Post #365935 by bigbrotiki on Mon, Mar 10, 2008 12:36 PM

Tipsy, Mr. LaLe was doing his usual trolling, and you fell for it. I believe most people here can differentiate between Big Lots Tiki and Oceanic Arts Tiki. And you posted it as what it was, and I agree with TikiJen, thank you for showing it. You just allowed yourself to be sucked into the tired old debate of "Who can tell who anything". Nobody is, but like you said, everybody should be able to voice their opinion, and not get people upset because they take it personally.

Simple difference: IF the above stuff would have been posted as "This IS Tiki" as in "This is the essence of Tiki Style" I would have (hopefully) not been the only one that would have had to say a thing or two about that. But it was posted as Big Lots cheapo crap, which is great to make fun off, AND sometimes deserves to be picked up and improved upon, like mentioned above. Can't we all, except for some inexperienced newbies and starry-eyed outsiders, see that simple difference?

I vote for sending Tiki books to China, to get better and more usable bargain Tikis! :)