The Ten Commandments...
Ron Thow
For any who have had the urge to strangle some righteous little turd who
thinks he/she knows it all (when it's perfectly obvious that you actually do
:-) )...
1) Thou shalt harangue others into submission until they stop experimenting,
for then shall you feel righteous in ignorance.
2) Thou shalt argue endlessly about the merits of different dive schools for
that wastes time and achieves nothing.
3) Thou shalt exhibit no sense of humour, for that can lead only to enjoying
diving and diving is a Serious Thing.
4) Thou shalt consider 40m to be the bottom of the ocean, any who say the
ocean extends below it are heretics and shall be fed to the sharks.
5) Thou shalt feel obliged to render an opinion on Absolutely Everything,
even when you don't have one.
6) Thou shalt consider dive computers to be the One True Way and not use Tables,
as they require thinking and are thusly uncool.
7) Thou shalt have colour-coordinated dive gear and look disapprovingly upon
those who don't for they will not be pleasing to the fish.
8) Thou shalt chastise and vilify those who drink and smoke and dive,
despite the fact that they've been doing it for 30 years and are perfectly
happy.
9) An individual cannot be trusted to take responsibility for their own
actions and must be told What To Do, especially by divers who are less
experienced and still follow their instructors around like lost guppies.
10) Thou shalt chastise and vilify those who Dive Alone, for they must Wrong
because someone once said so.
Ever windingly
Ron
My ancestors crawled out of the ocean and learned to breath air just so I could
spend most of my time underwater with it strapped to my back.
Now *that's* progress for you......
Brian Taylor
Nicely put Ron.
Brian
Lars Frandsen
Applause, applause!
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* Lars Frandsen *** Pulchra quae videntur, *
* Aalborg University *** pulchriora quae sciuntur, *
* Center (AUC) *** longe pulcherrima quae ignorantur *
* Aalborg, Denmark *** *
* lafr...@iesd.auc.dk *** (Niels Stensen, Jan. 29, 1673) *
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