This NG has a Bad name

Why should any of this interest anyone else??? Or are you just ranting for some unexplained reason? I guess there weren't enough posts the last few days for you to vent over?

The group is a sum total of all the contributions. I'm sure you think your contributions are a net positive. Perhaps it would illustrative to ask what you expect from this group, but I'm sure that will only result in a stream of profanity as is typically the case.

Guano posted ===========

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FYI: my post comes in reply to the " OT: topic " thread. Do keep up.

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Hey, I sympathize with Phil. And I actually like the 'experiments' in technical social exchange that Phil & others have tried.

I *also* realize a usenet group is a imperfect channel for doing some things, such as those stated. We should expect less- than-ideal "S/N ratio" :-) And to be fair, sometimes the schematics don't always tell the 'whole story' - but then it turns into real work just to post full-topic here?

If someone wants higher S/N, go to electronics.stackexchange.com or

But here, I wouldn't give up on these & any other experiments.

I see no "rules" that we have to stick to pure & new design issues. We (collectively) certainly break that rule, > 50% of the time.

To get the 'generally-on-topic ' to 'way-off-topic' Ratio >> 0.5, let see...

Brainstorming here.. some on going series of topics...

• odd old parts from the drawers - You post a picture of an old or odd looking part, challenge us to figure out what it is

• design from the past - post original design, and suggest how it would best be done today.

• lesson learned - honesty required. Ad hominens would be admonished! What design error 'someone' did, you see a lesson to be learned & can share.

• baffled by the readings - equipment reading told you one thing but your gut was telling you something else. What did you do to resolve the conflict? Any more?

Rich S wrote: ============

Sympathy ..... for Phil A ??

The fact that your post is off topic and labeled as such does not answer the question. Why is this of interest to anyone else who might read it??? You make a few ego-centric claims, describe the insipid posts that most conversations here are full of (which is very obvious to nearly anyone) and act as if you have produced a pearl of wisdom. Finally you fail to explain why anyone else would be interested in this observation.

I think your response is much like the elephant and the lion.

Bat Gauno ===========

it could not possibly be MORE ON TOPIC !!!! =====================================

..... PHIL

And yet he still can not respond to the point of the post. Clearly delusional... literally. He can't understand anything anyone says. He only responds to the noises inside his own head.

Yep... The irony is Phil is talking about himself in the third person.

Lots of words can be nouns or verbs, or adjectives. English is funny that way.

Too many issues are presented without much detail, or described ambiguously. Interpreting a fuzzy word question is too much work... there are too many possibilities.

Schematics are better.

Bat Gauno ===========

Made up s*it direct from you arse hole

snipped-for-privacy@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote: ===============================

Or maybe you think salt water is better than none when dying of thirst ??

.... Phil

The Navajo language is almost entirely verbs, pretty cool huh.

You don't even understand what it said!

LOL

Phil, the incredible thinking machine.

The Bat Guano F****IT ==================

** Because it was entirely FALSE!!.

Made up s*it, direct from your arse hole

Where your head permantently lives ....

Don't be absurd. Or at least do it more skillfully.

OK, I don't have to fix many beer-soaked wa-wa pedals without schematics.

snipped-for-privacy@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote: ===================================== >

You have always * insisted *that people must post only about their own designs here. Which is of course total bullshit.

Plus you failed *hopelessly* at all my simple quiz questions. As fully expected.

And some can be both, at the same time. Gerunds.

Personally, I like swimming. And designing.

Dude, you are without a doubt the strangest person in this group of Mensa wannabe misfits. In this group, that is quite a statement! My hat is off to you.

A gerund is a noun made from a verb. It is no longer a verb and no longer functions as a verb. In your butchered example "swimming" is a noun and "like" is the verb. The verb form would be "swim".

I think the strangest person is someone who went to a Mensa meeting more than once