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February Banter 2021


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Just now, Always in Zugzwang said:

Probably much better for the blood pressure, I'm sure!

He’s not that bad.Ji is Ji and either you love him, or find him incredibly tedious. I am of the latter and it’s better for all of us if I ignore him. He does know his weather, and when he wants to be serious he is a worthwhile follow/read. It’s the other 90% of his posting style I can’t stand. I do not have the patience for that. 

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Just now, vastateofmind said:

I enjoy your puns (any puns, really), but get the biggest kick out of your profile name. I am a chess fan (though generally suck at playing), but after having taken German for six years in middle/high schools, I used to try to find the hardest words to say in German. I think "zugzwang" has claimed that trophy.  ;)

Zugzwang | Definition of Zugzwang at Dictionary.com

Why thank you!  I have always appreciated bad puns (the only sort that are good!).  And yeah, my screen name comes from chess, and is a German word (I enjoy chess though haven't played as much of late, sadly).  I took German for 2 years in high school and a couple of years in college, really liked it!  I actually got halfway decent at being able to read it reasonably well and even carry on an OK conversation.  But that was MANY years ago, I've forgotten a lot of that by now!

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Just now, mappy said:

He’s not that bad.Ji is Ji and either you love him, or find him incredibly tedious. I am of the latter and it’s better for all of us if I ignore him. He does know his weather, and when he wants to be serious he is a worthwhile follow/read. It’s the other 90% of his posting style I can’t stand. I do not have the patience for that. 

Totally agree, and I'm more or less on the same page as you...I find him tedious.  It is kind of sad in a way, because I have seen some really good and insightful posts he has made.  But yeah, that's overtaken by the vast majority of the time when he's insufferable; maybe that's his "thing", but nobody needs the model or storm threads taken up with it.

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Just now, North Balti Zen said:

The issue is what his flaunting of the rules does in terms of tone - provides cover for a LOT of posters who do NOT know their stuff (and Ji knows his stuff) to adopt that tone and do so with some terrible analysis. It's what one of his frequent meltdowns sets off that becomes the issue. 

It does make it harder to keep a thread focused 

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1 hour ago, mappy said:

LOL its so true. 

No doubt. Once you get down Mountain Road towards Chesapeake, the income goes up. Some of the neighborhoods outside of Gibson Island, but pretty far down the road are all big mansions. I grew up closer to the Severna Park area.

There are some other places throughout the area that are higher income as well. Back in the day Berrywood (technically Severna Park) was one of them. Fairwood in Lakeshore comes to mind. There are also multi-million dollar waterfront homes scattered through the neighborhoods. Compass Pointe (Ft. Smallwood Rd), one of the newer communities, is nice. There are others as well.

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Just now, mappy said:

It does make it harder to keep a thread focused 

And hence the need for mods. You can also deter people from participating by making things too rigidly structured. I think it is a compromise to some degree.

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3 minutes ago, KAOS said:

There are some other places throughout the area that are higher income as well. Back in the day Berrywood (technically Severna Park) was one of them. Fairwood in Lakeshore comes to mind. There are also multi-million dollar waterfront homes scattered through the neighborhoods. Compass Pointe (Ft. Smallwood Rd), one of the newer communities, is nice. There are others as well.

Agreed, I mentioned closer to Gibson island as I was most familiar with those nice homes. It’s where all the popular kids from my days lived. :lol: I dated a guy who lived off N Shore, wasn’t on the water but oh man was it a really nice house and lot. 

 

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Just now, mappy said:

Agreed, I mentioned closer to Gibson island as I was most familiar with those nice homes. It’s where all the popular kids from my days lived. :lol: I dated a guy who lived off N Shore, wasn’t on the water but oh man was it a really nice house and lot. 

I'd sacrifice a lot of snow for waterfront property on a quality crabbing and white perch creek.

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Just now, mappy said:

Agreed, I mentioned closer to Gibson island as I was most familiar with those nice homes. It’s where all the popular kids from my days lived. :lol: I dated a guy who lived off N Shore, wasn’t on the water but oh man was it a really nice house and lot. 

 

Makes sense given its proximity to CHS. I used to hang out on the Island all the time.

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Just now, nw baltimore wx said:

I'd sacrifice a lot of snow for waterfront property on a quality crabbing and white perch creek.

No doubt. I didn’t have that, but we did have a small boat my dad would take us out on, on the Magothy. Friends had a dock and ramp, so we’d just park and launch from there. Caught my first bass on that river. 

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Just now, nw baltimore wx said:

I'd sacrifice a lot of snow for waterfront property on a quality crabbing and white perch creek.

Used to catch crabs and white perch all the time. There was a restaurant called Riverdale on the water (it has since burned down). We use to go there, throw a string with a piece of chicken tied to it into the water and net crabs as kids. Legal size crabs.

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Just now, KAOS said:

Used to catch crabs and white perch all the time. There was a restaurant called Riverdale on the water (it has since burned down). We use to go there, throw a string with a piece of chicken tied to it and net crabs as kids. Legal size crabs.

Yessss string and chicken. Did that often myself :lol:

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Just now, KAOS said:

Used to catch crabs and white perch all the time. There was a restaurant called Riverdale on the water (it has since burned down). We use to go there, throw a string with a piece of chicken tied to it and net crabs as kids. Legal size crabs.

We did the same on St. Leonard's Creek south of Prince Frederick.  We'd stop at the A & P in Prince Frederick and get our chicken necks on the way down from home, tie them to a string with a nail and catch a few dozen each weekend.  Loved it.  It's what got me to build a small skiff and trotline as an adult.

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Just now, nw baltimore wx said:

Nice!  I have no idea what I'm drinking.  When I saw @Scraff last week he gave us a six pack of assorted cans and a couple had no label.  It's a darn good sour though.

First sour I ever had was Rodenbach Grand Cru... before sours were "cool". Never really explored many beyond that.

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12 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said:

I'd sacrifice a lot of snow for waterfront property on a quality crabbing and white perch creek.

Where can you get white perch?!?!? I used to live close to Lake Erie and we would go out and get a load of yellow perch and have a huge fish fry. Have not had perch in sometime though. 

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