Do you feel safe?

[piperdbh]

Weight your wicks and melt your wax in a double boiler.
How's that for a welcome?

[Meggers]

Weight your wicks and melt your wax in a double boiler.
How's that for a welcome?

NO! I want "nice to meet you/Glad to have you here, etc. etc." and THEN proceed to tell me the info! Theres a certain etiquette, people! They jumped right into the "dont do this and dont do this and you are donig this wrong and blah blah blah"

(and I will have all of them know that my candles are awesome! And YES, I DO use crayons for color! *hands on hips*)

[madmacs]

(and I will have all of them know that my candles are awesome! And YES, I DO use crayons for color! *hands on hips*)

You probably crayon outside the lines too don't you...

[Meggers]

You probably crayon outside the lines too don't you...

I massacre all my crayons and stick them in pools of molten hot candle wax....so NO! If anyone should feel unsafe, it's my crayons.

back on topic: I dont follow every thread here and I tend to stay away from the "fashion" ones (so sorry, men), but thats because I know nothing about kilted mens style do's and don'ts. Maybe thats where the drama is going on?

[madmacs]

I massacre all my crayons and stick them in pools of molten hot candle wax....so NO! If anyone should feel unsafe, it's my crayons.

reminds me of a picture caption i saw... "They laughed at my crayon pictures... I laughed at their chalk outlines..."

[Chas]

Has this anything to do with this thread?

http://www.xmarksthescot.com/forum/f...6/#post1054176

Ah. Well XMTS has been fun at times. Not so much anymore. I think that the question I asked was taking things in another direction but I guess I'm a stupid a$$. Thanks for nothing. Lock this thread mods. I'm done here.

If this thread is to do with the other thread, well, with all respect Cowher, you did bring it upon yourself.

Religion, Politics, Guns, Weapons that are not Scottish in origin, Definition of a kilt, Feathers, Fly plaid, White hose - All hot button topics, that are guaranteed to get all kinds of responses and finally get shut down.

But you know this - so who are you mad at? Us or yourself?

Regards

Chas

[Mark Stephenson]

Yes, I feel safe.
This thread is a good example of why I feel that way.
Consider that the OP expressed his concerns and we have actively responded with many good thoughts about this issue - all of them positive and constructive. How many other forums are out there where a poster can lay bare his/her feelings as we can do so here?

[Piipriker]

(and I will have all of them know that my candles are awesome! And YES, I DO use crayons for color! *hands on hips*)

Just like painting straight grain on a tobacco pipe ;-)

Oh, I'm getting OT

[Piipriker]

I've been around the Usenet in the early years of the net. Compared to that XMTS is an island of peace.

I always stuck to: read, read again, think thrice, write, read what you wrote
and hit cancel if you don't find the right words.

As someone said: the problem is the written conversation. We don't see each other. We can't see the facial expression of the writer and react accordingly to it. Unfortunately smilies are a weak substitute.

Though I'm only shortly here, I like it very much, in contrary to our german pipe smokers forums, where sometimes "wars" are going on about filter and non filter, aromatics or not. Many of those guys I know personally and know what is meant, what they write, others I don't and I always kept away from those forums because it was too straining for me. I didn't need that.

But XMTS is another cup of tea. It gets heated sometimes, but there's nothing that can't be solved by clarifications.