Lil's Atelier
Social Life Begins and Ends With Etiquette
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Posted Jan 14, 2002 by  marvthegrate LtG KEA
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  | | Lil, the Atelier has become the main (if not only) reason I still come to the guide at all. I understand the feeling of disintegration of something that you created. It has heppened to me with the CotTB. In the Atelier I find conversation. Real conversation with far reaching topics. This is a reminder of the guide as it first started, fresh with anticipation. Almost everywhere else I go on the uide, it is hollow chit chat, but here I feel that I can converse with people that interest me. Loony tells us tales of life in a place I have only dreamt of. You give us updates from a community reaching back into US history. All of the denizens of this salon are of extreme interest to me. Speaking only for myself, the Atelier still serves the purpose of it's charter. I sometimes feel that I can only offer small niblets of conversation, but I still like to converse.
OK that was rambling, even for me.
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Posted Jan 14, 2002 by Hati
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| | I came to the Atelier because of the real conversation but I must admit that sometimes I am in trouble with the backlog. See, my English is not so good and it takes quite a lot of time to read some pages ~and~ understand it. But I'm doing my best and I won't leave.
It's such a fun to have the feeling of being around the earth, everywhere.
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Posted Jan 14, 2002 by Firefly
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| | Somehow, in my mindless wanderings of this place, I came across the Atelier, and I must say that it is the only fairly interesting thing I have seen so far (I am still relatively new; hopefully I'll find more).
P.S. Sorry if I caused any confusion in the last thread. It was not my intent to sneak up on all of you like that.
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Posted Jan 14, 2002 by Solnushka (Foundation)
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| | Yes... Which reminds me that I was going to say something terribly profound about driving. I've forgotton what it was though so...
But I love driving and miss it a lot. I discovered whilst driving a rather elderly old banger that the most stress free motorway driving comes from sailing sedately down the slow lane at just under the speed limit. The only drivers you then have to deal with are the lorry drivers, which even my car could successfully overtake. I never seemed to get where I was going any later than I would if I had been ducking and diving my way round the traffic. It did seem to annoy other drivers though, but I found this particularly unfair. It wasn't as if I was pootling along at 45mph or something. In fact I was probably the only person going at the 'right' speed.
I decided that I would never drive here though. Quite apart from the scary winter weather conditions, the fact that most drivers here seem to buy their drivers' licences instead of passing the test makes the prospect all too frightening. This includes Boyfriend, whose total time at the wheel of a car includes approx 3 hours. I have sworn never to get in a car of which he is in charge...
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Posted Jan 14, 2002 by Titania and Ripley the unau
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| | Flying:
The first time I ever flied, it was in a 4-seater sports plane - in every turn you felt as if you'd drop down through the floor - but I enjoyed it! The first time I flied in a big passenger plane I was very disappointed - I hardly noticed I was flying - but the view is nice though - I like looking out the window when the plane is above the clouds - the sun always shines, of course, and the landscape looks like something from a dream...
Travelling:
In general I prefer travelling by train, it gives me time to get used to the change in landscape, language, culture. Let's say I would be travelling from winter in Sweden to summer in Spain - when flying, I always find it takes a day or two to get used to the idea of being somewhere else - someone once described it as 'your soul finally catching up with your body'...
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Posted Jan 14, 2002 by Munchkin
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Bother! Lil, this is definately one of my favourite places here, because you can have a proper conversation, or ask a sensible question and get something approximating to a sensible answer. I know I'm not the best at this, but that is mostly because I can't remember the backlog long enough to write about it. But then I scared my mother witless last year by actually remembering her birthday. Didn't get her a present or anything, just remembered which was enough of a surprise to everyone 
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Posted Jan 14, 2002 by ox
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| | Lil, I've tried to stay away from hootoo because RL doesn't leave time for gadding about fora and contributing to the guide. I love coming to the Atelier whenever I can go through backlog and say hello. Looney reporting from Godzone, your art and interesting life (sorry I never met you here in blue-hair land), Marv and OP's tech talk, GL, Affy, Sporky, Amy, Titania, G7...there are MANY fine researchers that are here. I don't feel like just lurking about in your life.
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Posted Jan 14, 2002 by Afgncaap5
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| | I, personally, enjoy the Atelier for a variety of reasons, ranging from the small, impersonal business aspect (after all, without this place the Crater's primary visiter would be forces of evil trying to wipe out CLI), to the large-scale value of hearing the voices and opinions of people from all across the world.
It's weird. I didn't notice what Lil was talking about until after she pointed it out to me. It's something like what A. Roma's Cafe went through almost a year ago now, and what Joanna's Donut Stall was like the last time I checked in over there.
I agree with pretty much everything already said here. This forum (and my necessary involvement with STUMPED and CHOPPERS) is pretty much the only thing keeping me around here.
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Posted Jan 14, 2002 by Candi - now 42!
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| | Part of the reason I came here was because I was impressed, having read quite a lot of the backlog, by the imaginative and interesting conversation, and the diverse mixture of people here. It made me wish I'd been here from the beginning. I do admit to also being fond of inane jabbering sometimes, but on H2G2 the good thing is you can do both. At the same time if you want! Quite often, I don't have anything to add to the current conversation here, but I enjoy the backlog. I just wait until I feel I have something to say.
It was lovely to be so heartily welcomed when I arrived here. You are all so friendly and interesting. I would like to stick around if you'll put up with me!
Candi
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Posted Jan 14, 2002 by Phil
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| | I think Marv has got it. These day's I'm mostly lurking round the site not writing any articles, reading a few forums but here is where I come for conversation. The number of different people from everywhere means that topics don't normally stick round for too long which is why I like it, always something going on.
I also love travelling by trains. Shame the UK has some of the most expensive and unreliable train services going.
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