Comments on: houseproud

By: Dublingirl

Dublingirl — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:47:05 +0000

@17 & 42

I think the idea of blogging as a medium is that there is no, as petite describes it, ‘quality control’, some people might think this is a bad thing, but if you start bringing in (supposedly objective but bordering on the subjective considering the medium and wide possibilities of theme) ‘standards’ or ‘criticism’..then doesn’t blogging become something else? I’m all for free commenting…but pointless, lazy commenting on a blog piece which is refreshingly personal and still more articulate than a lot of what is out there is..well, just lazy and pointless.

By: Sheila K.

Sheila K. — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:59:54 +0000

To #100, Katy,the part I disagree with is the part where although you can string lots of words together,the entirety of your rantings is neither clever nor profound.

By: rocket

rocket — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:41:44 +0000

What’s the point of propagating on the internet that you are bonking your husband?

Am I missing the bigger picture?

By: Katy

Katy — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:06:44 +0000

If a blog owner chooses not to delete a critical or controversial comment, it’s because he or she is egalitarian, or wants to get a conversation going, or wants to generate traffic, or is a masochist, or is secure enough not to care. Whatever the reason, that’s his or her business

… and the last bit, that it is his or her business, was exactly my point, Passante. If bloggers are entitled to delete the comments they don’t want to read, it sort of follows that, er, people aren’t entitled to have their say wherever they want to have it. Petite is no more obliged to let people say whatever they want to say here than she would be to let them write on the wall of her house. I’m not really sure which bit of what I’m saying you disagree with?

By: Patsy

Patsy — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 21:23:07 +0000

ahah I enjoy reading your blogs so much. Now please tell me how do I get the boyfriend to even EMPTY the dishwasher?

And a facebook recipe? interesting….

Everything sounds so delicious!

A la prochaine!

By: Flighty

Flighty — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 07:19:14 +0000

@ Christine,
A belated comment on the Living School in the 19th. It is a nursery school (3-6 yrs) and my son is going to be starting just on Wednesdays as from September. There are 3 staff – the Headmistress, who also teaches, and one French and one American pre-school teacher. The American does everything in English BUT all the parents I met were French and wanting to give their child a head-start in English. I don’t know whether my son will get any more English input than he usually does with me, my parents and English-speaking friends, but the environment is nice and, if we lived closer I would have enrolled him full-time.

By: Passante

Passante — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:58:55 +0000

#92: Oh YAWN. No one is “entitled” to have their say on someone else’s blog. Blogs are not state-owned or government property

What on earth does that have to do with anything? Where I live and where I come from (which are not the same countries), people are entitled to have their say on anything they fancy, government/state property or not, so long as they don’t slander or libel or generate hate messages. Even then, they can have their say, though they may be liable for legal action.

Have you not noticed that books, films, plays, music, art shows, TV shows, and you-name-it are critiqued in the media? Or at least, they are where I live. Perhaps they aren’t where you live, but in that case, you may well live in a repressive regime, where of all things, state/government publications (contrary to what you suggest) are not open for criticism but are criticized only on pain of punishment that usually involves way nastier stuff than happens where I live.

In a free society, people can say what they like in comment boxes and anywhere else. Bloggers have far more control than book authors, artists, musicians, playwrights, film producers, poets, and so on, because blog owners can delete whatever they like — or rather, don’t like. If a blog owner chooses not to delete a critical or controversial comment, it’s because he or she is egalitarian, or wants to get a conversation going, or wants to generate traffic, or is a masochist, or is secure enough not to care. Whatever the reason, that’s his or her business.

Oh, YAWN.

By: Barb

Barb — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:52:04 +0000

hmmmmm…. I can see I’m going to have to rethink my stance on dishwashers. I’ve always seen them as a bit of a waste of electricity.

But if they allow more time for, ahem, untying the apron strings….

By: Ann-Marie

Ann-Marie — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:51:56 +0000

The central problem with the comment by lame James is that he paradoxically(given that he finds them uninteresting – hum)focuses on the marginal matter of the apron strings and overlooks the burning issue of the blog, namely that of the relative merits of buying a dishwasher. Some of us (see 20) have truly agonized over whether to buy a dishwasher or tumble dryer first (I plumped for the latter and have been in a heaven of washing and drying pillows ever since). Others (see 34) are of the opinion that buying a dishwasher does not save that much labour. I truly wish that someone would enlighten me as to whether owning a dishwasher does actually help and whether you really do have to rinse everything in the sink first or can just bung the dirty dishes straight into the machine. This is anything but a lame issue – it really does keep me awake at night.

By: Sheila K.

Sheila K. — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:41:37 +0000

Why would Petite want to erase comments? She has people returning time and time again to read her posts and check comments. A “buzz” has been created and that helps sell books. Some blogs that I read have only a few comments on each post. Any publicity is good publicity, they say in Hollywood. Besides, as long as we keep this up with each other, she doesn’t have to write a new post.