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« on: October 20, 2010, 09:10:38 PM » |
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I find myself posting to topics on the board.... then thinking better of it..... deleting the post........seems like a good idea for a lot of the topics here lately...... 
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 blue=3 times green=at least 4 times When they are all 'green'.. I'll stop counting.
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« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2010, 09:20:25 PM » |
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VRCC #15503 "ONCE YOU'VE HAD A FAT LADY, YOU CAN NEVER GO BACK!" 15 minutes on a harley don't make you a biker! "The Government is not your Mommy!" 
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« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2010, 05:17:19 AM » |
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Ya I do know  It's just way too easy to villify someone on the net for disagreeing or whatever. The net lacks a true human interface...what you get when you're face to face with someone or even on the phone and voice to voice. It's almost like, "Your pain?...can't see it from my house so I'm saying whatever I want." It's de-humanizing. Best to keep things lite out here. JMHO
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Daniel Meyer
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« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2010, 06:27:00 AM » |
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*well thought out and perfectly reasoned reply deleted here* 
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CUAgain, Daniel Meyer 
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« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2010, 06:53:57 AM » |
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I'm thinking the same thing. I like to read members posts some of the time. Since I no longer have a Valk though and many posts turn into religious or political, I sometimes wonder why I even bother. Even jokes aren't safe anymore . I even gave some thought to posting this.
It sure is funny that VRCC events including Inzane, IMO, are much different. Evidently people seem to be more polite face to face and the discussions stay on riding .
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« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2010, 07:24:16 AM » |
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May others follow your lead, Mark and gain your insight, Chili.
There are some 938 members who have logged in during the past ten days (and likely at least that many viewers who didn't bother to log in). Of those there are probably less than a dozen that insist on casting a contentious tone to the board. Interestingly, the non-Valk riders are over represented in that group.
I think I know the solution, and a lot of others think they know the solution also, but I'm not sure we would like the result.
It's an interesting mix of ingredients that makes edible chocolate so delicious. An excess of either the bitter or the sweet renders the result distasteful.
Life, and maybe the message board, is like a box of chocolates.
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« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2010, 07:45:23 AM » |
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« Reply #7 on: October 21, 2010, 08:11:02 AM » |
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I find myself posting to topics on the board.... then thinking better of it..... deleting the post........seems like a good idea for a lot of the topics here lately......  Yep ... know just what you are talking about.
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« Reply #8 on: October 21, 2010, 08:39:38 AM » |
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Just think, we are now raising a generation of children who communicate in this manner a large portion of the time, e-mail, text, myspace, facebook....... I worry that they are losing the art of conversation.
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« Reply #9 on: October 21, 2010, 11:53:26 AM » |
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Any progress on the "ignore" button..or whatever it's called?
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"Evolution" is a dying religion being kept alive with tax dollars. 
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« Reply #10 on: October 21, 2010, 08:26:31 PM » |
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I find myself doing the same thing. I read a post, get worked up. Write something, delete it, rewrite it. I did it last nite... again. Diversity is good, I keep saying that. But, I don't do well with name calling, being generalized as a state full of "idiots," as I saw in one post. At that point, I have a tendency to want to stand up and say "how dare you?" There you go... Now, I have started deleting part of my post. *well thought out and perfectly reasoned reply deleted here*  Probably the best way to put it Daniel. I have other things to do than to read the diatribe of a few people that I whole heartedly disagree with. Yet, I support their right to think that way and voice their opinion. I also have the right to move on and not read it! I do that often!!
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« Reply #11 on: October 21, 2010, 09:05:47 PM » |
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I find myself posting to topics on the board.... then thinking better of it..... deleting the post........seems like a good idea for a lot of the topics here lately......  Yup!! Three times just this evening. Actually 4, since I did it twice on the same thread!! 
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The key thing is to wake up breathing! All the rest can be fixed. (Except Stupid - You can't fix that)
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« Reply #12 on: October 21, 2010, 10:17:48 PM » |
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Hey Mark,,, See ya soon!! 8-)
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"If you're lucky you have at least one best friend in your life ... I married mine"  
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hotglue #43
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« Reply #13 on: October 21, 2010, 10:31:52 PM » |
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Des!!!!!!!!!!!! WoooHooooo!!!!!!!! Can't wait!!!!!!!!!
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 blue=3 times green=at least 4 times When they are all 'green'.. I'll stop counting.
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« Reply #14 on: October 22, 2010, 05:17:59 AM » |
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I look at these post as if it was TV or the radio...if I do not find it entertaining, I change the channel...I will go back and read some if not all of them, sure I wish there were more about rides and bikes...and yes, BOOBIES...but Willow and his crew are doing a great job of parenting us...so I learn everyday...that people are different than me, and trust me, that is a good thing. Willow after all that talk of chocolate, I am getting hungry! Not to steal the thread, but I like chocolate covered caramel... What do you like? 
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« Reply #15 on: October 22, 2010, 05:51:28 AM » |
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Willow after all that talk of chocolate, I am getting hungry!
Not to steal the thread, but I like chocolate covered caramel...
What do you like? Dark chocolate, Big. The darker the better. Well, up to a point at least. I especially like a dark chocolate syrup drizzled over a very specific ** text removed by request **, but then let's not hijack this thread.
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« Reply #16 on: October 22, 2010, 06:00:28 AM » |
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Willow after all that talk of chocolate, I am getting hungry!
Not to steal the thread, but I like chocolate covered caramel...
What do you like? Dark chocolate, Big. The darker the better. Well, up to a point at least. I especially like a dark chocolate syrup drizzled over a very specific ** text removed by request **, but then let's not hijack this thread. When David Carradine died I just knew you had waaay too much information on how he died  Stay " KINKY "  Myself I prefer Wesson oil and Saran wrap and the more boobies the better 
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 I've seen alot of people that thought they were cool , but then again Lord I've seen alot of fools.
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« Reply #17 on: October 22, 2010, 06:12:09 AM » |
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« Reply #18 on: October 22, 2010, 11:16:08 AM » |
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I had the title: An atheist goes fishing . . . JOKE
I had the post: Deja vu
An atheist was spending a quiet day fishing when suddenly the Loch Ness monster attacked his boat. In one easy flip, the beast tossed him and his boat at least a hundred feet into the air. It then opened its mouth, waiting below to swallow them both. As the man sailed head over heels and started to fall towards the open jaws of the ferocious beast, he cried out, "Oh, my God! Help me!"
Suddenly, the scene froze in place and as the atheist hung in midair, a booming voice came out of the clouds and said, "I thought you didn't believe in Me!"
"God, come on, give me a break!" the man pleaded, "Just seconds ago, I didn't believe in the Loch Ness monster either!"
But I couldn't pull the trigger.
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