H2O Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 2 minutes ago, vastateofmind said: Never served on our pool board (and to your point -- THANK GOD), but my wife and I each held down at least once all of the major roles/positions for the NVSL summer swim team (except refereeing)...and that was bad enough. My wife served as a team rep for a few seasons, which next to being a pool board member, is probably one of the most thankless and soul-crushing volunteer jobs someone can take on. My favorite was serving as S&T judge...best seat in the house, and that's how I used to recruit others to it. I got snookered into joining and was really just trying to help because the board was short staffed. And the role I took on was supposed to be lazy and easy. Little did I know we chose to do some things that made it a lot more time consuming. Add in the stuff from last year and it got to be too much. I decided to step down for my own sanity. I see what our team rep has to deal with and I swear that friend is a saint. I don't know how she does it. I'd erupt on some parents. They just turn into some of the nastiest people on earth if they don't get their way. As far as helping during meets I think I have done every job other than S&T, Ref and starter. Not even sure why I took over Chief Timer. oh I know why. Working a grill during a B meet in the middle of summer sucked. Especially after a day at work.....where I work outside.....all day.....yeah. I'd ask more about the pool you belong to and the one I belong to as I think we may have crossed paths. Probably better to do via PM. Also might try to suggest a gtg for some of us snow anus denizens. There seems to be about 4-5 of us locals all within a short distance of each other. You, me, @mattie g @GATECH and @WeatherShak 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 34 minutes ago, mattie g said: But it's a long-range thread, not a winter-tracking thread. If the long range shows warmth, then I think it's perfectly fine for people to post about it. Yes for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.J Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 52 minutes ago, CAPE said: I wont crap up the discussion threads but I will say this in banter- I would love a 2 week sunny and dry stretch, regardless of the temperatures. Sure I will take a random March snow event, but it isn't going to change my feelings about this winter. It is no better than a C. Here is where I have been this wet winter. Mud has been extra special. Glad I have not lost a boot this year. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 2 hours ago, mappy said: now move it along. if you wanna get into more details, PM each other. this topic always goes to places it shouldn't for a weather forum. So if this is a “weather” only board why do we have a banter thread or one on bugs and gardens and beer? No one complains when we discuss lots of topics unrelated to weather. I understand “no politics” given the current climate but I’m annoyed that it feels like we are extending that to “anything that involves disagreement”. AGW isn’t political just because one party decides to pretend it’s not real for financial reasons! A virus isn’t political just because one political party decides to pretend it’s not that bad because they didn’t want to do anything about it. Our political parties have opinions on almost EVERYTHING. What if tomorrow one of the parties decides beer is bad and some of their sycophants start making angry posts when we discuss our drinks in here...will that suddenly make that off limits too? It’s annoying that we let that determine what we can discuss and label topics political when that aren’t political at all, unless your definition of political is “something a political party has an opinion on” in which case EVERYTHING is political! Why not ban the clowns who can’t have a conversation like an adult and get hostile v banking a while conversation. And if someone says something you disagree with and you don’t want to engage you can always just ignore it. I don’t get why we’re so sensitive to EVERYTHING anymore. On a larger scale in society ignoring each other will never improve this. We need more adult conversation and sharing of ideas not less. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 tough shit. we aren't going to go down the rabbit hole of political policies regarding covid. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George BM Posted February 25, 2021 Author Share Posted February 25, 2021 Good morning weather family! I just have a quick question for you all? Is anyone else getting an error message saying that they're offline from tropicaltidbits.com ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dailylurker Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Just now, George BM said: Good morning weather family! I just have a quick question for you all? Is anyone else getting an error message saying that they're offline from tropicaltidbits.com ? Yup. Same. I noticed that yesterday when I tried to run the GFS (hunting dry weather) and got the same message. Now it seems the entire site is down. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toolsheds Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 15 minutes ago, psuhoffman said: So if this is a “weather” only board why do we have a banter thread or one on bugs and gardens and beer? No one complains when we discuss lots of topics unrelated to weather. I understand “no politics” given the current climate but I’m annoyed that it feels like we are extending that to “anything that involves disagreement”. AGW isn’t political just because one party decides to pretend it’s not real for financial reasons! A virus isn’t political just because one political party decides to pretend it’s not that bad because they didn’t want to do anything about it. Our political parties have opinions on almost EVERYTHING. What if tomorrow one of the parties decides beer is bad and some of their sycophants start making angry posts when we discuss our drinks in here...will that suddenly make that off limits too? It’s annoying that we let that determine what we can discuss and label topics political when that aren’t political at all, unless your definition of political is “something a political party has an opinion on” in which case EVERYTHING is political! Why not ban the clowns who can’t have a conversation like an adult and get hostile v banking a while conversation. And if someone says something you disagree with and you don’t want to engage you can always just ignore it. I don’t get why we’re so sensitive to EVERYTHING anymore. On a larger scale in society ignoring each other will never improve this. We need more adult conversation and sharing of ideas not less. I am soooo sorry for this, but remember this from years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeatherShak Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 I got snookered into joining and was really just trying to help because the board was short staffed. And the role I took on was supposed to be lazy and easy. Little did I know we chose to do some things that made it a lot more time consuming. Add in the stuff from last year and it got to be too much. I decided to step down for my own sanity. I see what our team rep has to deal with and I swear that friend is a saint. I don't know how she does it. I'd erupt on some parents. They just turn into some of the nastiest people on earth if they don't get their way. As far as helping during meets I think I have done every job other than S&T, Ref and starter. Not even sure why I took over Chief Timer. oh I know why. Working a grill during a B meet in the middle of summer sucked. Especially after a day at work.....where I work outside.....all day.....yeah. I'd ask more about the pool you belong to and the one I belong to as I think we may have crossed paths. Probably better to do via PM. Also might try to suggest a gtg for some of us snow anus denizens. There seems to be about 4-5 of us locals all within a short distance of each other. You, me, [mention=1705]mattie g[/mention] [mention=697]GATECH[/mention] and [mention=8276]WeatherShak[/mention]Happy to host on my deck when we’re all comfortable doing so. . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 For the record, i dont care if you all talk about beer, or vacations, or any of that stuff. but we have asked, over and over again, to please keep politics out of this subforum and some of you still fail to grasp that request. covid turns to politics, every single time. sharing tips about getting friends vaccinations is one thing -- going on about schools and all that is another beast entirely. please just do your best to bite your tongue and keep the politics aspect out of it. if you have to scratch that itch, there are other places you can go to do that. THIS IS NOT THE PLACE FOR IT. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 9 minutes ago, George BM said: Good morning weather family! I just have a quick question for you all? Is anyone else getting an error message saying that they're offline from tropicaltidbits.com ? They obviously banned you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattie g Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 37 minutes ago, H2O said: I got snookered into joining and was really just trying to help because the board was short staffed. And the role I took on was supposed to be lazy and easy. Little did I know we chose to do some things that made it a lot more time consuming. Add in the stuff from last year and it got to be too much. I decided to step down for my own sanity. I see what our team rep has to deal with and I swear that friend is a saint. I don't know how she does it. I'd erupt on some parents. They just turn into some of the nastiest people on earth if they don't get their way. As far as helping during meets I think I have done every job other than S&T, Ref and starter. Not even sure why I took over Chief Timer. oh I know why. Working a grill during a B meet in the middle of summer sucked. Especially after a day at work.....where I work outside.....all day.....yeah. I'd ask more about the pool you belong to and the one I belong to as I think we may have crossed paths. Probably better to do via PM. Also might try to suggest a gtg for some of us snow anus denizens. There seems to be about 4-5 of us locals all within a short distance of each other. You, me, @mattie g @GATECH and @WeatherShak I just got lumped in with the lowlands near DCA. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Just now, mattie g said: I just got lumped in with the lowlands near DCA. The mudman was the price of admission 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris78 Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Snow pack has disappeared fast the past couple of days. Over 50% of my yard now is just grass. Still deep snow up in the Catoctins. 25 strait days of snow cover is coming to an end. Pretty darn impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87storms Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 46 minutes ago, George BM said: Good morning weather family! I just have a quick question for you all? Is anyone else getting an error message saying that they're offline from tropicaltidbits.com ? Maybe their cert expired. I’ve seen that happen enough times as part of the support for my last job. Or maybe they’re also tired of this winter and taking a vacation before revving up for squall line season. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.J Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 52 minutes ago, psuhoffman said: So if this is a “weather” only board why do we have a banter thread or one on bugs and gardens and beer? No one complains when we discuss lots of topics unrelated to weather. I understand “no politics” given the current climate but I’m annoyed that it feels like we are extending that to “anything that involves disagreement”. AGW isn’t political just because one party decides to pretend it’s not real for financial reasons! A virus isn’t political just because one political party decides to pretend it’s not that bad because they didn’t want to do anything about it. Our political parties have opinions on almost EVERYTHING. What if tomorrow one of the parties decides beer is bad and some of their sycophants start making angry posts when we discuss our drinks in here...will that suddenly make that off limits too? It’s annoying that we let that determine what we can discuss and label topics political when that aren’t political at all, unless your definition of political is “something a political party has an opinion on” in which case EVERYTHING is political! Why not ban the clowns who can’t have a conversation like an adult and get hostile v banking a while conversation. And if someone says something you disagree with and you don’t want to engage you can always just ignore it. I don’t get why we’re so sensitive to EVERYTHING anymore. On a larger scale in society ignoring each other will never improve this. We need more adult conversation and sharing of ideas not less. You as a parent should know and understand parenting wars. I have been in my fair share of the middle of a whole host of them. Breastfeeding/Formula, Cloth diaper/disposables, Public/Private School, boy/girl, yes that one exists and gets nasty, Organic/Non Organic I could go on and on and on and on. At the end of the day when I have tried to say what as a parent is best for my children certain posters here like to get into the "mommy" wars and in a round about way try to say your way of parenting is flawed and wrong. This very reason is why for the first time on a message board, yep you read that right, have a few members on ignore. I am all for discussion of differing views, what I am not up for is a bashing in a passive aggressive nature to say I am a better parent than you are. Because that is what is going on behind the scenes. You all know I tend to be a level headed poster. But I do not come here, even in banter, to be engaged in parenting wars. The whole COVID school opening vs. not vs. hybrid vs. not is right at the top of the parenting wars currently. When I tell someone that my decision I have made for my children and my family is different than theirs that should be the end of it. And vice versa on my end. I applaud the mods for understanding that this particular discussion has gone way beyond the typical I don't like vs. well I like discussion. And if it needs to be tabled for the time being until everyone can respect each others views so be it. Now back to the food posting and maybe occasional photos of my crazy ass cat. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WxUSAF Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 I find the “long range thread topic philosophy” discussion really uninteresting, but still way more interesting than “long range thread moderation philosophy” discussions of the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Balti Zen Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 2 hours ago, losetoa6 said: @North Balti Zen Why did u feel the need to quote 2 of my posts in the main thread ? That Hurricane1091 guy was trolling so I let em have it . That simple Because you don’t make the rules. Just because YOU track every flake on your mountain into May doesn’t mean you get to chase off those who don’t. That’s why. You do this every year. It’s bullshit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 1 hour ago, mappy said: tough shit. we aren't going to go down the rabbit hole of political policies regarding covid. That’s fine the admins and mods have the right to run the board however they want. And I have the right to disagree and say so. You can delete my posts. I’ve had dozens of posts deleted for “political” reasons over the years and I’ve never once complained about it. It’s your right. I just don’t agree that we should ban topics that aren’t inherently political every time a political group decides to exploit that subject! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 1 minute ago, psuhoffman said: That’s fine the admins and mods have the right to run the board however they want. And I have the right to disagree and say so. You can delete my posts. I’ve had dozens of posts deleted for “political” reasons over the years and I’ve never once complained about it. It’s your right. I just don’t agree that we should ban topics that aren’t inherently political every time a political group decides to exploit that subject! Oh I am so glad you have given me the permission to delete your posts. Thank you so much. Covid leads to political discussions, and that's the only topic I am currently referencing right now. No one has mentioned banning any and all topics, so take your exaggerations elsewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowfan Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Hope you all have a great day. It’s beautiful outside! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 1 hour ago, wxtrix said: there’s a covid thread in the politics forum. knock yourself out there. Yea I never took well when my sister in law tried to tell me and my brother what topics we could and couldn’t discuss at the dinner table either. Maybe I don’t want to discuss it with random trolls I don’t know on some other forum. I know the people here. We have online relationships. Some I have relationships offline. I want to discuss things with THEM! If the powers that be decide we can’t so be it but don’t act like going somewhere else is a simple solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Just now, psuhoffman said: Yea I never took well when my sister in law tried to tell me and my brother what topics we could and couldn’t discuss at the dinner table either. Maybe I don’t want to discuss it with random trolls I don’t know on some other forum. I know the people here. We have online relationships. Some I have relationships offline. I want to discuss things with THEM! If the powers that be decide we can’t so be it but don’t act like going somewhere else is a simple solution. We are not going to be discussing politics here. End of story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H2O Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 3 minutes ago, psuhoffman said: Yea I never took well when my sister in law tried to tell me and my brother what topics we could and couldn’t discuss at the dinner table either. Maybe I don’t want to discuss it with random trolls I don’t know on some other forum. I know the people here. We have online relationships. Some I have relationships offline. I want to discuss things with THEM! If the powers that be decide we can’t so be it but don’t act like going somewhere else is a simple solution. Take it to PM if typing another web address is just too hard for you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psuhoffman Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 36 minutes ago, Mrs.J said: You as a parent should know and understand parenting wars. I have been in my fair share of the middle of a whole host of them. Breastfeeding/Formula, Cloth diaper/disposables, Public/Private School, boy/girl, yes that one exists and gets nasty, Organic/Non Organic I could go on and on and on and on. At the end of the day when I have tried to say what as a parent is best for my children certain posters here like to get into the "mommy" wars and in a round about way try to say your way of parenting is flawed and wrong. This very reason is why for the first time on a message board, yep you read that right, have a few members on ignore. I am all for discussion of differing views, what I am not up for is a bashing in a passive aggressive nature to say I am a better parent than you are. Because that is what is going on behind the scenes. You all know I tend to be a level headed poster. But I do not come here, even in banter, to be engaged in parenting wars. The whole COVID school opening vs. not vs. hybrid vs. not is right at the top of the parenting wars currently. When I tell someone that my decision I have made for my children and my family is different than theirs that should be the end of it. And vice versa on my end. I applaud the mods for understanding that this particular discussion has gone way beyond the typical I don't like vs. well I like discussion. And if it needs to be tabled for the time being until everyone can respect each others views so be it. Now back to the food posting and maybe occasional photos of my crazy ass cat. Fair enough but here is my frustration with this...it’s NOT about that! My post was very clearly trying to point out this isn’t about the students. I’ve said several times that this is about the STAFF safety not the students. But everyone ignores that and goes back to arguing over what’s best for their kids! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mappy Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Not the place for it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.J Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 1 minute ago, psuhoffman said: Fair enough but here is my frustration with this...it’s NOT about that! My post was very clearly trying to point out this isn’t about the students. I’ve said several times that this is about the STAFF safety not the students. But everyone ignores that and goes back to arguing over what’s best for their kids! Oh I totally agree with you. But unfortunately it has been taken to what I described and you have said as much yourself. Believe me I have been a target of it right here on this board so I know what I am talking about. And you are right this topic should absolutely not be political. But it has been dragged there time and time again. And believe me no matter how many times you try to steer it back to safety for the staff it will end right back up on parents on parents for who knows best for their kids. Yes it sucks that we cannot have civil discussions in this forum. But the minute someone takes it to where it does not belong it needs to be tabled. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vastateofmind Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 Made a recommendation last week for "Nomadland" starring Frances McDormand just released on Hulu...stand by that, best flick I've seen in many years. My wife and I then switched back over to Netflix the past several days to start cleaning out our watchlists there and started a several- years-old documentary called "Evil Genius," about the 2003 "Pizza Bomber" bank heist in Erie, PA. Very compelling. Only four episodes long, but don't miss it if you like the true crime genre -- conspirators highlighted in the series definitely fit the title. BTW, best documentary I ever saw on any of the streamers was "The Keepers" on Netflix, about the late 1960s disappearance/murder of Sister Cathy in Catonsville, MD. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs.J Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 1 minute ago, vastateofmind said: Made a recommendation last week for "Nomadland" starring Frances McDormand just released on Hulu...stand by that, best flick I've seen in many years. My wife and I then switched back over to Netflix the past several days to start cleaning out our watchlists there and started a several- years-old documentary called "Evil Genius," about the 2003 "Pizza Bomber" bank heist in Erie, PA. Very compelling. Only four episodes long, but don't miss it if you like the true crime genre -- conspirators highlighted in the series definitely fit the title. BTW, best documentary I ever saw on any of the streamers was "The Keepers" on Netflix, about the late 1960s disappearance/murder of Sister Cathy in Catonsville, MD. OH thanks for that recommendation of the documentary. Will put it in the que. And yes The Keepers was a very well done documentary. My oldest is into cold case crimes and while when I watched it a few years ago would not let her watch it. Told her that I will sit down with her and watch it as she is older now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueberryfaygo Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 2 minutes ago, vastateofmind said: Made a recommendation last week for "Nomadland" starring Frances McDormand just released on Hulu...stand by that, best flick I've seen in many years. My wife and I then switched back over to Netflix the past several days to start cleaning out our watchlists there and started a several- years-old documentary called "Evil Genius," about the 2003 "Pizza Bomber" bank heist in Erie, PA. Very compelling. Only four episodes long, but don't miss it if you like the true crime genre -- conspirators highlighted in the series definitely fit the title. BTW, best documentary I ever saw on any of the streamers was "The Keepers" on Netflix, about the late 1960s disappearance/murder of Sister Cathy in Catonsville, MD. so many good documentaries!! Keepers is cool cause it has a lot of Balt History in it... Check out Mommie Dead and Dearest on HBO.. such a crazy story. Also checkout The Case Against Adnan Syed .. BUT.. if you havent listened to it already.. listen to Serial first.. the hands down GOAT of podcasts 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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