FW: [TheForge] WHAT THE HELL

[Gladish Family]

I'm with you- I find myself deleting all the messages on certain threads,
for days at a time without reading them. It's just that when I go to a
blacksmith gathering it's just like on the list: we talk about
blacksmithing, our families, blacksmithing, politics, blacksmithing, what to
wear, blacksmithing, our trucks, blacksmithing, our dogs and did I mention
blacksmithing?
Andy G.

> > > I dunno about that- at some point we begin to talk like old
> friends. Is
> > that
> > > an entirely bad thing?
> > > Andy G.
> > >
> >
> >
> >   That is a GOOD thing.
>
> IMO not entirely.  I love to chat and listen to talk about smithing but
> when I hear people's  politics and half baked ideas for solving
> the worlds
> problems, I like this place a whole lot less.  There are plenty of sites
> where political/philosophical/moral rants are appropriate and if that was
> what I wanted, I would go there, not here.   I find these prolonged rants
> quite distasteful.
>
> Adam