This little rant is in response to my mate Albert`s very eloquent rant in the thread, “The Poor Cousins”.
I didn`t think it right to taint such an informative thread with my vitriolic manner that will no doubt emerge in this post. I must apologise in advance if I offend any or all the dumb f**ks out there who write without knowledge or thought, but really, 
WTF are you arrogant idiots thinking when you write this sort of shit on face book.I really don`t know where to start on yet another perfect illustration of the lure collecting fraternity`s hypocrisy. As Albert stated on the comments made in this discussion, “some of which were quite sensible”. I totally agree, as anyone who bothered to enquire to the facts would agree.
Unfortunately, and I don`t know these people personally, but the other uninformed contributors vividly illustrate a point I have been talking about for years. We are not all mates as we pretend, we are however, great mates as long as we conform to the opinion of the current elite, if we don`t , we have rocks in our heads and deserve to be told so.
Let`s face it, some self-appointed know-all`s have made it clear, they have more right to decide what we should collect than we do.The price we should pay is even their decision as well. In this case a decision was made on a man who probably by now has his set of timber Stumpies, and wishes to have a yet rarer set of Plastic Stumpies. His decision I would think and not really a topic for public approval. Let`s not forget that there`s always someone who knows more than us. I may be wrong, but I think the person accused of having rocks in his head, has vastly more knowledge of Stumpies than most of the contributors.
Almost every day you see someone ask in a facebook post, are these collectable, ID and value. Believe it or not, they always get a definitive answer on all of the above. I didn`t realise when I started collecting lures seriously that there were so many people out there who knew so f**king much. All we had to rely on years ago was our old legend “Frankie”
who was thought by many to know everything back then. Do we remember the all-knowing, Frank Prokop. He was the first person acknowledged and crowned as our leader all because of his unsurpassed knowledge of lures. He knew so much that he declared the pearl Stumpie, as the most collectable lure in this country. Frank, you idiot, it was plastic, plastic, do you have rocks in your head. Maybe the rocket scientists who were quick to condemn have never heard of the pearl stumpie or some one’s right to collect what they like to collect.Of course the seller and ebay got they usual share of condemnation.
As it turned out, this was all false. 
Not one of those pointing the finger has since posted so much as a “oops got that one wrong, sorry about that chief”. The need of some to interfere in other people`s business and call it looking after the greater good, always amazes me. 
The lure hub oz bullshit deserves it`s own post, sorry Gus, we`ll get to that..
