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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"