Anal and insulting?
I suppose if one has a persecution complex then my jibes would seem to be insulting. But that’s what friends do… they kid each other. And I thought we were all friends here, yes?
Perhaps I am mistaken…
I suppose if one has an inferiority complex they might consider me to be anal, but I say that I simply like to ‘get it right’.
No, I was not being anal or insulting.
You found my remarks to be insulting possibly because you have a limited sense of humor or, more probably, you just can’t take being jibed.
And you find me to be anal because I have a habit of presenting the correct information more often than not. And you certainly cannot accept it when one proves you wrong, that has been evidenced many times here on these forums.
As to the idea that subjects for these ID quizzes should be those which are available as a scale model kit… that was never a stipulation of the last thread until YOU decided to make it so with your posts on page 8 of the thread. Before that, it had never been mentioned. (How’s that for being anal? [;)] )
Oh, and that thread was started by Salbando, not you. As it happens, it turned into a community-run thread. And if there were to be rules, they should have been decided upon by the community, not imposed out of left field by one person.
I cannot improve on what Salbando said about the nature of these little quizzes:
If anyone was causing trouble at all in that thread, it was you… as any who read through it will plainly see. Yeah, you did apologize so I guess that makes it all better…
In the end, it sounds to me like:
Joe #1 doesn’t like not knowing the answers to the ID problems, so he decides that all of a sudden there should be rules which may keep things “in-touch for the average modeler”… especially himself.
But his idea seems to be blatantly ignored, especially by Joe #3945 who thinks Joe #1 is simply whining because he doesn’t like not knowing the answers.
Joe #3945 posts a picture of an airplane that, as it turns out, Joe #1 just plain doesn’t know.
Joe #1 doesn’t want to seem to be lacking for knowledge so he makes some sort of attempt at an answer, which is at least in the parking lot of the ball park but which, alas, is incorrect.
Joe #3945 points out that it is an incorrect answer by informing Joe #1 WHY it is an incorrect answer. He also makes a joke about it, as he likes to do… to keep things FUN.
Joe #1, for whatever reason, takes exception to being corrected, throws a bit of a fit and stomps off to start his own game.
This is now your thread and if you’d like to impose any rules, by all means do so. And I shall make no further ‘insults’ to you in this thread or any other thread. In short, I shall refrain from any and all contact with you because doing so would be a further waste of my precious time.
And by the way, after reviewing much information, including the relevant pages from the book you mentioned as well as original Northrop plans and design notes, I’ve come to the conclusion that you ARE wrong about the P-61… [;)]
You’ll view that as just another anal ‘insult’, no doubt…
Fade to Black…