Thursday, March 16, 2006 - 12:49 pm, by: Craig McCardle(Gtdoom)
Well for those of you who dont know me (and some who do i was commenly known as Mach 1 on the alsc and here known as GTDOOM anyway to all those wonderful people out there that helped me over the years with my soarer i would like to thank you know who you are (Neil & Manny ) and thank you all to who i met and participated with without you all i wouldnt of been on the road as long as i was unfortunatly i have sold my beloved soarer to my ex GF who was in love with more than she was with me (no suprise there ) i have stepped back into a poor mans ferrari (an MR2 ) to be precise the reason being i couldnt afford to run the soarer anymore fuel is to expensive to me at this time so i stepped back to a four i may pop in from time to time to read what you wild bunch are doing might even come to a meet (if they will allow the old MR2 to tag along ) well once again A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU WHO HELPED ME ! take care and all of you drive safe Regards Craig
Thursday, March 16, 2006 - 01:41 pm, by: Katrina Bruns(Katrina)
No No Craig!!! Stay !! I dont have my soarer anymore either being I had to leave it in Japan when I left there.. but I'm still a frequent on thsis forum... well as much as I can be anyways C'mon .. drive a chevrolet Cobalt, which is a far cry from a soarer.. but I'm still here. You can stay too
Tuesday, March 21, 2006 - 12:26 am, by: Craig McCardle(Gtdoom)
Lol Neil its black not red and thanx samantha yeah she was a great car and i will miss it but the rising cost of fuel i decided it was time for her to go so now i got my 220hp buzz box as neil so apply puts it lol thanx neil oh well at least its cheaper for me atm Cya,s soon
Thursday, March 23, 2006 - 10:47 pm, by: Craig McCardle(Gtdoom)
lol neil you crack me up and brad yeah i remember but dont you have and mr2-s ? from memory ? ( i could be wrong there and neil my little buzz box as you so put only weighs in at 1100 kgs and doesnt go to bad on stock boost :P and neil bite me lol did i just say that ? lol oh the confussion of it all
Friday, March 24, 2006 - 07:17 am, by: Matthew Sharpe(Madmatt)
Like most mid engine cars, they handle like they are on rails right up until they let go, then you are stuffed. But it takes some hard driving to push them that far.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 08:37 pm, by: Craig McCardle(Gtdoom)
Ok is this better for you peter ? quite Frankly i don't care if you ban me i think your taking it a little over the top as i did not abuse anyone and i think you should update your rules Stating that you Cannot sms speak or be a bad speller or punctuator (otherwise some one might formally sue you for not informing them of such ) does not matter to me as i am leaving anyway just thought i would let you know that your rules do not state that i cannot misspell or mistype or not have correct punctuation or that i cannot sms speak as you put it.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 09:21 pm, by: Craig McCardle(Gtdoom)
Peter i am not out to give anybody any crap just pointing it out i even went and read the rules and did not see it listed and david if its so unreadable (your words unreadable rubbish) then why can everyone read and understand it ? and usually read and never comment at all same when i was on the ALSC which i was a member of for some four years there was no putting rubbish here just a thank you to all the people who helped me over the years.
Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 10:00 pm, by: Lew Radbourn(Marlew)
STOP guys; Craig is a long time member of ALSC and he is paying his respects by saying hello and good by at the same time. the SMS speak is LOL and CYA's and on one of the LOL he used capital a letter to start with. as for spelling Pete fix the spell function so it corrects the spelling or gives an alternative. yer it comes up in Yellow OK. But mate i can't spell for S-it and for me i have to sit here getting frustrated because i don't want to up set you or David if i spell some thing wrong. OR i left a full stop or question mark out . Come on guys there are some guys in the real world that don't have the full education that you two seem to have, so cut some slack of fix the spell check so we have alternatives. i used to fall asleep in english class because it was so bloody boring. I rathered be out using my hands to fix or make some thing. cheers Lew
Wednesday, March 29, 2006 - 10:02 pm, by: David Vaughan(Davidv)
Lack of punctuation means it reads awkwardly, Craig, in stilted fashion rather than flowing with your intended meaning, yet you could fix it so easily. That is it.
Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 04:29 am, by: Peter Nitschke(Pen)
Lew, I am well aware that not all people find it easy to deal with the written language, reading and/or writing, whether it be due to not having English as a first language, or from various other special reasons eg Dyslexia etc.
Hopefully I (and the mods) can recognise those issues and make allowances for them, notice how we haven't pinged you yet.
The issue that I am campaigning against is mainly laziness and too much coolness (SMS-speak), all contributing to making posts difficult to read.
Let's compare your post to Craig's post at the top of the thread. Craig has made one huge sentence out of it, one phrase simply runs into another. He can obviously spell pretty well - not many errors there, and he can use capitals at times, eg "Neil and Manny".
However there are no full stops or comma's to break the post up into logical or readable bits. I guess that eliminates the need to capitalise first letters in sentences as apart from the first capital letter, there are no other sentences.
So I could be wrong here, but it looks to me like pure laziness.
Your posts on the other hand pretty much always have the same spelling errors and erratic punctuation indicating that you are trying, but are probably being too distracted by the eye-candy for your fingers to do the job properly. At least you compensate for this by hitting <enter> every now and again to break the text into readable chunks. Try reading Craig's post out loud and you will see what I mean.
My original comment about SMS-speak was mainly to expand on our policy about lifting the quality of post presentations.
Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 09:27 am, by: Ken Bruns(Uncle_ken)
I'm with you Pete. If anybody needs any convincing of the need to treat english with some respect on these forums, then have a quick peak at some of the other car club sites. I had the misfortune to stumble on one for the Commodores (yes they have one-and yes they are proud of their cars, go figure), but the SMS speak was not even the worst feature. They were so busy trying to sound(er Look) like gansta rappers and not dissin' the cools that they merely came off as the barely understandable knuckle dragging trogladites that they are!
Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 09:33 am, by: Ken Bruns(Uncle_ken)
PS WTF were you doing up and on the net at 3.29am Pen? Do we need to speak to you more seriously about the values of alcohol induced unconsciousness, or are you doing a study on the potential benefits of nocturnal habits???
Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 09:55 am, by: Craig McCardle(Gtdoom)
Peter if you can go back and read. My post it was like my 3rd one on here wasn't sure how to use this Forum Software. and some times just some times i type so fast i miss keys ! I personally am going to stop going on about it now as this is getting old. Anyway you have a good site and i would still like to visit as the people here are fantastic.
Thursday, March 30, 2006 - 10:07 am, by: Peter Nitschke(Pen)
Craig, no biggie! I understand your excitement when using SC hehehe. Apart from that, usual penalty is suspension for a day or so, that won't affect you too badly.
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yeah she was a great car and i will miss it but the rising cost of fuel i decided it was time for her to go so now i got my 220hp buzz box as neil so apply puts it lol thanx neil oh well at least its cheaper for me atm Cya,s soon
