On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 21:01:16 -0800, Gunner Asch
wrote:

On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 17:01:36 -0800 (PST), "
wrote:

On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 4:11:54 PM UTC-5, Gunner Asch wrote:

Actually..that statement is not true in the slightest.



SOME people dont care, yet a significant number of others do.



Else there would not be any off topic reponses from this newsgroup.

And Im not..not talking about myself.


Gunner

You are correct. There are people that care. But why they use a newsgroup about metalworking to post about non metalworkng topics is beyond me.

Dan

Because as has been mentioned time after time over at least a
decade...this is like a break room at the factory. We can chat about
work, the world, politics, the latest cool apparatus we have seen or
we bought the ol lady. And yeah..if anyone wants to talk about
metalworking..its very much allowed.

Have you EVER seen a metalworking post ignored and not answered?
Seriously? Its always answered..now granted after a dozen or so
replies..it may start drifting off to something else..but thats how it
works in real life. as well.

Ive been HERE since 1997ish. Damned near 16 yrs. Long enough to blast
a load into the ol lady and have the kid getting his drivers license.
any day now.

Some times its "really metalworking" other times can be anything under
the sun.

This is NOT church, its not an adult class on metalworking...its
entertainment and assistance and we have a bunch..bunch of very..very
smart people here, in MANY different disciplines ..and just about
anything IS and WILL get talked about. We all simply share
metalworking in common. Who would have thought a professional
fireworks guy and a retired financial expert would hang together with
a retired fireman and a merchant marine?

Yet it happens here.

You get exactly what you put into this group. If you put in
metalworking..and not kvetching about metalworking..you will get
metalworking...along with all the other stuff. When you are at a
party...you dont listen to every conversation...do you? You simply
killfile the morons and trolls..and drift into and out of
conversations as they catch your attention. Or simply go home...turn
something inane on the Tube and pout that they were talking about
politics and not just metalworking.

Your choice Dan...make the best use of it as you can. If you are here
just for help and information..and not to spend an evening or an hour
with your friends and peers..,thats your choice.

Shrug

Gunner

I don't know how many actually work in a metal working shop but I used
to and during coffee break I don't remember anyone talking about metal
working. Politics, women, ball scores, who got a new car, problems
with the bank, but not metal working.
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Cheers,

John B.