No, Douglas my dear, that’s not your offstage Mommy providing you with your lines in your first play in grade school.
This is exactly why you piss people off so frequently on so many significant forums where substantive ideas are shared. You simply can not stop yourself from the endlessly repetitive dialogue with yourself.
You put up a thread on this same
Sailboats heading titled, People's Foiler II.
http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/showthread.php?t=18010
It died a rather quiet death after 14 commenting posts, with 6 of them being posted by you. Aside from the fact that the business of fluffing your own thread with personal posts looks pretty doggoned desperate, you noted a few links in the first post.
You sent the pack to a thread at Sailing Anarchy and conveniently URL'd it to land on a mid-thread post by yourself. Trouble is, Doug, I took the time to backtrack that thread to the beginning and throughout the wildly powerful posts there from other experienced foiling world members, you really got your butt kicked soundly. Here's the real beginning of that thread
http://www.sailinganarchy.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=55578&st=0
Time after time you get rolled over by some of the real players in the foiling world, mostly out of OZ and they totally have their way with you before dressing you up and sending you on your way. Much of the horsepower for your trundling was because you refuse to acknowledge the good works of others when they outpoint you in conversation.
Good Gawd, Man! have you gone totally daft? When you get worked like that, you're supposed to have the sense to lay low and then leave the thread alone so it will fade into ignominy. You don't want to advertise your being trundled. Yet, there it is right in the middle of the first paragraph.
Some of the things you said to those guys on that thread would have gotten your butt soundly beaten down if you had been doing that in an OZ boater's pub. The Internet must make you feel studly.
And here we are, Back To The Future, and you won't allow one single moment when you are not spewing party line. Where did you learn that poor conversational skills are not fixed by boredom of philosophy?
I generally find you a bright sorta guy, Doug. So why do you feel you need to constantly hash out the so overly obvious redundancy in order to get yourself heard. We heard you a long, long time ago. Nauseatingly so.
Please find a new way to bring people into the fold of your interests besides hitting them over the head with repeat nonsense every time they get the slightest bit mellow towards your personality.
In simple terms, Doug... you are a rough thug of a conversationalist and the act has grown extremely wearing. Get some grace about you and learn that others around here have significant intellectual capabilities, vast experience and product insight you only dream of possessing.
What does it cost you to acknowledge the works of others?
I saw that you badgered SimonN about weaseling out of responding to you on the SA thread. I take it then, that in producing what you consider to be solid position arguments, you want to be respected enough that someone would respond to you. Yes, I said you expected someone to respond to you. And that doesn't mean with your smart aleck hat on, either.
When you exhibit the same kind of effort here, which you seem to expect from others, you'll be giving what anyone in conversation wishes, to be acknowledged for the exchange of ideas. If you can't do that gracefully, then please have the temerity to, and pardon the phrase reference) STFU and let the conversation go in its own direction.
