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  1. So too are hypocrisy and conformity. Exactly. As I said early on, many have those two sentences reversed. Just have a look at their cybermedallions, colorful maps, and long lists of finds, chronicled to the gnat's patootie. From a newbie, such as me, this would be heresy - "trolling" - worth only of contempt and disdain. This illusion of knowledge is very widespread, particularly on the left. The world is overwhelmingly socialist, corrupt, and not free. Get into lockstep with the rest of the proletariat or else the beatings will continue.
  2. Cheese with your whine, Neeces? Countless of your *Premium* friends have shoved some cheese in my face, calling me a whiner. You know, others may come to read this thread. It has, after all, 2200 hits in a day or two. Perhaps you object to my getting them started out on correct information? It does say "edited" at the bottom. Full disclosure and all that. Besides, you're welcome to edit yours. Perhaps that's too much trouble for you. Oh I know. You'd prefer that I allow information I posted erroneously, but in good faith, to remain, so I will continue looking as foolish as possible and all you *Premium Members* can continue hurling brickbats. After all, you're so very friendly and respectful. My main points were that geocaching.com encourages this class warfare, by enabling *Premium Members* to exclude the underclass, but there is no reciprocity. Why can't beginners have their own caches for other beginners only? Nope. The pretense that annual dues are necessary to preserve the *quality* simply doesn't hold water. There are countless excellent websites that are free. You can't defend cheating, and you should not make excuses in defense of the pathetic overall quality of caches, which many of your *Premium Member* pals have expressed to me long before I said anything here. Altoid box under a booger, anyone? No, this is one special booger!
  3. Probably because lots of caches had been in place for years before there were favorite points. Not that many people went back through their old finds to award points. But it was a good way to skew statistics to try to "prove" his point. Mr. Scott, I invite you and your friend rosebud to "prove" me wrong. Please show all the distributions you wish of favorite recognitions. You have a cache published on 9/4/2007 with 1 favorite out of 275 finds, and you would seem to be considerably better than average. Your 2/16/2010 cache has 1 favorite for 148 finds, and as I said, you're pretty swell. What point are you trying to "prove" with your many maps and charts of geocaching adventures? All these awards and medallions remind me of North Korean Generals who emblazon their uniforms with garish gold medals, all the way down both sides of their dress jacket and trousers. And here I thought they hadn't fought a battle since the 1950's. Your collective bullying here in this forum pretty solidly confirms what I was saying about the clique, and the class warfare. That has escaped just about every one of you. And that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost
  4. Oh woe is me! Arthur gives me a C-. I think I shall take poison, and die! On second thought, why don't I investigate Arthur's Absolute Awesomeness, the better to learn from him. Let's see, oh my, what an impressive array of cybermedals, and statistics. This fellow has really been around the Premium Geocaching Kingdom, n'est-ce pas? Unfortunately Arthur overlooked some of his essential statistics. Arthur has 16 active caches as opposed to 30 archived ones. I see one of Arthur's efforts rates 0 favorites for 148 finds. A grade of F would be appropriate for Arthur's quantity and quality. Arthur's mean, median and mode favorite scores for page 1 of his 3 page Traditional Cache list are .167, 0, and 0 respectively. This is how his *Premium* friends graded him. So, Artie, how do you like being the target? And this is just one on one for you, not the entire *Premium* clique so gleefully bullying me. Incidentally, .167, 0 and 0 are approximately the stats for all caches from everything I have seen to date. Of the recent threads Arthur frequents here at geocaching is "WHAT IRKS YOU THE MOST." Nota bene: It has 22,789 views as I type this and 603 replies, virtually all from *Premium Members* who so clearly and obviouisly love to whine themselves. F to all of you for your cliquey hypocrisy. And that fellow who had the temerity to intimate that I might be calling it cheating when someone didn't listen to the soundtrack I provided? Also a grade of F for that, and other pablum. This is really getting boring. You fellows can't put all your best stuff together and make one Huckleberry.
  5. One person claimed to have found a cache. When I reviewed the logbook, his name was not signed in it. Now one fellow with many thousands of finds to his name says "If you logged it as a find, you have to have signed the book." HE says it's cheating. If you disagree, argue with your *Premium* Pals. Seems to me that folks who aren't so preoccupied with numbers and cybermedals don't bother publishing a find when they didn't log the magic paper book. Now that all you *Premium Members* have weighed in with one collective, angry counterrant, you have proven my point. Conform or get out.
  6. I "whine." You "vocalize displeasure. I'm "alienating everyone." Cheating, not so much. Profaning me, oh well. Zero average favorite ratings per find, ::: yawn :::. Yep, you're right. All's well here among caching's finest, the *Premiums*. Join them or punch the red X.
  7. I'll be your huckleberry... Hopefully, you'll be less than disdainful toward me since I'm not a PM. I don't think they suggested that walking away was the only option. Rather, I suspect they were offering what they felt was one reasonable solution to your angst. 1. You CLAIM you are "not a PM" but the forum claims otherwise, it appears to me. 2. Walking away would appear to be their preferred option. You'll notice the first angry *Premium Member* immediately began hurling insults at me. "Five year old". That is quickly joined by "ranting" and cheesy references. Seems that my observations of a clique hit sore spots all over. 3. I have no angst. I'm simply disappointed in the general conduct of so many people who do this drive and sign little game. I have no interest in catching flies. Who among here does? Moreover, if none of you cheat, then those remarks don't apply to you, do they? If on the other hand many of you are elitists, thinking yourselves far above _____________ (fill in the blank), then.... Oh wow! Look at all your finds. Did I insult you? Did I call you a "five-year-old"? Did I call your complaints "rants"? That's all your noble friends have been doing since I first expressed my observations. They stand: 1. Premium members cheated on my first cache. 2. Then they insulted me. Cursed me for calling them out when they cheated. Not ONE of you has addressed such reprehensible conduct. Not ONE of you. 3. I spoke to another fellow and he confirmed that he found Premium Members (gasp!) engaging in widespread cheating. But hey, when you get to a Mega Event, you can show everyone your Cyber Medals. And won't that be cool.
  8. How much is Google.com again? It's FREE. What's the charge for YouTube? FREE! As to what is "slowly going downhill," what have you to say for rampant cheating? How about paying the reviewers... .NOTHING? "Thanks, saps. Keep up the good work." Oh yeah, and you know that minimum wage raise thing Barack Obama is yammering about? We're all over it. We're DOUBLING your wages. Zero times two. ha ha ha ha" Have some of your own cheese, please. I prefer Havarti and Gouda, not that cheap stuff. Your wisdom, Grasshopper, it is much to behold. You must be very wealthy. Lad, I opened a post to make a statement. You don't learn a thing if all you read is everyone else agreeing with you. The hardest lessons always take the longest to learn. "Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men." George Bernard Shaw
  9. /// As if that were the only option, walking away? How utterly foolish. Yes. You and your clique of friends. "Ignore the troll." Not one with the courage to say, "You know, he has a point. There ARE some things we might all do better." My favorite of all is the rampant cheating. Claiming a find just to bolster the Magic Numbers. Fetid that is. First, I'm a five year old. Now it's all so beneath me. You folks are all over the place, aren't you. Who's next? Come on, step right up.
  10. You quoted Winston Churchill who was famous for being counterculture. He spoke his mind no matter how the majority felt. Obviously you can neither tolerate my opinions, nor listening to them. Tsk, tsk. Show some courage and sit down and listen.. IF you can... The first cache I hid was instantly lauded by people who had thousands of finds. They gave it rave reviews. Now the dark side, all from your vaunted *Premium Members*. 1. Some of the lied in claiming that they found it and logged the book. I thought this was an honorable activity. It is not. 2. When I called them on their lies, one cursed me, reviled me, called me every imaginable name, and said he never wanted to hear from me or my caches again. I forwarded his foul missive to Big Brother who... did NOTHING. Pretty good start to this wonderful, *friendly* activity. 3. There are scads of rules, and the rules have rules. One *Premium Member* chastened me with my second cache, claiming "You can't tell us what to do. You can only give us the location, blah blah blah." Oh really? How about: Bring a pencil. Bring a flashlight. Climb this tree. Use this TOTT. Bring scuba gear, climbing gear, a mirror, etc. 4. Oh look, I have XX,000 finds. Isn't that special. I just finished a vacation on the Big Island, then hopped to Honolulu to climb Koko Head. From there I hunted feral hogs in Texas before leaving on a driving tour of the United States. We shipped our car home from Fort Lauderdale and went through the Panama Canal to Los Angeles for fifteen days, stopping in Aruba, Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, and Mexico. That was in the space of about four months. We went to Alaska last year. How many of those cyber medallions do you have on your little geocaching page again? So call me Winston. He was quite able to stand alone, and so am I. Your cliquiness is so high school. "If I were married to you, Nancy, I would drink it." - Winston Churchill, who also said, "My friends are few in number but entirely sufficient."
  11. Said the *Premium Member*. I'm elated to see you are so *tolerant* and *open-minded* to opinions different from your own, TDM. How brilliant of you to instantly assess my age. Yes, I am five, and don't I write well for a five-year-old. As to "finding some caches," what seems quite remarkable to me is the generally poor class of these caches. As one fellow told me, "An Altoids box under a booger." Talk about creative, and fun! Click on a cache in your neighborhood, at random. Average number of members who have tagged it as a favorite: zero. Zero is the average value in my county. Hundreds of them. You may as well go find a rock somewhere. I did some very elementary statistics. Big word for a five-year-old, right TDM? The nearest ten caches (that I could see on the map, which excludes *Premium Member Only* caches bien sur) took an average of fifteen years to get one favorite rating. Fifteen years. If your cache has been found over a hundred times, it should have around ten favorite ratings. I saw some with 300 to 500 and none at all. I have no intention of ever going to another cache with zero favorites. In fact, I'm not interested in ever logging another find again. It's a petty game for many of you. One called it "Numbers Whoring." P.S. Your carbon footprint is getting bigger. Much bigger.
  12. Pay your $29.99 a year and get all these wonderful benefits, geocaching.com tells the world. And if you do not, well, you will not be permitted to: A. See where the Premier Class has hidden their specially selected caches, B. Get any notifications from www.geocaching.com, C. Access our many, many other *Premium* Functions, which are available only to those who pay tribute to the owners of www.geocaching.com I protest. Something like 5,000,000 geocachers pay $30 every year, for a total of around $200,000,000 and Big Brother doesn't even pay a shekel to the Reviewers...? For about twenty years, I have enjoyed myriad benefits of the internet. This is the most offensive class warfare I have ever seen at any website. Be one of us *Premium Members* or else... You're out in the cold. Hey, look at my find count now, and all of my cyber medals to boot. Woo woo.
  13. In twenty years of navigating the internet, I don't recall ever seeing any website which so discriminates against visitors who do not pay tribute to the king as www.geocaching.com Now if their figures are correct, there are approximately 5,000,000 folks who pay $40 per year for Premium membership. This works out to $200,000,000. Nor does it count the money they earn from selling trinkets,containers, memorabilia, etc. How much of this loot do the reviewers get? The goose. If you are a Premium Member, why you get all sorts of spiffs, including the authorization to hide your Premium Caches from the cheapskates of the lower caste, who do not deserve to find them, or even know where they are. Let the lower caste hide a fantastic cache, and spend lots of time planning and executing. If it is within 528 feet of a Premium Member's hidden cache, you lose. Doesn't get published. All that work was for naught. Wow, what fun. Thank you sir. May I have another?
  14. Twenty-seven finds, zero favorites. Tough crowd. Best idea: Don't hide any more caches. They're not appreciated. The average number of favorites scored per cache in my area is zero. The median is zero. For a random group of twenty geocaches, there was one favorite given for every fifteen years in hiding. Fifteen years. I'm going to go play tennis now. We have favorite shots every single set, without ever getting sticks and leaves in your face.
  15. Bloody heck, 284,000+ replies for the United Kingdom thread, far more than any other. I can only conclude that either 1) you Brits love geocaching more than anybody else on earth, OR 2) you yammer more than anybody else on earth. I'm going with Number 2.
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