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Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors

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Subject Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors
Date Fri, 25 Jul 2025 08:14:17 +0100
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On 25/07/2025 05:22, T i m wrote:
> On 24/07/2025 23:47, Tyrone wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> Stupid people should listen to smart people.
> 
> Unfortunately, stupid people (like Brooksy) *don't* listen to smart 
> people, they are too stupid / arrogant to realise they are stupid and so 
> they *never* stop being stupid.
> 
> 
>> Not the voices in their heads.
> 
> And *another* whole issue when it comes to Brooksy ... or is it another 
> or part of the same thing?
> 
> Stupid enough to not realise he is and also stupid enough to hold 
> fantasy over fact?
> 
> I'm having similar issues dealing with someone just like him now. He 
> can't understand a DMM or a PC based diagnostic unit and so resorts to 
> using a hammer on everything.
> 
> No matter how many time you explain or get him to hold fire, the urge to 
> do *anything*, even if that just causes damage, causes others more work, 
> doesn't seem to stop him and he never learns from it. He simply doesn't 
> know he doesn't know.
> 
> Then the support stops and he sits in all the stuff that was working but 
> he then broke because he doesn't understand how to use it properly.


I gather T i m has me in his killfile — but oddly enough, he keeps
writing entire posts about me.

It’s always a bit revealing when someone responds to disagreement not
with facts or correction, but with personal insults.

I’ll leave others to judge who’s actually trying to discuss things — and
who just likes the sound of their own hammer.

-- 
Cheers all,
"Brooksy"

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Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-07-24 17:47 +0100
  Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My  Experience on MacRumors (was: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My  Experience on MacRumors) Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-07-24 17:14 +0000
    Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-07-24 18:30 +0100
      Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2025-07-24 21:25 +0000
        Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-07-24 23:41 +0100
          Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2025-07-24 22:46 +0000
            Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors (was: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors) Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-07-24 22:58 +0000
              Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-07-24 16:11 -0700
                Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My E xperience on MacRumors % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-07-24 16:17 -0700
                Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My E  xperience on MacRumors (was: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My E  xperience on MacRumors) Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-07-24 23:33 +0000
                Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My E xperience on MacRumors % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-07-24 18:01 -0700
                Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My E xperience on MacRumors (was: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My E xperience on MacRumors) Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-07-24 23:13 +0000
        Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors (was: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors) Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-07-24 22:59 +0000
      Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My  Experience on MacRumors (was: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My  Experience on MacRumors) Tyrone <none@none.none> - 2025-07-24 22:47 +0000
        Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-07-25 00:09 +0100
          Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My  Experience on MacRumors (was: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My  Experience on MacRumors) Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-07-24 23:13 +0000
        Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors T i m <eternal@spaced.me.uk> - 2025-07-25 05:22 +0100
          Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-07-25 08:14 +0100
      Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My  Experience on MacRumors (was: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My  Experience on MacRumors) Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-07-24 23:11 +0000
        Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-07-25 08:30 +0100
          Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My  Experience on MacRumors (was: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My  Experience on MacRumors) Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-07-25 17:29 +0000
            Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-07-25 19:02 +0100
              Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My  Experience on MacRumors (was: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My  Experience on MacRumors) Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-07-25 18:06 +0000
                Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-07-25 20:18 +0100
                Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My  Experience on MacRumors (was: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My  Experience on MacRumors) Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-07-25 21:10 +0000
                Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors % <pursent100@gmail.com> - 2025-07-25 13:13 -0700
                Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My E xperience on MacRumors (was: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My E xperience on MacRumors) Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-07-25 21:07 +0000
            Re: Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My  Experience on MacRumors (was: Asking Questions  Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors) "Tegenaria" <TegenariaArach@incogni.net> - 2025-07-25 19:34 +0000
              Re: Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My  Experience on MacRumors (was: Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My  Experience on MacRumors) Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-07-25 21:07 +0000
              Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My  Experience on MacRumors (was: Asking Questions  Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors) pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2025-07-25 21:11 +0000
                Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My  Experience on MacRumors (was: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My  Experience on MacRumors) Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-07-25 21:30 +0000
                Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors (was: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors) "Tegenaria" <TegenariaArach@incogni.net> - 2025-07-25 21:37 +0000
                Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My  Experience on MacRumors (was: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My  Experience on MacRumors) Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-07-25 23:28 +0000
                Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors (was: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors) pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2025-07-26 22:34 +0000
                Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors (was: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors) Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-07-27 01:16 +0000
                Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2025-07-30 09:20 +0200
                Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors "David B." <BD@hotmail.co.uk> - 2025-07-30 09:05 +0100
                Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My  Experience on MacRumors (was: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My  Experience on MacRumors) Brock McNuggets <brock.mcnuggets@gmail.com> - 2025-07-30 15:52 +0000
      Re: Asking Questions Isn’t a Crime – My Experience on MacRumors Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-07-25 21:09 +0000

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