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You get what you pay for
There is a lot of internet discussion about kids having no manners, offspring who display a complete lack of civility towards adults in general and their own families in particular. I hear a lot of...
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Blogging Part 4: Etiquette Part II
Originally posted on MikesFilmTalk:That little badge of excellence. Metaphorically strolling through the recent entries on the Freshly Pressed page, I noticed a disturbing trend. Some of these recent...
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A Place of Peace
Despite all the blogs and bloggers who have posted articles on the etiquette of commenting, too many people still don’t get it. Maybe they just don’t want to understand, because it isn’t so...
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Generational Differences
Okay, I’ve got to hand it to you, WordPress. You got me thinking. That’s always dangerous. The world would probably be better off if I stopped thinking about Things and started watching reality...
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Daily Prompt: P.C. – Some just call it civility
Politically correct. To be politically correct means to tread carefully on other people’s sensibilities. I’m for that. Very much. In a lot of places here in the good old U.S.A., “P.C,” means you can’t...
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HOPE HAS A GOOD MEMORY, GRATITUDE A BAD ONE
Tell us about the time when you performed a secret random act of kindness — where the recipient of your kindness never found out about your good deed. How did the deed go down? Throughout my adult...
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HOW ABOUT A BISCUIT?
Daily Prompt: Nice Is as Nice Does Tell us about the nicest thing you’ve ever done. Photographers, artists, poets: show us KINDNESS. I’ve done a lot of stuff in my life. Whether or not it was “nice” or...
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TROLLS ON THE INTERNET
We blog for a variety of personal reasons. Some of us want freedom — to express our art and opinions. Most of us want a connection to the larger world, to join our voices with others in support or...
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BRUTAL HONESTY – MORE BRUTAL, LESS HONEST
Handle With Care - How are you at receiving criticism? Do you prefer that others treat you with kid gloves, or go for brutal honesty? My rules of criticism: Brutal honesty is always more brutal than...
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HONESTLY BRUTAL
Rules of criticism: Brutal honesty is always more brutal than honest. It is never well-meant. Honesty without kindness is meanness under false colors. When criticism is given without love or humor, its...
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DO YOU REMEMBER?
WHAT TECHNOLOGY DO I MISS? I DON’T MISS TECHNOLOGY. I MISS CIVILIZATION. Telephones on which both you and the party to whom you were speaking could hear each other. Sound tracks on movies where...
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You get what you pay for
There is a lot of internet discussion about kids having no manners, offspring who display a complete lack of civility towards adults in general and their own families in particular. I hear a lot of...
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Blogging Part 4: Etiquette Part II
Originally posted on Mikes Film Talk:That little badge of excellence. Metaphorically strolling through the recent entries on the Freshly Pressed page, I noticed a disturbing trend. Some of these recent...
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A Place of Peace
Despite all the blogs and bloggers who have posted articles on the etiquette of commenting, too many people still don’t get it. Maybe they just don’t want to understand, because it isn’t so...
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PLAY NICE AND PUT DOWN THE SHOVEL
It’s one of the first things every mother teaches her kid. Or should. “Play nice. Don’t hit little Jimmy with that shovel. Don’t take Ellen’s doll. Play nice or other children won’t want to play with...
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A RARE MOMENT OF CIVILITY IN THE SPAMALOT UNIVERSE
We all get a lot of junk email. I suppose I should be grateful that I don’t still get the pounds of paper I used to get. I felt guilty throwing away all that stuff … but I can delete email with nary a...
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ON BEING DISAGREEABLE
It’s a real thing and it’s a TV thing. It’s a local thing. It’s international, too. People are rude. Not argumentative and contentious. They are also that, especially in the heat of battle, so to...
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NOMOROBO AGAIN AND THE FILTERS OF LIFE
FILTER | THE DAILY POST In the course of disconnecting, then reconnecting our telephone service, Charter also removed all of the settings and filters I had put on my phone. Everything from voice mail...
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ZIPPED UP
There is a code for everything today. Every item in the shop, every village in the world. There’s a code for every telephone. Bar codes float through the air like fireflies. We are all zipped up. Where...
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TECHNOLOGY AND CIVILITY
“Holy shit,” I said to no one at all. “That really HURTS.” I was referring to my back and left hip (aka “the good one”). It was early. Although morning often is accompanied by stiffness and pain, I...
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