The People’s Republic of California

Eric,

Are you sure you were on our website??? You must be confused my good man... You even think I had a shotgun wedding LOL

We don't have dark forests here in Belgium... our country is too small, we only have little trimmed bushes LOL

You must have had one drink too many friday...

yeah eric, Liposuctie? i looked for a while & didnt see anything like that there....

Nate

Kristof, i wentt to your ski club site and checked it out, i couldnt read it thats fror sure, but then i clicked on the liposuctie link, that scared the *************** out of me

Doc,

I know what you mean... as you corrected (or is it Correct Crafted??) me on my post for the Europeans... self regulating eh...

Y'all still have to learn some foreign languages...

But I really love this site for ALL it's various kind of people... and most of all the new friends I made!!!

Keith is the one to be praised on this issue,amazing how this forum kinda self regulates itself.
I too have come off the cuff with some prejudged ideas of my own,and was put in my place in short order.
The issues are broad and opinions varied, but no hint of banning any ideals or topics.
what a great site we have here, and the info and kindred spirit flows to all that want to be a part of this family. But then there is always a few that will be apart from rather than a part of, these are the few that lose out on the concept that this site was founded on.
To you Keith I raise a TOAST< and say THANX
        Boat Dr/Boat Nurse

64, well said,

One of the reasons this is a great site is that opinions can be expressed, and some disagreement over them, but then be able to move on.

Lot's of good friendships are being formed here.

Old boat people are great!

Chuck

It looks like I'm about a week late for a really good post. Just wanted to add two cents.

I noticed some comments about beliefs and this and that. I've touched on my own Christian beliefs here before (I think it was around Christmas (there's a shocker)), but something I noticed in this post that was noteworthy.

There seems to be an interest and a willingness to discuss things, usually, in a civilized fashion regardless of whether it ruffles your feathers a little (or even a lot). With that, for what it's worth, I'm impressed.

The only reason I mention it is that, on another nice boat related site (and I just decided NOT to name the site) there had been an "off topic" or "anything you want to talk about" forum that, regardless of the word "anything" being in the forum title, eventually chose to ban any talk whatsoever about two particular things; as they put it, and many do, the dreaded "politics or religion!"

So, with a "WARNING" note from the moderator, it became taboo to mention anything about either politics or religion, even in that forum.

Incidentally, I've noticed they never did change the forum name to "Anything you want to talk about 'EXCEPT' poitics and religion!" It would now seem a more accurate description.

Anyway, when that happened I thought, it's really too bad! Few things have hit me as being as truly and profoundly silly as the implications of the old adage (or variations of it):

"Two things you should never talk about are politics and religion!"

I say the implications are profound because, since our views of both politics and religion are unevitably and strongly linked to our deepest thoughts and convictions about pretty much everything, that saying could easily and quite accurately be paraphrased as follows:

"You should never talk about anything that’s really important to you!"

Put that way, most would recognize it as complete nonsense, but it really is the same thing when you "THINK" about it. I guess that's what people, too often, forget to do.

Hopefully, some here will recall this thought the next time they hear someone say:

"Two things I’ve learned to never talk about are..."

I appreciated the comment that it’s not all about boats, etc. Of course, to pop in at this site, one would think that it is "all about boats" and I’m sure guilty -- but hey, what can you do -- they're cool, and fun, and nostalgic, and all that!!

I’m thinking of starting a new slogan, on a more positive note "Two things I always talk about, Boats and...

...Hmmmm? What was the other one?

Was there another one? –

How 'bout "...Boats that run and Boats that need fixed!"

Seriously, just some observations and food for thought (because I’m not allowed to type stuff like this at the other site).

BKH, you did have a spelling error further up in this thread.

Skibum wrote: I will fight to the death to protect our great nation. To date, I have been very successful at making the other guy fight to his own death. I don't ask for anything. I don't need any sympathy. My family doesn't want any sympathy. Hell, that is the path I have chosen.

Bill,

I sure hope you will also fight for our nation, as we are partners...
I know I would fight for yours... hell, for all the free nations... to keep them free!!

Thank you Bill

For the past week now, our left wing politicians are bashing on the secretary of defence, because he is gonna send 200 extra men and 4 extra F-16's to Kaboul Airport in Afghanistan to help out the guys that are already there...
If you here some of the arguments they use in parliament... bunch of little children (juvenile and direspectful as BKH stated).

Don't have time for a big writeup now, but the freak show continued in Berkeley yesterday. All day protests pitting anti-war/anti-recruiting against supporters of our military. City council meeeting was still going at 11pm and expected to go on for some time.

Bill, you should know that even in crazy Berkeley, probably the most liberal anti-war town you will ever find, over 8000 people turned up, on a workday in support of our military.

BKH

come to think of it, i was by myself alot

eric lavine wrote: When travling, i spoke the international language, that language is easy to understand lol

Eric,

So what your saying is you spend a lot of time talking too yourself, internationally of course?

Ah okay...

For the moment I speak 4 languages fluently:
Dutch (my mothertongue)
French (the mothertongue of my father)
German
English

I also speak a bit of Spanish and I'm in my first year of evening school for Italian...
For my missions abroad, I learned a bit of Serb too

What can I say, I love languages
And speaking of 'yanking the chain'... You're still FIVE languages behind me hahahahahahahaha (= LOL in fonetic)