"J. Clarke" on Tue, 19 Oct 2010 01:25:57 -0400
typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
I used to have a lot of respect for the knowledge of the people in this
newsgroup. However the recent discussion of safety chains, and the
inability of the whole lot of you to figure out how to shorten one
without a huge amount of sturm und drang, and the abuse that you have
heaped upon me over the method that I showed, that I learned from my
father who sailed before the mast back when that meant literally
sailing, and who learned to do such things in the school of hard knocks
known at the "Seabees" during WWII, and which any competent engineer
would be able to tell you is structurally sound, has revealed to me that
you're all blithering idiots who talk a good game but don't have a lick
of common sense between you.

I can't believe that you bunch of IDIOTs can't figure out how to shorten
a damned chain.


Have considered the small detail that perhaps the respondents
don't know?

And that they are pointing out what they perceive as potential
problems?

I'm recalling a story of a guy who grew up in a bad neighborhood
(back before they became known as 'hoods), who had started running
when a drive by occurred. He was grabbed by an adult and "taught" the
important lesson: "Where the hell you running, boy! Don't you know
you're suppose to drop to the ground when the shooting starts?!" No,
he hadn't but he learned the lesson.
Guys tend to ask questions in a confrontational manner: If you do
it that way it will break! is similar "you know that if you do it that
way it will break!"
--
pyotr filipivich
We will drink no whiskey before its nine.
It's eight fifty eight. Close enough!