jccrafford wrote:Thanks for the reply Fig, YvaneS reply really left a VERY bad taste in my mouth. I joined this forum because I thought I can meet people with a similar interest, a place where I can feel at home because I share the same passion than they do. Now I get attacked because my ideas are different from theirs. I didn't attack anybody else because they think different from what I do, I respect their decisions and opinions and won't try and make negative comments on a public forum because of their opinions.
Of course I will ignore him, I personally think he has no manners, he could have send me a pm...but no. The end result. He cheesed off a new member of the forum (I joined a year ago but started contributing this week) to the point where I feel unwelcome and that I must rather leave. I have my first meeting with a VW club in Pretoria that I want to attend tonight, but at this stage I am seriously thinking that I must rather not go and get involved with other VW owners, I am scared I am going to get the same negative response and feel unwelcome there. My wife and my child is also going with, and I don't want to submit them to that.
YvaneS...thank you, you really changed something that was special to me (Joining this forum and chatting to likeminded people) into a very negative experience.
We have different opinions, but the same love for old VW's, there are very few of us, other people sometimes think we're mad to spend so much money on old Kombi's (some of my friends certainly do...LOL) This must be a place where we feel at home...Why don't we rather say something if it's positive?
Wow man, chill out JC - are you serious ??? This would be one heck of a boring place if all we did was praise each other for this and that
You posted a pic of a good looking original panel van, going through roadworthy, etc, etc, etc. Eye candy and good music to any bus lovers ears. And shortly thereafter you say you're going to paint it black and so on and so forth - immediate alarm bells ringing for us "purists" - we really are an irritating bunch of aunties - really
Some of us (the non-contraversial types who usually pull out the popcorn and watch the ensuing tit-for-tat show, until someone "leaves" the forum or the thread eventually gets locked), are saddened when we see something like this happen to a good original condition example. Yeah yeah yeah, its yours and you can do what you like with it, yes that is true, still its sad to see this happening.
Yvannes, (ok perhaps he was a tad too quick on the keyboard) simply expressed what many of us were also thinking - but us popcorn eaters just keep quiet, shake our heads, feel sorry for the vehicle in question, and move on.
Please don't leave the forum. You've been here for a year, so you must have seen a few sparks flying here and there in that time, we are just a tiny representative of the rest of the world out there ....... No one hates you *(yet
) Please keep the pics of your project coming. Some of us will hate it, some of us will feel sorry for it, some of us will absolutely love it - thats furking healthy man !!!
Tell us more about that red early bay bus lurking in the background there
*just joking
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, after all its your vehicle. 
, and then landing in some scrapyard, ready for becoming one of the new Chinese washing machines.