Actually, the location of guests appears or does not depending on the theme used.
Hunh? cochrane, I see your location and I’m only a guest:
Everyone has their location listed, I thought.
Oh, we’re taking repayment. Not only did she have to stop saying we owed her, but there have been several periods when she was being… uncompliant with self-care duties and we’ve reminded her that if she stops taking care of herself we will, in fact, choose her retirement home.
We’re real nasty. For example, two years ago she had a period when she’d start all conversations between the two of us (I’m her primary “therapist”) with a list of “reasons I shouldn’t have to go to a retirement home” (note that none of us had mentioned the possibility, it was all her). I eventually took notes and came up with a response for each and every complaint.
- “I don’t make enough to pay for them.” Actually, your pension is higher than the salaries of two of your five children (bio and inlaw); not only would it cover semi-assisted payments (semi-assisted being the regime you’d be under given your medical needs), but the amount you’d have left is higher than Spain’s minimal salary.
- “Getting in is superdifficult”. Here’s the procedures for both of our local homes. Both begin by “make an appointment with the social worker; you can do that by calling the home or through your GP”.
- etc etc.
It shows up if you’re using the shitty Sultantheme’s skin. I use the regular SDMB skin. So, as Nava stated, it shows up or not depending on your theme.
I see. I use the (rude word) Sultantheme version, aka the Old skin, which I find not (rude word) at all; is what I got when I registered (note my new as of this January status), and which I guess I’ll keep if it lets me see user locations (when provided) by both capital-M-Members and guests.
(In fairness, supposedly there are advantages to using the New skin if you use a phone to read the SDMB.)
Why am I such a crank about people who post cutesy-wootsy sham locations? Well, if I’m reading a discussion of say Brexit, it is useful to know who might be personally affected (Location: London) by the issue, and who is looking in from outside (Location: West VA). I don’t even mind much if someone wants to use Location: “The land of the haggis” - pretty sure I can guess where that is. What irritates me is something like Location: “Way up your snoot”. Please kids - resist the temptation - “it is better to be silent and be thought a fool” - you know the rest.
So only people who are affected by something are allowed to have an opinion on that thing? That’s pretty [rude word].
Oh certainly not. Discussions in any case are not always driven by opinions. Many users post questions because they want to learn something, with the hope that someone close to the ground will have an insight. Sure, where one lives doesn’t matter a lot of the time, but I’d say for certain topics it makes a difference. If I want to know about life near the Mexican border, I might put less weight on what some joker from Bridgeport, CT has to say on the topic. (But convince me.)
But, between the fact that a great many posters just leave their location info blank and the fact that you can’t see it anyway for guests in the original theme – which is the only theme that actually works properly – you seem to be getting your shorts in a knot for no really good reason. Most frequent posters here have a pretty good general idea where other frequent posters are located. Tell you what – you’ve lived with the board for two whole months now; give it another two and see what you think. 
You’ll have to figure out where I live first since location determines how you weigh others’ opinions.
If someone (whose location says “Way up dat snoot”) says “Well, we have mandatory java jacket recycling… here in Seattle,” that’s great. But what chaps my chaps is when someone posts something where you’re dying to know their location, and they’re being anonymously coy.
“Our local Lego League is giving out free drone kits, and the kids will help you assemble them, while their moms serve you homemade cookies. But only for four more hours…” Hey, Google Maps! Quickest route to ‘Way up dat snoot’!"
I told the barber to cut my hair short above the ears (but didn’t pay attention to how it was being shaped during the cut.) Guess who has a Lego head now.
In my case, my actual physical location changes a lot: just this year I’ve slept in about ten towns, two countries, and three different regions in each of those countries… and we’re only in March. When whatever I’m saying is location-relevant I try to remember mentioning it somewhere in the post (unless I’m responding to one which already mentions it), but knowing where I happen to be doesn’t tell you which place I’m talking about. One of the little irritants I run into frequently is people being confused between “where I’m from”, “where I live”, “where I am right now” and “places I know well”. Or, well, “places whose situation directly affects me”. In my case they’re definitely not all one and the same.
In other minis: right now I’m in Normandy. That’s France. I promise. And I’m not even in the part of Normandy that’s right next to Belgium; Belgium is over 300km thataway. So why do google servers think I’m in Germany? THE LAST INVASION FAILED, you geographically-challenged weirdos!
Hatchie, Hatchie, you’re worrying way too much about this. You’ll get ulcers. Were all denizens of the big ol’ world. Just ask. Most will tell you all you need to know. By the by, where are you at?
ETA, I just looked, I see you’re in Boston. Cool.
twitch I just got a message from Ryanair (I hate them but I needed to take one of their flights a couple of weeks back) telling me to buy my dad a plane ticket as a Father’s Day Present (in Spain it’s March 19th, Feast of St. Joseph).
I can send him to your offices casket and all if you want, hey? Would you like some bits and pieces of other relatives as well?
My dad died 12 years ago and my mom still gets adverts addressed to him monthly, even from places she routinely does business with.
Spectrum Cable still sends my deceased father a bill every month, since their predecessor (Time Warner Cable) refused to take his name off the account. He still gets loads of mail, particularly from political organizations. Every now and then, if there’s a postage-paid envelope inside, I’ll return everything to the organization in question with “HE’S DEAD, STOP SENDING STUFF” written on one of the forms.
A Facebook friend of mine died this summer. Her sister managed to log into her Facebook page to post an announcement. One that gave me no clue as to how she died or if it was expected or unexpected.
But I guess a lot of people didn’t see that message. And her account is still active. So a few weeks ago, Facebook exhorted me to “wish her a Happy Birthday”. Which many of her FB friends did. Lots of “Party On, Karen, have a festive day” type posts.
And several years ago I Facebook friended an old work colleague that had resurfaced long enough to contact me. Shortly afterwards he committed suicide. At which point I realized I was his ONLY FB friend. And once a year I get a birthday notification on him. And I just can’t bring myself to unfriend him.
Fricking dog.
She didn’t used to care about what was happening outside. Then in the last year or so she started barking at people/animals she could see from the front window. Then she started barking at things we couldn’t see, but during the day.
Last night was the first time she was defending us from the invisible space aliens in the middle of the night (started barking at 3:00 am, continued off and on until my normal wake up time of 5:30. We’ll have had her 14 years in July, and she was probably a year old then. My best guess is senility to go with arthritis.
Tonight we’ll try closing the curtain (and probably clip it so she can’t stick her head through the gap).
You.
Was I right? Is it you?
I bet it’s you.
(wtf is Lego head?)
Hey, your peripateticness, why don’t you just zoom on out to California tomorrow, and watch the swallows coming back to Capistrano?