Keyboard Warriors

Hi Everyone,

First off, to all of you that have sent e-mails and called the shop a big THANK YOU! I really appreciate the overwhelming support of my writings and y’all keep me going.

You know, the Internet is a wonderful thing. Used properly it’s a valuable tool for research and “hooking up” with the rest of the world. But alas it’s not without it’s fair share of mental midgets. Yep, I’m talking about the keyboard warriors. You know the types, they sit behind their keyboards and type things they would never say to you in person. I’ve had the privilege to actually come face to face with a few of these types and I gotta tell ya, the personal satisfaction I receive when they cower in the shadows is well worth the ticket.

Most of these keyboard warriors are just punks. But some of them are adults. And personally I really feel sorry for the adult type. It seems to me that when I come across an adult that’s a keyboard warrior they have “little man syndrome” or low self esteem that needs bolstering from the “group”. If they don’t get the recognition they “think” they deserve they go on the attack. Maybe it’s just a case of them not taking their meds or their psychoanalyst was on vacation for the week. Either way it’s pretty sad indeed. As for the punks, those teen to 20 something big mouths with no balls, I like sparing with them the best.

Unfortunately it’s all to easy to to win a war of words with them and after a while it gets boring. It’s like inviting them to a gun fight and they show up with a butter knife, lol. Inevitably their lack of education comes right to the surface in a keyboard war. In my latest bout with one of these low life trolls I never got the opportunity to finish him off but I was well on my way to doing so. If you’re up for a good laugh you just have to check out this link:

http://www.intlwaters.com/index.php?showtopic=20366

There you have it. A glaring example of a couple of Rump Rammer cronies. Personal attacks and insults, misinformation and flat out lies. So if you’re ever in the position to do some sparring with one of these small pieces of human garbage do like I do, beat them at their own game.

Keep the wet side down,

Paul.

Rump Rammer Racing Antics

Hi All,

Well I must admit that if I need a dose of twisted humor I visit a FE boat site that has quite the cast of characters. For the sake of this post and to “protect the innocent” I’ll refer to it as Rump Rammer Racing.

There was a time, and not to long ago, that this was a great site for sharing info and learning. Alas, times and people change and the one popular site is now a place where the pissing matches outweigh any decent info. It’s really clear that a core group of moderators and “experts” (lmao) have their heads so far up their asses they need a navel lens too see. Posts magically disappear when it’s not in the “core’s” best interest. Go figure. Don’t get me wrong though, there are great mods and contributors also but they are far and few between.

It’s like anything else one would find online, take what you read with a grain of salt. I find it interesting (and funny) that people from overseas post what I would call mis-information and it’s taken to heart by the less experienced FE boater here in the states. PROBLEM! This will cost people money. I would put merit to what these guys say IF they raced here like we do but they DON’T! My suggestion to these types is crawl back under the rocks you came from or come on over and show us how it’s done. In other words, put up or shut up and do it on our courses under our rules.

If you find this offensive, TO FRIGGIN’ BAD! You must be one of “them”. Take your ball and bat and go home. If you find it funny, then you must be one of the people that know exactly what I’m talking about. You’re the experienced and/or sensible boaters that are dropping from that board like flies and taking valuable info with you. The good part is that valuable info is still being shared, just elsewhere.

Rump Rammers is a privately owned site, or so I’ve been told. I’m okay with that, just like my works are privately owned. (or so they’ve been told, lol) It’s just like a little saying I once heard, “it’s all good” LMFAO!!

Keep the wet side down,

Paul

Cultural Differences and the Wimps

Hi Folks,

First off, to the thousands of loyal readers of my blog (lol) I apologize. I have been lax in posting and your calls for updates will be answered. I hope all of you had a fantastic Holiday season be it late in coming.

There’s been something that’s bothered me for a very long time. It’s a “us vs them” type of thing. Across the globe racing and running fast electric boats has been a niche in model boating. The Nitro powered boats really taking the lions share of participants, followed in recent years by gas powered models. Things are changing though and FE powered rigs are now some of the fastest powered boats there are. As a matter of fact a FE powered Hydro holds the world record for speed at over 140 miles per hour.

The gentleman that built and developed the boat was from Germany, he and his team came to the U.S. last year and set the record in LA. The Germans have brought some huge technical advances to FE racing, mainly speed controls and motors. They are among the best in the world when it comes to speed and that is what this post is about. Being on the top of the heap in any sport puts a bullseye on your back and by human nature someone’s going to be gunnin’ for ya.

Don’t think for a minute that we here in the States have been sitting on our ass, oh no, we have some big guns coming that in some ways are better than anything that has come from overseas. The Germans have seen it first hand and I believe they’re very concerned because their reign at the top is quickly closing. We do things differently and quite frankly they don’t care for our direction. I say too friggin’ bad! I’m really sick and tired of hearing about how we should put limits on what we do. You hear stuff like “someone will get hurt”, “it will raise the cost” and my favorite “you won’t get my respect”.

To put it in an analogy it’s like Republicans vs Democrats, or Top Fuel vs F1, Nascar vs Rally so on so forth. In America we like horsepower and heads up racing; overseas they like finesse racing on equal footing. It’s the same in FE boat racing and we do it here way way different than they do overseas and they just don’t get it.

Stay tuned, much more to come.

See ya,

Paul.