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Originally Posted by bigdjiver Here is how I read it:
You held me up to ridicule by not quoting me in context, which I believe was accidental, and you are now trying to bluster over the fact.
I listen to everybody, trying to collect .1% improvement here and .2% there, because .1% improvement per week matters. That is why I am so particular about the arguments being proper. I believe that appropriate clapping is a positive activity.
Your views, and the way you argue them, is why I have reservations about the MJDA. There is a human tendency to climb the ladder to a lofty place, and then remove some of the rungs so others cannot easily follow. The Franchisees try to listen to all of the marketplace.
The members of this forum are grossly unrepresentative of the people that have only come a few times. The (percentage that stay) are 100% - (the percentage that leave). I think probably everybody on this forum can do that math. I wrote it that way because I thought it was the clearest way of expressing it. I resent you implying that I was trying to mislead.
By your brain addled reckoning James Cronin was once a beginner, and had the most experience of Ceroc, so is most representative of all, therefore we should all blindly follow where he has led.
I am quite sure that there are a few first timers for whom it was a critical issue, and the main reason that they left. All of the people that now find clapping in the class embarrassing on this forum are amongst those who were not deterred. I suspect that it was amongst the least of their worries when they joined. I also believe for the vast majority of newcomers it is an extremely positive experience.
Either: It was difficult, I did it, the teacher recognises my achievement, and the class recognises my achievement.
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I failed. I want to be applauded next time, but in the meantime I can applaud those that did it.
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I notice that DavidB hasn't posted since the little series of comments in this thread.
Personally, I miss him, and his (mostly) enlightened posts. And wish that he'd come back.
If it's any consolation, David. I agree with pretty much everything that you've said, and pretty much nothing that bigdjiver has said. Especially the personal insults (bluster, brain addled...)
On the whole, I also know whose posts I'd prefer to read.
Oh. And I still hate the clapping in class after every move. But then, I don't like many Americanisms.....