Concerns about moderating policies

[The Chairman]

twitchy fingered twit

Every time I read this, I chuckle out loud.

 

[Bubblesong]

I checked on the NCAD post and that went on for almost a YEAR!!! I just don't have the stamina to keep this up forever and my kids want lunch, so I am signing off for this thread.

 

[Storker]

twitchy fingered twit

Every time I read this, I chuckle out loud.

Please explain. I used to think my English skills were somewhat above average for a non-native English speaker, but I'm pretty much stumped here.

 

[RainPilot]

Please explain. I used to think my English skills were somewhat above average for a non-native English speaker, but I'm pretty much stumped here.

It just rolls off the tongue so nicely.

And FWIW I would never have guessed you weren't a native speaker. What is your mother tongue?

 

[The Chairman]

Please explain.

It's a very English as opposed to an American appellation. A twit is an idiot savant, a lubber if you will. A goofball, an imbecile, bonehead, dufus, blockhead and even a moron. My mother was half English and when she got mad I was a "wretched child". Arrogant people were called poppin jays and so forth. Monty Python was required watching in my household and me mum would sit right beside me. Growing up amongst right divvy muppets who spelled colour, color knackered me altogether.

 

[Storker]

A twit is an idiot savant, a lubber if you will. A goofball, an imbecile, bonehead, dufus, blockhead and even a moron.

Since the distance across the North Sea is smaller than the distance across the Atlantic, I've always associated "twit" with "****", which, as we all know, is a UK-ism for the (banned here on SB) c-word. Never thought that it might have another meaning. Just shows how wrong one can be.

 

[The Chairman]

Since the distance across the North Sea is smaller than the distance across the Atlantic,

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[Bubblesong]

The word "****" would have scored a 9.3on the scale.

So I went to another thread in which a fellow is considering buying used gear and hinting he doesn't consider servicing these items a necessary expense. This must have come up before, so what, just for example, might I answer him that doesn't use the word "Moron" and might motivate him make a conservative plan?

Is this a good deal? Sherwood Blizzard

 

[The Chairman]

The best route would be to ask why he thinks they might not need servicing. You're assuming something he hasn't really voiced.

 

[Storker]

So I went to another thread in which a fellow is considering buying used gear and hinting he doesn't consider servicing these items a necessary expense. This must have come up before, so what, just for example, might I answer him that doesn't use the word "Moron" and might motivate him make a conservative plan?

IM(NS)HO you would be within the ToS if you e.g. said that in your (perhaps not so humble) opinion it'd be pretty darned stupid not to have the gear serviced - or at least checked - by a competent person. Unless the thread is in Basic or New Divers, in which case you should be less direct in your wording. Those forums are, after all, Green Zones with special rules for polite behavior.

But @NetDoc 's reply is probably the more PC approach. I'm not particularly good at being PC...