Post #354131 by aquarj on Thu, Jan 10, 2008 3:26 PM

Geez, I thought this was a FUN site.

If your idea of fun resembles what this site celebrates (again, see the link directly under "Tiki Central" above), then this is a FUN site. However, if you insist on broadening the focus to things that are indisputably outside of the clearly stated areas of interest, then YOU are the one who is raining on our parade, not the other way around.

However, TC people tend to be an accommodating, welcoming, and even inviting bunch. Newer users periodically pop up, with what many TCers might consider misguided enthusiasm for something that conflicts with the esthetic celebrated here. But the response is often an attempt to redirect the new person's interests, to appreciate the things that are celebrated here. They're not saying, "you're a dumdum for buying that." They're saying, "why not get out of that pool and come in over here, the water's fine!"

To put it another way, if you're interested in what's celebrated here and browse around this site, not only will you find a wealth of examples of what this site is really about, you will also find that many of those things fit ANY budget. And I'd contend you will also find FUN, but that partly depends on you.

As for bigbro's reference to Thumper's rule ("if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all"), I personally try to use that when it comes to people, but not necessarily to things. So for example, I think I don't have anything nice to say about TikiLaLe for his/her comments on this thread, so therefore I will say nothing. But I think it's far too frequent that an unflattering appraisal of an object is interpreted as an insult to its owner, when that simply isn't the case.

-Randy