Thread: Getting a life.

Originally Posted by Auld Bassoon

Please, everyone, let's keep this reasonably civilised and WW focussed.

Cheers!

Unless you are in the Nothing to do with Woodwork forum

Peter

When I grow up I wanna have a workshop just like yours.

Peter
I for one will miss your open handed posts
The legacy you leave, if you do leave is a vast one , as many a new member of this forum will discover by doing a search on any one of so many topics
I know you have become disenhanched with not only some of the topics , language and the personal attacks. Having been at the brunt of this I to put things in perspective.I dont post as much and don't even bother reading some posts. The forum is still there and is a better place with you adding to it. This isn't a general be nice to sturdee thing , if there was a poll on how many people have used either a design of yours or modified one to how many haven't it would only show up the lurkers who don't do any woodwork. (adapted the mini cyclone myself )
Enjoy the dancing and christmas , looking forward to your posts in the new year when things settle again



Rgds


Ashore

Originally Posted by Lignum

So now im being deagraded because someone had a go at me In what was realy a trivial issue and i responded? and you are offended at the term "get a life" Why if you were so outraged didnt you PM me instead of starting a thread about me? if the newer members are bringing a new feel to the board and the "Seniors" dont like it maybe i should go get a life and leave this forum:mad:

Bu bye:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Hi all,

I hope you dont go sturdee, pls stick around. I agree with what you are saying that the feel of the boards has changed. I think that is a result of the open slather feeding across into other boards.

open slather has its place. I think that many post into "nothing to do with wooodwork" stuff that is a little controversial and rapidly gets debated like at the pub.

My 2c is that the nothing to do forum is not for debate, leave that for open forum.

The other one, and this is a generalisation so bear with me here, is my experience dealing with lots and lots of the public in my profession, is that there is a huge difference between what the current "baby boomer" generation (I really hate that saying:mad: ) consider rude behaviour and the next lot.

My father for instance belongs to this demographic and will refuse to watch a TV program if he has heard swearing in it. Any chance of nudity and he will turn it over. His friends seem to be similar.

I remember that one of these friends said something inappropriate, by accident it seemed, and he was slowly austrisized :confused: from the group. A younger group would probably have had thier say and moved on.

My exp is also that a lot of boomers tend to walk away from a person/situation if it doesnt meet with thier level of behaviour where as the next lot seem to be a little more tolerant and accepting. (though they would be rather vocal and perhaps a tad vulgar in voicing it)

Please dont anyone take it that I am having a go at anyone. This is my experience, I own it and it is not meant to be offensive.. Just as I struggle to understand the "doof doof" jap cars doing laps of my street I think it is hard for the other groups at times.

So i do agree with what you say, I hope the slathering goes to the open forum, more talk of woodworking and we can each give a little and meet somewhere in the middle.

stick around


dazzler

Lignum wrote:

Originally Posted by Lignum

Why if you were so outraged didnt you PM me instead of starting a thread about me?

so I sent him a PM saying:

Originally Posted by ryanarcher

you asked for a PM instead of a public post, so here it is. I didn't get offended at what you said, but i can understand why it affected sturdee so.

Sturdee's thread was a great opportunity to admit mistakes and begin contributing to the solidarity of the forums again, but you chose to attack again. he has contributed more here than you and I probably ever will put together.

I don't want you to leave, you have too much knowledge to contribute. But I would like you to publicly apologise to sturdee and ask him to stay.

-Ryan

Lignum replied:

Originally Posted by lignum

I didnt ask you to PM me, if you want me to publicly apologise to him for saying "get a life" to someone else, say it publicly. What a joke.:mad: :mad:

so here it is publicly: please do the right thing by sturdee.

Sturdee, I was standing up for a friend (Ross) and some ideals. I apologise if I detracted from the feel and solidarity of the forum. Your ideas are truly invalueable and I hope you change your mind and stay.

Besides, I keep looking for a life but right now i'm in between lives. that's why I hang out at the woodwork forums.

Lignum,
no hard feelings at all about the "get a life stuff". but I get a little touchy when i feel my mates are takin'a beating .

- ryan

Originally Posted by ryanarcher

Lignum,
no hard feelings at all about the "get a life stuff". but I get a little touchy when i feel my mates are takin'a beating .

- ryan

I should follow Lous advice and just let it go to the keeper. It is such a minor matter. BUT you have just Re-Posted publicly a Private Message. That as far as im concerned is far worse than any tit for tat or silly name calling. I could go on, but the trivial nature of this rubish is not worth it. As far as im concerned this is the last time i can be bothered commenting on it.

Originally Posted by Lignum

I should follow Lous advice and just let it go to the keeper. It is such a minor matter. BUT you have just Re-Posted publicly a Private Message. That as far as im concerned is far worse than any tit for tat or silly name calling. I could go on, but the trivial nature of this rubish is not worth it. As far as im concerned this is the last time i can be bothered commenting on it.

HOOFRIGGGINGRAY

Originally Posted by Lignum

So now im being deagraded because someone had a go at me In what was realy a trivial issue and i responded? and you are offended at the term "get a life" Why if you were so outraged didnt you PM me instead of starting a thread about me? if the newer members are bringing a new feel to the board and the "Seniors" dont like it maybe i should go get a life and leave this forum:mad:

G'day Lignum,

I hope that you don't decide to leave after what is really only a spat.

IMO you have much to offer this forum, and I for one would appreciate your staying

However, I do agree with Ryan, and think that you have gone too far. Please just say sorry to Peter (Sturdee), and you will be seen in a rather different light. Do not, and you may not be very welcomed here again.

Cheers!

Originally Posted by Sturdee

The newer members are bringing a new feel to the board, which may be a good thing, but it definitely is not my cup of tea.

In addition some of my interests have changed and I don't have as much spare time available for reading the board for the time being, so reluctantly I will be taking some leave and not logging on as regularly as before.

Whilst I'm pursuing my other interests in life I hope that the members will take this time to think of what kind of forums they want and I hope that it reverts to the one I used to enjoy.

Peter.

Hello Peter!

I am very sorry to hear that. You have made a wonderful contribution to this forum, and I would much prefer that you stay.

Perhaps a little cool-down, and then the temptation to see what's going on will encourage you to come back I hope so!

Cheers mate!

PS: Maybe you could conjure-up a behaviour jig (and I don't necessarily mean the "Iron Maiden":eek:

can we leave the muddy boots outside please? its starting to look untidy in here and it is putting me off.

how about we read the rules, respect the fantastic thing the Ubeaut team is doing for us all, and get a little bit of respect for the community that is on the forum?

I used the word "community" - thats what this place seemed to be.
For example:
Doug is taking trips around the Sunshine state with another forum member, visiting forum members on the way;
Termite is asking for tips on retirement from the retired members;
Shannon is asking for tips on explaining a pets passing away to children;
Waldo and Kylie are taking a very rough road and we are throwing our support their way;
Some fellas in Japan are giving us tips and great stories of what it is like over there;
E. malacuta shared the passing of his Bessiebear, and made Caliban (and I) teary;
Savage shared some pretty personal stuff with us and made a lot of us cry;
A lot of the members have met and are now mates.

And on and on and on... the forum reaches into peoples life and makes us part of a community.

Or we swear and throw uppercuts at each other. That's part of a community as well... how about we just do it a bit of gentleness?

Yours,
(someone who has gained far more than he has contributed)

Originally Posted by Clinton1

can we leave the muddy boots outside please? its starting to look untidy in here and it is putting me off.

how about we read the rules, respect the fantastic thing the Ubeaut team is doing for us all, and get a little bit of respect for the community that is on the forum?

I used the word "community" - thats what this place seemed to be.
For example:
Doug is taking trips around the Sunshine state with another forum member, visiting forum members on the way;
Termite is asking for tips on retirement from the retired members;
Shannon is asking for tips on explaining a pets passing away to children;
Waldo and Kylie are taking a very rough road and we are throwing our support their way;
Some fellas in Japan are giving us tips and great stories of what it is like over there;
E. malacuta shared the passing of his Bessiebear, and made Caliban (and I) teary;
Savage shared some pretty personal stuff with us and made a lot of us cry;
A lot of the members have met and are now mates.

And on and on and on... the forum reaches into peoples life and makes us part of a community.

Or we swear and throw uppercuts at each other. That's part of a community as well... how about we just do it a bit of gentleness?

Yours,
(someone who has gained far more than he has contributed)

I dunno mate, I agree with a lot of what you are saying, but when did this place become so touchy feely?

Zed would say: "You're all a bunch of purse carrying Nancys" and maybe he'd be right.

Lignum had his say, and to tell the truth I didn't particlulary care for his 'tude either, but the hand holding and backscratching that has been going on around here over the last few days is starting to become a bit nauseating in itself.

Lets get over it and take on board what my mate silentC says:

"It's all part of the rich tapestry"

Peace

Craig

BRING BACK THE BIFF

You two give each other a cyber hand shake, but I'm with Craig. With so many people stating their opinions and a few hot topics coming up now and again means that some will disagree. So be it. Have your say then move on. Keep the personal shyte to yourself but lets not get too soft.

Dan

PS Where's Kenmil when you need him...

Craig and Dan, you two are terrible.