Gadfly's

Discussion in 'CB Radio Forum' started by boeing46, Aug 12, 2009.

  1. boeing46

    boeing46 Bobtail Member

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    I used to live in Long Beach California.
    The School Board and the City Council were getting way out of hand with silly redundant laws that brought in allot of people to get them to knock off the silly and unneeded legislation.
    We had about 10 true Gadfly's that would comment on everything.
    They would go on and on and on.
    Everybody including the Board or City Council members would roll their eyes.
    At least 2 hours was taken up by the Gadfly's as there was no time limit on comments.
    They had to punish everyone and put a 10 minute time limit on everyone.
    Most of the time it was the same thing coming out of their eccentric mouths every week.
    The council had the patience of Jobe and tried to be as polite as possible.
    I know there are a very small percentage of people here that own so called illegal radios and even fewer that use them that way like myself.
    I bought a great import Grant 25 years ago from a friend of a friend.
    I just recently found out my radio that is a great radio is illegal according to a Gadfly that has an opinion on almost every post.
    I found this site on a Google search about something I was looking for.
    This site is basically a trucker info site but does have invaluable info on CB radios.
    There is a person that I would consider a pure Gadfly that just has to comment on anything and everything.
    It's fine once in awhile but does get very annoying when he goes so off topic to the point of a poor guy asking a question and the thread gets totally hijacked by this guy.
    Definition;
    gad·fly[​IMG] (gād'flī') [​IMG]
    n.
    1. A persistent irritating critic; a nuisance.
    2. One that acts as a provocative stimulus; a goad.
    3. Any of various flies, especially of the family Tabanidae, that bite or annoy livestock and other
    4. animals.
    5. Please get real and give us a break
     
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  3. TruckerLlew

    TruckerLlew Medium Load Member

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    hmmm I would think that this would be considered a personal attack on Gadfly? Tread carefully. While I agree that derailing a thread is not the thing to do, to trash his user id is not the way to go about fixing the problem. Contact the mods if you have a problem with Gadfly. Let them address the issue if they deem fit.
     
  4. killroy

    killroy Light Load Member

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    Yea, but you have to admit it is funny.
     
  5. lv gn

    lv gn Heavy Load Member

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    and oh so true!:biggrin_2554:
     
  6. 112racing

    112racing Road Train Member

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    he was just giving the definition from the dictionary:biggrin_25525:
     
  7. clantonman1983

    clantonman1983 Light Load Member

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    Yep. Just talking about the Gadfly... haha
     
  8. FriedTater

    FriedTater Keeper of The Snakes

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    Public Forum Post containing well written factual content/comment is now offensive ?
    You got issues fella . . . . .

     
  9. TruckerLlew

    TruckerLlew Medium Load Member

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    Since when is opinion ever construed as fact? The post in question is an opinion intentionally misrepresented as fact tied up in a nice little story to make it all cutesy. Plain and simple. No matter how folks might want to argue it.

    Everything that Gadfly has posted concerning legal activity or equipment, whether popular or not, is based on the law. He has every right and reason to rub it in your faces. If you don't want things rubbed in your face, then try obeying the law or at least not posting about blatant illegal activity or equipment.

    Folks may not like Gadfly but to create a post that snide about a fellow user, no matter how unpopular his posting style may be, can be considered an attack in violation of the TOS of this site. Plain and simple. Attacks even hidden behind what some consider to be niceties or faux facts is wrong plain and simple.
     
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  10. Turbo-T

    Turbo-T Road Train Member

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    Perhaps Gadly speaks the truth in some of his posts, but he has clearly expressed his hatred of CB operators, and he has also clearly expressed how he seems to associate CB operators as some sort of southerner/redneck by using the terms "chicken banders", "extree channels", "leenyar" and "I gots uh speshul raghts on tham thar extree channels" and a host of other words that prove of being stereotypical. Sorry but not everyone, as you may think, has a though process like that. And not everyone who uses a CB is a southerner/redneck.

    Ok so a CB operator should never use the 10 meter band, hey I can live with that. HOWEVER the stereotyping can stop. No need to further tarnish the ham world with the nuissance. I could associate hams as "pig banders" and "holier than thou snobs" if I wanted to but I won't because I know not all ham operators think their God because they have a ham radio set and a ham ticket.

    Hell I've even read articles where hams are wanting the FCC to relocate the 11 meter band back to them and just basically push the CB world off the map, all together forever. I guess some of them still can't get over September 11th 1958, the day class D CB debuted.

    Radio is radio, be it ham, shortwave or CB. They all have their pro's and cons. I'm sure ham probably is more civilized than CB. Then again a CB works better in the car for long distant travels.

    Remember most of you hams got your start but where else....the CB. It's pretty much the gate way to radio ops. That or a walkie talkie.
     
  11. Carolina Thunder

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    Don't ever get your ham ticket because the ham bands are FULL of people like this! I have heard guys talking about stupid cbers using those "extra channels" on the ham radio many times and that's ALL they talked about for hours! People with this mind set and attitude are the reason that new ticket holders have fallen for the past few years. People dont want to pay $2.000 for a nice ham rig when they can hear the same kind of crap on a $100.00 cb!

    It's all ways flipped me out that they will crucify someone for using a cb radio in a manner that is not legal under the laws of the FCC but they/other ham ops will do what ever they want regardless of legality on the ham bands. Run more power than is needed to make a contact,not give there call sign out as often as they should,not ask if the channel is in use before they start talking,contest over anyone who is talking just to get that card in the mail,run a remote station during contest events.....and so on. All that's fine but let me talk on a Galaxy radio and they are ready to hang me! And hell a great many hams out there did the very same things that they give the cb guys hell for now....before they got their ham radio and ticket.

    Before they start policing the word they need to take care of there own!

    I bet Gadfly is CWmorse. If he is, he is not a bad guy but he does troll every cb or trucker site and post the same type of stuff seen on the forum. Been kicked off of a lot of them. CW lives in NC and has an extensive history of riding around in his car busting truckers for talking on those "other channels" and using those big amplifiers.I bet he has the local FCC field enforcement office on speed dial! He is also known for changing his name and home location in order to stay under the radar because so many site owners have band him form their forums.
    He can be helpful but makes it known that he absolutely hates truckers and cbers!


    It may not be the same guy but after reading his posts,it sure seems like it!
     
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