W2R
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The real thing may be even better ...
Sorry! At 59, I'd say that, well, I both act and look my age.
The real thing may be even better ...
Hee hee!! I would have explained that she is a German actress and model, but there wasn't any room. In real life, I am a dumpy, grey (or is it white?) haired 59 year old woman with glasses.
Brown haired and 46.
See how frickin diverse we are, yet can all still get along?
grey (or is it white?) haired 59 year old woman with glasses.
Hee hee!! I would have explained that she is a German actress and model, but there wasn't any room. In real life, I am a dumpy, grey (or is it white?) haired 59 year old woman with glasses.
The real thing may be even better ...
Yep, and you're one of them.
Lets get real for a minute here. Re-read the thread afresh with a cleansed palate.
We have a new poster, seems a bit spammish and advertisingish, gets a little skepticism, answers direct questions indirectly, suggests newsletters and market timing investing schemes, gets more skepticism, claims she's being persecuted for being a woman, answers more direct questions indirectly, in the middle of this a couple of board malcontents decided to pour gas on the fire with their incessant whining about how they dont like the board and its occupants and this being a prime example of some sort of alleged tar and feathering, then the OP rants like a 12 year old on the way to taking her ball and going home.
Follow up with a chaser of more board malcontents whining about how they dont like it here, mixed with the usual anti-moderator whining from people who do nothing to help solve the boards issues and everything to create dissension.
There was no ganging up, no unfair treatment, no running of the razor wire, nada.
This forum stuff is easy: introduce yourself, answer questions directly, provide and receive information, take a little razzing here and there and give some back. Learn and evolve, support and be supported.
Rinse and repeat.
I read the "blog" and the rest of the material. To steal someone elses private comment about it, its a mile wide and an inch deep. Infomercial quality stuff designed to get tv and speaking appearances and book requests. Certainly EVERYONE is interesting and has a certain perspective. Not sure we're seriously deficient without this one.
As far as this oft muttered "herd mentality" goes, among the longest term board posters, we have a dozen people with the most ridiculously different investment profiles and approaches to ER that such a suggestion is enormously laughable. Are you telling me that between people like me, Nords, Rich, Martha, Haha, Unclemick, Brewer and the rest that anyone can REALLY see any core similarity in how we go about our business?!? Ridiculous!!!
And for the record, I own very little passive index investments. I just dont like fluff and bullshit.
Can we stop a minute and reflect that the original post was in "Hi, I am".....not fire and money....stock picking....live your life like me......just HI! I also didn't think her last post was final or childish. Not as funny as it could have been given the material she had to work with but all in all a "B" for effort. And yet you still persist in trying to call her a *********or maybe not. Maybe this is your attempt at a running gag? I think we're expecting too much from new posters and too little from long time posters. Just saying. When I log in it says welcome Honobob. Can't we say Welcome MMND and attack in the appropriate thread?
As a relatively new participant on this board, I found this entire exchange with MMND to be quite bizzare. Does this kind of thing happen frequently here? I enjoy learning and interacting with the folks here. As I have posted before, I am one of those super risk adverse types with most of my savings in CDs and the TSP G fund. Even so, I have not experienced anyone putting down my position on investing. I think perhaps this is because I didn't suggest my ideas were better than anyone elses. In fact, I know many of you have done much better with your investments than I have. Because of this, I hope to learn enough to introduce a little more risk and return in my portfolio as I gain confidence, knowledge and experience.
For the record, I wasn't the one that brought up the topic of how I invest. In fact, there are umpteen other different falsifications here attributed to me; whereas they actually originated by various other board members. If you'd like to look at what I have posted, you can view my list of forum posts here:Believe me, I'm all ears and legal pads and spreadsheets if someone can come to us and explain a method of investing that can be shown to beat the risk/reward of indexing. I don't think I'm alone either. But the people here have good reasons to be skeptical, even more so when it comes across like a sales pitch.
-ERD50
Well, we just disagree then. Some of us feel like she came on like a bull in a china shop, and you don't. That's OK. But it is not OK that you are accusing me of calling her names. I didn't do that.
-ERD50
I can only lament that we cant change our own user names anymore...
For the record, ...
I thought I was joining a group of like-minded people who were sharing a similar lifestyle experience as me. I was wrong. I choose a happy life, resplendent with tolerance, mutual respect and kindness. Apparently I've come to the wrong place. So be it.
Some of us feel
the mods tried to close the 'welcome' thread, ............. The OP protested, and got her way.
I don't think I'm alone either............. But the people here have good reasons
-ERD50
...I thought I was joining a group of like-minded people who were sharing a similar lifestyle experience as me. I was wrong. I choose a happy life, resplendent with tolerance, mutual respect and kindness. Apparently I've come to the wrong place. So be it.
I, too had already read MMND's blog, finding it linked through some personal finance bloggers. I enjoyed her blog.
When I saw her introductory post here, I thought it read like a press release, personality promo, and thought that seemed kind of out of place here. I knew she wasn't selling anything and sincerely wanted to talk with like minded people, so I knew it wasn't spam. But if I hadn't recognized her blogger name on the post, I probably would have thought it sounded spammy, much like the annuity guys who show up here from time to time.
jazz-for-cash has it right, there is a big difference between the way you would write for a personality/instructive blog and the way you would write in a give and take forum such as ours.
I personally would like to see everyone call a truce, stop rubbing salt in the wound, forget it all happened and maybe MMND could reappear tomorrow or next week and we could get on with it. I'm sure there is a lot she can get out of this forum once she can stop having to defend herself, and I am also sure there are many young dreamer newbies who are wondering about how to get to ER who could benefit from her experiences as well.
I, too had already read MMND's blog, finding it linked through some personal finance bloggers. I enjoyed her blog.
When I saw her introductory post here, I thought it read like a press release, personality promo, and thought that seemed kind of out of place here. I knew she wasn't selling anything and sincerely wanted to talk with like minded people, so I knew it wasn't spam. But if I hadn't recognized her blogger name on the post, I probably would have thought it sounded spammy, much like the annuity guys who show up here from time to time.
jazz-for-cash has it right, there is a big difference between the way you would write for a personality/instructive blog and the way you would write in a give and take forum such as ours.
I personally would like to see everyone call a truce, stop rubbing salt in the wound, forget it all happened and maybe MMND could reappear tomorrow or next week and we could get on with it. I'm sure there is a lot she can get out of this forum once she can stop having to defend herself, and I am also sure there are many young dreamer newbies who are wondering about how to get to ER who could benefit from her experiences as well.