Maggot qualifications?

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I've been working on a particularly boring assignment that is for a course that I'm taking in order to get my Master's but I'm constantly being distracted by post on TGR which are far more entertaining Not sure which one is worse: American Idol or this assigment on "Performances of Understanding".

So you're working on a Masters in boring? Sounds dope.

[cj001f]

Oh. I don't really remember ever talking to you before or feeling "beaten up" by your sparkling wordplay.

Hmm. I guess that's what makes your nearly six thousand posts (!) so damned unmemorable.

Keep on pluggin' away, tho, sport! You'll build a personality eventually!

yup. there's one major qualification - a surplus of testosterone and a raging desire to insult.

[leroy jenkins]

I would just like to say that I have only met a few maggots, all of which were fun to ski with and seemed like good people. As of three years ago my quiver consisted of 177 rossi gs skis and 160 rossi slalom skis (which I thought would be good in powder because they had so much sidecut they were almost fat) and I had never tried anything over 80mm underfoot. I have also never posted a single TR, and I'm a newb. Oh, I'm also a gaper.

But...

I have sold things on gear swap for less then I probably could have gotten elsewhere, I know the proper use of , I would readily lend any knowledge or expertise I have if someone asked for advice on here, and I am aware of the fact that I am not the most extreme skier on this forrum even if I am the most extreme skier in my office.

I would say if someone approaches you and askes for change for a nickel, then you are probably a maggot.

[Tippster]

Oh. I don't really remember ever talking to you before or feeling "beaten up" by your sparkling wordplay.

Hmm. I guess that's what makes your nearly six thousand posts (!) so damned unmemorable.

Keep on pluggin' away, tho, sport! You'll build a personality eventually!

I'll just set 'em up - you knock 'em down, Tiger.

You got a lot of wedgies in Junior HS didn't you?

[pechelman]

Im probably far from a maggot status, whatever that means, but Id like to think Ive contributed a little bit and dont plan on leaving anytime soon. Having said that, my first post was to nab a pair of 180 explosivs with 10 days on them for 300$. I lurked for a good month before even registering and posting for those skis the same day. Anyway, I think its hard to draw a line beforehand as to who can and cannot participate in Gear Swap based on the amount of posts or contributions.

You might as well call TGR, Tau Gamma Rho, since youll be preemptively judging someone much like a frat would do if someone doesnt wear American Eagle or whatever that bullshit is. One of the great things is that anyone can participate in this forum, granted they dont like markers

I do however see your point.
Maybe let them buy once, and then let them contribute to earn their place?
Perhaps some sort of rating system like ebay?
just thoughts


anyway, my 2 cents

[leroy jenkins]

Oh. I don't really remember ever talking to you before or feeling "beaten up" by your sparkling wordplay.

Hmm. I guess that's what makes your nearly six thousand posts (!) so damned unmemorable.

Keep on pluggin' away, tho, sport! You'll build a personality eventually!

This might be a little presumptious for a newb like me, but I would venture that one thing that would make you NOT a maggot is being a prick to people on here for no good reason.

Edit to say nothing personal, ShawnB, I just thought I'd make the obvious point that the squawmanesque people are not maggots.

[mtnbikerskierchick]

So you're working on a Masters in boring? Sounds dope.

Yep that about sums it up! Masters in "Technology and Education" to be precise. It's so much fun I can't tear myself from my work!

[MTT]

I approve

...but from what I’ve observed on the God thread,
the main qualification is: You have to believe in karma.

...or, you have to believe in Karmas.

...or, you have to believe in Garmin.

...or, you have to be constantly chargin’.

...or, you have to be constantly charging new skis.

...or, you have to be constantly chargin’ w/ mad steeze.

...or, you have to be constantly a target for Febreeze.


One of those, anyway.
Or all of them. Or some, but definitely not others. Whatever the case, there should definitely be a way on this board to discriminate against people, that’s for sure.
Otherwise, how could we trample down the relentless terror of our undying insecurity, and publicly establish that we are better than those other people over there?

Duh.

[FletchLives]

Can't you go beat up Fletch and still his name? Because you, as a sequel, stunk. although I did think Julianne Phillips was hot

funny how that works out, some Fletch always beats me to a message board.

[Max Gosey]

Difficult to define for sure. I had like 900 posts on Powdermag in like 5 months, but I CERTAINLY wasn't a maggot (I didn't even know the history behind it all or what a finger moustache was or what change for a nickel meant). I have like 1300 posts now, and like 50 of those (maybe) were worth anything.

Number of valuable TR's/pictures: 0.

Ya, people know who I am, but I don't think I can say I am a valuable contributor to the board. I ask a lot more questions than I provide answers, and I see a lot more pictures than I post.

But I would probably rather ski with "maggots" than anybody else because I feed off how stoked they are on the hill (just as I am), so that might make me a maggot, I dont know.

I'd say purposeful attendance of a mini or summit and purposeful association with people from this board is about the only surefire way to distinguish. It's easier to say "ya, that guy qualifies because he has posted a shitload of super-sweet pictures and helps out everybody" than "he doesn't qualify because he only has 23 posts."

Bottom line is that it's up to the seller. I would not encourage giving away deals to anybody because that sorta messes up the economics of the place, and I would say that in order to reap the benefits of a super-cheap deal for good gear, you should probably contribute SOMETHING, but there's no way to quantify that something.

Just contribute whatever you have. That's what I do... I just don't have much to contribute (yet )

[mtnbikerskierchick]

Just contribute whatever you have. That's what I do... I just don't have much to contribute (yet )

Kid, you contribute by providing sheer entertainment

[BeanDip4All]

The one thing I do know: Long-duck-jong/unabonger/whatever is not a maggot.

I am even involved here enough yet to be considered a real maggette. yet I already know enough to be annoyed by this person...

[Plakespear]

I am even involved here enough yet to be considered a real maggette. yet I already know enough to be annoyed by this person...

You drank with me wearing a "Ski Iraq" T-shirt. You qualify.

[leroy jenkins]

Yeah I go around wearing trophies on my chest ALL day That sounds great!

Having been a "trophy-tree" donator in the past.... I don't buy into any story that guys steal the girls bra and put it on the tree. Unless you have, Leroy.... have you? Oh do tell!

Yea, I'm not sure of the validity of that story either. Personally, I'd never have the balls to do that because I know that eventually I'd meet some super cute girl and introduce myself just to hear, "so you're that creepy guy that likes to steal girls panties huh? my freind told me about YOU. Sicko"

[mtnbikerskierchick]

Yea, I'm not sure of the validity of that story either. Personally, I'd never have the balls to do that because I know that eventually I'd meet some super cute girl and introduce myself just to hear, "so you're that creepy guy that likes to steal girls panties huh? my freind told me about YOU. Sicko"

Aw, come on. You're more afraid she'd punch your lights out for stealing her favorite langerie.

[verrückter]

Yep that about sums it up! Masters in "Technology and Education" to be precise. It's so much fun I can't tear myself from my work!

Definitely in the same boat in a totally different field, but at least I'm done in a couple of weeks. Thesis=turned in!

Now if only I had a job for when I'm done...in a couple of weeks...shit...

[Plakespear]

Oh, I forgot. Posting to a bunch on online whack jobs that you have a potentially fatal illness before you tell your own mom is something only a Maggot would do. Also, only A maggot would type in "997" on an e-bay search in ski bindings.

[truth]

I hear you, but I only use gear swap as a good example. How about lurkers reading TR's and poaching those areas, never to give back to the stoke here?

Damn, this thread exploded...heh. Lurkers poaching stoke and TR's is all good by me. Rather them poach in silence than cunt up the board with inane drivel, not that inane drivel and cunting don't have their place here as well.

[leroy jenkins]

Aw, come on. You're more afraid she'd punch your lights out for stealing her favorite langerie.

Too true, I actually have gotten my ass kicked by a girl before

You think she'd still be pissed if I wore em?

[mtnbikerskierchick]

Too true, I actually have gotten my ass kicked by a girl before

You think she'd still be pissed if I wore em?

She'd probably just laugh at you and wonder why she ever slept with a drag queen

[cj001f]

Too true, I actually have gotten my ass kicked by a girl before

Happened to me. I burned her dinner

[truth]

I'm catching up on Miami Ink now.

Let me know if you see a reaktorcorps shirt.

[iceman]

I did two hours of "Deadliest Catch" tonight, I love that show. But Discovery has WAY too many commercials.

As to the original question, it's anybody who likes the community, whether they post or not. Everyone's in who wants to be in - except Mr._Gyptian.

Oh what the hell, he's in too.

[Schmear]

I thought we all became maggots when iceman created us as aliases?

[Lone Star]

I have like 1300 posts now, and like 50 of those (maybe) were worth anything.

Number of valuable TR's/pictures: 0.

........but I don't think I can say I am a valuable contributor to the board.
........
I just don't have much to contribute (yet )

Max, I, for one, would love for you to get over the inferiority complex. Comments like these ^^^^ and thread titles with phrases like "(if you don't mind)" just get annoying after a while. I think once you accept that you're a maggot, everyone else will as well. I think the latter happened long ago, though.