[joeclarke]

Funny thread - a buddy emailed this thread to me - and it pretty much hits a nail on the head in my case.

I swore off Pelican a while back pretty much for the reasons outlined here. I'm pretty thick-skinned, but the repeated pattern of bashing of liberal views had gone beyond all reason. Virtually any thread started on a "liberal premise" quickly deteriorated into several conservatives beating-up on one or (at best) two liberals. These were not intellectual beatings, nor simply the rigors of the enthusiatic exchange of "information", but boiled down to the simple laying on of epithets and anti-American labels.

I have been called some pretty foul things here many, many times until enough became enough.

Now the link between the exchange of views on the OT board and the consumption of Pelican merchandise is a clear one in my case.

Many was the time I would cruise the Pelican site (including OT, tech and other sections) as part of a general sense of comraderie with fellow Porsche lovers in the exchange of information. Often was the time I would catch a comment in one of the boards that would incent me to purchase goods from Pelican (H-4 headlights, LM-1 meter, Dansk mufflers, Steve Wong chips are excellent examples). Such purchases would not have happened (and will not in the future) because of these chance gatherings of knowledge or intelligence. This wont happen anymore because I have decided that the Pelican site does not represent a group of people that I want to "hang with".

I have other boards (real estate, wine, electronics, finance, law) where I find a more civilized environment. I will spend my time there rather than Pelican.

So long, (once again) Pelicanites!