Hey fellow “Pip Pilgrims”
I have noticed the board taking on a new dimension over the last 3 months or so where people just rock up and place their demands a.k.a. “wish lists” a.k.a “need help list” etc. and then wait for the rest to deliver on them, so I thought it prudent to add my little wish list here to and hopefully get a good place in the queue.
I have a photo of a Lamborghini Diablo, all I now need is for someone to help me get the car. I have many talents, but building Lamborghini’s unfortunately is not one of them, so please if one of the talented builders can just set me up with it I would be very happy indeed. I attach a photo of how it looks just to clear up any misunderstandings.
I think it really is a great car and that we all could benefit if you could share one with each of us.
I suppose I will need to learn how to drive this mother, so please, if there is anyone out there with some free or “not so free” e-books or manuals to this effect, please post them here also or upload them to RapidShare for us.
Also please if you could make it so that I could change the color by means of a special setting in the event of me getting tired of the metallic color it would be great.
Ok, that’s about it for now, lets now check to see if my request conforms to the traditionally accepted rules of begging:
- Make the request extravagant – well I am asking for a Lamborghini after all, so check !!!
- Simply just ask for the damn thing, without intention to actually contribute to it’s design, time to build or without any regard of what it is that I want – check !!!
- Ask for something I do not properly understand and thus can not really value, although I somehow know it would be to everyone’s benefit – check !!!
- Prove I do not understand it by asking for the manual without intention to pay for it either – check !!!
- Refine my demands by adding one or more “enahancements”: “…Also please if you could make it so that I could change the color by means of a special setting…” – check !!!
- Jokingly degrade myself in order to elevate prospect helpers and make them feel superior to me to improve my chances of getting helped – “…I have many talents, but building Lamborghini’s unfortunately is not one of them, so please…” - check !!!
Will this car be able to drive on the 50km stretch of gravel road to my farm? Will I be able to afford the insurance premium? Will I be able to afford the fuel? Will I be able to drive it safely? Will there be place in it to put my pug dog, tame mouse bird and two half crazy gold fish from the pond when I go on holiday? – Who cares, the hunt for it is on, that’s all that matters right – of course yes !!!
Well folks, I guess the only thing left to decide now is, do I deserve to get this pretty little chick magnet (Lamborghini Diablo) after offering nothing in return accept more arrogant demands perhaps ‘n bit later on in the thread.
It really saddens me to see one forum after the next going to hell after the decay sets in. It’s really hard to find a place where mature traders just hang out and have some intelligent conversations.
On the other hand, I guess nothing ever remains the same for to long and forums are no exception. They need to generate some form of revenue and in the end, if it pays it stays.
Also people all have different needs, so I suppose I can not impose my need to find intelligent conversation with mature traders on everyone I meet – perhaps the solution is to start private groups and just get untangled from the forum concept in total. Then again, real traders do not really have a lot to talk about in any case, we trade and we live………
