Hi everyone, newbie here planning to move to Jakarta despite lockdown!

[El_Goretto]

Seems like it's open season, so let me chime in with half tongue in cheek.

A new low for the forum if you ask me......several members ganging up to tell another to change his style of answering, so we should all become happy robots answering the same way.

Oh please. So it's ok for Snpark and others to criticize the new member asking an innocent question but nobody is allowed to criticize snpark? There is no logic in this.

This forum has plenty of avenues for one to express their personality. Picking on a newbie is certainly not an attractive personality trait.

Some of the old timers may be sick of answering the same questions over and over but I am personally sick of some old timers always complaining about newbies ad nauseum.

Especially when the hypocrisy on display is so blinding: if dealing with newbies and so-called stupid questions is such a pain, I fail to see how spending one's days commenting on FB groups and tabloid comment sections is going to help at all unless one is deriving enjoyment from being an internet asshole or from the attention. In internet speak, such people are called trolls.

 

[Bad_azz]

We usually all agree to disagree. I look at it as Pusp doing mod duty and BA being BA, our resident mother who isn't afraid to smack us in the head if we act up. This is one of the more chilled out forums I have been part of. The only time we zip and shut it is if Atlantis speaks. He the the all knowing Oz.

 

[snpark]

I hereby nominate El Dorado to answer all newbie posts from now on yay lol

 

[ChrisTex]

But you are still 29. I don't care what Pusp says.

I hereby nominate El Dorado to answer all newbie posts from now on yay lol

I second that.

 

[El_Goretto]

I hereby nominate El Dorado to answer all newbie posts from now on yay lol

 

[Puspawarna]

But you are still 29. I don't care what Pusp says.

I've met BA in real life. She does not look old!

 

[Bad_azz]

I've met BA in real life. She does not look old!

Cheque's in the post :*

 

[ChrisTex]

I've met BA in real life. She does not look old!

That isn't what you told me.

Age is just a number anyways.

 

[Bad_azz]

BTW ... interesting lil fact.When I finally plucked up courage to post in a forum- the other one...
My initial greeters were waarmie & pimpin hahaha
& they were, erm 'lovely'.

 

[Bad_azz]

That isn't what you told me.

Age is just a number anyways.

oooh-errr what has she been saying behind my back the lil gamelan-hag

 

[harryopal1]

Age is just a number anyways.

Yes, but the numbers do add up. One day I was 47. I blinked and bloody hell, I was sixtyish. Blinked again and now I am 81.

I guess the secret to staying young is not to blink.

 

[Bad_azz]

Yes, but the numbers do add up. One day I was 47. I blinked and bloody hell, I was sixtyish. Blinked again and now I am 81.

I guess the secret to staying young is not to blink.

Absolutely, I haven't blinked since I was 17 & the other thing is to never look in mirrors, because they hide other people behind the glass & try to con you that it is you.

 

[Puspawarna]

BTW ... interesting lil fact.When I finally plucked up courage to post in a forum- the other one...
My initial greeters were waarmie & pimpin hahaha
& they were, erm 'lovely'.

Mine were waarmie and kingwilly! They were, as you so kindly put it, 'lovely.'

I'm hard to get rid of, though, so I persevered. And ended up with lots of good feelings toward them both, I might add.

 

[ChrisTex]

I lurk on the old forum, but it is a ghost town for the most part.

 

[dafluff]

It's all good. Someone has to be the arsehat / voice of reason etc etc

Well, one of two ain't bad.

 

[macvert]

Well, one of two ain't bad.

Reminds me of that Meatloaf song
Edit .... Oh just great, now I'm going to bed with that crap stuck in my brain

 

[snpark]

Meatloaf also appearing on JP thread

Soon MNCI will want royalties

 

[waarmstrong]

I am too lazy to go back to learn what all the fuss is about. Sounds vaguely familiar. Nice to be remembered, though, but please get my name right, its spelled, asshole.

 

[Puspawarna]

I am too lazy to go back to learn what all the fuss is about. Sounds vaguely familiar. Nice to be remembered, though, but please get my name right, its spelled, asshole.

In my case I posted an unofficial job listing about an opening at AmCham and was accused of...gosh, I forget exactly what, but some flavor of corrupt behavior.

The thing was, when I became more familiar with how that message board operated, I could totally understand the concern, even though I was in fact innocent.

 

[El_Goretto]

The thing was, when I became more familiar with how that message board operated, I could totally understand the concern, even though I was in fact innocent.

Stockholm syndrome ?