Jeremy Clarkson-The Good The Bad The Ugly

[Bronk]

They are still scratching there head on the 64 Tbolt.

Quik use the google force.


Bronk

[lazs2]

Not the same but my cousin had a gallaxie with the 427 dual quad motor and 4 speed with 4.11 gears.  was real fun on skinny old bias plys.

lazs

[Bronk]

My uncle had the same car. He bought it when he got back from nam.

He said he spent more $ on rear tires than he did gas.  My dad would borrow it and have to get tires before he brought it back. He said the car was insane, would break the tires loose at almost any speed.

Does this sound similar to your cousin's?


Bronk

[Viking]

Originally posted by lazs2
I would say you fit in this category as well.  Nothing wrong with asking questions and saying what you might have heard or participating but to say that the people who have the real experiance are wrong is just plain stupid.

Now where have I done that in this thread?

Originally posted by lazs2
To talk about what hot rods are and what they can do..when you have never even ridden in one... is lame.

You presume to tell me what cars I've ridden in?

Originally posted by lazs2
To talk about the modified scene when you don't even have a garage or any tools that don't fit in the siverware drawer is lame.

You presume I don't have tools that won't fit "in the silverware drawer"?


You presume too much.

Originally posted by lazs2
but to hear the opinions of some honda driver or some BMW owner who changed out his turn signal lenses...

puleeeese.

Then why do you do it? You don't have to you know.

[Bronk]

Originally posted by Viking




Then why do you do it? You don't have to you know.

OT

Yea lazs, be like Viking here and squelch opinions you don't like.




Bronk

[Viking]

Originally posted by Bronk
OT

Yea lazs, be like Viking here and squelch opinions you don't like.




Bronk

Exactly, but be civil about it and let the person know.

[lazs2]

Ahhh... that is what viking/gshlotz is doing.... being civilized?  just seemed kinda pouty to me... sorta dishonest like coming here with a new handle..

Everyone is entitled to an opinion.   It is nice to be able to put their opinion into perspective tho... their experiance and what they are currently doing plays heavily into this.

A honda driver talking about performance cars loses some credibility... a guy with a shop modified BMW and no garage talking about the modified scene loses at least as much.



lazs

[Bronk]

Originally posted by lazs2
Ahhh... that is what viking/gshlotz is doing.... being civilized?  just seemed kinda pouty to me... sorta dishonest like coming here with a new handle..



lazs

OT

Kinda has to with the PNG gshlwahtever got.  Since he has already proven he can't be civil enough to not be PNGed. I find it amusing  he gives out tips on how to be. His ignore list is the equivalent of a kid sticking his fingers in his ears and yelling "I CAN"T HEAR YOU !!!".



Strange how fastfwd left the conversation once he was outed as a Honda driver.
Hopefully he figured out knowledge of econoboxes has no place in a high performance car discussion.

Bronk

[lazs2]

I have never understood the ignore list....

Hard as it is to believe... there are people here who dislike what I say and say mean and insensitive things to me!

I pretty much know who and pretty much expect it...  I can skim or read what they say... heck... sometimes they even have a point.   Why would I need to put them on an ignore list?   If nothing else... I can ignore them without a list.

lazs

[eagl]

lazs,

Regarding the ignore list, there are a couple of people who post here that are fairly painful to read.  For example, anyone who habitually posts gratuitous mis-spelling, deliberately leaves out all punctuation, or otherwise makes it frankly difficult to even read what they're posting, gets ignored by me.  If they can't take the time to even attempt to communicate intelligently, then it's a waste of my time trying to understand what they're saying.  If I want to listen to gibberish, I'll volunteer to babysit infants.

Then there are the broken records.  Those who beat their personal political drum to the absolute exclusion of any kind of logic or reason.  I have only put one or two of these types on my ignore list, and that is only because after reading their posts for years, I've realized that they truly have nothing interesting or original to say.  Again, there are only one or two people that I think fit this category... *cough*nash*cough*

So basically I disagree and think the ignore list has it's uses...  It's a filtering tool, no different than adjusting the volume on your radio, changing the channel on the tv/radio, or using earplugs when working with power tools.  Some stuff here is nothing more than noise, plain and simple.

[Skuzzy]

You guys have no idea how much I envy you being able to use the ignore list.

[eagl]

You CAN use the ignore list skuzzy...  You just won't get paid for reading the forums anymore, that's all

[Bronk]

See Rule #5 (ok, let's stop beating that dead horse, thank you).

[eagl]

I'll let lazs and viking speak for themselves, but...

1.  I personally feel no compulsion to tell someone I've squelched them.  I'll probably attempt to inform the person of what I see as a flaw in how they present themselves before I squelch them, but I don't think that's really necessary.
2.  My read on what viking said is basically that when you think you've reached an impasse in a discussion with someone, it is courteous to inform them that you don't think there is any point to continuing the discussion/argument.  In my opinion though, the only time this really leads to an ignore situation is if you find that you never ever have a productive discussion with that person, or if that person is a one-topic sort of person and you find the topic boring or have already reached that impasse with that person on the topic they keep returning to.

Lazs has been one of the more consistent and contributory posters here, and although he and I don't see eye to eye on some topics, he certainly does not present himself as an irrational one-topic internet persona so I wouldn't dream of squelching lazs over something so trivial as a simple disagreement.  I think that was lazs' point.

Er....

Doh!  (the post I was replying to got skuzzified!)

[Skuzzy]

Originally posted by eagl
You CAN use the ignore list skuzzy...  You just won't get paid for reading the forums anymore, that's all

Almost got it.  If I used the ignore list, I would no longer be employed at HTC.