Water as weight rather than lead?

[dweeb]

Can't you just stop this, as is with a lot of your posts, you always seem to find something to critisise people over. Can you not just let people have their opinions without shouting them down all the time and pointing out that they must be 'lousy divers' to have even contemplated asking certain questions.

Let's get something straight. I asked if it was a joke (AS DID OTHERS) and provided a ready reference for the information he sought.

NEXT, others got on my case for doing so.

Since then, I've been defending what I said.

 

[dweeb]

here's a poem in honor of Dweeb:

Dweeb is a bulldog
he won't let go
when it comes to thinking
he just says NO!!

From the guy who posted so many self righteous comments about personal attacks.

 

[dweeb]

Maybe if you used the term "ad hominem" everyone would understand better.

He did, earlier. Problem is, it's still being misapplied.

 

[H2Andy]

Alas... I asked my question, got it answered, and on post 33, I thanked the people who answered the question. Thread over, right?

Not quite... enter Dweeb (in media res, as it were) for the first time on Post 54 (long after the question has been answered):

now let's listen to this beat:

Post 54:

This is a joke, right?
Please say it is.

The reasons this is a ridiculous idea are found in PADI OW module 1. At least one knowledge review question deals with this. Every other agency covers it to a greater extent.

but his next hit was an even bigger one, propelling all the way to the top of the charts on Post 57:

Apparently, someone found a C-card in a Cracker Jack box.

and the, for the killer blow, on post 89:

That you do not grasp this basic diving concept is evidence that your OW instructor pretty much violated the standards of every agency in certifying you. There's a question in PADI Module one that can't be answered without knowing what you claim not to know, and there's a place for you to sign and acknowledge that you have had your answers reviewed and your mistakes adequately explained. Your question means either you signed a lie, your instructor certified you knowing you hadn't met the standards, or that your retention abilities approximate those of a sieve.

thanks Dweeb! my life would not be the same without
your music!

 

[H2Andy]

From the guy who posted so many self righteous comments about personal attacks.

what was that saying, that thing about the heat, and
the kitchen?

oh darn.. it'll come to me

 

[dweeb]

huh?

your rights end where the rights of another begin. you can be honest, but you can't attack other people.

i am not sure how to make it any clearer

A dirty look is not an assault.

Criticism does not maim.

To point out that gaps in a person's knowledge contradict
the intended testimony of their credentials, and that this
implies those credentials are not valid, and thus that the
person should not be engaging in the activities the credentials authorize is not an attack.

You APPEAR to be laboring under a false definition of an attack.

Look, we need to stop this trend in our society of people
going all victimized every time someone says 'boo.'
One nationally syndicated columnist called it "the wussification of America."

If we find it normal and acceptable for people shrink from the suggestion that they've asked a dumb question, that they have missed the mark by not knowing the answer to a basic tenet of one of their avocations, then what can we
reasonably expect from dozens of people who have the opportunity to possibly save 2000 lives by facing down one or two guys with box cutters?

"Serious gut check time - do I go to pieces when they bounce my bananas, when they won't play my song?" - Christian Slater, 'Very Bad Things'

Seriously, Andy, did my initial response, asking if you were joking, and reference for the information, render you catatonic? Did you cry yourself to sleep over it. Somehow, I doubt it. I know 10 year olds who wouldn't be upset by that response. Have I sorely overestimated your maturity, intelligence, and self-confidence? Tell you what - if you really want to claim that you are enough of a crybaby for that simple response to traumatize you so, then I'll apologize and retract all of it. I thought you were much smarter and better than that, but hey, like Pete said, we all make mistakes. All the lawyer jokes I know not withstanding, I honestly didn't think I was picking on a special needs case. Do you really want to tell me I was wrong in that estimation?

 

[H2Andy]

A dirty look is not an assault [snip]

marsupial

 

[dweeb]

what was that saying, that thing about the heat, and
the kitchen?

oh darn.. it'll come to me

I've been playing by the rules. Is it unreasonable to expect others to do so as well?

Shall I compose insulting poetry about you and time how long it takes King Pete to delete it?

Apparently, it's almost as good to be the prince as it is to be the king.

 

[dweeb]

Pete - read what you wrote above. You called him arrogant, impatient, and stupid. (Quote: "I have no idea if it was your pride, arrogance, impatience, or stupidity..."). Yet you also said: "I would suggest to all who seek to belittle or humiliate others on this board that they reaquaint themselves with the first paragraph of the TOS". So what gives?

What gives? Simple - It's good to be the king

If you or I do it, off with our heads!
If he does it, too bad.

At this point, perhaps the line our leader is searching for is "will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?"

 

[H2Andy]

I've been playing by the rules [snip]

exocet