Second and third swells

It's like when you're at the doctor's office. Don't ask the question unless you're ready to hear the answer.

It was your decision to bring scrutiny to my personal and professional life based of thin slices of my time expenditure as indicated by an online forum.

Three words back at you, but we will have fun and make this a puzzle since you like the suspense of trying to figure out answers that are meaningless to your life.

Three words similar in composition to those three you used: "_ _ _ _ _ _ yourself"

 

To the "holier than thou" crowd (it seems to be replicating itself in number here):

Take a look at the origin of these threads that seem to so very much irk you. Then look at the elements that progress them into mutated, off-topic horsecrap.

This thread was geared towards a topic of ocean hydrodynamics that is very much appropriate for a surfing forum. The original post has zero aim or attention towards anyone's outside life or ego.

Any one of a number of subsequent posts immediately derailed the content from said objective and decayed it into the cesspool that most web forums quickly become.

There's clear irony in the claims from these posters that "their surfing forum" is being infected with waste, when they are sowing the seeds of hate, tilling the soil with derision, and harvesting the crap themselves.

 

Ha, this guy really can't fight the battles he picks. I wonder who castrated him, his mother years ago or his lovely significant other in the current day.

You are a sad, shell of a boy, crackedinri. To not shoulder the weight of the situations you provoke, have a chance to avoid through a humorous response by your intended target diverting from and not engaging the conflict (earlier in this thread), provoke once again, get responded to privately instead of publicly (because your decisions shouldn't be anyone else's problem on here), then try and cower behind your fellow narrow-minded brethren.

Yes, people. We live in a society where what you say and do has consequences. Even if this presidential regime and nation says how you decide to act is not your fault.

To those of you shooting your mouths off to people you don't know behind the guise of an internet forum handle: go to Bridgeport, CT and say anything like this out loud to the commoners of that town, who you likewise know nothing about and who've done nothing to insult or harm you. Come back to us and report the results.

 

Their, they're, there.

I wouldn't call it BA per se. Or any place worth visiting or passing through. But it is the most densely populated city in CT and has a crime rate 9x the national average. Following the Industrial Revolution, it was a thriving metropolis and more or less a place to be. That fell apart in the last 50 years, probably worse than say a Pittsburgh.

The reason I used Bridgeport is that it was mentioned in other threads the last couple days and it's fairly representative of the extremity of self-policing human nature that meager sheltered folk like crackedinri are insulated from ever having to be part of or experience. Hence, my suggestion that much could be learned by he and some other audacious others on here by "taking their game to the streets" where there's no place to hide when your mouth writes a check your body can't cash. But hey, who needs to be a man in this world when your domineering mother or suburban lawyer can shield you from or get you out of any mess your arrested development puts you in?

 

Re-read my post that started this thread. Is it vacuous drivel? Or is it within the realm of what a surfing forum should have? It's 6 sentences of a pertinent topic that all can understand and it invited the unique input and perspective of others. Pretty much a functional post of any forum.

What are vacuous are posts that derail otherwise functional forum threads into debate and investigation of members' professional lives. Is this a job search forum or career building forum? Is it a time management forum? In hindsight, was putting my occupation and sum of free time under a microscope at all of value to this thread, this forum, and its members?

How many words is this post so far? If less than 500, and you get the point, I'd call me the control, you the variable, and your "getting the point" in less than 500 words "PROGRESS".

 

nynj, wasn't at all jumping down your throat. Like you said, it's difficult to discern tone from the written word. I said it casually as misuse of heterographs happens to be a pet peeve of mine. Zero intention to call you out. Was more of an aside before I took the time to answer your question about Bridgeport.

 

In what way? By commenting on and adding to threads that are intended to be off-topic or are steered off-topic? Or by choosing to finally engage these flamethrowers even if I've ignored their first 5 provocations?

If it's the first, then I never said there's no place for off-topic posts in a forum. That's part of any good web forum, especially when we have lots of witty fellow surfers on here that can be a source of well-shared humor and also discussion of other outside experiences that are mutually shared by the members here.

If it's the second, I try to ignore the needless instigation as much as humanly possible. At a certain point, the self-respect kicks in and something's got to be done to curtail the BS, especially when it wasn't prompted or called for.

I don't recall ever complaining about people not talking about surfing on here. As can be seen, I like talking about outside topics just as much as surfing, because of the good and smart people that are patrons of this forum. My main issue is the hijacking of an otherwise functional thread by personal attacks or just pure ignorance that grows like wildfire to the peanut gallery surrounding the audience. You can see the difference from one thread to another. There are some on here that progressively veer off course and in a non-confrontational way, then there are others where people bring up cliché anecdotes or start asking what people do for a living and quantifying their free time.

 

100% we can.

And great sample from a historic movie. Veronica Vaughn. What a fox.