@ElephantOfRisk
I think I am limiting myself more and more to small areas of MNet, it might just be me, but aside from Scotsnet and a few other areas/posts, I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that most people are just fucking thick. Now I am in no way citing myself as genius material, I genuinely thought i was about average and was in awe of a lot of people on here (still am but a much smaller pool). I'm not just talking about brains, just people with awareness and lively minds and I'm also not saying people with poor writing skills are thick either. I don't know, I just find find it like wading through human treacle looking for a spark of normalcy.
Mostly thinking it's just not for me anymore when I find myself just getting annoyed and angry and disliking the posters. Not for having a different view, just for not even knowing why they have that view. At least look into things, don't just accept what you've been told. Maybe it's always been like this and the covid stuff has just accelerated it?
I know exactly what you mean. I hardly post other than here and on the tiers thread... Either other people have said what I would have said but better and more succinctly, or its just post after post of "cancel the cheque" or jumping on the op for whatever reason. I still spend far too long reading though
and do find lots of threads interesting or funny. But not enough to actually want to join in!
Have to say, the reason I started posting in scotsnet was because it felt like a welcome oasis away from the "ah, we're /you're so lucky to have Nicola looking after us/ you in Scotland" feeling elsewhere on MN and in society in general, which was, frankly, doing my head in. Partly pandemic, partly just post-brexit/ post indyref kind of feeling. I felt like I was going bonkers not feeling the love, even slightly. But lots of you don't feel it either, and that's kind of a relief! And even those of you who sometimes feel it aren't annoying about it and are prone to the odd WTF moment too, and that is also nice 
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