List your shooters: Part VI

[AndreusMaximus]

Welp, off to change my avatar....

Uh oh. Now I've done it...

 

[Bigtanker]

What this site really needs is a rule against changing your avatar. I had just got to the point of being able to recognize everyone's avatar quickly so I could scroll through posts and just see the avatar out of the corner of my eye and know who's talking, then suddenly we have two mods in the last few days change their avatar, and now I'm afraid I'm not gonna recognize who's posting at first (since I never look at names) and accidentally mouth off to a mod and end up having to go over to reddit to post all my abundant wisdom...

A year or so back the avatars we're switched. It really did cause some ruckus. A few had CM's avatar, some had printcrafts, docs, cameramonkeys etc. Yeah. It was a bit crazy. CM put a stop to it.

 

[actaeon277]

Had coffee in my baby bottles.

Funny story, My granddaughter is very timid, after covid she didn't know who I was and wouldn't come near me. I tried everything to make her like me.

Finally I offered her a sip of my black coffee, she loves it and now she loves me.

Another:

A lady I worked with the North Carolina said that coffee taste like dirt in fact it's made from dirt. I said what she said "Haven't you ever heard of coffee grounds?"

Sad that she didn't know you.

 

[jamil]

Yes.

But why?

Does it matter why if I like it now?

 

[BigRed]

First time I tried coffee I said that it tastes like I would imagine an ashtray full of cigarette butts would taste.

But then I kept drinking it. And I like it. So. Moral of the story, even an ashtray full of cigarette butts can taste good if you taste it often enough.

Did you like bacon the first time you tried it?

 

[actaeon277]

Does it matter why if I like it now?

Matters to me.
I don't drink it.
Why should I "learn to love it"?

 

[2A_Tom]

Sad that she didn't know you.

Lost two years of two way

Stinkin' leftards!

 

[actaeon277]

Lost two years of two way

Stinkin' leftards!

Lotta people died alone.

 

[foszoe]

First time I tried coffee I said that it tastes like I would imagine an ashtray full of cigarette butts would taste.

But then I kept drinking it. And I like it. So. Moral of the story, even an ashtray full of cigarette butts can taste good if you taste it often enough.

Why stop at cigarette butts? There’s a whole world of butts out there just waiting to be sampled.

 

[ditcherman]

Not sure if there’s a runner, might just be a very very fast walker.

 

[Rookie]

He's a runner.

 

[foszoe]

Matters to me.
I don't drink it.
Why should I "learn to love it"?

If you spent $1000 on a bean roaster, a conical burr grinder, a scale, a gooseneck kettle, a French press, a pour over station, a moka pot, a frother, and a double wall glass mug...you would change your tune.

 

[ditcherman]

If you spent $1000 on a bean roaster, a conical burr grinder, a scale, a gooseneck kettle, a French press, a pour over station, a moka pot, a frother, and a double wall glass mug...you would change your tune.

Solid logic.

 

[KellyinAvon]

Speaking only for myself, I’m only now learning the technology, I’ve changed mine several times since I learned about this gizmos camera feature last week. I may change it again, until I find the one I can live with.

That’s my plan unless someone makes a “RULE“ against it.
JMO of course.

The picture below was my avatar for years here at INGO. When stupid uncle Joe first made the "You need F-15s and atomic bombs to take on the government" comments a lot of mushroom clouds showed up as avatars. I went with the F-15Cs of the Black Knights (57th Fighter Interceptor Squadron Keflavik, Iceland) intercepting a Tu-95 Bear since I was stationed there for a while when the Rooskies were breaking our airspace every 3 days on average.

I still had the F-15s up when I got the call from CM to join the staff. A pair of Eagles intercepting a Bear during the Cold War seems more Mod-like than the funny road sign (although the funny road sign is a good fit for me.)

Piggybacking on @Bigtanker 's comment, what he described was a whole different deal. If you hijack a Mod's avatar and run amuck, that is a problem. CM had the terrorists in his avatar for years (I can remember when his was a pic of him on his Harley, that's a long time ago.) Some members I just glance at the avatar and know who it is. (To name just a few) Bigtanker's Kenworth, D.Kaufman's Ben Franklin, Expat's William F. Buckley, BBI's squirrel in a fedora, Cameramonkey's "I Like Chocolate Milk", Printcraft's... well Printcraft's avatar.

If you change them out just seeing which one works for you, no prob here.

 

[Rookie]

My avatar hasn't changed in 14 years.

 

[KellyinAvon]

I'm not sayin there was a runner, but there was a runner.

 

[Rookie]

It was...


REPORTED!!!

 

[foszoe]

Solid logic.

It's what I am known for

 

[Mij]

The picture below was my avatar for years here at INGO. When stupid uncle Joe first made the "You need F-15s and atomic bombs to take on the government" comments a lot of mushroom clouds showed up as avatars. I went with the F-15Cs of the Black Knights (57th Fighter Interceptor Squadron Keflavik, Iceland) intercepting a Tu-95 Bear since I was stationed there for a while when the Rooskies were breaking our airspace every 3 days on average.

I still had the F-15s up when I got the call from CM to join the staff. A pair of Eagles intercepting a Bear during the Cold War seems more Mod-like than the funny road sign (although the funny road sign is a good fit for me.)

Piggybacking on @Bigtanker 's comment, what he described was a whole different deal. If you hijack a Mod's avatar and run amuck, that is a problem. CM had the terrorists in his avatar for years (I can remember when his was a pic of him on his Harley, that's a long time ago.) Some members I just glance at the avatar and know who it is. (To name just a few) Bigtanker's Kenworth, D.Kaufman's Ben Franklin, Expat's William F. Buckley, BBI's squirrel in a fedora, Cameramonkey's "I Like Chocolate Milk", Printcraft's... well Printcraft's avatar.

If you change them out just seeing which one works for you, no prob here.


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I can absolutely understand not allowing a change if folks are doing it to intentionally cause a warp in the space-time continuum or other mayhem. But creating a rule because you are worried about saying something inappropriate to “anyone“ least of all a moderator doesn’t seem (to me anyway) to be a very good reason to impose sanctions on the rest of the members of this venue.

Thank you for the go ahead, I’ll settle soon enough. And hopefully one day become one of the well recognized group of distinguished gentlemen (or lady’s) you mentioned above.

BTW, I’ve noticed the many that have changed over the last few days to show their respect for a long time member. And I think it greatly shows their own character. Good on them.

 

[mom45]

I change my avatar periodically to update pictures of my grandson and/or granddaughter. I guess I do it on other sites like FB and never really thought about it being an issue here. I will probably change my current avatar in a week or so, but it was a little confusing when several of us were posting using the same one. I believe this is the same one some of us used when we lost BA.