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At 09:04 AM 20/07/1998 GMT, Steve Orrell wrote:

>I for one am more than willing to learn, to improve my diving knowledge and
>abilities and this I will continue to do by listening to others and asking
>questions, no matter how ridiculous these might seem to those more
>experienced than myself. Yet in this I refuse to be spoken to as a piece of
>dog dirt on the bottom of a shoe.

Steve, he's not addressing you. He's addressing the dumb-as-
dogshit technical diving heroes who would answer your questions 
with ignorant bullshit or deliberate misinformation, and put 
you in jepardy without a second thought in order to sell you 
useless equipment or to protect their investment in technical 
dive training. 

Here in Australia there are instructors who dive one cylinder 
of mix and one cylinder of air while they have students in 
the water, and advise their students to dive the same way in
the name of economy. No amount of polite reason is going to 
change their dangerous, culpable behaviour. And if it weren't 
for George cranking up the volume in his own inimicable style, 
the voice of reason would never have risen above the braying
of these fools.

>> Death by stupidity. You guys have that one mastered. And then you try to
>> cover it up and argue about it: STUPIDITY. 
>
>I'm sure Forrest Gump would have said "Stupid is as stupid does" and you, my
>friend, are stupid enough to think you can educate by brow-beating into
>submission.

George once said "There's nothing polite about death." And 
you should note that he doesn't so much try to educate you 
(that's your job, after all) but warn you against the horrible 
stupidities perpetrated by a frightening number of technical 
diving 'authorities'.

Why don't you just sit back and get the lie of the land. You 
will soon be able to distinguish between a sometimes abrasive 
internet style and the real obscenities of technical diving.

A thousand blessings to you Steve, on your quest for peace and 
enlightenment. You might find the enlightenment here.

rgrds      billyw


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