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From: The Older Gentleman on 18 Mar 2007 14:21
Potage St. Germaine <flying_booger(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Mar 18, 8:26?am, chateau.murray.takethis...(a)dsl.pipex.com (The
> Older Gentleman) wrote:
>
> > What this has shown is your ignorance. Well, no matter. There's nothing
> > wrong in ignorance. I'm ignorant of many things. But I don't expound on
> > them as though I'm well-versed, because that way lies ridicule.
>
> Only from people who have nothing better to do with their time.
>
> I have an idea. Let's agree that you enjoy disagreeing
> for the sake of being disagreeable
>
> Fair enough?

No. Now read this carefully.

This is not me disagreeing for the sake of being disagreeable. This is
me disagreeing because what you've posted is arrant nonsense. I mean,
saying that a brake adjuster can be used to help remove brake pads....

Just recently, in another thread, you accused me of taking an unfair
stance against Germans and being generally racist (though you didn't use
the word).

I pointed out that you had attributed someone else's remarks to me: that
you'd misread the thread. As you had.

The standard thing to do here is acknowledge your error. An apology is
nice, but not essential.

You did neither. You just quit the thread.

You do this *every* time you make an error, which you do quite
frequently.

How about when you told some guy with a Ducati 800SS that his battery
was located behind the fairing? I pointed out that in fact, it's under
the tank. Had he taken your advice, he'd have been ripping his fairing
apart for no good reason.

And I won't repeat your endless howlers when we were discussing diesel
engines......

Everyone makes mistakes. On a technical forum, one should expect them to
be highlighted. When I make mistakes, I have no objection to them being
pointed out, and I try to acknowledge my errors.

When you've posted something true and accurate, you'll often find me in
agreement. But take the rough with the smooth.

In other words, accept that you *don't* know everything and that much of
what you do post is incorrect.

Your current behaviour shows you in a very unfavourable light, as other
posters have noted.


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GAGARPHOF#30 GHPOTHUF#1 BOTAFOT#60 ANORAK#06 YTC#3
BOF#30 WUSS#5 The bells, the bells.....
From: Potage St. Germaine on 18 Mar 2007 15:42
On Mar 18, 10:21?am, chateau.murray.takethis...(a)dsl.pipex.com (The
Older Gentleman) wrote:

> Everyone makes mistakes. On a technical forum, one should expect them to
> be highlighted.

Sounds like a lifetime job for you then, Mr. Sisyphus.

From: Mark Olson on 18 Mar 2007 15:57
Potage St. Germaine wrote:
> On Mar 18, 10:21?am, chateau.murray.takethis...(a)dsl.pipex.com (The
> Older Gentleman) wrote:
>
>> Everyone makes mistakes. On a technical forum, one should expect them to
>> be highlighted.
>
> Sounds like a lifetime job for you then, Mr. Sisyphus.

How apposite is your chosen role.

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OMF #7
From: Potage St. Germaine on 18 Mar 2007 16:07
On Mar 18, 11:57?am, Mark Olson <ols...(a)tiny.net> wrote:

> How apposite is your chosen role.

Since the newbies rarely complain, I believe that the free help I
offer is useful to them, or that they don't read it at all because of
short attention spans.

People with short attention spans tend to make mountains out of
molehills anyway.

From: The Older Gentleman on 18 Mar 2007 17:51
Potage St. Germaine <flying_booger(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

> Since the newbies rarely complain, I believe that the free help I
> offer is useful to them, or that they don't read it at all because of
> short attention spans.

Or, much more likely, they don't realise that a lot of it is rubbish.


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BMW K1100LT 750SS CB400F CD250 Z650
GAGARPHOF#30 GHPOTHUF#1 BOTAFOT#60 ANORAK#06 YTC#3
BOF#30 WUSS#5 The bells, the bells.....
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