Meandering threads

ha!

I think for some people this is the only place they can even dream of running things.

Best of Royal Canajun luck to 'em.

i guess i get it, but i at the same time i don't really get it either

i just enjoy the discourse, no matter if it stays or strays

i believe mr. marvin said it best

Because their ego is likely tied up in their post. Or they're control freaks. Or they have a one track mind. Or they don't like interruptions. Or they think it's disrespectful.

well bimbo, it's not so much that I disagree with you but every now and then then someone asks what for them is a question of seeming importance and instead of getting what might be helpful answers get a pocketful of hair (so to speak)

You saying I'm full of hot air, dick?

yes, and quite often.

Takes one to know one, bubba.

Well you know. Ask a serious question and get one or two serious answers. After that, we're off to the races

I thunk it up and went to the trouble of posting it. I feel a certain ownership and a sense of responsibility. Kinda like a host.

Since I thunk it up and went to the trouble of posting it, I probably am interested in hearing what people have to say about the topic.

Some threads take unexpected directions. Fine. Some threads get comments from smart asses and joiks. Also fine. Some threads I just let go.

But there are some threads I care about. Why? Because I do. Maybe they bring some brightness to my day. I will step in and make sure they stay on topic as best I can.

Sorry to be offering a serious response. You asked. I answered.

I think of A2K as a pub that only has conversation. So I prefer threads that wander anywhichway just as pub conversations do. Or even bus-stop conversations. Come to think of it all conversations are like that except those where some jumped up meatball thinks they are conducting a choir. It just goes faster anywhichway in pubs.

And it's how people get to know each other. There's a vast array of cues in such conversations and women are faster at picking up on them than men.

And there's not a lot of point in having conversations with people you don't want to get to know.

And just like in pubs small groups form of people who are getting to know each other better and better and they overlap in other conversations as occasion arises and sometimes even swap places. Some leave. Some get the sulkies. Some pass away. Some walk across the marble floor and a voice from the gambling room calls her "to come on in." (I cannot pretend to such excellence--I stole it from Dylan's wonderful song Black Diamond Bay.)

"She smiles, and she walks the other way,
As the last ship sails and the moon fades away
From Black Diamond Bayeeay.

I think that's right. This is hardly a thread for staying on topic.

To me, it depends on the individual thread. Some ought to stay close to the initiator's intent. Others should be fair game. You know it when you see it, or assume you do.

I agree with Edgar.



I frequently do...

Me too.

I don't.

Me too.

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http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/WebPages/LBUN-5QF86G

wowser! I 100% agree with Mr. Spendius.

Definitely a diary entry

I'm no fan of elongated serious thread destruction. Distraction I get. Well, I should.