If YOU Were Kicked Out Of A Squad

[mtnman]

Originally posted by storch
...an outright lie as by definition predatory birds don't congregate

Just a small correction here Storch (Sorry- I've been outta town or would have caught this earlier...)

1- "Predatory" birds congregate quite commonly.  The vast majority of predatory birds are NOT "birds of prey".  Predatory birds live by killing and eating other animals.  By definition, any bird that kills and eats other animals would be predatory, even a loon eating fish, or a swallow eating insects, or a robin eating worms, etc...  It is extremely common to see "predatory" birds congregating. (Crows, seagulls, cranes, etc...)

2- If you were referring to actual "birds of prey" in your statement, it would again be incorrect.  They often congregate as well.  Migration would be an obvious starting point to this argument.  Another would be when prey species follow a predictable schedule, as when hordes of bats leave caves in the evening.  Birds of prey regularly congregate to prey on these animals.  Not as a team though, they're there as individuals.

3- Family groups of birds of prey are technically congregations as well.  Admittedly this is a fairly brief and seldom witnessed time of the year though.  This would be when young birds follow the parents away from the nest and eventually begin to attempt hunting.

4- One species of bird of prey actually works with multiple individuals working together as a team.  This would be the Harris' Hawk of the American southwest.  These birds are nicknamed the "wolves of the air" due to the pack-like structure they utilize.  Alpha / Beta birds- truly amazing.  And they have to be seen to be believed when it comes to hunting as an aerial "pack".  Woe be to any jackrabbit that is spotted by a hungry group of Harris' Hawks!!

OK- enough learnin' for one day- back to your arguments!

BTW- The disturbed individual who is the subject of this thread needs to walk away from the game for a bit in my opinion.  Or at the very least grow up and see the "light".  I ran across an individual on range vox who I believe is the individual in question.  He needs to take the hint...

MtnMan

[BaldEagl]

Originally posted by mtnman
Just a small correction here Storch (Sorry- I've been outta town or would have caught this earlier...)

Man... You just blew Storches whole FoS thing he's been promoting so heavily for the past month or so out of the air.  

[mtnman]

BTW- your namesake congregates every winter in areas where fish are easy to catch or find incapacitated.  Around here we find large numbers of them congregated below dams in the winter where there is open water and often dead or injured shad.

"Predatory" does not define "bird of prey".

A vulture is a bird of prey, but it eats carrion (which also makes up a huge portion of a bald eagles' diet)...  Odd eh?

MtnMan

[Donzo]

DAYUM!!!!:O

That was a super l33t pwn on STorch.


Wtg mtnman

[1Boner]

Originally posted by mtnman
BTW- your namesake congregates every winter in areas where fish are easy to catch or find incapacitated.  Around here we find large numbers of them congregated below dams in the winter where there is open water and often dead or injured noobs.



So does this mean that FOS =Flock of Storch?





Lovin the irony,

Boner

[PATRIOTS]

Seeing that I work a lot and have a life more than AH2 I dont really have time to check the forums or devote my life to posting on them except occasionally on weekends.  So I was told by someone about this one and wasn't going to post on it because like many ppl have said,  things are often better off kept in-House.  But since rpm(known in the game as HotDogMn!) has slandered me and created numerious false accusations I've decided to air some of the truth about this. He's just wound up because I dont respect one of his little buddys who has back stabbed me numerious times so hes trying to make me look bad in the community.  Also the fact he says that  he's not naming names or squads after bringing up direct refrences to things is one of the most mornic things I've seen here.

To show you how childish and superficial all this is Im gonna spell it out to everyone now since HotDogMn has decided to try to alter whats really happened.  Unlike you've been told I never have intentionally caused trouble on ch or START any arguements.  I never have taken it personal or taken personal shots at anyone, its always been about baseball (lol) which is all in good fun in my mind.  Yes,  I get into it but have never once taken it serious like obviously others have. Lastly I dont use a mic on our channel EVER so all that ppl know of me is text, its not like im fired up on the mic ranting in ppls ears.  Tell me please... how easy is it to ignore CH TEXT once in a while? lol

I love sports an I'm very passionate aout it,   I am a huge baseball and football fan as most of you know.  In the -bops- I was eventually told I'm "not allowed" to discuss sports(lol) mostly because it would turn in to a huge arguement than often rubbed ppl the wrong way.  But so you all know... this happened almost always when I was talking to friends in the bops about games and the same 1-2 ppl  would jump in and say "your team sucks"etc.. or try to fire me up intentionally. So I eventually felt like I was walking on egshells if I said a single thing about sports.  

The problem I had was only with 2-3 players in a squad of 80+ people unlike hotdog has portrayed I'm good friends or in at least good standing with all but those 2 or 3.   I tried numberious times to work it out with them but they refused to let things go and move on like adults.  I think they love drama and feed of it as you can clearly see.  Im not gonna change who I am and not talk sports because of ppl in the squad and their bad attitudes.  A select few trouble makers cant  keep their mouths closed when it comes to taunts and personal shots so its their problem not mine.  But ive been told because they have been arround longer they are right and im wrong.  

Finally hotdogmn has tried to make it seem like I was "kicked out" which is not true at all.  After talking to falconwing the squads leader through PMs one night after another sports bickering deal, he said "why dont you take some time off to cool down" I therefore withdrew from the squad for "a period of time" and told my wing leader no need to remove me.  Also I have permission from the LEADER(s) to be on CH  so the whole point of this thread has no basis at all...

Bottomline is  I come here to have fun which is what its all about right..? I come here to talk with in-game friends about many diffrent things involving the game and not.... just like people in every other squad.

[Vudak]

I take it you're a Redsox fan in a squad full of Yankees?

(The Sox DO "suck," btw  )

[PATRIOTS]

REDSOX in First place for 5 months now...baby  ..so that must mean the YANKEES SUPER SUCK in second place...

btw.. theres only one real yankee fan in the squad(who im in good standing with) and one typical yankee bandwagonner/frontrunner who is playing AH2 during huge games and couldn't name the lineup if his life depended on it...

[Vudak]

Originally posted by PATRIOTS

and one typical yankee bandwagonner/frontrunner who is playing AH2 during huge games and couldn't name the lineup if his life depended on it...

Yeah, that's pretty much what I am.  I "cheer" for the Yankees because my father and his father did, but I only watch games in October.  Couldn't tell you a thing about them, really.

Wouldn't want to - baseball's not my thing.  Hockey guy here

[E25280]

Originally posted by PATRIOTS
The problem I had was only with 2-3 players in a squad of 80+ people

There's your problem right there.

Not sure how you can put 80 people in a room, and not have 2 to 3 that just can't stand to be in each others presence.

Out of curiosity, have the BoPs ever tried to keep it to individual squad rooms and coordinate just thorugh a spokesperson in each wing?  It would keep your communications channels "secure" from spying, and also make it easier to separate those who just can't get along (Player1 and Player2 don't like each other, send Player2 to BoPsquad2, and problem solved).

[mtnman]

Well, Patriots-  You're not the guy I ran into on range vox, griping about being booted from his squad.

The individual I was refering to was somebody else, and judging from what it was like on range I can easily understand why he was booted...

MtnMan

[Donzo]

Originally posted by PATRIOTS
Seeing that I work a lot and have a life more than AH2 I dont really have time to check the forums or devote my life to posting on them except occasionally on weekends.  So I was told by someone about this one and wasn't going to post on it because like many ppl have said,  things are often better off kept in-House.  But since rpm(known in the game as HotDogMn!) has slandered me and created numerious false accusations I've decided to air some of the truth about this. He's just wound up because I dont respect one of his little buddys who has back stabbed me numerious times so hes trying to make me look bad in the community.  Also the fact he says that  he's not naming names or squads after bringing up direct refrences to things is one of the most mornic things I've seen here.

To show you how childish and superficial all this is Im gonna spell it out to everyone now since HotDogMn has decided to try to alter whats really happened.  Unlike you've been told I never have intentionally caused trouble on ch or START any arguements.  I never have taken it personal or taken personal shots at anyone, its always been about baseball (lol) which is all in good fun in my mind.  Yes,  I get into it but have never once taken it serious like obviously others have. Lastly I dont use a mic on our channel EVER so all that ppl know of me is text, its not like im fired up on the mic ranting in ppls ears.  Tell me please... how easy is it to ignore CH TEXT once in a while? lol

I love sports an I'm very passionate aout it,   I am a huge baseball and football fan as most of you know.  In the -bops- I was eventually told I'm "not allowed" to discuss sports(lol) mostly because it would turn in to a huge arguement than often rubbed ppl the wrong way.  But so you all know... this happened almost always when I was talking to friends in the bops about games and the same 1-2 ppl  would jump in and say "your team sucks"etc.. or try to fire me up intentionally. So I eventually felt like I was walking on egshells if I said a single thing about sports.  

The problem I had was only with 2-3 players in a squad of 80+ people unlike hotdog has portrayed I'm good friends or in at least good standing with all but those 2 or 3.   I tried numberious times to work it out with them but they refused to let things go and move on like adults.  I think they love drama and feed of it as you can clearly see.  Im not gonna change who I am and not talk sports because of ppl in the squad and their bad attitudes.  A select few trouble makers cant  keep their mouths closed when it comes to taunts and personal shots so its their problem not mine.  But ive been told because they have been arround longer they are right and im wrong.  

Finally hotdogmn has tried to make it seem like I was "kicked out" which is not true at all.  After talking to falconwing the squads leader through PMs one night after another sports bickering deal, he said "why dont you take some time off to cool down" I therefore withdrew from the squad for "a period of time" and told my wing leader no need to remove me.  Also I have permission from the LEADER(s) to be on CH  so the whole point of this thread has no basis at all...

Bottomline is  I come here to have fun which is what its all about right..? I come here to talk with in-game friends about many diffrent things involving the game and not.... just like people in every other squad.

Uh....where did rpm ever call you out by name?

[FLOTSOM]

Well not thats its worth much but here is my two cents on this matter.

I flew with the B.O.P.'s for a short period of time and came to know some of them well. i almost never failed to have a good time when flying with them and for most of those squad nights and gey Friday get together i found myself in a generally calm and friendly atmosphere with the battering and bantering being playful and friendly and the insults cast back and forth done in a respectful and silly kinda format, never hostile or abusive.
it saddens me to hear that things have changed amongst the Birds and hope that they can find themselves moving into some form of reconciliation or a peaceful separation soon. its time to get back to the purpose of this game, to enjoy pretending to kill every night in V.R. land those real losers we have to tolerate everyday in our real lives. (key word being ENJOY!!!)

Mostly i think that it is time that the rest of us who are not B.O.P.'s step back and pull our collective noses out of a private and internal matter and leave them to clean their laundry in private. this issue does not concern us nor will its out come dictate any terms or conditions in our lives, be it in real or virtual. so because we have no stake in the outcome or are we at any personal risk here, i would ask that we all show a little respect and let this issue be dealt with in the house of the B.O.P.'s without further input from those who have no business in the matter.

We may be all apart of one happily dysfunctional family, but i dont involve myself in the house of my cousins unless its truly necessary.

<> to the B.O.P.'s and PATRIOTS my you resolve your issues to the betterment of all

<> to all in V.R. land and happy hunting

FLOTSOM

[kj714]

LOL! So they're arguing about baseball?

You know Patriots, I respect your love of the game and your team, but it's really better to take the hardcore fan stuff to other hardcore fans. If my text was filling up with long discussions of "my team's the greatest" I'd probably tell you to shut it too.

Obviously whatever banter you are engaging in affects the whole squad, so they are probably justified in telling you to knock it off. Start you own squad, call it Red Sox #1 and get a group going you can share this with, mebbe your two buddies will come and join!

[PATRIOTS]

Vudak:  Yeah bro "to each his own" is how I look at it do what you think is right for you.

E25280:  As far as red squad text it wont work because the squad is enormus and the RED squad ch is only for each wing which is only 30 ppl.

MtnMan: I'm sure I havent run into you either.. I keep quiet on local ch, country and 200 99% of the time nowadays unless its tactical.

Donzo: Lets not be foolish its blatently obvious what hes trying to do here and who hes attackin in a public forum.  Storch used my name and that made it even more obvious.  I appreciate falcon standing by me but that also showed very clearly who it was all about.  Lets not play games and pretend WE dont know who it was all about...

FLOTSOM: sir... you've been all class from the second I knew ya..and you made many excellent points that I agree with 100%

Kj714: "take the hardcore fan stuff to other hardcore fans" cant argue with that honestly