Our (CR4 members) Responses Are Often Brutal - Please Be Kind

Gil,

If that is your real name, congratulations!

You are, without a doubt, the most talented poster I have ever encountered here. You must have honed these skills for years to produce such masterpieces. Norm Crosby would be jealous of your talents.

You are second to none in your ability to put strings of words together that resemble sentences, yet are totally unintelligible.

Gil, You da man.

Who is Norm Crosby?

A nobody who no doubt appears on Google....

I no longer use Google, unless I am really desperate. One usually has to wade through about 3 to 10 pages of garbage before finding any really pertinent information. I prefer Dogpile for general searches, with a list of an additional 25 specialized search engines for various searches. Google is actually #15 on the list...Even with Dogpile, I get a full page of ads trying to sell me Norm Crosby CD's, with very little information (not even a photo) available on Wikipedia. But I did figure out who he is- he's the guy from Ed Sullivan who drinks decapitated coffee while speaking from his diagram...

Actually, the question was intended more as rhetorical- Google isn't always the answer.

Funny guy.

From Wiki: Crosby went solo as a stand-up comedian, adopting a friendly, blue collar, guy-next-door attitude in the 1950s. Norm Crosby refined his stand-up monologues by interpolating malapropisms.

How 'bout that one, Gil?

Normy boy was never really very funny, just a tag-along wannabe leftover from the rat pack days. However as to being compared to his compatriots in today's world of sarcastic, foul mouthed stand downs, I suppose that he may have had ideas and an opinionated voice to share - at least he had some wit to accompany his performing style.

It's sanctimonious ****'s like you who ruin my weekend. Perfectly reasonable question was asked, and you spout off like the London Olympics has started. Why don't you just sit down, shut up, and ponder why we don't use all combinations of GCAT. I've neither the time or inclination to set your right - Newton and Ridley church is open in 5 minutes.

perhaps a statistical study of thread 'lifetimes' or halflife is in order.... Know anyone who can do that?

Chris

. I commend JohnDG for the job, he's very good at that kind of thing .

Had I but world enough, and time ___

Oooph, you old romantic, you !

Chris-

I did a summary of the Container Housing blog- which consisted of downloading the entire thread, then weeding out the innocuous (in my opinion) and the repetitions. The final file was about 10% of the original. That was an especially rich blog- I suspect a similar analysis of a broader spectrum would result in a much lower "efficiency" score. But, I should also say, the original was much more fun than the reduced version...

Chris; does B. B. T. even come close to the Guinness World records of the most entertained and extended topic of discussion, in all of it's forms, so far in the recent Internet's history? And how do we find out - look up the GWR's database and browse? Or more to the point - put the point to them.

The last time I posted the results of that search, I got moderated

A couple of the results dealing with topics banned on this site

the winners were in the 100's of thousands

We of BotB[Breakers of the Bath] are closing in on 22'000

Why were some of the results banned on this site?

Why were you moderated?

Inquiring and increasingly paranoid minds need to know, after all this forum isn't the National Inquirer, or the Daily Star or heaven forbid - the dreaded TMZ. ^{(we pray)}

The official charge was linking to a site that dealt with sexual matters [legal]. The thread I had linked too was a word game & I see I exaggerated only 95k posts

mind you I [among other members] had been poking admin with a sharp stick to see how the new moderation crew was going to interpret the suggestions that pass for rules

There are some other good ones

Please tell me that his didn't co-incidently happen together with the recent introduction of the new 'Barbie' doll with a camera built into her chest area, with a uploadable d-com port and an lcd viewport built onto her back.

This news was put forward in the last couple of days c/w the warning of; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1335649/FBI-issues-warning-Barbie-Video-Girl-used-paedophiles-make-child-pornography.html.

This new tech is really starting to get too much to stomach for an old electrician, like myself.

I don't get it.

Admittedly I don't know anything about what pedophiles get off on, or how whoever thought this 'threat' up, thought it might work, but WHY would you publish an article saying there is no link?

Haven't the idiot jurno's just gone "hey all you pedo's - look! a new idea!"

Exactly!!! - Jon Stewart's Daily Show had just that same spoof (expose') on the same topic last night! December 15, 2010 where I first viewed it! - That is the only reason I replied to Garthh.

I find the whole idea sickening myself, and when enough parents, teachers and socially reponsible legislators boycott and threaten the Mattell Corp. with harsh legal actions for such an irresponsible corporate decision action, will the madness stop.

GOOD!!!!!! Stupid Journalism deserves to be mocked mercilessly and often.

_{And equally I wonder if undermining "Toy of the year" isn't a deliberate byproduct.}

' a uploadable d-com port and an lcd viewport built onto her back.'

Engineers these days have no imagination...

Header Title Alert again! Re; "Our responses are often kind" - What the flunking floozies happened to "Our Responses Are Often Brutal - Please Be Kind"?

I appreciate the compliment, but it has nothing to do with the OP's posting of topic - Loupy.

^{P.S. - And kind of what exactly?}

I think I have shown great restraint, waiting until part way through the 3rd page before the title got changed

The OP hasn't been seen for quite some time

Lets be serious the original post was a statement more than a question or discussion...

Garthh, once again, another topic title header page change about - whom is pulling the strings, and playing the Joker cards? I don't want to think that it could possibly be Admin., but who really knows for sure, these days?

After all, it's only a publicly accessed website. - Loupy.

It's really no big deal.

Meeowww. Where am I? How the heck do I get the F out of here, and get back to my string ball?

Is there anyone watching me struggle out of this box?

Oh, thank goodness, I hear Herr Scrhodinger's reassuring voice in the background.

Surely, he will have the right and proper sensibilities to allow a living being like meeeoowwself to escape this dark solitude and live out the remaining lives that I have left.

No, wait! He has placed a camera, and a clocking calender and several other recording devices about and around my dark and silent compounds.

Wait a F'ng second, what the F does he expect to F'ng happen in this scenario - is he just a plain sadistic F'ng iidiot?

Yeah. I suppose that, upon all the scientific evidence proposed to my observations, so far that he is most definitley, without a doubt, certifiably, a quite maniacal sadistic pervert.

I'm getting quite sleepy now, what with no food or water, or any kind of stimulation like light or anything.

So after all this ends for me, hopefully into a blissful explosion of enlightment, with a boatfull of fresh tuna, string balls by the pawfull, and a friendly stroke or two, starting down from my head, along my spine, and ending in a glorious raising of my tail to return your love and affection. It is all I can offer in return.

My only hope that someone, anyone, is around to see me take my last breath.

Cry me a river - so sad, but true. No tears wasted - but carefully placed in a petrie dish for later analysis for alkaline content as well as all of the other critical complex compounds such as aluminum dioxide disulphates etc.

Garthh - you are very good at what you are able to get away with - keep up the good work.

No real answer to that one...OBO (_{our beloved overlords}) kept telling us to read the rules. There was no answers to be found there, it is all vague, and none of the rules had been broken or even bent a little.

So it remains a mystery...

But we broke a few of the moderator's wee tiny minds at the BBT, and they started leaving us to our own devices.

You could google "vast iron bath tub" or "Splarf", I suppose...But in the interest of science, here is the link:

http://cr4.globalspec.com/thread/13355

Be forewarned, you must read it through from the beginning!

<wheeze> - <puff> - Here I am! Sorry to keep you waiting, chaps - it was uphill all the way! .

Poor JD

Well, you've got a reasonable excuse for having a nice quiet weekend. Westkits are a bloody pain when trying to do a passable disco dance after a few pints (of well earned) beer .

btw, found a key fob in my underpants the other day.....I've no idea how

Wow,

Just came from another thread where you have 34point5 (1450) posts in a single thread.

That must be some kind of ^_dubious record.

I have a feeling He's just getting warmed up....

Don't forget about the current champion Sue

I just love when I'm triggered to give this reply picture.

Doh !!!! Hook, line, and sinkered !

'Brain Fairy' - Sure it wasn't Brian Ferry"

Why are his ribs on his right side in the abdominal area? Someone has to learn realistic photo shopping....

I agree that the US has completely gone overboard with P.C. B.S., and I for one enjoy a forum where P.C. is not the norm. I think people who post as experts, yet do no fact checking first, then fight to the death anyone who dares to challenge their hypotheses, deserve what they get. I can name a number of people on this forum who do this on a regular basis. We all know which are the rabid dogs, and which can take a elbow to the ribs in good humor.

I say, if you can't take it, find a nice site elsewhere that will pander to your gentle sensibilities.

"...if you can't take it, find a nice site elsewhere that will pander to your gentle sensibilities..."

Where, or where, gentle sage, is this mythical site that will "pander to [my] gentle sensibilities"?

No, better not link me there- I may get stuck and never return...But, then again, maybe there are those about who would prefer I never return...

I'll never tell...but we miss ya CWarner! We're keeping your _padded cell room ready for your return...

Don't make us send the hounds after you...

I'm just sayin'....

No! No! Not the bath!

Maybe if enticed by a whole water melon punch?

Not very often you're seen out of the Bath .

I picked the lock...

The definition of a true competitor? Someone who comes first and third in a JO'ff contest - I first heard this joke at age 8, and had no idea what the joke was about, but everyone else was laughing.

P.S. I must have been considered 'slow' at that time, and maybe even considered 'slow' even today!

Aw come on. I was having a bad day.

I was making a feeble attempt to get some feedback from the new member if they new how a permanent magnet DC motor worked. Beside this, we all know that you can only make a "best guess" value for any machine's efficiency. Efficiency is really a measured not an extrapolated value.

You are not, by any stretch, the offender I had in mind. The person to whom I referred claimed all sorts of novel things about PM DC motors (such as their having a need for interpoles, that they are basically inefficient as generators, that they needed to be rewired to be efficient, etc.), none of which was applicable to the OP's motor, and little of which is applicable to PM DC motors in general.

Your posts are pretty consistently good, I think. (Whereas the member I had in mind is strong on opinion and weak on facts... and tends to be abrasive little twit, as well. . Not a great combination.)

I thank you for the compliment.

By claiming to be the offender I seized the opportunity to show that sometimes a harsh remark may have a realistic goal in mind instead of just insulting a person.

Were I to comment that you should be careful that halo doesn't slip down and choke you - would it be sophomoric?

I've already been choked for far less.

No, this is sophomoric.

Damn, by 1 minute (probably 1 second)

"However, I don't know how it could be 'improved' when "first answers" tend to be the least considered - in order to be "first" (though understandably, in this case, the usual suspects telling you you're an idiot, illiterate or incompetent and need a professional, are noticeably "no shows")"

Heheheeeeeeeee

I bet you weren't "desperate to be first" then either.

quoting Redfred:"There are 10 types of people. People who understand binary and those who don't." ........ I ran into an interesting fellow at BevMo today hunting, like myself, for his favorite beer. The gal at the register carded him (he was 52) and remarked that his birthday this year was Binary day, 10/10/10.

I was next in line. She didn't card me. This was troubling; no, almost crushing. I've recently cherished the belief that I looked younger than my 72 years. At least I found my beer .......Ed Weldon

Okay, GA. Quick, sharp - incisive ... I'll leave it to others whether OT should be the "PC per CR4" standard vote. (cue prolonged Laughtrack).

Any chance we (future "lurkers" included) could get your take on the OP's position? I'd love to hear it. Well, read it.

Gene

No but we pay the dealership for their hypotheses. Please excuse mi speling. I'm fro America.

GA!

I've seen it happen at least a few times (once, to me, would be more than too many)in my research of the "archives" and I've seen very few "mea culpa's" ensue.

Good catch, too.