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Lap-Band Talk Rants and Raves

Gripe, complain, moan, fight, rant and rave. Enter at your own risk!

The above was cut and pasted from the Forums list. Just so we are clear on this....

THIS IS THE RANTS AND RAVES FORUM. Discussion is allowed here on ANY topic whatsoever. That means politics, religion, social justice, welfare, race, sex (gay or straight), matrimony, morality, quantum physics, or any other damn thing we can think of. We are NOT being rude, insensitive, or offensive by posting about these things. This Forum was made for this purpose. If you do not wish to participate in the discussion, DO NOT CLICK ON THE THREAD. But don't criticize us for talking about something besides WLS. And don't call us names, either.

Thank you....and have a nice day. :)

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Hear hear, Carlene! Life, online and offline, would be pretty boring if all we could talk about was weight and how to lose it. :)

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I agree with your post. The only problem is that when you log into the front page it shows the threads, but doesn't show what forum they are in. I made the mistake of clicking on one last month based on the title of the thread and was offended and spoke up when I shouldn't have (knowing now it was in this forum). I like having this forum, I just had to learn the hard way to be more careful!

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? What did I miss?

Someone posted this in the Rants and Raves forum....

Thanks! I'm new to this site to learn about lap-banding. Now I know this is a political commentary site, with some very ignorant people. I won't need to come back here again.

Some of us took exception to being called ignorant.

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I agree with your post. The only problem is that when you log into the front page it shows the threads, but doesn't show what forum they are in. I made the mistake of clicking on one last month based on the title of the thread and was offended and spoke up when I shouldn't have (knowing now it was in this forum). I like having this forum, I just had to learn the hard way to be more careful!

I'm from Oklahoma also. Several of us are, but most of the Okies don't post on the Rants and Raves because they aren't interested in the topics. I sure am impressed by your weight loss. I lost 35 pounds and stopped. It's depressing but I'm glad I lost the 35. When lapbandtalk.com comes up on my computer, there is a list of topics so I don't know how people get into the Rants and Raves. You might want to bookmark lapbandtalk.com rather than somethings else. Congratulations on your weight loss.

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Carlene -- I just love your posts though I don't agree with you on everything, most everything, but not everything. I hope the newbies can figure out how to the use website so they can avoid obnoxious people like us. As a professor though, I'm really pleased with the rants and raves forum because it shows critical thinking, meaning a person thinks for him- or herself, which is what we are trying very hard to teach our students. I'm so pleased to see that people who have been overweight are thoughtful and funny and entertaining. I love this forum.

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Carlene -- I just love your posts though I don't agree with you on everything, most everything, but not everything. I hope the newbies can figure out how to the use website so they can avoid obnoxious people like us. As a professor though, I'm really pleased with the rants and raves forum because it shows critical thinking, meaning a person thinks for him- or herself, which is what we are trying very hard to teach our students. I'm so pleased to see that people who have been overweight are thoughtful and funny and entertaining. I love this forum.

Obnoxious, moi? LOL...thank you, BOH. I enjoy your posts, too. And Geezer Sue's....and sometimes TOM's. I get a lot of PMs that say "I love your posts", and that's very flattering. I love writing the funny stuff, and I am compelled to write the rest because I feel passionately about certain issues. Other people feel just as strongly, but take the opposing view. That's okay....that's GREAT, in fact. A good, spirited debate is a beautiful thing. However....in a battle of minds, name-calling simply serves as an announcement that one side has run out of ammunition.

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I'm glad I read this because I was able to erase one of my replys. I didn't realize that this was a rant and raves forum. I saved myself from getting told off. thanks

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Carlene...you go girl!!! nicely spoken!

:xena_banana: becky

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