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BrooksZX3,Jul 19 2005, 10:37 PM Wrote:I'm sorry if I offend, but here are the facts as I see them...  This is Dan and Jason's cocktail lounge...... Dan, the guy who knows what's best for focuscanada as he told me... well seems to me it's business as usual... same old same old.  We just don't see eye to eye and that's ok.  I respect what he's done in the past with his cars but there still is no change here.

Unfortunetly they're not the facts since I havent been part of FC for a long time now and have clearly stated I have no say in its doing ... probably since back in the day when you used to get offended everytime I shot you up with rebuttals... (because I was infact looking out for the wellness of the board, where it was getting people to not spend money on s**t the people posting about it dont even understand themselves. Automatics and almost stock cars dont need 500 dollar chips/tunes, your not helping the site by advertising every 5 seconds, pushing it, and getting mad at me for telling you so / watching out for their wellbeing. I question because others dont seem to think with anything but their wallet, great for you though, definetly, atleast we know your reason for being here)...

Funny you bring that back up. Im sorry your still offended, but I cant help that. Like I said, when I saw something stupid on this site, Ive always been one of the first to point it out. If you want steeda.ca to take over FC, then go right ahead and offer Jay some money to buy it then you can run the site perfect, push business and sell parts. You dont have me to stop you anymore. Cheers!

Regardless.... Back on topic. This was very much so a club back in the day. Before I even got my focus I tried my hardest to pump people up in regards to being part of something cool in Canada... Where it be this 'club'. I used to think of it as a club, definetly.

Times change though, and its been a long time since the happy go lucky days of FJ/Focuscanada were around.....

So many cared bigtime back in the day.. personally I was out all the time meeting up with people, always out representing the club, always driving around helping people out with installs or inviting them to my house to do it..... blah blah blah .... Man I spent so much time with this club and its people trying to help it grow. There werent many me's and they still dont exist to a big extent..... Richard, Jay, paolo, Focused... definetly DanielB before this group... man .. the old guys that were really REALLY pumped about the focus. Hell even DEAN, Ill give him credit for that he had awsome intentions way back in the day for the future of this 'club'. None seem to exist anymore of this calibur. No one wants to try. This is definetly a contributing problem, leadership through.... I dont even know the word... but its not there.

We can post all we want on here thinking we are OG's when it comes to the focus, doing our part, but this place is makebelieve.... Its the internet. Its not real. The real 'club' if anything is the 'club' outside this site. Thats really the bottom line.

In turn, because less is done out there and more is done in here... This site has turned into a HUGE GROUP of crybabies and attention seekers... and infact theres only 2 reasons I check this place once a day now. 1. I like laughing at people (and the threads from today, wow, huge laugh). Thanks. 2. Because I still like hanging out with a lot of people on here, talking to them on msn, or whatever it may be. I guess I fit into AnthonyD's speil about the social aspects of the 'club' or whatever it may be called. (I might even show up friday)

Does it matter if its a car club or not? No.
Does the site need $$ support at the moment? No.
Were both of these things well known before? Yes.

Why does this s**t keep comming up though? Its dumb. There was just an argument about money like 4-5 months ago or so, but the sponsors take care of it. How hard is this to understand.

This site is stale. Its beenso for.... a year now. Atleast. I remember back in the day me and Steve talked about this issue.

It needs more outside events, ohh it does. It needs more people not thinking about themselves but a group as a whole, 4-5 cars at a show grouped together, or whatever it may be. It needs people representing, stepping up, whatever it may be, with meets, content, ideas, yada yada....

AnthonyDs first post said it all well, and Im in agreeance with him specially with stuff like:

Quote:What can you do to contribute??? Come out to the BBQs, come out for beers and wings, be supportive, get involved. I can't stand people who sit at home on their computers bitching about how shitty this place and never see them at a meet.

Thats the only way this place will get any better IMO. Not the sponsors, prizes, draws, tshirts, whatever... those are just patches.

BBQ again at my house this summer? Name your date... Ill be there.