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Old 11-10-2016, 05:29 AM   #1
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My thought for this thread is that it could be a place where anyone can express their positive feelings ... no matter how small for the place they call home. As the title suggests, it could be something you as close to you as street on which you live or as all encompassing as the country you live!

My one additional suggestion would be that when we share our likes/loves that we leave out any qualifying, clarifying, prefacing statements about whatever it is that we like/love. There are exceptions to everything... to every statement... to every opinion ... to every rule... etc. My hope is that we can keep it 100% positive... 100% gratitude... 100% appreciation ... 100% good stuff! Ya know?

I'll start... I appreciate that all my neighbors have been so friendly and welcoming since the first day I arrived!
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Hey y'all... please remember to keep the comments in this thread positive... positive... POSITIVE. It's nice to have a place on BFP where we can express our appreciation / gratitude / happiness about where we live.

Yes, there are reasons not to be 110% thrilled about our current location and there are other threads to express those thoughts and feelings.

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I think since we are all adults, we can chose to write something positive or not.

Only moderators get to tell us how or what we should remember to write.
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Wow

I didn't think it too much to ask that we try and keep this particular thread positive since I started it and did so with that specific goal in mind.

But you're right, such a request was too much for me to ask. Thank you for making that fact abundantly clear.
I agree that whoever...whomever?...starts a thread should be the captain and guide it through the murky waters of the internet and, if need be, bring it back on course when it drifts off this way or that.

Having said that, most of us just had a major, life changing event that affected the entire country and will stay with us for at least 4 years and, more likely, many after that. I get that this isn't a political thread and it's meant to be positive but I think that the couple of posts I saw weren't extreme and I think that chastising the type of responses that are less than 100% happyhappyhappy is a little much too.

There's a happy medium in there somewhere. gotoseagirl's post, for example. She expressed her sadness with her country and then some nice things. That's very real and that's where we are right now. All of us have something they like or love about the places they live and some things that aren't perfect. This isn't the place to blast off about the negative stuff but it's still part of the picture.

For thread compliance, I like that the people up here care about the environment. When I travel state roads and highways, there's a fraction of the trash and debris and junk that I would find when I drove down South. When my company built a new building some years ago, the city demanded a large percentage of the property contain grass so I now have a huge front lawn, which I have a love/hate relationship with but I prefer that over ugly concrete.

Oh and I saw a wild bunny last night! Love that.
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Negativity has inherently a slippery slope which can quickly build. You know... misery loves company all at that. So... no chastisement. Just a gentle reminder... a request... an entreatment... a plea... to keep things positive.

You're right, we're all pretty bummed about the recent turn of events. All the more reason to have a tiny spot, a "happy place," to refresh our memories that despite what's happened we still have things in our lives for which we can be thankful.



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I love... that in my neighborhood... my city... my state... my county... that I can go out, day or night, and find a store open with an abundance of yummy food and drink!!
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Recently... since I've joined BFP ... I've been doing a lotta mailing! It's been a while since I've mail anything! So, I was curious to see what other countries pay for like a 1st class letter.

I love the fact that our USPS is so dang cheap and still pretty damn efficient!

"The price of a first-class stamp in the U.S. is vastly lower than postage within other countries. This bar graph is in euros. But the price of a first-class stamp in the cheapest country on the table--the island of Malta--would be about 50 cents U.S., which is more than a 44-cent standard stamp. The 44-cent U.S. stamp is about one-third of the average price charged for postage in Europe."


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Well dang... looks like the image of international postal costs got moved. Oh well... Anyway, we're super super cheaper than a most other countries!


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Recently... since I've joined BFP ... I've been doing a lotta mailing! It's been a while since I've mail anything! So, I was curious to see what other countries pay for like a 1st class letter.

I love the fact that our USPS is so dang cheap and still pretty damn efficient!

"The price of a first-class stamp in the U.S. is vastly lower than postage within other countries. This bar graph is in euros. But the price of a first-class stamp in the cheapest country on the table--the island of Malta--would be about 50 cents U.S., which is more than a 44-cent standard stamp. The 44-cent U.S. stamp is about one-third of the average price charged for postage in Europe."


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