Need recommendations for a fun(ish) and practical daily driver (Page 13/18) maryjane OCT 16, 08:44 PM Some people Brenan, can mentor, some cannot. rbell2915 OCT 16, 08:48 PM Steve, I gave you a negative for "being an a**." theBDub OCT 16, 09:07 PM quote Originally posted by maryjane: Some people Brenan, can mentor, some cannot. That is true, and I have been guilty of being a bad tutor myself at times. 84fiero123 OCT 16, 09:07 PM quote Originally posted by theBDub: I gave you a neg a long, long time ago. And I told you when I did it and why I did it. Oh wait, I'm just young, dumb, and full of myself. Take back what I said, I don't have the guts to tell you when I neg you. All you ever manage to do is stroke your own ego. Hours worked, miles on your car, laws broken, then owning up to it (because you're so brave). There is a guy working as an Operations Supervisor here at my work. I wanted to order some work done on a couple wells, and asked him for his advice. No school, this guy has worked up from the bottom and is way more knowledgeable about this field than I am. We talked, and when he was asking about looking at certain graphs, I said "No, honestly I've never seen those before. How do I read those and how do I use the information?" He taught me how to do it. I respect the guy. We ordered the work done together and will make a great team. If I asked you the same question, you'd undoubtedly respond: "What, you don't know how to do this? You're the engineer, not me. I have more years under my belt than you've been alive. I had to figure it out myself, why can't you? Or are you too dumb to do that? What a good job engineering school did for you. More education than brain, come back to me when you really have some experience." There is a difference. There is a reason you haven't been treated with respect by younger people, and why you think they're all just full of themselves and unwilling to listen. It's because they don't want to listen to you. You're the problem. That didn't take an engineering degree to figure out either, Steve, but yeah, I have one. And with that education, and the training by the experienced guys at work, I'm going to do a pretty damn good job out here. A better job than you've ever done in your life. So enjoy your pride while it lasts, because even though I may never pass some of the guys out here that have worked this field their whole lives and are smarter than me, when you finally realize that you weren't that hard to supersede, you're going to be one sad puppy. Deuces. You know I have you rated as a positive, always have, you are willing to listen to experience, I rarely rate anyone with a negative unless they insult or degrade a handicap. one of my pet peeves, like it or not its just the way I am. you or anyone makes fun of special Olympic gets one as well. Those people have a hard enough time in life without people who have all their faculties looking down on them or degrading them, they try as hard as they can at everything they do. this guy thinks its fun to do that. I would never say,"You have the degree you figure it out" To anyone who asks me for my opinion of something I have knowledge of, except him. have I not given people advise on welding who have argued with me in other threads. I don't think everyone knows everything and those who think they do, like this guy really get under my nerves. he Owns a TA and doesn't trust it to be dependable yet he has done all the work on it. that to me shows he is not very good at what his degree is, how about you. he has a degree in mechanical engineering and can't depend on his own car. I brag about vehicles with hundreds of thousands of mills on them still being dependable enough to take cross country, no brag just facts, if you take care of any vehicle it is as dependable as it can be brand new. sure some have inherent built in problems from the factory because of faulty engineering but if you fix that they can be dependable. TAs don't have any that I know of engineering faults from the factory, maintained right there is no reason they won't last and be dependable for several hundred thousand miles. unless of course you drive the living crap out of them every day and don't maintain them. he doesn't even trust his own work on his own car and has said so. what does that tell you about how good he is. Steve maryjane OCT 16, 09:40 PM What does it tell me? It tells me, that he's smart enough to realize he doesn't know everything. I doctor my own cows. Sometimes I call the vet ahead of time for advice, more often than not tho, I consult with them after the fact for confirmation. Sometimes I did it right--sometimes not. Re-read TheBDub's post. theBDub OCT 16, 09:43 PM quote Originally posted by 84fiero123: You know I have you rated as a positive, always have, you are willing to listen to experience, I rarely rate anyone with a negative unless they insult or degrade a handicap. one of my pet peeves, like it or not its just the way I am. you or anyone makes fun of special Olympic gets one as well. Those people have a hard enough time in life without people who have all their faculties looking down on them or degrading them, they try as hard as they can at everything they do. this guy thinks its fun to do that. I would never say,"You have the degree you figure it out" To anyone who asks me for my opinion of something I have knowledge of, except him. have I not given people advise on welding who have argued with me in other threads. I don't think everyone knows everything and those who think they do, like this guy really get under my nerves. he Owns a TA and doesn't trust it to be dependable yet he has done all the work on it. that to me shows he is not very good at what his degree is, how about you. he has a degree in mechanical engineering and can't depend on his own car. I brag about vehicles with hundreds of thousands of mills on them still being dependable enough to take cross country, no brag just facts, if you take care of any vehicle it is as dependable as it can be brand new. sure some have inherent built in problems from the factory because of faulty engineering but if you fix that they can be dependable. TAs don't have any that I know of engineering faults from the factory, maintained right there is no reason they won't last and be dependable for several hundred thousand miles. unless of course you drive the living crap out of them every day and don't maintain them. he doesn't even trust his own work on his own car and has said so. what does that tell you about how good he is. Steve I understand what you're saying with handicapped people. But, I don't believe he actually made fun of anyone for a mental handicap, so your point is moot. If you can quote where he did maybe I'll think differently, but until that happens, how good he is in his work doesn't matter to me. All that matters is that you started a useless and needless fight and I believe you should apologize. I would like to remind you that I have no idea when you figured out that I did respect experience, but I'd tried telling you that for the better part of the past year and you've told me multiple times that I was a little kid who had my head up my ass. So I can't respond too politely to your sudden regard for me, though I do appreciate that you've acknowledged that. Perhaps you will eventually see a different side to nitroheadz here as well since you talked to me very similarly, if a little less dramatic, less than a year ago. theBDub OCT 16, 09:46 PM quote Originally posted by maryjane: What does it tell me? It tells me, that he's smart enough to realize he doesn't know everything. I doctor my own cows. Sometimes I call the vet ahead of time for advice, more often than not tho, I consult with them after the fact for confirmation. Sometimes I did it right--sometimes not. Re-read TheBDub's post. I believe that Steve has, finally, acknowledged that I don't have my stick up my ass. However, considering he still believes all young people, especially those with engineering degrees, are worthless... it doesn't change most of what I've said. I think he did read my post correctly this time, though. Thanks for the compliment, Don. It's always something coming from you. Khw OCT 16, 11:37 PM quote Originally posted by nitroheadz28: So how long is this gonna go on? I can't have a single thread in OT without this clown hounding me? And the rest of you are just going to turn a blind eye? Exactly what do you think the forum at large can do? It's not like any one person (aside from the forum owner Cliff) has moderator powers. The most anyone can do is re-evaluate whatever they have him rated as and if they so choose, change that rating. Or are you expecting everyone to chime in and tell him to lay off? Other then that, someone could report the thread to Cliff, which will most likely result in it being locked like your last one. If Cliff so chooses, he could then put you and/or Steve on "prohbation" and possibly tell you 2 to stop posting in each others threads like he did with Nick and WD88 (which eventually lead tot hem both ending up banned). Even if some changed their ratings, with as many ratings as he has, unless he racked up a fair number of negs in a short time it wouldn't result in banning. Yes, Cliff changed a few things recently so your number of positives aren't fully insulating like they used to be, but it still would take many new negs or changes of heart to swap to a neg before he'd get banned. Personally, if I don't like someone on the forum, I just avoid posting to them. I wish Steve would do that but sometimes people are just irrational about some things. Anyways, hopefully this "drama" will get resolved somehow. These kinds of pissing contests are pointless. heybjorn OCT 17, 06:28 AM quote Originally posted by Khw: These kinds of pissing contests are pointless. How do you win one of these? Is it distance, volume, perhaps height? Height does not sound like a good choice, but would be a very entertaining competition. maryjane OCT 17, 06:50 AM The litmus test in such things as a pizzin contest is Penmanship heybjorn--penmanship. And don't forget to indent the paragraphs and dot your "i"s and cross your "t"s without drizzlin it all over the place. Date at the top and sign yore full name at the bottom.