SOMERLED
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Well, I can't speak for others, but I've had to clock up a lot of views just trying to keep up with the train wreck which is Malcolm's attempt at arguing his case. And so often when I do catch up I find that others have nailed him to the floor before I can get a word in edgeways.
One thing has struck me quite forcefully - his extreme reluctance to find anything out for himself. This is seen often in simple little questions like "OP???" He doesn't realise that OP stands for "opening post", and rather than work it out for himself or find out some other way, he simply asks. Some of these queries have been so naive as to mark him out as an extreme newbie in any discussion thread. The habit would be endearing in anyone with even a tiny scrap of humility, but combined with Malcolm's extreme arrogance it merely points up his laziness.
This has extended several times to outright requests to posters knowledgeable about aviation and related matters to supply him with information he thinks he needs or wants to support his case. Which again is jawdroppingly naive. Obviously, if even a tiny part of the reply seems to favour his fantasy world, he trumperts that the knowledgeable poster is agreeing with him, but there's still zero chance that he'll take on board any information which doesn't suit him, no matter how expert the informant.
The now-infamous assertion that Dubya had never before staged a photo-op with a primary school class is just an extreme example. He was guessing. He had no idea. But a flashy offer to donate to charity soon had others finding his information for him. Of course, no donation. But if there had been no evidence of a prior visit, then something else for Malcolm to load on his house of cards, for virtually no effort on his part.
If the reneging on the donation shows nothing else, it shows that he was lying about being "loaded", and having a "lorra dosh" or "loadsa dosh", I forget now which he decided was the correct usage. (Hah, Malcolm and correct usage - now there's another whole barrel of laughs!) I wouldn't describe my finances in the above terms, but I've given that amount to charity on a number of occasions - £1,000 (pounds not dollars) on one occasion. If Malcolm were really so rich, such a donation would be small change.
I have to say I do wonder about the genuineness of a poster who manages to be so wrong about virtually everything, so consistently. Ordinary chance would suggest anyone just guessing would be right more often than he is! However, speculating on his trollishness is liable to get this post edited, so I won't. Whichever way, the spectacle is certainly entertaining!
The main point I's like to come back to is the one about the inability of fire to heat steel to the point where it will bend. Did Malcolm ever take on board the points about forging swords and so on? If fire doesn't heat steel to the point where it will bend under pressure, how did the mediaeval smiths make these masterly weapons, Malcolm?
Closer to home - I suppose I didn't see the local blacksmith take a srtaight bar of cold steel and heat it in the fire of his forge so that he could easily bend it into a shoe for my pony? I mean, a fire can't heat steel to the point where an old man could bend it just by banging it with a hammer, obviously. So I must have imagined it. I wonder where my pony got his shoes from, then?
Rolfe.
How many old men with hammers and air assisted fires would it take to dismember 500,000 tons of interlocked steel?