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[ban-all-sheds]

If that works for you, go for it. I'll hold the door for you.

No, I'm fine here thanks.

Every time the thick and the twisted launch one of their pathetically groundless attacks they convince me even more that I am the one who should be here and they are the ones who should leave.

 

[mikeey84]

BAS

Please post in a way that encourages people to read your advice rather than in a way that is making them ignore you.

There is absolutely nothing I can do differently to avoid being criticised by somebody who is so thick that he thinks this:

I have tried all possible combinations

That wasn't true, was it?

is an accusation of lying.

Well it was an accusation of an untruth, which while is not as graven as an accusation of lying, could still be taken the wrong way.

Its fairly obvious that the OP hadn't tried every combination, but the OP may not have even been able to conceptualise the correct set up. Hence the distinction between a lie and an untruth.

 

[phatboy]

launch one of their pathetically groundless attacks

Just about sums your behavior up doesn't it?

Maybe don't move on then for your benefit, please do so for ours.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Just about sums your behavior up doesn't it?

"Sums up" implies some kind of totality, which would be inaccurate, but certainly I do, and will always, behave in a way which recognises that with criticisms from people who are too stupid or too deranged for their views to have any worth, the sensible thing to do is to treat their criticisms as worthless. There are people here who are so, so intellectually and morally inferior to me that I would be mad to think I should consider their opinions to be valid.

Maybe don't move on then for your benefit, please do so for ours.

The best benefit you could get would derive from the idiots leaving.

 

[skotl]

They're not idiots, b-a-s. Some of them have less experience (of this topic) than you, some of them may be mis-guided, all of them are asking for help.

None of them ask for the abuse that you routinely dish out in a warped attempt to prove your own superiority. I no longer have any idea who it is you're trying to impress; I used to think it was "everyone else" but now I think it's just an embarrassing, depressing and sad attempt to prove it to yourself.

If you can't offer anything helpful, without the vitriol and abuse, it really would be better if you didn't offer any response at all.

 

[mikeey84]

B-A-S, its not what you say, per se, its the tone that you take that I think most people have issues with.

Whilst saying "thats not true, is it" , is a factual observation, saying it in that way could be construed as arrogant. Now I`m not putting words in your mouth, or not accusing you of using a tone, i`m telling you how it is perceived by others, me included.

Now you can accuse people of being thick, misguided, intellectually challenged, but the chances of all of the people on this forum who have called you out on your attitude on this forum being so is slim to none.

Whilst you are usually correct in your "facts", the way you come across is not positive, and i for one think that's why you get so much friction.

 

[mikeey84]

Whoop! I've joined the DIYnot club.

*high fives person sitting next to them*

I`ve had a post dissected line by line by BAS.

I can die a happy man


You don't get it, do you? Do you enjoy people calling you out and arguing with you? People will perceive or construe meaning in the tone/language/grammar used in a post. It doesn't matter if you mean it or not. That's life. That's the beauty of language.

I am not imagining some hidden meaning, I am telling you that you could come across as sounding arrogant.

That's not me finding some hidden meaning, that's me passing my opinion on.

But of course you are now going to turn round and say that you are by far cleverer than everyone else on here, with a lot more "wit", and that we are all speaking cobblers. Thereby reaffirming everyone's opinion.

 

[bernardgreen]

Any "tone" which people "detect" when reading something written down is one which they have invented. What I say is all that should be taken from what I say.

Yes BAS, the tone is "created" in the mind of the reader.

A good teacher will be aware that the creation of tone has to be guided by the thoughtful choice of word and sentences used when teaching.

To be useful on this forum those, like you, with knowledge have to be good teachers. Especially when the pupil is in a difficult situation that has led him or her to ask for help on this forum.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Yes BAS, the tone is "created" in the mind of the reader.

By them. Not by me. By them.

A good teacher will be aware that the creation of tone has to be guided by the thoughtful choice of word and sentences used when teaching.

And a good pupil will not, over and over and over again just flatly refuse to accept that his teacher is telling him the truth even though he cannot find a shred of evidence to support his position.

 

[skotl]

Here's a couple of direct questions. then, b-a-s.

Why did you take a much-welcomed hiatus from the Electrics UK forum, and why did you feel the need to return?

There are plenty of professionals on here (I'm not one of them) who provide valuable advice so I don't know what gap you believe you are trying to fill, and why you would want to come on here to inflict (and receive) so much aggro.

OK, a bonus question; can you not find something more calming to occupy yourself with?

 

[bernardgreen]

I decided not to allow myself to be driven away by people who are inferior to me, who are not fit to tie my shoelaces.

Wow. That is an ego trip.......The place to be