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PtldPlatypus said:
When he labels anyone as such, and I am aware of it, I consistently remove the insult.

You're welcome.
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So a poster can continually use the same personal attack after they have received a ban for it and no further action other than deleting some of them is all that will happen. Nice to know that further offenses carry no further penalty. Why should the guy stop?

You're welcome.
 
Hoopguru said:
Ive water skied fully clothed from Lake Oswego train trestle to Oregon City Falls and back.
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A very good friend of my dad's water skied non stop for 1,000 miles on the Columbia. My dad was one of the drivers and is still a world record to this date and took 33 1/2 hours. I think the longest I skied was when I was around 16 for about 2 hours and I was totally exhausted. Can't imagine doing it for 33 1/2 hours.
 
CupWizier said:
So a poster can continually use the same personal attack after they have received a ban for it and no further action other than deleting some of them is all that will happen. Nice to know that further offenses carry no further penalty. Why should the guy stop?
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Your complaint is misdirected. I only have access to adjust content, not user access. You can PM Sly if you think he should ban someone.
 
PtldPlatypus said:
Your complaint is misdirected. I only have access to adjust content, not user access. You can PM Sly if you think he should ban someone.
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I have made my feelings known in pm's with no responses. All any of us want is consistency and fairness.
 
CupWizier said:
A very good friend of my dad's water skied non stop for 1,000 miles on the Columbia. My dad was one of the drivers and is still a world record to this date and took 33 1/2 hours. I think the longest I skied was when I was around 16 for about 2 hours and I was totally exhausted. Can't imagine doing it for 33 1/2 hours.
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wow a 1000 miles.
Its amazing how much strength/stamina it takes to ski long distances.
Love water skiing, haven't been for about 3 years though.
 
Well I just got home from the procedure....still a bit blurry from being sedated but all went well...chest feels sunburned from being zapped...they got my heart beating at an almost normal rate...50 percent...60 is normal..before I was at 25 percent...and the pulse is no longer erratic...go back on Sept 16th for a checkup and will have minimum 3 month recovery...but all is good news...I no longer have nearly as many dietary restrictions which is a relief....still will stay low sodium and I'll not drink alcohol ever again as it can cause a relapse...I want to thank everyone for their well wishes and support....you guys have been great! Left home at 4 am to make the appointment so I'll probably crash out early tonight.
 
riverman said:
Well I just got home from the procedure....still a bit blurry from being sedated but all went well...chest feels sunburned from being zapped...they got my heart beating at an almost normal rate...50 percent...60 is normal..before I was at 25 percent...and the pulse is no longer erratic...go back on Sept 16th for a checkup and will have minimum 3 month recovery...but all is good news...I no longer have nearly as many dietary restrictions which is a relief....still will stay low sodium and I'll not drink alcohol ever again as it can cause a relapse...I want to thank everyone for their well wishes and support....you guys have been great! Left home at 4 am to make the appointment so I'll probably crash out early tonight.
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Glad to hear it went well Riv! I’ve been dealing with Afib for 6-7 years now, and it’s only been the last 6 months or so that I have finally acknowledged that alcohol is a contributing factor. I tried my best to dispel that notion but the proof is in the pudding (or the Afib episodes after a night of 3-4 pints). It sucks to an extent but legal weed (in moderation) softens the blow. I can still have an occasional drink but one is now pretty much my limit. If you can find a way to blame all this heart trouble on being stationed aboard the USS Blue Ridge please let me know!
 
lawai'a said:
me, more than once
adak-kodiak, kodiak-yakatak, yakatak-neah bay, neah bay- astoria/warrenton, all points south to morro bay,
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Pointing the bow at Sitka in the spring.
I won't be single-handing after that though. Grandsons aboard while we visit Petersburg, Wrangle, Ketchikan and a multitude of anchorages in between. Might even talk one into crewing back to the Columbia river.
 
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UncleCliffy'sDaddy said:
If you can find a way to blame all this heart trouble on being stationed aboard the USS Blue Ridge please let me know!
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1600 sailors on the Blue Ridge chain smoking....that's what caused all this and also probably red lead paint in the engine room that time I had to spray paint the damned thing at sea after being late for a shift
 
So how do we know if you are alive or a zombie? Zombies are a major problem, based on some movies I've not seen. Did they give you a Not-A-Zombie card when they released you?

barfo
 
barfo said:
So how do we know if you are alive or a zombie? Zombies are a major problem, based on some movies I've not seen. Did they give you a Not-A-Zombie card when they released you?

barfo
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I wondered if I actually died on the table and just am now experiencing the afterlife in an alternative version of my previous life...before the zap...I was considering finding a functioning vampire to solve my blood problems but I've seen the sun today and didn't melt
 
riverman said:
Well I just got home from the procedure....still a bit blurry from being sedated but all went well...chest feels sunburned from being zapped...they got my heart beating at an almost normal rate...50 percent...60 is normal..before I was at 25 percent...and the pulse is no longer erratic...go back on Sept 16th for a checkup and will have minimum 3 month recovery...but all is good news...I no longer have nearly as many dietary restrictions which is a relief....still will stay low sodium and I'll not drink alcohol ever again as it can cause a relapse...I want to thank everyone for their well wishes and support....you guys have been great! Left home at 4 am to make the appointment so I'll probably crash out early tonight.
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Awesome. Glad everything went well.

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CupWizier said:
A very good friend of my dad's water skied non stop for 1,000 miles on the Columbia. My dad was one of the drivers and is still a world record to this date and took 33 1/2 hours. I think the longest I skied was when I was around 16 for about 2 hours and I was totally exhausted. Can't imagine doing it for 33 1/2 hours.
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That's pretty cool, but also misleading because he skied back and forth on a 12.5 stretch of the river.

Hard to ski through the many locks at dams.

https://obits.oregonlive.com/obituaries/oregon/obituary.aspx?n=ray-defir&pid=154272153
 
CupWizier said:
I have made my feelings known in pm's with no responses. All any of us want is consistency and fairness.
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Obviously not, as you and a couple other posters continually break the very rules you are leaning on.

If you're not up to honest debate, which so far appears to be the case, there is an ignore function to give you a Safe Space. :cheers:

I can't figure out why MarAzul terrifies you so?:dunno:
 
MARIS61 said:
That's pretty cool, but also misleading because he skied back and forth on a 12.5 stretch of the river.

Hard to ski through the many locks at dams.

https://obits.oregonlive.com/obituaries/oregon/obituary.aspx?n=ray-defir&pid=154272153
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There was absolutely nothing misleading in my post and I am very well aware of how it was done. I have a framed picture in my room from Ray thanking my dad on the 50th anniversary of the event. He also did a warm up run from his marina around 92nd and Marine Drive to Astoria and back. He was not only an awesome boat builder (he helped my dad build our Defir boat) but a helluva skier as well. I use to spend a lot of time at his shop and marina on the Columbia as a young kid as it was right across from Government Island. Here's a more detailed story of his life.

https://sea-to-summit.net/ray-defir-portland-speed-skier-and-boat-builder-1930-2011/
 
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riverman said:
Well I just got home from the procedure....still a bit blurry from being sedated but all went well...chest feels sunburned from being zapped...they got my heart beating at an almost normal rate...50 percent...60 is normal..before I was at 25 percent...and the pulse is no longer erratic...go back on Sept 16th for a checkup and will have minimum 3 month recovery...but all is good news...I no longer have nearly as many dietary restrictions which is a relief....still will stay low sodium and I'll not drink alcohol ever again as it can cause a relapse...I want to thank everyone for their well wishes and support....you guys have been great! Left home at 4 am to make the appointment so I'll probably crash out early tonight.
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...glad everything went well, River...hope it's OK for me to have a beer on your behalf. :bgrin:
 
CupWizier said:
There was absolutely nothing misleading in my post and I am very well aware of how it was done. I have a framed picture in my room from Ray thanking my dad on the 50th anniversary of the event. He was not only an awesome boat builder (he helped my dad build our Defir boat) but a helluva skier as well. I use to spend a lot of time at his shop and marina on the Columbia as a young kid as it was right across from Government Island. Here's a more detailed story of his life.

https://sea-to-summit.net/ray-defir-portland-speed-skier-and-boat-builder-1930-2011/
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Heh--after your earlier post about his achievement, I went out googling, and that was the page I found. Enjoyed the account immensely.
 
I'd appreciate it if my thread here didn't turn into a pissing contest....use the pm mode or flag a post...let's collectively keep threads on topic and use the tools the forum provides for a complaint dept....Marz pm'd me with a string of really heartfelt and wonderful posts ...we disagree about things but what we have in common far out weighs the bullshit in the end...make S2 great again folks...it should be fun. the topic in this thread is riverman almost bought the farm....I'm doing my best to lead by example when possible and follow my own advice....the ignore button isn't a safe space...it's a mute button for infommercials or bad music
 
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CupWizier said:
There was absolutely nothing misleading in my post and I am very well aware of how it was done. I have a framed picture in my room from Ray thanking my dad on the 50th anniversary of the event. He also did a warm up run from his marina around 92nd and Marine Drive to Astoria and back. He was not only an awesome boat builder (he helped my dad build our Defir boat) but a helluva skier as well. I use to spend a lot of time at his shop and marina on the Columbia as a young kid as it was right across from Government Island. Here's a more detailed story of his life.

https://sea-to-summit.net/ray-defir-portland-speed-skier-and-boat-builder-1930-2011/
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awesome achievement and a great story...just read it. ..what a legend ..best read in awhile..thanks for sharing it!
 
CupWizier said:
There was absolutely nothing misleading in my post and I am very well aware of how it was done. I have a framed picture in my room from Ray thanking my dad on the 50th anniversary of the event. He also did a warm up run from his marina around 92nd and Marine Drive to Astoria and back. He was not only an awesome boat builder (he helped my dad build our Defir boat) but a helluva skier as well. I use to spend a lot of time at his shop and marina on the Columbia as a young kid as it was right across from Government Island. Here's a more detailed story of his life.

https://sea-to-summit.net/ray-defir-portland-speed-skier-and-boat-builder-1930-2011/
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It wasn't an attack, perhaps I should have said "misleading to me personally" as having been employed by the US Army Corps of Engineers for 11 years, and having travelled the Columbia's entire path from it's source to it's mouth by land, my immediate thought was 'How can you ski nearly the length of a 1,200 mile long river when it has so many dams and locks throughout it's course"?

Incredible feat no matter how it happened.

I water-skied once, on Lake Oswego as a 14 year-old, and it was a blast for about 90 seconds then ended horrifically when I dipped the tip of one ski into a wave. Never skied again.
 
riverman said:
awesome achievement and a great story...just read it. ..what a legend ..best read in awhile..thanks for sharing it!
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Yeah, he was a remarkable skier and one of my best memories in the 60's was him putting a chair on a wooden disc and skiing around the area we would camp at on Lemon Island which is at the west end of Government Island as it had an inlet where you can keep the boats tied up near shore and we would pitch the tent in the sand.
 
MARIS61 said:
It wasn't an attack, perhaps I should have said "misleading to me personally" as having been employed by the US Army Corps of Engineers for 11 years, and having travelled the Columbia's entire path from it's source to it's mouth by land, my immediate thought was 'How can you ski nearly the length of a 1,200 mile long river when it has so many dams and locks throughout it's course"?

Incredible feat no matter how it happened.

I water-skied once, on Lake Oswego as a 14 year-old, and it was a blast for about 90 seconds then ended horrifically when I dipped the tip of one ski into a wave. Never skied again.
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My mother was one of the key personnel who started the Oswego Water Festival, primarily on Oswego Lake but also at George Rogers park on the Willamette, in the late 50s. She got Hilo Hattie to attend in the opening year. Hilo Hattie was the Polynesian mother of the young Polynesian lady who loved the American sailor in the movie "South Pacific", one my favorite movies. There were all sorts of water skiers in that festival.

I've also done quite a bit of swimming on that lake. I spent every summer day swimming at the Oswego Swim Park. I'd ride my bike there just as soon as the bus that transported us strawberry pickers dropped us off in Oswego. Sometimes I'd either swim or fish in another part of the lake that bordered the down town area.
 
riverman said:
Well I just got home from the procedure....still a bit blurry from being sedated but all went well...chest feels sunburned from being zapped...they got my heart beating at an almost normal rate...50 percent...60 is normal..before I was at 25 percent...and the pulse is no longer erratic...go back on Sept 16th for a checkup and will have minimum 3 month recovery...but all is good news...I no longer have nearly as many dietary restrictions which is a relief....still will stay low sodium and I'll not drink alcohol ever again as it can cause a relapse...I want to thank everyone for their well wishes and support....you guys have been great! Left home at 4 am to make the appointment so I'll probably crash out early tonight.
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Glad you have that over with. Best of luck with the continued recovery.

I can't help but think that your treatment today looked something like this:

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You don't have any bolts in the side of your neck, do you?
 
e_blazer said:
Glad you have that over with. Best of luck with the continued recovery.

I can't help but think that your treatment today looked something like this:

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You don't have any bolts in the side of your neck, do you?
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Love the feet. And the helper looks wholesome.
riverman said:
I wondered if I actually died on the table and just am now experiencing the afterlife in an alternative version of my previous life...before the zap...I was considering finding a functioning vampire to solve my blood problems but I've seen the sun today and didn't melt
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Maybe it wasn't the sun. Maybe it was an alternate version.

May I pull open the drapes?
 
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