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Uncle Pete, your post never said it better.
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It took you almost 1500 posts to figure that out and for it to be an issue?Originally posted by uncle pete View PostComment
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Who put you in charge of what other forum members want?Originally posted by Black Forest View Post
As a guy who used to get paid to make chips, I enjoy reading (and sometimes writing) about different ways- modern and old school- someone with a lot of experience accomplishes a given task.
Post away, Old Hat!Comment
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Old Hat, yer gonna love Evan. Hopefully he'll be returning.Comment
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Me!Originally posted by CarlByrns View Post
Location: The Black Forest in Germany
How to become a millionaire: Start out with 10 million and take up machining as a hobby!Comment
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I (not we) also enjoy reading about the new and old ways of accomplishing a task. What I don't enjoy is the look down your nose at anyone who isn't old school or isn't willing to take a load of crap just to learn something. It is the uneducated Old School types that hang on to how they were taught like Old Hat that is distasteful to me. Usually they think that because they are really good at what they do everyone around them has to put up with their hollering, cussing and tantrums. That some how their hardness adds to their position. I say get a life and join the real world. Those times are over. The world has moved on to a more knowing manner of conveying knowledge for the most part.Location: The Black Forest in Germany
How to become a millionaire: Start out with 10 million and take up machining as a hobby!Comment
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On more of a mellow side-note, I wonder if Old Hat is actually Oldtiffie?
lot of similarities there...
not that that's a bad thing, just sayin...Comment
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Don't believe so because: no pictures of a rolling cart with cylindrical squares and other "Metrology"; conversation/posts not lectures; no threats to "bin" anything.Originally posted by A.K. Boomer View PostComment
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Who put you in charge of what other forum members want? (in reference to Black Forrest)
I did. I said it was OK.
Plus he gave me five bucks.Comment
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As I see it, any thread that starts as or turns into a discussion about communication and personality is worthless to the majority of members here.
This one started with an 800 word tome from which I get only one message: "Hey, I've paid my dues, and I have a right to be grumpy!"Comment
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I was going to say the old adage of "opinions are like assholes --- everybody's got one"
till I realized that would not be neither fair nor honest to all the people out there walking around with colostomy bags...
so im just going to sit this one out for a change...Comment
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I never could understand why I should have to change because someone else got "offended" over anything. But I am not allowed to be offended by their "fake" offence!
And it now seems some sit around looking for anything to be offended by.
Another industry build around an idea!Krutch
Mentally confused and prone to wandering!Comment
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Some years ago, when I was a relative newbee here, this subject came up. In my relative youth, I had noticed that some people on the board did not always use correct spelling or grammar or punctuation. Now, I have had a "Jesuit Education", both high school and college and believe me, they can pound it into you. And I do believe that such proper English is beneficial and a worthy personal goal. And proper use of language will help to express your ideas in a more understandable manner.
So the subject came up here and I was all too ready to jump in on the side of the language purists. I mean after all, they are right, aren't they? But I stopped for a few minutes and thought. Here I am, a newbee at the time in the world of machining. And I am here to learn more about machining, not about English. Contrast, if you will, my lack of knowledge on machining subjects (which still exists on many topics) and their lack in the writing arts. They are not making fun of my lack of machining knowledge, are they? Well, only in jest, I suppose. So, why should I question their language skills. We all have our skills and areas where we are lacking. And this is a machining board, not an English composition board.
Another point is, for better or worse, language evolves. If you don't believe me, just try to read the original Shakespeare or Beowolf, both supposedly in English.
So, then and now, I say this: this is a machining board, NOT an English language board.
Look to the superb knowledge that the people here have on so many aspects of machining and the mechanical arts and be kind in regard to any spelling or grammatical errors that they might make. Frankly, Mr. "Jesuit Education" here, just made at least a half dozen uses of the spelling checker and several additional spelling corrections without resorting to it, just in this one post. I can't spell worth a hoot. And I still see the word "newbee" underlined in red above at least two times so that is not even a proper word at all. But it expresses my thought and I am sure that all here will understand it, so it remains.
One thing I do do is to read my posts before posting them. That always produces corrections so I do recommend it.Paul A.
Golden Triangle, SE Texas
And if you look REAL close at an analog signal,
You will find that it has discrete steps.Comment
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I find the Ignore feature remarkably useful. As my tolerance threshold goes up and down I may add members to it or remove them from it. I can always "click through" a message here and there to see how I'm feeling about things. I'm still trying to figure if certain members get more likely to be added to the list when they are ON meds, or OFF their meds.
I try not to post when I am on mine. If I just can't help it, I compose the message, read it and delete it and feel just fine about it. And since no one gets a notice saying they've been added to the list, no feelings are hurt.
Some people get added because I start getting crazy about their usage of the wrong words - repeatedly - like they are just daring me!
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