Any news on the game front?  providers lowering rates?  new pros. coming into the game due to economy?  any recent closings?  craigs list seems to be working as usual, despite their recent news.  anyone know any different?  please share.  have a good weekend.

There is a bail out for all of us in TER, they will send a check for L& R ( lust and recreation)
in before the holidays, so you can start your new year with a smile....the amount??? $ 2.000
Hey...if they are helping out Ford,GM, Chryler, AIG....why not us???

we will at least be honest as to how we will spend the money!

Exactly.....!!!!

i'm just curious about the effect of the economy on hobbying.  plus, i'm curious about any good values out there i might not know about.  i'm willing to spend the money, but one thing i ask is that i get what i pay for, which isnt always the case in this biz.  how bout u?  do u feel u r worth what u charge?  why?

Lolo always strikes me as either LE or a writer looking for material for an article or book--he rarely posts and when he does it's usually very vague or overly broad in scope--he can't possibly think that someone will actually answer his questions in any meaningful way;

He always wants to "get the pulse" of what's happening "in the hobbyist community"--why ask?  Just sit back and read--the board itself answers all of your questions Lolo....it's like you're looking for a summary of the previous month's hobbyist weather report or something--do really think that IF you actually got an answer to some of your queries that it would useful in some meaningful way?

Go back and reread your posts--it's always comes across as "so, what's new?  What's going on, any news?"  Uh, yeah, just go back and read the posts since your last visit....

yea, you're right. my posts do look like "what's going on" type of messages.  that's because i dont spend my life on this chatroom like LOSERS like u and your friend.  i'm so sick of the sometimes insular and paranoid nature of this
f*%king board!  god forbid someone who has a life in which hobbying plays a SMALL part should chime in once in a while.  i was simply seeking info.  your STUPID posts are neither appreciated or requested.  who said u own this board?  you and those of your ilk can take your exclusionary vibe and STICK IT!!!

And yet you need LOSERS like us to fill in the blanks for you--you need people who spend their lives on this board to do your homework for you.

I don't spend my whole life on this board, but when I want to find out the kind of info you seek, I simply go back a couple of pages or use the search function and enter in a few choice terms, e.g., "busts", "LE sting", etc.--really, in the time it takes you type your messages you could look up the answers you seek yourself.

Truthfully, I don't know even know how anyone would answer your questions--let's see if this is what you were looking for:

"Any news on the game front? "

ANSWER: lots--did ya hear that Spitzer got busted?

"providers lowering rates?"

ANSWER:  Some are, some aren't, some run specials--it's all here on the board, just read.

" new pros. coming into the game due to economy?"

ANSWER:  What are "new pros."?  Do you mean porn stars?  there's always new girls entering the profession regardless of the economy and when they enter, I've never heard of one that stated, "since the economy sucks I am now an escort"--Not really sure where you're going with this question--if the answer is "yes", so what?

" any recent closings?"

ANSWER:  Again, read the board.

"craigs list seems to be working as usual, despite their recent news.  anyone know any different?
ANSWER:  With the resources available here, why would any sane person use Craig's?

"please share.  have a good weekend."

People don't like to share with those who only know how to take--have you posted a review lately?  Have you provided any intel on closings, new pros, rates?  Oh, thanks for the Craig list update, big help.

You feel excluded?  Is this how you seek acceptance?  All you do is take and take and take and never really contribute.  And then yell and get all defensive when someone suggests that perhaps you are here for other, ulterior reasons--surely, someone wouldn't keep coming here and continue to ask others to do the heavy lifting for him without offering anything in return.  This community is like any other--it seeks mutual cooperation from its members and ignores those who are selfish and unproductive.

You're like the guy the who skips class all semester, then breezes in and asks everyone to help him with the final the day before--AND you don't see anything wrong with that and you think that everyone who calls you on it is a loser.

Are you delusional?  You wonder (angrily) why everyone around here ignores you or excludes you when you do nothing to garner acceptance.

your long (and long winded) response only serves to reiterate what a pathetic piece of humanity you are!  take a look in the mirror in your mom's basement sometime.  only a loser like you would have the time to go on...and on...and on.  please, spare me and the rest of the members of this board, who, what a surprise, could care less about u and your opinions.  i consider myself part of the "silent majority," those of us who hobby just for fun, and don't fill our minds thinking about whether someone else is doing the "heavy lifting" or whether other are "selfish or self productive."  really, bud, u should spend less time in front of the computer and more time figuring out how u plan to move out of your mom's basement and get a real life, if that's even possible for a mutant such as yourself.  let this be a final warning: in the future, if i feel like asking an simple question of this board and not do the "work," so be it.  keep your geeky nose out of it and get your pathetic excuse for an existence out of my life.

I'm a geek?  that's funny coming from the guy(?) who used the "really angry face" icon...

Considering yourself part of the silent majority, doesn't make you so.

I don't have to fill my mind with the thoughts you cite--it doesn't take much effort to simply see someone with 2 reviews who always seem to ask for something and rarely if ever gives anything in return.

What's with the "final warning"?  Or what?  Lolo, relax and go play...

Lolo,
This was your question to a provider:

" how bout u?  do u feel u r worth what u charge?  why?"

What kind of a response did you expect to elicit asking a stupid question like that? It looks like it was written by an adolescent.
The provider did not answer, because it was stupid.
Sometimes the "silent majority" are best to remain silent.