A Troubling Hobby Developement

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Posted By: E, Daniel

Notice just the one full stop.

My goats been got a lot lately, so here's another.
There is an awful lot of hobby snobbery that goes on in these posts, and these are my personal bugbears.
All of them assume that those of you who have enjoyed the hobby in one particular way, old school you might conveniently call it, can set the table for all who come - or else the nouveau hobbyists should all get mocked and mud-pied.

1. You have to hold a card in your hands, and use all five senses while moving across the rice paper in the dojo in pitch darkness navigating pits of asps, to understand cards.
Horse manure.

2. Putting them in plastic holders and thus out of easy groping is heretical.
Hah. You enjoy your cards your way, I'll enjoy mine however I damned choose, and its no less grand a method than yours for it achieves its purpose. It pleases me.

3. New collectors to the hobby, who haven't read article 154 of some trader magazine circa 1991, deserve to be ripped off in their pursuit of cards for their lack of deep understanding and nodding acquiescence.
Sure. And if you've never set the timing on a 59 corvette, you have no right keeping one in the driveway. Never been gay and had your own makeover show, who are you to choose the drapes? Never gone to the fifth set advantage by 2 at 12-11 down and serving 0-30, well then, turn off the US open between McEnroe and Lendl right now. I mean it, right now!


I just don't get it. I've been involved in the card world some 6 years now, with considerable buying, selling, and researching time clocked in. And yet, I only just stumbled across this site some 6 months ago and in reading the posts it is as if the entire vintage world somehow only resides on these pages. Are you all kidding yourselves? Whilst many, maybe most, of the big players are aware of the site, it is but a tuna in the oceans of the collecting world and hardly carries all wisdom and truth within it.

So, to John S, who is my new favourite Dorskin and pompous of his place as a hobbyist I'm quite sure beyond his real measure.......
I don't think anyone deserves to be shafted simply because they don't know better. Just like my wife should be able to go in and get the same deal on a car - new or used, at a dealership as I would. Just like the plumber should take 45 minutes to do a 45 minute job - and not an hour and a half. Just as, children born into those crazy polygomous homes in Utah need to be taken out of an environment they don't control and given a chance for a decent life.


But on this board, it seems that some have perfected the art of self-agrandizement and diminishment of others to such levels that they really believe this board has all the answers, just sit back and listen and soon they will become obvious to even an idiot like you, Daniel. Yes, we're talking to YOU.


Daniel




edited for spelling.