fog cutter
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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".
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I've traded with Mark without a problem ,hosted pictures of a few of his builds....good person.....good builder. Cant understand why someone would question a ''disabled modelers 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.
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True Harold but for some donating kits,etc. to others is its own reward knowing there donated items will help make others happy and give them something to do. I donate kits,etc. to a disabled builders group when I can just to help out but cant do it often and yes it can get expensive. I have also sent others a needed part or two for their project or build....and often in return if I need something and they have one they will send it to me as well. Trading has to get both parties something they could use or like...some things old or new are not available in other areas and it helps others get things they are looking for. I am happy to trade with others do it all the time.
yes. i well remember the brouhaha about the disabled modelers group a while back.
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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.
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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.
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No need to apologize.
This forum is open to everyone, whether you're a long-time member or just joined yesterday. Every member is equal here.
Not sure who is in the "inner circle" or who decides who gets into it. In fact, there's no such thing as the "inner circle" here. We don't have some sort of secret handshake or anything. And I don't remember seeing anyone being ignored because they're not part of the "group." What makes you think we have some sort of special group of members who are above all the rest?
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).
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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.
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I guess I need to go check the rules on who can vent, and who can't, ....
it's widely know the Forum's Poster Children get away with pretty much whatever they want
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people asking for donations. supermarket checkouts, phone solicitors, internet forums. everybody "wants".
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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.
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recently someone was looking for wood grain suggestions so here's one. just ignore the "special students".
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It wouldn't surprise me if the Holthaus's don't take any more orders ever. They're lookin' to RETIRE, and when does this madness of people who want to "stock up" on Modelhaus products ever end??? To they need to work day and night to please some greedy modelers who order so much stuff that they'll never use it all, or are those modelers planning on selling some of their purchases later on? They should retire on THEIR terms and not on their customer's terms.
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...
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"i need ..."
"could you donate..."
"like to buy some girl scout cookies?"
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more sadness for his children who have to live with this
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sodium. too much sodium.
Anybody if southpier is ok?
in Where's Waldo?
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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.