Rant about unknown location and vague topics.
I can understand people wanting to be anonymous when posting things of a personal nature. Location is very important to what the answer should be. Differant laws in differant locations can completly change what a good answer would be. Cultural and economic differances in differant areas of the world can also change what a good answer would be.
The first line of your posts should be very specific. Many people who would be willing to help with a specific problem will probobly not take the time to browse through a thousand posts that say “Help”, or “I need help with something” before finding something they feel knowledgable enough to respond to We already know you want help, that’s why we’re on “HELP.COM”. Is the problem with your car or your emotions.
If you really want help, you need to help us help you.
Just Saying.
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I’d agree.
As far as not dislosing location, some people just don’t feel comfortable doing that so they don’t even have it showing on their profile.
But I see your point and mostly agree with what you’ve written.
Many people don’t know what to say in the first post but then provide many details in replies. This is pretty easy to work with, especially if the title is accurate.
help! my life sucks! I need help figuring out what my problem is so I can complain about it properly.
then again… If I’m vague and difficult, and withhold useful information maybe people will think I’m mysterious and keep talking to me.
MarlinTheFish wrote:
help! my life sucks! I need help figuring out what my problem is so I can complain about it properly.then again… If I’m vague and difficult, and withhold useful information maybe people will think I’m mysterious and keep talking to me.
Please tell me your problem so I can help you, you mysterious wounded person!
verge wrote:
MarlinTheFish wrote:
help! my life sucks! I need help figuring out what my problem is so I can complain about it properly.then again… If I’m vague and difficult, and withhold useful information maybe people will think I’m mysterious and keep talking to me.
Please tell me your problem so I can help you, you mysterious wounded person!
:)
it’s true most people aren’t equipped with some basic critical thinking skills, or maybe just the will or confidence to apply them. but getting people to talk to you is sometimes the funnest part. :)
it’s nice making a connection every once in a while.
Lol you seem to do it by either making people laugh or making people mad :)
verge wrote:
Lol you seem to do it by either making people laugh or making people mad :)
when I was in middle and high school, I was such a smart ***, of the nerdy variety. I only made people mad. that didn’t really work out to my advantage.
:D
I try to be more polite, which is why I am only from “An Undisclosed Location” … unlike some of the rest of you.
MarlinTheFish wrote:
when I was in middle and high school, I was such a smart ***, of the nerdy variety. I only made people mad. that didn’t really work out to my advantage.:D
I’m sure it did in secret, surprising ways that you can’t know about yet. I bet the mad people are still mad about stupid ****.
president mindhealer wrote:
I try to be more polite, which is why I am only from “An Undisclosed Location” … unlike some of the rest of you.
Sorry I ask you so often, but what do you mean?
My compass says the unknown locations on this post are philadelphia, massachusettes, and west of buffalo, niagara falls area. That’s not completely “unknown”.
verge wrote:
president mindhealer wrote:
I try to be more polite, which is why I am only from “An Undisclosed Location” … unlike some of the rest of you.Sorry I ask you so often, but what do you mean?
haha. his location is literally “undisclosed” while mine is “unknown” obviously because I have no idea where I am. too many reoccurring flashbacks
verge wrote:
president mindhealer wrote:
I try to be more polite, which is why I am only from “An Undisclosed Location” … unlike some of the rest of you.Sorry I ask you so often, but what do you mean?
Nothing really, except that my location is “Undisclosed” — yours claims to be “Unknown” but I can map it.
president mindhealer wrote:
My compass says the unknown locations on this post are philadelphia, massachusettes, and west of buffalo, niagara falls area. That’s not completely “unknown”.
Sorry, I just meant “Pennsylvania.”
Well this is a pretty vague topic in the first place. I was just saying stuff after getting multiple notices.
MarlinTheFish wrote:
oh. that map thing. yeah. its a little off there. for me.
sorry. I gotta be mysterious. but I did live in philly at one point in my life. so it’s not a complete lie.
I finally get what this is all about. Phew.
Some things absolutely possibly disgust me. Especially places where stuff resides!
president mindhealer wrote:
My compass says the unknown locations on this post are philadelphia, massachusettes, and west of buffalo, niagara falls area. That’s not completely “unknown”.
that’s very interesting.
president mindhealer wrote:
Sorry to go so far off topic.
You were perfectly on topic as usual, but going off topic is fun!
president mindhealer wrote:
Give me ambiguity or give me something else!
how about I give you a better compass. here this one comes with an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle attacked to the back of it.
MarlinTheFish wrote:
president mindhealer wrote:
Give me ambiguity or give me something else!how about I give you a better compass. here this one comes with an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle attacked to the back of it.
Yeah, and in case you need a clock, I’ll donate my stove.
I can hardly read, so I accept your gracious gifts of compassion and love.
Excellent, Marlin’s rifle probably has a telescope that will help you read :)
verge wrote:
Yeah, and in case you need a clock, I’ll donate my stove.
thats nice of you. now I will have a suitable place to put my excess gas.
verge wrote:
Excellent, Marlin’s rifle probably has a telescope that will help you read :)
oh, he probably just stepped on his glasses and broke the lens
I hope my contribution here is not utterly lost.
My point is: The author of this post, who is complaining about people making posts from Unknown Locations, is in fact herself from an Unknown Location.
Therefore: His complaint is like antimatter to her own post, and shall implode sometime, probably pretty soon.
verge wrote:
You must be the messiah!
Sorry I ask you so often, but what do you mean?
I was saying that you must be some sort of all knowing savior for knowing the poster’s unknown location, then I was planning on quoting Life of Brian at you when you denied it. All well, the best laid schemes of mix and men.
And the mix up there is definitely supposed to be mice.
If you click with a mouse on the unknown location, it becomes more known.
I bet there would be grumbling if I changed my name to president messiah.
No doubt there would be. I’d dare you if that wasn’t immature.
I’m trying to help by giving clear examples of vague topics.
Haha I was just about to write this: It seems like most of the things you write have some sort of immediate logical reason behind them that I often fail to grasp, so what is with all of this?
Before your explanation showed up.
The reason I write things is obviously to answer your questions before you ask them.
I see that you have decided to tease me to death.
This post would be more accurate if titled, “Self-imploding rant about unknown locations and verge topics.”
Well, I really want help, and I know I need to help you help me, so obviously I can’t be too vague or unknown. But being undisclosed is more a matter of not losing discs, which is a positive and unvague thing, if you know what I mean.
Well I know about Euclid Street. I think that might be good enough. The more positive unvague things, like not losing disks, the better. :)
Euclid is famous for Geometry, which is Earth-Measurement. Is that accurate and clear enough?
Okay. I’m just wondering how else we can help this person. It’s not very clear, he has a problem with Unknown Locations? I guess I could suggest praying or seeing a doctor.
That sounds good. Or maybe becoming a fantastic navigator would help :)
You mean we could just donate rifle-compasses every time someone asks this question? That might get expensive.
verge wrote:
Nah, we’ll just give them lodestones :)
Yes, and MOPS.
Maybe even a lump in case they get lost in the dark.
Or, if someone really doesn’t know their location, they could check Google Earth.
That should definitely take all of the vagueness out of the situation. But what if they aren’t from Earth?!
News In Brief @ http://www.theonion.com/articles/poet… wrote:
Poet Takes Extra 5 Minutes To Vague Up Poem
ANN ARBOR, MI—After completing a poem originally titled “Last Dawnbreak,” local poet Keith Taylor spent five additional minutes removing verbs and punctuation in order to give the piece a level of vagueness more suitable for publication.
“Harshness your light fallen—Sporadic. Droppings.” reads the now-untitled poem’s opening line. “Juniper glass, my world of 19—. Orion! Orion!”
Though he has already replaced the names of his friends with largely unknown African deities, Taylor said the poem would not be totally ready for publication until his 5-year-old nephew completes work on the third stanza.
Yep.
I guess they could always just do as you originally suggested.
president mindhealer wrote:
I could suggest praying
I think between us, we’ve determined most of the tools that people who are lost need to find their way out of vague whereabouts.
verge wrote:
Yep.
I guess they could always just do as you originally suggested.president mindhealer wrote:
I could suggest prayingI think between us, we’ve determined most of the tools that people who are lost need to find their way out of vague whereabouts.
So, this problem is pretty much solved.
MarlinTheFish wrote:
help! my life sucks! I need help figuring out what my problem is so I can complain about it properly.then again… If I’m vague and difficult, and withhold useful information maybe people will think I’m mysterious and keep talking to me.
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why you are in an unknown location?
Anonymous wrote:
why you are in an unknown location?
Well, sittin’ there in a public john, plugged up something fierce and busy tappin’ that I-Phone screen in an effort to obtain anonymous assistance to help deal with said traumatic experience.. does the location really matter? True, if one is angling for a ‘hands on’ approach it would be a different story, but(t)..
You are right, but somewhat missing why some people are here.
They have lost trust in those around them, and need to feel like the other person is willing to reach out a little before they share their hurts
president mindhealer wrote:
Or, if someone really doesn’t know their location, they could check Google Earth.
I went to google earth, but guess what?!?!? the first thing it did was ask me my location.
president mindhealer wrote:
Okay. I’m just wondering how else we can help this person. It’s not very clear, he has a problem with Unknown Locations? I guess I could suggest praying or seeing a doctor.
or maybe that one REM song asks you to think about direction and wonder why you haven’t before
MarlinTheFish wrote:
president mindhealer wrote:
Or, if someone really doesn’t know their location, they could check Google Earth.I went to google earth, but guess what?!?!? the first thing it did was ask me my location.
Did you say “unknown” or “undisclosed”? Nosy websites have no business asking in the first place.
president mindhealer wrote:
MarlinTheFish wrote:
president mindhealer wrote:
Or, if someone really doesn’t know their location, they could check Google Earth.I went to google earth, but guess what?!?!? the first thing it did was ask me my location.
Did you say “unknown” or “undisclosed”? Nosy websites have no business asking in the first place.
I didn’t even know that “undisclosed” was even an option.
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