Friends of Captain Awkward

Huh. I don't get that. I'm just using very aggressive blocking addons (Firefox), but I've disabled all of them and I still don't see it. Am I missing it? This is what I see when I edit (for example) the original post in this thread: http://i62.tinypic.com/ou13xt.png Is that what I'm supposed to be s...

I have a bad habit of over-editing my posts once I've clicked "submit." (Working on it, I promise!) I've noticed that some posts have a "reason for edit" tag. After doing a search I know we're encouraged to include those reasons, but I've never found a field to type in after I've made an edit. Can s...

Oops. Very sorry about that, I completely understand. Going to quietly reread the forum rules now.

Aw, thanks for saying. It's a good username. Fits the avatar very well. Little tweety bird rageasaurus, with its little feet :-D

Yes, agreed. I'm one of those people who really needs permission to express that sort of thing. It really is good to see that, even if the assumption was always there.

Grrr! That makes me so mad! AAARGGG!! No, I kid. Thank you guys so much for taking the time to consider and talk about this. I agree with everything you said, it makes a lot of sense and mirrors my own doubts about it. Plus, I read it all in professor Farnsworth's voice, so my day is made whichever ...

Yeah, it's not a charity. I know how it feels when a charity comes to you when you absolutely have nothing to give. It feels bad. But with a microloan program, it just feels different for me, which is why I went ahead and suggested it here. Five dollars for a charity just feels like a drop in a buck...

I've been participating in this on another forum. For those of us who don't know about Kiva, they're basically a microloan program, and you can read all about it here: http://www.kiva.org/ I think it would be great to have a FoCA Kiva lenders group, but I'm not sure if that's feasible, or if that wo...

rageasaurus wrote:Hola! I'm chiming in to say that I really like the idea of creating a space that is designated for ranting and venting.

Well, yes, you would, rageasaurus!

;-)