Not "technically oriented" enough for Advanced Scuba?

[The Chairman]

There have been some great points in this thread that the staff and I have been discussing. Basically, people want to ask questions without being accosted for not diving just like someone else. There seems to be a competition among a few here to be the snarkiest poster and then to justify it by stating that they are only speaking their minds.

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I just don't buy it and there just isn't any need for it. To that end, I have created a couple of smilies in addition to the :gans: one above. One is a rehash of a wonderful Monty Python joke and the other just expresses the desires of at least two people in this thread. You can find them under our smilies list or just type the code beneath them to make them appear in your threads.

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Obviously, you don't need to hit the

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[D_B]

Discussion by the Mods of points made here ... is good , thank you