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Learning to let go

Submitted by Rick on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 11:31am.

This cartoon captures perfectly one of the reasons why comments get out of hand. I wish more people could say their piece, and then let it go.

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I saw that this morning and thought the same thing.

Submitted by Guglielmo on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 11:38am.

Damn funny!

That Is A Great Cartoon!

Submitted by JstPlnOnry on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 11:47am.

thanks for sharing it! Maybe it should be prominently placed on the home page permanently for a bit?

"A point of view is only a view from a point..." ~ Unknown

Sweet!

Submitted by Laurian on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 11:48am.

A picture, regardless of how poorly scrawled, paints a thousand words. Let's all tape this to our monitors. Laurian

Awesome...

Submitted by oldtimeydave on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 11:57am.

Rick this is hilarious. I came across this post moments after I chose to let something go. I deleted a response I had just typed up went back to the home page and bang! Good call...

It is obvious that some people are just out to cause trouble here, rain on our parade and ruin a great community resource . Responding to their baiting will just prolong their behavior and possibly even their membership here.

Ignoring posts we don't agree with might actually speak louder in the long run.

We should make Olyblog T-Shirts with the quote "Just Let it Go"

T-Shirts. Hmmmm.

Submitted by oldtimeydave on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 12:07pm.

OlyBlog T-shirts might be a great way to help fund the site or reward donations or the like. If that is of interest to the Docents at all let me know, I'd be glad to help or even just point you in the direction of a terrific local resource. You know where to find me.

OlyBlog logo/icon contest?

Submitted by chad360 on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 12:18pm.

B&W...like the ENA (Thanks again from the ENA to K. Finch).

Totally

Submitted by oldtimeydave on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 12:40pm.

I'm not surprised Chad, you got good taste in logos and coffees.

That would be a particularly funny shirt for the

Submitted by Guglielmo on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 12:08pm.

"Smile if you mastrbate"-sign guy.

OH NO!!!

Submitted by oldtimeydave on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 12:43pm.

I just got that joke...

Hmm, this reminds me of

Submitted by Anamaria on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 12:43pm.

Hmm, this reminds me of someone I know...

letting go

Submitted by Robert Whitlock on Wed, 02/27/2008 - 3:54pm.

I sense wisdom in this advice.

I would agree

Submitted by oldtimeydave on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 7:11am.

It is funny however that a thread like this that should conern nearly everyone is so dang quiet.

let it go, Davey

Submitted by Mike on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 7:18am.

Mike, you're wrong and I

Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 7:51am.

Mike, you're wrong and I won't sleep until it's pointed out and believed!

You know I'm kidding, right? I'll buy you a locally-roasted coffee sometime.

You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!
Friedrich Nietzsche

Just let it go

Submitted by Sarah on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 7:56am.

This can be my daily online reminder visual.

We should add the soundbite

Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 7:58am.

We should add the soundbite to our computers of Sean Connery telling Harrison Ford to let the Holy Grail go.

You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!
Friedrich Nietzsche

Good idea

Submitted by Sarah on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 8:02am.

We could have it on timer, say every twenty minutes or so. Or even better somehow wired to a read out of our blood pressure.

Ha ha nice responses I love

Submitted by oldtimeydave on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 10:43am.

Ha ha nice responses I love it. It totally should be the Olyblog mantra right along with "It's okay to be nice". It could diffuse many a thread. The way I see it at least one side of a quarrel will get it and lighten up. You can't perpetuate an arguement with only one side.

After several days of "just letting it go"

Submitted by Guglielmo on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 3:11pm.

I can see a definite difference. I am no longer trapped in run-on, escalating, comment sparring matches (and neither are my sparring partners). It's really difficult for me to let anyone have the last word, so I haven't been perfect. But I'm sticking with and highly recommending "letting it go." If you write "A" and someone retorts with "B," you really don't need to write "C." It's okay to let it go...liberating, actually. I am no longer a hostage of someone who was wrong on the internets. Then again, this little experiment has some ceteris paribus problems.

ceteris paribus

Submitted by Rob Richards on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 3:44pm.

Gotcha.

The Last Word

Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Thu, 02/28/2008 - 3:44pm.

Me: Why must you always have the last word?

You: I don't need the last word. Go ahead, take it, I don't mind.

Me: Thank You

You: You're welcome.

You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!
Friedrich Nietzsche

thank you for saying "you're

Submitted by sascha on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 12:48am.

thank you for saying "you're welcome"

Oh, don't mention it :-)You

Submitted by Merwyn Haskett on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 7:36am.

Oh, don't mention it :-)

You say that a good cause will even sanctify war! I tell you, it is the good war that sanctifies every cause!
Friedrich Nietzsche

xkcd rawks!

Submitted by epersonae on Sat, 03/01/2008 - 8:42pm.

his subject matter is super-nerdy, and of course there's the odd stick-figure style, but I always enjoy his comics.

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