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On Tue, 12 Mar 1996, Trey Irvine wrote: > Nick, I now know the probelm with you and us after hearing about your picture > on your web page. Um, my picture has been on my web page for almost a year. My web page is in my signature. I'm 6'4" and weigh 350. This has come up before in discussions on techdiver, although I don't think that exact measurements were mentioned, just that I'm large, have to have a lot of gear specially made, and sometimes have difficulty getting back on boats that have lame ladders. I make the ideal rescue subject for training purposes. :-) If you had actually been participating in techdiver for as long as some people here have, rather than using it as a recent home for your sushi betting disruptive antics, you might know this. It hasn't been a secret. It hasn't been important. But then again you know everything that is important, eh? George, I've responded to so damn many of your posts on cavers that people think I read cavers. I never have read cavers. You say you aren't on techdiver anymore. Quit cross posting to techdiver, and I'll quit responding to cavers. Anyone can subscribe to cavers, eh? Why not post about cave diving on cavers? Or just slam me there where I won't read it. Hmmm....what else could you want to know about me that you could use to attack me? I'm a Vietnam era disabled vet - 30%, due to nerve damage in my back and leg, and on bad days I sometimes walk with a limp, um, leg that is. :-) The injury happened in the US, not in combat. I have had psoratic arthritis for more than 10 years. In the last four, I've begun getting the scaly patches, mostly on my hands and ankles. Sometimes the areas get raw and bleed, and it stings like hell when I jump in the water. I do avoid high current areas where one does not drift - I avoid any pain meds when I dive, except for pressurized nitrogen, and since I'm allergic to NSAIDS as a drug class, this doesn't leave much I'm happy to take while diving. I usually fin with one leg unless I have a reason to be somewhere fast, and it is usually the bad leg that I fin with. I habitually use the other fin as a shield so that I don't kick up sediment. I suppose that you could add 'cripple', to your list of names. Hmmm... "Fat bone-smuggling scaly cripple." No, needs more. My favorite dives are where I look at a small patch of reef or sand for an hour or more. My second favorite are drifts, so you can probably make fun of me as a 'lazy' diver. "Lazy fat bone-smuggling scaly cripple." No, still needs more. I will not buddy with anyone who has a spear in anything other than perfect visibility. I've been nearly stabbed by too many strokes diving the wrecks and rockpiles off of Queens and Brooklyn in low vis. A six foot spear in four foot vis is not sensible. So you can attack me as afraid to get stabbed, or chicken. "Chicken lazy fat bone-smuggling scaly cripple." No, needs even more. Doing the swims to become an instructor (which I passed first time, and did them back to back with a five minute break) for SSI was a physical achievement on my part. The float was too easy so they made me do it with my hands out of the water. I don't feel I'm in that sort of physical shape anymore. I could swim hard and long when the arthritis was mostly in my knees and back, but now that it has started in the hips as well, I just can't keep up the pace. So I quit paying for my renewals as there are some things I don't feel that I should do with students in the water. "Chicken lazy fat bone-smuggling scaly cripple. Weenie retired SSI Instructor." Almost, but one thing is missing to go along with the redneck playground bully image I have of you. Hmmm...what else? When I was a child, I was taunted with variations on my name. The popular ones were "Saint Nick", "Nicodemus" and "Negro". It got to the point in 5th grade where the teacher called me Negro. Of course, she knew that it didn't bother me. I suppose that today, it would be politically incorrect, but I like rap music in moderation and sometimes it amuses me to say that I was the only Negro in an all white school, the unfortunate norm in South Florida at the time. Race matters little to me. I've officially been listed at work as 'other' for 15 years, but you should look at my web page and draw your own conclusions if it is important to you. But the "Negro" appelation was about 5th-6th grade, so it would fit right in with your usual insults and taunts. Feel free to use it. The guy who invented that one became a Jehovah's Witness and committed suicide, so he won't mind. "Chicken lazy fat bone-smuggling scaly cripple. Weenie retired Negro SSI Instructor. SMD." George, I think that is it. I think we've finally captured it, and I'll accept no less as an insult from you from now on. > It sounds like we could use a guy like you in our project - to play Santa > Claus at the Christams party, that is if we could trust you with the kids. I own a Santa Claus outfit, which I sewed myself. I took a standard outfit and enlarged the pattern. Live dive gear, I couldn't get one in my size off of the rack. I'd be happy to come to your Christmas Party and play Santa if it is in South Florida. I insist that you watch me whenever I'm with the children - given the chances of false child abuse charges these days, I'll probably insist that my wife video me whenever I was in contact with your kids. After all, with you or your friends as fathers, your kids will need a bit of cheering up around holiday time. > Don't bother arguing diving with us anymore . My suggestion -take up sumo > wrestling. I should have guessed, but you are such a pansy, I thought it was the > bonesmuggler comments. You don't get it yet, George. It isn't because of your attacks on my sexuality. It is because you attack sexuality. You don't even know my sexuality, for sure, although I have mentioned in private e-mail that I was married (in response to your query). And sexuality matters not to diving. It isn't because you think that I am too overweight and out of shape to do the diving you do - I am what I am, and over the years I've accepted that. I don't envy you, George. If I had to talk like you to be you, and treat people like you do, I'd rather be me, arthritis, limp, fat and all. If you told me that there was a restriction I couldn't make it through I'd believe you. I'd be stupid not to. So it isn't that you note that I'm too heavy to make it through some restrictions that makes you a stroke. It is that you somehow assume that it makes you superior to me, or that somehow I'll be irritated because you are making fun of me. I attack you, George, because you are a stroke. It is worse because you have a little power and finally can be the playground bully you always wanted to be when you were a child. It is even worse because you aren't a complete stroke, and because you have some charisma, so you are there to mislead others. I note again the similarity of your taunting to those of children in playgrounds. I've responded to you when you've attacked other people for no reason, and especially when you have confused the sort of diving you do with the set of diving as a whole. You don't bother to read postings through before you respond to them, you attack people without knowing what they are saying, and in general you are a jerk. There is only one right way to do it far as you are concerned, and the conditions matter not. I read through that Compuserve thread, George, and they did the right thing in kicking you off. You are just too much of a stroke to put up with. They shouldn't have to spend the time dealing with you. > I would have drawn up the picture myself, but I only have a 12 inch monitor. > Maybe I can borrow the TV that my wife watches Opra on to view this hilarity. -G [Sarcasm mode on.] What the heck, George. I live in Boca and I'm in the book. Stop by and see me in person sometime. Bring your wide angle lens and take pictures. It might improve your mood so much that you won't hit your wife and kids that night, and if I can do a little good in life, I'm happy. :-) And just for you, I'll get a prescription for antidepressants for the occasion and get drunk. :-) Or if looking at fat people is your idea of funny stuff, maybe we could go and sit in the local mall. I'm sure that there will be some really funny fat people walking by. Tell me, do you tune to the HBO Comedy Hour when you want a laugh, or the Sweatin' To The Oldies infomercial? I'll bet you think Rosanne is really a hoot, eh? Jokes and fat and you know she'll never dive. [Sarcasm mode off.] Nick Simicich - njs@sc*.em*.ne* - (last choice) njs@bc*.vn*.ib*.co* http://scifi.emi.net/njs.html -- Stop by and Light Up The World!
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