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DSK wrote:
... As it happens, I am extremely, highly intelligent.
In the top 2 percentile of the population.


Peter Wiley wrote:
Gee, all that 'talent' and you can't learn how to sail.


Who said I can't? Never tried, BUT the fact is I have nothing but
respect and admiration for people who sail (and very much for surfers,
windsurfers and stand-up jetskiiers). I recognize the greater level of
skill, experience and knowledge it requires, by far, compared to
piloting a runabout pwc.

Why "talent" in quotes? You can't acknowledge or imagine the
possibility that maybe I have talents and abilities worthy of some
degree of your respect? OH right, yes, I forgot, that's because I own
a personal watercraft, I'm beneath you, inferior. Asshole!
Sweartogod!

Heh. QED.

Unlike some of you guys, I don't think I'm better than anybody else,
have no trouble recognizing and acknowledging skills and abilities that
others (including some of you in this thread) have than I don't, people
who do things that I don't and (right now) can't, and affording them
the proper respect. But it doesn't seem to flow both ways. Anybody
here play jazz and progressive-rock keyboards professionally

Yawn. WGAF? This is rec.boats.cruising, not rich.forman.egofest

My pet cat can catch birds without the use of technology and I can't.

in
addition to having a full-time IT career

I employ people to do that sort of stuff.

and boating eight months a
year

I get paid to go boating.

(plus of course having a wife, kids, and home)? Anybody develop
complex enterprise-level business software pretty much single-handedly
for a career?

Yawn.

But no, I'm just an annoying idiot as far as some of you
guys are concerned, no matter what my accomplishments or what I may be
able to do that some of you probably never could......because I"m an
lowly "annoying jetskier" no apparently one here in r.b.c deems me
worthy to talk to cordially or as an equal or grant me respect.

Correct. This is r.b.c and you drive a PWC. I doubt anyone here really
cares what else you do, in this n/g. If we wanted to talk software or
stuff we'd be over in the comp.lang.* area.

So please, please, quit insulting me, either to me or to each other,
without knowing me or what you're talking about. Okay, you hate me for
some reason, I"m sure it's justified, but your assumptions and
statements about me are once again false.

I don't hate you at all. I just wish you'd stop saying that PWC aren't
a plague on the waterways when the overwhelming experience of others
here is that, in fact, they *are*. You're basically claiming that,
because *you* personally may not behave in such a manner as complained
of, everyone's counter experience is unrepresentative. Well, that means
you're basically saying that your judgement and experience is superior
to mine, for example. I disagree and think you're an arrogant twit for
thinking so. Giving you the benefit of the doubt, I'll grant that you
may not behave in an offensive manner, but you're *not* representative
of PWC drivers IME, you're the exception. Deal with it.

And you still can't explain why it's necessary to have in excess of 200
HP to move one or two people about on the water. It's ridiculous. Those
damn things are either massively overpowered or massively inefficient,
or both. I use less than twice that much HP to move some 8 tonnes of
boat, pax and equipment at 40+ knots.

Like I said, and unlike some power-boaters I've spoken to, I only
respect and admire accomplished sailors. I basically love all boating
and, by default, like the people who do it, I don't draw walls of
superiority in my mind between one type of boat/boater and another, or
judge anybody based on what kind of boating they choose.....I feel as
if I have a lot in common, and a lot to talk about, with anyone else
who loves the water.

Well guess what - I disagree with you.


Asking most people to learn to sail would be like asking a
Jack Russell terrier to learn chess.


You really are pretty full of yourself aintcha?

Yep, Doug is full of it all right :-) But what do you expect, he hangs
out in asa, he only slums here....

PDW