Post #692264 by TikiTacky on Mon, Sep 2, 2013 9:30 AM

On 2013-09-02 00:21, nui 'umi 'umi wrote:

On 2013-09-01 21:05, TikiTacky wrote:
I've seen some real winners on here, but whose home bar really stands out in your mind? Post links to threads!

I'm not sure that I would want to rank the many home tiki bars that I have visited or viewed online as "the best". Imho they are all top notch and we should encourage anyone trying a build-out (not always an easy task) to build it according to their personal taste, needs, and wants and of course financial situation. I certainly have seen some "standouts" but I'm not prepared to tell anyone that their attempts no matter how feeble don't live up to your or my standards. If I was paying someone for my build-out I would have no qualms about voicing any dissatisfactions-It's my bar.
I'm sorry if I am misunderstanding the premise that you are pursuing and I am not looking for a fight but again imho, your questions seem inappropriate.
Cheers

[ Edited by: nui 'umi 'umi 2013-09-02 00:22 ]

Thank you for taking the time to write out your response. You're absolutely right, the question was poorly thought out. The ones with the "best" bars are usually the ones with the most money to throw at it, although good taste doesn't always accompany deep pockets. Yes, I agree, we should be encouraging everyone; but I also believe that there's benefit to acknowledging the ones that really stand out to people for various reasons. I love to see challenges overcome, or hard work pay off. Some of the bars in this thread go above and beyond in creativity and execution, and it's those bars that I think are inspirational and worthy of pointing out. I'm not a believer in the "everyone is a winner" mantra, I am a believer that anyone can be—it just takes more effort for some.

This thread has hundreds of bars in it, including many that start off with promise and then are never updated. Not everyone has the time to go through all of them to see what went into the really successful ones, and I think there is definitely merit in pointing those out. What I should have said was "Name some favorites," but I'll leave my original question with an addendum.

As a final note, you said my questions (plural) were inappropriate. I have been asking a lot of questions lately, and I will admit that on occasion I am provocative. To be honest, I find browsing through the old TC posts to be very fun and informative, because everyone was excited and things were new. These days, the only topics that seem to get much response are about events and tiki carving. Often, posts end with the dead end "this has been covered, do a search." Bigbrotiki is often keeping things fresh by adding new information to an old topic, something which he is a master of (and how big is his collection, anyway?!). My post on Witco was intentionally inflammatory because I wanted to get a discussion going, and it did. I quite lively on, I thought, yet no one called names or argued.

To paraphrase a jokester, "this website needs an enema." I'd just like to see a little more of the excitement and wonder that the TCers of old had. Maybe just wishful thinking on my part, but I'm invested enough to give it a try.

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[ Edited by: TikiTacky 2013-09-02 09:56 ]