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so I politely post, on the second non-copycat, 'Posted earlier,' with link to my earlier post.
I assume its due to traffic at DU, as well as forum I originally used.
NO sinking HERE!!!
Almost got run over in the supermarket parking lot a couple of hours ago and I'm still shaking. I was in a marked pedestrian crosswalk pushing a small grocery cart to my car. Someone turned their car directly into me and scraped the coating off part of the cart while I jumped out of the way yelling STOP! If I'd been carrying the bags without the cart in front of me, I'd probably be in the ER, because she would have run me over.
Once she stopped, she gaped at me and drove off without apologizing or asking if I was okay. It's not as if I was invisible - I'm 5'7 and was wearing a black coat. 
deep breathes...
But look! Your post is doing good now......
I often notice that when I am in victim mode, I notice more things to feel victimy about.
Don't give up, that's the imortant thing. Keep posting, keep speaking up for yourself (heee heee-- like yelling, "you idiot, you drive like crap!" 
), EVEN when you don't get the change you want immediately.
But when you try again, THAT'S where your victory is! Keep at it and give it some time and pat yourself on the back for trying again. After awhile, you'll realize things have changed.
And remind me of this next time I'm feeling rotten and beat down! 
That happens sometimes to me, too, where I post some interesting articles or videos, and then I find myself constantly kicking my own threads just to keep them from being buried, while appreciation threads get dozens of recs and comments.
Kidding! I don't hate you, in fact I like you. But I don't reply to posts based on who I like, it's whether I have anything snarky or substantive to say. Usually snark. 
They sink. Maybe you have to do it with no expectation, and be all Zen about it. Detachment about the response. The same as a sand painting, done outside will be, erased by the rain. You offer it to general knowledge. And kick it yourself. 
I'd be shocked to find out more than 3 of my OPs got more than 5 replies. I can think of 3 off the top of my head in the last couple weeks that got one or none. No big deal. Timing, luck or even I was just interested in something enough to make an OP out of it but nobody else was. It's not our fault these nimrods don't recognize our genius. (KIDDING!) lol.
One of the 3 that got more than 5 replies was mostly filled with people telling me how stupid I was. SO be careful what ya wish for. 
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I must say. 
they are called 'power words'.
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I have a whole folder full of them...
Those are great!
Nine times out of ten, or maybe 19 times out of 20, or even 29 times out of 30, threads that I start sink like a lead balloon filled with granite 
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I love all God's creatures
Think of the flowers, man
Old English man, mann "human being, person (male or female); brave man, hero; servant, vassal," from P.Gmc. *manwaz (cf. Old Saxon, Swedish, Dutch, Old High German man, German Mann, Old Norse maðr, Danish mand, Gothic manna "man"
, from PIE root *man- (1) "man" (cf. Sanskrit manuh, Avestan manu-, Old Church Slavonic mozi, Russian muzh "man, male" .
Plural men (German Männer) shows effects of i-mutation. Sometimes connected to root *men- "to think" (see mind), which would make the ground sense of man "one who has intelligence," but not all linguists accept this. Liberman, for instance, writes, "Most probably man 'human being' is a secularized divine name" from Mannus [cf. Tacitus, "Germania," chap. 2], "believed to be the progenitor of the human race."
So I am as he that seythe, `Come hyddr John, my man.' [1473]
Sense of "adult male" is late (c.1000); Old English used wer and wif to distinguish the sexes, but wer began to disappear late 13c. and was replaced by man. Universal sense of the word remains in mankind and manslaughter. Similarly, Latin had homo "human being" and vir "adult male human being," but they merged in Vulgar Latin, with homo extended to both senses. A like evolution took place in Slavic languages, and in some of them the word has narrowed to mean "husband." PIE had two stems: *uiHro "freeman" (cf. Sanskrit vira-, Lithuanian vyras, Latin vir, Old Irish fer, Gothic wair) and *hner "man," a title more of honor than *uiHro (cf. Sanskrit nar-, Armenian ayr, Welsh ner, Greek aner).
MAN TRAP. A woman's commodity. ["Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence," London, 1811]
Man also was in Old English as an indefinite pronoun, "one, people, they." The chess pieces so called from c.1400. As an interjection of surprise or emphasis, first recorded c.1400, but especially popular from early 20c. Man-about-town is from 1734; the Man "the boss" is from 1918. To be man or mouse "be brave or be timid" is from 1540s. Men's Liberation first attested 1970.
At the kinges court, my brother, Ech man for himself. [Chaucer, "Knight's Tale," c.1386]
but my native language is Estonian, which is not an Indo-European language but a Finnic one. I learned English in grade school.
We say mees (pronounced somewhat like maize) for man and naine (NY-neh)for woman, both derived from early Finnish, according to my Eesti Keele Etümoloogiline Teatmik. (Etymological Dictionary of the Estonian Language).
I could argue that mees could also have stemmed from the Russian muzh, but it would piss off a whole lot of Estonians, and that wouldn't be a pretty sight.
I'm not a linguistic scholar, nor trained in any of that, and can only use the Online Etymology Dictionary to satisfy my curiosity with words.
I suspect, too, that my use of etymology at all pisses off a lot of Republicans
of grilling goat cheese."
I have made several posts only to get a couple of responses only to look later and see a similiar post with 40-50 responses. Maybe it has to do with your user name? There is a theme of trolls using Lib, Dem, Lefty in their user name and people are just glancing over your posts thinking the same? I have had a few people call me out on my user name, they think it has to do with breaking from the gov or something like that. Its to do with church & state.
But look at this post, lots of replies.
so I'd think most folks would at least recognize that LiberalEsto is an oldie.
But you could be right.
The Lounge is a wonderful place filled with wonderful people, which is why this post is getting so many replies.
I LOVE the LOUNGE
Your point about cultivating self-love is a very good one. Usually it's not a huge problem for me, but I was feeling a bit down when I posted, from being out of work for over 4 years.
I used to be a newspaper reporter in another lifetime, so I got upset when nobody responded to my post, and then other people posted the same thing and got lots of responses.
Please tell me you didn't breastfeed your pit bull. 
Never got quite that intimate with my Daizie, although she is quite the snuggler.
That would be a graphic that might get a response or two, though.
...and there were several about the Japanese FM, so I probably was caught up in one of the other threads.
I apologize and will never, ever, ever do it again.
It happens to me all the time. Only one person 'recced' this thread yesterday: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022254348
But, I think the article may have confused people. I should have put more of my own perspective into it. Or not. 
Just think, you may have been responsible for saving a child's future. Damn. Actually, probably several children's futures.
Thank you for taking a little bit of that fear out of their lives and replacing it with confidence.
It happens so much to me on another site that when I do post what I think is an interesting subject, someone will make reference to the initial thread and will lock my post. It's gotten to be a joke to some, they'll use my name if this situation happens to someone else, i.e. this has already been posted by and then use my avatar. I spose I should check to see if what I'm going to post has already been posted, but sheesh, I'm not on the computer 24-7 and if I happen to find something late, I'm sorry. Wow, that kinda came from someplace dark eh??
Oh... I thought you said, "stinks like a stone!"
I wouldn't worry... besides, I think I hold the record to end threads. Did this a few years ago. I may have then, as I may now end the thread.
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"Or the parentheses of puerility (frippery). "
because it keeps bobbing up again and again.
Irony!
People don't hate you. Now with my one (for which I am truly grateful) I have reason to worry.
...for granite.
