Posted: 6/18/2011 4:59:47 PM EDT
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it is reading 103 on my patio in the shade.
Does that qualify as inclement weather? 
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Maybe. Trying for a FEMA grant to pay for your team membership?  No, I let it lapse. I see no reason to pay for a website where there are areas I am locked out of because of a moderator throwing a fit. Including some forums I never posted in. 
Someone paid for it last time and I thank him for it. But I really don't want anyone to do it again. |
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Maybe. Trying for a FEMA grant to pay for your team membership? No, I let it lapse. I see no reason to pay for a website where there are areas I am locked out of because of a moderator throwing a fit. Including some forums I never posted in.
Someone paid for it last time and I thank him for it. But I really don't want anyone to do it again. Especially since you are totally innocent and blameless, right? 
Rhetorical Dan, rhetorical 
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Quoted: it is reading 103 on my patio in the shade. Does that qualify as inclement weather? No, it doesn't and cancelling matches because of it is RETARDED. Wait until it gets to 120 before considering cancelling that crap. Our military members in Afghanistan are humping crap all day in 120 degree weather and we can't handle 100 for a few hours? Puh-lease. |
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There was a camp I was posted at north of bagdad in 2004 that had a thermometer that always read between 130 and 160 depending on the day of the week... It got fuckin HOT in the iraq summer. Then my friends here at home made fun of me cause I wanted a sweater in 75 degree weather
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it is reading 103 on my patio in the shade. Does that qualify as inclement weather? No, it doesn't and cancelling matches because of it is RETARDED. Wait until it gets to 120 before considering cancelling that crap. Our military members in Afghanistan are humping crap all day in 120 degree weather and we can't handle 100 for a few hours? Puh-lease. No comparison at all. Fit dudes vs broken down old fat guys. 
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Maybe. Trying for a FEMA grant to pay for your team membership? No, I let it lapse. I see no reason to pay for a website where there are areas I am locked out of because of a moderator throwing a fit. Including some forums I never posted in.
Someone paid for it last time and I thank him for it. But I really don't want anyone to do it again. Especially since you are totally innocent and blameless, right?
Rhetorical Dan, rhetorical Let's say my attitude went south when a moderator and staff member banned me from a forum I had never posted in.
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......and we can't handle 100 for a few hours? Puh-lease. I'll bet I spent more days working in heat over 100 than you have! I think my worst time was spent working on a high rise pan job running conduit in the beams while they were spraying diesel so the forms would release. The temperature was well over 100 to boot. I've done things like that for a long time. Don't want to do it ever again either!
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: it is reading 103 on my patio in the shade. Does that qualify as inclement weather? No, it doesn't and cancelling matches because of it is RETARDED. Wait until it gets to 120 before considering cancelling that crap. Our military members in Afghanistan are humping crap all day in 120 degree weather and we can't handle 100 for a few hours? Puh-lease. No comparison at all. Fit dudes vs broken down old fat guys. Well I'm not a broken down old fat guy.  |
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Quoted: Quoted: I'll bet I spent more days working in heat over 100 than you have!......and we can't handle 100 for a few hours? Puh-lease. I think my worst time was spent working on a high rise pan job running conduit in the beams while they were spraying diesel so the forms would release. The temperature was well over 100 to boot. I've done things like that for a long time. Don't want to do it ever again either! You probably have! I do enjoy a slow simmer from time to time if I do say so myself but I guess you old timers have been cooked to the bone! One thing that grinds my gears is the lack of water I saw at the IPSC match this month. I carried a 3L camelbak, saw one guy with a 1 gallon jug of water, and a few people with water bottles. However, a majority of people had NO WATER. I don't mean to imply that the club should provide water either because that is not their job but seriously, do people want to die of dehydration? |
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To be honest with you, I've stayed away from any competition out there for almost 20 years now.
I didn't like the attitude I encountered with some of the long term members. I still have a run in with one or two of them on the ranges every once in a while.
Like I said, we were getting a "safety" lecture from one of the division chairmen when one of his group got up off a mat and swept three of us with an AR. They were having an unscheduled practice on the HiPower range, didn't offer to let a Camp Perry official into their legs, and gave us the long introduction about safety on the range when that happened. I just volunteered to help with the YHEC program when the range master announced the AR shoot last Saturday. I want that to take off and they do too. Believe me, there are some people in that club that don't. I guess they don't want other people out there interfering with their shooting. There are some very good people out there. But there are a lot of others that do as little as they can but make lots of decisions that affect others. There is no water out there for the matches probably because no one wants to spend the money on an ice machine or water buckets or go to the trouble of filling them. |