Dull Men's Club
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
1. Relevant commentary on your own dull life. Posts should be about your own dull, lived experience. This is our most important rule. Direct questions, random thoughts, comment baiting, advice seeking, many uses of "discuss" rarely comply with this rule.
2. Original, Fresh, Meaningful Content.
3. Avoid repetitive topics.
4. This is not a search engine
Use a search engine, a tradesperson, Reddit, friends, a specialist Facebook group, apps, Wikipedia, an AI chat, a reverse image search etc. to answer simple questions or identify objects. Also see rule 1, “comment baiting”.
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5. Keep it dull. If it puts us to sleep, it’s on the right track. Examples of likely not dull: jokes, gross stuff (including toes), politics, religion, royalty, illness or injury, killing things for fun, or promotional content. Feel free to post these elsewhere.
6. No hate speech, sexism, or bullying No sexism, hate speech, degrading or excessively foul language, or other harmful language. No othering or dehumanizing of anyone or negativity towards any gender identity.
7. Proofread before posting. Use good grammar and punctuation. Avoid useless phrases. Some examples: - starting a post with "So" - starting a post with pointless phrases, like "I hope this is allowed" or “this is my first post” Only share good quality, cropped images. Do not share screenshots of images; share the original image.
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Hey, it’s better than voluntarily getting rid of something during a downsize and regretting it later (something I’ve done!).
Remember that the importance of those photos was in your love and memories of the people in them, not the actual pixels. That love and those memories are still there, even if the exact images are gone.
And ask yourself, are there any pictures on there that were so important my family members would have been angry at me about this? Because as painful as it is to lose something like that, they would almost certainly tell you they were just pictures and to not beat yourself up about it.
Be nice to yourself, especially if nobody else is.
I mean, that's kinda my main issue. The photos were to remember. Now I might not, because a lot of the things there weren't shared by anyone else.
Ugh.
I've had a rough couple of years and now it feels like they really got deleted as I can't even remember what I've been doing and now I can't see either.
Haven't used social media or backups either. :F
Thanks still, though. My family members are dead or don't really care about me anyway. Mostly it feels like honestly it was my personal history which is now lost because I can't ask anyone as I was alone writing and thinking those things and now I've lost them.
I'm trying to cope, yeah. I'll be okay in a few days, thanks.