Re: Lessons learned

Jim Murphy wrote:
First of all, this is a followup to a prior reply. Don't hassle me about "top-posting" since I didn't quote the previous reply.

First off, go *** yourself.....

This is not ARPANET, this is not 1983 and you are not the net police.

Nope this ain't ARPANET, it's rec.motorcycles.harley a usenet newsgroup owned by Shmoe...........


Okay, regarding the very informative post above by Mr. Chilly. This is exactly the sort of reply that makes this group to appear it is inhabited by sixth graders who are old enough to have graduated from high school.

I though he was being nice, I almost told ya to get rid of the bike before you killed yourself.......but was busy packing to ride over to the coast for a party with some folks I met here.....


Yes, this was "cross-posted." To r.m.h and to rec.motorcycles. Not exactly a spam aimed at the rec.frugal and alt.sex.binary.harley crowd.

Two newsgroups which historically have had only a bit of hostility between them......


The "traditions and culture." Reminds me (again) of high school, when you needed to know the secret sign to be part of the in crowd. Well, balderdash.

The traditions and culture exists in real life, not on the net......most of us know each other in real life and use the net to keep in touch. And we don't know you....


I have yet to spend enough time in a bike bar to see someone drop plastic on the bar and set up the whole place. That's pipe dream fiction with no place

You must spend all your time posing for strangers instead of having fun with yer friends like we do.....

in a newsgroup which was intended to disseminate information to an interested community rather than comply with silly game rules.

You have no fucking idea what the intent of this newsgroup is, and probably never will.....


Chilly can expostulate all he wishes suggesting that I get to a "MSF course" before I crash and burn (aren't all crashes and burns statistics?) , but he offered no aid, no guidance, no suggestion, no URL, nothing except a smart ass snide comment to someone who hoped to help others not to make the same mistake. I'm so impressed with him, he's so cool.

He gave you the best advice he could.....go take an MSF course, did you expect him to find one for you, to enroll you in it, to take it for you......all that ***'s up to you.

And Chilly's one of the coolest......you have no idea.


On other forums (not newsgroups), my post was well received. Although I did not seek it, others applauded my candor at exposing my ignorance, and many suggested that they had not checked tire pressure in a while.

This is not a forum......and just cause a bunch of other bozos saw themselves in your story doesn't mean the folks in here are anywhere as near dumb.


I "lurked" here long before I bought my bike, and was somewhat put off by the apparent "ettiquette" expected. Waste of bandwith.


"Waste of Bandwidth"?? Such an archaic term..........

Ask a question, get an answer.

Mr. Chilly may be surprised, since he doesn't qualify, but there are people who enjoy helping other people while they waste their time on the net. If you want to solve a problem involving trigonometry, and I know how, I'm not going to tell you to go buy a trig book or take a trig course. I'll tell

Well.......what you don't seem to grasp is that we're not your very own private answer book, at your beck and call. We'll help you find the answers you need AND to help you stand on your own two feet like a man instead of being a child and being totally dependent on others.



Well, anyway, since Mr. Chilly "plonked" me (this means he put me in his killfile and none of my posts will appear in his newsreader) I hope this rebuttal has some impact on the honorable motorcycle folks who really take in interest in expanding knowledge instead of buying drinks on an imaginary credit card.

No impact here.....go someplace else and whine.


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