by Tdarcos » Tue May 26, 2020 2:31 am
Flack wrote: Mon May 25, 2020 6:01 pm
There are half a dozen posts on this forum where people have offered to send Paul things to improve his quality of life. He has ignored all of them, and focused on this.
Because with the exception of you, nobody ever follows up on what they said they would do, or uses flimsy excuses.
- Several months ago, I think Jonsey offered to send me a surplus Kindle with a number of books. Nothing happened.
- Ben was so excited about having me read and discuss one of Eckhard Tolle's books that he was going to buy me a copy, until he got mad over something I said (probably to someone else), and rescinded his offer.
- When RetroRomper put out an unsolicited proposal for Jolt Country T-Shirts at an astronomical $60 apioece, and clearly no one else was interested in them at that price, I tried to offer a suggestion on how to reduce the cost of his (unafordable) suggestion so others might be interested in it, and he got angry because I tried to fix a problem, that, first, as was pointed out, nobody asked him to make the offer, and second, nobody was interested at $60 apiece. And he complained how he was going to send me one for free. First, I probably couldn't wear one, and second, I never asked him for one.
- The only thing I even suggested I needed, despirately, was a cell phone charger. Nobody even so much as squeaked that they could help, not even a surplus, extra, used charger; I eventually had to buy another phone to get one.
In short, every time supposedly someone is going to offer to give me something, the offer evaporates. So I take all such claims of offering me something in the same way as claims that Microsoft will release a piece of software that will do what we want and not be garbage: vaporware.
And of the vaporware offers I've seen. the offer is not anything I really need. Or the one time I seriously did ask for something I needed, nobody offered any help. (I'm excluding when Jonsey did get me an Imgur account; an account isn't "something" in the sense of an object, it's a service.)
So I can't take any "claims" that someone will offer me something (with the exception of you, Flack!) as anything but
chimerical.
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There are half a dozen posts on this forum where people have offered to send Paul things to improve his quality of life. He has ignored all of them, and focused on this.
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Because with the exception of you, nobody ever follows up on what they said they would do, or uses flimsy excuses. [list=1]
[*]Several months ago, I think Jonsey offered to send me a surplus Kindle with a number of books. Nothing happened.
[*]Ben was so excited about having me read and discuss one of Eckhard Tolle's books that he was going to buy me a copy, until he got mad over something I said (probably to someone else), and rescinded his offer.
[*]When RetroRomper put out an unsolicited proposal for Jolt Country T-Shirts at an astronomical $60 apioece, [i]and clearly no one else was interested in them at that price[/i], I tried to offer a suggestion on how to reduce the cost of his (unafordable) suggestion so others might be interested in it, and he got angry because I tried to fix a problem, that, first, as was pointed out, [i]nobody asked him to make the offer[/i], and second, nobody was interested at $60 apiece. And he complained how he was going to send me one for free. First, I probably couldn't wear one, and second, I never asked him for one.
[*]The only thing I even suggested I needed, despirately, was a cell phone charger. Nobody even so much as squeaked that they could help, not even a surplus, extra, used charger; I eventually had to buy another phone to get one.
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In short, every time supposedly someone is going to offer to give me something, the offer evaporates. So I take all such claims of offering me something in the same way as claims that Microsoft will release a piece of software that will do what we want and not be garbage: vaporware.
And of the vaporware offers I've seen. the offer is not anything I really need. Or the one time I seriously did ask for something I needed, nobody offered any help. (I'm excluding when Jonsey did get me an Imgur account; an account isn't "something" in the sense of an object, it's a service.)
So I can't take any "claims" that someone will offer me something (with the exception of you, Flack!) as anything but [url=https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chimerical]chimerical[/url].