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Old Sep 5, 2017, 3:00 am
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jorun
 
Join Date: Jun 2012
Posts: 758
Originally Posted by FLA77
Y_fly,

You don't just walk up to a brain surgeon and ask them how to perform brain surgery, do you? It takes years of studying, internship and practice to do that, and even then you may not make it as a brain surgeon.

This is similar to that, albeit at around 1/1,000,000 scale.

This may explain why some folks here get upset and aggravated, and fire back instead of just ignoring requests they may deem unreasonable.

I hope you understand.
I like the brain surgeon metaphor but I think it's better to explain in this way:

A real expert is the one who had the brain surgery and he/she can't back to a normal life. Expert = sick person = lost his life to fly for free etc...

A noob is still in time to avoid the brain surgery and follow a normal and happy life.



Actually I don't understand why noobs are asking for a brain surgery. Is it a new lifestyle?
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