Beth

My happy thing for today is that my tidying is progressing, and my computer managed to do windows updates without a full scale meltdown.

Small victories.

Quote from: Taffeta on Today at 12:52:48 AM

I'm wondering how we figure out which ponies sold over here were made with poly and which were not (basically I can't get at 90% of my G3 at the moment, so I can't just go through and do the hair wash test, not that I'm brave enough to do it!) Some of my G3 also did come from the States so I don't know if they were in bonus packs or if they weren't. I can't remember if I had Petal Blossom and Rainbow Flash with the babies or the babies separately...but all those ponies are currently wrapped up in acid free tissue and stored away.

I've never had the Avon ponies but I also remember them being the first and it was a long time ago they were flagged. But I hadn't realised so many that I consider regular release ponies here may have had bonus releases over there...

I have December Poinsettia in box and I intend to keep her there...but it is making me hesitate about wanting to acquire any more of that set if they might be at risk down the line. They are a bit expensive.

The only pony right now that I know has this issue is actually a G1 Butterscotch, probably a Mail Order though I am not 100%...whose hair was full of conditioner and so dried up and is now so delicate I cannot brush her, or even put her in the cupboard. She's lived by my sink for the last decade or so. Since I am presuming G1 Butterscotch had nylon hair, I'm wondering whether products used on ponies has had any impact on hair breakage (speeding it up) in G3.

Lady Moondancer mentioned earlier in the thread that if the hair soaks up water, it's neon. If it doesn't, it's polypropylene.

Yeah...but they're in boxes in the attic, so that's not a test I can really run rn

I did go through my doubles box today and gave each of the pink sections a little tug, everyone's fine right now.

So just to emphasise the 'old people attitude' to privacy, yesterday I legit edited out our living room sofa from the background of a photo of some ponies because it's our sofa and the internet doesn't need to see it. Literally nothing personal in the photo. Just not sharing the sofa. Nope.

In seriousness, you're right about data. I have resisted using facebook for stuff for so long for the reason that there's no security. I understand the issue of harassment and anonymous bullies online, but at the same time, I don't feel that safe posting in conversations as myself in case you accidentally get misunderstood. I won't pretend I haven't had that experience before :p. So yeah. I don't want to engage like that and it's a shame we're all expected to.

As for the off site image linkage, the old person me laughs at this a lot. Honestly. I mean, I remember taking photos with an actual physical camera, getting film processed at my expense and then scanning them into an ancient scanner...either for my ID site or for ebay. A lot of the time ponies got shoved in scanners, and they look like they are terrified by the experience. The whole idea of "omg, it's so difficult to find an external host and, like, link an image" makes me roll my eyes. This is why I don't think the brony fandom would last ten seconds in the 1990s/early 2000s trying to make a fandom work when the tech couldn't keep up.

I dug this up to show what I mean. This was my ID site way back in the late 1990s/early 2000s. Please ignore some of the information, as a lot of it was still being figured out. But the layout, intrusive ads, scanned pony images...a sample page link below. Most of the site does work but the main page is gone and some of the images have broken over time. Most of the non-scanner images were actual physical photos developed and scanned in to be uploaded.

https://taffeta.tripod.com/id16.htm
Anyone who dislikes how images work on the arena needs to look at that page and get perspective. LOL


...I am old. And proud of it.

Awww man, not more additions to the list Every time this thread gets bumped up I hope it's because someone's found a fix for it or something

I think people are just so used to having their every utterance displayed for free on the internet that they take it totally for granted as though it's normal, like pinning a sign to a telegraph pole for a lost cat.

Agreed. There are some pretty good free image hosting sites out there still though, but I think a lot of people nowadays are used to just going click-upload-done on social media sites and don't want to learn how to link to an off-site image...?

The pony murder thing is horrifying

Taffeta - 100% agree with everything you say. It really upsets me that it's just getting easier to abuse and harass people online, rather than harder Especially since young people these days (I feel so old saying this ) don't seem to be taught to keep personal info OFF the net and be careful about sharing it, like we were. I'm sure I've said this before in the thread (or in other threads) but I've seen soooo many "about mes" on blog where people have posted damn near their entire medical history, a big long list of their 'triggers', selfies, etc... It just makes me want to shake them and yell "you're giving bad people info they can hurt you with! None of this needs to be public!!". God knows I've been hurt and harassed online before, but at least none of those jerks know anything serious or identifying about me, you know? Don't get me wrong, if you're comfortable sharing pics online, etc then that's your business, but social media really encourages too much oversharing IMO. Another reason I try and avoid as much of it as possible :/