This morning I realized that I’m spending way too much time surfing the web with TMF being one of the main attractions. This darn Covid kept us inside and the WWW was a place of refuge. Spring is in the air, Covid is getting under control, and it’s time to go outside and smell the roses.
Closing lots of boards might be the ticket to get us back to normal lives. It might just improve us Fools!
Denny Schlesinger
I remember when you wrote about the pleasures of living in your new home city, exploring the sites, discovering markets, food, restaurants. Spring seems like a fine time to look around again, see what you missed the first time.
It’s been three years this May since I arrived in Porto and I have explored quite a bit between walking and the great public transport system (metro and tons of busses) which I had avoided during most of the Covid panic. The mask mandates have been relaxed and things are slowly going back to normal. Three Fools have contacted me about visiting Porto.
There is life outside the WWW! Try it on for size. LOL
Denny Schlesinger
Three Fools have contacted me about visiting Porto.
There is life outside the WWW! Try it on for size. LOL
But you may find (if you meet some of these Fools IRL), that the Fool can forge friendships. And that raises the question, would you have met and interacted without TMF?
AC believes that the nonfinancial boards have value
believes that the nonfinancial boards have value
I never said they didn’t. You can meet people everywhere if that’s what you want to do. My problem with online is if it interferes with the real world. If it complements and improves the real world then it’s an asset.
Denny Schlesinger
"This morning I realized that I’m spending way too much time surfing the web with TMF being one of the main attractions. This darn Covid kept us inside and the WWW was a place of refuge. Spring is in the air, Covid is getting under control, and it’s time to go outside and smell the roses.
Closing lots of boards might be the ticket to get us back to normal lives. It might just improve us Fools!
Denny Schlesinger "
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What with yard work, preparing for home renovations, preparing for a temporary move, all the doctor
visits for DW and moi after our hospital stays in January, and the added pleasure of watching minor
league playoff hockey - TMF was dropping lower in the radar anyway. Closing boards that had
interesting posters, topics, controversies, news discussions, health discussions, as well as just
folks talking makes it very very easy to forget that there are discussion boards or even TMF
site at all.
Howie52
But you may find (if you meet some of these Fools IRL), that the Fool can forge friendships. And that raises the question, would you have met and interacted without TMF?
And I wonder, out of c uriousity, if any of these Fools were encountered only on non-financial boards.
=sheila
My problem with online is if it interferes with the real world. If it complements and improves the real world then it’s an asset.
My involvement with TMF has always fallen into the latter, as I’m sure many do who have deeply valued the non-financial boards.
=sheila
>>But you may find (if you meet some of these Fools IRL), that the Fool can forge friendships. And that raises the question, would you have met and interacted without TMF?<<
And I wonder, out of c uriousity, if any of these Fools were encountered only on non-financial boards.
=sheila
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The two fools I have met up with in real life were both resulting from social boards…