Your handle is Reprise, you sign your posts Wanker. I am confused as it is, do not confuse me more.
Are you sure that you are not carried away? I just reviewed the main page, there are no limitations:
General Questions
Got a question for the Teeming Millions (and possibly Cecil) to consider? Post it here. manhattan, ChronosGreat Debates
For long-running discussions of the great questions of our time. This is also the place for religious debates and (if you feel you must) witnessing.
It says: “post it”. No qualification, no disclaimers.
Q: there are certain rules relating to posting in each of the fora on this message board.
Where are the rules? I never saw any rules, nor the mods ever mentioned anything beyond netiqette, which was violated by you, not me.
Q: you do try to create the impression that you have expertise in these fields
No, I do not. You may have this impression, but only because of my words, not because I try to create it.
**Q: some of your assertions in medical threads have been corrected by people who are qualified in the field **
How do you know that they are qualified? Could I check their qualifications?
Q:I have no medical training whatsoever, but for what it’s worth this is my unprofessional opinion
I have no problem with this phrase whatsoever. I will incorporate it into my signature, so it will appear in all my posts. If you have any suggestions about any other disclaimers, let me know. I will waiw a day or two.
** In both the “prostate thread” and the “tilted uterus” thread, you made statements which implied you were speaking from a position of expertise; you even argued with qualified medical practitioners about their statements (again, something deliberately suggestive of your “qualifications” to make an assessment being equal or superior to their professional standing)**
Perhaps you, like Astroboy’s fiancée HJ, do not question authorities, even perceived ones. I do.
I do not place my “assessment”, superior or inferior, to anything; if you do, it’s up to you.
Q:When people raise medical or scientific issues on this board, they are not looking for answers from unqualified quacks - they are looking for the educated opinions of people qualified in those fields
Speak for yourself. I look for the opinions of those who know. If I want *educated[i/] opinions, I’ll ask educated people, or will go to a library, or to certified sources, etc. In any case, I do not have to follow your criteria.
Q:BTW, just how many uterii have you palpated?
You’d be surprised. But the number is irrelevant: I give my opinion because I know the subject; I would not give my opinion about pregnancy development or anything else I feel uncertain about.
Q:And, above all, do not seek to deliberately create the impression that your “opinions” have equal or more validity than those of board members who actually do hold qualifications in these areas.
Do not confuse yourself with me. I do not value my opinions, you might value them. Actually, I often disagree with my own opinions. But if they are strong (“testicles are solid”), I make it obvious. Regardless of who states the opposite. If somebody told me that he was a chief of Battery Dept. at a major car company and advises that guy to warm the battery on cold mornings, because batteries freeze solid, I’d say that he goofed, they do not freeze. His expertise and qualifications notwithstanding.
Q:… posts of people who are qualified medical practitioners
You keep surprising me, Reprise: you appear smarter than that. How do you know that they are qualified?
Q:stated a professional opinion,
C’mon now! This MB ain’t Her Majesty distict court. They will give their professional opinion under oath, when asked and paid. I know where to find pro opinion. On this MB it is OPINION, period. And the site is called Message Board, not Professional Opinion Board.
Q:By posting that way, you yet again imply that you share their professional knowledge and expertise.
Again, I do not imply anything. Nor do I want to appear professional to you. So, all implications are yours.
Q:So one more time, for the record. Are you now saying that you are not and never have been a qualified medical practitioner anywhere on this planet? Because if you keep trying to fudge the answer to this question and yet insist on continuing to post in medicine-based threads, I would seriously suggest that the mods edit a disclaimer into any posts you make, lest some poor person actually follow your advice.
Go ahead. In this country, despite everything the government and the lawyers do, we are still responsible for our actions. If anyone here follows my advice because they thought it was professional, I professionally advise them to have their heads checked.
If your son is still interested, it was not “my logic”: all over the world police look among less pigmented (“white”) people, if a blond body was found and among strongly pigmented (“black”) people, if dark-skinned body was found. What is so amusing about it?
Major, you overdid me: sometimes, I can’t resist to make a joke and I make it with a straight face. I was not alone to swallow yours with the sinker. You are nine months older than I am; you must have known how often the sense of humor leaves us. Especially when our balls are pulled.
Gaspode, I do not claim anything. Australians, like Britts, worship authorities.
I remember shortly after I got here going to the cricket and the crowd roundly booing the umpires before the game had even started.