you got it.  We're all a bunch of unfriendly, rude, serious, humorless 
bastards that care nothing for our fellow man and fellow hams.
Didn't you find that in your study materials?  there is a whole section in 
the question pool dealing with how to be rude, unfriendly, serious, 
humorless, bastard like.  It must make up about 90 per cent of the exam at 
least.
There are also a couple questions on every exam dealing with how to deal 
with people who can't take a joke and who are, in themselves, somewhat rude, 
humorless and unfriendly to others trying to have a bit of fun.
I believe you were indeed mistaken with regard to how ham operators are 
supposed to behave.
After all, they are indeed only human and like to have a good laugh, 
sometimes at the expense of others.  It's how we humans work.  If we can't 
laugh at ourselves and others, what can we laugh at?  Life is too short and 
far too fraught with negative circumstances not to laugh when we can.
And then, there are those who feel they must take a position of "laugh cop" 
and decide who and what we may find amusing and entertaining.
Being a new ham, you have obviously not sat listening to 75 meters late on a 
friday night.  When the old fellas are sitting around, rag chewing, perhaps 
having a glass or two of their favorite adult beverage.  We all poke fun at 
each other, that's part of being a "ham". we are "hams" in the real 
idiosyncratic sense of the word.
We're not professional radio operators, we are "amateur" radio operators. 
Remember that, "amateur".  Look it up in the dictionary and then apply it to 
the context of "amateur radio".  It's what we are.

but, if you find us all so unfriendly and rude and ignorant, and you don't 
like our behavior, find something else to occupy your precious time.  Like 
perhaps grave digging, or funeral home director, or maybe that grouchy old 
neighborhood Sod who yells at the kids who walk on his lawn.

73
Colin, V A6BKX
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Raymond Bishop" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: how do you do that?


>I personally find this type of  behaviour disappointing in that only being 
>a
> licensed Ham for two weeks, some people on this list give Hams let alone
> blind Hams a bad name.  I have found my local hams to be very friendly and
> accommodating and I find we have some on this list who would rather be
> snippy and rude!  Maybe I should reconsider my hobby.  No, maybe the 
> persons
> who are having such issues with the way people ask questions needs to
> consider their hobby!  I was under the impression obviously mistaken, that
> Hams were a friendly accommodating community.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Anthony Vece
> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2010 11:02 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: how do you do that?
>
> Hi Steve;
> You can Leave the list and no one will object!
> Anthony
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 18, 2010, at 11:23 AM, Steve <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, I love this list.  So many descriptive messages with assinine
> subjec=
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>> lines and no way to tell what the message sender was referring to in
> the=20=
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>> first place.
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>> Hope some of you don't handle traffic that way!  Not referring to you,=20
>> Buddy.
>>=20
>> Steve
>> ----- Original Message -----=20
>> From: "Buddy Brannan" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Saturday, July 17, 2010 7:26 PM
>> Subject: Re: how do you do that?
>>=20
>>=20
>>> On Jul 17, 2010, at 6:38 PM, Walter Hampton wrote:
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>>>> how do you do that?=3D20
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>>> Like this.
>>> --
>>> Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
>>> Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY
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>>>> from walter wb6jtj=20
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