Photographic idiots with too much money

Vince:
Thought it was quite rude of that guy to be so obviously checking out your "equipment" ... isn't there a law against that here in so-uptight Ontari-ari-ari-oh?
Oh well, just remember that any tool is only as good as its user!

cheers,
jim

I'm not sure how I would react in a situation like that.
On one hand, he's being insulting, and obviously wrong.
On the other hand, I prefer to be one of the few people in town with a canon dslr. It gives me an edge.

Actually,..

I can tell you exactly how I would react.

I am often far too blunt where verbal communication is concerned,.. I would say this point blank.. without any anger at all..

"you don't have the slightest Idea what you are talking about"

Yep..

tell 'em: "While my body is not big and black my lens has a motion sensor which sends input to a servomotor that controls a gyroscopic stabilizer on a floating element inside the lens. Does your fujifilm have that ? "

cmM wrote:
tell 'em: "While my body is not big and black my lens has a motion sensor which sends input to a servomotor that controls a gyroscopic stabilizer on a floating element inside the lens. Does your fujifilm have that ? "

Good one! Would've been better though if Vince had an IS lens.

Hey, we should have a sticky thread entitled: "Technical come-backs against photographic idiots". Learn 'em. Use 'em.

(with your sweetest smile) "Is your p***s bigger than mine, too, sir? Go away, I'm working."

I wouldn't be gutsy enough to say it, but I'd think it.

I don't think cmM wrote this, I did.

Also most of my original post was deleted, so I will readd it.

*** Edited to remove these words because they were not written by me. Instead they were added by someone with mod access.

These words were not written by me, they replaced my original text. What really upsets me is that there is no indication that a mod added, edited or deleted text from my message. That is just bad form.

I want the Mystery MOD to place a tagline on all changed messages to indicate that the changes were not made by the original author, and I think this should always be done. The last thing that I want is for other forum readers to mistake a message as written by me and take offence. If you change my message then say so.

vfilby,

I have recently instructed mods to place taglines and ident code on edited message parts. Mistakes may happen. I'm sure none of that was intentional, perhaps moderator replied with edit button by mistake - I've done that too occasionally.

I'll see if I can get the original texts out from backups, if you think it is worth the trouble (it takes 2 hours to restore database on my dev server and more time to seach and copy). Let me know if you want me to try this.

Or perhaps we can just let this pass and go on.

LoL.

I know those are NOT my words, and BTW, the word in question wasn't the male genital organ, it was actually the present tense for "pissed off". I didn't know it's a bad word . Sowy

people can say that their are children and "women" on these boards, and there is. But i dont know why some words have to be frowned upon as much as they do.

Piss is a bad word now?

Would i say it at the thanks giving table? No. But i can think of many other things out in the world that can and do "corrupt" our youth.

ndh wrote:
......(with your sweetest smile) "Is your p***s bigger than mine, too, sir? Go away, I'm working."

I wouldn't be gutsy enough to say it, but I'd think it.

Please forgive me for not attributing the edit to myself. It was I. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea culpa.

Now that I've cleared that up, allow me to say the following: If everyone feels the use of such language is appropriate in this forum, I'll be very surprised and more than a little disappointed. It doesn't belong IMHO. I realize the intended use of the term was for humor, and in certain environments, it would have been perfectly appropriate.

I regret not including my name in the edit and will be more conscientious about that in the future.

If the direction from Pekka is to allow people to discuss their body parts, I have no problem with that. It's his forum. As a practical matter, however, we cannot bother him with every one of these judgment calls, and we do the best we can with what we believe should be the standards for appropriate discussion.

Again, I apologize for any misunderstanding, or if anyone feels I overstepped my authority as moderator.

Definitely not worth the time and/or effort. I think you should instead take some extra time and play with your mark II or have a beer. I know recoving db entries would not be high up on my list of things to do.

Also, thanks Pekka for your attention and the forum.

Cheers,

Well, a few words from the person who started this controversy... and really didn't expect to...

I have found that a quip about, uhm, that certain kind of envy works wonderfully to silence guys who start obnoxious one-upmanship contents.

And since jokes involving that word are, as vfilby pointed out, common on prime-time sitcoms (e.g., Friends did it) I didn't expect that anyone would be "surprised and more than a little disappointed" by it. Especially since the slavering and panting that occurs on threads about women in bikinis and women at race-car tracks doesn't get modded out.

This is a moderated board, and it's the moderator's right to exercise his or her own judgement in removing whatever they like from my post. But yes, please do indicate when an edit has been made.

Thanks for telling us Belmondo, I too also apologise if I offended you are any other member who read my comment. I did I intend to start a riot, but I guess sometimes it just comes naturally.