Why Can't People Be Honest? And Nice?

Andy K said:
Being honest in reply to a new member asking an oft repeated question is one thing, being deliberately rude and obnoxious is another.
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Yeah, one's fun. The other's real fun.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks, Rude Boy
 
Thank you Andy. Before I ask a question, I always do a thorough search of the internet and archives. Sometimes I find an answer, sometimes the thread dates back to 1998. Re-posting a question sometimes will get a response than wasn't there in the last go-round.
As far as the "I just got my M3 cla'd " threads, that's just human nature. People get excited with their new toys and I'm more than willing to share their joy. Boy, I'm getting soft in my old age. Stop me if I get to the point of group hugs.
 
Stu W said:
Thank you Andy. Before I ask a question, I always do a thorough search of the internet and archives. Sometimes I find an answer, sometimes the thread dates back to 1998. Re-posting a question sometimes will get a response than wasn't there in the last go-round.
As far as the "I just got my M3 cla'd " threads, that's just human nature. People get excited with their new toys and I'm more than willing to share their joy. Boy, I'm getting soft in my old age. Stop me if I get to the point of group hugs.
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Navel-gazing and singing Kumbayah, generally speaking. We all have a good cry here at least once a week. Sheesh!

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
jaapv said:
That's enough to start a flame war over!! :p
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I gargle Mouton and eat Brie with peanut butter on it just to watch purists clutch their chests and fall over and twitch. Yep, Lindt chocolate makes great S'Mores.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
On PNet, i usually frequenteed the classic camera, the medium format digest and (although not very useful but entertaining) the BW film and development, or whatever it was called. Also sometimes the street - people photography.
Alas, many great people left the classic camera forum on PN for whatever reasons. Good/funny/entertaining semi-offtopic discussions disappeared as well as photos posted by members.
The medium format digest got a bit repetitive and i lost interest in it no being very much involved in MF equipment; same with the BW film dev. The street-people-thing got rearranged and got more and more the style of the leica forum which i visited sometimes but never contributed.

Briefly, i almost never go to PN anymore. Did not renew my (paying) memebership neither.
 
Stu, the other thing is that this is the internet. So all the social misfits, the lardy assed blowhards, the fantasists etc. who in real life would mess themselves if you so much as sneezed behind them in the street, they all get big and brave here because they are hidden behind the internet, and so they respond with rudeness towards others.
 
bmattock said:
I gargle Mouton and eat Brie with peanut butter on it just to watch purists clutch their chests and fall over and twitch. Yep, Lindt chocolate makes great S'Mores.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
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You've just chased away all the French RFF members....
 
BrianShaw said:
I'm still waiting. Sheesh... over on Pnet I would have known already!
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So my questions are too stupid for you to answer... eh? Well, what the heck... maybe I'll just gargle some Mouseton, or whatever you're talking about.
 
As for me I wish people here were more honest in their opinions regarding the quality of the photos posted here. I once had a photo I posted in the RFF gallery slammed pretty mercilessly. That made me be more all the more critical of my photography for which I am grateful.

As to new members asking stupid questions, maybe they just don't know their questions are stupid. I'm not so sure I really knew what an RF camera was 6 months ago. Jim
 
I like the pragmatism that's at the core of pnet, but RFF arms you with the "mad skillz" to face a hit-and-run attack (at pnet and in actual life) and not take the bait.
 
Andy K said:
Stu, the other thing is that this is the internet. So all the social misfits, the lardy assed blowhards, the fantasists etc. who in real life would mess themselves if you so much as sneezed behind them in the street, they all get big and brave here because they are hidden behind the internet, and so they respond with rudeness towards others.
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Yeah, too bad those lardy-assed blowhards don't use their real names or their actual addresses and welcome all comers. Too bad they don't advertise their whereabouts and offer to host anyone who wants some. Those cowards.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks - or is that my real name after all?
 
Andy K said:
Seeing as you replied to a post addressed to someone else, it would seem you think your name is Stu.
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Ah, then the mysterious 'they' you described to Stu must be someone other than me. Glad we agree.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks
 
>>I gargle Mouton and eat Brie with peanut butter <<

Art Buchwald, in a memoir about his years in Paris, recalled that a friend once gave him a case of Mouton-Rothschild. Not being a wine person, and unsure of what to do with several bottles of the world's finest vintage, he placed it in his hall closet to await inspiration or an appropriate gathering of notables. Not long after, he returned from a weekend away with his wife to discover that that their teenaged kids had thrown a house party in their parents absence and, finding the wine in the closet, managed to consume most or all of it.
 
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