Re: Translation: YA bored troll thread (was OT: Vancouver BC - who can afford to move THERE?)

On 2025-01-24 05:55, Tom Elam wrote:

On 1/16/2025 8:07 AM, -hh wrote:

On 1/15/25 5:33 PM, Tom Elam wrote:

On 12/29/2024 9:23 PM, Alan wrote:

On 2024-12-29 14:09, -hh wrote:

As for Alan his racing gig has seemingly petered out. A
revealed in SCCBC public records he is absent from
leadership positions. His racing entries for the last
three years have been few and far between. Maybe he is
still going golfing and skiing?

 YA attempt to equate Absence of Evidence as Evidence of Absence...right?
 FWIW, I've not mentioned PCA events for a long time (2011?),
but that isn't proof that I'm not still attending meetings
or events.

 And it turns out that Tommie isn't much of a researcher...
 ...as I was chairman of the Race Drivers Committee in 2023.
 <https://web.archive.org/web/20230422005048/https://
www.sccbc.net/ about- sccbc/race-drivers/>
 'Membership on the Race Drivers Committee is by invitation
only. The committee is comprised of some of the best racers in
British Columbia. Most committee members have won
championships in their class while others have done
consistently well over the years and have proven themselves
capable of excelling in all race conditions.'
 Not bad for a supposedly "terrible" driver.
 😎

Alan, how many season championships have you won?

 As many Nobel Prizes as you've won, Tommy: Goalpost move much?
  -hh

 So a SCCBC season championship = Nobel Prize?
 FYI my office wall is covered with activity-based CAP awards. More
are in the desk, ran out of wall room. Those awards are at the Wing,
Region and National levels. One award is the Wing Senior Member of
the Year. I was selected to run the program that was responsible for
half the Wing's flying and did that for 4 years. It was a full time
job. I was promoted from that to running of the Wing's flying
programs.

"Activity-based" = participation trophies.
Oh, and this is interesting:
Googling "inwg.cap.gov "Wing Senior Member of the Year"...
...returns 'No results found for..."
Interestingly, searching for 'site:inwg.cap.gov "elam"'...
...returns the same thing.
Searching for '"senior member of the year"  "elam"'...
...returns a few irrelevant results; nothing to do with the Civil Air Patrol.
But I DID find a reference to you winning an "award"...
...for completing some TRAINING.
And searching for "thomas e. elam, indiana" finds ONLY that award.

I don't think you can equate that activity level to running a
single committee. But not a Nobel Prize either.
 Your claim that my CAP flying is free attaches a $0 opportunity cost
to all the administrative time I donate.

I don't think you can equate pretending you're a "colonel" and
getting your flying paid by doing some light administrative work after
you've retired can be equated with performing at an objectively high
level in competition.