tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post4172942560445236034..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: Getting cynical in my old age...Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-52359276800183023162009-03-17T08:55:00.000-04:002009-03-17T08:55:00.000-04:00Mitsu,Although I am a crone, I was young once too,...Mitsu,<BR/><BR/>Although I am a crone, I was young once too, and a girl, to boot. I feel your pain.<BR/><BR/>In person, you just have to win their trust with your charming personality, and then bludgeon them senseless with your blinding intellect. ;)<BR/><BR/>It's harder to do online...Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-34046448379811597282009-03-17T02:22:00.000-04:002009-03-17T02:22:00.000-04:00If you guys think the Counterstrike commandos get ...If you guys think the Counterstrike commandos get on your nerves, you should try it from my perspective. I can't get taken seriously by anyone in the shooting world because of them. I'm 19, but I've been to something like 30 IDPA matches, including a TX state, I'm active-duty Army, and I'm currently waiting on my CHL in the mail, completed the packet and sent it off in Feb, but still I get no respect. Don't get me wrong, I usually just lurk boards trying to figure out how to flip the safety on my CZ-85 or something, I don't demand to be taken as an expert, but I'd really like people to stop getting that tsk tsk look on their face when I bring my .50AE Desert Eagle to the range, it's not like it's anything new, I'm sure some of you old-timers surely just <I>had</I> to have a S&W Model 29 after Dirty Harry came out, or couldn't live without a Colt SAA.<BR/><BR/>At least take solace in the fact that for every 100 annoying video game tacticool ninjas out there, there's at least one young guy like me learning how it should be doneAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-82474373878687121652009-03-01T07:47:00.000-05:002009-03-01T07:47:00.000-05:00I followed Pat and the others whose opinions I val...I followed Pat and the others whose opinions I value over to the forums moderated by them, where the signal to noise ratio is much better, and the bubble gum quotient is ruthlessly expunged.<BR/>Like most of you, I gave up on the major gun boards for anything but entertainment and pictures of pristine safe queen M4geries.<BR/>I left TFL for THR when TFL was taken down, and never went back. I rarely visit either anymore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-24146966836232338862009-02-26T11:33:00.000-05:002009-02-26T11:33:00.000-05:00Tam has the right answer. Something has gone terri...Tam has the right answer. Something has gone terribly wrong if I am using a pistol in combat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-90057611929736019032009-02-25T20:57:00.000-05:002009-02-25T20:57:00.000-05:00Sometimes cyber-adulthood sucketh. The foregoing i...Sometimes cyber-adulthood sucketh. The foregoing is too true 'bout the hangouts of our cyber youth. Not a frequent flyer anymore, upon the popular ether'Net boards, where and when learning and sharing was an adventure.<BR/><BR/>OTOH, I can run my cyber-trap line in fifteen twenty minutes, unless stopping to comment. As noted, the callow, the feckless, the ignorant,and those trolling fer good time just leave ya cold.<BR/><BR/>I do hope, tho, that at least some of them, in turn, learn to read and reason and research and write and become what our future needs.<BR/><BR/>Now I shall go polish the cyber mantle shelf and buff my electron trophies. snort/chortle<BR/><BR/>J t RAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-564479839908460642009-02-25T20:17:00.000-05:002009-02-25T20:17:00.000-05:00Kbarrett,Isn't that an AR15 with an 11" barrel or ...Kbarrett,<BR/><BR/>Isn't that an AR15 with an 11" barrel or something?fast richardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05947715402204312013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-46565852317138241562009-02-25T18:50:00.000-05:002009-02-25T18:50:00.000-05:00Ermm ... that's a Glock fohty.Gotta spell it right...Ermm ... that's a Glock fohty.<BR/><BR/>Gotta spell it right.<BR/><BR/>BTW ... what is the best handgun for Bear?closedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14642713237849918722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-76089310143073551062009-02-25T17:42:00.000-05:002009-02-25T17:42:00.000-05:00Personally, I think we should just have him go loo...Personally, I think we should just have him go looking for that semi-auto or auto revolver... <BR/> <BR/>Keep him out of trouble, give the gun shop guys some laughs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-87672135314079879332009-02-25T15:47:00.000-05:002009-02-25T15:47:00.000-05:00It seems like I only visit the larger sites (TFL, ...It seems like I only visit the larger sites (TFL, THR, Glock Talk, etc.) once or twice a year now. <BR/><BR/>I'm sure they contain just as much good information and stimulating discussion as ever (it's just too hard to find).<BR/><BR/>Really bad signal to noise ratio, the gun board curse of success.cmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06578358453790193112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-78498880647456227162009-02-25T15:00:00.000-05:002009-02-25T15:00:00.000-05:00Tam ~The more you learn, the stupider the beginner...Tam ~<BR/><BR/>The more you learn, the stupider the beginners' questions sound.<BR/><BR/>If you're <I>really</I> in a fighting mood, come write for me. The world needs you ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-22354913603142310912009-02-25T14:13:00.000-05:002009-02-25T14:13:00.000-05:00I'm in one of my periodic "...but it's worth fight...I'm in one of my periodic "<I>...but it's worth fighting for!</I>" moods; we'll see how long that lasts. The hole in the dike is ever so much larger than my finger.Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-71362073936689456642009-02-25T14:07:00.000-05:002009-02-25T14:07:00.000-05:00I'm there with you, Tam. Lately, I've been over th...I'm there with you, Tam. Lately, I've been over there so little, I should probably turn in my keys to the Staph Lounge.Matt Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03500429239798601210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-18630169343820227312009-02-25T13:58:00.000-05:002009-02-25T13:58:00.000-05:00"I'm not an expert..." And then proceeds to phrase..."I'm not an expert..." And then proceeds to phrase a question in careful technical terms, setting parameters in a way that only an experienced gunny would...<BR/><BR/>He's either a troll, or a bombthrower checking how long it takes for the discussion to degenerate into "does so...does not". He could care less about any answer, and isn't looking for one!<BR/><BR/>Why play with folks like that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-82918464665163892262009-02-25T13:46:00.000-05:002009-02-25T13:46:00.000-05:00John, do not be silly. Your Indian speaks upon the...John, do not be silly. Your Indian speaks upon the English tongue most melodiously. Wath that spelling bee sometime.<BR/>______________________<BR/>You know, I once met Lillian Gish. She was full of years and wisdom. No matter how big she got--and it was, you know, the <I>movies</I> that got small--she never spoke ill of the little red schoolhouse in Rising Sun, where first she trod the boards in 1902. Get it?<BR/><BR/>Since fully half those here rose (climbed down?) to the challenge, let me just say, Webley-Fosbery RULEZ. Thenk you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-74264074681274878972009-02-25T12:44:00.000-05:002009-02-25T12:44:00.000-05:00I used to read rec.guns when Clint McKee and Dr. K...I used to read rec.guns when Clint McKee and Dr. Kuleck posted, but I got tired of all the carping about how they were all about advertising and commercial advantage, so I quit. <BR/><BR/>I have no idea if the group still exists.Jeffrohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06873138122305060834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-53819554370481016912009-02-25T12:18:00.000-05:002009-02-25T12:18:00.000-05:00You think dealing with these strange little creatu...You think dealing with these strange little creatures on a gun board creates curmudgeonry, just think how much of a curmudgeon you'll be after having voted in thirteen presidential elections.<BR/><BR/>Add that to ten years of moderating on a gun board.<BR/><BR/>Giggle-snort, as our friend LawDog is wont to say.<BR/><BR/>ArtAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-13202500390061094582009-02-25T12:08:00.000-05:002009-02-25T12:08:00.000-05:00I haven't been able to get excited about TFL/THR f...I haven't been able to get excited about TFL/THR for awhile, unfortunately...I checked in on THR when all the lawsuit drama started a couple of times, and I've moved over to the new domain. On the other hand, I haven't bothered with APS- at least the main forum- in months. <BR/><BR/>Life kinda intrudes on it, ya know?<BR/><BR/>Regards,<BR/>Rabbit.Rabbithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09924556230506190220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-36469247193338992292009-02-25T11:05:00.000-05:002009-02-25T11:05:00.000-05:00Did you go look back?It looks like it's going to b...Did you go look back?<BR/><BR/>It looks like it's going to become a "best handgun caliber for leopards and tigers" thread.alathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07774862634576632497noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-70985979986360211322009-02-25T10:47:00.000-05:002009-02-25T10:47:00.000-05:00To be fair, I think Mas Ayoob stopped coming by be...To be fair, I think Mas Ayoob stopped coming by because people kept making fun of his hairpiece.<BR/><BR/>Ditto BryanP.Jeff the Baptisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13978930508610389584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-9428030295451800962009-02-25T10:43:00.000-05:002009-02-25T10:43:00.000-05:00Ugh. You don't have to be old to be a curmudgeon.A...Ugh. You don't have to be old to be a curmudgeon.<BR/><BR/>After 16 years on the internet (yes, I used 'gopher' in 1993), I've pretty much given up on anything resembling forums or most blogs and have gone back to small mailing lists specifically targeted to the precise item I need information about. <BR/><BR/>Preferable sources are those using an old interface such as listserv that an ijit with an AOL account couldn't figure out if their life depended on. Denizens of such places are usually even older curmudgeons who learned to carve their binary 1s out of stone because all they had were 0s.Adrian Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05966665618865037355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-68336162699940482522009-02-25T10:36:00.000-05:002009-02-25T10:36:00.000-05:00In fairness to the poor sod who inspired this bit ...In fairness to the poor sod who inspired this bit of crankiness, he claims to be a medic in the Indian military. Assuming that's true, his (lack of) facility with the English language is understandable.Canthroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17263191238757258797noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-68817685228077152252009-02-25T10:30:00.000-05:002009-02-25T10:30:00.000-05:00grammerGood one.<I>grammer</I><BR/><BR/>Good one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-63629087190465570152009-02-25T10:28:00.000-05:002009-02-25T10:28:00.000-05:00In a world where you can buy the latest video game...In a world where you can buy the latest video game, download the cheats and go from a neophyte to a god in 4 hrs. of playing time, I guess it does. See, I'm a curmudgeon too.<BR/><BR/> I signed up on TFL this am with the idea that I would try to help the poster understand that the tool is a preference, the skill is required, but haven't yet done so. The quote about arguing with a fool keeps coming to mind.tooldieguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06876588241514291518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-33588233434217780242009-02-25T10:19:00.000-05:002009-02-25T10:19:00.000-05:00Is it a case of the people posting the questions a...Is it a case of the people posting the questions are too lazy or cheap to buy a magazine or go to the library?<BR/><BR/>Regards,<BR/>NMM1AFanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-16848942616214078792009-02-25T09:57:00.000-05:002009-02-25T09:57:00.000-05:00But... but... Ownership equals competence, right?But... but... Ownership equals competence, right?Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.com