Proposal for Change to YD

[yazzyfooty]

I hope the DIR sub division is kept as I find it an informative area of YD and it is very different from the rest of the forum as issues tend to stay on topic unlike many of the other sub headings which I have noticed lately that the threads appear to disintegrate into bull more and more.

[Garf]

bearing in mind it was my idea, and I changed my mind immediately, and the enitre community says leave it alone, I suspect it won't be going anywhere!

[scuba steve irl]

let them have their own little corner .

nuting worse than a new diver asking a quesstion and getting there head filled with dir mubo jumbo

its nice for the "more" experienced divers to pick their brains as we are able to make an educated decision

[Air Guzzler]

You see Garf ive read quite a lot of the threads these last couple of nights unfortunately being sobber and i think that it boils down to a couple of things the main one being that your trip to Vobster has had a slightly advers effect on your brain it would appear that you have suffered a swerve rarther than a bend after spending part of the day looking at the sky and your yellow fins in Ore........

As a qualified proffessor of Talking Bo11ocks i would suspect that you need to pull your self together Man get your kit on and sit in the bath looking lovingly at our antiquaited fins while the swerve away from the dark side starightens its self out

Failing that could the other chimps go round and give him a hug i think he needs one






TAXI

[purple vonny]

After a hard day out at sea, I have one thing to say.

Get back in your box.

[Diving Dude]

l was thinking along similar lines except...

l'd say keep the DIR forum plus add a couple more, like a dir love in forum. l'd want all dir questions and all those 'aern't goo and der wonderfull' posts to be in this forum which l don't want accesed when l click new posts.

There....you did ask.

Better still, when someone clicks on the dir forum it takes them to backslappers.com.

[Diving Dude]

Originally Posted by Garf

Hi All

The DIR Forum ands Sub Forum.

I think we should ask Jay if he would be willing to get rid of them. I think it is just another mechamism for creating a "them" and "us" situation.

Ok do away with the DIR name tag and change it to a GUE forum and stop using the collective 'WE'.

The 'us' and 'them' situation will stop as soon as people stop judging others by how they look or what their kit is.

Garf, you didn't like it when someone did this to you the other day, but in my experience it happens a lot more to the non dirers.
A prime example is a comment made by a well respected dir diver on these boards who acted as a safety diver on my mod 1 course as we walked past a group of divers being trained by an instructor who was wearing.............a bungied wing!

All l could see was an instructor with trainies but my almost dir instructor(who later sold all his CCRs and did the last dive on my mod 1 in a DIR set up) and his safety diver had a conversation about it being a bad example yada yada yada.

[Mark Chase]

I think we should keep the DIR forum but we should have a gage on all the DIR divers for proximity of head to lower intestine.

This way any one reading a thread by said DIR diver can see how the rest of the normal people have voted for his or her head up arsedness

Perhaps a pile of salt beside the user name? Large pile big pinch.. that sort of thing.

Just to balance it out we should have a Stroke meter beside the non DIR divers so any evangelical Non DIR comments could have an indicator as to how much of a DIR hater the diver is.

So for Stroke perhaps an image of a wanker like say Chris Tarrent then progressing through Prince Charles right up to George Bush.

I think such indicators would be a benefit to new members and a bit of a giggle

ATB

Mark Chase

[Jay_Benson]

Originally Posted by Buoyant Babe

Can we have a Shit-Kickers sub forum for crap divers like me?

Let's face you wouldn't have put anything onto that forum since you got your Sealskin would you? Having said that neither would most people on YD judging by the tetchiness that has been exhibited of late.

[Jay_Benson]

Originally Posted by Mark Chase

So for Stroke perhaps an image of a wanker like say Chris Tarrent then progressing through Prince Charles right up to George Bush.

I think such indicators would be a benefit to new members and a bit of a giggle

Good grief - is anyone that virulently anti-DIR?