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Tap Tap - this is for you sweetheart!

Hope everyone is well

and per your random post Tap - homemade Soup rocks - have been loving a middle eastern style lentil Soup myself as of late.

Pray everyone is well - will continue to check in from time to time!

Joyce - There really couldn't be a better way to ring in the new year - I am very excited for you.

TAKE CARE

SDMTNMN - For adding a picture (also known as an avatar) just go to your public profile (easy way to get there - just click on your name) when your profile is on the screen - towards the middle top of the page is a button you can push to 'customize profile' from there you can click in 'edit avatar' and upload any picture from your computer.

For the wt loss ticker - google ticker factory and they will walk you through the steps.

I hope this helps somewhat - please let me know if I can help out any further.

Have a great day!

Congrats on getting your date - what an amazing experience this will hopefully be for you!

Welcome

Well - while we're making things public and all - just thought I'd throw something out to Mr Lapbandtalk (ALEX)

Now I seem to recall you saying you weren't going to respond any further unless it was PM.

But that's a chicken shit way to get in a public verbal war of words, get the last say and then state that nothing else can be said publicly.

I call for an apology (multiple actually - although I'm afraid there are probably more needed than I will currently remember)

If you hope to redeem any sense of public dignity (not that I expect you to care - but let's imagine for a second that you might care what impression you are leaving on new people coming to your cash cow for the first time)

I believe an apology is due to Lulu for your statement regarding her attitude.

I also believe you owe an apology to myself for your callous and insensitive remark pertaining to the size of my alcoholic beverage that night and to the fact that you suggest we should have one.

Furthermore you should retract your words regarding my language being "combative" - oh forgive me for daring to voice opposition to the poorly made and personal vendetta based decisions of people doing your bidding - this is a free country and a public site - it is my right.

Unlike some of the responses coming from some at LBT - I at least had evidence for the points I made.

Not that I expect an answer - but I'm putting it out there for all to see!

I make it public (again) - I vote she step down!

screw the golf claps......

can I get a whoo whoo and high five for my girl LULU!

Dave - so glad you are doing this for yourself - please know that we al suffer from lethargy from time to time but as the weight comes off - you might be amazed at your new found energy and andurance!

Wow - what a great idea - you guys are so thoughtful!

Lulu - do those 'panties' come in high cut - I'm interested!

Now Glou - let's get facts straight - not distant enough to refrain from ridiculing a poster's amount of drinking or to tell her to "take it down a notch"

still unsure about the appropriateness of those remarks

Well I'm sorry I missed you all here today - oddly I stopped getting notifications that new posts had been made.

Hoping this post will rectify that!

My thoughts and prayers for you all!

Thanks Kat for putting the time in to both be there for her but keep us up to date as well. Will await your further info

RM - nice!

Let's just say I've grown up since kindergarten - and learned a few things about how to treat bullies!

RM - very well stated - Thank you!

I pray it does not fall on deaf ears. I too realize I was unfortunately using the term banned in reference to HH. What I intended to say was suspended as well as with the other person involved.

Not meaning to make light of the situation - but I am reminded of an appropriate example from kindergarten:

(true story - no joke) A boy in my class came over and pushed me down to the ground, in getting up I yelled "HEY!"

Next thing I knew we were both in timeout and getting paddled (yes parochial school). I tried to make my case to the teacher that I didn't do anything - he really just came up and pushed me. (was the true account)

My very wise teacher said - she had no idea who started what but it didn't matter - from what she saw both of us were involved when she came over.

Was it fair to me? - Not necessarily (biased though)

Was it the fair way to handle the situation with the information she had? - Probably

Ebony - AWESOME GIRL!

Wow - for the first time today - words fail me...............and not for an amazing display of appropriately modeled behavior - haven't witnessed that here yet by anyone.

Plain - that actually really saddens me - I meant it when I said I looked forward to our joyful sparring - you have made me laugh on many a night.

I say again I am completely able to separate a disagreement on one subject and have fun on another.

If you really feel that strongly - just break away for a while but not for good then come back and lets have fun again -

If you did this then the wrong person would be leaving again!

Hey - I called for it earlier tonight too.......wait - I think I used the term challenge her as a mod or some crap like that - but the intentions were there dangit!

Allright seriously on a funny note - looking at it together cracked me up:

Ban the person - not the name

Attack the idea - not the person

just seems funny - dont know why - maybe it's the container i'm using tonight.......btw Alex - that was a low blow and inappropriate for someone who I don't dialogue with - again you don't know me!

Plain - I totally understand the idea behind banning the person not the name.

I was speaking directly to susan who specifically posted that the alternates were getting "more and more insulting".

Whether they were wrong to be there or not - they were - I want to know where the evidence is that they were getting more insulting.......yes I'm calling this bluff/lie on out...

couple things:

-want proof and for her statement to be correct there has to be escalation of insulting behavior and with more than one alternate.

you won't catch me holding my breath waiting for riches to come out of thin air!

Uh, Lulu, I am pretty sure I offered an apology for my post on Facebook. I even received a pm from Rhonda stating she hated having bad blood between us. She also admitted to handling herself poorly and was embarrassed. A message was also sent for my husband apologizing for the comment about who did I blow to get this job. Based upon my saying I made a mistake, and her saying she did, I thought all of this was done and over.

I mean, seriously, everyone is human, everyone makes mistakes. This is supposed to be a support forum. This one thread is poisoning LBT and I am really, really saddened by that. I agree with Alex, it is time to move on and get back to the real business of this message board, which is to support people in their weight loss goals.

Well I just love how all the anger tonight and bickering comes back down to one focal point - and it's not HH - it's you.

Yet here you are coming on and are all - why cant we all just get along - lets serve others, make the world a better place - you have no business speaking like that when you have been the root of the problem - In everyone's life there is a time to learn to sit back, close your mouth and not say anything.

I am not sure why you find that insulting? He obviously has a specific group of people who seem to find him entertaining. Every time he came back under a new name, he got more and more insulting and the same group of people continued to encourage him, which is probably why he continues to create new names. I am sure if he hadn't received all the encouragement, he would have accepted the temporary ban and would probably be back posting now.

I am aware of several of his now banned personas - having hysterically interacted with them - Now I may have missed a post or 2 - but have never read a post by one of his alter-egos that was even remotely insulting - do you have any evidence suggesting otherwise - or are you just trying to make excuses.......

But you have. When you make a generic statement slamming "mods", I'm in that group. If you are directing your criticism towards one person in particular, then say that name. Isn't that a big part of being direct?

I can see how you feel that way - let's make it a little more clear - I have intended to slam susan all night having been informed that many of the issues I have are in regards to her doing (this information is from many sources - but having no direct information/ proof myself that she is truly at the heart of my problems - I have left it general so as not to condemn without evidence.

It has also allowed for the inclusion of any other mods involved that I am unaware of. If it does not pertain to certain mods then it shouldn't offend them - these have been my intentions however.

KC, nobody was forced out initially. Somebody broke some rules, was given a temporary suspension, signed back on under false accounts numerous times to post egregious remarks and then was permanently banned. But thanks for calling my decision-making "poor".... I guess we should totally let members say that other members have sex with dogs and cows.

You know what Plain - I am sure having to go back and explain myself a lot - probably the rum - but I'm ok with having to do so - it tends to solve problems from continuing down a bad direction (sometimes)

I do have issues with HH being banned - but maybe not in the way it seems from my post - you see I understand that he broke rules and may have indeed behaved badly (although the receiving end of badness deserved it in my book) my problem is that:

1 - I miss him (yes someone who I had a public outburst with on this very same thread)

2 - There seems to be a miss-communication regarding any corrective communication/action being taken before suspension.

So yes I don't like the decision that he was gone and I am calling it poor b.c that's how I feel. If you had a part in making that decision then sadly you have saddened me - I am not maliciously calling you a bad/poor decision maker - I am not making this personal - which you seem to have taken it.

I say again that I enjoy you here and FB - in this specific issue we disagree and I happen to be angry tonight

I have the capacity to get by this - the question is do you?

What is all this about being a "follower" all about? And if you're so positively bent on all your situations being made public, then I'd think you could tell me directly that you are "no f'ing follower - a friend - one that you will probably never have the joy of knowing - (my) loss" instead of asking Alex to tell me.

Plain - let me start by saying that I have really enjoyed your presence on LBT - you crack me up actually and have looked forward to the playful sparring. I do not know exactly what part you had in HH's departure which I have issues with - I have enjoyed keeping that separate from joking with you - I can separate people I know who don't get along.

If you are truly unaware of where the issue with being a 'follower' has come from then it doesn't pertain to you (but to someone it makes a lot of sense)

I am bent about things being public tonight - that's what I did - made it public - you responding means you were made aware. Public and direct are 2 different things.

Now as far as my statement about not being a follower but a friend suffers from very poor sentence structure - the first half pertaining to the mod who called me a follower and the latter half to Alex who all of a sudden comes in to try and settle the waves way too late.