I talked to my some people and I decided to return. You are my family. I love you all. I have had a bunch of personal

[debm55]

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problems and take meds that give me tremors. It is hard for me to post sometimes and some posters are a pain in the rear.. I am staying. If my misspelled works or taking long to respond gets on your nerves, I am sorry. It is what it is, TIA to all I also have had some nasty posters who will post to tell me my post is stupid ,etc.

[Phoenix61]

1. So glad you are staying. I love your posts.😀

[PikaBlue]

2. Glad you are staying!

Sometimes it helps to take a break; however, there is a lot of support and encouragement that comes from sharing in a community!

[displacedvermoter]

3. Great, so let me ask you

what is your favorite Pop Tart? Me, I am a frosted cherry fan, with frosted brown sugar cinnamon next.

[debm55]

5. HAHAHAHAHHAHAH. Frosted cherry.

[displacedvermoter]

9. Very wise!

[LoisB]

27. Hilarious!!

[nolabear]

67. I'm really happy you're back.

People can be weird. But you’re valued here, and I’m glad you’ll be here for the home stretch!

[moniss]

4. I always look forward to

your posts and I would surely miss them if you left us.

[unblock]

6. There are many ways to welcome someone back. What's your favorite? I'll go first:

?si=7g7_UZszcMf6IBvT

[displacedvermoter]

10. Julie Kotter (Marcia Strassman)

I thought you were asking who was my favorite on the show!!! 😄😄😄😄

In honor of Deb!!!

[unblock]

14. Ah, poor Julie.

Here, stand here while Mr. Kotter does his stand-up routine.

Uh, do I get any lines?

Not really, we just need you to be there so mr. Kotter has someone to talk at.



Ok, maybe it wasn't that bad, but they really didn't give that character much to work with....

[displacedvermoter]

15. I just loved her!!!

[OLDMDDEM]

7. You have to stay. I enjoy your posts.

[LNM]

8. I'm glad you're staying Debm55!

Your daily threads brighten my day.

[XanaDUer2]

11. DU is my family

I get it

[claudette]

12. So happy you're back!

[woodsprite]

13. So glad you decided to stay!

We're all extended family here (the good supportive fun kind - not the weird kind like I have IRL )

[Niagara]

16. No one is perfect * F BOMB INFUSED*

And I've had a few people here that have corrected my spelling or predictive text and they've been banished to my full ignore.


Guess what? I misspell words!

Guess what? I'll choose the incorrect predictive word!

Guess what? I'm always leaving a word or two out of a sentence!

Guess what? I'll use incorrect grammar!

If no one likes my mistakes...keep fucking scrolling!


There's an abundance of spelling, predictive, grammar and whatever else happening here, it's not just you Debbie and it's just not me.

The last person that mentioned that you placed an extra "ow" in Halloween in one of your threads went straight on my full ignore list. There's absolutely no reason for anyone to be that petty. It's ridiculous.

[peppertree]

84. I hear you.

I've had the same thing happen a number of times - as my writing style is, well, unconventional.

And like most people here, I've had my share of adversarial replies - including some which, as you noted, might seize on small syntax or factual mistakes in bad faith (as in life itself, really).

But I've never put anyone on ignore, and probably never will - because I've found that even those with whom I've had vehement disagreements, might, later on, have something really interesting and/or informative to say.

So take it from me: ignore the ignore button. You never know where good insights will come from next.

[Niagara]

87. When another person corrects another, especially publicly.... it's not about correcting the offending mistake

It's about establishing superiority. If someone wanted to be helpful, there's a function where one can mail another person in private along with sending a link.



I can guarantee that I'm not missing anything spectacular with any condescending offender on my ignore list.

[peppertree]

89. You're probably right

Still, I do like to read interesting points - even if it comes from a power-tripper.

Besides, as they say: keep your friends close - but...

[AltairIV]

17. Good news!

Obviously I missed something here, but I'm glad your staying. Your posts are always a fascinating read and many of them gather equally fascinating responses.

[IbogaProject]

18. Welcome back

Just do what you want to and can do on here. And be glad we have a much higher ratio of good people here than most anywhere else.

[Teacher of the Year]

19. In the past decade

I've watched the tone of DU change. We do have visitors who do not share our politics, but join in the conversations to twist and misinform at worst, and to make it unpleasant and maybe scare away some democrats at best.

Like mosquitos and other annoying flying insects with small brains, we must bear with them. Their goal is to chase you away. I'm glad you aren't listening to them.

[Tree Lady]

56. So true I don't pay attention to those

people because overall there are so many wonderful people here that have been here for many years.

Luckily our system has a way if they are really bad to get rid of them.

[Clouds Passing]

20. Stay please deb ❤️🙏🏼

[badhair77]

21. Good.

We need positivity here.

[VoteBlue2175]

22. Love you! 🤟

[Jerry2144]

23. Welcome back

Spelling and grammar don’t really matter. We can figure out what you mean. Makes me think of this poem:

ODE TO A SPELL CHECKER
by Jerrold H Zar
Eye halve a spelling check her,
It came with my pea sea.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye kin knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it’s weigh,
My checker tolled me sew.
A check her is a bless sing;
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when aye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen,
Eye trussed too bee a joule;
The checker pours o’er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
Bee fore wee rote with checkers
Hour spelling was inn deck line,
Butt now when wee dew have a laps,
Wee are knot maid too wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
There are know faults with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a wear.
Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier;
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped words fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should be proud;
And we mussed dew the best wee can
Sew flaws are knot aloud.
That’s why eye brake in two averse
Cuz eye dew want too please.
Sow glad eye yam that aye did bye
This soft wear four pea seas

[AllaN01Bear]

37. this. i hate auto correct on phones .

[ProfessorGAC]

24. Good

Glad you reconsidered.
Your Lounge posts are fun, and we all need fun.

[EverHopeful]

25. So glad you're staying

Fun breaks are essential while we cope with all the horrors and potential horrors in our world right now.

And as a lifelong lousy speller, I love that we can sometimes blame it on autocorrupt (which is what I call autocorrect).

[onecaliberal]

26. I don't know what I missed, but I am very glad you're staying. LOVE your posts.

[progressoid]

28. Tremors are fun!

Not really. I've had them for a few decades. Manageable for a long time but now that I'm of a certain age, they are pain in the ass.

For a long time my anti-depressants made them worse so it was a fight between those meds and the essential tremor meds. Now I'm on an experimental drug trial. Fingers crossed!

Welcome back!

(I'll try not to be a pain in your rear)

[Upthevibe]

29. debm55.....

I'm so sorry things have been hard for you and your family.

For God's sake PLEASE don't worry about spelling words or anything like that! I LOVE your posts!

I'm so glad you're going to continue posting....

[SWBTATTReg]

39. Glad you rethought it through, and will continue to stay. Lots of us are very happy (including me of course) that

you are going to continue to stay, and grace us w/ your wisdom and sage advice. And sometimes just plain fun too, sometimes it is nice to laugh, and have fun just for the joy of it. Nothing ever is wrong w/ that.

Be at peace, and welcome back!!

[LoisB]

30. Well, hello. Glad you changed your mind. We need you.

[SheltieLover]

31. Use Full Ignore Liberally.

It really cuts down on the stress level.

[MiKenMi33]

32. I'm glad you're staying.

As a fairly infrequent poster until recently. I look forward to your daily question. You brighten my day. Thank you. And if anyone complains about misspelled words, they can scroll on.

[rsdsharp]

33. Am I one of the pains in the rear? Am I, am I, am I? Huh, huh, huh?

[Polly Hennessey]

34. Some good news! You are staying.

Can’t believe some people are such grammar complainers. How silly. 😜 Happy that you are back and to heck with those ‘ others’.

[Permanut]

35. Hey, blame it on spell checker; mine really does some bizarre things ..

Plus I love your posts; please keep 'em coming!

[AllaN01Bear]

36. yay. welcome back.

[TomSlick]

38. I'm just glad you decided to play.

[multigraincracker]

40. Don't go, who will water the plants.

You live up to my motto better than I do.....
"It cost nothing to be nice".

Went to the cognitive doc today. She said my essential tremors are definitely not
Parkings Disease. They started for me about 30 years ago from taking anti-depression pills. I've now found exercise(just keep moving) works much better along with Cognitive Behavior Strategies, google those.

[slightlv]

47. Hea, Multigrain...

You mean the shaking in my hands may be due to the anti-depressants, and not just a symptom of advancing old age?! I take an SSRI and have for quite a while now for anxiety (GAD)/depression.

[multigraincracker]

49. Yep, The only med that helps me is INDERAL.

It is for anxiety. I take only when needed. Also google "CBT strategies for anxiety".
Works for me and it might not for you but it helps me. Also breathing meditation.

[slightlv]

52. The pot gummies helped me,

but it's not legal in any form where I'm at. And the CBD leaves a lot to be desired around here... (sigh). Crap, we're still fighting the legislature on abortion rights, even we told them NO from the first (KS). But we can't even get a question on the ballot about pot. I'm disabled and could easily come up with a medical card. And I'd like that, to cut down some of the pain meds I take. But no... better to take an SSRI that could take up to 10 years to titrate off of without causing suicidal ideation. I take Effexor XR.

[debm55]

58. I take anit depressants and anti anxiety.

[Figarosmom]

41. I know what you mean. My eyesight is down to just 30%

And I hit wrong keys all the time because I can enlarge most everything but not the keyboard. I just expect it and let it slide. The embarrassment is on the one who feels the need for snark when correcting me.

[samnsara]

42. welcome back...

I for one will welcome all your posts.

it takes me forever to correct my spelling when i post something

[slightlv]

45. I've usually posted it and my eyes scan afterwards

and see issues... most of the time I let it go, especially if I'm posting from my phone. So kudos to you for trying to correct the devices "autocorrect"... even if it's just our own brains! (LOL)

[From The Ashes]

43. Oh my!

I didn't know that you were thinking of leaving, but I am glad you decided to stay!

[slightlv]

44. I'm glad you're back, Deb!

Heck, at least you have a *reason* for your tremors. My hands are beginning to shake such that it's hard at times to hit the right keys on the keyboard... let alone when I try to post on my phone (ugh!).

I'm a pretty opinionated individual... I will usually add a (YMMV) at the end of a post like that, cause I recognize we aren't all of one mind completely around here (gryn)... But I don't think you and I have ever "had words"... at least, not that I can remember. I do know there are times when I post, come back to DU later, and have butterflies in my stomach when I see the My Posts lit up. I'm usually afraid I've gone overboard or ticked someone off... but that's on me and my sense of insecurity; not on anyone here at DU.

I second you on DU being family... I honestly don't know what I'd do without everyone here!

{{hugs}}

[niyad]

46. So glad you have decided to stay. We need all of us here, our very special

family. You post as you need, and are able. We understand.

huggggs

[MustLoveBeagles]

48. I'm glad you decided to stay

[proud patriot]

50. I'm the typo queen

[70sEraVet]

51. We are a big, crazy diverse group.....

and that's the way I like it!
Welcome back!! We saved your seat!!

[GoldenMezzoDiva]

53. Happy you chimed in, dear deb...

Chin up ‘n carry on. With warm smiled, gmd.

[judesedit]

54. Don't worry at all. Welcome back.

[c-rational]

55. debm55, all good. I heard a wise man once said, have no regrets. Easier said than done. Best.

[rurallib]

57. So glad you made this decision at least for my sake BUT

be sure to do what you need to do to stay healthy and in good mind!

[unweird]

59. I like this post better than your last post I replied to

Much better.

I think it was a Stephen King novel that shared “don’t let the shitters get you down”. Great advice for Internet forums.

[debm55]

60. Not the speller cherkers. but also posters who like to rip you or your post up. I don't understand why they feel the

urge to respond if not adding to the conversation.

[Tikki]

61. debm You are clever and push us to memories.

Thank you..please stay.


Tikki

[WestMichRad]

62. I'm very glad to hear you're staying with us!

You help make DU a welcoming refuge, and if I may speak for others… we love you for it!

And personally, I couldn’t cope with our crazy society without anxiety meds.

[Eko]

63. Glad you came back!.

[a kennedy]

64. You're the best debm55......and sooooooooooooooooo glad you're back.

[True Dough]

65. Just remember, deb

Just don't let 'em bring you down!

[Dear_Prudence]

66. DUers stick together,

But we don't go drinking together, we don't get high together, we don't have a bowling team, we don't go out to lunch, and as far as I know, we don't have team shirtsl. Our group recreation is responding to your questions. If some people get cranky or nasty, that is a shame. They don't understand that we are not just exchanging serious ideas.on DU, but also creating our own culture. I am so glad you are back!

[electric_blue68]

68. You post fun, or interesting questions. I like reading the replies, so welcome back.

[electric_blue68]

69. OTOH, I Have NO Tremors Excuse for My Bad Spelling! 😁....

Actually I'm much better than I was. Oh, mannn, I was so bad as a kid!!!
😁
Spelling Bees were the bane of my elementary school life! 😬

I usually preview. If I miss something I almost always go back and correct it.

[ailsagirl]

70. HURRAY!!!

Great to have you back, Deb!!



PS If you are receiving nasty posts, report it-- seriously

[NNadir]

71. We're all happy to hear that. I suggest liberal use of the "ignore button." It helps.

Recently I found myself, by some mysterious mechanism, responding to an OP from a bot on my ignore key, and "boom," a hide.

Generally though, I'm well shielded from the bot and others who despise me as much as I despise them. We're all Democrats, but not all of us can or should be nice to each other on some points.

[Prairie_Seagull]

72. Woop woop.

We would get by but the lounge would be a hellscape without you. He kids.

So glad you are back my dear (hope that is ok to say)

[if..fish..had..wings]

73. And it makes me happy

happy, happy

Flowers everywhere

[malaise]

74. Welcome back

[Mr.Bill]

75. We're all glad you're here, Deb.

Keep the posts coming!

[OLDMDDEM]

76. Hang in there and ignore the nastiness. They are not worth your time and effort.

[MiHale]

77. ❤️Glad you're staying...

Look forward to your posts they are always fun. You’re a gem, don’t let the ‘some’ people bother you.

[FalloutShelter]

78. Thanks for staying Deb.

I really enjoy the fun you being in these difficult times.
You know what they say if people can’t take a joke….#*%# ‘ em.

[Ocelot II]

79. I'm glad you're sticking around.

Don't let a few snotty people rain on your parade; just ignore them. There will always be ants at a picnic so brush 'em off and enjoy the occasion.

[gademocrat7]

80. Glad you are here.

Sending you hugs and love.🤗💕

[CaptainTruth]

81. Glad you're staying!

Don't let a couple inconsiderate folks bother you, you're welcome here.

[malthaussen]

82. Lots of that going around.

Don't let the bastards grind you down. Even DU has its share, but overall its not a bad place, especially if you avoid the politics.

-- Mal

[BigMin28]

83. DU wouldn't be the same

Without you, debm55. I always enjoy your posts. So glad you are staying. We must all stick together in such times.

[Sanity Claws]

85. Glad you decided to return.

We look forward to your posts.

[LakeArenal]

86. Peace Sister!!

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[surfered]

88. I miss type and miss spell all the time and they tell me I am supposedly well.

[people]

90. Your Post was Great!!

Ignore nasty mean people!

[mvd]

91. Deb, so happy you are staying

I know what you are talking about, but don’t let them drive you off. DU is still family.

[Different Drummer]

92. So glad you're back, Deb!

The DU Lounge just isn't the same without you.