the DIR moniker

[Sas]

What's really funny is the number of people I know who've been on the receiving end from both groups ...

... to some people, if you wear a backplate you must be "DIR", and therefore you are worthy of scorn ...

... to other people, you can't be DIR because your harness has bent D-rings, and therefore you are worthy of scorn ...

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right ... sometimes it reminds me of all banter that goes on in The Pub ... I think we all just need to go diving ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Haha yea I've been made fun of by both groups... Been scorned for being 'DIR' because I have a BP/W and hog-looped long hose and the other time made fun of a DIR wannabe because of my neoprene drysuit and ankle weights

So anyway, my conclusion is that there are eejits in all walks of diving I ignore them and just go diving...

 

[Kern]

I think people who bitch and moan about people using DIR are worse than the (small minority of) DIR people who call other divers strokes and tell them their fins will kill them. Who cares really. I'm not DIR but my care factor about people using the term is zero. I am happy with how I dive and don't really care about what others do with themselves or what they think of my diving.

Also lame is the people who got picked on by a DIR person once and then decide to be anti-every DIR diver. Srsly? That's primary school behaviour.

Is not.

 

[Blackwood]

Is not.

I know you are but what am I?

 

[StreetDoctor]

Ok, lets start at the top... And maybe this is where so many of us lay people are misguided... but, back in the early days of WKPP and an old boy named George... I can show you written word saying black masks/fins/gear was the only way. (Yes, I recently learned that George isn't the founding father of GUE, but that's not what diving society thought 15 years ago.) No, I wasn't making it up. And the guy who said it to me is welcome to chime in, as he reads this page daily.

Secondly... I'm not "changing" the gear to piss off divers, but when it's time to upgrade or replace, I will pick bright blue,orange, pink or clear (whatever) just out of spite. Yes, I care too much. I'll work on that.

I didn't call him a Jackass to his face because he was a patron at the time.

And lastly.... I gave her a compliment, albeit not the most Christian in it's intent. If you like, I can change it to an insult. Just let me know. I got bunches to choose from.

*edit*
Scootergirl: In the event that you were insulted by me saying you were "smoking hot", please let me try again.
Scootergirl is amazingly beautiful. It's understandible how someone could so easily be lost in her outward beauty, but the inward beauty cannot be ignored. She cannot be daunted by silly things like Depth, Time or Deco Obligations. She can't be bothered by the sillyness of Open Circuit. She's sexy not only because or her stunning seductive looks but also because she has no fear of life in or out of the water. And have you seen her in an Operating Room. WOW! Breath taking.

Just for the record I have taken courses by GUE and I have red webbing on my backplate. :shocked2:

 

[Rainer]

what am I?

An IANTD card carrying, DIW stroke.

 

[StreetDoctor]

I think we all just need to go diving ...

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Agreed! Sometimes it's very difficult to interpret someones meaning through the intraweb also

 

[Blackwood]

An IANTD card carrying, DIW stroke.

Carrying?

Naw, I leave it in my car

 

[rjack321]

I've seen DIR divers in yellow drysuits...

The backup reg on my singles reg is yellow (I think the mouthpiece is a very H blue tho)
The backup reg on my doubles regs has a yellow mouthpiece (with black mold on it too).
I've got various yellow bits and pieces on stage regs, all very dapper IMHO.

oh and red webbing on my steel plate!

 

[lamont]

The backup reg on my singles reg is yellow (I think the mouthpiece is a very H blue tho)
The backup reg on my doubles regs has a yellow mouthpiece (with black mold on it too).
I've got various yellow bits and pieces on stage regs, all very dapper IMHO.

oh and red webbing on my steel plate!

I got tired of no color, so I bought a bright red set of double Al80s.

I still don't think I've got any video of me in those...

 

[Kern]

I know you are but what am I?

One of ....... them!