<p>I knew it. I knew it . I knew it. I never post there. Never. I knew better. Nobody reads for understanding. They just type. The decorum here on the Parent's Forum is like a different world. I wish somehow the mods could just section that part off my screen so that I wouldn't even see the tempting topics scroll by on the "new posts" screen. Mods, help me out here ,huh? Just lop it off my screen. Most of you I never see down there, how do you resist ? LOL. (Marite,if you do go back down there on the medals thread, have my back will ya'?)</p>
<p>I never go there either but now I am tempted to go look, lol. I agree that this forum is a GREAT one and usually quite respectful as well. Ok, gotta go check out the other now and I can blame you for enticing me...lol.
Susan</p>
<p>I know. I have resisted until I somehow fell into the Cafe black hole this week. I am going to try to pull myself out now. Help me. Please. Help me.</p>
<p>Carolyn, we'll support each other. I feel the same way. Parent addicts, unite....(still, it was a good place to do my post-election grief processing: denial, anger, grief, acceptance--I made it all the way in a mere 5 days!) Note that I am on the road to recovery, not having posted for several hours at least.....</p>
<p>(However, curmudgeon (you don't really seem like a curmudgeon), in fact the Cafe is great, because before it arose, everything was getting posted on the Parents Forum and there was a lot of off-the-college-topic stuff and that got pretty difficult too).</p>
<p>This week was the first time I ever hung out in the cafe. It's more interesting than What Are My Chances? but it is unnerving that 6 people can write perfectly rational rebuttals to a point and then someone starts up again with the same point that was already perfectly & rationally rebutted. I'm ready to give it up.... unless this thread gets moved there since it's off-the-college-topic too....</p>
<p>I'm not familiar with the history of why "the darkness" is there, I just want to learn to resist its' gravity. If U of Chicago is "where fun goes to die" , then the cafe must be "where thoughtful conversation goes to get the crap kicked out of it".LOL.</p>
<p>I'm just glad that we parents all made it through the past week still talking to each other after falling into the Cafe's evil charms. At least I think we did. We did didn't we Patient? :) The problem is I feel so ashamed now, like I've spent the week dancing drunk and half-naked on a table in some smoke-filled bar.</p>
<p>Carolyn, LOL about the "naked" part!!! Of course we made it through just fine. I have always respected and learned from your posts and this week was no exception. See you in Italy :).</p>
<p>I'm with patient. I never go to the Cafe forum, but love the fact that it is there, keeping evil from seeping into the other forums.</p>
<p>After a few early forays onto kid-based forums, I try to stick to the Parent's Forum. The cafe makes me quesy, especially the race threads.</p>
<p>Anyway, I need more attitude from high-strung adolescents like I need a hole in my head ! :p</p>
<p>(Can you tell we're in the midst of exams? S2 home for TWO weeks "studying". More like me standing over him with the internet connection in my hand. And I've paid tuition for this privilege!)</p>
<p>Perhaps there is a need for 12 step group for people who tread briefly into the black hole of the Cafe and promise not to go back unless another Bush gets elected President in 08....nibblers anonymous?</p>
<p>...ah, robyrm, you reminded me though, you started my favorite message thread there, it even had my name in it :D</p>
<p>cafe? I have never even looked behind the "College Admissions and Search" category!</p>
<p>NJres: STOP WHILE YOU'RE AHEAD! Trust us :)</p>
<p>You guys - I can't even go there...and I AM a kid.</p>
<p>I too went to the dark side for a couple of days but after posting on one thread vow to stay in the less threatning Parents forum. It wasn't bad talking to a couple of parents down there but I think a student wandered in just to insult and stir things up. A parents cafe would be nice.</p>
<p>I love it when a 17 year old kid will characterize you because you voted one way or the other. "Professionals who make less than $100,000 and struggling to pay the mortgage". Ha!! </p>
<p>I remember Marite's rejoinder once on Parents' Forum "but I am rich and definitely not struggling to pay my mortgage. And you are what?? 17?"</p>
<p>Achat:</p>
<p>Your remembered my bit of boasting. I hang my head in embarassment. :(
My city, characterized as having more $1M houses per capita than anywhere else in the country, voted overwhelmingly for Kerry/Edwards.</p>
<p>Sorry, Marite did not mean to make you defensive. I was just saying that your rejoinder was something I should have made but couldn't say as eloquently. I don't remember the exact wording. Sorry! You said the right thing at the time.</p>
<p>Achat:</p>
<p>LOL, I was just kidding. I actually don't remember the exact words I said, either, but I'm sure I wanted to point out that a person's socio-economic status cannot be inferred from that person's vote. It certainly is true of where I live!</p>