wrote in message
oups.com...
On Jul 10, 5:08 pm, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:
wrote in message

ups.com...





On Jul 10, 3:13 pm, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:
wrote in message

oups.com...

On Jul 9, 2:00 pm, "JoeSpareBedroom" wrote:
wrote in message

roups.com...

On Jul 9, 12:50 pm, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:
wrote in message

. ..

On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:38:36 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

wrote in message
. ..
On Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:23:01 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
wrote:

wrote in message
m...

You don't need to sit through hours of courses to learn
one
rule.

I think it's quite safe to assume that if you don't know
that
one
rule...

Gee....ya think? Nothing like a blinding flash of the
obvious.
I
asked
about
the rule, so obviously I did not know it.

You with me so far?

As far as safety, I've was handling a 47 foot boat quite
nicely
when
I
was
16 years old. Took all the courses, etc etc. My current boat
was
boarded
a
couple of years ago, and I was given a ticket for not having
a
piece
of
equipment NOT required by the CG. I ended up helping some
young
guy
learn
the rules, with the help of his CO.

Somehow, you've completely failed to convince me of your
competence.
If a newcomer to this group were to ask the same basic
question
you
asked, there would have been 20 responses advising you that
you
need
to take a safe boating course. My advice that you seriously
need
to
take a safety course stands, and your "know-it all"
responses
only
re-inforce that opinion.

Why do I need to convince YOU?

I don't know, but you seem to have made it a high priority. So
far,
you might have convinced yourself, but that's about it. And
even
that
would require a fair amount of intellectual dishonesty on your
part.

You didn't respond to my question about water temperature. Could
you
please
do so in your next message?- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Then what Joe? What if he said he could not tell you to a degree
what
the temp is in his tank, what does that prove? I guess I am a
little
slow today!

It's rude to second guess people, so let's wait until this time
tomorrow
and
see if he answers the question. Then, I'll explain why I asked.-
Hide
quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

OK, now what was your frekin' point!?

Perfect analogy:

He can't tell us the water temperature. Therefore, he is not qualified
to
operate any plumbing device or appliance which uses hot water.- Hide
quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Except that he did not have to take a course and was never required to
learn to check his water heater to use hot water. You on the other
hand should know weather or not the governing police force on the
water can board your boat. It was a far fetched, lousy analegy, that's
probably why I did not get it.

Not knowing that rule bears absolutely no relationship to safe boating,
unless:

- You suggest that I may have forgotten lots of other things from the
course
I took, which is unlikely since I constantly practice what I learned.

You practice what you learned? What about all the stuff you missed?

or
- You suggest (correctly) that handcuffs can be painful, and therefore a
safety issue. But, that would be a stretch

You put up the stupidist analagies? I think you are trying to hard to
be clever and it's not working

Now you are sounding like those crazy spams that hit the goup with no
real message, just a lot of assorted junk. You try sooo hard to be
clever, but it rarely works.



Suggest something you think I've missed. You're pretty insistent that I've
missed something. Give me an example.