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Learning to let go

Wed, 02/27/2008 - 12:31pm — Rick


This cartoon captures perfectly one of the reasons why comments get out of hand. I wish more people could say their piece, and then let it go.

Comments

Wed, 02/27/2008 - 12:38pm — Guglielmo

I saw that this morning and thought the same thing.

Damn funny!
Wed, 02/27/2008 - 12:47pm — JstPlnOnry

That Is A Great Cartoon!

thanks for sharing it!  Maybe it should be prominently placed on the home page permanently for a bit?

 

"A point of view is only a view from a point..." ~ Unknown

Wed, 02/27/2008 - 12:48pm — Laurian

Sweet!

A picture, regardless of how poorly scrawled, paints a thousand words. Let's all tape this to our monitors. Laurian
Wed, 02/27/2008 - 12:57pm — oldtimeydave

Awesome...

Rick this is hilarious. I came across this post moments after I chose to let something go. I deleted a response I had just typed up went back to the home page and bang! Good call...

It is obvious that some people are just out to cause trouble here, rain on our parade and ruin a great community resource . Responding to their baiting will just prolong their behavior and possibly even their membership here.

Ignoring posts we don't agree with might actually speak louder in the long run.

We should make Olyblog T-Shirts with the quote "Just Let it Go"

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Dave White - "Old Timey Dave"
Old Time Cider Blog

Wed, 02/27/2008 - 1:07pm — oldtimeydave

T-Shirts. Hmmmm.

OlyBlog T-shirts might be a great way to help fund the site or reward donations or the like. If that is of interest to the Docents at all let me know, I'd be glad to help or even just point you in the direction of a terrific local resource. You know where to find me.
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Dave White - "Old Timey Dave"
Old Time Cider Blog

Wed, 02/27/2008 - 1:18pm — chad360

OlyBlog logo/icon contest?

B&W...like the ENA (Thanks again from the ENA to K. Finch).

Wed, 02/27/2008 - 1:40pm — oldtimeydave

Totally

I'm not surprised Chad, you got good taste in logos and coffees.

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Dave White - "Old Timey Dave"
Old Time Cider Blog

Wed, 02/27/2008 - 1:08pm — Guglielmo

That would be a particularly funny shirt for the

"Smile if you mastrbate"-sign guy.
Wed, 02/27/2008 - 1:43pm — oldtimeydave

OH NO!!!

I just got that joke...
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Dave White - "Old Timey Dave"
Old Time Cider Blog

Wed, 02/27/2008 - 1:43pm — Anamaria

Hmm, this reminds me of

Hmm, this reminds me of someone I know...
Wed, 02/27/2008 - 4:54pm — Robert Whitlock

letting go

I sense wisdom in this advice.
Thu, 02/28/2008 - 8:11am — oldtimeydave

I would agree

It is funny however that a thread like this that should conern nearly everyone is so dang quiet.
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Dave White - "Old Timey Dave"
Old Time Cider Blog

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 8:18am — Mike

let it go, Davey

nt
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." President Dwight D. Eisenhower April 16, 195

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 8:51am — Merwyn Haskett

Mike, you're wrong and I

Mike, you're wrong and I won't sleep until it's pointed out and believed!

You know I'm kidding, right? I'll buy you a locally-roasted coffee sometime.

You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you!
Tommy Smothers

Mon, 12/27/2010 - 6:25am — tezzer1

Hey, what if I'm wrong, too.

  I could be wrong at the drop of a hat if it got me a free coffee. You buying?

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 8:56am — Sarah

Just let it go

This can be my daily online reminder visual.
Thu, 02/28/2008 - 8:58am — Merwyn Haskett

We should add the soundbite

We should add the soundbite to our computers of Sean Connery telling Harrison Ford to let the Holy Grail go.

You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you!
Tommy Smothers

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 9:02am — Sarah

Good idea

We could have it on timer, say every twenty minutes or so. Or even better somehow wired to a read out of our blood pressure.
Thu, 02/28/2008 - 11:43am — oldtimeydave

Ha ha nice responses I love

Ha ha nice responses I love it. It totally should be the Olyblog mantra right along with "It's okay to be nice". It could diffuse many a thread. The way I see it at least one side of a quarrel will get it and lighten up. You can't perpetuate an arguement with only one side.
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Dave White - "Old Timey Dave"
Old Time Cider Blog

Thu, 02/28/2008 - 4:11pm — Guglielmo

After several days of "just letting it go"

I can see a definite difference. I am no longer trapped in run-on, escalating, comment sparring matches (and neither are my sparring partners). It's really difficult for me to let anyone have the last word, so I haven't been perfect. But I'm sticking with and highly recommending "letting it go." If you write "A" and someone retorts with "B," you really don't need to write "C." It's okay to let it go...liberating, actually. I am no longer a hostage of someone who was wrong on the internets. Then again, this little experiment has some ceteris paribus problems.
Thu, 02/28/2008 - 4:44pm — Rob Richards

ceteris paribus

Gotcha.

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Thu, 02/28/2008 - 4:44pm — Merwyn Haskett

The Last Word

Me: Why must you always have the last word?

You: I don't need the last word. Go ahead, take it, I don't mind.

Me: Thank You

You: You're welcome.

You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you!
Tommy Smothers

Fri, 02/29/2008 - 1:48am — sascha

thank you for saying "you're

thank you for saying "you're welcome"
Fri, 02/29/2008 - 8:36am — Merwyn Haskett

Oh, don't mention it :-)You

Oh, don't mention it :-)

You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!
Friedrich Nietzsche

—

Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you!
Tommy Smothers

Sat, 03/01/2008 - 9:42pm — epersonae

xkcd rawks!

his subject matter is super-nerdy, and of course there's the odd stick-figure style, but I always enjoy his comics.