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FBoss
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Location: Aurora Indiana USA

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Yes I have read the thread to which you refure. Not into Pixxing matches, as many are. My comment stands on its own and is, of course, only an opinion. Not everyone has had the same experiences and not everyone belittles those who's experiences and or conclusions are not the same as there own. But some do. A person can learn a lot from people that do not agree with them, if they are willing to listen, consider and remain civil.

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10-27-2009 03:57 PM
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fla heli boy
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Location: cape coral, florida

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		well sometimes what you may construe as being UNCIVIL, is just me being a smarta$$ like a lot of guys on here. What honked me about this guy is everything he wrote for the entire day yesterday - look it up. One thread was shut down because of him going so off-topic and threatening. He was hijacking threads, blatantly physically threatening people, etc. You think that's civil?? I can bet that I could easily sit and have a few beers with any one of the people I banter with on here with no problems (well, except for one or two - no not you Tin!!!). I realize it's just debate, etc. and take it as such. No more, no less.

"go with God son......and a bag full of guns"
10-27-2009 04:04 PM
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Tintin
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Location: Akershus, Norway

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Worth reading again...

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Not everyone has had the same experiences and not everyone belittles those who's experiences and or conclusions are not the same as there own. But some do. A person can learn a lot from people that do not agree with them, if they are willing to listen, consider and remain civil.

“Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.”
10-27-2009 04:10 PM
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fla heli boy
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Location: cape coral, florida

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		again....one more time....this is at it relates to what I said to pseudo. Look up his rants from yesterday. He was warned by several other members to chill out and it just escalated. Look up his boiling/torture rants.
I was kind of surprised because I have had a few decent exchanges with him in the past. I was wondering yesterday if he had fallen off his meds or something.

"go with God son......and a bag full of guns"
10-27-2009 04:16 PM
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FBoss
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Location: Aurora Indiana USA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Why give someone who you clearly have so little respect for the power to upset you?
I rarely comment to a persons posts on a "belief" and or emotions. So Im sorry I did it here. Talk about a knee Jerk post, mine was. Sorry not to you but sorry to see that sometimes I dont follow my own rules. None of us are perfect. I will stand by my comment with this comment: You do have some good things to say and well thought out posts. I just think that perhaps you could count to 1000 before responding some times, me too for that matter.
It is true that many revel in the past, the good ole days and forget the darker side of the past. Its fun but may not be a good way to keep moving forward, to keep evolving. Remembering the past, the good and the bad is a much better way to go IMO.
Again and just for effect Ill say
Dont give someone you have little respect for the power to Pixx you off. It makes them happy and you mad.
I remember my first boss, he always said
"Frank you gotta consider the source"

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10-27-2009 04:23 PM
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fla heli boy
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Location: cape coral, florida

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		well said FBoss. My dad tells me the same thing. I guess I was just a little shocked because I have talked to him before. Actually I think we even PM'd a couple times about Canada.
Your point is made and well received....

"go with God son......and a bag full of guns"
10-27-2009 04:25 PM
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FBoss
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Location: Aurora Indiana USA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		All that said who had the GI Joe Jeep with trailer and cannon!! Man that was cool. And remember carbide cannons? Heck we used to have bottle rocket fights! shooting AT each other. Come to think of it
Im a very lucky guy just to make it to 48, with some of the stunts Ive pulled.................

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10-27-2009 04:32 PM
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GyroFreak
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Location: Florida ... 28° 52' N 81° 16' W

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And remember carbide cannon
Yeah, and they were loud ! Guess OSHA definitely would ban that as a toy.

Bacteria They're the only culture some men have
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10-27-2009 04:36 PM
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fla heli boy
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Location: cape coral, florida

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		not to mention trees, jumping off buildings, sledding chicken fights (yes, we did do that), apple fights, BB gun fights, hunting small game with a shotgun with your friends at the age of 12, of course sports.... home made explosives (shhhhh....). Yes I grew up on a "farm". When I get together with my bro, we can just about get each other to pi%% ourselves recounting the stories. And FBoss, I'm 46 (from Michigan) so we're in the same wheelhouse....
Crap, I just read what I wrote. I am a Neanderthal!!! Look at all that violence!!!

"go with God son......and a bag full of guns"
10-27-2009 04:38 PM
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FBoss
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Location: Aurora Indiana USA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Me and my bro used to have BB gun fights in the house. That SOB had a crossman 760 to my dasiy. Freakin older bros..........
Made a pipe bomb or 2 outa shootgun shells we HACKSAWED in half. Gezz what a Dumb Axx

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10-27-2009 04:42 PM
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GyroFreak
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Location: Florida ... 28° 52' N 81° 16' W

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Friends and I made a pipe cannon with neat spoke wheels form some ones dad's push lawnmower (remember those ?). While we were shooting it in the woods a sheriff walked up behind us. We didn't get arrested but they confiscated our cannon and my buddy had to beg him to let us have his dad's lawn mower wheels back. They said yes but his dad had to go to the station house to pick them up.
By the way, that cannon worked great for shooting large marbles. A lot of things I did I won't let my grandson do.
Of course listing to my Dad's stories of using dynamite to fish (when he was 12 !) and some of the things he did as a boy that were truely dangerous.

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10-27-2009 04:50 PM
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fla heli boy
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Location: cape coral, florida

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		tell me about it. I was 12 or 13, my bro a few years younger, when we got shotguns for x-mas. Can you imagine letting two boys that young loose on the countryside now. As a parent, you'd be going to jail, or at least your kids would see some quality foster home time while you went to some parenting courses. I really do feel bad for kids today.
I was about 9 or so when we found a box of very old 10ga shells. Some with shot, some with slugs. We thought it would be cool to throw them up against a concrete grainary building to set them off from about 15 ft. away. Luckily enough it was a slug that went off first. After we cleaned our shorts, we decided it was best if we stop doing that.

"go with God son......and a bag full of guns"
10-27-2009 04:57 PM
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fla heli boy
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Location: cape coral, florida

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		the topper though....

and my mother still can't believe she saw it with her own two eyes.
She went into town grocery shopping and left us home with dad. Dad was busy mowing about 2 acres of lawn. The older inbred neighbor came down with his bb gun to play. I was not quite 8, my brother not quite 5.
When my mom got home she saw me at the end of one of the corn cribs with the bb gun, shooting into it. Didn't think much of it until she got out and saw my brother at the other end with a Coke can on his head!!!
Needless to say, we were not allowed to play with that kid again for a long time and I sat gingerly for a few days after that.

"go with God son......and a bag full of guns"
10-27-2009 05:01 PM
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FBoss
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Location: Aurora Indiana USA

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Not to mention the older days, you know after we got driver lic. Back then Driving around drinking a case of beer and ah... other stuff, listening to led Zep was what we did! How is it we are sill around?
Luck, pure and simple, pure luck.

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10-27-2009 05:08 PM
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Tintin
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Location: Akershus, Norway

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		Not all of us were that lucky....I've had old classmates die from just that ;-) As well as cancer and other stuff.....my mum of 80+ still worry when I go paragliding off a cliff or ski a steep couloir...some never grow up in all areas....haven't ran out of luck quite yet..

“Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.”
10-27-2009 05:16 PM
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fla heli boy
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Location: cape coral, florida

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		yeah like when I was 30 and realized my life long dream of getting an MX bike and started to race w/ a wife and two little ones at home.
They still shake their heads. I still have my last one and if things improve financially, I am going to start riding again. Not even gonna bother to tell them I am doing it. Don't wanna hear all the crap.
Oh yeah, cases of cheap beer, some primo and a little Zep or Rush, tooling down the back roads catching air at 80 mph at the rural intersections with 6-7 of your buddies in the back.....priceless. I should have been dead a hundred times. Walked away without a scratch SEVERAL times when the inevitable happened.

"go with God son......and a bag full of guns"
10-27-2009 07:05 PM
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pseudonym
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Location: Edmonton, Alberta

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		wow.. I was just commenting that people paid for those rose coloured memories.. wasn't making a political statment at all.

As for my rose coloured memories

- Sitting at the top of a mountain pass watching the sun go down between peeks jutting from the red clouds like islands in the ocean
- Dog sledding down a cut line in a snowstorm
- Carrying 10 man voyager canoes over a height of land (3 times) and being inducted into the brotherhood of Homme du Nord
- Canoeing from Hay River to Inuvik (1100 miles)
- My toe nails falling off after a 50 mile snowshoe hike on pine and rotgut snowshoes and leather mockasins
- Learning to survive on my own in the wilds with just a knife (no, I don't need matches or a lighter to start a fire)
- Crossing Georgian Bay when I was 12, not being able to stop and having to puke over the side.
- The look on my platoon warrent officer's face when after our "Toughest thing you will ever do" ruck march and he snapped "Want to do it again!" and I looked up and said "Sure, lets go."
- Doing my Olympic campaign for sailing.. traveling ALL over the states and competeing. Ran out of money and didn't make it, but I don't regret it for a second
- Holding a Olympic gold metal in my hands for the first time

I am a St. John's boy. I know that won't mean much to you. Reader's Digest called it the "Toughest School in North America". It makes outward bound look like a kid's camp and basic training was a joke compaired to it. Those are some of my fondest memories, but I NEVER forget that people died so that I could have them.

So I have to ask myself, were 15 lives worth it? I really don't know.

unspelling the world one misprint at a time.
10-27-2009 09:35 PM
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arfwrecker
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Location: ceres cal u.s.

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		here here

Worst things ever invented/ video games. Best things invented, Iron on jeans patches hi top tenishoes and sunshine skinned knees and imagination. Although this is all true I would certainly miss the million dollar red button on my g4.5.
10-27-2009 09:42 PM
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Tintin
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Location: Akershus, Norway

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		:-) Just about to send out some techs to St Johns to do some work on a Norwegian boat based there...

“Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.”
10-27-2009 11:20 PM
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pseudonym
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Location: Edmonton, Alberta

My Posts This: Topic  Forum		LOL.. ya.. well this was St. John's school of Ontario and Alberta. =). Wasn't really on the coasts at all. It was run by an Order of the Cross.. kinda like Jesuits. The teachers made $1/day. Here in Alberta they were associated with Ted Byfield and the Alberta Report started as the St. John's Report and used to be printed in what was the carpentry shop when I went there.

You do work on boats? What kind of boats? =). I have been seriously thinking of heading down to California and picking one up. Prices have come down crazy fast! Right now I am looking at a 47' William Garden Pilot House ketch. At $20 grand it makes me stand up and pay attention! =). But what I really really want is one of those beautiful dutch flat bottomed... hell, I don't even know what to call them! Side boards and a wide beam. Slow but oh, so comfortable!

"God damn them all! I was told,
we'd sail the seas for American gold.
Fire no gun, shead no tears.
I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier,
the last of Barrets privateers!"

unspelling the world one misprint at a time.
10-27-2009 11:53 PM
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