Racers - How not to thank your friends and family

A friend sent me this.

Caption from the original url says:

"This was scanned out of the EMRA champions' journal where the champions get a page to post thank-yous to their family. This guy had other ideas..."

All I can say is: WOW. This guy has problems.

I don't get it... What normally goes on a page like that?

I don't see a problem, but I don't know the EMRA backstory.

Yeah, I'm not seeing the issue here. Is it because he didn't take the whole page to thank his family or friends?

Aside from one or two punctuation errors and the gratuitous use of capital letters, I'm not at all sure where issue is being taken.

Dude sounds ANGRY. Who writes "subversive malcontents" and talks about their enemies on something that goes to their friends and family?

racernik wrote: Who writes "subversive malcontents?"

I give him bonus points for using that phrase.

racernik wrote: Dude sounds ANGRY. Who writes "subversive malcontents" and talks about their enemies on something that goes to their friends and family?

Without more context to know who or what he is talking about, it just seems like some inane ramblings.

I don't have enemies. (As a matter of fact, there is only one person on this planet that I have met that I can say that I "Hate". With a capital H.)

Great first post?

In reply to EvanB:

Everyone is welcome, but it kinda makes you wonder if racernick is one of "those guys" on "that guy's" list.

I dunno.

oldsaw wrote: In reply to EvanB: Everyone is welcome, but it kinda makes you wonder if racernick is one of "those guys" on "that guy's" list. I dunno.

Indeed.

who tha berkeley post this

I think the problem is that he says he wants to thank his enemies... and in the next sentence says "If it weren't for my best friend..." Maybe implying that his best friend is one of his enemies?

I know the back story (and the author of that scan).

That diatribe in the champion's journal is inappropriate but I sort of understand it. Still, it's very inappropriate.

The issues with EMRA are very complicated and frustrating.

EMRA has some great folks and a really long and interesting history here in the eastern USA. But the structure of EMRA is wierd. It's not actually a "club" but is made up of individual "clubs". Each club has a leader who has a vote on the EMRA board. In the past, some clubs have gone under due to lack of interest. But when a member is unhappy or wishes to make trouble, he can re-start an old, defunct club and "appoint" himself the leader. This "new", re-started club (with only one or two "members") ends up with a vote equal to a legitimate club of say, 50 members. So one or two difficult people can have a huge effect and can skuttle the efforts of 10 or 12 well-intended board members. I've seen it happen numerous times. This arrangement is written into the EMRA bylaws and has been EMRA's undoing for years. It leads to all sort of mischief by a small number of troublemakers.

If EMRA was just one club instead of 8 different clubs that fight each other, things would be much better. But that is the history and I don't see it changing.

I was an EMRA board member and active racer for many years. But I am more interested in racing and less interested in drama. So after spending many years trying to "fix" things, I gave up and quit in '08. Six of my fellow board members also quit that year. It's really too bad. It could be a great club

Note: some former EMRA members have recently left and spun off a New Club . I can't comment on this new group, but I guess it's a symptom of the continued problems.

MG Bryan wrote:

racernik wrote: Who writes "subversive malcontents?"

I give him bonus points for using that phrase.

Agreed. I giggled a bit when I read that.

I had read it thinking Emra was the name of the car - the backstory makes it quite different.