ORIGINAL: Gray Beard

When I did a review on an ARF I had to give this a lot of thought. I finally came to the conclusion that ARFs are kits. It's like IKEA items, if you have to assemble it then it is a kit. I didn't like it but it's true. To me, a kit is a box of sticks and sheeting that you have to cut and fit to finish up with a plane, but there is no definition of how hard a kit must be or how many pieces in one. I don't like it but I got over it.
I still get a giant pissmeoff when I see anyone that calls assembling an ARF building. They have built nothing, they are gluing assembled parts together, not building anything! I come completely un-hinged when I see a reviewer in a magazine use the term building. These people are supposed to be smart enough to know the difference but I see too many of them with brain damage and using the term building there review ARF. Maybe they are trying to give there readers a little ego boost thinking they are building something? Maybe the reviewer needs that ego boost themselves??
OK, the term Kit or ARF Kit I will go with and give these ARF nimrods that but ARFers, Never Never use the term building, you aren't and most of you can't.
There, that was my rant.