friendlyskies wrote:
(1) Everyone here is an experienced traveler in challenging destinations, so you can talk about your adventures without people getting jealous, freaked out, or asking dumb questions like, "Don't you ever get scared?"
Why would I care about anyone getting jealous, freaked out or if a dumb question about being scared is asked from someplace other than the BFC? What other people think of me is none of my business, it's not like I'm building a fucking "brand" for chrissakes, and I'm the same here as I am in real life and on Facebook which after all is real life dontcha know.
(2) People had really specialized knowledge of geopolitical realities and situations ..........
So what? All well and good and interesting. "Specialized knowledge" is a loaded phrase and dontcha know that 87% of it will be bullshit and ego food and scam.
(3) I had a network of people all over the world. Not just people, but fucking cool people! Who were happy to host me in their countries, or meet me for drinks in Nicaragua and Costa Rica. I mean, really, a bunch of danger travelers and private military contractors? That is the goddamned cream of the crop of all humanity, as far as I'm concerned.
I've got the cream of the crop right at my fucking door. I can go to the coffeeshop near my home and talk geo-political ME with the cab drivers that hang out there and I can go to any cheap dive Irish bar right here in my neighborhood and hear yadda yadda yadda about the IRA all night long. There's probably more dangerous intelligence in these places anyway.
(4) Unlike Facebook (is this irony?), I can be myself here. Which is socially retarded and bitchy. But really just needs to be socially retarded.
Free advice: be yourself wherever you are. .
I think those of us interested in having a cool BFC again need to make some kind of internal ground rules to keep us from being bitchy.
Girl, please no. Ain't no ground rule in the rule that's going to keep me from being a bitch. Many have tried. It never works and I'm too old to straighten up and fly right.