"Wally" wrote in message
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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.

Don't care. I would point out, in the virtual equivalent of a saloon, that
if someone claims something and the reality is in all probability a
different thing entirely, that they are full of ****. And I am happy to tell
them so. Probably not in the witty fashion of some, but I do get an
occasional one-liner in.



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?

You will see a fair number of people living on boats that haven't gone
anywhere since they were fixed to their moorings. Wouldn't qualify them as
sailors.



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"?

nil would be full of **** wherever he was. nil is nil, after all.




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?

My mistake. I don't give a flying f if nil gets netcopped. If he were bright
he'd be worried about the content of some of his posts, especially those
where he advocates criminal activity of a type that is considered extremely
antisocial, even by the criminal element.



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.

Well, vitually insulted, anyways. Someone threw something at me a while
back, it was so funny I was practically in tears, and I let the poster know.
It really was quite funny.



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".

Myself, I would hope to come up with a very witty snappy comeback.

John Cairns


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