Just as I was-a-replying to certain attempts to chew me up on another thread, it occured to me that there just might be something in general about diving and humour, so I went and dug out something out of the trash can...
What follows is an extract from an email that landed recently into my (e)mailbox. Said email was penned by [author censored] in reply to *that* "DIR joke" , which has already been posted here on the scubaboard as well....
etc.. you get the drift. Now... that reply up there, while factually correct, and the responses I've seen here recently made me think that, by and large, the diving community is completely devoid of a sense of humour. Please discuss.
Incidentally, for some bizarre reason, most frequent posters on this board seem to lack the humour-impairedness genome. Could that be because people with a sense of humour are more prone to socialising? Please discuss.
Finally... combining the two from above together, can we conclude that the good folks on scubaboard are non-typical, abnormal even, divers with a sense of humour ? Please discuss.
I'll go and hide in a cave while the storm blows over......
What follows is an extract from an email that landed recently into my (e)mailbox. Said email was penned by [author censored] in reply to *that* "DIR joke" , which has already been posted here on the scubaboard as well....
It may be humour but it implies a criticism. I have got to put a couple of thoughts on the wall:
· DIR is a framework, a tool,
- it helps you ask better questions;
- it helps you to go to (and solve) the nuclear causes of diving related problems (dangers, useless expenditures, et cetera);
- it helps you to improve your skills and diving philosophy, the way one see things around, a better (healthier) buddy and, above all,
* it is open for discussion, improvements and
evolution.
Many critics see DIR as a kind of neo-fascist lobby with cadaver discipline. This is so because many divers
· dont know why they dive;
· dont get the idea on the usefullness of a formal protocole for uw-operations;
· dont know there cannt be any evolution without the formalization of protocoles (this is a very important factor, indeed).
Serious work is always carried out through formalized frameworks.Picasso could go the way he wanted to paint something, apparently in a chaotic way, BUT his oil-colours were scientifically ordered and mixed up after exact recepis.
etc.. you get the drift. Now... that reply up there, while factually correct, and the responses I've seen here recently made me think that, by and large, the diving community is completely devoid of a sense of humour. Please discuss.
Incidentally, for some bizarre reason, most frequent posters on this board seem to lack the humour-impairedness genome. Could that be because people with a sense of humour are more prone to socialising? Please discuss.
Finally... combining the two from above together, can we conclude that the good folks on scubaboard are non-typical, abnormal even, divers with a sense of humour ? Please discuss.
I'll go and hide in a cave while the storm blows over......