Post #235490 by Humuhumu on Fri, Jun 2, 2006 10:07 AM

On 2006-06-02 06:06, pablus wrote:
What if you happen to know that Topic X Cove sucks and is filled with stinging jellyfish and all the bars there only play country music and serve ultra light beer?

If you're not interested in Topic X Cove, then don't go to Topic X Cove. No one's making you stay on the boat, and there are plenty of other boats to be had (you can even make your own!), so there's no reason to hijack someone else's.

What if Topic X Cove has been visited 359 times already and you're tired of the same palm tree with its 4 coconuts and the same outcropping of lava rock that looks like Gerald Ford and you had 3012 pictures of Topic X Cove and 359 Captain's Logs that describe its every detail?

Again, there's a lot of boats in the sea, and no one's making you take that one! You may have visited Topic X Cove 359 times, but it's apparently the first trip for somebody, and they're entitled to it. You'd be doing them a fantastic favor if you point out the great bounty that can be had by using the search, or by even directing them straight to a previous thread, but you're not obligated to do that.

As far as the personal insights and asides, that's one of the things that intrigued and held my interest on this board in the first place. I know more about you, woofmutt, than you realize from reading inside barbs and jokes between you and some of the earlier members here.

But I do agree that there are better forums than General Tiki for it.

I just would hate to think how many truly good friends I wouldn't have made had there not been some inside stuff going on here that I wanted to be a part of.

I absolutely agree with this -- the general rule of thumb that I use is that if I have something off-topic to interject with, I try to at least wrap up my post with something that brings it back on topic.

Except for Flounder, who I wish I'd never met at all.

Try hypnotherapy. :wink: