On Thursdays we.....

[wittyandwaiting]

What do we do on Thursday's?
Any suggestions?

Any suggestions for anything? I feel like it's been slowish here.

I loved when healz413 started a fun convo last week.

[Stringy]

We could be like everyone else and have unpopular opinions. But sometimes those are lame anyway.

[karlamo]

@strings, they're only lame when they're not juicy! Polite UO aren't very fun to read.


Apparently on Thursdays is when I do glucose testing. It's my third Thursday drinking that sh*t drink. Dear lord let me pass this time.

[kh826]

Ugh karlamo I am sorry! I only had to drink it once with my last pregnancy, but it was horrific. I am already dreading having to do it again in a couple of months. Hope you pass with flying colors!!!

[karlamo]

Jul 16, 2015 9:14:35 GMT -5 kh826 said:

Ugh karlamo I am sorry! I only had to drink it once with my last pregnancy, but it was horrific. I am already dreading having to do it again in a couple of months. Hope you pass with flying colors!!!

Thanks. If one more person tells me I don't look like someone who has GD, I'm going to stick a celery stick up their nose.

[healz413]

I would vote against unpopular opinions, but I realize that is probably an unpopular opinion. I know we're not all the same and don't all have the same beliefs, views, or perspectives BUT I think that UO tends to highlight those differences in a way that can hurt the supportive community we're developing here, rather than expanding it ...

That said, if most people want to do unpopular opinions, I say go for it.

We could do PIP (picture in post) Thursday. There are a few problems-- 1) some people don't know how to post photos here, 2) some people don't want to post photos here, 3) PIPs tend to be a lot of photos of kids and pregnant bellies, which can be touch for folks in the long term TTC or post-loss club.

We could do a GTKY. I know we were doing them daily for a while, but that became a bit difficult for everyone to maintain. But we could do them once a week and hopefully have greater participation. The GTKY's could vary from the classic 3-5 question ones, to polls (like last week), to games, to online quizzes, etc.

[wittyandwaiting]

Jul 16, 2015 10:24:02 GMT -5 healz413 said:

I would vote against unpopular opinions, but I realize that is probably an unpopular opinion. I know we're not all the same and don't all have the same beliefs, views, or perspectives BUT I think that UO tends to highlight those differences in a way that can hurt the supportive community we're developing here, rather than expanding it ...

That said, if most people want to do unpopular opinions, I say go for it.

We could do PIP (picture in post) Thursday. There are a few problems-- 1) some people don't know how to post photos here, 2) some people don't want to post photos here, 3) PIPs tend to be a lot of photos of kids and pregnant bellies, which can be touch for folks in the long term TTC or post-loss club.

We could do a GTKY. I know we were doing them daily for a while, but that became a bit difficult for everyone to maintain. But we could do them once a week and hopefully have greater participation. The GTKY's could vary from the classic 3-5 question ones, to polls (like last week), to games, to online quizzes, etc.

healz413 took everything I thought and made it sound amazing.

I ditto this all!!

[jgy]

Yeah, while I'm snarky and would love UO's, I think healz413 is right that our community is just different. Anything that takes the focus away from support gets tricky (though of course there is room for respectful debate and discussion on important topics, but that's not what a typical UO thread is ...).

We could do a randoms thread and see what pops up. Otherwise I'm on board with any of the other suggestions that were made. Though I'll most likely hold back from posting pics here.

[karlamo]

I'd participate in a ransoms thread over a PIP since I won't post pictures of my family on here. I'm down with what ever the group decides.

[wittyandwaiting]

Jul 16, 2015 9:06:13 GMT -5 karlamo said:

@strings, they're only lame when they're not juicy! Polite UO aren't very fun to read.


Apparently on Thursdays is when I do glucose testing. It's my third Thursday drinking that sh*t drink. Dear lord let me pass this time.

Ugh! Let's break that trend. Good luck today!

[karlamo]

Ha! Thanks iPhone. A ransoms thread would be a lot of fun to read.

I meant randoms.

[wittyandwaiting]

Jul 16, 2015 10:43:55 GMT -5 karlamo said:

Ha! Thanks iPhone. A ransoms thread would be a lot of fun to read.

I meant randoms.

I was just about to tell you that's a little dark and twisty.

I won't posts family pics here either. Sorry.

[kh826]

I like the random thread idea, I just think it becomes difficult to keep thinking of new random topics and often people don't start the thread out of hesitancy to start a thread or just because they don't have an idea... so then it just stalls out.

I agree about the UO idea. I don't think it is right for this group.

Maybe I will think of a few random questions and post something for today to try to get us started...

[kh826]

Nevermind, wittyandwaiting beat me to it with the new thread! Yay!

[wittyandwaiting]

kh826 - feel free to post some questions too.