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This is a joke, right?
This is a joke, right?
This is a joke, right?
I read 4 more pages in this thread. It does make me want to offer up the camera. The issue that many have come to realize is that there are not many $10 Leicas in existance. So few that, perhaps they might be considered collector's items. The rarest of rare, assuming one exists.
He's been offered those and some other non-Leica rangefinders; and he's declared that he's too good for that crap, and will settle for nothing less than a Leica.
Relentlessly demanding, to be so presumptuous to think it’s inoffensive to just pop-up with a request like this, who already owns MF gear, to make a singular demand, for a Leica no less, for (as you say), “a pleasure of simply doing a thing because you can, and forgoing being happy in that act the whole time including afterwards, regardless of the outcome.”
To me it’s ill from an adult; I’d rather make a video of me burning up a iiif on my BBQ and then gifting another iiif (or any model M) to a kid down the street whose father left home years ago whose mother is an alcoholic and whose brother burglarized my car in my driveway.
On RF on 1-26-2021 you wrote, “I have been using Eclipse Lens Cleaner on my Hasselblad and other lenses, and B&W filters, etc, and so far, no damage to any coating has occurred.” Nice enough gear …
Why don’t you drive down to your local Shell gas station, stand around your pump and ask strangers to buy you a tank of fuel? My money says you probably have a nicer car than mine. And my car was made back in the 1990’s.
Relentlessly demanding, to be so presumptuous to think it’s inoffensive to just pop-up with a request like this, who already owns MF gear, to make a singular demand, for a Leica no less, for (as you say), “a pleasure of simply doing a thing because you can, and forgoing being happy in that act the whole time including afterwards, regardless of the outcome.”
To me it’s ill from an adult; I’d rather make a video of me burning up a iiif on my BBQ and then gifting another iiif (or any model M) to a kid down the street whose father left home years ago whose mother is an alcoholic and whose brother burglarized my car in my driveway.
On RF on 1-26-2021 you wrote, “I have been using Eclipse Lens Cleaner on my Hasselblad and other lenses, and B&W filters, etc, and so far, no damage to any coating has occurred.” Nice enough gear …
Why don’t you drive down to your local Shell gas station, stand around your pump and ask strangers to buy you a tank of fuel? My money says you probably have a nicer car than mine. And my car was made back in the 1990’s.
Chris, that is no the case, I can no recall ever actually receiving a legitimate offer and saying that I've said something I've never said/written is crossing a line that should never be done, period.
As far as "other" makers, while I am asking for a Leica, I'll happily accept an offer of a working Tower Nicca or similar well made version to the same Barnack Leica IIIC or later I am asking for, which Feds and other FSU cameras at no.
In the future, I hope you will be more careful of the words you put into other folk's mouths and be more circumspect in the words that come out of your own mouth, it may save you from more unpleasant reactions from others in your future.
Cheers,
Eli
Seriously…others have likened this to a car wreck they can’t look away from, and I agree. But at least one can laugh at this wreck.Just enjoy the levity.
By “moderating,” I think you mean editing or deleting posts by others, right? You moderate every one of these threads simply by tracking them all and policing them.I would rather not start moderating this thread. So I'm going to suggest that posters limit the number of posts that they make expressing their objections, and to keep the temperature reasonable in their posting.
By “moderating,” I think you mean editing or deleting posts by others, right? You moderate every one of these threads simply by tracking them all and policing them.
I read 4 more pages in this thread. It does make me want to offer up the camera. The issue that many have come to realize is that there are not many $10 Leicas in existance. So few that, perhaps they might be considered collector's items. The rarest of rare, assuming one exists.
An interesting conundrum. If a $10 Leica is so rare it becomes a collector's item, surely the price would rise above $10?
We could definitely change the focus of this thread by discussing this word usage, but I think it best if we don't.
FWIW, I personally only use the term "moderating" to describe an action taken in respect of a thread, such as when I:
1) actually do something that involves using one of the moderation tools (such as editing or deleting posts) available; or
2) warn about behavior that may make such actions necessary; or
3) post some other comment in a thread that relates to the thread and the organization of the site - e.g. in another recent thread I posted about making a thread a "Sticky" thread and asked about making it a site Resource.
I personally never consider just monitoring a thread as being moderation of the thread. Perhaps that is because I read threads out of interest far more frequently than I read threads in order to track or police them.
I don’t think “gift” or “loaner” properly characterizes this situation. This request is very different from you, most generously, giving your brother a valued and valuable watch with no strings attached. The “barley corn” turns this situation into a transaction rather than a gift.
Don’t worry… it’s a bit of an long-shot request with almost no possibility of being fulfilled. Even if it was fulfilled… the rest of us are just casual observers and it has no impact on us.
Just enjoy the levity.
And if you want an inexpensive Leica it might be wise to start a new thread with the asking price higher than $35. @Cholentpot already raised the bid up from $10. LOL
I believe post #420 fits your definition of moderating (see criterion #2 in your list).
I like this thread and want to see it through to Eli's triumphant conclusion...
"Look what I found at Goodwill!"
Oh, I bought a Leica Mini for $3 at Goodwill, once. Still have it.
Good find might I add.
I feel this thread is not about a $10 Leica, but is certainly a great study into human character.
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