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And we wonder why so many owners are leaving this site...
Give it a friggin' rest people. It may be an opinion, but you sure as heck don't express it as such.
A) It's great that owners are on the site. Like anyone else, I would presume that they can go and come, more or less within certain bounds, as they please. If my paultry opinion pierces their skin so much that they can't bear to read a page on the computer anymore, and they choose to take their ball and go home, I think that's less my problem and more theirs.
B) If I really thought whether any of the owners who may pop in from time to time here gave two pennies for my thoughts, I would probably still express them exactly as I have.
C) You've expressed your opinion on my opinion. Whether I agree or not, I still support your expression of it and for anything else warbird related here.
@51 fixer:
Your point about HJGB or the Spit I is well taken. I'm not saying that "La Patrona" is a specific airframe with a specific provenance that is worthy of displaying in a specific paint job. And I agree, there are likely reasons this particular paint job was chosen to which I am not privvy and honestly, don't believe any owner owes any of us out in the warbird following world an explanation. And I am thankful that this gentleman wants to spend his money on airplanes that I enjoy seeing fly (and which I don't have to spend money on). I thought I was clear on that, but if I wasn't, I hope I am now.
You did take a leap, however, I didn't take. I wasn't passing judgment on a collection of anyone or anyone's warbirds. I was expressing my opinion about the nose art on one photo of one airplane posted on a website of followers of a very narrow subset of aviation. My opinion was just that, primarily about the nose art and how it, in mine eyes only, seems completely disjointed from the history of this aircraft type. I fully agree that he could paint it pink with purple polka dots. Even so, I'd still say, "Hey, I think pink with purple polka dots is silly." And as I mentioned, I wouldn't expect the owner of this aircraft or any other to care about it.
As far as where to discuss tastefulness of nose art on vintage warbirds, I can't think of a better forum.
I'm sorry you didn't read my entire post. My issue wasn't that you had an opinion, my issue was the way you made a statement, not an expression of opinion. There is a huge difference. It may or may not "pierce their skin", but in the past on this form and others, there's been a basic level of decorum and, for lack of a better word at this moment, decency, that if you don't like something, you nicely say you don't like it and leave it at that. To make a statement that it is "horrible" and infer that he has no "taste" is not an opinion, it's a FLAME, pure and simple. It has no other purpose but to cause conflict. So, before telling us to "Flame away", maybe you should consider your own words and understand that they themselves meet the basic characteristics of a flame.
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of going on about paint, and lets truely appreciate the fact that the guys with the big bucks are employing personnel to restore and maintain the aircraft that weren't built to last but through the war (if they were lucky). These were desposable items back then and hats off to those that have managed to recycle them for us to, through the kindness of their hearts and schedules, allow us to enjoy seeing them from time to time on the ramp or in the air. 
