Yes, yes - I remember The Blue Bicycle (and the why of it) and Dr. Whup-ass.
I had a look at PFFA and found it helpful to stand back and look at a board with which I have no connection, a pie whose juices have never touched my poking fingers. To see how little in-jokes and mannerisms that must have developed over quite some time become litmus tests and shibboleths to sort sheep from goats and wetbobs from drybobs. It's how boards become, like whales.
See us, withour lariats and bake-offs, and the need to learn the special currency of the Sphere before we can spend it confidently in the wider forums.
I once took part in a teambuilding weekend with a load of young Turks from medium-sized Pharma and high-ish level Catering and we did an exercise called "steering and joining". I was the one of the steerers and I eventually stood up and yelled "Listen to us. We are behaving like idiots and we owe these people (the joiners) an apology". I thought I'd blown it but the rest of my team listened and we scored top points.
I know that my posts in general discussions often seem to be of doubtful relevance and are as often politely ignored, but when I see something that feels wrong, I have to put in my pennyworth. Which, in this case, is this.
Why would somebody join a ship, then run to the rails and start taking potshots at the others in the harbour? It bothers me.
As you were - there are some good points being made on this thread.
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