Missing Members

[André]

Thank all for the expressions of concern. Rest assured I am not physically ill. Not to involve you all too much in the soap opera of my life, I have a disabled dependent I must care for, who requires 24/7 supervision, and who will never live an independent life. Combined with other responsibilities, time available for listening to music is nil, now and for the foreseeable future.

More power to you, and do chime in when you have a moment !

[Iota]

That sounds really tough, SH. I echo what Andre says above and wish you all the best. 

[aligreto]

Thank all for the expressions of concern. Rest assured I am not physically ill. Not to involve you all too much in the soap opera of my life, I have a disabled dependent I must care for, who requires 24/7 supervision, and who will never live an independent life. Combined with other responsibilities, time available for listening to music is nil, now and for the foreseeable future.

All good things from me too.
Do not forget that you need to look after your own mental and emotional well being both for yourself and to be the best carer that you can be. That can be difficult without feeling selfish but it is a very important point.

[Jo498]

Talk Classical is to GMG what Arithemtic is to Calculus.

Browsing through Talk Classical I get a certain feeling of being new to an internet forum or rather to the internet as such (which was more than 25 years ago in my case) and there seems nothing more entertaining than Mozart vs. Beethoven, vote your favorite Mahler movement and other silly rankings. But in combination with the inclination to sign up and comment because "someone is wrong on the internet."

https://xkcd.com/386/

[Florestan]

Browsing through Talk Classical I get a certain feeling of being new to an internet forum or rather to the internet as such (which was more than 25 years ago in my case) and there seems nothing more entertaining than Mozart vs. Beethoven, vote your favorite Mahler movement and other silly rankings.

Precisely.

But in combination with the inclination to sign up and comment because "someone is wrong on the internet."

https://xkcd.com/386/

Never felt any such inclination. Even the wrongness is at a higher level on GMG.   

[Andante]

I do wonder why so many music forums have closed, has it all been said?
I notice that on TC games involving music seem to be popular but not for me.
Are our forums old hat now? ??

[Madiel]

Forums in general are old hat to a certain extent, yes.

[Jo498]

But doesn't that make it all the more amazing that Talk Classical seems as naively fun and fresh (and silly and occasionally cringey) as the fora or even earlier discussion groups of 15-25 years ago. Apparently there is still an appeal to that stuff. Like discovering that some candy one had had as a kid and totally forgotten about does still exist in the same package with the same flavour.

[The new erato]

If you have any opinions today you shoot of a short Twitter, and that is that. Or even worse, just an instagram picture.

[vandermolen]

All good things from me too.
Do not forget that you need to look after your own mental and emotional well being both for yourself and to be the best carer that you can be. That can be difficult without feeling selfish but it is a very important point.

+1 Well said Fergus.

[Florestan]

+1 Well said Fergus.

+ 2.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

+1 Well said Fergus.

+3

[prémont]

+1 Well said Fergus.

+ 4

[AlberichUndHagen]

+ 5

[Karl Henning]

+ 6

[kyjo]

More power to you, and do chime in when you have a moment !

+1 All best to you, (formerly) Baron Scarpia.

We also haven't heard from Sarge or Karlo much at all recently. I miss their contributions as well...

[North Star]

+1 All best to you, (formerly) Baron Scarpia.

We also haven't heard from Sarge or Karlo much at all recently. I miss their contributions as well...

Hi Kyle, I'm still here, but I should try to post more often again.

[André]

Wo du bist, Sarge?

[kyjo]

Hi Kyle, I'm still here, but I should try to post more often again.

Great to hear from you! And yes, you should

[Christo]

Wo du bist, Sarge?

+1 Wo sind Sie, Sarge?