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January 11, 2021

So, are you advocating for a different position?

May 28, 2021

Hi Amber, and the rest o' y'all - hope this is the right place to post this,

I'm kinda new here, but from day one, I've seen a trend that the US-based members are the ones most active.
For good & bad, this leaves people of the EU, incl me from Sweden, feeling a bit left out with various goings-on.
Not that I'm complaining - I'm gonna do something about it, which leads me to my question for you.

I would like to start a thread about sharing ink samples in Sweden, which might develop into Nordics / EU / all of Europe. Or have a separate thread for each. Is there something like this already going on? Is there some reason why I shouldn't do this? (I'm new here, remember) The Swedish one is the place to start, anyway.

Hope you don't mind me asking you, the über-ink-lady, for advice. (and asking publicly, so everybody else can pipe in with their thoughts)
😃
Sincerely,
Henrik "Daneaxe"

May 28, 2021

16 minutes ago, Daneaxe said:

For good & bad, this leaves people of the EU, incl me from Sweden, feeling a bit left out with various goings-on.
Not that I'm complaining - I'm gonna do something about it

Thank you! It's the only way for folks from outside the US to be more involved!

17 minutes ago, Daneaxe said:

I would like to start a thread about sharing ink samples in Sweden, which might develop into Nordics / EU / all of Europe. Or have a separate thread for each. Is there something like this already going on? Is there some reason why I shouldn't do this? (I'm new here, remember) The Swedish one is the place to start, anyway.

Here's an example of an Australian who did basically what you're describing:

Hope that helps!

January 11, 2022

On 9/10/2018 at 12:12 PM, amberleadavis said:

@Ark - This actually wasn't in reply to any one topic (and you were never mentioned until this post).

Nonsense.

(Irresistible necromancing.)

October 20, 2023

On 5/28/2021 at 9:58 AM, Daneaxe said:

...this leaves people of the EU, incl me from Sweden, feeling a bit left out with various goings-on.

i'm from the u.s. and have come back to fountain pen network from an extended absence. i feel left out also. you are not alone.

i certainly don't mind necroposting but starting a new thread is indeed good sometimes as well. life doesn't have to be hard, which it is when you have to read 12-15 years worth of posts to try and find the answer to a simple question. now this is something i'm going to do, ask my silly question, instead of pouring over old postings, when i leave this thread i think. and i'm not sure, but i also think, that the forum software was changed (some call it up-graded) at one time while i was away because i find nes very hard to navigate now. i'm also way much older than i was when i was here last so maybe my patience has grown thin. idunno.

i do know i'm active in other boards besides this one, and there's no middle ground regarding necro-posting. the membership either loves the idea or strongly hates it. me, i don't mind it if someone wants to continue a thread. but, at first i thought it rather weird when i saw a post i made in '07 still being read.

right now my biggest problem is trying to be nice. i'm from boston in the northeastern part of the united states. we don't know how to be civil and nice. just ask any new yorker you can find. we all have that certain way about us...

October 20, 2023

Hah! As someone who grew up in the greater NYC area, and later lived about 25 miles west of Boston, I strenuously object to being roped in with Bostonians!

When my husband and I were moving back to the Pittsburgh area, I gotten taken to see a house in a somewhat higher end neighborhood in a northern suburb (the real estate agent was quite cranky that we had to enter through the garage and take our shoes off before entering the house so we wouldn't track anything on the white wall to wall carpeting.

The owner and some buddy of his were sitting in the kitchen, and the owner told me that some guy who played for IIRC the Red Sox lived up the street. And all I could think of was to manage to NOT say, "I'm a YANKEES girl -- so why should I CARE?" (I went to college in CT and during the playoffs it was always the Yankees vs. the Red Sox and the World Series was ALWAYS between the Yankees and the Dodgers -- and you could tell where other people on my floor were from because of when you could hear cheering up the hall during the playoffs.... And this was in a WOMENS' dorm, mind you! :lol:

Oh, and just for the record? The average Boston driver would TERRIFY the most hardened NYC cabbie. Just sayin'....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

ETA: We now return you to the regularly scheduled topic of necroposting....

October 20, 2023

2 hours ago, greencobra said:

right now my biggest problem is trying to be nice. i'm from boston in the northeastern part of the united states. we don't know how to be civil and nice. just ask any new yorker you can find. we all have that certain way about us...

You can do it!!!