on 2/14/02 13:13, Kevin Stevens at Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net wrote:
> 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
Quit holding back Kevin, Tell him how you really feel.<hehe>
MJ
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