, and appreciate any advice anyone offers to my often stupid questions. It's a shame to lose knowledge from the forum, but I'm sure you won't be able to keep away for too long!
] that is not the way to get my attention. Now two of us have decided to walk away. Text speak? You are welcome to it
Truly sorry to see that you are leaving the forum too John .You are one of the many guys on here whose posts are a joy to read and helpful and informative too. It will be the forum's loss. I agree whole heartedly with your comments, particularly in reference to text speak. To my mind its just sheer laziness and also very disrespectful. I also dislike the arrogance of some younger members who are disrespectful of those mature members who have 30, 40, 50+ years experience of repairs maintenance and restoring cars I think what has driven the final nail in the coffin for me is the preponderance of ,for want of a better word,chavs that have recently become 944 owners and PCGB members. The cheapness of these cars have encouraged a new type of owner, as former owners and enthusiasts with more buying power move up to Boxters and 911's . Like you I have grown up in an era that valued respect and courtesy and altruism where these character attributes were considered a true virtue and something to aspire to. Nowadays if the TV and media are anything to go by it seems to be about the opposite where the highest aspiration of young people seems to be about celebrity status ,easy living, drugs, drink and material possessions and being as rude and disrespectful as possible. When I was a kid my Father belonged to the AA and he proudly sported the badge on the badge bar of his cars. You could stop at any of the yellow AA boxes along the roadside in the UK and find a can of petrol tools jacks and other helpful stuff and there was a free telephone to phone for a AA patrolman who came out on his motorcycle to get you going again. People always stopped to help others in difficulty and you never drove past a stopped car at the verge. This is a philosophy that I was brought up with and carried to this day. Today if you tried to help someone you'd probably get a mouthful of abuse or mugged or worse. Its been a pleasure to have made your aquaintance
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Which is why I opened the opportunity to put forward suggestions. Personally, I hate posts where the writing is genuinely unreadable, barring people who don't have English as a first language, of course, but I think we see that pretty rarely here, and can always ignore the odd very badly written post. It's also rare that people end up arguing, I probably see it less here than when I had teenage stepkids at home! [&:] Leaving doesn't helpo anyone unless you're leaving because you need to take time out for a good reason. We can't have Club representatives leaving the forums IMO, in fact we need more to be pulling their weight here. If you care, then you do something about it. Giving up on something might be an "easy" option, but it's better to face up to a problem and talk about it. just like any other relationships with real people....[
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