fog cutter

you're certainly not being very benevolent here mark perhaps my disability is the inability to understand your many answers which seem to change from time to time. could you put this to rest once and for all? here's the two questions i have asked before: 1. can you honestly claim nothing that was donated for the disabled modelers group has been used in your own hobby projects? 2. can you honestly claim nothing that was donated for the disabled modelers group has been used in your trading for other parts? i think a yes or no will suffice. i also don't believe in PMs or Ignore. i have nothing to say in private i won't say in front of the whole class.i have also copied & pasted this in another thread in case it gets lost.

i thought all of your dad's collection was stolen years ago? can you honestly claim nothing that was donated for the disabled modelers group has been used in your own hobby projects? can you honestly claim nothing that was donated for the disabled modelers group has been used in your trading for other parts? yes, i was southpier, and then changed my user name to detail stymied and got banned because i would not join in lockstep. but at least this time i can go out with a reason. and i don't believe the three boxes i sent you got used by "the group".

in theory it's a swell idea. if i remember correctly the controversy centered around the possibility the donated materials were not finding their way to the intended recipients. or if there even was a group to begin with. speculation on another forum (trak) that it might have been a way for someone to garner personal gain. the whole business soured me on ever possibly participating so now i'll throw stuff away before i will spend money to give it away. YMMV.

yes. i well remember the brouhaha about the disabled modelers group a while back.

if you think shipping costs for a trade are expensive, just imagine how expensive it is to donate. at least with a trade, you get something in return. all the thank yous in the world don't pay the rent or electric bill.

interesting conundrum this banning. in another forum members are up in arms. seems a member was banned because he went back and deleted almost 300 of his threads. evidently the majority thought those threads held a wealth of information which should have been kept available to the body of the forum. management is now trying to sift out the good info, but evidently it's a tangled web. "... not banned for any individual posts he has made. The reason I banned Jeff is because he just deleted over 300 threads that he started, representing contributions from tens of thousands of our community members and tens of thousands of individual posts made by members. That action was damaging to the community in ways I feel is both vindictive, childish, and unacceptable." anyone needing to read 14 pages of gibberish can do so here: http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/155307-Banning-Agavelvr not sure if you will have to join to see the good stuff.

have you been in the cooking sherry again? and, no, i'm not pm-ing you with names and examples (unless i'm put on the payroll).

even at 240% zoom i can't tell the price. anyone know if it's 30 or 80? i saw one at a meet last year for 50 and thought about the add on to whatever pickup came with it in 1960- something.

it's widely know the Forum's Poster Children get away with pretty much whatever they want

people asking for donations. supermarket checkouts, phone solicitors, internet forums. everybody "wants".

in the past i thought i was doing a good thing by donating stuff. one time i spent over 50$ on postage alone sending three boxes of unused parts, kits, paints, and included newly purchased 25$ worth of superglue/ sandpaper/ disposable hobby knives just to fill up the box, to someone. never again. i can applaud the idea, but it can also foster a bad precedent of the recipients expecting something for nothing and possibly taking advantage of the givers. like the kids who beg for money outside of the supermarket on saturday mornings. they should be out earning money for their team/ club/ whatever the cause. begging teaches nothing but expecting something for nothing. life doesn't - or at least shouldn't - work like that.

recently someone was looking for wood grain suggestions so here's one. just ignore the "special students".

http://www.gaspumps.info/gallery/v/photos/?g2_enterAlbum=1 http://www.shorpy.com/image/tid/195

aren't we forgetting it's the ME generation? after all, every hobbyist needs more and more and more boxes of unused/ unbuilt parts/ kits on their shelves so the "look at my stash" picture threads can continue.cheesh...

"i need ..." "could you donate..." "like to buy some girl scout cookies?"