I have a good solution. Its my blonde ditz routine. I’m a Chem E in training. Its a limited skill set. I can map out an aldol condesation reaction for you, but I can’t fix cars. I make this more than apparent by opening my eyes wide, fluttering eyelashes, smiling, and using that soft girly voice.
“What’s wrong? Oh I don’t know…its red…I don’t like red cars, its like too …much, you know?”
Works fine…
Look, this is not the place to debate this topic, but I’ll try to clear the air. Both of those pit threads were started and sustained by a pair of certain immature children who were trying to bait me into finishing a petty debate about their choice of computer OS, a debate I declined to participate in further once I became aware of their inability to deal with facts in a levelheaded manner. Since that time, I have completely ignored those messages, I will not acknowledge them nor respond to any message by them, and I will definitely not engage in debate in any Pit threads where they attempt to disparage me. If my reputation suffers for this, so be it, it is better not to encourage them in any way. I will treat them as if they are in a killfile.
Those pit threads were orchestrated in a manner to give me a bad reputation far beyond anything I deserve. Certainly I have behaved in a curmudgeonly fashion at times, but certainly not beyond what many other posters do, and they are even admired for it at times. I have been admonished by the Mods a few times in my early days when learning the ways of the board, and in those cases I have immediately complied and mended my ways. I acknowledged the error of my ways, and moved forward.
Since the time of those Pit threads, everyone has been primed to react to my statements with a hair trigger. I tend to be terse, which leads to occasional misunderstandings, but people are always prepared to believe my statements were made with the worst possible motivations. I assure you they are not. Would it be so difficult to react with “what did you mean by that?” rather than instant flaming?
Much of the contentious argumentation I get into is just as much attributable to people’s hair triggers as to the words I write. Statements that would be made by anybody else without notice are immediately pounced upon and savagely attacked.
SDMB users should be ashamed of taking their cues from a couple of immature children with a grudge. Perhaps I was in error, assuming that a board dedicated to the eradication of ignorance would be filled with intelligent people who were able to see beyond childish schoolyard games. People who are ashamed to agree with my statements because it might cause them to be associated with MY bad reputation should do some soul-searching. What is to be gained by participating in this childish game of harassment? What does it say about YOU when you allow yourself to be manipulated by children over such a petty squabble?
If there are any Mods who wish to assist me in dealing with this problem, I would invite them to contact me by email. I believe that the problem cannot be settled by a change solely in my own online behavior, so I believe that only the Mods can come up with a solution. Sure, they could just ban me and the problem would be solved… until the NEXT intelligent person offends someone who is able to orchestrate a campaign of harassment. And the cycle will begin again. Fighting ignorance will fall by the wayside, pushed into the gutter by immature grudeholders.
Yes, I do have valuable things to contribute to SDMB, and I believe I should have the ability to continue my participation without having to deal with insane grudges. So let’s move forward and everybody lighten up ferchrissakes!
oh poor deluded chas,
I flamed your ass like a fajita like a year ago for being a jack-ass. Too tired to go look for it, but IIRC, there were about ten of us appealing to your sense of decency in there, and you never showed your face.
And for the most part you seem to only show your face to argue minutae, never to address the abundant complaints about your complete lack of tact and ability to behave empathetically.
Incidentally your pomposity about your claim of being an artist makes me really want to take a shower. I feel dirty when I hear BS like that. How noble you are.
kisses
CJ
Jeez, badhat, you’re holding a grudge over that stupid Mac/PC fiasco too? You’re as bad as the little kiddies.
Is it my imagination, or is every thread about Chas.E anymore? And always Chas against the world.
So I got to wondering: Is it us? Maybe the SDMB folks are wrong and just can’t see the inner beauty of Chas.E.
Anything’s possible, but not today. A little digging reveals that this is a pretty common track in the life of good Chas.E. At one point there were even chas e. newsgroups running rampant. (With his real name, which you’ll have to discover on your own.) If you do a search at dejanews on his name, the first 14 hits are people infuriated with him. And always about the same problems he exhibits here. Lack of knowledge. Lack of humility. And always, always lack of tact and class.
[Edited by TubaDiva on 08-09-2001 at 06:47 PM]
Mr. Bill, I believe you will find the mods take a very dim view of bringing in outside problems onto this board. Those problems were all resolved and you are going way beyond the rules to dredge this up on SDMB. Shame on you.
If I’ve trespassed, then I apologize to the mods and ask them to edit appropriately.
You’ll forgive me for not taking your word on board policy as gospel. That “don’t be a jerk” policy makes you a fantastically horrible interpreter thereof.
I disagree. There are people who are abrasive at times, but the difference is, they know and when to use it. They have the ability to not be that way. Feel free to name some names if you can show me where I am wrong.
Have you ever heard the saying: “If 20 people tell you to go to bed because you’re too drunk, you probably are?” Half the time I see your name you are just being a rude jackass. And that’s not “taking a cue”, that’s an honest observation.
Here’s the deal. No one is going out of their way to harass you. You are constantly rude, condescending, smug, and conceited when dealing with people when it just isn’t necessary. When you repeatedly deal with people in this manner, you certainly don’t expect flowers in return, do you?
You obviously are very intelligent and you have a lot to add around here. It just isn’t necessary to always be on the attack. You call it “behaving a curmudgeonly fashion”. Nearly everyone else calls it “being a jerk”.
Unfortunately, being a rather large individual (and male), I’d have a hard time with the ‘blonde ditz’ routine. I’d have to adapt that to the ‘dumb Neanderthal’ routine.
“Krunk not understand. What this thing called ‘car’? 'Splain to Krunk, use small words.” 
Just say “Krunk smash!” whenever somebody asks you a question. Pretty soon you won’t get that many questions. 
Beautiful! Consider it done.
Best reply I ever heard to this assumption:
Dumb Assuming guy: “What do you mean you can’t fix it, aren’t you and engineer?”
Engineer: “Doesn’t make me Macguyver!”
I’m an EE.
My biggest gripe is my uncle. Actually, we get along great, as he is my favorite uncle. (I come from a big family.) Anyway, he has a part-time business rebuilding classic Mustangs (64.5 to 70). Every now-and-then he runs into a wiring problem, and guess who he calls?
So I go over to his shop, and I spend HOURS pouring over wiring diagrams. I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to follow a wiring diagram for a 1960’s car, but believe me they’re horrible. I mean, I have no problem deciphering regular schematics of analog/digital electronics, but those old automobile wiring diagrams SUCK; they’re full of mistakes, and the wires look like a bowl of spaghetti. Anyway, it takes me many, many hours to figure out the problem - that is, if I can figure it out at all. And while I’m over there, he constantly chides me about “being an electrical engineer and unable to quickly find the problem.” Well Jesus Christ, it’s not like I took an automotive electrical class in college. Besides, the people who designed the wiring & drew the diagrams for these things were complete MORONS, and I’m trying to do the best I can.
After about 6 hours I usually find the problem, and then we share a 12-pack. So it’s usually worth it.
:: Taps Chas E. on the forehead ::
Helloooo? YOU are not EVE’s father. (Pauses while Eve uncharacteristically offers up a prayer of thanks.) YOU are not in the situation EVE’s father was in then. YOU are not qualified in any respect to speculate, much less state, what he could or could not have done and what he did or did not want. The fact that you imagine that simply because you can do something, it must be easy, not to mention possible, for everyone else, strikes me as oversimplistic.
Unfortunately, I don’t think anyone has misunderstood you, but I’ll bite: What the hell did you mean by that?
I am judging you based solely upon your gratuitously flippant, mean-spirited, and off-topic comment in this thread.
I think I qualify as a SDMB “user” in both the posting and addicted sense, and I assure you that you have left a poor impression all on your own. Regarding those “other threads” and “other posters” from whom I’m taking “cues” – I don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about.
Come down off your cross; we need the wood for a cookout.
Changing your behavior might not be the solution to the problem you perceive, but seriously man, it’s a place to start. You post as you did here and you come across as an asshole. Period. This opinion is based solely on what YOU have posted; not what anyone else has posted to or about you.
And for your own sake, leave EVE alone. She may be too much of a lady to make you wear your testicles for a hat, but many of the rest of us are not.
Jodi, welcome back. How was the Washington Bar Exam? Trust me, the Pit wasn’t the same without you around.
Hey, water! As I’ve said elsewhere, the exam was like paying to take a beating and the best thing that can be saidd about it is that it’s over.
Thank you, Jodi, dear. You are right, I AM too much of a lady to suggest he wear his testicles as a hat. But I would insist he tip them to me if we met on the street.
I’m a CS major too and I get alot of “help me, windows wont work” questions. I really don’t mind trying to fix the problems. Am I a push-over or do I just love computers a bit too much?
In the year between getting out of the Navy and starting my first engineering job, I worked as an advisor at a junior college and I taught Algebra at night. After I began the aforementioned engineering job, I was amazed at the number of people who were going back to school who sought me for homework help. After the first few times, it got a bit annoying - I mean, I was trying to do my real job, and they came into my cubicle with their textbooks…
Lucky for me, I’m an aerospace engineer, and I don’t have any friends who own airplanes. And anyway, why would they ask me for help - I’m just a girl…
[sub]ummm, that was sarcasm, in case anyone was wondering…
Hey FairyChatMom, could you help me build an airplane?
Oh, my reason for being here? Like so many before me, I’m constantly being hounded by people having trouble with their PCs, because I’ve spent the last 25 years of my life working with mid-range, and sometimes mainframe, computers (way bigger than a breadbox) with ‘IBM’ splashed on the front. Their little PCs are to my bread-and-butter as an Apache helicopter is to a 747. They both fly, but the similarity pretty much ends there. I don’t know, or care, why their spreadsheet is kludged up or what’s wrong with their frelling printer. Oh wait, this is the pit, their fucking printer. (Printer problems are an especially sore point with me.) If it doesn’t run on the AS/400, it isn’t my problem.
Fortunately, after 7 years with this company, I’ve got almost all of theses yahoos trained to take their PC problems to the network/PC boys now. Notice I said “almost all”.