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It's odd to call other posters bullies. We're just little words on a
pc screen, just emails. Only one glassworker I know has ever posted to this group. I'm just another old turkey, doing glass by myself and knowing only a few others who do it. Once in a great while I may have an idea. Once in a while I feel like responding to a post - like now. I have sometimes got useful information from other posters. Would the group be better if we actually knew each other? Probably. Would the group be better if we had more to say? Certainly. But it's a connection to others doing what I do. I'm glad you're all out there. I'm glad the group exists. I would like to see more links to other folks' sites and more images of work. John Bassett |
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On Jun 21, 5:07*am, John Bassett wrote:
It's odd to call other posters bullies. We're just little words on a pc screen, just emails. *Only one glassworker I know has ever posted to this group. *I'm just another old turkey, doing glass by myself and knowing only a few others who do it. Once in a great while I may have an idea. *Once in a while I feel like responding to a post - like now. *I have sometimes got useful information from other posters. Would the group be better if we actually knew each other? *Probably. Would the group be better if we had more to say? *Certainly. *But it's a connection to others doing what I do. *I'm glad you're all out there. *I'm glad the group exists. I would like to see more links to other folks' sites and more images of work. John Bassett Just about everyone who posts here is a glassworker of some sort be it cold, warm or hot glass. I think you've been around this group long enough to know that participation comes and goes. Sometimes the group is extremely active and other times it's sound to sleep. Anyway, post a website if you have one. Here's mine: http://www.neoglassic.com http://www.earth2glass.weebly.com Andy |
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"John Bassett" wrote in message news:3deb927e- I would like to see more links to other folks' sites and more images of work. John Bassett www.glassdogs.com |
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skrev i en meddelelse ... On Jun 21, 5:07 am, John Bassett wrote: It's odd to call other posters bullies. We're just little words on a pc screen, just emails. Only one glassworker I know has ever posted to this group. I'm just another old turkey, doing glass by myself and knowing only a few others who do it. Once in a great while I may have an idea. Once in a while I feel like responding to a post - like now. I have sometimes got useful information from other posters. Would the group be better if we actually knew each other? Probably. Would the group be better if we had more to say? Certainly. But it's a connection to others doing what I do. I'm glad you're all out there. I'm glad the group exists. I would like to see more links to other folks' sites and more images of work. John Bassett Just about everyone who posts here is a glassworker of some sort be it cold, warm or hot glass. I think you've been around this group long enough to know that participation comes and goes. Sometimes the group is extremely active and other times it's sound to sleep. Anyway, post a website if you have one. Here's mine: http://www.neoglassic.com http://www.earth2glass.weebly.com Andy you know you are right. But there is some truth in the string that i was refering to. I have tried to be in the very capable hands of these bullies. I have been making hot glass for 20 years and i have been following this group for a few years. There is a lot of good questions here. Some are interesting for me some are not. I do feel that i could contribute but why bother when this group allready have some noble people who knows it all and if i say the wrong thing they will all be on top of me peer |
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"Peer &Tina Nielsen" wrote in message . .. skrev i en meddelelse ... On Jun 21, 5:07 am, John Bassett wrote: It's odd to call other posters bullies. We're just little words on a pc screen, just emails. Only one glassworker I know has ever posted to this group. I'm just another old turkey, doing glass by myself and knowing only a few others who do it. Once in a great while I may have an idea. Once in a while I feel like responding to a post - like now. I have sometimes got useful information from other posters. Would the group be better if we actually knew each other? Probably. Would the group be better if we had more to say? Certainly. But it's a connection to others doing what I do. I'm glad you're all out there. I'm glad the group exists. I would like to see more links to other folks' sites and more images of work. John Bassett Just about everyone who posts here is a glassworker of some sort be it cold, warm or hot glass. I think you've been around this group long enough to know that participation comes and goes. Sometimes the group is extremely active and other times it's sound to sleep. Anyway, post a website if you have one. Here's mine: http://www.neoglassic.com http://www.earth2glass.weebly.com Andy you know you are right. But there is some truth in the string that i was refering to. I have tried to be in the very capable hands of these bullies. I have been making hot glass for 20 years and i have been following this group for a few years. There is a lot of good questions here. Some are interesting for me some are not. I do feel that i could contribute but why bother when this group allready have some noble people who knows it all and if i say the wrong thing they will all be on top of me peer Peer wrote in a moment of deja vu .... "if i say the wrong thing they will all be on top of me" You mean like now? I haven't seen anybody get all "on top of" anyone without them being an antogonist. Are you an antagonist? If you are, you are a very subtle one, but why not post whatever it is you have to say? 20 years of glass blowing certainly give you the knowledge to tell one of these know-it-alls to stuff it!! Or don't you do that? Look, if it bothers you that some people on here won't stand for another to blow smoke about something, then ignore it, who cares? But if you feel you have a question, or an answer, hell, write it, you have as much right to do so as anyone else, and this is the internet ,after all, the bullies won't come knocking on your door and dispute what you said to your face. Say what you have to say, but my own suggestion , "let sleeping dogs lie" to hell with that bully thread, if it were important don't you think it would still be running? Sure there is some animosity here, but there is in real life too, I don't particularly like my neighbor putting her yapping dog out my back window at 6:30 am everyday, but I haven't killed it......yet. |
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On Jun 21, 11:49*am, "Peer &Tina Nielsen"
wrote: skrev i en ... On Jun 21, 5:07 am, John Bassett wrote: It's odd to call other posters bullies. We're just little words on a pc screen, just emails. Only one glassworker I know has ever posted to this group. I'm just another old turkey, doing glass by myself and knowing only a few others who do it. Once in a great while I may have an idea. Once in a while I feel like responding to a post - like now. I have sometimes got useful information from other posters. Would the group be better if we actually knew each other? Probably. Would the group be better if we had more to say? Certainly. But it's a connection to others doing what I do. I'm glad you're all out there. I'm glad the group exists. I would like to see more links to other folks' sites and more images of work. John Bassett Just about everyone who posts here is a glassworker of some sort be it cold, warm or hot glass. I think you've been around this group long enough to know that participation comes and goes. Sometimes the group is extremely active and other times it's sound to sleep. Anyway, post a website if you have one. Here's mine:http://www.neoglassic.comhttp://www....ass.weebly.com Andy you know you are right. But there is some truth in the string that i was refering to. I have tried to be in the very capable hands of these bullies. I have been making hot glass for 20 years and i have been following this group for a few years. There is a lot of good questions here. Some are interesting for me some are not. I do feel that i could contribute but why bother when this group allready have some noble people who knows it all and if i say the wrong thing they will all be on top of me peer Here's what you do on newsgroups. 1) Read 2) Reply if you want to. 3) Post if you feel you have something to contribute or if you have a question. 4) Take everything with a grain of salt. 5) Ignore when you want to. It's the internet and it's everywhere. And no...no one knows it all. If you want to go head to head with someone then by all means feel free to do so...it's the internet and the rest of us most likely really care. Bickering threads only last a couple of days at the most and they become history. Enjoy the group!! |
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"Javahut" wrote in
: "Peer &Tina Nielsen" wrote in message . .. skrev i en meddelelse ... On Jun 21, 5:07 am, John Bassett wrote: It's odd to call other posters bullies. We're just little words on a pc screen, just emails. Only one glassworker I know has ever posted to this group. I'm just another old turkey, doing glass by myself and knowing only a few others who do it. Once in a great while I may have an idea. Once in a while I feel like responding to a post - like now. I have sometimes got useful information from other posters. Would the group be better if we actually knew each other? Probably. Would the group be better if we had more to say? Certainly. But it's a connection to others doing what I do. I'm glad you're all out there. I'm glad the group exists. I would like to see more links to other folks' sites and more images of work. John Bassett Just about everyone who posts here is a glassworker of some sort be it cold, warm or hot glass. I think you've been around this group long enough to know that participation comes and goes. Sometimes the group is extremely active and other times it's sound to sleep. Anyway, post a website if you have one. Here's mine: http://www.neoglassic.com http://www.earth2glass.weebly.com Andy you know you are right. But there is some truth in the string that i was refering to. I have tried to be in the very capable hands of these bullies. I have been making hot glass for 20 years and i have been following this group for a few years. There is a lot of good questions here. Some are interesting for me some are not. I do feel that i could contribute but why bother when this group allready have some noble people who knows it all and if i say the wrong thing they will all be on top of me peer Peer wrote in a moment of deja vu .... "if i say the wrong thing they will all be on top of me" You mean like now? I haven't seen anybody get all "on top of" anyone without them being an antogonist. Are you an antagonist? If you are, you are a very subtle one, but why not post whatever it is you have to say? 20 years of glass blowing certainly give you the knowledge to tell one of these know-it-alls to stuff it!! Or don't you do that? My view is that everyone has differnet experience, learns different techniques, develops their own ways to work around difficulaties, and so on. Which means that everyone has a slightly different viewpoint. OFten, things are misinterpreted as being critical, when they weren't meant to be so - all we have is typed words, with no input from vocal inflection, body language, or anything else, so misinterpretation is all too easy. So, before rushing to assume someone is being a "bully", first stop and ask them for clarification, becasue it might just tbe a matter of misunderstanding. If the person continues to act like a jerk, plonk them - that';s what killfiles are for, in newsreaders: shutting out obnoxious, rude, nasty people who've nothing better to do than behave like curs. Definitely *don't* feel like they have some sort of final say over who can or can't post. I'm new to this particualr group, but have been in groups since 1992, and i've seen all sorts of jerks, including a couple of people who would put someone else's name as their own so as to try to discredit the person, or send threats, and so on. They'll stomp on someone exactly as much as one allows onself to be stomped on... Look, if it bothers you that some people on here won't stand for another to blow smoke about something, then ignore it, who cares? But if you feel you have a question, or an answer, hell, write it, you have as much right to do so as anyone else, and this is the internet ,after all, the bullies won't come knocking on your door and dispute what you said to your face. Exactly! Well said Say what you have to say, but my own suggestion , "let sleeping dogs lie" to hell with that bully thread, if it were important don't you think it would still be running? Sure there is some animosity here, but there is in real life too, I don't particularly like my neighbor putting her yapping dog out my back window at 6:30 am everyday, but I haven't killed it......yet. Yup - no matter where you go or what you do, or what field of endeavor you're working in, there will *always* be someone who has some perverse need to put other poeple down, so as to try to make themselves look grand - IMO, all they succeed in doing in making themselves look foolish, but unfortunately, a lot or people take the put-downs to heart. But the fact is that, *if* someone is just plain nasty/overbearing, it's not "because of" what someone else did or said, it's only because such people are just nasty/overbearing no matter *what*, and will often "bite teh hand that feeds them" so to speak, meaning, be nasty/overbearing even to peole who are trying to be civil or even nice to them. I've certainly expereinced *that* sort of numbskull over the past five decades - some people are abusive (verbally or even physically) no matter what anyone else does, good or bad, and if anything, the nicer you try to be, the worse some people will treat you - and often, the worse one treats such people, the moer they'll suck up to one. Some people are jsut mean, is all. Mean poeple usually have a dark, stormy, dismal internal landscape, devoid of ligh tor joy or lvoe, and their meanness is merely a reflection of their own inner miasma, and is not "caused by" what someone else does or says. Best thing is to ignore them or, better yet, plonk them. |
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" Moonraker" wrote in news:bWb7k.11302$Xe.4903
@bignews1.bellsouth.net: "John Bassett" wrote in message news:3deb927e- I would like to see more links to other folks' sites and more images of work. John Bassett www.glassdogs.com Now that's different and interesting - I'd never have thought of that, but it's cool fro folks who are really involved with dogs. I bet that the Greyhous Rescue groups would be interested in your work, too. My cousin used to be very involved with greyhound rescue in South Carolina. I don't know whether they give awards of any sort, but it might be an idea to contact some of them, send them a brochure and business card, or something similar. The show trophies are also a very nice change from the usual things. I'm not a dog person, but I used to raise an dshow American Singer canaries, and I bet that work like yours (adapted to us "bird-brains" of course LOL!) would be a welcome change from most of the typical raffle items and trophies/awards. |
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"Kris Krieger" wrote in message m... " Moonraker" wrote in news:bWb7k.11302$Xe.4903 I bet that the Greyhous Rescue groups would be interested in your work, too. Actually, you are right on target. One of my good friends is the national chair of Grayhound rescue, and she has samples of the memorials. They will be on her site soon. |
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