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

[Herb Parsons]

How arrogant of you to tell me how to "better spend my time". How about 
me saying you could better spend YOUR time searching some archives to so 
you can know what you're talking about before you spout off? On the one 
hand, you complain about the repetitiveness, and then on the other you 
ask for a repetition of something that was already stated.

I have a "real job". It requires that I be on the internet all day long, 
and basically take care of problems. I have time in short bursts between 
problems, and that's where and when I post on here.

I also have a "real life" that involves my kids, grandkids, my 
motorcycle riding club, my sailing club, and yes, I'm heavily involved 
with all of those, sometimes in tandem with each other. As I said just 
recently, I sail just about every weekend (I missed this one - work). I 
even managed to squeeze in getting a USCG 25-ton Masters.

I also ride my bike just about every day, see my local grandkids every 
week (one of them every day, she lives with me), and my out of town 
gkids once a month.

I attend church just about every Sunday (again, exception today, I had 
to work).

Your comment about this forum having "so little to do with sailing" is 
much like the liberals complaining about the "increasing income gap" - 
as if lowering the incomes at the high end would some increase the low end.

Stopping the political posts would not bring any more sailing posts. 
Have you EVER seen a sailing question on here go unanswered? As a matter 
of fact, if the "other" sailing forums are any indication, restricting 
the non-sailing posts would likely dry up the forum completely.

I'm pretty faithful about putting "political" on my post headers. I'd 
more more than happy to help you learn how to set up a filter on your 
system to sort out the political posts. Even though it's not sailing 
related, just ask.

One more thing on the topic of sailing questions - have you ever 
answered any sailing questions on this forum? Most of the people you 
just mentioned have, including myself.


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...
>