Smeerak wrote:Fine, my dulling level dosen't like to see a useless 21 page conversation with a link to it on the very front page - all about the "schumacher incident" which is now about Mr. Senna, a completely different topic.
Perhaps this sort of discussion could at least be MODERATED and terminated after it's served it's useful purpose.
Smeerak, first, I am sorry to have doubted your dancing abilities... your post seemed a little "tight" to me. Please, accept my sincere apologies from the bottom of my dancing-lover south american heart and keep shaking it.
Then it should be reeeeally eeeeeasy for you to understand why it is appropriate to discuss the implications that pilot behavior have on accidents and incidents. Ethics goes before and beyond engineering. Emotions too.
And that is what this thread is about: most of us, including you as I can see, appreciate what Principessa is doing, giving her age (and I do not doubt it, her beauty...
) and the fact that she brings some
feelings and sensations we will not find on other forums. As tp points out, this forum has enough areas where opinions are of no importance and we all want figures (my personal mantra). There you can discharge your neurons for a while and maybe bring people to the edge of death by boredom, discussing the really abstruse topics that you (and me!) like.
But this thread is not about you or me or these areas. It is about Principessa and how well she is doing. I will not tolerate without retort people here, annoying everybody while they complain of other people that annoy them.
She is doing fine, and Tomba and CFDRuss too. They have showed their prudency by not interfering with such a thread, that you boldly ask to terminate, what more can I say... This is what makes this forum "classy" in my opinion, and much more coherent and positive than the average "yelling party". Most people here have a visceral reaction about the possibility of this kind of censure, I hope. We prefer to tolerate the occasional jerk or the emotional fan and to accept that we ourselves can be jerks and fans sometimes. It should happen something more extreme to terminate a post, I guess. Besides, this is precisely the thread I won't touch with a pole, and where most people here is tip-toeing.
I have three children and I am positive that, when they fight, it is of no use to scream for them to shut up. And you surely do not expect the fans to keep silent about such an incident, do you?
But, you see, even while I try to be mature and fatherly, I am speaking about emotions. I confess my Latin blood boils in my veins when I see Principessa explaining that she is too busy right now to try to placate manchild, dumrick, scuderia_russ, our own jason, tom and the lot. She does not need to explain.
I maybe alone, but because of my old ripe age and my short intellect I am still in wonder and awe when I consider that three Belgian (I am guessing here) friends have put together a place like this. This is a site where people all over the world can come together in friendly and incredibly accessible way, unimaginable 20 years ago, with the only purpose of making a better sport and branch of engineering. I do not know about you, but I haven't done the same, nor has my work had the same wide repercussions.
Maybe some girl will sigh when she reads Principessa's article on JV wedding, who knows? Are you so sure this does not happen? Others can feel goose bumps when they ponder how JV plays and composes music with the help of his family, stare away from the computer, and wonder for a moment if the human spirit is still more powerful than multinationals and car factories. I can assume you really enjoy the moment of introspection that follows the understanding of a new invention and the grasp of the thought of the inventor, but let me tell you, this is not all.
So again, thanks to Principessa. Keep the good work and do not hear anything we say: you are waaaaay mooooore than doing fine.
P.S. I forgot to mention that the order of the forum posts in the front page is, evidently, my friend, at least influenced by date of last post (and maybe number of posts, I do not know). This keeps "popular" topics on the front page for you to suffer.
