zstripe Lol,,,,,,,,, Come to think about it,,,, Eneg does sound like it could be a caveman's name!!! Cheers Frank
Lol,,,,,,,,, Come to think about it,,,, Eneg does sound like it could be a caveman's name!!!
Cheers
Frank
Alton Junction
mfm37One reply gave the man a fish, the other taught him how to fish
"If you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. if you teach a man to fish, he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day."
I'm more about teaching a man to fish. There is much to be learned here. I enjoy the discourses on obscure topics, like milk trains or airplane parts transported by rail. There is more to every post than simply asking a question and getting an answer. In particular, hundreds of us read many of the topics. Sure, for easy stuff, Google up an answer. But each answer leads to other questions, and each question has other subtleties that are only grasped with a bit more reflection.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Playing strictly off the title, anyone who puts a question up on this (or any other) board WILL get answers. How valuable the answers are depends on the real needs and experience level of the individual asking, and the knowledge and experience level of the person making the reply.
If someone reads insult into a TV commercial throw-away line, that person is more interested in finding insults than in finding answers. This is especially true when the subject of the alleged insult is in third person and could refer with equal validity to someone living in a cave on the Afghan-Pakistan border.
In my experience, people who tell other people (in first person) to grow up, should look in a mirror. Insecure people and children are easy to insult, because they take everything personally. It is impossible to insult a self-confident person - even with a much more direct attempt.
Now, let's see if Gene spelled backwards takes this third-person comment as an insult...
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
Never ceases to amaze me how much time is wasted posting questions on forums then waiting and reading through the eventual replies to get an answer. While the process may be necessary on more obscure topics, simply doing a google search using a few of or the whole sentence of the question will normally yield a ton of links. That of course assumes the person has a computer with internet connection. But then that's needed to be on this forum too, right?
One reply gave the man a fish, the other taught him how to fish (with an additional comment). Get used to it. This stuff can be read by anyone on the planet.
Martin Myers (real name, btw.)
richhotrain The OP received several replies to his post on that separate thread, and all of those replies seemed useful to me. I am not sure that it all warranted this new thread since the OP could have posted his dissatisfaction on the other thread or, better yet, not posted at all. Why alienate those that are trying to help you?
The OP received several replies to his post on that separate thread, and all of those replies seemed useful to me.
I am not sure that it all warranted this new thread since the OP could have posted his dissatisfaction on the other thread or, better yet, not posted at all. Why alienate those that are trying to help you?
I'm just guessing, but I believe it had to do with the "so easy a caveman could do it comment".
This is one of those curious threads that make no sense unless you dig deeper.
Having dug deeper, it appears that the OP was not pleased with the advice that he got from a fellow member on a separate thread.
Rich
eneg thanks so much for the advice,cacole. yo, rich get back to me when you grow up. enge
thanks so much for the advice,cacole. yo, rich get back to me when you grow up.
enge
LOL
If you ever fall over in public, pick yourself up and say “sorry it’s been a while since I inhabited a body.” And just walk away.