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I'm shocked and amazed that Nohomostan is not getting a warm reception in other gay and gay-friendly regions! NOT!

Good morning dudes and chicks! How were y'alls weekend? I hope the tragic events over the weekend didn't ruin it for anyone and that all of you are safe.

Hey guys. What's up? How are we?

Jetria wrote:

Britain?

The Netherlands.

Just watched the second episode of London Spy. It's a gay spy drama with Ben Whishaw and Edward Holcroft. Finding it rather impenetrable...

Ki baratan wrote:

Very good luck! It's always nice to see people who are interested in running for local office. I too hope to join you among the ranks of the municipally elected, but perhaps not quite in 2018...

I find most people really don't treat municipal politics as seriously as it deserves. Sure it doesn't deal with lofty things like foreign affairs... but it is the level of government that most directly affects "you" (the citizen).

None of the election results in my city ever turn out very interesting because people can't really get excited about the race and pretty much always vote for the incumbent by a wide margin. Hell, in my area that Catholic School Board trustee and the City Councillor are cousins who have been in for years.

Oneracon wrote:

I find most people really don't treat municipal politics as seriously as it deserves. Sure it doesn't deal with lofty things like foreign affairs... but it is the level of government that most directly affects "you" (the citizen).
None of the election results in my city ever turn out very interesting because people can't really get excited about the race and pretty much always vote for the incumbent by a wide margin. Hell, in my area that Catholic School Board trustee and the City Councillor are cousins who have been in for years.

We have partisan elections here.... the incumbent slate has won every single council, school trustee and the mayor's chair in the last three elections. We've literally had 7 (and will end up with 10) years of unanimous government with zero opposition voices.
That party has held a council majority for 30 years, the mayor's chair for about 36 years and school board majority since time immemorial.

Jetria wrote:

Cool!
I just spent 15 minutes writing something while switching tabs, then the writing tab paused and now the document's empty.
I am what you would call a little upset.

Unfortunately, that's probably happened to all of us who TG or write onto the RMB. It's happened to me plenty of times in the past.

If you know beforehand that a post will be long, I advise you to compose it on a word processor first, then copy the text, paste it into the appropriate box in NS, and lodge/send it. That way, if for whatever reason it fails to post, you have the entire text still in front of you and can try again.

If you really get into writing a piece and it turns out very long, once you're finished, copy and paste it into a WP as above, or at least copy it before you try to post it. 99% of the time, the latter approach will be sufficient to recover your lost post. Rarely, for whatever reason on my computer, Control-C doesn't work properly (usually it just needs to be rebooted). Usually for me in those cases, Control-X doesn't work either, but it's still worth a try.

Generally, I try to finish a piece of writing before I move onto something else. If you need to pause to look up something, you'll do well to copy what you've written into a WP before you open a new tab or window.

I imagine we all have multiple WPing programs on our computer. That can be as simple as opening up AOL and copying your text into an e-mail.

If you can discipline yourself to do these things, you should never lose another post, or at least only very rarely, like if you click a hyperlink by accident while composing. Good luck!

Otis-T wrote:

My face turned yellow from bruising in consequence of my surgery.

Shall we now call you The Yellow Kid - wasn't that a cartoon a long, long time ago?

I see Trump wants to watch mosques and close some down, especially "those that preach hate". Will we be closing Westboro Baptist, too, then?

This is a puppet of Jetria. Just gonna let this stay in here for now until I find use for it.

I dedicate this to LGBT Equality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcEwsoR8J0Y