The Friday Five for 22 December 2023

[anais_pf]

These questions were written by your moderator anais_pf, who has been posting questions in this space consistently for more than ten years, on a completely volunteer basis.

1. Are you easily offended or upset by things other people post online?

2. How much does the order in which the Friday Five questions are presented here matter to you?

3. Have you ever made an effort to be inclusive, only to have someone complain that you were not being inclusive enough?

4. Are you having a happy holiday season?

5. Which holidays do you observe or celebrate?

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Comments

[allsortsoflicorice]

Here you go

https://allsortsoflicorice.dreamwidth.org/3001.html

[intothisshadow]

Here's mine https://intothisshadow.dreamwidth.org/580851.html

[melagan]

My answers are here

the friday five

[smallhobbit]

My replies are here

[goddess47]

I did it! Whee!

https://goddess47.dreamwidth.org/148477.html


Happy Holidays!

[bookofdanielvol2]

I did both this week's and last's

https://bookofdanielvol2.dreamwidth.org/8017.html

[archersangel]

https://archersangel.dreamwidth.org/369224.html

[sallymn]

1. Are you easily offended or upset by things other people post online?
If it's something I am passionate about, yes. However, I do try to follow a simple rule of writing out a blistering, invective filled reply, reading it to my little pottery worry monk (as we don't have a cat at the minute, the monk listens as well as a cat does) then putting it aside overnight...

And then shredding it without posting.

2. How much does the order in which the Friday Five questions are presented here matter to you?
Not at all, I just enjoy answering them in whatever order they come (and quite often type the answers in a different order before posting anyway).

3. Have you ever made an effort to be inclusive, only to have someone complain that you were not being inclusive enough?
Not really. Maybe what I do is not important enough for people to complain about...

4. Are you having a happy holiday season?
Pretty happy, there are a few worries about family or friends (that happens as toy get older) or small niggles of everyday life... but things are peacefully going well all in all.

5. Which holidays do you observe or celebrate?
This time of year, Christmas (secular, as I'm agnostic), Boxing Day (my favourite) and New Year only.

[dreamaastrid]

Very late on this one:

1. Are you easily offended or upset by things other people post online?
If it's something I am passionate about, yes.

2. How much does the order in which the Friday Five questions are presented here matter to you?
Not at all, I just enjoy answering them in whatever order they come.

3. Have you ever made an effort to be inclusive, only to have someone complain that you were not being inclusive enough?
Nope.

4. Are you having a happy holiday season?
It was a rough December. Moving my daughter home after a breakup, and then my Father-In-Law having a cardiac event, being rushed to the hospital, spending a week in ICU and dying. A funeral to help plan, and an estate to help settle along with the holidays and throw my kids birthday in that week too. It was crazy busy and chaotic, much drama and high emotions, seeing some family in huge doses. It is now mid Jan and things are just beginning to calm down.

5. Which holidays do you observe or celebrate?
New Years Eve, Martin Luther King Day, St. Patrick's Day, Mardi Gras, Easter, Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Birthdays. Mostly holidays are spent getting together with friends and/or family for meals or drinks. Gift giving on Christmas and Birthdays and Cake. The summer holidays include BBQs. Christmas & July 4th have including participating in parades - I volunteer to drive a vehicle while others stilt walk, ride unicycles or juggle. And this year we will get Juneteeth off so I'm not sure what we will be doing to celebrate this holiday.