"Hello everybody"-considering your lifestyle
My name is Greg, I'm a graduate student in Manhattan. I have been throwing money away renting a room the ghetto for 2.5 years. I think an appropriate pick-up/travel trailer set up may be a reasonable ...
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2oldman wrote:
OP is gone.
There should be a training course for noobs- every one should be made to go through a sort of "grow a thick skin" boot camp, perhaps by being made to participate in, say, an "ST vs. LT Tires" thread.
I suggest that particular subject 'cause that's where I got my first coat of armorplating back in 2011. Talk about wet behind the ears... I actually ventured an opinion on trailer tires in one of my very first posts EVER at this site. One needn't read the whole thread to see the full extent to which I got raked over the coals...but this excerpt from one of my posts just before thread shutdown certainly conveys the flavor of the drubbing I was getting.
Next quoting from this 2011 thread:
Newby Francesca wrote:
Answers without the Withering Sarcasm would be greatly appreciated..
I'm proud to say that I'd lasted for six whole pages by that time- and I'd have stuck it out longer 'cept the thread got shut down right after that. Ain't nothin' can scare me off since that little eye-opener!:B
Point is, if ALL new members had to get baptized like that they'd be better prepared for the kind of rain-on-your-parade stuff that this kind of Newperson Post always seems to bring out in people here.
