Correct. Obviously some of you consider yourselves comedians. I hope for your sake you don't have to rely on your "talent" to make a living.
I do enjoy funny comments, but keep them on topic. I agree with those who find gems in some of the off topic remarks at times. Still, keep in mind that those same gems should and would appear in the new thread on the new topic. And, when you're looking for topics you might be interested in, you don't have to read complete, unrelated threads to see if there's anything of interest to you in them. You don't seem to realise that you're depriving yourselves of the very details that are of interest to you. Since I'm going to get my azz flamed anyway, I might as well tell it like I see it:
This USED to be the most amazing forum on the internet, bested perhaps only by the DoubleGun BBS. There are 'regulars' who have long given up even visiting because of the mountains of pablum you have to dig through to find anything worth reading here. What happened to all the newbies who actually want to learn about, and talk about, guns? We had fun - it wasn't all doom and gloom seriousness. But most of all, we depended on and respected each other - we were a community. We even stuck up for one another while we battled gun registries and double standards.
Compare that with 9 out of 10 threads these days wherein the mods ought to be doing their job, carving out the off topic posts and dumping them into new threads. Believe it or not, that was(is) a rule here and it was enforced. Too many so-called Canadian GunNutz are just Nutz. Myself, I value the wisdom of experience and I appreciate those willing to share it with me. Sharptail is an example of someone who has forgotten more about guns that most will ever know. He's alive and well, enjoying himself thoroughly, and couldn't be bothered wasting his time here.
I suspect many of those who posted jokes (not just in this thread) are just hiding their feelings of inadequacy. (Holy crap! Did I just post psychobabble - see what you've done to me!!) I may sound like Chicken Little exaggerating about the sky falling, but it only seems that way because you have nothing to compare today's comments with what we used to see and read. Just as I much prefer classic, hand-made guns to mass produced models, I'd rather read one well written, knowledgeable post to a mass of comments devoid of any substance.
Enough of this chit, I'm going to do some shooting. Have at 'er, boys.
