+flask Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 are things as good as they used to be? it doesn't matter if you get to camp at one or at six. dinner is still at six. Quote Link to comment
+TEAM 360 Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 I vote for all of them. Quote Link to comment
+Tsegi Mike and Desert Viking Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 Sorry to go against the trend here, but I feel people (outside of geocaching of course) just aren't as nice as they used to be. But I'm a little jaded. I've had family members hurt by random acts of violent crime. I've also noticed more of my neighbors have been hurt by violent crime. Or it could just be the heat. Quote Link to comment
umc Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 Your options were rather negative in nature. I vote for better then ever. The forums are better, the cache search is better, the people are better/wiser. Thats my vote. Thank you for your time. ______________________________________________________________________________________ Caching without a clue.... Quote Link to comment
+Breaktrack Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 Interesting question.... but for an example, I was in Kentucky recently, for the first time in over 20 years, and in an area where NOBODY knew me at all. I was looking for two lake lots left to me by my dad and was having a great deal of difficulty finding them. I ran across a fella out in the boonies that went far out of his way to try and help me find my way, and even took me to an area where he thought I'd find what I was looking for. He was on his way somewhere when we met at a stop sign and he turned to go the way I had come from. I flagged him down and asked my question and he was as helpful as anyone I've ever met. Unfortunately, he did not know what the heck I was talking about and his directions to go to another fella who might know left me clueless (you had to be there...lol), so I went back up to the nearby highway and stopped at a restaurant. I asked one of the young women working there if anyone knew of the subdivision or street I was looking for and no one knew. Rather than just let it drop there she went out and asked one of her relatives who had just pulled up outside. He came in and made a phone call and got the directions to where I needed to go. Turned out he was a retired Detective from New Orleans who had retired and moved to the area and he was calling the nearby Sheriff's dispatch to get the directions. These folks had absolutely no reason to help out to the extent they did. They did not know me, didn't know what I was up to, and certainly did not know I was a police officer. I was just out on a road trip and looked it. The moral of the story is: There are good people in the world, and there are bad people in the world. Whether you run into one or the other is just a matter of chance and how you move about in your life. There are no guarantees and that is what we have insurance for...LOL. There are more people in our country than there used to be so of course there are going to be more run-ins between folks. My way of looking at it is, I'm as nice to others as they allow me to be. But if they won't let me..... so be it. "Trade up, trade even, or don't trade!!!" My philosophy of life. Quote Link to comment
+cachew nut Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 Why didn't you just punch the coordinates into your GPS? Quote Link to comment
Dinoprophet Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 Colder with less snow in the winter, milder summers with a few weeks of warmer temps Well the mountain was so beautiful that this guy built a mall and a pizza shack Yeah he built an ugly city because he wanted the mountain to love him back -- Dar Williams Quote Link to comment
+Jacksons Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 people are pretty much the same as they ever were.their are good people and bad people. of course most Cachers are good people I'm a man and I can change if I have to,I guess. [This message was edited by Jacksons on June 16, 2003 at 06:41 PM.] Quote Link to comment
+MountainMudbug Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 I'd wager things are pretty much the same. It is the media blitz that has gotten worse.... Quote Link to comment
+seneca Posted June 16, 2003 Share Posted June 16, 2003 I go by the 80/20 rule of thumb and that ratio hasn’t changed much in my experience. 80% of those I meet anywhere in the world are very decent people, and the other 20% are jerks. It is human nature to maintain a more vivid recollection of the jerks (particularly the really obnoxious ones) and therefore we tend to believe that there are a lot more lousy people in the world than there really are. I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted June 17, 2003 Share Posted June 17, 2003 I agree with Seneca, but think the ratio is closer to 90/10. Breaking it down a bit more, a small percentage of that 10 percent are those who are just plain evil. But even most of the 90 percent can be jerks some of the time, which makes the number seem to be a lot higher. I know some otherwise wonderful people who turn into jerks the second they get behind the wheel of a car, the anonymity of a computer keyboard, or on the sideline of their kid's soccer game. And with more people (both in the world and the geocaching community), it simply means there will be more jerks around. Ya figure with some 6.2 billion people in world, if 10 percent are jerks, that means there are an awful lot of jerks out there!!! "Au pays des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois" [This message was edited by BrianSnat on June 17, 2003 at 04:11 AM.] Quote Link to comment
+carleenp Posted June 17, 2003 Share Posted June 17, 2003 Well said, Brian. I agree. Quote Link to comment
+flask Posted June 17, 2003 Author Share Posted June 17, 2003 i kind of had my tongue planted in my cheek while i was making the survey. i'm a true believer that most people behave decently when given the chance. i also believe that it's easy to start complaining when the honeymoon is over. it doesn't matter if you get to camp at one or at six. dinner is still at six. Quote Link to comment
+Renegade Knight Posted June 17, 2003 Share Posted June 17, 2003 People change, times change. Every generation thinks they have a better answer but the problems have been around since before recorded history. The only nice thing about the new lack of respect me, me, me, generation is that when they discover sex it might shut them up for a few minutes. By the time they figure out that they didn't discover it first they might be tolerable. But then that's probably the way it's been for a long time. Things run in cycles. Unfortunatly the cycle ends when the nation is pretty much destroyed. ===================== Wherever you go there you are. Quote Link to comment
+Breaktrack Posted June 17, 2003 Share Posted June 17, 2003 quote:Originally posted by cachew nut:Why didn't you just punch the coordinates into your GPS? NOW you ask me that......LOL. (answer, I didn't think to get them off the map program prior to starting out....sigh). "Trade up, trade even, or don't trade!!!" My philosophy of life. Quote Link to comment
Gonk and Geefel Posted June 17, 2003 Share Posted June 17, 2003 Generally I think people are the same. I just think that technology has brought us to the point where we know what everyone is doing, right or wrong. There are those people that take pleasure in seeing other people on the 'wrong' side. I think those people have always been there too, there is just more out there for them to revel in. Quote Link to comment
+canadazuuk Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 who gives a rats butt Quote Link to comment
+canadazuuk Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 quote:it doesn't matter if you get to camp at one or at six. dinner is still at six. Good, so eat by yourself! Actually, I did vote for Hackensack... Quote Link to comment
+briansnat Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 Hackensack, NJ is a perfectly nice city and home to some prominent geocachers, and birthplace of more. I can't speak for Hackensack, MN, but I'm sure it's a perfectly nice place as well. "Au pays des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois" Quote Link to comment
Jomarac5 Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 quote: Canadazuuk wrote:who gives a rats butt Now there's a really intelligent response. Is this your contribution to the 'soap opera' element of the forums Zuuky, or are you off of your meds again? ***** Quote Link to comment
+canadazuuk Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Jomarac5:Is this your contribution to the 'soap opera' element of the forums Zuuky, or are you off of your meds again? No, I'm just breathing in your second hand air, sir. Quote Link to comment
+canadazuuk Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Jomarac5:Now there's a really intelligent response. My response was suited to the rather ambiguous question. Quote Link to comment
+canadazuuk Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 It would be like starting a poll, and asking a question like: 'What is the sound of half an anus farting?' a) Twice the sound of one hand clapping Half the sound of a tree falling with no one present to hear it c) 115.947 kms at 119.52421 degrees true from 375545 / 5472183 d) 3.14 times the volume of a one watt wallowing pit e) the sound of jeremy hitting the return key and closing another useless thread Quote Link to comment
Jomarac5 Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 quote: Canadazuuk wrote:No, I'm just breathing in your second hand air, sir. And yet another intelligent (?) response... it must be the meds. I guess I'd have to vote "people are pretty much the same as they ever were." ***** Quote Link to comment
+canadazuuk Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Jomarac5:And yet another intelligent (?) response... it must be the meds. cough/WINDBAG/cough Meds, yah, that's what you're gonna say when the beast come to rule the earth, and since I won't worship him, my head must come off... yeah, meds... that's it... easy come, easy go Quote Link to comment
+majicman Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 A wise man sat on a hill near a small town. Along came a stranger to the area and asked, "Sir, what sort of people will I find in that town ahead?" The wise man asked, "What sort of people in the town you just came from?" to which the wanderer replied, "Good and true." "You'll find the people here the same." The wander continued his journey into the town. Another wanderer followed close behind him, stopped and queeried the wise man on the hill, "Sir, what sort of people are there in the town ahead?" Again, the wise man requested of this second wanderer, "Pilgrim, what sort of people in the town you just came from?" Quick came the reply, "Fools and cheats!" "You'll find the people here the same..." calmly replied the wise man. --majicman (MY new book is NOW AVAILABLE! Check it out: http://www.mcwj.com ) Quote Link to comment
+canadazuuk Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Jomarac5:Is this your contribution to the 'soap opera' MY NEWEST CACHE MAY BE CALLED: RENDERINGS OF COLLUDED LIKENESSES Quote Link to comment
+hydee Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 canadazuuk & Jomarac5, Please do not torture all of us with your battles. There is a such thing as email, please start using it. Thanks for your cooperation. hydee Quote Link to comment
+seneca Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 Oh darn you, Hydee - just when Canadazuuk was winning! ..... he had more points on the “insults received” scale ;. (Just kidding - your suggestion was appropriate). I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me. Quote Link to comment
+Marky Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 Groundspeak Chicks rule! --Marky "All of us get lost in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer with a backlit GPSr" Quote Link to comment
+TMAN264 Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 dadgum, i always come into a flame war late.....on the topic, I think the ratio is more like 50/50 here that may be it is tourist season here. Make a sanity check. Quote Link to comment
+carleenp Posted June 19, 2003 Share Posted June 19, 2003 quote: canadazuuk & Jomarac5, Please do not torture all of us with your battles. There is a such thing as email, please start using it. Thanks for your cooperation. hydee I agree with Hydee. Quote Link to comment
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