The first successful jit.si Show up
Our first video meet-up came off today fairly well despite technical conditions, especially for me. Thanks to apenultimate for attempting to get me started on a mac. Seeing this on an iPhone was a bit cumbersome but the view instantly switched to feature the speaker on the main screen. I think we has 8 or a few more in session at various times.
Our liege Lord, the Noble Johnnie the Coqueroo, also blessed us by his presence, during which I believe he, or Joe S., inserted some music, probably the blues.
True to character, yours truly got agitated. But generally our participants were polite (they should've known better that to have me included).
I didn't take role.
Apenultimate, the sly fellow, intently listened with quiet humor.
Granma is younger than me--so stop complaining about you age (which you never do.)
Poetic QMS lives on a polluted Island somewhat east of Gotham. Spiderman is coming for you QMS. But he blends in with the natives, sorta.
Lotlizard, who never fails to politely correct my often egregious oversights, participated. I couldn't tease a word of German out of her.
I know I am leaving some people off the list because our screen identifier (putting a name to the face) didn't work well, at least not on my iPhone. To those who participated: thanks for the fun.
Phillybluesfan is to be congratulated for getting this thing rolling. I regret not recalling the name of his co-conspirator.
After consensus, previously obtained, the membership is open to any c99'er. Please ask somebody else about technical details, e.g. PBF.
Planned meet up is on jit.si/caucus99percentShowUp at 4 PM EDT.
Password: BERNed out
Hope to see more folks next week.
Comments
Thanks for the write up!
Sorry I missed you!
Marilyn
"Make dirt, not war." eyo
Describing the average voter's thinking.
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hmm, I was a coward - true to my German character -
and didn't want to show my face, I am too scared of American border control officers.
Anyhow: WHAT did you talk about? What got the Alligator agitated? I was advised to not think, there are no alligators, because the water is calm.
Tz, tz ... someone gave the keys to the burglers too, no, no.
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I am a fool for the Blues
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and I love alligator tails. Should be tweaked according to CB. So I hops to grow some spine next time, but won't say a word.
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Agitated alligator aggressive assessments...
smiling here : that's why I liked cassiodoris
essays introducing candidates through his interviews he had with the supposed 'lower-class-candidates' to vote for or against.
I have some issues with my sister, she wants the crabgrass out of her perfect lawn to be 'genocided' with some 'Zyklon B'-like products. I told her that would make her beloved lawn look bad and she needs to change her ideas of how to 'control' the crabgrass.
So we watch which side wins, the 'crap grass' or the 'good grass'. That is a multi-generational struggle and I guess my non-existent grand children might know who will win.
Be it crap or other grass, they all look green (german=grün), which is kind of 'soothing my nerves'.
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oops, the English version for you, Sir.
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Thanks for explaining, alligator.
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Imagine one Hawaiian kine pidgin parody called “My Fair Local”
One prof from U of H try teach one Mainlan’ kine malahini lady how fo pass as kama‘aina.
https://www.southwestmag.com/pidgin-english/
Da rain stay Kaneohe one pain in da ‘okole . . .
You are such a treasure, lotlizard !
when I read 'da kine' somewhere here (don't remember in which comment or essay) I wanted to ask "What is meant by 'da kine'"?, but felt it would show me as being very 'hamajang'.
Thank You very much for that article. Lovely to read and smile over it. It's so much fun. I never was able to understand the pidgin the local Cameroonians in my RIP ex husband's home turf spoke on the open markets. And they very much found it hilarious that I couldn't. I mean pidgin is the weapons against them 'white people' and the tool to overcome the tribal-based dialiects' tensions (over hundere of them in Cameroon alone) in the days back. They always were able to trick them out and asked 'mintangans ( = white folks") hyped-up prices for their produce. I still found it to be very cheap and bought it without pandering. My in-laws told me they are cheating on me. Who cares. It was only just in a way.
Viva la pidgin. Pidginois Unite !
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Yes
Student OfEarth was there as well! And StevenD! It was very good meeting you all virtually!
Thanks for the memory boost!
FANFARE FOR THE COMMON MAN
fun stuff philly b
thanks for organizing it!
You asked for it. You got it.
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My idea of a meetup was apparently different from the
subject/issues of today's conference.
I had wanted to just have something like a Happy Hour, for people to meet and greet, to tell funny stories, because "serious topics" are what this site is meant to discuss.
I wanted the conference to be a break from the endless bad news.
No way our essayist would have lost his temper over the time a site member had a blast when their boss forgot to zip his pants, or when the bride tripped and fell on her gown.
Nevertheless, I will try to join the next conference.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Hmm … how to manage the sliding scale of Seriousness versus Fun?
Have separate jitsi meets with different pre-declared levels of gravity / formality / solemnity?
While we’re thinking about it, here’s an old-timey TV test pattern:
That's a consideration all right
If we subdivided this ShowUp into different styles before it gets rolling with kinks worked, then it will likely devolve into a mess where people might be confused as to what they would be allowed to say. I say "swamp rules"--critters can make all the noise they wishes too without being too concerned about sounding all pretty like.
Happy hours make me nervous, I need some hippo hours
After some pleasanteries for three minutes I run out ideas to say something nice and it makes me very insecure. I certainly would shut up faster than I can nod with my head and say 'yes, that's right' all the time.
Furiously tail wagging alligators though I could watch like a good crime story, especially if we had some hippos around as well.
With sincere apologies to all the alligators, hippos and other creatures.
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Luckily our alligator is not a crocodile. And I learned that at the one and only blog site being fun: C99p through a hint, well I forgot, but I think the alligator made me look it up.
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Have fun and good night from Germany.
PS: Can you discuss how to grow a spine for Social Democrats speak their mind without being called a rosy pinky cmmmie or a sorry coward looser and make it a rule that it is okay to to bite back?
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We just chatted yesterday
hmm perhaps
creativity finds its own balance
level or otherwise
the more open the less restriction
sooner get to the point of the mind meld
Agreed.