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@MikeBiDude, thanks very much for that reply. I appreciate it.

For me, the old version was fine, and the new version (which looks more contemporary) is fine too. I think @nycman makes the essential point: It's just a matter of adjusting to something new. I wouldn't have thought of saying it, and I wouldn't call it a problem, but I do agree with @AshburyGuy that the light blue type on white is hard on the eyes -- especially when the type is in a smaller size -- so, on the Home Page, for ex., not so much with headers like "The Lounge," "The Deli," etc., but moreso with the lists of members online and latest posts. I'd say the same about myself (but admit that sometimes I just haven't tried hard enough to figure something out). The one thing I don't yet understand about what's changed here is how to post a picture (although I see that other people are having no trouble with it). Whenever I did it in the past, I just copied an image from wherever and pasted it into my post. I see in the new TOS that this approach is no longer allowed … "Uploaded images consume bandwidth, present certain technical challenges and often present legal challenges, too. For these reasons, the ability to upload pictures or other files to the Message Center has been deactivated. However, images that exist on other web servers may be linked in messages and the message center software will display the image if the server allows it." … but apparently (and sadly) I am too techno-dense to understand the instruction ("images that exist on other web servers may be linked in messages and the message center software will display the image") on what we're supposed to do instead. Anyone care to enlighten this poor Luddite?

Ah, the support peacock is back. The great threads never die.

After what she did to Joan Crawford, why give Dunaway a shot at another Hollywood legend? Revised ? Or rewritten ? The first act of that play is set in 1938, when Hepburn was 31. Kate Mulgrew played it in her 40s -- not impossible on the stage -- but Dunaway is pushing 80. The audience will need to be seated in outer space if she has to pass for 31.

You can't blame his parents for that. They named him Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr. The parents had their own peculiarity in this area -- they were both named Shriver. (Cousins, I think. Like FDR and Eleanor.)

A career they never covered in the (also legendary) What Color is Your Parachute? Refund!

Here's a link to the TOS page -- https://m4m-forum.org/help/terms (or, it's at the upper left of this page) -- in the column on the left of the TOS page you can find out about trophies. Enjoy the forum. Welcome.

From what I was told -- so, secondhand info here -- he got a time-out, then decided not to return once the time-out was over.

Did you guys (or should I say yinz) do something to make him feel unwelcome? Or do you suppose he was lurking here and discovered how you felt about him there? I admit, I got curious about how, exactly, he was driving yinz crazy and went to look, but the first thing I bumped into was his post announcing that he was taking a hike from there. Literally: "Thanks for the short membership but considering how warm it is out there I'd rather go hiking (something we all should do more often ) instead of posting on here." Who'd have guessed!!? Ole marylander1940 thinks hiking is better than posting on an internet message board.

@Avalon, in another thread, you mentioned that you have arthritis in your knees and that you are homebound. If the arthritis is the reason for being homebound, I hope you are treating it with more than over-the-counter Ibuprofen. At a minimum, there are prescription anti-inflammatories that might give you more relief. In addition, there's viscosupplementation -- hyaluronan injections directly into the joint. These provided enormous relief to my mother when she was in her 90s, felt it was too late for knee replacement surgery, but was determined to stay on her feet. The hyaluronan (there are different versions of it, different brand name) acts like a shock absorber, lubricating your joints to reduce osteoarthritis symptoms. And then there's the knee replacement option. Sorry if you've elaborated on your situation in other threads I've missed, and if this advice misses the mark, but I wanted to mention options that I have seen work, and say that I hope you are actively working with a doctor -- a specialist -- to deal with an issue as severe and limiting as you've described.

An alternative theory to what's become of marylander1940: I'd still bet it's just a time-out … but remember those worries about Y2K? … Would computers be able to handle the rollover from 1999 into 2000 without going *!#blooey#!* -- disrupting lives, livelihoods, whole economies? Everything worked out fine then, but maybe not this time … maybe the sheer volume of posts by marylander1940 has exceeded the M4M capacity and … *!#blooey#!* Be careful, @Avalon. Be very, very careful.

Or at least made someone gnash his teeth. It's probably just a time-out. I noticed once when jjkrkwood was timed out that he was gone from the Notable Members list, but reappeared once the time-out ended.

Sounds like Forrest Gump and I offended you. It wasn't our intent. I'm in full support of eliminating single-use plastics … and enjoy an occasional chuckle.

No one wants to lynch her, @Corporate Shill. Most of us would like less public spectacle, not more. Which would have been a good reason for not putting her back on the air to begin with. Where was your concern about "girl needs help for her mental health issues" back on March 27 when you started this thread and were looking forward to having her back on TV? She didn't just get nuts. That didn't just happen. Treatment, not television, would have been a better idea right along.

BINGO! As Morgan Jerkins put it the other day in TIME magazine: Like the many newspaper and magazine features that have spotlighted the need for working-class white people to be further understood, Roseanne just served to further normalize the bigotry that gets dressed up as “economic anxiety.”

Rest assured, @Corporate Shill, there's a boatload of horrors that outrage thinking people more than Roseanne. Just because she's a topic du jour doesn't mean she's at the top of the list.

Lately, you say. I guess you're just playing catch-up.

Kind of ironic that some people are applauding ABC for its "swift action" in pulling the plug on an ill-informed, racist loudmouth who made PLENTY of loud, ill-informed racist remarks before the network ever revived her show (or renewed it for a second season after a single episode). They knew who they were getting in bed with, and why. Similarly, the talented people who associated themselves with this show (and with the ill-informed, racist loudmouth) knew who they were getting in bed with, and why. What were any of them expecting? That if she had a show again she'd go back on her meds and behave herself? The whole thing is like a metaphor for Congressional Republicans believing that if they can tolerate Trump, they can get what they want.

Rather than making yourself clear, saying that you are against any form of abuse and then expressing an openness to bestiality -- even to the unlikely possibility of it -- is contradictory. And the rest of what you said ... ... is just bizarre.

The moral issue is that the animal has no say in the matter. Bestiality is never less than an act of human cruelty.

ABC NEWS - LONDON - Apr 19, 2018, 1:26 PM ET A British man has been jailed for life after being found guilty of deliberately trying to infect 10 men with HIV. Prosecutors alleged that Daryll Rowe, 27, infected five men through unprotected sex, and attempted to infect several others by intentionally damaging condoms. Rowe, who was diagnosed with HIV in 2015, met men on the gay dating app Grindr, prosecutors said. After having sex with his partners, he would message some of the victims saying, “I have HIV LOL. Oops,” the BBC reported. Christine Henson, the judge at his sentencing, said: “The messages you sent make it crystal clear you knew exactly what you were doing. As well as the physical offenses it is clear for the victims the psychological effects are immense ... Many of those men were young men in their 20s at the time they had the misfortune to meet you.” She continued, “I cannot see how and when you will no longer be a danger to gay men.” One of Rower's victims testified during the six-week trial that he felt “pressured” into having sex with Rowe; another branded him as “grotesque” and a “sociopath.” A third victim said that Rowe had “destroyed my life. I would rather he had murdered me than left me to live my life like this.” Rowe's lawyer pleaded with the judge for a lighter sentence, arguing a life term would stigmatize HIV sufferers. Henson said the sentence would not be about "stigmatizing anyone with HIV" but about the "immense" psychological effects Rowe caused to his victims. Rowe, who is 27, will serve at least 12 years of his sentence in prison. It is the first sentencing of its kind in the U.K., where a person is imprisoned for “grievous bodily harm” by intentionally infecting others with HIV.

@Guy Fawkes, thanks for your post to clarify the changes we're seeing this morning.

New this morning? My habit has been to come to the Message Forums by going to http://daddysreviews.com/, hitting the "I Agree" button on the TOS page, then choosing "Forums" (or whatever it used to say) to get here. But this morning: No Such Choice in the bar at the upper left of the TOS page. Nor do I see a place on the M4M Message Forums site that links to http://daddysreviews.com/. I didn't notice any other comments on this. Thought I'd mention it.

@Kenny, I think you're comment focuses on creative control of the show, and I agree that the show will never (for example) refer to Huma Abedin as either a "Jew hater" or "a filthy nazi whore." I'm sure the show won't equate Islam with Nazism, nor make the deranged claim that Trump is freeing hundreds of children every month from sexual exploitation. But the person for whom the show is named, the person around whom it is built, has said those things. Let's see if ABC, or the show's advertisers, or her colleagues can exercise any control over her. Or if the Great Big Platform of a hit show means we should expect a steady flow of unchecked crazy talk and hate speech from its star (as from her hero, Trump).