Thread: An embarrassing outing overseas

Yesterday I joined an overseas forum, and went to the welcome section to introduce myself. A couple of welcoming posts followed, and then another Aussie popped up with the following, and I quote directly with a cut & paste, given that this is public information:

"There are other Australians and New Zealanders here already. Please try not to embarrass us!"

Yes, hello to you to. You have to love the choice of smiley.

I have had extremely limited contact with this person on our forum here, in fact he has only ever approached me on here, and that has only been in one of my threads (as I recall anyway, without checking). The nature of that approach was far from friendly.

I have to say that I was stunned. This was my very first post on that forum, and whilst I see too much of that kind of behaviour here, I did not expect to encounter it on this other forum, let alone from an Aussie!!! And in my first post!!!!

I mean, the whole thing was just a contradiction in terms, as the poster had just done an excellent job of embarrassing not only himself, but Aussies as well.


In my first real thread after that, which was about my dust extraction on a drill press, I was asked:
"how will we know whether you have moved chips in and out of the picture. You seem to put some in where there shouldn't have been any?"

and this struck me as quite accusatory, i.e. questioning the integrity of the pics (and therefore myself). In the one or two pics where I did move some chips into photographic range (for the purposes of full disclosure....) I very clearly said so.

I dunno what this guy's problem with me is, but it must be a beauty.



Does this sound like the sort of person to be handing out advice on how to behave?