Identifying Discussions ,Tags, and Blogs

the topic posted under is at the top. above the advertisement. Or am i missing something?

The discussion forum is listed in the breadcrumbing of discussion itself. Just look below the top-nav header. In this case, you'd see Home > Discussions > (NEW) Site Ideas/Feedback.

The "all tags" list is coming soon. We need to fiddle with some database caching issues to make the data sorts you're asking for available, without taxing the system overmuch. In the mean time, you canuse the tag cloud on the main Discussions page (linked in the top-nav).

Blogs from your contacts exists. It's on the Blogs page. We'll see about adding a link to the contacts page as well.

How do I find all the tags that are being used? Seems like there should be a convenient spot somewhere on the Discussions main page to find discussions associated with each tag.

Thanks, ITgirli. Bear with me while I figure this TechRepublic thing out. I googled my way in here a few days ago looking for some legitimate work-related stuff but found a living, breathing e-society of somewhat technically savvy e-denizens instead. I'll take your advice and keep my eyes peeled and be looking over my shoulder for this Oz_Media person. As for you, people either hate you, love you, don't give a rip or don't know you, huh?...you pretty much covered all possibilities. I'm from a state where we are allowed to carry concealed handguns so you'll have to excuse me for not leaving it with the coat-checker girl.

Just your tongue!

you mean I am supposed to leave my mind with her too?!?!?!?!

no way not gonna happen.

I'm sure I saw that as a tag on a discussion already. :)

I know that there is a list of all tags, but danged if I can find the link to it.

how you could get crying like a girl.

piss of a girl enough that she kicks ya in the balls hard enough that you'll be sitting to pee for the rerst of your life.

if ya don't start crying at that you are one sick sucka, and should be locked up as insane.
( I escaped, that's my story and I'm sticking to it )

Real men are better than sissies any day. :)

> Real men are better than sissies any day

Gosh I sure am glad to hear that!

[[ Big sigh of relief! ]]

BTW, how do you add the smiley face or any other emoticon to a message? Do I just type something that seems like it should work, like : and ). I'll try it.... :) or :D or :O

BTW #2, what do people normally do when a thread has exceeded its max number of levels (seven) and you wanna continue adding to it?

BTW #3, bear with me for a few months while I figure out how this TechRepublic thing works.

You just go to the last one up that you could add to and add to it. Refernces such as you used in the title of reply help. You're doing great for a newbie. Glad you figured out the smileys. You'll be like the rest of us in no time. hahaha

are you sure that's a good thing?
~pointing at Oz~

I forgot about Oz, let's not try to scare the newbie too much. I've warned him about Oz, he'll find out the rest for himself.

I was going to say the same thing (not necessarily about Oz though). I've read some people's messages in other forums here on TechRep and there a few characters here that I DO NOT want to be like. :D

[ ... wondering why everyone thinks Oz is such a scary creature ... ]

Well, I remember that Dorothy was scared by the Wizard of Oz until she found out he was really a quivering wimp. I'm thinking you guys are letting the Media of Oz intimidate you too. ;)

Oz doesn't intimidate me. I give as I get. Oz is really a great guy as long as you do not enter into a political debate with him. Either you have to agree with him 100% or you are wrong.

Thanks, ITgirli, but you warned me about 5 minutes too late. He already lured me into a political debate.

https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=8&threadID=177500&messageID=1808838

Oz is all about himself and what he is. If you aren't exactly like Oz, then you are wrong. He is the most opinionated, self-centered, narrow-minded individual I have ever conversed with. He doesn't care about anyone else's opinion either. He's a bum. But we like him anyway, because he's fun and at least he knows what he's talking about from his perspective and can give actual information instead of misconstrued spew he gobbled up on some wing-nuts web site. Someone that low could only be jck, our local swill.

I think you lured Oz.

https://www.techrepublic.com.com/5208-6230-0.html?forumID=8&threadID=177500&messageID=1808644

And for all this macho posturing about being a man and not crying, you seem to be crying over Oz. Turn your sarcasm detector on for crying out loud.

James

Mr. Linn, who's crying? I stopped crying after reading ITgirli's message here saying that only sissies cry. And I don't have a sissy bone in myh body. I just showed a link to your buddy Oz's silly yapping about everything that he knows to be wrong with the USA where I just made a couple of factual statements, and then he jumped all over something that I will gladly go to war to defend--my country. Well, the one statement about the Republic of Texas was a slight exaggeration from a born-and-bred Texan. :D If you have a comment to a post made in another forum, don't you think it would be best to post it in that forum? And finally, regarding sarcasm, if you don't like sarcasm then you probably don't need to be involved in any forum on the Internet because 90% of what you read in these things is gonna be filled with with inflammatory but witty and bombastic saracasms. Ease up, my Canadian friend. Have a cold one this evening and relax. Life is too short to worry about what each and every other human being and inhuman being on this planet is prattling about.

Don't bother with them, they're canadian. They wouldn't get it. You have to be born an American to understand what it is to be an American. Besides, we fought many battles to make this country ours (though I think we should have eased up on the natives and dwelled with them in piece. It is their land after all), many long wars with the british to earn our freedom. Canadians don't understand that because no one wanted canada and it was just more or less given away. (I hope everyone realizes that I'm kidding, the last thing I want to hear his a bunch of canadian crap)

Sarcasm, oh I am never sarcastic.

I was taking you to task for getting upset at Oz's sarcastic post. I love good sarcasm. But its true that much of sarcasm is conveyed through tone of voice, and reading it in written form is not the best choice, unless you happen to be Oscar Wilde. If you didn't get that, I did a poor job of communicating - we all have bad days.

It cracks me up that many Americans here feel free to take pot shots at other countries, and get all huffy and defensive when someone says something similar. I don't get upset - why would I.

As for Texas - hot enough for you? I've spent lots of time in Dallas, and wife has cousins near New Braunfels. I remember Dallas in July, and not fondly, though the humidity is less than here.

And as for the internet, I've been a poster on alt.folklore.urban since 1993, and if you think this place is rough, consider AFU a meat grinder - though sadly a lot of the more acerbic and witty posters don't hang around much any more.

James

And we fought many battles to make the world a peaceful place because the rest of the world couldn't do that on their own. Oh how quickly the world forgets about a couple of little scrapes commonly called World War I and World War II that the U.S. involved themselves in.

but we then lent them money to rebuild their war ravaged countries. Do you know how many have paid us back? We go and help them in their time of need, and now we have a time of need and not only do they turn their backs on us and talk down to us, they also don't pay back their debts.
It makes me sick.

I wasn't upset at Oz's remark. As you so elegantly stated, the typical problem with communicating only by writing is that we can't attach body language, facial expressions, tone of voice with forums and emails.

Texas heat -- Mid-June through Mid-September you can be pretty certain it's going to high 90's or low 100's (Fahrenheit). Relatively low humidity helps some. Mornings and most evenings are pretty humid though. And in July and Aug, the temperature will usually be over 80 degrees all night long. The worst part is it hardly ever rains in July and August. 100 deg and no rainfall can be pretty brutal.

New Braunfels -- nice city. I grew up about 60 miles from New Braunfels in a small town near San Antonio.

This alt.folklore.urban news group sounds like my kind of place. I think I can match wits with the most acerbic of characters who are slithering around this planet.

I know. Hundreds of thousands of Americans died in those wars and then we spent millions to rebuild them. Hardly even so much as a "Thank you". I wonder what the world would want us to do if Hitler and the Nazis came around today instead of 70 yrs ago.

The terrorists are attacking our country and now another country. They've been attacking their own for years. But since it's just America that sees a problem with it, we're left to go on our own to stop this from happening again. Maybe if some of these countries would help rather than criticize, the bombing in London would nevr have happened. We live in a world of cowards. Cowardly terrorists that hide and kill, cowardly countries that are fine letting the terrorists kill. As long as it's not happening to them, why should they worry. If time travel was possible, I would like to go back in time and make sure everyone in france spoke german. All we have done for that country, and this is what we get. Yes, they helped us through the revolution, but that was apparently when they had balls. America is the reason they're not speaking german, America is the reason they received money to rebuild their country. And what do the french do to thank us? They don't pay off their debt, they call us snooty, fat, lazy Americans, they let the terrorists run free, and they think they're better than us. They wouldn't be here if it weren't for America. I have two words for the weasely, snail-eating, cheese-smelling, bad-wine-making, filthy surrender monkey:
Lance Armstrong.

Lance Armstrong: proof that a one-balled American can repeatedly kick the crap out of a group of no-balled frenchmen.

How do you REALLY feel about the whiny, snot-nosed French? The real problem is the United NATIONS is spineless and toothless, and the United STATES has had to do the UN's job. The trouble with being the only one who CAN do something us that you feel obligated to actually do something. And all the other piss-ant countries around the planet except the Brits (gotta love those Brits!) are content to idly sit back and bitch about us and watch our soldiers get killed. We're damned if we do and damned if we don't. Case in point: why did the U.S. have to go into Kosovo and clean up a mess in the Europeans' own back yard? I'm not sure how I feel about the Iraq situation. There are two sides to that coin. We're there now and sure as hell can't run away. But in hindsight, going in almost alone was a mistake. There again, it was a UN issue to begin with when Saddam kept stalling and pushing around the weapons inspectors. He basically thumbed his nose at the world and the world let him do it. If the fool woulda come clean and admitted he had no weapons and abided by the UN resolutions, this whole mess never would have happened. But damnit, why in the hell were we forced into going it alone? If more countries would have shown some backbone and called his bluff, this whole mess never would have happened either.

BTW -- your "ballsy" comment about Lance and the French...OUCH!

We do it alone because someone has to and we have the balls. screw everyone else, let's take out the trash.

girli, I like your saucy, sassy, brassy, take-no-prisoners, tell-it-like-is, kick-em-in-the-ass, don't-give-a-crap, go-to-hell style! This country is going to finally elect a female president one of these days. Can I be your vice-president?

It's nice to know that there is someone out there as anal-retentive about their grammar as I am.

First, I don't blog squat. I don't need the legal problems.

Second, I don't look, I click on discussions and when the list pops up I go through all of them.

Third, whenever you personalize something you never get all of the full picture, so why should I limit myself to only two discussions?

On second thought, I don't want to be VP because they don't do anything except get made fun of. I'd rather be Secretary of Defense so I can be in charge of kicking terrorist ass whenever the need arises, which these days is pretty damn often. I couldn't be Secretary of State because I'm too crass, crude and rude.

Re: anal rententiveness...you must have read my post in the tech writer's discussion. Or is my AR-ness is that obvious?

you have passed your initiation! Welcome welcome welcome!

He jumped and you jumped right back. I can see you should be a good fit!

B-)

the post that Oz bit on was Mark replying to me giving him a hard time about being a texan.

He answered me, with Mr. Oz not realizing the tone of the message and he bit and the hook was set.

With the mesage in context, it was just giving as good as he was getting. The rest was just collatoral damage.

First of all, thanks for welcoming me aboard! I think I'll like it here. Where else can one find tech discussions and random crap discussions mixed together on the same website?

Second, James and I have come to an understanding about the unfortunate turn of events with the Oz-man. I think we're pals now. We should all live and let live. Everyone is different and has unique perspectives and unique ways of stating their viewpoint. And same goes for interpreting what someone writes. People are too quick to jump down someone's throat if that person questions something or states his/her own unpopular opinion about certain topics. One of these days, I may start a tongue-in-cheek discussion with a title such as "I hate " and see what kind of vitriolic threads arise from that. I am willing to bet $4 that if the tone of the title would be "I love ", the ensuing discussion would be less bitter and more friendly. People are wierd.

I see everyone asking for things you want...any possibility of identifying a discussion you *don't* want in your discussions list?

Does this already exist?

I would like to never see "Evolution Lie"...blah!

ok...just a question...brain mush...gotta go

on the blog page itself, there is no tag links, no way to actualy browse blogs.

a random blog.
a few from staff, a new from last 24 hours, blogs from contacts and hot blogs.

but no search, no subject lookup, nothing.