John Cairns wrote:

Good points, with the exception of the part about "respecting"
someone who lives in the keys in the floating equivalent of a
cardboard shack in the mangroves.

One's perception of another's abode is highly relative. To describe
someone's home as "the floating equivalent of a cardboard shack" is nothing
less than arrogant. Who are you to judge what standard of living someone
else should attain or aspire to? Seems to me that he keeps his boat in good
order - he isn't slovenly about it, and that was my point.


Trust me, if you drive down the
overseas highway and look out to sea around any of the small
communities down there you'll see what I mean.

What, exactly, will I see? Anything other than people living their lives?


Nil is basically full of ****. Period.

Does this have some relation to your attitude to people who live in the keys
in the "floating equivalent of a cardboard shack in the mangroves"?


I've met some great sailors, none of them were
remotely like nil, even when they had a few too many.

So what?


And yeah, some of us do care.

About what? Neal getting netcopped after opening his yap and behaving like
an obnoxious prick?


Over the years we've had some highly entertaining AND
witty folks inhabit these environs, I suspect most left because they
got tired of the resident troll/flame.

Seems to me that there was plenty of that going around until the recent spat
brought in the noise makers.


It's one thing to get flamed
with style, another to get insulted by a half wit,

Anyone who walks in here and feels insulted at some dumb comment is either
in the wrong place or needs to thicken their skin.


the equivalent of
being cursed by the homeless person when you refused to give them the
spare change in your pocket.

Insulted?? My response to that would be, "**** you, too".


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