Have you changed any behaviour as a result of this forum?

[Bellenden Belle]

Absolutely! Echoing other posts here - I feel a real sense of community, a real connection with new people and a far more positive attitude. I used to be quite suspicious of meeting new people - always fearing that I would come across badly. I also think this forum has helped me realise that I can say quite serious stuff and be taken seriously - before I always thought I came across a bit fluffy.

And I now use a mooncup! Which was seriously life-changing! Hoorah for CWALD for sharing that advice last year.

[Marmora Man]

I now deliberately shop for as much as I can in Lordship Lane or the immediate surrounding area. I, usually, use a canvas bag for shopping not plastic bags. I have used and supported businesses promoted by the forum.

Like others I wonder whether I am speaking to, sitting next to, passing in the street, drinking / eating next to or buying goods from EDF"ers" - who's going to make a discreet lapel badge for us?

[Bellenden Belle]

Marmora Man

Come to the next gathering! Then you will know exactly what we look like!

We are, of course, all very beautiful...

[Moos]

Ooh, could we have a secret handshake?! Neh heh heh.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Marmora Man has been to a couple of drinks BB and a splendid fellow he is (he was definitely at the FHT one - but if I recall you arrived later and he may have left earlier)

Moos - this secret handshake - even if we did have one, non forumites are going to be severely non-plussed by the outbreak of handshaking generally, surely?

[Bellenden Belle]

Oh Marmora Man - my apologies - I hope to meet you at the next one. :)

[Azul]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> Have you changed anything you do or the way you

> think as a result of anything on this forum?

>

> A small example occurred to me today as I got off

> the bus and picked up all of my newspaper - I used

> to leave the sports section and anything else I

> was finished for "others to read" but having been

> picked up on by (I think) Alan Dale and looking at

> the general mess on buses anyway I started to

> collect and take everything with me - dunno if

> that's any better or not but I wouldn't have

> changed my behaviour if it wasn't for discussion

> on here

>

> Anyone else got any (and better) examples?

no changes here, I still look the same crap I looked before I joined.

But I noticed that the free papers I used to read on the bus have disappeared for quite some time.

I'm much less informed now that I used to be before I joined this forum,

[wee quinnie]

One wierd thing I do as a result of being on the forum, is I have started quoting the wisdom of other forumites.

Eg . I've started saying

"I don't want to zig before I zag"

And also, sad to say...

"OMG!!"

[SteveT]

Bellenden Belle wrote:-

We are, of course, all very beautiful...

and modest and like Uriah Heap extremely humble;-)

It has changed my psychological behaviour in that I now like the computer which for 15 years I have had a negative feeling about, always waiting for it to freeze up or lose important data, but now I have a good chance of laughing out loud when I drop in to forumising.

[bignumber5]

I think through my arguements a lot more.

I'd argue black was white if I was having a ruff day and felt like a barney, but this forum is made up of people who know a lot more about... well, most things, really... and can put me on my arse then tear me into tiny pieces if I haven't really thought through my position.

I like that, it makes me far less aggressive and more deliberate/moderate.

So thank you, posters-all. :)

[SteveT]

It saves me from wasting so much time boring myself to death in front of the tv.

I now spend time posting in front of a computer screen boring other people to death.

[giggirl]

I'm in China, and I'm engaged in a topic called "beer prices in East Dulwich". I actually think that's fairly normal forum behaviour; but to the outside world.....

[Asset]

I very rarely watch TV now, preferring instead to watch what's happening on here; interspersed with my scrabulous games I have little time for anything else.

[giggirl]

Quite right Asset - TV is boring and everyone should give it up.

[RosieH]

Bellenden Belle Wrote:

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> And I now use a mooncup! Which was seriously

> life-changing! Hoorah for CWALD for sharing that

> advice last year.

BB, if it's not too personal a question, how did you know which size to buy? Have often looked and wondered about that.

I am approximately 8% less productive at work. I do smile more at people in the street (but only ED environs) and I often see people in bars whom I immediately assume must be a particular forumite. I have visited the cafe on Peckham Rye, but realised my horrible mistake in being hideously hung over and not having children. I have developed secret crushes on certain forumites.

[SteveT]

RosieH wrote:I have developed secret crushes on certain forumites.

Bet if you new them all Rosie, the 'crushes' would vanish faster than a pint on the 9th of may

[Jah Lush]

Let's put that to the test then shall we. Come to the next drinks RosieH. Right or wrong, it's always fun.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

The most distressing result of this forum is that I no longer hoik a coat over me jimjams and dawdle up L.Lane. I might bump into someone I know now!

[RosieH]

You're probably very right, and thus far I've been crap and not made it to any drinks in spite of my best intentions. Roll on May 9th - and may all my illusions be shattered...

[giggirl]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> The most distressing result of this forum is that

> I no longer hoik a coat over me jimjams and dawdle

> up L.Lane. I might bump into someone I know now!

OMG I still do that all the time. Now I feel inadequate.

[SeanMacGabhann]

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That has now happened to me more than once - I feel disproportionately bothered afterwards!

[wee quinnie]

Oh no - I am going to have to start combing my hair on a daily basis. (Maybe I will start getting stuff delivered).

[TillieTrotter]

My going out head is so different to my everyday scurrying around head that I doubt anyone would recognise me:-S

[????]

I rarely venture out of doors without being 'tooled up'

[giggirl]

Thank God for Ocado