18m dives around north or west Ireland

> If I'd known how anal this newsgroup is I wouldn't have posted
> originally.

You've a lot to learn about internet newsgroups and messageboards.
When you ask for information from strangers for nothing, you should be
grateful for anything you get. Some of the responses will be useful to
you and some won't. Given that any effort anyone expends responding to
your request is an act of altruism, you forego (to some extent) the
right to get indignant about the quality of the answers. You've paid
nothing for the answers and (I may be mistaken here - I'm mostly a
lurker myself) but I don't think you've contributed anything to the
group; so getting shirty about the quality of answers is unreasonable.

For what it's worth - I'd also recommend Scuba Dive West in Connemara
for the quality of the diving and the beauty of the surrounding
landscape. However you should know (I'm assuming your friend is PADI
OW) that most dive centres require that divers have at least PADI AOW
to go on the boats to the more interesting sites even if it's possible
to dive them without going deeper that 18m.

> If I'd known how anal this newsgroup is I wouldn't have posted
> originally.

You've a lot to learn about internet newsgroups and messageboards.
When you ask for information from strangers for nothing, you should be
grateful for anything you get. Some of the responses will be useful to
you and some won't. Given that any effort anyone expends responding to
your request is an act of altruism, you forego (to some extent) the
right to get indignant about the quality of the answers. You've paid
nothing for the answers and (I may be mistaken here - I'm mostly a
lurker myself) but I don't think you've contributed anything to the
group; so getting shirty about the quality of answers is unreasonable.

For what it's worth - I'd also recommend Scuba Dive West in Connemara
for the quality of the diving and the beauty of the surrounding
landscape. However you should know (I'm assuming your friend is PADI
OW) that most dive centres require that divers have at least PADI AOW
to go on the boats to the more interesting sites even if it's possible
to dive them without going deeper that 18m.

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 derrizanile@hotmail.com <derrizanile@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> If I'd known how anal this newsgroup is I wouldn't have posted
>> originally.
>
> You've a lot to learn about internet newsgroups and messageboards.
> When you ask for information from strangers for nothing, you should be
> grateful for anything you get. Some of the responses will be useful to

anal smart-ass replies to simple requests is something I'd expect from a
geekier forum, not a sports diving forum where, I'd assumed, the people
would actually partake in more relaxed, less-pedantic discussions

Evidently, I've been proven wrong :)
--

"I hear ma train a comin'
.... hear freedom comin"

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 derrizanile@hotmail.com <derrizanile@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> If I'd known how anal this newsgroup is I wouldn't have posted
>> originally.
>
> You've a lot to learn about internet newsgroups and messageboards.
> When you ask for information from strangers for nothing, you should be
> grateful for anything you get. Some of the responses will be useful to

anal smart-ass replies to simple requests is something I'd expect from a
geekier forum, not a sports diving forum where, I'd assumed, the people
would actually partake in more relaxed, less-pedantic discussions

Evidently, I've been proven wrong :)
--

"I hear ma train a comin'
.... hear freedom comin"

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 derrizanile@hotmail.com <derrizanile@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> If I'd known how anal this newsgroup is I wouldn't have posted
>> originally.
>
> You've a lot to learn about internet newsgroups and messageboards.
> When you ask for information from strangers for nothing, you should be
> grateful for anything you get. Some of the responses will be useful to

anal smart-ass replies to simple requests is something I'd expect from a
geekier forum, not a sports diving forum where, I'd assumed, the people
would actually partake in more relaxed, less-pedantic discussions

Evidently, I've been proven wrong :)
--

"I hear ma train a comin'
.... hear freedom comin"

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 derrizanile@hotmail.com <derrizanile@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> If I'd known how anal this newsgroup is I wouldn't have posted
>> originally.
>
> You've a lot to learn about internet newsgroups and messageboards.
> When you ask for information from strangers for nothing, you should be
> grateful for anything you get. Some of the responses will be useful to

anal smart-ass replies to simple requests is something I'd expect from a
geekier forum, not a sports diving forum where, I'd assumed, the people
would actually partake in more relaxed, less-pedantic discussions

Evidently, I've been proven wrong :)
--

"I hear ma train a comin'
.... hear freedom comin"

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 derrizanile@hotmail.com <derrizanile@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> If I'd known how anal this newsgroup is I wouldn't have posted
>> originally.
>
> You've a lot to learn about internet newsgroups and messageboards.
> When you ask for information from strangers for nothing, you should be
> grateful for anything you get. Some of the responses will be useful to

anal smart-ass replies to simple requests is something I'd expect from a
geekier forum, not a sports diving forum where, I'd assumed, the people
would actually partake in more relaxed, less-pedantic discussions

Evidently, I've been proven wrong :)
--

"I hear ma train a comin'
.... hear freedom comin"

On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 derrizanile@hotmail.com <derrizanile@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> If I'd known how anal this newsgroup is I wouldn't have posted
>> originally.
>
> You've a lot to learn about internet newsgroups and messageboards.
> When you ask for information from strangers for nothing, you should be
> grateful for anything you get. Some of the responses will be useful to

anal smart-ass replies to simple requests is something I'd expect from a
geekier forum, not a sports diving forum where, I'd assumed, the people
would actually partake in more relaxed, less-pedantic discussions

Evidently, I've been proven wrong :)
--

"I hear ma train a comin'
.... hear freedom comin"

"Stimp" <ren@spumco.com> wrote in message
news:slrndbronr.3fk.ren@carbon.redbrick.dcu.ie...
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 derrizanile@hotmail.com <derrizanile@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>>> If I'd known how anal this newsgroup is I wouldn't have posted
>>> originally.
>>
>> You've a lot to learn about internet newsgroups and messageboards.
>> When you ask for information from strangers for nothing, you should be
>> grateful for anything you get. Some of the responses will be useful to
>
> anal smart-ass replies to simple requests is something I'd expect from a
> geekier forum, not a sports diving forum where, I'd assumed, the people
> would actually partake in more relaxed, less-pedantic discussions

Personally, I'm perfectly happy that people who indulge in swimming around
in unlimited amounts of stuff you can't breathe, equipped with a limited
amount of stuff you can, are at least a little pedantic.

Just my 0.02 euros.

Deep.

"Stimp" <ren@spumco.com> wrote in message
news:slrndbronr.3fk.ren@carbon.redbrick.dcu.ie...
> On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 derrizanile@hotmail.com <derrizanile@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>>> If I'd known how anal this newsgroup is I wouldn't have posted
>>> originally.
>>
>> You've a lot to learn about internet newsgroups and messageboards.
>> When you ask for information from strangers for nothing, you should be
>> grateful for anything you get. Some of the responses will be useful to
>
> anal smart-ass replies to simple requests is something I'd expect from a
> geekier forum, not a sports diving forum where, I'd assumed, the people
> would actually partake in more relaxed, less-pedantic discussions

Personally, I'm perfectly happy that people who indulge in swimming around
in unlimited amounts of stuff you can't breathe, equipped with a limited
amount of stuff you can, are at least a little pedantic.

Just my 0.02 euros.

Deep.