The OT Feels Good Thread

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concordtom
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What happened good in your life today?

The rules of this thread is that you cannot go negative, you cannot mock or use sarcasm to insult anyone. No politics. Keep it personal.

Here's my story for starters:

In the last 48 hours I've visited both of my younger half-sisters and their 4 little kids ranging 4-7 years old. I've also seen my mother, father, and stepmother.
My brother is no longer here, but all of them are, and that's pretty cool, since they are in their 80's.
My nephew turned 7 yesterday. He's named after my grandpa, who marched with the Cal Band in the Rose Bowl in '38.
January 1, 1938
#2 California 13
#4 Alabama 0
90,000 attendance


Simple practice of gratitude.
What do you got?


I'll post back with better ones occasionally when the moment strikes, but look forward to reading about your own experiences of puppy licks, sunrises, and ice cream cones.
Who knows, maybe we can make each other smile once in a while.
concordtom
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bearister
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Well, I've posted 6 times on OT (now 7) this morning and exchanged pike thrusts with Patel apologists and anti vaxxers!

Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection
Send my credentials to the House of Detention

“I love Cal deeply. What are the directions to The Portal from Sproul Plaza?”
ACC Bear
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dajo9
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Abandon all hope, ye who enter here
Cal88
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We're 3-0!





concordtom
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That's the spirit!
Great video!
concordtom
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Okay, I'm back from the edge of insanity!

I watched this Nova episode explaining how we evolved - as a break from the nightly news. It reminds me that these current issues just don't matter much.

Instead, I got lost in the fascination of 300,000 years.

Enjoy.





concordtom
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Today:
The 49ers eked out a win they should have lost
AND
I made BearGoggles laugh. That's a win ANY day!

https://bearinsider.com/forums/6/topics/129350/replies/2551369


Surely someone reading this can beat both of those?
OsoDorado
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PAC-10-BEAR said:


Nice to see.

Does anybody really believe that either Donald Trump or Elon Musk -- or even Dana White -- really cared about Charlie Kirk?

These appearances at the Kirk memorial/Trump political rally were nothing but 3 conmen making an in-person, self-serving pitch to their clients.

Trump knows TPUSA recruited a lot of impressionable young people (especially those from Christian families) to his MAGA movement. Musk and White know the MAGA cult represents a large percentage of their customer base.

To make a somewhat tangential prediction: it won't be too long before it becomes obvious TPUSA's recruiting ability for MAGA will be irreparably damaged without Charlie Kirk as it's figurehead --TPUSA without Kirk will foreshadow what MAGA will become without Trump.

And as a corollary: less MAGA fans means less Tesla buyers and less UFC fans.
concordtom
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Rule of this board was NO POLITICS!
concordtom
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Rule of this board was NO POLITICS!!!
tequila4kapp
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Mrs T4K and I flew across country to visit divorcing friends, celebrate our anniversary, play in a member guest golf tourney, look at houses to buy and see our daughter at University. The divorcing couple part had some moments, otherwise it was a really nice trip.

Also, thank you to Tom for this thread - this board and my soul needed it.
concordtom
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Happy Anniversary!

May your soul find comfort here!
OsoDorado
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concordtom said:

Rule of this board was NO POLITICS!!!

I was just responding to what PAC-10-BEAR posted. I wasn't even thinking about the "rules" of this thread.

BTW, concordtom: are you an official moderator on this board? If not, how did you get the actual moderators to enforce your rules?

concordtom/Moderators: rather than just delete my post without warning, will you please transfer it to the Charlie Kirk thread (since that was what my post was about)? I certainly hope so, because I didn't knowingly do anything wrong. If this was "the wrong thread" for my post, please transfer it to the Charlie Kirk thread. Thanks in advance!


<From the OT Mods:
Sorry, but once a post is deleted it is gone.
We generally strive for a light hand on the OT board. In this case we chose to treat the politics talk in this particular thread as a violation of the rule against Thread Hijacking (knowingly redirecting the subject of a thread). It is a judgment call.>
smh
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concordtom said:

Rule of this board was NO POLITICS!

huh, reallly? gotta confess, cct, sorry if i dint get the memo, but always figured management in their wisdom only ambition was to keep politics off of ON topic boards, not OT.
citation please (srsly), alzheimers bear
# have a niice day, everybody.
concordtom
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Senior Oso
Aunque tengo muchas bromas en mi mente ahora mismo, las olvidare y simplemente responder que "No. no tengo permisos de Moderacin."

Evidentemente, ellos respetan a las reglas que yo pide arriba.

Toma -> algo para poner una sonrisa en tu cara:



Puedes poner una en la cara mia?
Dimelo!
concordtom
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smh said:

concordtom said:

Rule of this board was NO POLITICS!

huh, reallly? gotta confess, cct, sorry if i dint get the memo, but always figured management in their wisdom only ambition was to keep politics off of ON topic boards, not OT.
citation please (srsly), alzheimers bear
# have a niice day, everybody.


Have you ever bothered to read the repeated warning from Greg Bear at the top of the OT thread menu that he's sick of the nastiness and is considering shutting it down if we don't do better?

OT gets way out of control. It's not a free for all. I get that I'm one of the major offenders. They created OT to make Growls and Hoops a setter better place. I created this to make OT a better place.

Is it possible that we have ONE thread where we treat each other like human beings?

I don't think this needs to be debated here. If you want to post nice stuff, or read nice stuff, go for it.
If not, you have 1000 other pages of threads for nastiness.

Thanks.
smh
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Quote:

> I don't think this needs to be debated here. If you want to post nice stuff, or read nice stuff, go for it.
If not, you have 1000 other pages of threads for nastiness.

> Thanks.

nasty, baad, got it, thanks mr tom. but talking about where the country needs to go ain't necessarily a bad thing. except, you're right, anon bbses lean that way,, alot.
signed, (a)musings / peace - out
concordtom
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I wasn't saying you were nasty.
But controversial topics always turn nasty in every other thread here on BI.


So, what good happened this weekend or today for you??

smh
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concordtom said:

I wasn't saying you were nasty.
But controversial topics always turn nasty in every other thread here on BI.


So, what good happened this weekend or today for you??

my better half drove me to a doctor appt, and i survived.
# as good as it gets / small favors
all the best to you and yours cct
Go Bears!
ACC Bear
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concordtom said:

Rule of this board was NO POLITICS!

You aren't in charge of this board and don't get to set rules. The community either chooses to abide by your request or it doesn't.
DiabloWags
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ACC Bear said:

concordtom said:

Rule of this board was NO POLITICS!

You aren't in charge of this board and don't get to set rules. The community either chooses to abide my your request or it doesn't.


Oh the irony.


concordtom
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ACC Bear said:

concordtom said:

Rule of this board was NO POLITICS!

You aren't in charge of this board and don't get to set rules. The community either chooses to abide my your request or it doesn't.


Perhaps you can consider it a request.
If you choose to muck every single thread up with argumentation, I suppose you can do that.

I've tried to make a thread that has some consistent positivity. Is that something you can be agreeable to?
ACC Bear
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concordtom said:

ACC Bear said:

concordtom said:

Rule of this board was NO POLITICS!

You aren't in charge of this board and don't get to set rules. The community either chooses to abide my your request or it doesn't.


Perhaps you can consider it a request.
If you choose to muck every single thread up with argumentation, I suppose you can do that.

I've tried to make a thread that has some consistent positivity. Is that something you can be agreeable to?

I haven't mucked this thread up. I honored your request.
concordtom
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Great, thanks!

Got any feel good stories to share?
What did you have for dinner?
Rocky Road ice cream was always my favorite, but frankly I haven't had it in years.
ACC Bear
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concordtom said:

Great, thanks!

Got any feel good stories to share?
What did you have for dinner?
Rocky Road ice cream was always my favorite, but frankly I haven't had it in years.

Nothing at the moment. Tonight was meatloaf night. I like marshmellows and nuts in the right situation, but not typically in ice cream.

I worked in a Baskin Robbins one summer break and one winter break during my time at Cal and usually went for the extra chocolatey flavors (Chocolate Fudge, which was always available or Mississippi Mudd when it was avaiable). Also really liked their peach ice cream, which you almost never see.

As I'm finally convincing my 20 year old that she really does have to drive, been thinking we should drive across town for ice cream as an excuse to practice her driving more. Haven't done it yet.

We talk about going to Fenton's in my family often if we get within reasonable driving range of one, but usually we have just eaten a big meal which is the last thing you want to do before going there. I realize it's not the highest quality ice cream, but sometimes large portion make up for "not the highest quality."

We had a good old style ice cream parlor in town, but someone else bought it and turned it into a foofy overpriced weird flavor ice cream kind of place. Shame.
DiabloWags
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concordtom said:

Great, thanks!

Got any feel good stories to share?
What did you have for dinner?
Rocky Road ice cream was always my favorite, but frankly I haven't had it in years.


I had some Ben & Jerry's NY Chocolate Super Fudge Chunk last night.
On sale right now at Safeway for $2.97

Excellent!

concordtom
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Oh man…. I ate a ton of those through college.

Years late my wife starting buying me Chubby Hubby. I took offense and stopped eating ice cream altogether.

But yeah, that's a favorite!
OsoDorado
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OsoDorado said:

concordtom said:

Rule of this board was NO POLITICS!!!

concordtom/Moderators: rather than just delete my post without warning, will you please transfer it to the Charlie Kirk thread (since that was what my post was about)? I certainly hope so, because I didn't knowingly do anything wrong. If this was "the wrong thread" for my post, please transfer it to the Charlie Kirk thread. Thanks in advance!


<From the OT Mods:
Sorry, but once a post is deleted it is gone.
We generally strive for a light hand on the OT board. In this case we chose to treat the politics talk in this particular thread as a violation of the rule against Thread Hijacking (knowingly redirecting the subject of a thread). It is a judgment call.>

Just posting to say the Mods are totally wrong that I "knowingly redirected the subject of a thread".

Now that the truth has been articulated -- which is contrary to what the mods claim -- I feel better, so this post is rightfully in the "Feel Good" thread.

Special Thanks to tequila4Kapp for somehow transferring my original post to the "Charlie Kirk" thread!
concordtom
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Imagine school the next day -
Freshman punter gets called up to varsity.


concordtom
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Hahaha.
This is sure to garner the thread some comments, and put some smiles on some faces.
Open it in YouTube and read some of the comments.



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