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17-04-2016, 19:27
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Cruising the Gulf of Mexico.
Boat: 1980 Morgan 415
Posts: 1,452
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CF regulars
Just a note of thanks to those that keep good conversations going with their informed and social comments.
All to often I find myself deleting a reply after a couple of paragraphs because I find my reply unintentionally harsh or somewhat insulting. Need I mention obtuse?
Thanks again
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Working on spending my children's inheritance.
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17-04-2016, 20:33
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: virginia
Boat: islandpacket
Posts: 1,967
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Re: CF regulars
Hey, I've done that also.
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18-04-2016, 08:22
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Long Beach, CA
Boat: Tayana Vancouver 42
Posts: 2,804
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Re: CF regulars
I've heard it said that the way to appear wise is to think of something stupid to say ... and then don't say it.
Too often I remember that too late.😚
S/V B'Shert
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18-04-2016, 08:27
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Skagit City, WA
Posts: 25,483
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Re: CF regulars
Yep, sometimes I get thru a post and decide I'm not saying anything new and delete it.
Sometimes I say it anyway to add one more vote for a certain direction in the debate.
Contentious debates I often post once and never come back! The OP can choose who to ignore.
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18-04-2016, 22:56
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Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: aboard, cruising in Australia
Boat: Sayer 46' Solent rig sloop
Posts: 28,438
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Re: CF regulars
Cheekako, et al,
I'm lurking here, and want to say that I, too, often find it hard to hang in there, and let all the contentious people vent their spleen on each other. I really don't like it when people are snarky. And sometimes I bug out. It is, after all, sort of illusory that we are a "community."
When you're out cruising, you put some effort into being friends with everybody, but face to face, people are/ behave more agreeable/y, and they moderate their behavior based on the visual feedback they're getting. There is a more real sense of community, to me.
Personally, i think it's a lot harder, in writing, to say just what you want to say, in a way that it will come across as just that, and nothing different. I re-write, I delete. I even give up sometimes. None of that shows, but it's part of my process, and possibly others'.
Don CL started a thread about people or events or aspects of nature that happened while you were cruising. That was really hard, finding words-wise. Some things are perhaps better shared over a cuppa or a glassa?
Cheers, guys,
Ann
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18-04-2016, 23:20
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: Australia
Boat: Catalina 470
Posts: 4,578
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Re: CF regulars
I do this regularly, but maybe not enough..lol.
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19-04-2016, 14:54
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Bahamas/Florida
Boat: Solaris Sunstar 36' catamaran
Posts: 2,686
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Re: CF regulars
I try to remind myself that I don't usually get in trouble by keeping my mouth shut.
Sometimes I forget though lol.
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19-04-2016, 15:04
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CLOD
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: being planted in Jacksonville Fl
Boat: none
Posts: 20,364
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Re: CF regulars
I feel CF is more interesting with a little hate and snarky added in once in a while. Otherwise it would mostly just be a place to ask the same old questions because you are too lazy to search for your "never before" asked question where you are darning people to answer it again.
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19-04-2016, 15:06
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CLOD
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: being planted in Jacksonville Fl
Boat: none
Posts: 20,364
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Re: CF regulars
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cheechako
Yep, sometimes I get thru a post and decide I'm not saying anything new and delete it.
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Wow you must type and delete a lot then based on the number posts that make it to "submit reply"
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Don't ask a bunch of unknown forum people if it is OK to do something on YOUR boat. It is your boat, do what you want!
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19-04-2016, 15:10
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: North Carolina
Boat: Seaward 22
Posts: 1,028
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Re: CF regulars
I wish more people were self editing
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19-04-2016, 15:14
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Long Beach, CA
Boat: Tayana Vancouver 42
Posts: 2,804
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Re: CF regulars
Some people I wish were self deleting.
Oops. That is probably one of the replies I should have self edited.
S/V B'Shert
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19-04-2016, 16:16
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#12
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Everywhere (Sea of Cortez right now)
Boat: PSC Orion 27
Posts: 1,377
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Re: CF regulars
Quote:
Originally Posted by FSMike
I try to remind myself that I don't usually get in trouble by keeping my mouth shut.
Sometimes I forget though lol.
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Or, as my Grampa used to say; "when you're up to your eyeballs in s*!t, keep your mouth shut"
goat (I wish I had that little voice that warned me not to say things, instead of this dog, telling me to do things that get me in trouble. Bad dog!)
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19-04-2016, 16:36
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#13
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Registered User
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: PNW 48.59'45N 122.45'50W
Boat: Ian Ross design ketch 63'
Posts: 1,472
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Re: CF regulars
As I've said often enough to bore most of you, I'm here for two reasons:
A. To find out about systems, how much they cost and the stuff NOT to do.
B. To share stuff with people as crazy or crazier than I who live this odd life.
As soon as it gets political enough or insulting enough I just log off. Snarky's different, I can grin at a little snark. I've learned more than I planned when I first logged on and for that I'm grateful.
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