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"Are you suggesting I stop posting? Not the first time I heard that."
Absolutely not at all. I have never suggested anyone stop posting. I will admit to responding rather hotly to someone who has made some very stupid (and incorrect) remarks to me, but that must have been a long time ago.
"The answer to your (seemingly antagonistic) question is:"
My comment was made simply in fun. You signature is a statement in itself, and it attracts attention and the kind of post which I made. If you didn't want someone to make that kind of comment, why did you choose that siganture? If you took my comment as antognistic, you took it wrong. I was just throwing out a little bait, and hoping for an interesting response (I got it, didn't I?).
"Because my old identity was intentionally expatriated by some horse's ass on OPINIONS, and this is the one I chose."
I'm clueless to what happened there. PM me if you want.
"Besides, on top of that, I was getting pretty tired of some people, replying to my posts(as my former identity), and splitting hairs. Most of that crap was pointless. That's a nice reward for having to answer private emails and phone calls from people seeking advice, just to be shat on at a later date, sometimes by the very same people who you helped."
Speaking of splitting hairs, you didn't mind doing that on my post regarding the curved tooth timing belt. When I made my post I was thinking maybe the curved tooth belt was introduced in 1993, but I posted 1994. You split that one just fine, but I'm not offended. I should have taken about two minutes to chekc it out closer.
"I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I take virtually nothing from this board. The one or two questions I ask a year usually don't even get answered (like the Dexcool thread we are talking about at this very moment). All I get is shit, for asking questions that make people consider where they are getting their information from, are REALISTIC, and warrant more explanation. Nobody wants to look into evidentiary reasoning anymore. Now everyone just wants to offer "bottom line" opinions and assumptions that make sense simply because of the conspicuous LACK of any other explanation."
I too am mostly a contributor of answers. I don't recollect giving you any s--t. If I can provide an intelligent answer to one of your few questions, I will respond. I usually don't do the "me too" posts, and I don't wish to speak out one something of which I have no knowledge just to fill space.
"Basically, I get virtually no technical help here. I am not the only one, either; there are other contributors to this board, who never ask, but always offer. (Most of them are treated better from what I can see.) All I do is GIVE technical advice--almost universally CORRECT technical advice--and in order to do that, I have to take shit for it too? Doesn't seem fair. In fact, it seems pretty pathetic. I guess that's just human nature, at least for some people."
Like I just wrote above, I don't remember dealing you any excrement. I also don't get much technical help hear. This Dexcool thread has been interesting. I am quitting Dexcool because of my heater core issue by the way.
"So, for now or for as long as I feel like it, my name is, "The Expatriate". If I feel like making it "Repatriate", or if I feel like making it Chris, that's what I'm going to do."
I'm glad that you are repatriated. Stay with it. If I see the excrement coming your way I will be glad to step in.
"Have a really great day, John."
Thank for the response, and have a good one too.
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