 | | Re: Brad Justus' Comments - Why Complain? —Wayne R. Hussey
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| | | I believe that my 25 years of collecting and building with the Brick, and about $50,000 spending - not counting increased rents, storage materials and other expenses - during that time, qualifies me as "serious". (...) just (...) appropriate (...) (...) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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| | | | | Amount spent - LEGO code update (Re: Brad Justus' Comments - Why Complain?_ —Jeff Thompson
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| | | | (...) come (...) While I'm tired of commenting on the civility issues, I do want to note at this point that while I am impressed with the people who can afford to spend tens of thousands of dollars on LEGO, I'm not impressed enough to grant that (...) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Amount spent - LEGO code update (Re: Brad Justus' Comments - Why Complain?_ —Wayne R. Hussey
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| | | | | What do you want? My opinion wasn't "serious" when it was thought I'd only spent a few bucks and was a neophite to the Lego Collecting Family - Mark asked me "to come back when I'd spent 20 to 30 grand", been there, done that. And now the (...) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Amount spent - LEGO code update (Re: Brad Justus' Comments - Why Complain?_ —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | (...) I think your opinion is serious and I think Mark may have come off a bit harsh and knee jerkish. Further, as someone who is in the top decile, if not in the top 1%, of AFOLs, when ranked by amount spent, I think that the amount you spend is (...) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: Amount spent - LEGO code update (Re: Brad Justus' Comments - Why Complain?_ —James Brown
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| | | | | | | | (...) c/Carrey/Carney since I'm assuming you mean the guy with the fantastic! castles... :) James (URL) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: Amount spent - LEGO code update (Re: Brad Justus' Comments - Why Complain?_ —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | | | (...) Yes. Must have been a transmission error since I never make misteaks. (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Amount spent - LEGO code update (Re: Brad Justus' Comments - Why Complain?_ —Jeff Thompson
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| | | | | | | Snippets: (...) You seem to have me confused with the person who originally challenged you, Wayne, as I had no argument with you. (...) Sorry - I guess I didn't make my point clear - I wanted to lampoon the idea that was used to attack you - that we (...) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Amount spent - LEGO code update (Re: Brad Justus' Comments - Why Complain?_ —Tom Stangl
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| | | | | | | (...) Agreed. (...) NOT agreed. If we don't complain, they won't know that they "have a problem". As I've stated before, I will respect TLC's wishes, but I certainly WON'T agree with them. Posting info to their website, linked or not, means it's (...) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | | Re: Amount spent - LEGO code update (Re: Brad Justus' Comments - Why Complain?_ —John DiRienzo
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| | | | | | I think spending thousands on Lego toys does not reflect your Love of the Brick, but may well reflect on your sanity or your worldly success. I also thought your addendum to the Lego geek code was quite clever, and it caused an LOL or two here. (...) (25 years ago, 28-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Amount spent - LEGO code update (Re: Brad Justus' Comments - Why Complain?_ —James Brown
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| | | | (...) Relevant to point out that Mark, not Wayne, is the one who wanted to attach a dollar value to an opinion. James (URL) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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| | | | | | Re: Amount spent - LEGO code update (Re: Brad Justus' Comments - Why Complain?_ —Jeff Thompson
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| | | | (...) I chose to use Wayne's response as a launching point for my reply because, while defending himself against an attack, he wound up inadvertantly validating the concept of the attack, which was (paraphrased) "go away and come back when you've (...) (25 years ago, 27-Dec-99, to lugnet.general)
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