"Wilbur Hubbard" <wilbur...@thefarm.invallid> wrote in message
news:4aeddf2e$0$65848$892e...@auth.newsreader.octanews.com...
> In this post I plan to cite some of Capt. Rob Brody's more numerous
> failings and let you, the reader, decide for yourself how to react.
>
> Here's my side of the story: I know more about sailboats than most
> people. You might even say that I'm an expert on the subject having sailed
> extensively and lived aboard since 1985. I can therefore state with
> confidence that Rob has a very limited proficiency with sails and even
> less acumen when it comes to being a man. He'd rather play stay-at-home
> dad and let his wife put money in his pocket. As you listen to Rob's
> bullshit, chances are you won't even notice how his lies build upon
> themselves to the point where he's managed to convince himself that he's a
> sailor and a man. Only later, after you realize you've been duped, will
> you truly understand that his delusional fantasies stem from a desire to
> be viewed as a man instead of a man stuck doing a woman's job.
>
> Perhaps one day we will live in a world where sailors will stand up
> and reject talk-a-good-game-but-know-nothing wannabes like Capt. Rob.
> Until that day arrives, however, I must spread the word that Rob's
> so-called sailing is little more than a floating-at-the-dock and
> very-close-to-the-dock-while-stuck-on-a-rock day care center for pale
> chubby women babysitters and screaming, slobbering children. In spite of
> this, Capt. Rob remains an attention hound who preys upon the gullible,
> the ignorant and the know-nothings. He seeks their constant approval to
> keep from becoming depressed with his stay-at-home-dad lifestyle. As a man
> he's a liberated failure, no doubt about it. Keep that in mind while I
> state the following: Rob truly believes that his posting bullshit posts,
> photos and videos impresses the audience. What kind of Mickey Mouse world
> is he living in? We real sailors know how big a fraud Mr. Homemaker really
> is.
>
> The two things I just mentioned�the way that Rob thinks we can't
> recognize a fraud when we see one and how he only succeeds in fooling
> himself, just go to show how pathetic an individual he really is. He's
> substituted materialism and showing off to try to compensate for not being
> able to be the bread winner and wearing the skirt in his marriage. The
> common thread is a life of frustration, unhappiness, desperation,
> depression and loneliness. I'm even beginning to think he's a closet
> homosexual. Rob criticizes me for exposing wannabe, pretend sailors like
> himself and he does it because he constantly fails to show by example that
> he can sail. He is unable to refute my assertions so he resorts to the
> liberal sham of an ad hominem attack. Every photo he posts, every video,
> every written word says it all - "I can't sail; I haven't a clue and I
> think my audience is too stupid to know it and will fall for my bullshit."
> If he wants to play sailor he should possess real and substantial
> knowledge about sailing - not how to operate a floating daycare center on
> and around the dock and record it on YouTube for the whole world to see.
>
> Wouldn't it be wonderful if we lived in a world without fat, heart
> attack-prone, obscene showboaters? Let's be frank: We find among narrow
> and uneducated minds the belief that sailing is for everybody . . . That
> even a liberal can do it. Simply not so! as liberals can't do the simplest
> of tasks without demanding somebody help them or pay for what they do
> which is fail. This belief is due to a basic confusion that can be cleared
> up simply by stating that if Rob can overawe and befuddle a sufficient
> number of newsgroup, hangers-on individuals then it will become virtually
> impossible for anyone to take up the mantle and provide you with a
> holistic and thematic history of Rob's follies and failures.
>
> For those of us who earned our respect by stepping up to the plate and
> sailing the seven seas for decades and getting the facts out about those
> who only pretend in the hope that somebody else will take heed and ignore
> Capt. Rob's bad example and follow ours instead, it is important to
> consider that Rob's blatherings always follow the same pattern. He puts
> the desired twist on the actual facts, ignores inconvenient facts, and
> invents as many new "facts" as necessary to convince us that we aren't
> sailors and he is. Yah Right! As if even the stupidest of us can't see
> through his chicanery.
>
> I was thinking about how it's quite sad that Rob chooses to squander
> his talent on this sort of misdirection. Why doesn't he sit down and write
> some fiction books? He's obviously gifted in the writing of fiction. And
> then it hit me. He's not disciplined enough and his having to do the
> laundry, vacuum the floors, do the dishes and dusting and cooking leaves
> no time for any extended project.
>
>
> Wilbur Hubbard
Oh man what a smackdown...
....cross posted to alt.sailing.asa....
Shad O'Shay