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From: "H2Ocaver" <ezimmerm@ch*.ca*.us*.ed*>
To: <techdiver@aquanaut.com>, "bdi" <bdi@bd*.co*.au*>
Subject: Re: Dave, you're an idiot. Sit down.
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 14:48:49 -0400
Billy , Let's give him a copy of the New Zealand Tape. It would be like a
home movie with different accents-EZ

-----Original Message-----
From: bdi <bdi@bd*.co*.au*>
To: techdiver@aquanaut.com <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 9:06 AM
Subject: Dave, you're an idiot. Sit down.


>----- Original Message -----
>From: Dave Sutton <pilots@na*.ne*>
>To: William Smithers <will@tr*.co*>
>Cc: <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
>Sent: Monday, October 25, 1999 12:41 PM
>Subject: Re: Portrait of a loonie, WAS: Madison Blue
> >
> >
> > Here we have another clue to his manifest insanity. It's somehow
> > OK for him to be an experienced NE Wreck diver and produce
> > all sorts of drivel regarding the techniques that are used by guys
> > doing it every day, yet when the locales are exchanged, suddenly
> > it's impossible for a northern resident to be acceptably skilled in
> > a Florida based sport. So, Georgie, which is it? You don't wreck dive
> > all the time, so are you unsafe at it? Or are you -special-?  Feeling
> > that you are somehow 'perfect', with an unrealistic view of your
> > own limitations is a baseline sign of an internal disorder.
>
>etc, etc, et fucking cetera.
>
>Dave, you're becoming obsessive about the list again.
>I thought we'd got you over that and had moved on to
>cleaning up your potentially dangerous gear rigging
>style, your ill-thought-out methods of diving, and
>your hopeless defense of both which alternates between
>'that's how everyone on the boat does it' and 'I've
>been doing it longer than you'.
>
>Ah well. Back to slow learner's seat, Dave.
>
>About the list. The listmaster - JR Holroyd - knows
>something you don't. He has a deliberate hands-off
>policy towards debate on the list. Consequently
>the list runs itself. It is a large, succesful and
>vigorous community that was here before you, Dave, and
>will be here long after you've gone. It doesn't need
>a self-imposed style-monitor to run it, nor a phoney
>atmosphere of offended modesty.
>
>Also, try to lose that chip on your shoulder about
>George. I know it's a bitch that he's a far more
>accomplished and knowledgeable diver, in cave and ocean,
>than you, but your public displays of jealousy are
>embarrassing to witness coming from a grown man.
>
>Many of us around the world are much better, safer
>divers because of George, some of us because of the
>aggressiveness with which he promotes the safe diving
>message.
>
>rgrds    billyw
>
>
>
>
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