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23-11-2010, 02:20
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#106
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: UK
Boat: Building 31 ft cat
Posts: 83
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I find it amazing that this has generated 7 pages of comment in 12 hours.
Some people obviously have too much free time on their hands
Cheers
Cliff
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23-11-2010, 02:36
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#107
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Turkey
Posts: 118
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cliffdykes
Some people obviously have too much free time on their hands
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That's an invalidating statement, and posting a big grin doesn't make it any more conducive to civil exchange.
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23-11-2010, 02:59
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#108
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: UK
Boat: Building 31 ft cat
Posts: 83
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This is a sailing forum, not a semantics forum.
Cheers
Cliff
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23-11-2010, 03:23
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#109
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Somewhere in the Caribbean
Boat: Beneteau First 38
Posts: 313
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What's the temperature in Thunder Bay now?
Gord...Look south....take some time....... go cruising
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As I sit, a swirling sea of passion gives it's poems in waves underneath me.
The whispers of the sun in my eyes, a silence within.
Rhythm of the surf, drums of the sea. Thoughts tumble and toss about the deep blue abyss inside me, where the love of you dwells.
I'm fighting currents to get back to you, listening to the flow of your liquid language as you beckon me, "Come Play"
Mariners Cove, CI. Anonymous.
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23-11-2010, 03:25
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#110
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CLOD
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: being planted in Jacksonville Fl
Boat: none
Posts: 20,364
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so this guy sails into the harbor and (all happy after another safe passage)
a fun thread read, specially the posts where people post that others must have too much time on their hands to have posted on the thread
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23-11-2010, 03:37
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#111
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Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Home at Warsaw, Poland, boat in Eastern Med
Boat: Ocean Star 56.1 LR
Posts: 1,841
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Banning the expression of thoughts and emotions is a censorship - nothing more.
I lived 35 years of my life in the country censoring everything - even the reading on the pack of matches was censored...
I hope You will never have such an experience in Your life, Gord.
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23-11-2010, 03:39
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#112
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Armchair Bucketeer
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 10,012
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Don Lucas
a fun thread read, specially the posts where people post that others must have too much time on their hands to have posted on the thread
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Methinks we need an Irony Smiley.
To cover that particular cross-cultural bridge that ends in a place north of Mexico. and south of Canada - no names . The nearest I can find is..........
(Irony because it's written. Verbally it would be called taking the p#ss, including of self )
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23-11-2010, 04:03
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#113
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Southern California
Boat: 1979 Union Polaris 36'
Posts: 333
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C.L.O.D.
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23-11-2010, 04:21
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#114
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario - 48-29N x 89-20W
Boat: (Cruiser Living On Dirt)
Posts: 49,139
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fortytwo
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Would that I could.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Tellie
... sometimes even your friends have to put their arm around you and say "lighten up a bit bro, it ain't that important"
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Indeed.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Khagan1227
... While I respectfully disagree with Gord, he is a moderator and I'll follow whatever rules that exist for the forum.
Keith
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It should be noted that I (Gord) am & have not been a Moderator for some considerable time.
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"If you didn't have the time or money to do it right in the first place, when will you get the time/$ to fix it?"
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23-11-2010, 04:27
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#115
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Annapolis, Maryland
Boat: 1978 44 foot Camper & Nicholsons Ketch
Posts: 342
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Quote:
Originally Posted by At sea
Just for the record, the above quote (it seems) is the post which motivated Gord's OP for this thread. The post raised Trim50's ire and it got a bit testy. FWIW, my view is that the Joli post was offensive and the reaction understandable (although it'd be wiser to have ignored it). The headbanger emoticom should be reserved as a comment on one's own behaviour or actions.
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I completely see where GordMay is coming from. I kind of think of Gord as a Demi-God of Cruisers Forum. He has contributed for a long time, and his posts are always informative, pertinent, accurate, helpful, and productive. So I think if he says the Emoticons go, then they should perish.
*I would miss those little buggers, though*
I think that the thread that the head banging post appeared on that 'sea' is referring to, and which possibly prompted Gord's reaction, is one of a serious, and grave nature...and in light of the spirit of that thread the use of in that way seems to somehow bring inappropriate brevity to that which cannot be summed up in a nutshell...
Couldn't let the thread die yet...and of course had to display the strong possibility of the use of run-on sentences if, in fact, the emoticons were banished
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23-11-2010, 04:28
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#116
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Me: Hong Kong, Boat: Turkey
Boat: Lagoon 380 - Times like these. Port: Mooloolaba, Australia
Posts: 86
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If I can't use these emoticons, then I'll just have to type more words in order to say the same thing the emoticons were saying anyway.........
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I've sent in my application to the Real World. So I'm hoping to hear back from that....
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23-11-2010, 05:45
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#117
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Chesapeake Bay
Boat: 22' Avalon Pontoon - The WINE BARge
Posts: 164
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hummingway
I certainly agree with the spirit of your comment Gord but personally I find most of these useful in a different context. For instance the whistle can imply sly humour or an oops moment. I think they are examples of emoticons that are useful for self deprecation but unfortunate when used as an insult.
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Agreed. I find them useful, but can certainly see where they could be mis-used.
Keep them. If someone wants to be rude, they'll find a way to be rude.
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23-11-2010, 11:11
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#118
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Coos Bay, Oregon
Boat: Valiant 40 (1975)
Posts: 4,073
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I love our CLOD. If he needs a boat, he can borrow my little one as long as he maintains it. But it is ice up there right now...if fact it is ice down here too, which may explain why I just read this thread from top to bottom
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23-11-2010, 12:50
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#119
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: PNW
Boat: Knutson K-35 Yawl "Oh Joy" - Mariner 31 Ketch "Kahagon" - K-40 "Seasmoke" - 30' Sloop "Baccus"
Posts: 1,289
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The only time emoticons bug me is when someone uses the wrong one in the initial post of a thread, like the thumbs down when they are asking a simple question and not ranting or the rolleyes when posting about something cool. Some folks have no clue what the emoticons even mean... Regardless, I think they should stay, even if I rarely use them. They work real well in indicating sarcasm and preventing fights for the simple reason, ya can't read what someone is REALLY saying up here. No body language to read or smirk/smile to see.
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23-11-2010, 12:54
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#120
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CF Adviser
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: sausalito
Boat: 14 meter sloop
Posts: 7,260
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Quote:
Originally Posted by s/v Beth
I love our CLOD.
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Amen. People have clicked his thank you button more times than any of the next ten of us.
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