Friday, Mar 10, 2006 at 19:33
I dnot know waht the fuss was abuot.
I drive home, here in the suburbs of
Adelaide, and sit at the traffic lights, and buses pull up next to me, with this VERY SAME brand name absolutely plastered all over them.
It goes to show, that some people are way too precious for their own good.
Too many here are PC, and they don't even know why, they are just being myopic little sheep.
This very same short-sightedness really got to me on a recent Tag-Along trip I did for three weeks. We ventured far into three deserts, seen a LOT of nasty things, and were sometimes a left a little wondering, as to the safety of our group.
At the end of the tour, the tour leader asked us all what could be improved, so people who venture with them in the future, could get a better trip, based upon our recommendations.
All people could talk about, was the foul language, that two people (locals, mind you) used whilst we were at
Cook. These people bent over backwards for us, got us a wicked site, bought us in lots of sleepers, and really livened the night up, with their hospitality. I spent all night with them, as I knew one of them from my previous working life.
Okay, they were a little rough, but they were good, honest, rough diamonds. Treated us like kings and queens.
My tour crew bitched and moaned, and almost made the tour leader feel as if it was HIS fault!
I see, with some sort of regularity, the post crop up, about foul language on the UHF.
Build a bridge, and get over it.
It appears, that the likes of Al, myself, and a few others, are increasingly having to bat, off the back foot lately, because of the panderings of the chosen few, who like to whinge, and carry on, and call poor David. "Oh, Wolfie's Hi-Jacked another thread..." "Oh, Des has got a rude picture..."
You buggers all don't like it when Harold Scruby, or Greenies, or some other minority group attack your personas, yet, you do the same thing here, and get all upset, over a picture. Hate to see what you'd all do, if it was a religious cartoon, like in the press just recently, because that's exactly fow some of you are acting.
I'll tell ya all now, I've got a fair idea, whom I would NEVER go
camping with on EO get togethers.
Some of you guys need to get a grip. It is LEGAL, to use the four letter word. It is aired on free to air television after 8:30 in the evenings, yet do we see posts about..."Should I sell my TV?"
Some of you guys are wimps. Go and watch the ABC, drink ya cup of herb tea, and keep looking at the world through your rose coloured glasses, but don't EVER, pull me up, if I happen to meet up at camp, about the way I talk. I am the very same guy, who will repair 17 punctures for the crew on a three week trip, change out shockies, and be the general wrench monkey, on everyone else's vehicle, and curse whilst doing it.
Maybe we should ask David, to install some Nanny ware, so you can surf the site, safe in the knowledge, that you will never be upset again....
... and you call yourself adventurers....
Wolfie (Ian)
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Follow Up By: Old Scalyback & denny - Friday, Mar 10, 2006 at 20:11
Friday, Mar 10, 2006 at 20:11
goodday wolfie
we go down we go down together
i agree with you about 98%
part of the problem is that most grumblers dont even have member after there name from what i read
we can all make comments but there are some who hang around the edge and you only hear from them to grumble
oh well here we go again
steve
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Follow Up By: Mike Harding - Friday, Mar 10, 2006 at 20:21
Friday, Mar 10, 2006 at 20:21
Good post Wolfie
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Follow Up By: DaveNQ - Friday, Mar 10, 2006 at 20:42
Friday, Mar 10, 2006 at 20:42
Wolfie,
I totally agree and well said.
Cheers
Dave
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Follow Up By: GREENDOG - Friday, Mar 10, 2006 at 20:59
Friday, Mar 10, 2006 at 20:59
Well said Wolfie, Im with you mate cheer's GREENDOG.P.S and after what you just said on your post your welcome at my fire any time.
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Follow Up By: Big Kidz (Andrew & Jen) - Friday, Mar 10, 2006 at 21:12
Friday, Mar 10, 2006 at 21:12
"I spent all night with them, as I knew one of them from my previous working life"
Hey Wolfie - tells us a bit more about these two shielas....
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Follow Up By: Shaker - Friday, Mar 10, 2006 at 23:22
Friday, Mar 10, 2006 at 23:22
The four letter word may well be legal, but if the owner of the site doesn't want it used here, then that's his perogative.
We either abide by the rules or go somewhere else!
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Follow Up By: Gramps (NSW) - Saturday, Mar 11, 2006 at 02:09
Saturday, Mar 11, 2006 at 02:09
I agree with you Wolfie. Absolutely amazing that some people get almost apoplectic if you drop the "F" word yet they'll calmly munch their marmalade on toast and sip tea at breakfast whilst reading about mass murder, genocide, child abuse, etc etc as if it were normal behaviour.
What makes them tick? Do they have so little regard for themselves and the good they COULD do that the only outlet they have is to point the finger anonymously at mundane matters, relatively speaking, discussed on this
forum.
To all the overly politically correct out there, enjoy life and let others enjoy their's. It ain't a rehearsal.
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Follow Up By: johnsy1 - Saturday, Mar 11, 2006 at 08:38
Saturday, Mar 11, 2006 at 08:38
O yahhhhh I.m off to play on Wolfies team.
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Follow Up By: Shaker - Saturday, Mar 11, 2006 at 09:42
Saturday, Mar 11, 2006 at 09:42
I'll swear along with the best of them, but I have respect for peoples wives, girlfriends & of course, children.
That is why I think it is wrong to use bad language on the radio, it is totally unnecessary, surely people can string together a coherent sentence without the 'F' & 'C' words!
Remember, you have absolutely no idea who may be subjected to it, would use that language in front of your own mother or grandmother??
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Follow Up By: Lone Wolf - Saturday, Mar 11, 2006 at 11:14
Saturday, Mar 11, 2006 at 11:14
Shaker.
I respect, and understand your comment.
Thank you
Wolfie
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Follow Up By: Ruth from Birdsville Caravan Park - Saturday, Mar 11, 2006 at 11:41
Saturday, Mar 11, 2006 at 11:41
Wolfie, I missed whatever the original thing was about but had been wondering for sometime now whether some of the people on (no, using) this
Forum were far to 'precious' to be allowed out. Keeping this in mind, and being a long-time
Forum advocate, I've started to keep my counsel so to speak. Those of you who know me know that this
Forum is a life-line in the long summer months for me (apart from a great learning tool) and many of us (EO people) have become wonderful friends. Now some of these people have disappeared off
Forum (still friends tho) and I think it's because of the PC people and shifting in the ownership goal-posts (not necessarily a bad thing), but there is a loyalty amongst EO people and long-time
Forum regulars which sometimes gets forgotten by those who should remember how the
Forum became so popular - not just for the brilliant repartee which transends anything on any Comedy Channel - but for unswerving giving of advice/hints/ideas and ENCOURAGEMENT.
It was obvious from the Post on our Ages last week that there is a large group of roughly the same age who obviously have similar ideas about
camping in the bush, what constitutes good
camping etiquette, how to have a good time without graffittiing the surroundings, and a natural helpfullness when some is in trouble or requires assistance ( and for having a good time).
When reading David's Post yesterday about bad things etc. I was shocked (yes, I was shocked) when he said how many people had used the Alert Moderator button and it began me thinking about the Post I put up - someone must have used the AM button without really looking at the Post and reading it - assumed by the way it was written it was a Friday Funny. I don't know and not really interested in knowing - I can take my punishment, but I object strongly to those people USING as opposed to being in the
Forum, for some sort of righteous indignation thingie (oh sorry is that what I've got) and no, I don't like foul language on the UHF (or around me) but I work in the cattle yards and know how to use it if needs be also (my Mother once told me that you sometimes need to be able to speak in a language 'they' understand, and unfortunately she was right). Wolfie is quite right - about 98% of the time in his rave up above and you don't often find me agreeing with him! LOL. I was going to add a bit more about the violence etc. around kids every day - but I got a better offer - cappuccino in the cafe - so I'm off. Doesn't hurt for us to think about these things occasionally - but the PC stuff is old hat and doesn't work anyway. (I'm going back to the corner now) LOL
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Follow Up By: Gramps (NSW) - Saturday, Mar 11, 2006 at 14:00
Saturday, Mar 11, 2006 at 14:00
Maybe the 'Alert Moderator' button should be disabled/greyed out for serial offenders :))))))
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Follow Up By: Mad Dog (Australia) - Saturday, Mar 11, 2006 at 21:15
Saturday, Mar 11, 2006 at 21:15
The moderator alert button can also be used for reasons other than complaining, try it for a bit of praise. I get a bit tired of it when my kids keep moaning all day also but when they tell me I'm the best daddy in the world....well I could listen all day :)
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Follow Up By: Bonz (Vic) - Saturday, Mar 11, 2006 at 21:36
Saturday, Mar 11, 2006 at 21:36
Wolfie, I dont think it was the word thats on after 8.30pm that was the issue, although FrenchConnection UK have made their name on its reputation, rather the OTHER word, which I have NEVER heard on Free to Air TV and not on Austar in the time I have had it either. Theres a time and a place th this place bleeps the rude words and moderates the same pics.
Tahts why we trvaellrs spaek fnnuy
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Follow Up By: Lone Wolf - Saturday, Mar 11, 2006 at 22:10
Saturday, Mar 11, 2006 at 22:10
Ray, on your Rig Pic...
BAN SUB WOOFERS.
Man, I feel ostracised! I bought a 12 inch Sub the other day, it was a Vegie Delight, and I wolfed it down in no time flat!
I get it.... I should eat s l o w l y .
Wolfie
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Follow Up By: Mad Dog (Australia) - Saturday, Mar 11, 2006 at 22:17
Saturday, Mar 11, 2006 at 22:17
hahaha, good one.
You're a bit of a worry though, eating that health food stuff. Whats wrong with good old plain rubbish.
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Follow Up By: Member - Roachie (SA) - Tuesday, Mar 14, 2006 at 10:28
Tuesday, Mar 14, 2006 at 10:28
I like to think I'm as broad-minded as most of us on here and I certainly saw nothing wrong with Des's T shirt.....indeed I'm the bloke who emailed it to him in the first place and dared him to put it up as his Rig Pic, (cos I knew it was a bit cheeky......as opposed to being "rude" IMHO) and would probably bring out the Thought Police en masse! Strewth, did I ever get THAT right!!!
However, like Shaker said, I don't like to hear that sort of language around my wife and kids, which is why I love my
UHF radio........I've got one of those extra-ordinary ones that has an "OFF" knob! When I hear language that I think my kids are still too
young to be subjected to, I use that "OFF" knob to great effect. When they get old enough that I believe their ears can handle that language, I will be the one to edumacate them (even though I already know they know almost as many "bad" words as i do)...........it's a bit like taking your 18 year old son to the pub for the first time .....you know he's been into the grog for the pacouple of years behind your back, but it's still nice to make it all official I expect.
Anyway, I might disagree with the wowsers who scoff at the use of such common bad language, but I'll stick up for their right to voice their opinion as well.....as long as they let me voice my opinion too.
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Follow Up By: Member - John (Vic) - Tuesday, Mar 14, 2006 at 13:06
Tuesday, Mar 14, 2006 at 13:06
Very well said Wolfie.
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Follow Up By: Wombat - Tuesday, Mar 14, 2006 at 19:46
Tuesday, Mar 14, 2006 at 19:46
Couldn't have said it any better, Ian, but as you know the thought police are rampant on just about every Australian internet
forum and they are progressively beating the individuality out of anyone or anything which does not comply with 'the norm'.
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Follow Up By: Gramps (NSW) - Tuesday, Mar 14, 2006 at 19:50
Tuesday, Mar 14, 2006 at 19:50
"anyone or anything which does not comply with 'the norm' "
Still plenty of both of those on here Wombat :)))))
Regards
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Follow Up By: Wombat - Tuesday, Mar 14, 2006 at 19:55
Tuesday, Mar 14, 2006 at 19:55
Unfortunately I can think of a few who have gone elsewhere, Alan.
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Follow Up By: Gramps (NSW) - Tuesday, Mar 14, 2006 at 20:49
Tuesday, Mar 14, 2006 at 20:49
Unfortunately, so can I. They're possibly happier where they are.
Regards
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Follow Up By: Bonz (Vic) - Wednesday, Mar 15, 2006 at 18:04
Wednesday, Mar 15, 2006 at 18:04
We are possibly happier where they are too I venture, mind you I know not who "they" are...unless "they" are owl related
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