On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:11:32 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

JohnH wrote:
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:46:47 GMT, Alotta Fagina wrote:

You wrote:

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:41:26 GMT, Alotta Fagina
wrote:

You wrote:

Try posting "I bought a new TV remote control this morning!" or some
other OT stuff not intended to start a fight and you'll get no more
grief from me than do most of the guys posting their local weather
reports, the score of the high school football game, or tips on how
to change the blade on a John Deere rotary lawn mower.
Why not? OT is OT, whether it's political or football.
One is friendly, the other leads to flames, name calling, and decidedly
immature behavior. Surely this has not gone unnoticed by you.
Chuckie should turn on his killfile, go back to slurping his rag's
advertisers, and stfu.

Because you prefer the immature, inflammatory behavior?

There are some people who only come to rec.boats because it has a
history of immature, inflammatory behavior. They are ****ed off at
Chuck because not as many people who are willing to play their game.

Perhaps there are a few who really don't know the difference between an
'OT' post and a *political or religious* OTpost. Perhaps the distinction
should be between 'inflammatory' and 'non-inflammatory'.

There are a few folks here who seem to get their kicks from inflaming
others. There are others who can discuss a controversial topic all day
without the inflammatory, name-calling comments. Those in the first group
are not going to change their behavior because of anything Chuck says, even
though they may apologize and change it for a few days.

Some of those in the second group seem to feel that because they can
discuss political topics all day without calling names and becoming
inflammatory, they should not be called down for political posting.

Given the personalities in this group, how one can think *any* political or
religious post is 'non-inflammatory' is beyond me.

And then there is the group that think using the name 'Kevin', for
basskisser, is appropriate behavior. I'll be the first to admit, however,
that basskisser's typical response is no more appropriate!