X3 to buy or not?

On 2005-06-02, Martin Sapsed <[email protected]> wrote:

> Would you care to ellaborate slightly on that? Some evidence perhaps to
> support your theory?

From Steve? You've got to be joking!

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Ian Rawlings <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2005-06-02, Martin Sapsed <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Would you care to ellaborate slightly on that? Some evidence perhaps to
> > support your theory?
>
> From Steve? You've got to be joking!

Pokes out tongue.

Why is that those who propose bollocks (such as believing anything
written by "Hones (yeah right) John") must be belived without a shred of
evidence, whereas someone like me, or any of th eother thousands who
know he talks bollocks have to provide notarised copy?

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temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

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Steve Firth wrote:
> Why is that those who propose bollocks (such as believing anything
> written by "Hones (yeah right) John") must be belived without a shred of
> evidence, whereas someone like me, or any of th eother thousands who
> know he talks bollocks have to provide notarised copy?

I was only asking for maybe an example of something he's said/written
which backs up your opinion. All you've said so far is he's brainless.
If you can back that up with "he says blah, but actually blah" that
could help me to realise he's brainless and ignore his stuff in future.

Martin

"Steve Firth" <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote in >> >> Would you care to
ellaborate slightly on that?
>
> "Honest John" is a brainless witless ****.
>
>> Some evidence perhaps to support your theory?
>
> Oh do take a flying **** you tedious prick.
>
>> I would have thought that at least, his
>> observations of auctions were fairly factual?
>
> I doubt he's been to an auction in years, if ever. What he knows about
> cars could be written on the back of a postage stamp and still leave
> room for his entire autobiography.

I see your still acting the **** Mr Firth.

On 2005-06-02, Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote:

> Pokes out tongue.

Har har sorry mush ;-)

> Why is that those who propose bollocks (such as believing anything
> written by "Honest (yeah right) John") must be belived without a
> shred of evidence, whereas someone like me, or any of th eother
> thousands who know he talks bollocks have to provide notarised copy?

To most people in this world, what's said by a published expert is
regarded as reasonably trustworthy as they are telling people
something they don't know. It's only when you know enough about a
subject to spot the bollocks that you can really start to assess the
experts properly.

This means that if you say "he talks crap" it doesn't tell anyone
anything other than that you don't like him, but if you give an
example, especially in the form of pointers to a more comprehensive
source of information (e.g. a user group web page for a car he's
rubbished) then you give others enough information to allow them to
form an opinion other than "Steve doesn't like him".

You can usually find an expert who will contradict another expert, and
hopefully show others that the world's not the black-and-white
right-or-wrong place that many like to think it is. Just saying "he's
****" just tells people you don't like him, nothing more.

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For every expert, there is an equal but opposite expert

On 2005-06-02, Martin Sapsed <[email protected]> wrote:

> I was only asking for maybe an example of something he's said/written
> which backs up your opinion. All you've said so far is he's brainless.
> If you can back that up with "he says blah, but actually blah" that
> could help me to realise he's brainless and ignore his stuff in future.

Hehe, I just said that in another post, but in about 50x the number of
words, I think I need to get out more ;-)

In Steve's defence, most published experts talk ****, often because
what they say has been edited heavily, or they're expected to talk on
a wide variety of subjects, or getting correct information across is
only a small part of what they have to do (e.g. Top Gear).

If you're going to spend lots of cash on something it pays to check up
on what you read. The internet is excellent for this and it's as
reliable as more conventional media, i.e. not at all reliable ;-)

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For every expert, there is an equal but opposite expert

TightGuardSecurity® ([email protected]) gurgled happily, sounding
much like they were saying :

> I see your still acting the **** Mr Firth.

He's acting?

Still, at least he's honest about his identity and vaguely literate. Unlike
some.