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Boards and Money needed for Students
Posted By: Jason Lee In Response To: Boards and Money needed for Students (phil Simborg)
Date: Thursday, 13 May 2010, at 6:52 a.m.
Bill Riles originally wrote: I get turned off by the modern entitlement attitude where people expect/demand others to provide them anything/everything that they need/want. If people want to play the game they'll get a cheap set or improvise. If they come to love the game they'll upgrade. Some people show up at ABT tourneys with small, inexpensive boards -- doesn't keep them from playing.
Phil Simborg replies: I, too, learned to play on the back of a checker board and that was my only set for a long time. That does NOT MEAN, however, that kids today are the same way or that everyone is the same way. Having a nice, reasonable-sized board that is easy to carry, set up, and use, is likely, for some, to be more appealing and might keep them playing more and longer. If you don't agree, that's fine, then don't donate to or support a program of supplying decent boards at a discount to young kids just learning the game.
It's easy to sit back and shoot holes in any idea anyone comes up with the promote the game or to improve the game. Please, come up with an idea you think would be good and I'll be happy to give you some negatives or reasons why it won't work.
You're not always right, and what you think is right for yourself is not always right for everyone else.
and then continues later with:
So you liked to play on a towel and didn't need a good board? Good for you. You started with bottle caps and now you're one of the best players in the world. Whoop de do! Good for you.
Later, Phil writes in response to me:
The difference is that if I disagree with someone, I don't get in the way of what they are trying to accomplish or give them negativity if they are trying to do something good, even if I disagree with it. I am not asking anyone to agree with me; just not be negative about the programs that I, and others, are working hard on.
To which I say: you may think one way, but your words come out otherwise. Bill decided to say something that ran counter to your thinking, and you had to break out the whoop de doo, which I still think was really rude. From what I see, you can't handle it when The Rest of The World doesn't agree with Phil Simborg. You've got a lot of great ideas -- you'll be able to implement them a lot more readily when you start acknowledging and accepting Viewpoints Other Than What Phil Holds.
You want to try to do some good for the youth backgammon players of America? Start by setting a better example about how to respond to what was at WORST tangential criticism.
JLee
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