A1337STI Alex Rademacher Senior Moderator Location: Reno,nv Join Date: 09/10/2007 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 686 Rally Car: 93 GC with an 01 RS swap! |
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john vanlandingham John Vanlandingham Elite Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Most of the current rally guys and a HUGE % of the thousands of "wawwy wacer wannabes" are geekoid consumers..They are compelled to be atuned to the "latest thing"...and forums and email. and telephones are all "too hard" and "dead".... Discussion in general is as well. This to a significant degree explains a good part of it: http://thefederalist.com/2014/01/17/the-death-of-expertise/ The beginning:
So now what's the point of discussiong how to do anything when you have guys who have done 2 or 3 rallys co-driveing or even zero and they tell you ( near quote) (from a guy who just co-drove an event and a 1/4 maybe) Well if you're lucky and are persistant maybe after you've stepped up and done a couple of rallies you'll understand how blah blah blah..." Interestingly a shocking majority--seems like well over 90% of these experts of Pacefook and Twitter are all fans of one junky brand of japanese car. Why bother? John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
Mad Matt F Matt Follett Mod Moderator Location: La Belle Province, Montreal Join Date: 03/13/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 645 Rally Car: Don't Laugh, the Justy is Fun! |
Meh... Most get scared 'cause there is this big open box to fill with typed letters... and it's more the 140 characters...
This problem had been discussed here and elsewhere... (I love dot dot dot) F-book is a joke. I now have a page, but after 2 years of looking around, it still does not make sense. Forums are akin to a database, there is order and structure. Initially designed by intelligent folks who I presume were hoping for a retrievable, chronological structured, dataset. Facebook and it's derivatives are a nothing more then a facesmash of graphic symbols with little relevance to the next... "Hey I'm gonna post my dinner shot after that guys car shot"??? Funny that the MGE (one of Skye's forums that continues to hold it's own... ) is continuing to grow, I think it's the demographic that missed Facebook, and is too well heeled to get involved. For me, I'm holding out here... and a few other's, hoping that the dodo will come back to life. |
Mad Matt F Matt Follett Mod Moderator Location: La Belle Province, Montreal Join Date: 03/13/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 645 Rally Car: Don't Laugh, the Justy is Fun! |
Funny,
I re-read, and more truly... "actually read" John's quoted Tom Nichols "Death of Expertise" after having posted above... Edit, er, delete... Matt goes on some bizarre self glamorising diatribe about his accomplishments and how he's the best there ever was... And then some guy questioned him I hate the internet. (I love the fact this is not twitter and I can delete stupidity.) Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/09/2018 07:01PM by Mad Matt F. |
DanielSL Daniel Mega Moderator Location: Vero Beach, Florida Join Date: 03/02/2016 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 338 Rally Car: 2005 VW Mk. 4 Golf GTI 1.8T |
Thread Hijack...
Matt, what was the tree, actually? Was it even an Oak? Always interesting to see how far people can be off sometimes. My father originally attended college in the early 70's with the thought of becoming a forest ranger, so I grew up identifying trees and plants in northern New England. Haven't done so in 20+ years, but your story brought back some great 30+ year old memories. Hijack off. |
wvonkessler Wilson von Kessler Ultra Moderator Location: Lookout Mountain, GA Join Date: 02/28/2006 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 1,127 Rally Car: Colts are in Finland; now '87 325i, '89 325i |
There will be a migration back at some point - at least for a portion of the population.
"Talk about drugs. Driving a car like that, going that fast, it’s like all the drugs at once." - Tommy Byrne "Now, Pinky, if by any chance you are captured during this mission, remember you are Gunther Heindriksen from Appenzell. You moved to Grindelwald to drive the cog train to Murren. Can you repeat that?" - The Brain |
Vincent Gagnon The same thing that I just wrote Mod Moderator Location: Golden, BC Join Date: 03/12/2016 Age: Settling Down Posts: 157 Rally Car: Volvo 240 |
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Mad Matt F Matt Follett Mod Moderator Location: La Belle Province, Montreal Join Date: 03/13/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 645 Rally Car: Don't Laugh, the Justy is Fun! |
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NoCoast Grant Hughes Elite Moderator Location: Whitefish, MT Join Date: 01/11/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 6,818 Rally Car: BMW |
I had some really nice times with all my best rally friends this weekend. We lamented the good old days, Bob Dobolina on specialstage, and acted 25 at times.
If we could post videos on here, that'd be cool Build threads died with Photobucket. Video killed the radio star. Grant Hughes |
NoCoast Grant Hughes Elite Moderator Location: Whitefish, MT Join Date: 01/11/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 6,818 Rally Car: BMW |
I left facebook back in April after becoming tired of incessant messaging and potential customers being annoyed at my lack of instantaneous response to their inquiries. We had an old rally build account from a few years ago that I reopened a few weeks later mostly to keep an eye on the rally pages and be able to help people out. This morning I had a non-customer tell me my communication sucked because I didn't respond to his 7:45 pm message last night until this morning.
Grant Hughes |
john vanlandingham John Vanlandingham Elite Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Matt, the book is well worth reading too.. Along with--and still on message with this thread "Bowling Alone" by Robert Putnam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone And while you're relaxing and reading, the ever popular : Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death Together they show how over a long period of time the trend and the predictable continuation... John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
NoCoast Grant Hughes Elite Moderator Location: Whitefish, MT Join Date: 01/11/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 6,818 Rally Car: BMW |
It's hard to find a bowling team. We bowl in leagues on Friday and at 38 I'm probably one of the youngest guys there. My friends just bought a bowling alley one town over and I'm planning to help them try to get some younger millennial bitch faces to bowl. Figure all we have to do is play a bunch of dubstep.
Ironic how Alex comes on and starts a thread about no one rally chatting anymore then never comes back. Pretty soon it'll just be me and John ignoring each other. Grant Hughes |
fiasco Andrew Steere Junior Moderator Location: South Central Nude Hamster Join Date: 12/29/2005 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 2,008 Rally Car: too rich for my blood, share a LeMons car |
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Gravity Fed Alex Staidle Mod Moderator Location: Δx = ħ/2Δp Join Date: 08/21/2009 Age: Settling Down Posts: 1,719 Rally Car: Various Heaps |
to be honest, the forum is my preferred format. However, I'm just busy with life at the moment.
First Rally: 2010 First RallyX: 2004 (a bunch) Driver (0), Co-Driver (7) Organizer (3), Volunteer (3) Cars Built (2.5), Engines Blown (2) Cages Built (0) # of rotations (3.5) Last Updated, Apr 9, 2023 |
RALLYRS Mike Ball Mega Moderator Location: Simi Valley,Ca. Join Date: 07/15/2011 Age: Ancient Posts: 466 Rally Car: Nope...I wish...RWD 2 Door Jeep XJ 4.0 5-spd Dirt-o-cross car(we have no grass!)2.3 ZX3 rallyx car(sold) |
Hello EVERY-BAWDY!
Yeah Crickets chirping here and also over at special stage and Even Dirty Impreza. Ha! -I was bored and just bumped all the spam off the start page on special stage right now... None of the mods there do anything anymore so it’s just a complete spam fest. Since I don’t have a Facebook account I had my kid click on the CRS Facebook thread in the SoCal SS forum section and then to the unofficial CRS Facebook page to see if anything was going on in there...Yeah it’s kind of active. More active than the forum anyway- duh. I may have to reluctantly sign up for that freaking crap known as Facebook(as I’m dragged kicking and screaming). And I’ve never been a Subaru guy but dirty impreza used to be a pretty good site for both grass o cross and some stage stuff.... If nothing else it was a good source for posting of local rally related events. No more. Too sad this decline of the dinosaur known as the Internet forum. ................................................. ..................... Support your Local North American Rally Forum!! While they are still around-and get the hell off Farsebook!! We still have Specialstage & RallyAnarchy. Post up Here: https://rallyanarchy.com/phorum/posting.php and here: https://www.specialstage.com/forums/forum.php |