I think I'm going to take a break...sorry...

[vsailor]

I am also someone who has learned from Giu, I have implemented some of his
methods on my boat and liked his Photoshop "techniques" very much, but on the other hand I did not find "loser" a "good spirited" word...but that's just me...I'm NOT attacking him...I am stating MY POINT OF VIEW...:-)

[retclt]

Understood. My mom won't let me use the word's fart or crap while I'm visiting her house no matter how good natured I say it.

SD . . . As for Cheri, . . . . . . . what? Next you'll tell me her girls night outs are really something else? pleeeeeeeease stop!!! Don't tell her but when I go drinking with my buddies after work I tell her we're at choir practice. I think there’s choir practice to night, as a matter of fact!

[SEMIJim]

Originally Posted by Giulietta

(Please I appologize for my rant...sorry...)

No apologies necessary, IMO, Alex.

Originally Posted by Giulietta

I think I really need a break from Sailnet...

It happens. So take a break.

Originally Posted by Giulietta

I got to a point where some posts here, are getting on my nerve ...

I mostly tend to give those a pass. If a particular poster tends to get on my nerves: I tend to not read them. Life's too short, my friend .

Originally Posted by Giulietta

Yes, if you load a gun and put it in your eye, you will die...

Not necessarily. If you pull the trigger and if the firearm actually fires and if the round has sufficient energy and if the bullet, or fragments thereof, strike the necessary bits, and if...

(Just pullin' yer chain, Alex .)

Originally Posted by Giulietta

'll be back soon....

I would certainly hope so.

Jim

[SEMIJim]

Originally Posted by Schuckerman

But I would say if you got to this point, then you need to get a life. At least get a hobby.

And I would say that, in this particular instance, you're so far off base as to be in an entirely different universe.

In fact: Ironically, you've just managed to prove Alex' point perfectly. Congratulations!

Jim

[camaraderie]

Vsailor..."just an observation from reading his posts..."

I observe that in the year you've been here we've had one post saying fishing from a boat is OK...2 posts commending the use of microwave ovens on boats, 1 post about Micheal Vick and 4 posts about Alex using the word loser a lot.
Not saying anything...just observing.

[sailingdog]

SemiJim-

As thick as the skull must be on some of the posters that ask "If drill a hole in the bottom of my boat will it sink?", unless the bullet enters the eye, it will surely bounce off the skull.

Cam-

You mis-spelled Michael. But I think you do that a lot.

[vsailor]

Originally Posted by camaraderie

Vsailor..."just an observation from reading his posts..."

I observe that in the year you've been here we've had one post saying fishing from a boat is OK...2 posts commending the use of microwave ovens on boats, 1 post about Micheal Vick and 4 posts about Alex using the word loser a lot.
Not saying anything...just observing.

if accuracy is important to you...

1 post about Alex using the word loser

3 posts responding to other posts

I'm certainly not going to play games on here with you, I signed on because I bought a 31 ft sailboat and wanted to get the most out of it and I was introduced to Sailnet and have enjoyed and learned a lot from being here (especially from Alex)

I repeat..I DID NOT attack Alex, I actually admire him and all he done for this forum and for me!

If calling someone a loser is ok with you that's fine, let's get over it and move on or must someone post every day to be allowed on here??

[djodenda]

Make.... it..... Stop..... Please!

[vsailor]

Originally Posted by djodenda

Make.... it..... Stop..... Please!

Totally agree with you.......

[blueranger]

I'm resisting the urge to quote anything here, although Cam just made me spray coffee on my keyboard.

I'm probably one of those that helped drive Giu into his untimely but well-deserved sabbatical. So on behalf of all the newbies and lurkers out there let me say a big thank you to the old salts (and I'm talking years of experience not necessarily years just breathing). Folks on here have answered questions patiently, taken me sailing, even drawn up and scanned diagrams for me so I wouldn't electrocute myself. So thank you all of you that endure our questions that are old but new to us. Hopefully we get smart and we can answer the same questions from newe users later so you can ignore them.

Giu, Sway, SD, and the moderators put in a lot of time and do it in a public forum. Where like in any public gathering you have some folks who appreciate help, some who like to give help, some who have a sense of entitlement and some who have a sense of manners. And some who have no clue.

I have 9 year olds in Lasers telling me what I'm doing wrong as they pass me, but hopefully in a few seasons I'll have some useful advice and I intend to be patient and pass on here what was patiently given to me here.

And no, I didn't really have a point to this post. I just find all this funny. But I spent the entire weekend with a bent wire coat hanger pulling a bird's nest out of my mast that I have to rewire, so pretty much everything is funny to me at the moment. Just perspective I guess.

Mike