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[qwesboy]

Hey was was just bored looking around on our wonderful world wide web and came across this forum i bought my gz250 in january of 2008 but it was a brand new left over 2005 great little bike but just not enought top end for my liking if it would do 90 i would be a little more happy but its a good bike cheap insurance and a good price
http://www.postimage.org/gx2maDei.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gx2maDei)

[alanmcorcoran]

Join the club. If it could do 90, there's be a lot less posts on here. Glad to have another fellow GZ'er...

[Easy Rider]

Hey was was just bored looking around

Welcome Buckeye!!

Caps, commas and other stuff we can do nicelly without but a period and an extra space to seperate sentences would REALLY be nice. :poked: :biggrin:

Thanks for your consideration. :tup:

[alantf]

If we're bitching about spelling & grammar, nicely has only one "l".

People in glasshouses shouldn't throw stones. - an old proverb!

[Easy Rider]

If we're bitching about spelling & grammar, nicely has only one "l".


Thank you for your terse comment that accomplishes exactly nothing........except stirring up trouble. :skull:

Punctuation and form are NOT the same as spelling and grammar.

And a simple typo is not the same as a lack of common courtesy.

Have a nice day! :roll:

[alanmcorcoran]

Ah geez...

[qwesboy]

Who cares were just a buch of people talking it doesnt have to be perfect

[Easy Rider]

Who cares were just a buch of people talking it doesnt have to be perfect

Very true......but here's the deal:
Without a little basic punctuation and sentence structure (just a little mind you, nothing fancy), your "talking" is hard to read. If you are not going to expend the TINY little effort required to make seperate sentences, then I'm likely not going to expend the extra effort required to read and understand what you are "saying".
Pretty simple really.

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[alanmcorcoran]

My take is that it's a generational thing qwesboy. I'm guessing you are under 35. I think the oldsters on here spent a lot of time learning how to communicate in complete sentences, with proper spelling and all, and generally do not like the new "texting" style that has evolved in the interim. Plus we are an argumentative bunch. No one has been banned for bad formatting and most of us don't care. I like nice writin' myself, but I'd rather have your participation on your terms than chase you off for not using periods.

[qwesboy]

Well then this is how we solve this problem if you dont like how i type then just dont read it and then that would give you more time to critasize someone else

[alanmcorcoran]

Esay,

Its been pveron taht stneences lkie tehse, werhe olny the frist and lsat lteetr are in the rghit psoitoin can be esaliy raed.

[patrick_777]

Let's let the punctuation thing go. Welcome qwesboy. I can't wait to see what your bike looks like with a decent pc job on it.

[Water Warrior 2]

Hey was was just bored looking around on our wonderful world wide web and came across this forum i bought my gz250 in january of 2008 but it was a brand new left over 2005 great little bike but just not enought top end for my liking if it would do 90 i would be a little more happy but its a good bike cheap insurance and a good price
http://www.postimage.org/gx2maDei.jpg (http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=gx2maDei)

Welcome qwesboy, always nice to have a new inmate in the forum.

Take EASY with a grain of salt please. He may come off as a strick old English teacher but I have to agree with him. Proper punctuation is why we went to school and is a real bonus for this old guy with less than perfect eyesight.

[mrlmd1]

I'll jump in here too,
Not to rub you, but WW- what's "strick"? Did you mean "strict"?

Welcome to the club qwesboy, but it is a common courtesy to use proper language and form in trying to communicate, especially if you want someone to respond to you. It's not a generational thing, as Alan suggested, but more indicative of proper education and respect for others, IMHO. We're not talking spelling errors or typos, we're not talking about a foreigner whose primary language is not English, we're talking about proper language skills.. It seems to many that if you don't take the time to try and communicate in a proper fashion, very few will respond, which encourages you to discontinue doing it that way. Many on here feel that what is OK for texting on a cell phone for sake of expediency is not acceptable when you're writing in a thread on a forum. If you persist like this--"Well then this is how we solve this problem if you dont like how i type then just dont read it" -- that may very well happen by the members on here that could help you the most. And as an aside, if you're that seemingly sloppy and cavalier with your writing skills, what do you think the impression would be about your powder coating skills? Sometimes these impressions rub off on other areas.
Anyway, again welcome, and do what you want, but don't be too upset if people on here don't respond to you in the way you'd like if you write in that form.
Post some pictures when you're working through the bike and the end result.

[dan_]

Its been pveron taht stneences lkie tehse, werhe olny the frist and lsat lteetr are in the rghit psoitoin can be esaliy raed.

ha i read that too.

[qwesboy]

Well my powder coating skills have nothing to do with my talking skills this is a forum not a paper for some professor in some fancy school and if thats the case this forum is about riding and having a Suzuki GZ250 not about how i type so what if i hurry it up it doesnt have to be perfect and if you guys are going to focus more on how i type this out then what this forum is about then i dont want to be apart of it

[Water Warrior 2]

Well my powder coating skills have nothing to do with my talking skills this is a forum not a paper for some professor in some fancy school and if thats the case this forum is about riding and having a Suzuki GZ250 not about how i type so what if i hurry it up it doesnt have to be perfect and if you guys are going to focus more on how i type this out then what this forum is about then i dont want to be apart of it

It is not about being perfect. You are certainly free to leave but you are missing a great forum dedicated to a great little bike and it's riders.

[patrick_777]

Wow. Talk about overreacting.

[music man]

He doesn't realize that the way he is typing and acting might not prove or disprove anything about his powder coating skills, but it says a million things about his professionalism and common sense, he can't even realize when someone is giving him constructive criticism. Which means I wouldn't let him powder coat shit for me, because if he acts like that over punctuation, imagine what he will do if you are not happy with the powder coating job he does for you and you say something to him about it. :cuss:

[alanmcorcoran]

qwesboy, dude, toughen up a bit, son! How do you hang out with bikers with such thin skin? Don't let your life be run by the grammar police. We got all kinds on the site. Sweet moms, crotchety old fussbudgets, several self proclaimed geniuses and at least one douchebag. Give it a chance - you might get to like it!

[patrick_777]

several self proclaimed geniuses and at least one douchebag

I resemble those remarks.

[qwesboy]

Well the pictures speak for them selfs when comes to my powder coating skills

[music man]

You just don't get it do you. :bong:

[alantf]

Wassa matter, Easy Rider? Time of the month, full moon, or just "holier than thou"?
What a sad life you must have if the first comment, from you, to a newbie, who thinks he might like to join this forum, is to moan, moan, moan. I'm afraid that even my comment to you about old proverbs got you bristling with anger, that anyone should dare to criticise YOU.
O.k., so throw your dummy (pacifier) out of the pram (baby carriage) again, & get all indignant.
If I decide to write in Spanish (my second language) do you think you'll be able to criticise that?
Very likely you'll try!
(Oh, & NO, I don't regret getting that off my chest) To the newbie I say "welcome with open arms". If you want to do Leonardo Da Vinci mirror writing, I, for one, don't give a damn, as long as you enjoy yourself.

[music man]

Man I tell you what, I can't believe what a bunch of cry-baby :cry: wah-wah's :cry: all you so called adults are. All Easy Rider did to start all of this, is to (VERY POLITELY I might add) ask a person who happens to be a (Noob) to simply put a period or two in his sentences.

Not you need to spell better, or you used a verb where a noun was supposed to go, just hit the Period button occasionally for god sakes. And like I said he ASKED VERY POLITELY, actually considering it was Easy Rider, He bent over backwards to be extra POLITE about it and look what we all get for it, a bunch of thumb sucking crying :cry: about how uncool it is for us to actually expect people communicating on a forum where typing is the primary, No wait, the only form of communication with each other, to actually type at least half-ass legibly.


(Disclaimer) By all of you so called adults, and cry babys, I was referring ONLY to the people who are belly-aching about this, not everyone on this site or this thread for that matter.

[JWR]

Man, I like this site.

People not afraid to say what they think. :poked: :rawk: :rawk:

[dan_]

You just don't get it do you.


Okay hold up.. one sec..

How do you do the bong smoking smiley face? I think I have a new avatar.

[music man]

When you are on the post reply page, look down below the smileys and there is view more smileys thing up under them, click that and it is on there.

[dan_]

:ride:
SWEET!

[alantf]

No, Easy Rider wasn't being VERY POLITE. Easy rider was being VERY OBNOXIOUS to someone who was a first time visitor to this site!
If you think that this sort of thing is acceptable as a welcome, I certainly do not. Were you never told, as a child, that good manners were everything?

[patrick_777]

He probably meant that Easy was being VERY POLITE compared to his usual posts. :biggrin:

I suggest that the divergent topic in this thread come to an quick end. :bang:

[music man]

Welcome Buckeye!!

Caps, commas and other stuff we can do nicelly without but a period and an extra space to seperate sentences would REALLY be nice. :poked: :biggrin:

Thanks for your consideration. :tup:


You call this being VERY OBNOXIOUS. Damn I don't EVER need to go to spain, there must be some weak, thin skinned people there I guess, I would offend everyone I talked to.

[music man]

No I meant he was being VERY POLITE PERIOD!!!!

[patrick_777]

MM is correct. That was a very polite request on Easy's part. My response was mainly taking a jab at Easy, because it's fun.

I suggest that the divergent topic in this thread come to an quick end. :bang:

[mrlmd1]

OK, we seem to have beaten this to death, for this and future members who come here. There were constructive criticisms and rebuffs, let's end it 'cause there's little else to add. :bang: :horse:

[Easy Rider]

Wassa matter, Easy Rider? Time of the month, full moon, or just "holier than thou"?


Totally inappropriate escalation.

A simple polite request from me results in insults and name calling from YOU. :skull:

It is a simple matter of common courtesy.

I quit. Post as you please. You will get no further response from me.

[qwesboy]

Its about time this is a MOTORCYCLE forum not an english forum am i correct............................... Happy now is that enought periods

[dan_]

Its about time this is a MOTORCYCLE forum not an english forum am i correct............................... Happy now is that enought periods


Dude. You're an ass. :crazy:

[dan_]

Its about time this is a MOTORCYCLE forum not an english forum am i correct............................... Happy now is that enought periods
By the way in the spirit of where this thread has gone.. you should have used question marks.

[music man]

Its about time this is a MOTORCYCLE forum not an english forum am i correct............................... Happy now is that enought periods



Dude you still don't get it do you, it WAS a MOTORCYCLE forum, until YOU turned it into an argument over something that was an innocent request. All you have to do is go back and READ if you know how, the first post that responded to your ORIGINAL post and see how much of an ass you made out of yourself over someone just simply asking you to put a couple of periods in your post.

[patrick_777]

Twice warned. Third time's a charm.

Done & done.