[Leica] the best way to win an argument about politics on the lug ....

[afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin@afirkin.com)]

Who are you calling an equipment packrat ;-) put 'em up. I'll post some 
shots when I get home

Cheers

--- kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu wrote:

From: "Kyle Cassidy" <kcassidy@asc.upenn.edu>
To: <lug@leica-users.org>
Subject: [Leica] the best way to win an argument about politics on the lug   
   ....
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:40:35 -0500


>>the first
>>remark came from some lunatic right-wing nut telling us how George Bush and

>I think most regular LUG contributors resent it when 


The best way to win a political argument on the LUG is to post your 
pictures. I don't think of people here as left wing or right wing, I think 
of them as good photographers, beginning photographers, valuable teachers, 
equipment packrats, generous sofa-lenders, experts on Leica lore, resources 
for Pizio printing and the like -- what someone's politics are isn't really 
worth much on a list about photography. i'm a bit baffled as to how a thread 
entitled "1936 Sumicron" turned into a pitched battle and I'm sure it'll be 
fodder for some grad student somewhere writing about civility and written 
discourse at the beginning of the 21st century (i was ignoring the whole 
thing because i don't have a 1936 sumicron) -- but I can say that in my 
experience, the best response to:

"Your politics are stupid, you don't know yobbles about how to run a 
country, and you never voted for anyone I'd even bother to run over with a 
car...." is

"Here are my latest photos of El Capitan, I think I got the light just about 
right this time."

because here, you're a photographer, or yer just making noise. 

So if anybody's got photos they've taken with their 1936 Summicron, let's 
see 'em. 

I'm just sayin....

kc


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