jake_tauber Posted November 18, 2004 Share Posted November 18, 2004 Al is God and should run for president...ooops! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icuneko Posted November 18, 2004 Share Posted November 18, 2004 Thanks, Tony, for the nicely put reminder. It's easy, though not excusable, for us Hexar-toting-Leica-wannabes to get carried away and veer off at times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donald_macklin Posted November 18, 2004 Share Posted November 18, 2004 "Abide by the rules,and the rules will abide by you.'Fbleep' with the rules,and the rules will 'Fbleep' you." Without permission from the Petronio ULF archives.don. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huw_finney Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 Is this thread off topic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karim Ghantous Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 Ray: "Tony, you're stepping in stride a little with the current Republican administration..." Give me a break. Peter, I can't agree with you, sorry! But your last point was pretty much right, that the heroes tend to get away with too much sometimes. And the people who are provoked in kind are the ones who lose out. However, if you're mature in the first place, you don't allow yourself to be provoked. I mean, look at all the immature remarks made in Grant's direction in a recent thread with Al's pic in it. I don't care if Grant's initial comment was out of line or not - the responses were not justified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray . Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 We're all a bunch of characters here, and Al, I hope if I occaisionally poke fun at you you know I still like seeing you here. If people enjoy posting Al Kaplan threads that's cool with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkey Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 Admin, please delete this thread. Way OT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michael_kastner Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 Tony, <br>(a) Please delete Monkey. <br>(b) What you say about "Mother" is fine (mine is long gone) but how about "Do unto others' Leica M as you would like to have done to your Leica M." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_evans4 Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 My own mother was a fairly tolerant sort and was accustomed to references to body fluids and specifically male and female body parts thanks to years of work as a midwife and family planning nurse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grahams Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 Special Offer For The Month Of November: Your ownership of a Leica will be accepted as valid entry into the Canon/Minolta/Nikon forums - you will be most welcome - we don't have these problems! :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonathan_reynolds Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 I'm glad you moderators remove offensive material, and I welcome the attempt to keep the forum on topic. But please: 1) If you have to delete an entire thread, inform the thread's originator of what you have done and why. This is just courtesy. 2) Abide by your own politeness rule. Sending me an email addressing me as 'dude' (I don't think we have been introduced?), threatening me with explusion, and failing to answer my immaculately polite response was not classy. I have seen equally aggressive moderator's messages in thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasper1 Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 The vast majority of posts are gear related, with a few W/NW. It would seem that some cannot get enough gear talk. General of topic or humor posts are condemned, and discussions about photography and photographs are frowned upon. You only have read the posts of Jim Mc Brides posts to reach those conclusions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_neuthaler Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 Tony, you're the best -- you ++FR++***++++$##@! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivier_reichenbach Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 Ted: "And don't use this Leica forum to talk about Canon, Voiglander,Bessa etc. If I wanna know about those I will look in the appropiate forums..." Are you a moderator we don't know about? And what if someone has taken a photo with a C/V lens on a IIIg and wants to talk about it? Or wants to talk about his experience with a Bessa R2 and 75 Lux? Or even wants to talk about the compared merits of a Nikon F3 with 28/2.8 AI-S as opposed to M4 with C/V 25 Color-Skopar for street photography? That's the problem with strict rules enforcing. There is always this eight-grade a..e-licker swot who thinks he's smarter than everybody else and will try to go one better. Enforce class and politenes. I'm all for it. 100%. Ban politics? Hmmm... It's gonna be hard, in these days of intense worldwide anxiety and turmoil caused by the current US administration. And its photography censorship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charles_stobbs3 Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 I thought Leica was a religion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul t Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 The forum's description is "for all things Leica and Leica'esque'. That includes Bessas, Hexars, Canon screw-mounts and Zorki's, all of which are Leica- esque.<p> I'm surprised by how humourless the forum's become over the last couple of months. It doesn't help when Jeff, whose photography I respect, takes it upon himself to attack those he looks down on as Leica-fondlers. It gets way out of proportion, to the extent that some guy who's bought a new MP (good for him) gets lambasted for processing his shots at a lab. Bursting people's bubble every now and then might be useful, but when it's all that happens, it's downright monotonous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkey Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 Delete me? Ouch... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin m. Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 I think the very purpose of any forum is to function as a level playing field that encourages participation within its framework of rules. It's the antithesis of a club, in other words. We all have our likes and dislikes, but when we assume that they trump the likes and dislikes of other participants and try to shut them up, that's when it gets ugly and unpleasant. I enjoy good-natured, and even sharply pointed banter, (OK, I <i>especially</i> enjoy sharply pointed banter!) but if the majority of your participation consists in expressing contempt for the other participants, perhaps that should be considered grounds for a moderator-imposed 'time out.' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travis1 Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 If you can handle life, what's a few words over the internet? Unless of course you can't, then.. Be a proud fondler if you must. It falls under "leica photography gear section". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_evans4 Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 <p><em>And don't use this Leica forum to talk about Canon, Voiglander,Bessa etc. If I wanna know about those I will look in the appropiate forums...</em></p><p>I took that as a joke. And even if it wasn't meant as one, it is one.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david j.lee Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 al kaplan is probably the nicest person in pn, ( even jay liked him...!!!) and i always enjoy what he got to say here at the leica forum and in the other forums he participates at. by the way, if someone is planning a visit to cuernavaca,mexico, let me know and we can have a steak and a few cold ones after a shooting trip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy m. Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 I echo what David said (the first part anyway). A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
summitar Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 Being of a similar vintage, I enjoy Al's comments. I can't remember a single one that was in any way mean spirited. Keep posting, AL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david j.lee Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 and by the way, the al kaplan t-shirt is a great conversation piece with the ladies, and the best part is that even i look handsome when compared with the photo of keith richards little brother on the shirt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mangydog Posted November 19, 2004 Share Posted November 19, 2004 I agree with Kevin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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