaps just having a deserved break... :-(
    A break that involves not having an account to look at?  Posts by Dave and Adrian go to dead ends when you click on the username.  

    davidmcn is still here. 
    Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
  • AlexMac
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    Doozergirl said:
    What is a bit upsetting is that I think some people that have disappeared might be neurodivergent and a bit blunt in their nature, with no harm intended. 

    People like PasturesNew who was almost totally isolated in the real world.  I think she may have found a home on a forum that sprung up as a result of some
    boards here being shut during lockdown, but I forgot the name of it.  
    Oh dear DZ; if, as it seems, you're leaving, my Virtual World will be a poorer place, but thanks for all your posts; I've always enjoyed them.

    But this thread, with its mention of people being effectively cancelled, intrigues me?

    I'm obviously a real lightweight, 'cos although I used to make the odd contribution here (usually smugly referencing my pre-disposition for shared freeholds in flats, or my wish for a time-machine so I could warp back and buy more of the various 3-4 bedroom Victorian wrecks I've bought and lived in over the years, for what now seem unbelievable prices; £10k in 1975, £34k in 1985, £67k in 2007, in inner city South London slum areas which have now become magically bijou...) I've never been threatened with expulsion...   But then I've never been a reliable or frequent contributor as is eveidenced by my coming late to this thread? 

    So Vaya con Dios y Gracias, Doozergirl...  Pastures new?
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