hhhaha! you know how boring you sound? lol. no I hate the out of control feelings of rollercoasters. The bull riders...that's why there are thousand of professional rodeo cowboys and only 35 of them are bull riders!
Even THEY ain't that stupid! I guess I shouldn't call anyone doing that stupid but I think it's kinda stupid.
I'd say that there needs to be some kind of trait or skill or desire to make someone get on one of those, and hopefully there's a healthy dose of respect for the bull too. But there's probably some things like wanting to prove you can do it, or that you're better than the bull or some other rider, the accolades and admiration of the crowd, the money, the belief you won't get hurt or killed—there's got to be some mixture of some or all of that.
I don't have that mix. At this stage in my life, I don't want that mix. I wouldn't mind getting behind the wheel of Camaro SS or bigger and stopping on the gas, but I wouldn't get on a bull.
no sir I wouldn't either but there do has to be the mixture of those things you talked about that creates an addiction because when you get your back broke and know that you almost got paralyzed and you still have to do it?
that's something powerful, I'm sure her family tried to talk her out of it.
hey what to you know about The Alliance?
I've heard the name. That's it. I'm not even sure who to refer you too. Someone mention it to you or trying to recruit you? It may be a writing community of some kind with it's own set of standards you have to meet to get in. That's about it. I see some people have the alliance graphic at the bottom of their blogs. I haven't really ever inquired. Why?
why what? I thought you were going to bed early this week.
oh..ecoin said I should join and I said I don't know, have no idea what they do or stand for or anything.
Then his mom contacted me tonight and invited me so I was kind of stalling and that didn't go very well with her. she's tough!
then several of their members wrote me and said just save yourself some headaches and do the application. But I still have no idea what they do, I'm sure it's wonderful though, I guess engine witty founded it but I don't know anything about them either.
All I know so far is that they stick together and help each other and they have some impressive people in their group. so I'm assuming it's a great organization.
I think The Alliance was formed to try to stand up to flagging by some of the big whales and try to attempt to reclaim some of the rewards pool for smaller users. The idea is that a whole bunch of tiny fish can stand up to a really big one.
howdy back again lturner! oh, now that sounds like a noble cause if I ever heard one! thank you for that.
You're welcome!
Okay, so I've done some digging around and while I'm not picking up anything definitive, as of six months ago at least, they were requiring members to either pay a fee in STEEM to participate, or delegate SP. That would then go to an account, I presume, that upvotes members. TheAlliance account is definitely receiving SP delegation and it is definitely voting for people.
There may or may not be a rule for alliance members to read and vote for each other. That I haven't been able to find.
At any rate, snook is very persuasive. I can't remember now what she was wanting me to do—it may have been join thealliance. Whatever it was, I decided I didn't want to do it. I'd forgotten that, or I would have mentioned it earlier, but it was you mentioning snook that triggered that part, but still not sure what it was about.
There are currently 16 accounts delegating to thealliance, the bulk of the SP coming from blocktrades.
ok thank you sir Glen, that helps alot and I'll go and read their requirements and all that stuff to see how much they want in fees or whatever they call them.
sir Glen I forgot to ask you if you saw that post that ecoin did about my chair?
I did see the post. It sounds like your chair could stand to be replaced. It might not be so good to have another folding chair, though. :)