Seem to be getting a lot of the happy crew from the realsurf forum joining in, good forum for surfboard design stuff, but most of the regulars seem to live in some sort of urban surfing hell. My advice is do not take the bait, turn the computer off and come back in a week.

Great to see quality Aussie humour is still alive & kicking!

Those boys had me roped in for a bit. Nice work.

Damn, those real surfers sure did have fun at the expence of us naive innocent SUPers, maybe one day it could be us doing the panty raid giggle giggle snort, that would be so fun.

i object to having to spell the word "three" to qualify as a member of Realsurf ...... and plus couldn't decide if I was over Thirteen or under ...... [}:)]

LOL...I was reading through the posts there and then noticed that the newest member was SUPerior...thought it was kind of ironic and wondered if it was someone from here.

You have to laugh at the practical joke but you have to wonder at the nature of it. If you read the post over there dealing with it they seem to feel more intelligent for having pulled off posing as genuine members here. As if posing as someone else on the internet was a difficult thing to do.

I'll choose to believe in the general honesty of people, call me naive or old-fashioned. I'll get burnt occasionally, but I prefer to deal with people that way. I actually thought I was dealing with someone with a mental handicap in bumfluff...

The sad part is that the original post wasn't all that unbelievable even if it did venture into the bizarre. I've heard of worse encounters happening unfortunately.

I know Oliver. I built my 1st website in 87. Probably before most of these posers were born. I've also left other forums that went bad...unrelated to surfing or SUP. All it takes is a few idiots unfortunately and if the admins aren't vigilant (as it seems they are here) it goes south quickly. Forums are great and especially in the beginning there is a feeling of a close community. Its easy to know everyone when there is a small number. Unfortunately with their success comes the perils of the growth into a city with all the attendant charlatans, scam-artists, and low-lifes. Without close watch they can overpower it.