General Discussion Thread

[IKEA]

This forum has a very very high concentration of introverts. It's actually very psychologically interesting to see the kinds of people who are in this fandom, and how it is so different from most fandoms on the internet.

[philosopher] That's one of the best and worst things about the Internet. It serves as a really great way for people to open up and express themselves, but at the same time it can be easy to become addicted and never interact with the real world [/philosopher].

[starfallz]

I was reminded that Fimby.no exists, and I thought I'd share the state it was in after pushing a button.

[IKEA]

I was reminded that Fimby.no exists, and I thought I'd share the state it was in after pushing a button.

Jesus Christ that's both funny and weird. What is "Fimby no"?

[starfallz]

The site for telling Fimby, "NO!"

ETA: or depending on how your feeling, "YES!"

[viola]

The site for telling Fimby, "NO!"

ETA: or depending on how your feeling, "YES!"

The web address to the site is fimby.no

[DB (f.k.a. DaveBro)]

From various fanart depictions referencing SSSS RPGs / fanfics, etc, I got the impression that Fimby's (characters?) violent and/or anarchic tendencies in the SSSS-verse need reining in So. Frequently. that a website was deemed if not the best, at least the funniest, way to do so.

That was just my impression as an innocent and beamused bystander. Actual mileage may vary.  Professional drivel, crossed course.  Tag and title not included.

[Róisín]

Yeah, I noticed the introvert thing on the Forum. Don't know how this fits the rest of the internet, because I very rarely go there. I actually read both the comments and first 'A Redtail's Dream' then this comic for a few years before I started commenting. At first I had no idea what the Forum even was, I'd not met the concept before, at least as an internet thing. It was not for reasons of shyness, I'm not at all shy, but because I hadn't the first idea how to make Disqus work. I still don't perfectly understand it, but once someone showed me how to set it up and operate it I was away.

As to personality type, I'm not at all sure where I fit. I seem to have two distinct strands, depending what I'm doing. I talk a *lot* when I'm teaching or performing, or running a stall at the Farmer's Market, or doing the volunteer work I do. And of course here!  But other than that I'm a very silent person, and only speak when I have something to say. So ???

[Yuuago]

As to personality type, I'm not at all sure where I fit. I seem to have two distinct strands, depending what I'm doing. I talk a *lot* when I'm teaching or performing, or running a stall at the Farmer's Market, or doing the volunteer work I do. And of course here!  But other than that I'm a very silent person, and only speak when I have something to say. So ???

Only speak when I have something to say<- My favourite kind of person. (But that is probably just a side-effect of spending too much time with people who are in love with the sound of their own voice...)

[Róisín]

Yuuago: I know a few folk like that, and they drive me spla! Yatteryatteryatteryatter with almost no content is wildly annoying. I don't mind chatty people if they have some actual content in their speech, and leave room for other people to talk as well if they wish to. Heh, I'd be in trouble if I did, I'm married to one. Fortunately for me, he generally is saying something fascinating, and he knows that if I have something to say I will break in. Took him awhile to understand that he wasn't talking over me, and I didn't mind how much he talks, but he got it eventually! My closest female friend is the same, whereas my closest male friend, who is also a cousin, is the same sort of circumstantially-silent type as I am, but talks (and indeed sings) quite volubly when he needs to!

[Purple Wyrm]

Was it on r/mapporn? That's always a fun sub. (Note to the confused: map porn just means really cool, detailed maps.)

I think it was on r/imaginarymaps. They're both great subs, although r/mapporn could probably use a few less "coloured-in map of the world showing ice cream sales vs dominant religion" type affairs.

But other than that I'm a very silent person, and only speak when I have something to say.

Tries to think of a way of mentioning the Mr Ed theme song without looking like I'm calling Róisín a horse

[Róisín]

Wyrm? 'Mr Ed theme song? Horse?' ???

[LooNEY_DAC]

Yuuago: I know a few folk like that, and they drive me spla! Yatteryatteryatteryatter with almost no content is wildly annoying. I don't mind chatty people if they have some actual content in their speech, and leave room for other people to talk as well if they wish to. Heh, I'd be in trouble if I did, I'm married to one. Fortunately for me, he generally is saying something fascinating, and he knows that if I have something to say I will break in. Took him awhile to understand that he wasn't talking over me, and I didn't mind how much he talks, but he got it eventually! My closest female friend is the same, whereas my closest male friend, who is also a cousin, is the same sort of circumstantially-silent type as I am, but talks (and indeed sings) quite volubly when he needs to!

What annoys me more than someone who talks a lot is someone who doesn't listen (/read, in some weird way I have trouble understanding). I share a workspace with someone like that, and he'll call me over every so often to ask a question that I answer by pointing out the word/phrase he skipped in the instructions he's reading. Or some of us will go to the movies together, and as we walk out, he'll say, "I didn't understand [thing they explained pretty clearly in the movie's dialogue]".

When I say or write something, I take care to select the wording or phrasing that, in my mind, conveys my intended meaning in the most accurate manner possible; therefore, every word I say is important, and cannot be blithely skipped over for whatever reason the (non-)listener might choose to essay. It would be nice if the listener or reader took as much care in reading or listening to what I say as I do in formulating the same.

Oh, and when I get angry, I tend towards formality, if you hadn't noticed.

Wyrm? 'Mr Ed theme song? Horse?' ???

Mister Ed was a B&W 60s US sitcom revolving around the titular talking horse and his owner; thus, the theme song's extremely silly lyrics are about a talking horse.
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I miss that show. It was silly.

[tamaerchen]

On the topic of having both characteristics of an intro- and an extrovert: I've recently seen a couple of articles on being an "ambivert".

While I can see myself in the descriptions of that category, I also have the feeling that it's kinda silly to try and enforce a binary just by adding a third section for the "weird ones"... (I believe it's much more common to be somewhere on a spectrum near an extreme than 100% this or that.)

[Róisín]

LooNEY: thanks for the horse explanation! I take it that the eponymous horse was not very vocal?

Because I've lived more than half of my life in places that had no electricity, little say television, I've missed out on a lot of the popular culture. Also perhaps because my own cultural background is a bit sideways to the standard! That said, I did recently watch that 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' movie, and many references are now explained, including some stuff in the fanart thread that puzzled me at the time.

I share your disapprobation of people who neither listen nor read the instructions! And start doing something before you have finished giving instructions. And break whatever it is. My husband describes them as 'listening too fast'.

Recent horrid example: I was teaching a workshop on the proper technique of blending perfumes. It was a bigger group than I would myself have chosen to take for that subject; I really don't think perfuming works with more than half a dozen students at a time, because of sensory overload and the potential for breakages and other accidents. However, this was the group I'd been hired to teach in that series of workshops, so was stuck with it.

I was still giving instructions to the group, explaining and demonstrating how to handle the tiny vials of essential oils and absoluts, how to draw the needed amount from said vials and how not to waste or contaminate them (they are wildly expensive, only used in minute quantities, and in some cases irreplaceable), when a voice from behind me said: "How do I cover up a too-strong rose scent?". At which point I realised that one of the students had left the group, gone around behind me to the workbench, and started mixing. On her own. With no concept of what she was doing. This was not a kid, but a middle-aged woman whose paperwork described her as a 'cosmetician', and from whom I would have expected more sense.

Turns out she had dumped a whole vial of Rose Maroc Absolut into a beaker, and added other stuff which didn't at all go with it, and now wanted to tone down the overpowering rose scent. Which came from about $400.00 worth of oil. Which wasn't actually part of the supplied kit, but one of mine which I had brought in to show them what a real one smelled like, as distinct from the cheaper commercial oils they were learning on.

My phrasing in answering her was very formal indeed!

[Yuuago]

Recent horrid example: I was teaching a workshop on the proper technique of blending perfumes. (etc...)
My phrasing in answering her was very formal indeed!

Oh. My. Gods. My jaw dropped and just kept on going. Some people.
Kudos to you for managing to keep your cool in such a situation. D:

The worst I have to deal with is people not listening properly, and then making me explain everything a million times. Sometimes I worry that my speech patterns are just difficult to understand, but that's probably not the case most of the time....