Thank you, the internets...

[cloudsinvenice]

This is amazing. In the course of only 14 posts, an innocent thread on how to join together two pieces of carpet descends into anger and recrimination...

http://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/joining-carpets.78477/

Comments

[author_by_night]

Are the OP or just an observer? (ETA: Just realized this is a very old thread, so I'm guessing not.)

you claim to be a member of various web forums yet...

....patently you are unaware of who is a recognised expert on this forum

...to find out is quite simple - you search previous posts made by the member, this very quickly gives you an idea of who to listen to and who to take with a pinch of salt.

... wow. WTF. Or maybe nasty members should be told to give it a rest, rather than expecting newbies to research who is going to be nasty

[cloudsinvenice]

I thought I might have exaggerated the brilliant awfulness of this thread, but nope: having slept on it, it's still amazing. Possibly it is channelling all the bile of that entire large forum.

And yeah, I hate that "just how he is," business - often a sign of one of the Five Geek Social Fallacies in action, whereby people know somebody's behaviour is unacceptable, but they've decided it's unacceptable ever to exclude anybody, no matter what...

[semyaza]

'British standard'. *snickers* He desperately needs putting wright.

[cloudsinvenice]

"specially if someone breaks there leg outside in a park or something"

Well, at that rate of going we're all sitting ducks! What's to stop someone breaking their leg in a park, dragging themself to my place and claiming my carpets did it?!