My parents can be so infuriating at times.   

My mom wanted to go the hospital to pay a bill.  My dad put the address in his phone, but didn't listen/follow the directions when it told him to stay on a certain street.   He was also complaining that "the phone's not talking to me" but it was because he had his phone's volume all the way down. 

We get to the hospital and of course, we're not at the right part.  I went in with my mom while she asked where to go and the lady working at the desk said she'd show us how to get there.  The part we needed to be at was down a long hallway and down to elevator to the basement.    After my mom took care of everything, I said we should probably go back to where we started so my dad could find us.  Instead, she followed a bunch of people outside and called my dad trying to tell him where we were.   He passed us in the car and then my mom decided to try to chase down the car, not paying attention in the parking lot for cars or really looking where she was going.   We stayed outside for a few minutes waiting for my dad (he'd driven to the wrong side of the building based on my mom's directions and where he thought we were. 

We got back in the car and my dad's frustrated.  Then his phone rings and he jumps. He can't have it both ways; be annoyed that his phone isn't "talking" and then be annoyed because it's ringing.


I found out yesterday that a friend's puppy nipped/bit my mom on Friday.  It was an accident and the friend felt really bad, but I was a little annoyed that my mom didn't tell me.  I had noticed the marks on her arm, but didn't realize they were bite marks. 

I still miss my dog.    Some of my favorite shows were about animals and now I can't bring myself to watch them.



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Regardless of all of those production experiments, I understand what Carrehz meant simply because G4 was a streamlined effort in both media and toy production. There's a difference between discovering a detail you never noticed before in an animated episode of a series, and trying to make sense of how seventeen different countries did completely their own things for reasons we're still trying to figure out.

Yes - you explained it better than I could

But also I was kind of including the show as well when I said most G4 info was neatly documented from the get-go - not to say there isn't still discussion to be derived from FiM (or the toyline!) - but like... for example... G1's "The Glass Princess" had a song cut out of it and the footage was missing for what... 30-odd years? before finally being rediscovered last year. and we still don't know why it was cut in the first place. There's no mysteries like that with G4, because everything was being archived, recorded, put online, etc the second it aired. The toyline was neatly streamlined and everyone was keeping track of the news, filing the info away, right away...

Which to be fair, as Taffeta pointed out, this applies to G3 and (more-or-less) G2 as well! The later gens are going to have less mysteries to generate discussion about because they were released in the Internet Era, in an age where everything (or most everything) has been put online and there's multiple communities working to collate the info... etc etc.

There's definitely still discussion to be had for the show, there always is for cartoons, but this forum's always been more focused on the toys so I guess that's a big part of why there's not much G4 talk. I mean, we don't really talk about the G1/G3 toons that often either

Now I'm even more late in the tread

But why not, I think forums are a nice form for MLP. Other social media only live in the present. An eternal scroll down, and only the latest is visible immediately. I don't like it at all. Refuses to use Facebook, X or anything stupid like that.

Forums provide more proximity between users.

Really hope the forum form survives on the web. Although this form is outdated today. It is difficult to embed and display images. Not phone friendly.
But why play with the phone all the time? Live in the moment! Use quality time for the forum.

There are modern forums layouts too, but they cost a lot and are not easy to run yourself without paying a fortune every single month.

Really hope there is a basis of users for continuing the MLPArena. It's so nice to see the years go by, but the forum endures.

Thanks to all of you who work with the forum, you are amazing!
And thanks to all the users too, without you all it would die out.

Aren't those 3 like 2 years old? They look so familiar or it is a re-release of the mega movie friends.

Sims 1 Hot Date soundtrack.