Why is it that, increasingly often, someone will post something here and another poster will come along, make a set of assumptions based on nothing other than what they "feel" or "think", and tell the first poster that they are wrong?  Why do people who aren't "there" or don't have first hand experience with something tell those who were there or who do have experience that they don't know what they're talking about?  Why do people who haven't got a clue about something tell those who do that they couldn't possibly have seen or done something?  Maybe I've done this myself, though I don't recall having done so, but it seems to be an increasing habit around here.  

Please, people, when someone states that such and such happened, maybe a better tactic would be to assume that they do know whereof they speak, at least until you can prove them wrong.
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"Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,"
I'm Ragnar Floggurass, and I approve this message

Right on!
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The MONEY is NOT the issue...
It's the LOOK on your face when you have to HAND IT OVER!!!!

Yeah, I agree. Instead of automatically assuming that the poster doesn't know what they're talking about, ask for more information...
After a few replies, the level of knowledge about the subject will become obvious.
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All things are difficult
before they are easy.
---- Thomas Fuller

What the HeII makes you think you know what you are talking about.  I think you are full of it.  No matter what I know it all cause I am cool.  


That was a joke by the way people.  It does display though what I think has caused this problem.  In our society we have stopped listening.  When others are talking we are simply sitting there thinking of what we will say next.  We do this because somehow we over value our own opinion.  So, with that said.  I am better and know more than all of you.  Thank you for not listening.  LOL
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I don't really play cards and I am not 79, but it fits together somehow.

Flux, here's the deal.  Many threads here are started in an attempt to arrive at some sort of "truth."  It's really hard to do this when you start with the notion that the other person is full of shyte.  Starting with an assumption that what the other person is saying is said in good faith (they may be wrong and not know it, rather than be outright fibbing) helps in this quest.  For example, if you tell me that your bowling on a sport compliant shot and that thus and so is true of it, the discussion isn't going very far if I respond with "no, that can't be sport compliant."  How the ell would I know?  I ain't there, you are.  Maybe what you say isn't true, but I ought to assume it is, until it becomes clear that it isn't.
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"Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,"
I'm Ragnar Floggurass, and I approve this message

Rags,
You don't know what you are talking about.

Nice, point awarded.