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HELP! I can't unsubscribe from this site can you help, the aquanaut sites
are both coming back as unknown... much appreciated Giselle

----- Original Message -----
From: <ajmarve@ba*.ne*>
To: Kevin Pickering <Kevin.Pickering@br*.co*.uk*>
Cc: <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 3:42 PM
Subject: Re: 59 reasons you strokes should shut up and listen


> Kevin,
>
> Perhaps a life example may better illustrate my perspective.
>
> In the Army I was subjected to 4 weeks straight of physical and mental
torture.
> Mainly this was based upon successfully < or not> following simple sets of
rules
> and procedures. After this period I allowed to play with a machine gun on
my own
> without direct and immediate supervision.
>
> The people who couldnt handle the yelling and the running and the push
ups,
> couldnt add two plus two or tie the left shoe before the right shoe < and
no
> farting about WHY do we tie it this way, why cant i do it my way, cant we
go lie
> down, isnt this way just as good, i want my mommy,etc>, they didnt get the
> machine guns.
>
> Ever.
>
> And why??
>
> Because they lacked the emotional maturity and psychological stability to
not be
> a danger to themselves and others.
>
> I see the same problem people in diving, only nobody is there to keep them
from
> their visas and their bc's. I dont think email is the problem, its the
people
> who object to it that i question.
>
> At least a bc doesnt have a 1000m effective range...................
>
> regards,
>
> Al Marvelli
>
>
>
> Kevin Pickering wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > > At 07:31  17/02/00 , ajmarve@ba*.ne* wrote:
> > >
> > > >   If you cant take dirty words and mean people, you probably dont
have
> > the
> > > >mindset to put in to practice all the other things that will make you
> > > >successful, where sucess is defined as staying alive.
> >
> >
> > More rubbish.
> >
> > Let's make something clear. You can't fault a lot of what George says,
DIR
> > is the way to dive. The problem is why should people log onto Tech Diver
and
> > listen to opinionated, egocentric pondlife trying to come up with the
best
> > put - down. This is the reason there is a backlash against DIR. It makes
it
> > very difficult to promote DIR when it is associated with the Tech Diver
> > list.
> >
>
>
>
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