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Re: Cheapo clock tear up.
« Reply #50 on: January 06, 2022, 07:24:30 pm »
Oh, do you think I touched a nerve?  :)

I don't like you (and the 3-4 other type-A fuktards on my ignore list, so far) and I am never going to like you and I am never going to respect you. Accept that.

I know that this post will piss you, (and those others) off and you (and those others) will holler some more...because, well, because you are type-A fuktards - again, that is not my fault. I have plenty of faults and there are plenty of things that are my fault, but your fuktardidess is simply not in that pot.

It doesn't piss me off at all, not in the least. I got exactly the kind of knee-jerk foul mouthed insulting response I expected. I wasn't expecting a quality, reasoned, insightful post, that would require intellect. After watching your ongoing tirade in this thread, I just thought that your smug, self-satisfied ballon of an ego needed pricking. I can see that I succeeded.

I don't normally give in to the base temptation to do that sort of thing but in your case I was prepared to make an exception.  :)
Anybody got a syringe I can use to squeeze the magic smoke back into this?
 
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Re: Cheapo clock tear up.
« Reply #51 on: January 06, 2022, 07:47:10 pm »
Maybe we just don't feed the troll?
 
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Re: Cheapo clock tear up.
« Reply #52 on: January 07, 2022, 01:34:02 pm »
We do actually have a clock that I had written off as not worth taking more effort over than clicking a 'buy now' link on Amazon - it seems to work but gradually loses time, and not at a trivial rate. Thanks to this thread maybe I'll dig into it and see if it can be saved...

So I took it apart, or tried to. The adjustment wheel what holding it together, but a bit of brute force broke that and allowed the case to come apart. Seems that the shaft of the adjuster locates on a small dowel, and it's the dowel that broke allowing the shaft to come out. I think the shaft should turn easily on that dowel, and since it didn't that would put a kind of brake on the minute hand. Presumably the gearing allowed the second hand to fight against it somewhat, but not completely successfully, thus leading to slow timekeeping.

Naturally, the fix was to Cellotape the adjuster to the clock housing in case of future need.

My partner would like to thank DrG for starting this thread and getting me to actually look at this damn thing which I've been ignoring for months in the hope it would walk itself to the trash bin.
 
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Re: Cheapo clock tear up.
« Reply #53 on: January 07, 2022, 04:07:29 pm »
It’s so cute how DrG thinks he’s “kicked” ass when in fact all he’s done is proved that he is one!  :-DD
 
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Re: Cheapo clock tear up.
« Reply #54 on: January 07, 2022, 04:10:22 pm »
Maybe we just don't feed the troll?
Or warn or ban him? ;)

It’s one thing for someone to react to deliberate jabs; it’s quite another for them to dish out endless condescension, insults, accusations, pseudo-psychological diagnoses (of which they themselves are actually the guilty party), etc in response to totally normal discussion, but then throw a fit whenever anyone dares call them out on it…
 
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Re: Cheapo clock tear up.
« Reply #55 on: January 07, 2022, 04:12:37 pm »
It’s so cute how DrG thinks he’s “kicked” ass when in fact all he’s done is proved that he is one!  :-DD

I don't mind (I might even enjoy it), if someone wants to technically criticise my (or other peoples) posts. We can have some nice and educational discussions, which is what forums are for.

But just to essentially generate a huge wall of text, which seems to be to justify and hide, the eventual swear word(s), they are using against other members. Is NOT good forum etiquette.
 
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Re: Cheapo clock tear up.
« Reply #56 on: January 07, 2022, 04:38:42 pm »
Maybe we just don't feed the troll?

You will get no more trouble from me and I am sorry that he called you and thanks much for being so diplomatic.

I especially appreciate the wording; sane folks can see it as they (the axis of evil) are the trolls and they can believe the reverse (the big lie).

Just a heads up though, we are going to publish (elsewhere of course) on my theory of fuktardidness. The modelling portion (appendix F: 3.F-3.S) includes three fictional characters; MT14, pooki and Cerebutt: The theory, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this model are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred. –just saying
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Re: Cheapo clock tear up.
« Reply #57 on: January 07, 2022, 04:57:29 pm »
Maybe we just don't feed the troll?

You will get no more trouble from me and I am sorry that he called you and thanks much for being so diplomatic.
… and then continues to cause trouble later in the same post…  |O

I especially appreciate the wording; sane folks can see it as they (the axis of evil) are the trolls and they can believe the reverse (the big lie).
Oh, the obliviousness here…  :-DD

Just a heads up though, we are going to publish (elsewhere of course) on my theory of fuktardidness. The modelling portion (appendix F: 3.F-3.S) includes three fictional characters; MT14, pooki and Cerebutt: The theory, all names, characters, and incidents portrayed in this model are fictitious. No identification with actual persons (living or deceased), places, buildings, and products is intended or should be inferred. –just saying
Classy.



I don't mind (I might even enjoy it), if someone wants to technically criticise my (or other peoples) posts. We can have some nice and educational discussions, which is what forums are for.
I completely agree. It’s not always fun to be get critical feedback or even be proven wrong, but if the feedback is factually correct, then I’ll learn from it, and for that I am grateful.

Sometimes, it takes some verbal sparring to get to the root of a problem or solution, but that’s ok too.

What I have little patience for is conceited idiots who insist you’re wrong even when you are demonstrably correct, and then flip out and call you names when you show them the proof that you’re right.

But just to essentially generate a huge wall of text, which seems to be to justify and hide, the eventual swear word(s), they are using against other members. Is NOT good forum etiquette.
Indeed.
 
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Re: Cheapo clock tear up.
« Reply #58 on: January 07, 2022, 06:06:51 pm »
I don't mind (I might even enjoy it), if someone wants to technically criticise my (or other peoples) posts. We can have some nice and educational discussions, which is what forums are for.
I completely agree. It’s not always fun to be get critical feedback or even be proven wrong, but if the feedback is factually correct, then I’ll learn from it, and for that I am grateful.

Sometimes, it takes some verbal sparring to get to the root of a problem or solution, but that’s ok too.

And sadly with some people they are incapable of taking any feedback whatsoever and just time and time again won't accept corrections in any form no matter how gross the errors they make, and if it is patently obvious to everybody including themselves that they have made a mistake, argue in circles until they start throwing accusations of bullying or vendettas around when people won't just agree with. I've just had to finally add someone I otherwise actively like to my ignore list on a certain forum after years of this and years of trying to steer them away from doing that. And in case someone thinks this is an excuse to hurl accusations that it's just me and my bundle of anti-social tendencies, I'll point out that over they years I've been DM'd by many people about the same individual, so this isn't just my reaction to, or opinion of, this individual. It's sad when you have to admit that someone is a lost case and that the discussion will only improve without them.

I'd point out that you and I have had our disagreements in the past, but that doesn't stop us having a civilised conversation and giving and accepting useful corrections when they are called for. I will also admit that I might just, perhaps, rarely, poke fun at you when you stand on your professional dignity as a linguist but your saving grace in that regard is that (1) you usually recognise it as merely poking fun, (2) you don't by implication fall back on any professional titles you may have acquired when I do so. As far as the whole American/English thing goes I still maintain it's all because Noah Webster never actually learned to spell.  :)

Edit: typo s/mater/matter/ - clearly I haven't learned to spell either.
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Anybody got a syringe I can use to squeeze the magic smoke back into this?
 

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Re: Cheapo clock tear up.
« Reply #59 on: January 07, 2022, 07:20:21 pm »
oh well, took the easy option and hit "the button"
 
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Re: Cheapo clock tear up.
« Reply #60 on: January 07, 2022, 09:01:56 pm »
@Cerebus, @MK14, @tooki:
Seriously: why did you bother? I already took the exit on the first page.
Sit back and take a deep breath first. Really. Discussing with basket cases brings nothing, except wasting your time.
@Simon: Thanks.
 
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Re: Cheapo clock tear up.
« Reply #61 on: January 07, 2022, 09:15:01 pm »
which is why I said don't feed it, best thing you can do to these types is deny them the attention they want as then they have nothing left.
 
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Re: Cheapo clock tear up.
« Reply #62 on: January 07, 2022, 09:45:58 pm »
@Cerebus, @MK14, @tooki:
Seriously: why did you bother? I already took the exit on the first page.
Sit back and take a deep breath first. Really. Discussing with basket cases brings nothing, except wasting your time.
@Simon: Thanks.

You (and the other hat collectors) were right. I'll get my hat and coat.
 
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