[BarryD]

My opinion is that this is one of the most enjoyable threads I have read in a long time. And I am sticking by my opinion. https://d32rzbb554tqz0.cloudfront.ne...lies/clap2.gif

[Don45]

Expert = Drip under pressure!

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by LoisR

I know this has been written about before, but it is still entertaining to see the same responders (first responders?) offering their wisdom to anything that comes by them.
Facts seem to be optional. So are objectively researched responses, the use of non-perjorative statements, and a well needed reflective pause prior to responding, rather than being the first kid on the block at 5 am.
A guess ole Archie Bunker was right after all when he stated: "Everyone is entitled to my opinion." Perhaps his words to Edith to "stiffle it " would be more appropo.

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind. Partial answer-"Are we NOT men? And for extra credit, name the famous movie that that quote comes from?????

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by Choro&Swing

I’m laughing about this. You are right that lots of people here have opinions not backed up by much information. Oh well! It’s sort of like a democracy: if there are as many idiots on their side as there are on our side, the votes balance out, more or less, or at least don’t swing too far one way or the other.

For nearly my entire life, I’ve loved learning things and learning how to do things, and I’ve also loved sharing what I’ve learned. Despite that, I feel that I’ve learned more in the past couple years than in the rest of my life. Now I’m not strong or fit or fast enough to do some of the things I used to do, like construction projects. In a few years I’ll be dead—as will we all. It bothers me that all this knowledge will disappear, just as I’m finally learning something! I spent 43 years teaching at universities. I was learning constantly so I could enrich my lectures. It wasn’t enough, say, for me to teach a Shakespeare play. I had to learn the history of the time in which it was set. I had to learn what the music was like, and the food, and the art, and the clothing. I had to learn how the people in various social classes lived in that specific period. It was so much fun! I like to think some of the students enjoyed my lectures. Perhaps I was fooling myself.

When I got a job as a janitor in a hospital operating room as a high school dropout when I was seventeen, I grew interested in becoming an operating room technician and began reading textbooks about it. Six months later I was doing it full time. When I needed to know how to fix things and design and build things because I couldn’t usually afford to hire experts, I subscribed to professional building journals and read them cover to cover. I still do, decades later. I became interested in Bible stories and theology and ended up editing a large professional theological journal for ten years. I’ve designed and built or rebuilt several houses. I became interested in Swing music and learned to play it and sing it. I became interested in playing the mandolin and ended up writing a book about it. I became interested in Brazilian Choro music and just published a book about it. I LOVE doing these things! I love SHARING these things.

People ask a lot of questions here. If I don’t have an answer, it’s a lot of fun to do some research online and find an answer. It’s fulfilling to weigh various opinions and studies and figure out which are the strongest. I try to be accurate. I try not to just share “my two cents.”

I’ve noticed a number of people on here who are doing what I do. You know who they are. I like it that they often have information I don’t have. I learn from them, and maybe they learn a little from me. As hobbies go, this one is pretty satisfying.

But even when people post who don’t really have much to add, they enjoy it. Good for them! Their two cents, at the least, keeps them reading and learning.

Holy Ka/Ka snacks Bat Person that's cat-like - nine lives. Made a mistake leaving that janitor job. That's a nice career. Just my 5 cents (with inflation) (sweeping the nation). Do you need a Robin?

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by J1ceasar

It's the 80/20 rule. 20% of us I'm more than willing to write our opinion or give out information while the other to 80% want to just read. Whether we're right or not doesn't really matter we're having a pinion that you don't agree with or do are you with. We enjoy expounding our views. There's nothing wrong with that. You obviously enjoy thinking you know everything just the opposite of everybody else. That's okay in my book. I only get upset when it's obvious it's an opinion not backed by fact or reasonable Theory expanded upon. As my father would say how do you know that's not a totally different Sun from yesterday we didn't see it for 12 hours

I wonder about the visually impaired?

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by 4557Spahr

Just look at the top right corner of a post and you will see how much responders know. It amazes me.

The number of thanks?
the thanks for the pranks
or the thanks for the spanks?

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by GoodLife

So far this topic has generated 3 pages of comments with 0 facts 100% opinions.


If the intent is to stifle, it's not working.

Is that 2 cents worth?

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by Scorpyo

You are absolutely wrong. What you stated is a fact, therefore, that makes 1. Oh wait a minute. What I just stated about what you stated is a fact, therefore that makes 2. Oh no, what I again stated.................Forget it I'm tired.

Oh, nap time for us childrensssssss.

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by Curtisbwp

Well, the way i see it and perhaps i too see it from a distorted vantage point. One source of the narcissist talking point is the hair stylists and other patrons. Rarely will you find one of these people with the ability to apply Occam's razor to simplify matters. BUT the guy that knows it all has an accute case of the "Dunning Kruger Effect" God bless America

I had a hairstylist for a Professor at the University that I attended.
Yes, Florida is #1 and not in football!

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by Number 10 GI

You are posting your opinion, why is it any more true than anyone else's? There are a lot of "facts" posted here, just because you disagree doesn't make them invalid.

Agree. Many times facts are posted with links to back up those facts.

[fdpaq0580]

Originally Posted by jimjamuser

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind. Partial answer-"Are we NOT men? And for extra credit, name the famous movie that that quote comes from?????

Goodie Goodie. I think I'm going to get extra credit. Please note I did not google this answer.
The movie was "Island of lost souls" aka "The Island of Doctor Moreau". The person who said those words was Bela Lugosi who played the "the keeper of the law ". And, if memory serves, the doctor was played by Charles Laughton. The good doctor was using vivesection to turn animals into humans.
Do I win???

[villageidiot1]

One thing I learned from my grandad that saved me a lot of worrisome dialog. "Never match wits with a half wit, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience"

[jimjamuser]

Originally Posted by fdpaq0580

Goodie Goodie. I think I'm going to get extra credit. Please note I did not google this answer.
The movie was "Island of lost souls" aka "The Island of Doctor Moreau". The person who said those words was Bela Lugosi who played the "the keeper of the law ". And, if memory serves, the doctor was played by Charles Laughton. The good doctor was using vivesection to turn animals into humans.
Do I win???

I was thinking of the remake with Brad Pitt. But you got the original so I think that I owe you a beer, Congratulations for playing.

[Stu from NYC]

Not sure if I am considered a no it all but this has given me an idea.

Via the enrichment academy will start a class on
Now You can be a No It All in six easy lessons for a price of only pennies a day
(might be a lot of pennies though)

[Two Bills]

All my facts come from the internet, so I must be right.