Crap Advice

[mikee]

am not gay or owt like ,but the romans rocked

 

[ere-tis]

Good advice..............

I have nothing more to add.

 

[jimo746]

I am also an Engineer

Is there anyone on RB who isn't an Engineer of some sort?

 

[petitpal]

well, there is the roads.

Aye, but look at the state they're in :evil: Nothing lasts these days :roll:

PLUS - just because just because someone can lay down a few straight lines on a map doesn't make them a competent transportation engineer, oh no.

I prefer to take heed of General Wade and Mr T Macadam - now there's proper designers wot knew a thing or two. Think they invented corners too.

Romans? Pah!

See, I'd awlays put it down to a highly efficient and hugely powerful Empire... but actually they hadn't invented the corner. That's beautiful man, just beautiful. If only they'd asked a frickin' engineer.

 

[ere-tis]

Is there anyone on RB who isn't an Engineer of some sort?

I'm not an engineer, I'm an operator.


I keep the engineers in employment

 

[Mr Panda]

I'm a paeleobotanist

 

[Woz]

Now I think we are starting to nail it. Somebody posts a "problem" and so contributors with vast and varied experience all post solutions to said problem. That must be a good thing surely!

 

[petitpal]

Now I think we are starting to nail it. Somebody posts a "problem" and so contributors with vast and varied experience all post solutions to said problem. That must be a good thing surely!

I'd caveat that by saying 'as the average programmer produced'. Your experienced programmer always writes what the user needs, not what they want. Never trust the user.

 

[Woz]

Good advice..............

I have nothing more to add.

What utter bunkum. Even a 4 year old could spot serious flaws with this ill-thought out rubbish.

Absolutely no mention of tweezers (which incidently we have already established as a crucial tool) or drilling holes in the offending object. I fail to see how anything could be "fixed" without the ubiquitous and excessive use of a lump hammer.

Speaking as a 4 x Olympic bobsleigh gold medalist, I know my beans thank you very much. You don't fool me with this fancy engineering chart.

 

[jonnyboy666]

Is there anyone on RB who isn't an Engineer of some sort?

I'm not an engineer, I'm an operator.


I keep the engineers in employment

i am an 'operator' aswel, our engineering dept can be useless at work, most are over educated with no actual real world experience so make some surprisingly obvious mistakes.

but regarding the OP original statement, i have to agree to a point.

i have seen some awful advice on here although i have seen some very useful advice but the one that always gets on my tits is the stuck seatpost thread, it comes up time and time again, which is fine but then people with no experience or knowledge or previous thread reading ability try and convince someone that they know best with their old wives tales and silliness!

any internet forum will suffer this and i feel that here it happens less as generally the posters are above a certain age, also we do have some very skilled posters here, professional engineers, bike shop staff, restorers, painters, journo's who see new kit all the time, not to mention some of the best frame builders have posted here, you name it . . . we have it.

so to all the would be helpers and advisors, if you don't know something please don't talk as if you do.

also if you see a user name like 'frank' or 'ftw' or 'rody' for example, try and find out who these people are (if you don't know) before you try and argue with them.