Re: "Actually you are the first person to bring up this issue"

Tim McNamara

bomba <myarse247@hotmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:10:50 -0800, Benjamin Lewis wrote:
>
>>> Sorry, I hadn't realise we were trying to convince you of
>>> anything. I figured a certain amount of humility on your part
>>> would prevail when discussing a subject, of which you have
>>> little/no experience, with a group that has it by the bucketload.
>>
>> Give me a break. Even if I knew you, considered you an expert, and
>> respected your opinions, if you disagreed with me I would expect
>> you to tell me why. Just saying "sorry, you're wrong" is useful to
>> nobody.
>
> If I cross-posted uninformed statements on a subject I knew nothing
> about, to a group that did, I would expect similar short thrift.

At least from the more rude and/or arrogant participants.

>> As it is, you're just an anonymous poster on usenet. I never even
>> insisted my first intuitions were correct, I just said, in effect,
>> "this is what I would have expected, for these reasons". If you
>> want me to blindly believe *your* statements, just because you
>> claim to be from "a group with lots of experience", you've got a
>> long wait ahead of you.
>
> And if you expect everyone on Usenet to compose technical essays to
> refute every random thought you have, you're likely to be in for a
> long wait.

Nah. Most Usenet users suffer from Male Answer Syndrome and are more
than happy to post long winded technical answers to most any
question. A Google search on my name will demonstrate one such
afflicted person.

>> The only person yet to have offered a reasonable explanation why
>> instantaneous braking forces can be higher on DH runs is Jobst
>> Brandt, elsewhere in this thread.
>
> And this is why I didn't originally post a long reply. You're a
> pompous arse who had already ignored several replies that attempted
> to correct your totally unfounded hypotheses.

Ad hominem reveals a weak position.

> Unlike Jobst, most of us aren't engineers or physicists. We're just
> guys who ride bikes a lot. The fact that you ignore our experience
> on the matter marks you out as arrogant in the extreme.

Lots of people with lots of experience still offer inaccurate beliefs
and explanations to explain the things they think they know. That's
why there's science, engineering, etc.