"Ladies and gentlemen, take my advice - pull down your pants and slide on the ice"

Ah yes, the sage advice of one Dr. Sidney Freedman from M*A*S*H!

This little section of the forum has become a pretty sad place.  From the foil hats to our idiot president to unmitigated hypocrisy - it's almost comical to watch the two or three hardline conservatives tell us all that the sky is red and falling..... when we all can see that it's blue and firmly in place (on a good day).


Unlike Lost, I'm not going to leave the forum completely, but I've had my fill of the TT.  I'll still visit the other boards as my buddy and I are still working on our VV Hardtail.  I'm learning a lot on the Cafe, RSD and Tech.

But similar to Lost, I will leave here with some parting words (although it's not as wise as Sidney's, and not as profane as Lost's).  

JUSTIN_O_GUY2 - you've got almost 44 THOUSAND posts.  How the hell can you expect anyone to take you seriously about anything when seemingly your life is spent right here on this board?  I recall you sent me a PM about a year ago telling me that my beliefs were ill-placed because I was "indoctrinated".  You seem to think that anything outside your personal belief system equates to being indoctrinated.  How can you not see the flaw in that logic?

MNSPRING - Get help.  Your posts still look like ransom notes and you refuse to learn the difference between there, their and they're.  I'm not sure how anyone on here can take you seriously either.  By the way, repeating the same old line about liberals ("fairy-dust sprinkling", etc.) is old.  Yeah, we all get you hate the libs.  Try some new material.  But seriously, get help.

SEROBOT - I don't know how you do it, but I'm glad you do!  That goes for the other mods on here as well.  You have the patience of a saint and the wisdom of a Grandfather.  Keep up the great work!


Not to take anything away from the Mods, but overall, this is a futile little board.  Do you really think any of you (including my liberal friends) are going to convince anyone else to change their view?  Really?  Ha!

This is just a finger pointing, "I know you are, but what am I", "from my cold, dead hands", "the sky is falling" typing/stroke fest.

Unlike the Cafe or RSD, nothing good has come out of this board.  Nothing.

You don't change the world by commenting on a forum, you change it by doing.  So do.  You don't get experience by commenting on a forum, you get it by participating.  So participate.  You don't see new things by commenting on a forum, you see them by traveling - by riding.  So ride......

(I will not respond to any replies on this post.  So be my guest and say what you will.  My gift to you all is the last word - use it wisely)  


Keep it on two wheels,

-T
(ha!  made you scroll!)
EDIT... Serow got tired of scrolling...

Yep, Some little kid, took his/her ball home,
because the Adults were telling the truth.

      Then when another Adult
  joined the fray.  It was to much.

Either that, or the cost of, Burn Creme
                   is to high.

Serowbot wrote on 05/22/18 at 08:14:59:

And there it is.
The TT is diminished to a one-sided Trump love fest.

Or,  did it diminish to a
 (Started by one, then others jumped on the bandwagon)
One sided, Trump HATE fest ?

Not a discussion of the good/bad, agree/disagree,
  (Which it Used to be)
      but Just Plain Old,   HATE  Trump

this place diminished during Election  2016...  

that's when all politeness was thrown out and that hate spill forth.  those of us trying to moderate that spillage with common sense just got more spilled on us, "how dare we defend the evil other side" .

that's when it was made clear that most here have chosen a side, they are just lying to themselves about "knowing or seeking" the truth.  They just want more confirmation bias.

That's when I left the first time, it was useless...  I returned because I didn't want to keep feeling this hate for you all, that was stupid...  you all have nothing but hate for me so why should I bother trying to not hate you.  

yesterday was a bad day for me, a self destructive day, outside of this forum...  

I"m back because I still don't want to hate you guys, so there's a glimmer of hope that you can be civil, we'll see.

right now I'm trying...  I'm sure I've expressed my dislike/hate some of you pretty clearly...  we'll see if I can rise above my own self-destructive nature

I'm not here to make amends, but I'm not back to attack you guys either...

I took this place way too seriously before, I'm here to prove to myself that I don't have to do that.  

welcome or not

LostArtist wrote on 05/22/18 at 11:54:39:


The key here is not to take it seriously...
No minds ever change,... nothing would change if they did.
Name calling only diminishes the name caller...
And world world still ignores us all.

But change does happen.
Not among us, but around us.
Fox News has had drastic turnover.
The body politic has shifted Right, and the people have shifted Left in reaction.
November will begin the reset.
Trump stands zero chance of re-election and is hurting the rest of the Party.

Hope TnT comes back too...
Without balance this forum is a circle jerk.
With balance it gets nasty.
It doesn't have to...
I vow to ignore any nastiness directed at me.
We'll see if I can stay true to that.

My apologies to your students...

 I don't know how anyone here could jerk students around given there was zero knowledge of them reading the material presented.

 What I was saying is that they used this forum primarily for technical reasons however sections of Tall Table were used to assist with discussion on topics that high school students would have interest in.  School shootings for the most part.

 Due to the selected phrasing of posts they did not assume that some of the posts were from adults, but instead people their own age.  Once they realized they were surprised.

 It is just an observation I find interesting and posted only because I felt it was pertinent to this thread.

I rarely value the opinion of high school kids anyway so what does it matter what they thought? These are the same kids who were eating Tide pods afterall.....!