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webweaver, I'm envious - the town of your youth sounds idyllic! Did it actually smell of chocolate as well? That would be perfect.
Jolisa - as Richard says - it did and still does. Bournville's a completely magical place, even now. It's always felt to me like a village in a time-warp. I'm sure my childhood there can't have been much different from those kids who were growing up there in, say the 1930s or 40s - well, except for the war, of course :)
George Cadbury certainly did a fabulous job of creating a model village for his workers - and although it's now one of the most popular places to live in Birmingham - and consequently not everyone who lives there works at the factory - it's still as closely aligned with Cadbury's as it ever was.
Don't get me started on Kraft's takeover. It made me cry...
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My entire youth would be a tale of neglect nowadays
*puts hand up too*
Yup, mine as well. Off out with my sister and our mates straight after breakfast to play in the woods, watch horses and cows in the fields, build dens and defend them against attacks from The Boscotts, paddle in the yachting pool, fish for sticklebacks in the stream, ride my bike no-handed, climb trees, fall out of trees...
...back in time for lunch, then off out again, not to be seen again by our parents until well after dark.
We could have been anywhere within an area of a couple of kilometers, and our parents had absolutely no idea where we were. Not as wild and free as Islander's childhood, but for an english kid living in Birmingham, it was pretty cool. 'Course, it was rather a special bit of Birmingham... Google map
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Wait! What? It's been summer? And now it's nearly over???
Dammit! Been working too hard again...
Come to think of it, yes it has been rather nice in Welli over the past few weeks (what I've seen of it during ciggy breaks in between being chained to my computer indoors). Pretty crap before that though.
So in the spirit of all good things punk, here's the Undertones on TOTP doing Here Comes the Summer (although considering I've pretty much missed it, perhaps that should be There Goes the Summer):
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@BenWilson - yup I've done Myers-Briggs - I do it every few years when it occurs to me to do it - and I've gotten pretty much the same reading each time.
I'm a borderline ISFJ/INFJ. I've got strong I (Introvert) and J (Judging) characteristics, somewhat strong F (Feeling) characteristics, and I seem to hover just on the side of S (Sensing) (which means I also exhibit lots of N (iNtuition) characteristics too).
We got quite into Myers-Briggs in an online forum I was in a few years ago. A whole lot of us took the test and we tallied up the percentages of each type. I remember that my type(s) - which aren't especially common (but not totally rare either) - came up at a higher percentage in our forum than is indicated in the general population. This happened with quite a few types - and some others were much lower than in the gen pop.
It seems very likely to me that certain types will appear more often in online communities than others - I would hazard a wild guess that there's a higher percentage of introverts on PAS than in the general community, for example...
@Jackie - glad you liked the blog post!
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@Deborah - I love that article too - it's one of the ones I found when I was googling for source material for my On being an introvert – and faking the extrovert (Part One) blog post a few years ago. That blog post (and Part Two) are still amongst my most-read posts, even after all this time.
I like being an introvert - I can get so much done when I'm in The Zone for a start - even if people do think I'm a little crap at parties - but it took me years to realise that I actually was an introvert - I'd spent so many years faking being an extrovert - but when the penny finally dropped a whole lot of things suddenly made sense - like why, when I was a teacher, I'd been so completely wiped out at the end of each day that I could hardly speak by the time I got home.
Being a geek suits my personality so much better, and it's so much less stressful...
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I'd agree with that Danielle - I've found that when I "live" at a particular forum for a while I start to build up a picture of the main characters on that forum - both through the things they reveal about themselves bit by bit over many months of posting, and also by the style in which they write.
I've been in other forums where particular members changed pseudonyms over time, but pretty much the whole community recognised them almost immediately - even with new names - because their style of writing was still recognisable. It's like your voice or your handwriting - you may change your name but you can't change your writing style so easily.
It's been completely obvious to me that Robbie is the same person as XXX and XXX - the writing styles (and bits of supporting info) are too similar for it not to be the same person - but it's not something I tried to figure out - I just naturally recognised it. That's why your collection of pseudonyms that you have used in this forum can't really be protected or not mentioned or hidden away Robbie - because I think many of us have connected them without even trying.
Linking Islander's real name/pseudonym is completely different because (almost always) she posts as "Islander" on this forum. I wouldn't dream of outing her because that's her choice, and it's important to respect that.
I'm sure some of you know my RL name - I know Russell and Sacha do, for example - and it doesn't worry me if you do - I decided to use webweaver as my name here because that's who I am in lots of other places, and I like having that consistency of persona across the interwebs - but if I had made an effort to separate my RL from my online persona (which I haven't) I would be mighty pissed off if someone outed me. Pointing out that I am webweaver in some places and webweaverToo in others (generally when webweaver is already taken), not so much.
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I too have to do the "lalala I can't hear you" thing in relation to natural disasters that may befall us - otherwise I couldn't even live in NZ, let alone Welli...
Having said that... I do have quite a good collection of useful stuff. My friend works for the gummint in disaster preparedness and we've had quite a few chats about this very subject. He reckons you need to be able to be self-sufficient for at least 7 days, just in case....
I have two of those quick "emergency kits in a bucket" - one's in my house, the other's in the garden shed. They have a bunch of the most obvious emergency stuff in them - you can get them from Mitre10 and suchlike.
Then I have a massive plastic waterproof box container thingy into which over the past couple of years I have shashed all sorts of useful stuff - batteries, spare torches, tobacco, loo roll, toiletries, warm clothes, space blankets, sun block, spare sunnies, sunhats and warm hats, a big first-aid kit and lord knows what else. I have camping gear also, including cooking gear, tents, a gas cooker and gas lantern with a bunch of spare gas cannisters - also carefully packed away so hopefully I can get to it and it won't be all squished.
I reckon I've got enough food for at least a week (I don't eat much), and I have a carton full of bottled water stored away. I also have my very wonderful wind-up/solar-powered transistor radio to keep me connected with the outside world. I've bought these for most of my friends for various Christmases and birthdays as well...
My friend reckons I should also get some of the 15-litre plastic water containers that the City Council sells - he reckons one would probably do me, but I think I might get 4 and store them in various places around the house and garden shed :) You just have to remember to renew the water once a year. You can get them for $10 each from the City Service Centre at 101 Wakefield Street in Welli. WCC emergency management overview
We've talked about what I'd do if the big one hit - where I'd go etc. They recommend that people stay home in the first instance, but if I had to leave he's talked me through how I would get out of Welli and up the coast to his place via backroads (because he's sure the harbourside access would be gone). I'd put the cats in their baskets and wheel them along in a wheelbarrow, along with the rest of my gear. Kewl! Just like The Road! What fun! (not).
He also reckons I need to make a plan with other friends who live nearby so that I wouldn't have to get to his place unless I really had to.
When I'm working somewhere permanently I also have a little store of warm clothes and a pair of comfy shoes somewhere near my desk... just in case...
And then I just don't think about it at all. So I don't freak myself out.
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Absolutely. As long as you let me read it.
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Dude, don't you know you should probably not try the brown acid:
To get back to the warning that I received. You may take it with however many grains of salt that you wish. That the brown acid that is circulating around us is not specifically too good. It is suggested that you stay away from that. Of course it's your own trip. So be my guest, but please be advised that there is a warning on that one, ok?
Personally, I have decided that I must marry both Shelley Bernstein and Rives. As soon as possible, and both together.
In addition, I may possibly begin an ongoing affair with John Resig. Just because.
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Now comes "Islander" ( in his 1865th post)
Gordon - just quietly - I'm pretty sure Islander is a she, not a he. It's not the best idea to assume a person's gender on a forum such as this. There are actually quite a few of us laydeez around here...