Scott Watts wrote: > Geez Mark, Lighten up. When you said,? I find it interesting that > you're building your own composite airplane, with composite spars > which you apparently designed, and you're worried about the > spinner...? I was a bit surprised at your ire. I was just being > dramatic, tongue in cheek, when I said, ?do not trust myself > fabricating a part that is required to spin thousands of times a > minute.? Much that same as you when you said,? I'm also reluctant to > give myself the opportunity to kill any teenagers other than my own.?
Geez, Scott. I'd think it's you that needs to lighten up. All I said was "I find it interesting....". Originally I'd written "I find it amusing...", but didn't want anybody to take it the wrong way. The truth is, I do find it amusing! I don't see any "ire" there at all! Am I not allowed to read something, smile, and write a similar good natured comment back that I took note of the fact that you'd build your own composite spars but said out loud on the list that "I'd like to get your same look, but do not trust myself fabricating a part that is required to spin thousands of times a minute." I don't know of but one way to take that, but I didn't light into you, just mentioned that it was "interesting". I'm not allowed to say things are interesting anymore either? I was trying to point out that if you could build your own composite airplane, complete with composite spar, that I thought you could build your own spinner? I'm sorry, but I don't see a problem with that. When I said "I'm also reluctant to give myself the opportunity to kill any teenagers other than my own.?, I absolutely meant exactly what I said. Every time we fly, we have that opportunity. Yes, I'm a chicken and guilty of not spreading the gospel of Experimental aviation, but I'd rather not have my family reduced to pauper status after being sued by the parents. I've seen it happen too many times for far less reasons, and very close to home. Why is it that folks seem to be looking for a reason to get irritated with others? Richard Hasbrook got all bent out of shape because I didn't thank the folks who'd volunteered to host the Gathering around the perimeter of the country. There again, I didn't say "this is a really stupid idea", I just pointed out that those places were away from the majority of people in the country, and a lot further than many folks would want to travel. He took that as a direct slap in the face, got mad, cancelled his offer, and stomped off steaming, and rescinded his inviation. My exact words were "So that's it? California, New Hampshire, or South Carolina? The far extremes of the country? I'm sure those places are great, but it'd be nice if the location was a little more convenient to the majority of attendees. Nobody else closer to the middle of the country is interested in hosting the Gathering? Otherwise, all three of these places sound good enough for me." OK, I didn't say "THANKS!". Shoot me. Bobby Burrington also got a burr under his saddle over that, with "But you gotta remember most of these guys only fly circles around their home field on sundays and the farthest cross country they do is the last tree line you can see from the tower. If they had to use a chart or do flight planning for REAL cross country, they would be lost and scared and would never make it to your gathering anyway !." Now I guess I could have taken this one of two ways....one is this guy's really mad, he has the mental maturity of a ten year old, and he's lashing out at me and the others who mentioned that California was perhaps not the best place to have the national Gathering. Or I could have looked at it as far-out joking that nobody would take seriously. I'm still not real sure which way to take it, but I have a feeling I know. But since I'm not sure, I didn't comment at all. I will say that it LOOKED like a direct attempt to belittle several other list members, and as such I consider a flame that is in direct violation of the rules of this list: "11) Try not to take things personally. We're all here to help each other. There are usually several ways to take comments. Always try to pick the "nicest" interpretation, rather than trying to read animousity into a post. It's a lot easier to just ignore a snide comment and let it slide. Try to avoid "having the last word". This rule comes from the KRNetiquette page at http://www.krnet.org/info.html . I think we would do well to try to take the "nice" interpretation of others posts, while not trying to find reasons to be irritated with others. We need each other for support. Lets not run each other off and ruin it for everybody... Mark Langford N56ML "at" hiwaay.net website at http://www.N56ML.com
