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Re: The Real Me 12 Sep 2024 09:52 #421332

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proudyungerman wrote on 12 Sep 2024 04:04:
Last year I spent waaay too much time checking YWN. (You know when you just refreshed the page again, for the fifteenth time in 5 minutes? As if the world is actually going to collapse...) There were a bunch of reasons for this ridiculous habit. Either way, in the summer I didn't have access to YWN for around two and a half weeks. (Yes, this was around the same time my phone broke. No it wasn't connected. For real.)

I noticed an amazing thing. For some strange reason, the world hadn't waited around for proudyungerman. It kept sporting, politicking, olympicing, and everything else that the world does without my expert analyses and predictions of what should or shouldn't happen.

It hit me hard. I don't have to know everything going on all the time. Then, one day as I was thinking about it, I realized that I am much calmer and relaxed. I realized that I can enjoy not knowing what's going on all the time.

I decided that for Elul I am only going to check YWN once a day. So far so good, and I haven't missed any earth shattering news yet.
Instead, I find that I have more time and yishuv hadaas for learning and for my family. 


Exercising my newfound self control is actually enjoyable!
Thank y'all for helping me be here today!

I'm going to bl"n join you in your kabalah for Elul...
it's something I've often tried to work on, sometimes managed for long tekufos not to check the news at all but ATM I'm struggling with it... its a bit of an addiction...
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Re: The Real Me 12 Sep 2024 13:28 #421344

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hopefulswan89 wrote on 12 Sep 2024 06:45:

proudyungerman wrote on 12 Sep 2024 04:04:
Last year I spent waaay too much time checking YWN. (You know when you just refreshed the page again, for the fifteenth time in 5 minutes? As if the world is actually going to collapse...) There were a bunch of reasons for this ridiculous habit. Either way, in the summer I didn't have access to YWN for around two and a half weeks. (Yes, this was around the same time my phone broke. No it wasn't connected. For real.)

I noticed an amazing thing. For some strange reason, the world hadn't waited around for proudyungerman. It kept sporting, politicking, olympicing, and everything else that the world does without my expert analyses and predictions of what should or shouldn't happen.

It hit me hard. I don't have to know everything going on all the time. Then, one day as I was thinking about it, I realized that I am much calmer and relaxed. I realized that I can enjoy not knowing what's going on all the time.

I decided that for Elul I am only going to check YWN once a day. So far so good, and I haven't missed any earth shattering news yet.
Instead, I find that I have more time and yishuv hadaas for learning and for my family. 


Exercising my newfound self control is actually enjoyable!
Thank y'all for helping me be here today!

Matzav is preferred over YWN

Please excuse me, but before you continue posting your terse comments and criticisms on people's forum why don't you just tell us about yourself? You jumped on just two weeks ago and adjusted your counter to 515 days and haven't updated it since. 
Why are you here? Who are you? What are you trying to accomplish here?
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Re: The Real Me 12 Sep 2024 13:31 #421345

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I had a brief experience with YWN before blocking -- Hamodia has been down with a 504 error for a while and I felt uninformed -- the YWN forum seemed not-so-healthy.  If you're not on the forum maybe it's fine; I 90% resisted my urge to read comments on news articles so can't say what those are like.I think I know what the forum is but I'm not entirely sure. All I do is check the headlines and read some of the articles.

Honestly, I don't care much for the forums and comments anyway. The same way my comments, analyses, and predictions are meaningless, so are the random anonymous people on theses forums...
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Re: The Real Me 12 Sep 2024 15:22 #421355

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proudyungerman wrote on 12 Sep 2024 13:31:

Honestly, I don't care much for the forums and comments anyway. The same way my comments, analyses, and predictions are meaningless, so are the random anonymous people on theses forums...

Whoa mega hate on gye?? 

Look at this guy, breaks his phone so he doesn't have to answer our calls, bashes the forums, called us random anonymous people. To quote our future illustrious leader, “You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?”

Re: The Real Me 12 Sep 2024 15:37 #421357

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chosemyshem wrote on 12 Sep 2024 15:22:

proudyungerman wrote on 12 Sep 2024 13:31:

Honestly, I don't care much for the forums and comments anyway. The same way my comments, analyses, and predictions are meaningless, so are the random anonymous people on theses forums...

Whoa mega hate on gye?? 

Look at this guy, breaks his phone so he doesn't have to answer our calls, bashes the forums, called us random anonymous people. To quote our future illustrious leader, “You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?”

Seems like he forgets which side of his bread has the butter.....
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Re: The Real Me 12 Sep 2024 15:38 #421358

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proudyungerman wrote on 12 Sep 2024 13:31:
Honestly, I don't care much for the forums and comments anyway. The same way my comments, analyses, and predictions are meaningless, so are the random anonymous people on theses forums...

You said it, man!

Now go out and meet some real people.
Play an instrument.
Climb a mountain.
Eat different ethnic foods.
Be Baal Tefilah and belt it out like never before.
Sleep in a tent in the backcountry.

To heck with the internets and its forums.
We're all just figments of your imagination.
Or are we...?

Re: The Real Me 12 Sep 2024 16:57 #421361

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chosemyshem wrote on 12 Sep 2024 15:22:

proudyungerman wrote on 12 Sep 2024 13:31:

Honestly, I don't care much for the forums and comments anyway. The same way my comments, analyses, and predictions are meaningless, so are the random anonymous people on theses forums...

Whoa mega hate on gye?? 

Look at this guy, breaks his phone so he doesn't have to answer our calls, bashes the forums, called us random anonymous people. To quote our future illustrious leader, “You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?”

I apologize for the lack of clarity. That line was in response to this post.
truthaintflashy wrote on 12 Sep 2024 09:42:
I had a brief experience with YWN before blocking -- Hamodia has been down with a 504 error for a while and I felt uninformed -- the YWN forum seemed not-so-healthy.  If you're not on the forum maybe it's fine; I 90% resisted my urge to read comments on news articles so can't say what those are like.

I believe he was referring to the forum on YWN, not GYE.

Now that we clarified that, who said anything about a coconut tree?
Maybe I missed the joke because I don't have my phone?
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Re: The Real Me 12 Sep 2024 21:11 #421380

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proudyungerman wrote on 12 Sep 2024 13:28:

hopefulswan89 wrote on 12 Sep 2024 06:45:

proudyungerman wrote on 12 Sep 2024 04:04:
Last year I spent waaay too much time checking YWN. (You know when you just refreshed the page again, for the fifteenth time in 5 minutes? As if the world is actually going to collapse...) There were a bunch of reasons for this ridiculous habit. Either way, in the summer I didn't have access to YWN for around two and a half weeks. (Yes, this was around the same time my phone broke. No it wasn't connected. For real.)

I noticed an amazing thing. For some strange reason, the world hadn't waited around for proudyungerman. It kept sporting, politicking, olympicing, and everything else that the world does without my expert analyses and predictions of what should or shouldn't happen.

It hit me hard. I don't have to know everything going on all the time. Then, one day as I was thinking about it, I realized that I am much calmer and relaxed. I realized that I can enjoy not knowing what's going on all the time.

I decided that for Elul I am only going to check YWN once a day. So far so good, and I haven't missed any earth shattering news yet.
Instead, I find that I have more time and yishuv hadaas for learning and for my family. 


Exercising my newfound self control is actually enjoyable!
Thank y'all for helping me be here today!

Matzav is preferred over YWN

Please excuse me, but before you continue posting your terse comments and criticisms on people's forum why don't you just tell us about yourself? You jumped on just two weeks ago and adjusted your counter to 515 days and haven't updated it since. 
Why are you here? Who are you? What are you trying to accomplish here?

I’ll take concise well edited comments over your lengthy gibberish from a proud boor. Derech Eretz kadma letora.

I’m not your wife, don’t talk down to me 

Re: The Real Me 12 Sep 2024 21:16 #421382

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[quote="hopefulswan89" post=421380 date=1726175519 catid=19]
] wrote:

I’ll take concise well edited comments over your lengthy gibberish from a proud boor. Derech Eretz kadma letora.

I’m not your wife, don’t talk down to me 

Gimme a P, Gimme an O, Gimme a P, Gimme a C, Gimme another O, Gimme an R, Gimme an N. It's POPCORN time!!

But seriously, R' PY is a chashuve guy. I'd call him a lot of names, but proud boor is probably not one of them. 

We try to be all friendly and polite around here, though in a text based forum things can come across harsher than intended. Maybe take a minute to review your post and edit the tone.*

*See. Like that. Not, "shut up, retard".
Last Edit: 12 Sep 2024 21:16 by chosemyshem.

Re: The Real Me 12 Sep 2024 21:24 #421383

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[quote="chosemyshem" post=421382 date=1726175776 catid=19]
hopefulswan89 wrote on 12 Sep 2024 21:11:

] wrote:

I’ll take concise well edited comments over your lengthy gibberish from a proud boor. Derech Eretz kadma letora.

I’m not your wife, don’t talk down to me 

Gimme a P, Gimme an O, Gimme a P, Gimme a C, Gimme another O, Gimme an R, Gimme an N. It's POPCORN time!!

But seriously, R' PY is a chashuve guy. I'd call him a lot of names, but proud boor is probably not one of them. 

We try to be all friendly and polite around here, though in a text based forum things can come across harsher than intended. Maybe take a minute to review your post and edit the tone.*

*See. Like that. Not, "shut up, retard".

No “chashuve guy” writes in such a condescending fashion. Only a proud boor. 

Re: The Real Me 12 Sep 2024 21:26 #421384

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chosemyshem wrote on 12 Sep 2024 15:22:

proudyungerman wrote on 12 Sep 2024 13:31:

Honestly, I don't care much for the forums and comments anyway. The same way my comments, analyses, and predictions are meaningless, so are the random anonymous people on theses forums...

Whoa mega hate on gye?? 

Look at this guy, breaks his phone so he doesn't have to answer our calls, bashes the forums, called us random anonymous people. To quote our future illustrious leader, “You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?”

Spoken by a guy full of himself 

Re: The Real Me 12 Sep 2024 21:35 #421385

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[quote="hopefulswan89" post=421383 date=1726176265 catid=19]
chosemyshem wrote on 12 Sep 2024 21:16:

hopefulswan89 wrote on 12 Sep 2024 21:11:

] wrote:

I’ll take concise well edited comments over your lengthy gibberish from a proud boor. Derech Eretz kadma letora.

I’m not your wife, don’t talk down to me 

Gimme a P, Gimme an O, Gimme a P, Gimme a C, Gimme another O, Gimme an R, Gimme an N. It's POPCORN time!!

But seriously, R' PY is a chashuve guy. I'd call him a lot of names, but proud boor is probably not one of them. 

We try to be all friendly and polite around here, though in a text based forum things can come across harsher than intended. Maybe take a minute to review your post and edit the tone.*

*See. Like that. Not, "shut up, retard".

No “chashuve guy” writes in such a condescending fashion. Only a proud boor. 

Ladies Proud boors and gentlemen, my Tefillos have been answered. At least partially.

Please, good sir, open a thread and share what's truly bothering you.

Until then, we'll have to make do with this hijacking shtick.

Re: The Real Me 12 Sep 2024 21:51 #421387

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[quote="thompson" post=421385 date=1726176934 catid=19]
hopefulswan89 wrote on 12 Sep 2024 21:24:

chosemyshem wrote on 12 Sep 2024 21:16:

hopefulswan89 wrote on 12 Sep 2024 21:11:

] wrote:

I’ll take concise well edited comments over your lengthy gibberish from a proud boor. Derech Eretz kadma letora.

I’m not your wife, don’t talk down to me 

Gimme a P, Gimme an O, Gimme a P, Gimme a C, Gimme another O, Gimme an R, Gimme an N. It's POPCORN time!!

But seriously, R' PY is a chashuve guy. I'd call him a lot of names, but proud boor is probably not one of them. 

We try to be all friendly and polite around here, though in a text based forum things can come across harsher than intended. Maybe take a minute to review your post and edit the tone.*

*See. Like that. Not, "shut up, retard".

No “chashuve guy” writes in such a condescending fashion. Only a proud boor. 

Ladies Proud boors and gentlemen, my Tefillos have been answered. At least partially.

Please, good sir, open a thread and share what's truly bothering you.

Until then, we'll have to make do with this hijacking shtick.

Hear Hear!
Let's hear from you about what makes you tick.....

And I second Shem's evaluation of R' PY.
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Re: The Real Me 12 Sep 2024 23:28 #421403

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Now, Swans are beautiful creatures, but please do not use any name calling. The success of this wonderful place comes from the caring friendships created here. While PY's words may have come across a little strong, he is a wonderful person who has helped many people along in their journey to freedom. My friend, whatever the case may be, I'm sorry for your pain, but please don't use name calling or any other form of spreading anything but caring
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Re: The Real Me 12 Sep 2024 23:28 #421404

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[quote="hopefulswan89" post=421383 date=1726176265 catid=19]
chosemyshem wrote on 12 Sep 2024 21:16:

hopefulswan89 wrote on 12 Sep 2024 21:11:

] wrote:

I’ll take concise well edited comments over your lengthy gibberish from a proud boor. Derech Eretz kadma letora.

I’m not your wife, don’t talk down to me 

Gimme a P, Gimme an O, Gimme a P, Gimme a C, Gimme another O, Gimme an R, Gimme an N. It's POPCORN time!!

But seriously, R' PY is a chashuve guy. I'd call him a lot of names, but proud boor is probably not one of them. 

We try to be all friendly and polite around here, though in a text based forum things can come across harsher than intended. Maybe take a minute to review your post and edit the tone.*

*See. Like that. Not, "shut up, retard".

No “chashuve guy” writes in such a condescending fashion. Only a proud boor. 

You're not my wife either, so let me take the opportunity to say that you are sounding like a real nice fella.
If you're gonna call someone a proud boor, myself and YKW would be an excellent target, But I believe that if you  were to put it up for a vote,  right now its the attitude that you have that comes off a slightly boorish, Not PY's..

Lets dial it down half a notch or maybe just a quarter, and make nice. All PY was saying is that he doesn't appreciate comments or criticism from some anony fellow. Feel free to make yourself more known to us so that you can criticize as much as you would like
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