What do you think about putting a forum in the Main Index that is for general, non-sailing stuff? A place where people can talk about politics, global warming, recipes, and also their non-sailing hobbies like gardening, bicycling, skiing, car restorations, woodworking, birdwatching, photography, etc.

Outstanding idea!!!!!

I second the motion.

Can you automatically switch posts that end up being off-topic to that new forum?

I think so.

i PERSONALLY dont mind the occasional non-sailing topic (i.e. global warming, electric car,) thread in this forum. If i dont care about the topic i move on... on the other hand.. i probably would NEVER click on a politics, global warming, recipes, gardening or birdwatching forum... but thats just what I THINK

Agreed!

Do we really want another PA free for all...

I really want to spend time on the forum talking about how to save the backyard pond coy fish. Let's start a thread...

Right, and I took up Wild Bird Feeding this year as a hobby at Put-in-Bay, that has turned out to be a Squirrel feeding hobby instead.
I would outsmart them for a while, then they would invent a way to get to the seed and destroy the feeder.
So, I would come up with another way to stop them. after a couple of days, they figured out a way to get by that.

I felt like Elmer Fudd v. Bugs Bunny. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
At last, a place to vent.
Rick

It's your show, but it won't solve anything. The anti free speech freaks will still become apoplectic when they see anything they disagree with. My biggest detractors will still, figuratively, foam at the mouth, and that's fun to watch in a train wreck kind of way.

If you'll notice, the threads with the most hits are always controversial. That seems to be part of human nature. You won't get many hits on the bird watching threads, I've tried, no one cares.

Rabbit Season! - Duck Season!, Rabbit Season! - Duck, ason!
Rabbit Season! - Duck Season!

I would not use the non sailing dept., and I never mix politics and/or religion with sailing - with almost nothing actually ;-).

It would be non-productive if disagreements on these non-sailing topics would affect the sailing topics/opinions.


Martijn

Solution for squirrels destroying bird feeders (and in my case, eating my house. Literally.)

A DIANA high-powered pellet gun, later followed by squirrel-and-andouille gumbo. Yum, yum!


How to make a roux:
http://www.gumbopages.com/food/ingred.html

Why do squirrels smell so bad when you clean them? The only thing worse is armadillo.

When you clean them? You need to use the wool program, not the cotton program, that will of course ruin them. Dont put them in the dryer, but centrifuging them at 750rpms is fine. Didn't your father teach you that? <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Have never eaten squrrel, they are so small around here. Taste good?

The squirrels in these parts taste like Bubonic Plague, or so I've read. I'm not willing to test that theory.

Anybody ever heard of lemmings?
Forget the squirrels!! Everybody, please try to focus on the subject of this thread -- which, by the way, is a perfect example of a thread that should be moved to that new forum. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

See Rick about that. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

I already did, and he has been severely reprimanded for hijacking the thread.

So do it! It could be a lot fun!

Will "the test" be transferred?