Random Rants
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Agreed on college sports and football in particular.
This is all very poignant for me as the era of strong identity he refers to was exactly when I was there as an undergrad. We were getting noticed on the national level for basketball, and had a nascent football program. Academically many of our programs were nationally very well ranked, and there was much new construction all over campus. I think the temptation is often to take a growing success and try to expand wildly in every arena. An ill-conceived expansion has sunk many an empire, but companies often fail to remember this.
Abandoning your core values for the land grab will work in the short term but once you’ve erected the grand structure you look down and there’s no foundation underneath. If you’re not lucky often people have been hurt along the way as well. This is why the long term successes (people, programs, companies) are always aligned on their values. They have a culture not because they talk about it loudly but because they live it and won’t compromise it. This is why I patronize (and invest in) companies that are aligned from the top down.
It’s just sad to see my school go the way of so many other companies and programs, especially when there was such a buzz of promise while I was there.
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@Giles no no, not at all. Sorry the 'ouch' was the sound of my foot being firmly rammed into my mouth! I hope the team and family enjoyed the evening.
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I just bought a coffee in one of my 'when in London' coffee shops. The barrista handed me the contactless machine before I reached for my wallet. I said 'oh no, I'm cash thanks'. He response? 'Oh, cash, old school man' hahaha. The psychology of financial exchanges eh? Ha, we laughed.
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My son got food poisoning Friday evening and I suspect it was a bad batch of raspberries I picked up. So, He’s been dealing with projectile vomiting and diarrhea for the last 2 days and had to stay home from school. He’s much better now but I’m a little pissed that I bought tainted food. Seems like a regular occurrence these days to read about salmonella outbreaks, I just never thought it would happen to my son. [emoji35]
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Truth. Funny thing is, I’m now sick with whatever my son had [emoji23]. No vomiting and I haven’t shit myself….yet.
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It saddens me how some products seem to sell well, but are then just lost in the abyss…
I WANT TO SEE WELL WORN PICS OF THE IHM-22 21oz denim N-1!!! Lol
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There’s like 6k people on this forum and about a hundred of us who
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It saddens me how some products seem to sell well, but are then just lost in the abyss…
I WANT TO SEE WELL WORN PICS OF THE IHM-22 21oz denim N-1!!! Lol
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There’s like 6k people on this forum and about a hundred of us who
Talk regularly. Those other 5900 are a cagey private bunch.You've just furthered my sadness! Lol
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It actually really bothers me that most of the product threads are now dead a short time after release (with a few exceptions) and some never get going despite good sales. Didn't used to be like that.
I think one of the major reasons is the huge increase in product IH is putting out, so it's a minor, negative consequence of a major positive, but still. I'm as guilty of it as anyone…
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The WAYWT thread diverts a lot of attention to product-specific threads and embedded fit pics. I detest the notion of double- or cross-posting, so it's typically one or the other.
One forum enhancement that could help would be product tags that function similarly to user tags, with auto-completion. These would be searchable so that users could easily see all posts with a given product tag with a simple query.
Imagine being able to tag your WAYWT post with @IHSH-87, etc, and for those tags to either link to the product thread or to a search for all instances of a tag as described above.
Think it, be it.
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The WAYWT thread diverts a lot of attention to product-specific threads and embedded fit pics. I detest the notion of double- or cross-posting, so it's typically one or the other.
One forum enhancement that could help would be product tags that function similarly to user tags, with auto-completion. These would be searchable so that users could easily see all posts with a given product tag with a simple query.
Imagine being able to tag your WAYWT post with @IHSH-87, etc, and for those tags to either link to the product thread or to a search for all instances of a tag as described above.
You’re right in everything you say.
As to your tagging suggestion I brought this up with @Giles about a year ago and he put me in touch with his web people. We had a solid exchange of ideas about it. The issue is that the forum runs on a platform that is quite straightforward and the kind of tagging we’re talking about (Instagram/Twitter level) takes a god-like amount of processing and programming power.
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The WAYWT thread diverts a lot of attention to product-specific threads and embedded fit pics. I detest the notion of double- or cross-posting, so it's typically one or the other.
One forum enhancement that could help would be product tags that function similarly to user tags, with auto-completion. These would be searchable so that users could easily see all posts with a given product tag with a simple query.
Imagine being able to tag your WAYWT post with @IHSH-87, etc, and for those tags to either link to the product thread or to a search for all instances of a tag as described above.
Yes!
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Here's a hack though: actually use user accounts for the tags. You can search for posts by tag ("@username") so it would be easy find tagged posts. Clicking the tag would take you to the account page of the "user" and from there you could see all "their" posts, which could include the original posting of the product.
I understand the level of operational overhead may be unpalatable, but this would work.
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I occasionally double post in WAYWT for exactly @neph93 concern about original item threads being under used. It doesn't bother me too much.
Maybe I/we all should give more thought about the need for a WAYWT thread at all. Validation addiction is a hell of a thing.
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But if no one sees my outfit…am I really wearing it?
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I'm such a curmudgeon. Ever since my son started kindergarten it seems like a birthday party is being thrown every other week by his classmates' parents, so invitations are always being extended by parents I don't know and have never met. Of course, my son will always want to go to these parties and i'd feel like an a-hole if I didn't oblige, at the same time, this is my weekend with my son so i'm feeling selfish and would rather we spend time doing our own thing together rather than going to his classmate's bday party (who he got into a fight with btw). The only upside to his classmate's party is that I can drop my son off for an hour or two and come back to pick him up if I choose to.
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What if he came home from school the next day and kids had asked him why he wasn't there,and that caused him to feel bad,or left out or something? Then you're on the hot seat unless you OK it with him up front. At some point you might be having a Bday party for him and you'll want the other kids parents to reciprocate. My son is fast approaching 25 and it seems like those days were a lifetime ago. Good luck.
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What if he came home from school the next day and kids had asked him why he wasn't there,and that caused him to feel bad,or left out or something? Then you're on the hot seat unless you OK it with him up front. At some point you might be having a Bday party for him and you'll want the other kids parents to reciprocate. My son is fast approaching 25 and it seems like those days were a lifetime ago. Good luck.
I'll be going but I heard from the mom that there will only be 2-3 other kids. However, I'll drop my son off and they can chaperone while i'm out running errands. Also, since we're in a split household my son knows that he gets multiple parties with me, his mom and both grandparents, which puts us in a unique situation. When I celebrate his bday it's just me and him. When he celebrates his bday with his mom it's with his friends from his neighborhood of which there are probably 8-10 kids plus his friends from when he was in daycare.
