Scantlings

I know, a long time back Bob got a life time ban, A wee while later a few in GA started a thread about getting banned from the Cruisers forum, knowing that Bob had been banned for, actually I have know idea, or can I think of a reason for a reasonably popular sailing forum to ban someone like Bob.
Anyways I jumped on the field-trip bandwagon and just got to warming up to being a wanker when I got the lifetime ban. I mean come on, I was only warming up!
The final straw for the cruisers forum was telling the (actually true) story about sailing towards the end of the sailing season, not having enough bedding so using the spinnaker to keep warm, and well, shall we just say "extra curricular activities" helped to us keep warm
banned!
now I have an email about some water filter shit and my log-on works again!

I asked what's up and got the automated response. Trying to resist the urge to troll.....again...

jeroen

Hey, if you want to hang out on Cruisers Forum, do everyone a favor and play by their rules. If you don't like the rules, please hang out elsewhere.

I might compare it to Scantlings, right here. We don't pull the kind of shit here that we do on Sailing Anarchy. The rules here may not be as tight-assed as they are on CF, and they may not be all written down, but there are rules.

I do frequent CF, and was invited (and agreed) to be a moderator there. It's a pretty good place, with a different focus and skillset than here, or SA.

Where are the rules on CF?
I go there quite a bit, can't find any reference to rules.

Olaf Hart wrote:Where are the rules on CF?
I go there quite a bit, can't find any reference to rules.

There is a tab called "Rules" on the home page, of all places.

Ish wrote:

Olaf Hart wrote:Where are the rules on CF?
I go there quite a bit, can't find any reference to rules.

There is a tab called "Rules" on the home page, of all places.

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Ish are you retired yet? Where are you on the count down clock?

cap10ed wrote:

Ish wrote:

Olaf Hart wrote:Where are the rules on CF?
I go there quite a bit, can't find any reference to rules.

There is a tab called "Rules" on the home page, of all places.

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Ish are you retired yet? Where are you on the count down clock?

3 weeks. 14 working days.

]Not sure if your aware of this but everything will taste better in 3 weeks and 15 days. Sweet.

Ish, my first day of "retirement" I slept in then ambled down to my favorite local coffee shop and ordered up breakfast. While there, I read the entire, YES the ENTIRE, New York Times and a chapter of a book I'd been wanting to read. I drank so much coffee I had to finally get up to drain it out. Then I ambled home and took my great old dog for a long walk.

The dog and I were very very happy that day.

You'll love it!

BV

and yeah! I ...uh... make the rules around here! Just like I do at home.

where I live with 4 women

and I can change

if I have to

I guess.


Damn Ish... Retirement sounds awesome. I used to say I couldn't imagine not working. Then I got a job in management.

fuk.

My first official day of retirement (a day I would normally be working) will be Monday, June 3. We're hauling the boat out at 11 so I can strip the Poli Glow, sand the bottom, and do a PM on the Max Prop.

Retirement? What retirement?

Soñadora wrote:and yeah! I ...uh... make the rules around here! Just like I do at home.

where I live with 4 women

and I can change

if I have to

I guess.


Damn Ish... Retirement sounds awesome. I used to say I couldn't imagine not working. Then I got a job in management.

fuk.

Rick I take it you where one of the many Americans that rescued our beloved President from the TV Land trash can. If not for the vote of support from our American friends our great President of the Possum Lodge would have been whisked away to obscurity . Remember were all in this together, so keep your stick on the ice.
http://youtu.be/PGwW8fxGFTA

Ish wrote:My first official day of retirement (a day I would normally be working) will be Monday, June 3. We're hauling the boat out at 11 so I can strip the Poli Glow, sand the bottom, and do a PM on the Max Prop.

Retirement? What retirement?

Bring a six pack, lawn chair and stop every 45 min. for a seniors break. Try that at work and see how fast the door shuts behind you.

Here's what I think of CF.
They can go screw themselves.

In my time of darkness, two weeks after Spike died, they jumped on me for bumping the Spike memorial Fund thread.
I explained what was going on. They didn't listen so I let them know exactly what I thought of them. I laid out the fact that I thought they were judgemental ass holes revelling in a power mode.
I would much more hang out with the rabble at SA/CA than the sancimonious, self important pricks at CF.
I was banned for life.
My offense? Bumping the thread for the Spike Memorial fund. And speaking my mind about it.
They are defensive pussies hiding behind keyboards and rules.

In those first few weeks after Spike died I was in shock. I spent days in front of my monitor with SA on the screen hoping without hope for some kind of peace and sanity. I found bits and pieces of it on SA from frriends and strangers. But this was asking a bit too much from the refined sensitivities of the CF moderators and their prescious rules. I was banned on another forum too. But ironically Smackdaddy intervened and the ban was quickly lifted. I found where I was welcome in my damaged state and I found where I was not welcome.

Floater:
If you got the lifetaime ban then good on ya. I'll hang out with you. They should probably just put an "auto-ban" on all Australians now. Our sense of humor and honesty doesn't work there. Some how brown nosing and ass kissing were not taught at Ashfield Middle School.

After they banned you I bumped the Spike thread too, and was warned off.

If I had known I would be banned if I told them off, I could have joined the CF Ban club too.

I was pretty pissed off at the time.

You can take the boy out of Ashfield, but you can't take Ashfield out of the boy .....

Interesting comment about Aussies Bob, I have to admit I find Americans inordinately polite, they don't get the blunt side of Aussie humour.

Olaf Hart wrote:After they banned you I bumped the Spike thread too, and was warned off.

If I had known I would be banned if I told them off, I could have joined the CF Ban club too.

I was pretty pissed off at the time.

You can take the boy out of Ashfield, but you can't take Ashfield out of the boy .....

Interesting comment about Aussies Bob, I have to admit I find Americans inordinately polite, they don't get the blunt side of Aussie humour.

Why thank you.

Joe:
You are most certainly welcome. Anytime. And I do mean anytime.

Olaf:
There is a fine line between being "polite" and being "smarmy".
I find smarmy revolting. My experience with CF reeks of smarmyness. Or is it smarmosity? Got it,,,smarmalingus.

I appreciate yoyur efforts at CF. If you had tried a bit harder you could have joined me in the sin bin.
I think the blunt side of Aussie humor is honesty.

JoeP wrote:

Olaf Hart wrote:After they banned you I bumped the Spike thread too, and was warned off.

If I had known I would be banned if I told them off, I could have joined the CF Ban club too.

I was pretty pissed off at the time.

You can take the boy out of Ashfield, but you can't take Ashfield out of the boy .....

Interesting comment about Aussies Bob, I have to admit I find Americans inordinately polite, they don't get the blunt side of Aussie humour.

Why thank you.

No offence

bob perry wrote:Joe:
You are most certainly welcome. Anytime. And I do mean anytime.

Olaf:
There is a fine line between being "polite" and being "smarmy".
I find smarmy revolting. My experience with CF reeks of smarmyness. Or is it smarmosity? Got it,,,smarmalingus.

I appreciate yoyur efforts at CF. If you had tried a bit harder you could have joined me in the sin bin.
I think the blunt side of Aussie humor is honesty.

My eldest son lives in Denver.
He specifically asked me not to give a speech at his wedding, he was concerned the guests would not get the jokes.
A close friend who had grown up in the US and lived in Tasmania for twenty years gave an excellent speech. We had already made him an honorary family member years before. He understood the difference.
I think my son was right, I still have to be very careful with the jokes when we are visiting the US.

Olaf, I was sailing with some Aussie friends in France on some beautiful old classic boats. My Aussie friends were great fun and terrific sailors and looked utterly dejected when the owner of the boat we were crewing on tossed us all out of his party for our "blunt" humor. I tried to explain that I was just an American and thereby totally innocent. I also completely understand about choosing your wedding speakers carefully, I've personally been asked not to "tell jokes" at more than one event. BV

Well, I'm not sure I want to damn all Australians by claiming my own bad behaviour would just be the norm in Australia. I'm not quite that stupid. I like to think of myself as an international asshole. But I have a true repsect for honesty and candid personalities. I have no time for the types that don't want to offend anyone. Some people deserve a good offending.

Tony Papsworth (Paps) and I go at each other all the time.It's full on war when we talk politics. But the other night I was taking some swings at my uber liberal sister ( don't think Tony knew she was my sister) and Tony came on with "Steady there big feller." That's all. And that's all it took. He knew it was time to put a big Australian hand on my shoulder and he did it. I was not offended. I apologized to my sister and she apologized to me. Which is good because she was wrong!

I really like Tony but he won't come over here and he sure as hell isn't going to CF.

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In a country with a relatively recent history of slavery and civil war, the greatest racial and class divisions in the industrial world, an armed citizenry, and public institutions paralyzed by partisan hatred, politeness makes some sense.

Much of my time is surrounded by Antipodeans. Properly taking the piss of is a fine art. As an Amercan, it is far too easy to be too earnest or pushing the line; It took me years to re-learn how to communicate, and even then...

Eric:
That sounds too intellectual for dumb old me.
I just try to treat people they way I would like to be treated. I do the same with dogs and cats.

I make an effort to be polite everyday. I was brought up that way. I still hold the door open for ladies. Yesterday I deferrred to a guy kind of in line at the supermarket. I knew I was there before him but I didn't want to presume if he thought he was before me. I know polite and I do it. He deferred back to me, "No, you were first."
But sometimes I don't feel like being polite. The situation does not call for it. Life is too complicated to be polite all the time.
I'm no Eddy Haskell.

Jaimie:
Antipodeans? I didn;t know you were a scuba diver. Cool.

Jamie wrote:Much of my time is surrounded by Antipodeans. Properly taking the piss of is a fine art. As an Amercan, it is far too easy to be too earnest or pushing the line; It took me years to re-learn how to communicate, and even then...

I believe people from the Northeast have a better understanding of piss taking than those from other US regions and where I grew up, people specialized in it.

Bob, I've never seen you write anything remotely offensive and I consider myself pretty thin-skinned.

The thing that really brought American politeness home was when I was talking the granddog for a walk in Denver, there was a guy cutting the grass on his nature strip.

He turned the mower off until we walked by, then started it again.

That would never happen in Australia.

Now, if I am in the USA, I always cross the street if someone is mowing.

Eric:
Really? I'll have to start trying harder.
Mind you there are times when I wake up at 3am and make a mad dash to the computer to delete the last post of the night.

Olaf:
If I were mowing my lawn and you walked by with the dog I would not turn off my lawn mower. It would never occurr to me.

bob perry wrote:Eric:
Really? I'll have to start trying harder.

Just don't say nothing about my mother!

Funny how this thread died. No one has the balls to defend CF.
I am very comfortable with that. I think the silence says it all.

bob perry wrote:Funny how this thread died. No one has the balls to defend CF.
I am very comfortable with that. I think the silence says it all.

Looks like nobody gives a shit Bob. I’m good with that too. Enough said.