Originally Posted by
BobbyMcGee
I was reading (or at least glancing through) Model Aviation magazine for years before I finally gave up on it altogether sometime in 2009. To this day, I still hear enough of the club members complaining about the magazine and saying the same things as I wrote. The general sentiment I've heard is that the magazine is written for beginners coming into the hobby. So, with that, I don't waste my time reading MA because I get nothing out of it.
I don't feel that I need to state that I read any alternative publication, whether I do or not. That has no bearing on my statement that MA is useless.
I agree that MA should be switched to an internet publication, but the good ol' boys in the AMA wouldn't go for that because they want to use the magazine as a revenue source for their own personal/financial gain.
Things just
might have changed in 6 years, but hey, if the others say otherwise, whatayagonnado? Do those folks also feel that the mag is such a great source of personal and financial gain for the good ol' boys in the AMA...that's a LOL'er right there for sure. Numbers, stats, proof, or just water cooler gossip?
Originally Posted by
BobbyMcGee
What deems something as negative are the thin-skinned people that get offended at anything. They are now creating the most soft & thin-skinned generation of people that will not be able to (or afraid to) speak their mind. Geeze! I just saw a news report about how much harm we are doing to our children when we buy them "Elf-on-the-Shelf." This is now controversial? Some wacko shrink is saying that it will bring paranoia to our kids because they could fear they are constantly watched! REALLY!!!!???? On that basis, we should also fear Santa because he knows when we are sleeping, awake, and are being bad or good!!!! ALERT ... Santa is watching you!!!! Doesn't that scare you???? So, Santa is a stalker!!!
So don't be negative. Don't call fat people fat, don't call handicapped people handicapped. Since when has that been "offensive?" What offends me are the people that get offended at things like this!
Instead of saying, "the plane had a small flaw in the design that made it difficult to control" say, "I saw an opportunity to add a feature I happen to like."
There ... that should quell the concerns of those fanatical thin-skinned ultra-conservative extremist paranoid people who are so easily offended.
Dude...you're messing with Santa here....that's danger zone material!
