Sorry, I'll take back what I said about this list not being brutal! :)
--Navid
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Stevens [mailto:Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net]
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 1:14 PM
> To: Navid Kahangi
> Cc: 'Joey Jarosz'; BayArea Team.Net
> Subject: RE: [Fwd: Neck brace]
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Navid Kahangi wrote:
>
> > Joey,
> >
> > This is not a brutal list at all. In fact, people on this
> list are pretty
> > friendly. You are just not familiar enough with their
> unusual sense of
> > humor yet. Kevin used to drive a C5 Vette and F-body cars
> up here for
> > years. Now, he is older and wiser and knows better :).
> OK, I reached a
> > little on the "wiser" part.
> >
> > Don't go away! Just read the posts with the same smart-ass
> tone they were
> > written in.
> >
> > --Navid
>
> Ok, let me address this directly.
>
> Joey - You got a wiseass comment from me because a) I'm like that
> anyway, and b) you pissed me off.
>
> Why I'm like that I don't know.
>
> Why you pissed me off is this: You posted a poorly-defined
> question that
> APPEARED to ask about the usefulness of neck braces for
> stabilizing your
> head in an autocross context.
>
> After getting me and others to spend quite a bit of time and
> energy trying
> to provide helpful suggestions, you posted another message.
> This second
> message contained additional information about road and drag
> racing, along
> with the FIRST HINT that you were concerned about safety
> issues in those
> sports, not driving control in autocross. At the same time
> you criticized
> the earlier responses for not being qualified to address the medical
> issues. Basically, you wasted my time by not asking an
> accurate question,
> and then complained about the answer not being helpful. I don't
> appreciate having my chain jerked like that, particularly when I'm
> actually trying to be helpful. You turned the discussion
> into a joke, so
> I started joking with it.
>
> I'm posting this publicly because you complained publicly about my
> response. Take it, leave it, do whatever you want with it.
> My suggestion
> would be to put more thought and information into your
> questions if you
> want them to be taken seriously.
>
> KeS
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