No, people just want to post something. They’ll seize on the tiniest relationship in the OP, or reinterpret it completely, just so they can post. It’s not important to them that it actually answers the question, just that it gives them an excuse to post something.
Everything the OP writes is partially right.
I’m deducing that you don’t work in Software. Every programming group ever, apart from when Microsoft used to run newsgroups, is filled with people who fill up space because the don’t know the answer but won’t shut up.
Mostly they hold the illusion that they know better than any person stupid enough to ask a question.
Q: Any Question about anything?
A: That is a bad question. You should be doing something else instead. You know nothing about [Something that I still find difficult, so obviously you must understand it even less than I do].
Garrrchukkk.
Sorry for the rant.
Twist away, if it make you happy. In the first example the unhelpful suggestion was somebody who was 5’9", not 6’2" or 6’6", and the second example was a crossword puzzle answer that had to have an “m” as the first letter and a “t” as the fourth, and it had to have 7 letters. Contrast this specific example with your befuddled attempt to put me in my place:
I wasn’t trying to “remember” jack shit in my example, was I? Unless the guy who constructed the crossword did it wrong, the “manhatten” answer could not possibly be right. The next time you want to dissect one of my examples, why don’t you try dissecting one of my examples instead of one of yours, o.k.?
I think that is definitely part of what goes on sometimes.
Your giggling aside, in my opinion “partially right” is not right enough. When it comes to law, construction and most sciences, being partially right is not something most settle for. In things as simple as recipes, being partially right can be the difference between using baking powder or baking soda(“I knew it was baking something, so at least I was half right!”).
Whyn’t you have a read of How To Solve It by Georg Polya and then come back and tell us how “partially right is totally wrong”? A partially right answer can be an important step forwards even if it isn’t a place to finish. Little Nemo posed an excellent hypothetical above and you snarl at him for it. :rolleyes:
It often happens on this message board, where someone asks when a particular phrase first appeared. Some will try to find the correct answer as to when it was first said, but others follow with when they first heard it, even if their example takes place long after a previously given answer.
Once my roommate and I lost a cat. We didn’t have a picture but we put up ads that said “Lost: Beautiful long-haired black and white female cat” along with our phone number.
So a guy calls and says he thinks he has our cat. We go over to retrieve her–and it’s a shorthaired tricolor MALE.
We took him anyway because he was cute and we figured the guy who found him was never going to get it right and knew fuckall about cats.
Little Nemo couldn’t even get my basic premise right.
[Tongue In Cheek]But it was a cat, right? Maybe you misremembered the color, hair length and sex of your cat, so don’t be criticizing someone that might have given you the cat you were actually looking for.[/TIC]
Yes - your basic premise is that everything you say is right and people should respect the fact. The alternative he proposed is that it’s possible you could make some error and that giving you an answer which fit most of the supplied facts would actually make more progress than giving you no answer at all. How stupid of him.
No, that isn’t my basic premise, but thanks for playing.
I had that same crossword puzzle. The answer was “Manhattan”.
The puzzle had a trick where “man” would sometimes take up a space by itself.
“man” “h” “a” “t” “t” “a” “n”
7 spaces, starts with an m, 4th space is a t.
Sorry, his answer is still wrong, even if that was allowed-he actually spelled it “manhatten”.
And so goes a typical Czarcasm thread. Couldn’t you just ask a mod to add [Post if you agree] in the thread title?
He actually was way nicer than the cat we had lost. (Which we never located:()
No, it’s a Margarita. Seven letters and the fourth is a “t”, like he says.
For certain values of “7” and certain values of “fourth”, that is. Or maybe for certain values of “t”. You need to be intelligemt to do crosswords.
Many prospective chemists enter grad school with this fantasy. They either learn better or they leave with a consolatory MS because they couldn’t hack it. Obviously some things are more or less fudgeable than others.
Recipes are the perfect example of the exact opposite of your point. Yes, there are small things you can do to totally destroy a meal, but my expanding waistline is testament to how carefree one can be in the kitchen.
I’m just coming in to (a) ignore that the answer was given, and (b) guess Mai Tais.