[Rhodes22-list] How much time do you spend on the computer?

[Brad Haslett]

Pete,

I'll backslide on my pledge to not waste anymore bandwidth on you.

Many of us on this board are friends.  We've supped, we've sailed,
we've grieved together.

So what are you saying? Is this an admission that you're nothing but a troll?

Brad

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 9:04 PM, petelargo <petelauritzen at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Dear Mr. Phor,
>
> Yes, there is a very active 'political zone' on R22. It has been held
> hostage by Big Mouth Brad and his sidekick Last Word Herb with musical
> rantings by Marxist-Be-Gone Ed. When they want your opinion they'll give it
> to you.  After Nov 4th I must leave to go fight the other 'brads and herbs'
> on other forums. So many kooks and so little time......
>
>
>
> Metaphor wrote:
>>
>> I've got a simple question, but mostly applied to Herb and Brad, and
>> somewhat to Tootle:
>>
>> Do you guys have jobs or real lives, or do you spend all day on the
>> internet and then posting to this forum?  There are a couple of other
>> volume posters, but none so prolific as you are. I get the sense that the
>> sailors are pretty much giving up getting airtime in competition with the
>> political nature of this forum.
>>
>> I try to follow the various threads, but have lost interest in this forum
>> because it has so little to do with sailing, Rhodes 22's or nautical life
>> in general.  Reading the same paranoid information from the three of you
>> over and over again is tiresome, so much so that I've begun to applaud
>> your challengers -- Ben C, petelargo, etc.,  simply because they are
>> challenging you, and I have (but not always) voted Republican.
>>
>> Your time would be better spent arguing on a political forum rather that a
>> sailing one, and leaving this forum to talk about the boring details of
>> the Rhodes 22 -- you know, technical issues, innovative re-designs or
>> fixes, sailing techniques, great sailing adventures, that kind of stuff of
>> interest to Rhodes 22 owners and sailors... certainly there would be fewer
>> posts, but the Rhodes 22 boat issues would not be so buried under the
>> volume of political posts found here.  A search of the internet would
>> probably find a few sites that you might find more of a political nature.
>> Thanks...
>>
>
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