Reading some of the posts on here lately....
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Chicago Boy
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That's great.Lol
But it's a lot like baby sitting its only fun because you get to go home I like to remove the doubt and some of the guys on hereSrt20 just don't get it sorry mspease I can't stand that guy
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No need to apologize, there are a handful of guys on here that all they want to do is stir the pot and be negative. Look at the 800 Poo engine thread as an example. One person is finding all of the negative they can about it when there are 1,000 success stories for every failure, but you only hear about the failures! For me, it's very hard to ignore those guys, but I'm trying to get better at it. I feel the terrible winter has had something to do with it, but some have been doing it for much longer than just this winter. It will be spring soon and hopefully we will all mellow out and put this terrible winter behind us.
polarisrider1
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despite the stolen quotes, they are very fitting for this site lately. Guys can't John go out of town without a worry of how the children will play in the sand box? Bad winter is a poor excuse, for all the bickering.
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windingtrailgal
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It makes me sad, really. I agree with all of you. Unfortunately it's WAY beyond just when John goes out of town!
It's self righteousness and judgement...I wish it had to do with the bad winter...but what some people are saying isn't just laced with anger...it's accusatory and mean toward people who they don't even know.
Like pease, I'm trying REALLY hard to ignore it...but some of these people are even infecting the most innocent of posts and they appear to have absolutely NO sense of humor whatsoever!
It makes me sad...
It's self righteousness and judgement...I wish it had to do with the bad winter...but what some people are saying isn't just laced with anger...it's accusatory and mean toward people who they don't even know.
Like pease, I'm trying REALLY hard to ignore it...but some of these people are even infecting the most innocent of posts and they appear to have absolutely NO sense of humor whatsoever!
It makes me sad...
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windingtrailgal,
Just an FYI, my name is Mark Spease.
I noticed you posted pease the other day and thought it may have been a typo. I'm not a Ms. either. 
skiroule
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windingtrailgal,
Just an FYI, my name is Mark Spease.
LOL! There's some people that always make me laugh. You two are in that group. It keeps me sane (I think).
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Glad to hear we can help keep your sanity! Now I need some help.
Chicago Boy
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Glad to hear we can help keep your sanity! Now I need some help.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spnwB08Yfoc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
This looks about the way this has played out this year
I'll be back I love the yoopAnd it's people so much my wife and I got married in Lake Linden last year the bad apples will move south
Next year when the snow flys in Wisconsin......not a poke at Wisconsin but hummmmmmmm
It just spreads out the A holes over 3 states and you don't see the crazy as much
Chicago Boy
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Mark I'm jealous Spooner Wi I love I go to Lakewoods in Cable low traffic great with the wife & Kid
windingtrailgal
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Sorry, Mark...it's just a joke in my head. I posted before that I thought you were m.s. (not Ms.) pease...that's what I've always called you in my head...
skiroule - that's usually my intent!
Chicago Boy - this has nothing to do with UP vs WI...I've ridden as much in WI as I have in the UP. Again, it goes beyond where anyone is from. Look what 'they' call Illinois people?! I'll take that joke and run with it. These aren't people being funny. These are people being mean. Mean people suck.
Sometimes tone is hard in a discussion board, in e-mails, anything that's typed where you can't actually hear the tone. But this isn't just a tone problem - this is an attacking problem. Subtle enough to not violate any rules on the board but overt enough to make the message loud and clear of negativity and judgmental crapola.
skiroule - that's usually my intent!
Chicago Boy - this has nothing to do with UP vs WI...I've ridden as much in WI as I have in the UP. Again, it goes beyond where anyone is from. Look what 'they' call Illinois people?! I'll take that joke and run with it.
These aren't people being funny. These are people being mean. Mean people suck. Sometimes tone is hard in a discussion board, in e-mails, anything that's typed where you can't actually hear the tone. But this isn't just a tone problem - this is an attacking problem. Subtle enough to not violate any rules on the board but overt enough to make the message loud and clear of negativity and judgmental crapola.
LoveMyDobe
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I agree about Lakewoods. When we lived in IA, we had our annual couples trip there. Now I live up here, I can ride there and also stay there at times. My great friend Laurie is the bartender and fellow Dobe owner, so she lets my dog out if we are gone too long. And I got the pleasure of dogsitting her Dobe too. Lakewoods is very dog friendly. Now I live in WI and Laurie and girls make Thursday our get together ride on her days off. Funny how things work out! I am glad we retired here, but we are busier now being involved in our local snow/atv clubs than when we were working!
Oh and as far as the negativity here, makes live interesting, ya can't get around it, ya just get thru it!
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LoveMyDobe
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spnwB08Yfoc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
This looks about the way this has played out this year
And it's people so much my wife and I got married in Lake Linden last year the bad apples will move south
Next year when the snow flys in Wisconsin......not a poke at Wisconsin but hummmmmmmm
It just spreads out the A holes over 3 states and you don't see the crazy as much
I agree, hopefully the snow flies in all the upper states. We have had a ton of IA people here AKA IOWA Idiots Out Wandering Around. I usta be a Iowa person, life was good there, but better now being a Cheesehead!
LoveMyDobe
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You hit the sandbox shovel on the head! While the cats away, the mice will play!
"You can't argue with an idiot... they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."
-Mark Twain (Samual Clemmins)
"Sometimes 'tis better to remain silent and appear a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."
-Abraham Lincoln
My apologies to the authors for the oversight.
And the quotes may not be exactly word for word.
Chicago Boy
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Lakewoods is great I went out with a guy named Pete Rasmussen he is a heating guy that lives a Lakewood
P.S. I love my Rottweiler and still have a little dobe named Julie
Chicago Boy
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I know all I ment is when the only snow we have is up in the north woods all the mean people are all next to each other it's like putting the Blackhawks and the Redwings in a room and telling them ( no fighting boys) well its not going to happenSorry, Mark...it's just a joke in my head. I posted before that I thought you were m.s. (not Ms.) pease...that's what I've always called you in my head...
skiroule - that's usually my intent!
Chicago Boy - this has nothing to do with UP vs WI...I've ridden as much in WI as I have in the UP. Again, it goes beyond where anyone is from. Look what 'they' call Illinois people?! I'll take that joke and run with it.
Sometimes tone is hard in a discussion board, in e-mails, anything that's typed where you can't actually hear the tone. But this isn't just a tone problem - this is an attacking problem. Subtle enough to not violate any rules on the board but overt enough to make the message loud and clear of negativity and judgmental crapola.
I will say this 99% of the time I love this site and have made lots of new friends and riding partners and I'm very happy about that
windingtrailgal
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I know all I ment is when the only snow we have is up in the north woods all the mean people are all next to each other it's like putting the Blackhawks and the Redwings in a room and telling them ( no fighting boys) well its not going to happen
I will say this 99% of the time I love this site and have made lots of new friends and riding partners and I'm very happy about that
Laughing...I gotcha! Cage matches on the trails!! It's a percentage game...always gonna be that small percentage of not nice people out there...get them all on one small piece of real estate and it makes for, well, yuckiness!
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A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.
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Practice safe eating - always use condiments.
Shotgun wedding- A case of wife or death.
A man needs a mistress just to break the monogamy.
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
Dancing cheek-to-cheek is really a form of floor play.
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
Condoms should be used on every conceivable occasion.
Reading while sunbathing makes you well red.
When two egotists meet, it's an I for an I.
A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two tired.
What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead give away.)
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
In democracy your vote counts. In feudalism your count votes.
She was engaged to a boyfriend with a wooden leg but broke it off.
A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
If you don't pay your exorcist, you get repossessed.
With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.
The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.
You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
Local Area Network in Australia- the LAN down under.
Every calendar's days are numbered.
A lot of money is tainted - Taint yours and taint mine.
A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
He had a photographic memory that was never developed.
A midget fortune-teller who escapes from prison is a small medium at large.
Once you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall.
Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead-to-know basis.
Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
Acupuncture is a jab well done.
For a change of pace, and just to lighten things up a bit, here's some fun with language. Get yer "PUN-ishment" here!
<big><big><big>Pun Fun!</big></big></big>
Those who jump off a bridge in Paris are in Seine.
A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.
Dijon vu - the same mustard as before.
Practice safe eating - always use condiments.
Shotgun wedding- A case of wife or death.
A man needs a mistress just to break the monogamy.
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
Dancing cheek-to-cheek is really a form of floor play.
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
Condoms should be used on every conceivable occasion.
Reading while sunbathing makes you well red.
When two egotists meet, it's an I for an I.
A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two tired.
What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead give away.)
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
In democracy your vote counts. In feudalism your count votes.
She was engaged to a boyfriend with a wooden leg but broke it off.
A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
If you don't pay your exorcist, you get repossessed.
With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.
The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.
You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
Local Area Network in Australia- the LAN down under.
Every calendar's days are numbered.
A lot of money is tainted - Taint yours and taint mine.
A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
He had a photographic memory that was never developed.
A midget fortune-teller who escapes from prison is a small medium at large.
Once you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall.
Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead-to-know basis.
Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
Acupuncture is a jab well done.