That's the spirit.

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Well, I can't because I was banned and told to stand in the corner for a week. Gerry won the big prize by getting banned until the Sun turns Supernova (it wont because it's too small but you get the idea time wise).
Banning someone started out as a good thing actually. It was designed to get rid of Spammers, People who abusive language, people who want money, etc., etc.
Unfortunately it devolved into something far different than it's original noble intentions. It's now used to ban people who say things, or disagree with, someone who are friends with, the moderator. Mclare called me and Gerry names, actually swore at us and he was not banned. Whereas I posed a question in a way that the truthful answer, if even given, would have embarrassed a friend of the moderator so I got banned.
It's turned into a tool for people with little power or accomplishment in life to act "big" and "important." An example would be the person who stops in the middle of the street, instead of pulling over to the curb, to talk to his friend - usually a female - on the sidewalk thereby holding up traffic, It's done to "impress" the person walking as if to say "look at me and how important I am, I can hold up traffic." The person doesn't realize he's only making an ass of himself but that's the way it is.
A good example was when I was insulted about my Formatting, probably the first time in the history of the Internet that one has been called out about the formatting of his post !!!
I swear you can't make this stuff up.
The gloating that occurred when I was banned is an excellent example, as if getting banned from one of the many many forums I frequent for my various hobbies is any big deal to me. But, yet, to some they feel that it is the end of the world to me. I have another account on B/W so I suppose if I want I can post.
Another example of moderator "little man syndrome" and bias, in a previous post I listed my cars in my signature, which is customary to do on most, not only car, forums. I was accused of trying to impress people by Mclare.
Then on 09-23 at 3:50 PM I got called out on it by Mclare, here's part of the post.

And you listing all of your cars and toys in your sig, and you want to psychoanalyze me? You got a lot going on in there pal, and everyone can see it in your sig.
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Current Stable:
91-560SEC - Coupe - 199/267 - 300 HP Custom Built Motor - Highly Modified Coupe
90-560SEL - Sedan - 199/267 - Stock
Sold:
97-500SL - Roadster - W/AMG Sport pkg.
87-560SEC - Coupe - 040/264
87-420SEL - Sedan

So it's ok for HIM to list HIS "stable" (including cars he sold only God knows when) but when I list MINE I am publicly berated.

He also mentioned, in the same post no less, the following:
Since you have declared that this story is about me, you have removed the specter of anonymity and clearly declared it was me. If you use ANY of my stories, I will sue you and own your show and you will be working for me.
OK, that's fair if he actually believes it's true - but he neglected to mention that his Avatar is used without any permission (it's Gerry's original property) from it's owner. So I cannot use HIS alleged work without his permission but HE can use the intellectual property of someone he knows without THEIR permission. I do not understand the double standard.
In the big picture his stories are like him, nothing important and certainly nothing interesting. He may think he's important because of his 10,000+ postings that provide little to no information and even less correct information but his stories are pretty much nothing. Compare him to Gurney's driving a Die Hard battery equipped car into a swimming pool, the newscaster putting her car into lake Michigan after being chased by the Police, Renting Hertz Mustangs and taking them to the track, the XK-SS going faster than a Police car at 150mph, Barnato's Blue Train Bentley racing from Cannes to London - and winning, Auto-Union ace and Honorary SS man Bernd Rosemeyer doing an silly goose stepping imitation of Hitler just as Hitler walked into the room, The Cannonball Run, The run from KSA to London that has the motto "No Fine Too Great, No Lawyer Too Expensive," Straight buying an airplane to go into London on weekends because undergrads at Cambridge were not allowed to have cars as the Dons felt that would encourage them to go into London instead of attending to their studies, Walker teeing off from Piccadilly to Oxford Circus at 2 am with a few other GP drivers of the era, the Lake Drive 100 MPH Club (speed limit 25 mph), the Car vs. Taxi Race in NYC, Chula and Bira, etc., etc. the list is endless. So the $55,000 Engine Rebuild and Smoke Repossession stuff just pales in comparison. But the Wheel Flying Off vs. the Pregnant Lady is high on the list I must admit. We have turned into a nation, a world, of wimps. Partially, I guess, because what would have been considered a joke or just bad behavior is now a full blown felony. The Scottish driver who was offended at being asked to quiet down while staying at the Hotel d'Paris in Monaco -- so he decided to take his business elsewhere, and at 3 am he and his 9 friends marched out from the 4th floor, in formation, while playing bagpipes in all their glory. "Some things are Stupendous, others merely Stupid" might be a good motto. And nowadays we have red light and Speed camera's that automatically bust people for going 6 mph over the limit....

There was something else, about Mclare's wonderful trip to Europe and how he drove in the longest tunnel in the world - we were all very impressed, but I noticed two minor inconsistencies. Nothing much at all and something that would have easily been overlooked by the casual observer, but because I lived in that area I picked it up almost immediately. One, it wasn't the longest tunnel in the world and Two, and perhaps more interesting, the tunnel he supposedly drove in was not in the country he claimed to be in... Now I can see that while driving along it might be difficult to measure a tunnel -- but to get an entire country wrong... it's like saying I went through the St. Gotthard Pass in the Alps while driving near Omaha. I guess unless one actually lived in the area it wouldn't be too difficult to mistake parts of Nebraska with the Alps, I mean, after all, they ARE both on the planet Earth, which in the entire scheme of the Universe, Omaha IS pretty damn close to the Alps.
Anyway, I think he got mildly irritated when I mentioned that minor geographical point. Correct me if I am wrong as I could be mistaken but as far as I know they don't relocate tunnels that are bored through mountains. I mean maybe they do, but that would be news to me. If one is trying to impress strangers, for whatever reason, by saying they drove through a certain tunnel they should at least get the damn country right if nothing else.

So now I am faced with a decision, a BIG decision. What should I do about the events of September 23, 2013, the day I got banned.
Should I call it.
Nacht der langen Tastendruck - Night of the Long Keystrokes.
or just plain:
Nacht der Hüben -- Night of the Strokes. As there sure were a lot of strokes out that night.
or perhaps even:
Entsendung Nacht -- Posting Night (instead of Kristall Nacht).
abbreviated to, perhaps:
Dung Nacht -- Dung Night.

Kind Regards,

Ron
Here's what they are saying about my new TV show on the Benzworld and PeachParts Forums:
"A TV show, so explicit, so daring that it's producer got BANNED from all the forums he so loved !!!!"
"Stories so true that the moderators refused to let them be known for fear of reprisals !!!"
"Episodes that are so offensive that legal action was threatened if they were ever made public in the USA or Canada."
"Events that, if the general population were aware of, would have the featured subject owning this very show while making the producer and crew work for him !"

Maybe they could get a motel room in Berkeley.

OMG, Cascade and Mclare and Teutone in a motel room in Berkeley. LOL They could be in bed watching Mercedes video's and getting all hot and bothered when a 126 breaks down so they can virtually fix it while talking to the TV set.
Just the image of that makes me crack up, it would be one of those "loving threesomes" you see in the movies - complete with throwing pillows and the obligatory shattered TV while sitting up in bed passing an opened bottle of Jack between them !!! Gay Car P@rn at it's best.

But seriously, if you try to post that on B/W you will probably get banned and, funny that it is, maybe they would be right in this case, maybe.

But thanks for the morning laugh, it will sustain me for most of the day. And if I do use it (.34% chance) I will certainly give you credit.

Most Kind Regards,

Ron

Episode 1, Season 2?

And I warned cascade some years ago (before the Smoke Repossession episode) about the dangers of using Viagra too frequently...

I don't really get the sliming of Cascade/Jim. I've met Jim and he's a good ol' boy. He once got horny with perhaps the wrong lady? Jeez, I'm sure glad I never did that.

But what's up with him being horny on occasion? None of the rest of us fall prey to that. Get it together I say.

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1984 300D, 138K

There's no issue or problem with a male (or female) being horny....in and of itself.

But when it starts affecting one's judgment, resulting from decisions made using the wrong "head," which then results in activities performed of questionable, nocturnal, legality, and gleefully written about in a public venue, then it becomes an issue.

When one has a well-established pattern of dispensing blatantly incorrect information about maintaining and repairing Mercedes-Benz automobiles, then it becomes an issue. This "issue" becomes compounded when the subject has demonstrated no direct mechanical expertise and has no track record of ANY hands-on knowledge of performing repairs, themselves.

When one's activities, such as almost wrecking their car on a dynamometer, or deliberately & ignorantly cutting their water pump belts in one of the harshest uphill locations in the continental US, are documented numerous times, repeatedly illustrating a base cluelessness, then it becomes an issue.

When one's demonstrated expenditures for repairs exceeds, by a factor of 3-5x, what logically should be spent, then it becomes an issue.

When one's stories and references to locations are totally incorrect and facts cited are nowhere near the reality that even the must cursory Google search would inform to be correct, then it becomes an issue.

To summarize ... the "issue" is a pattern of years worth of poor, ignorant decisionmaking and incorrect information dispensed (knowingly or unknowingly) along with a pattern of publicly flaunting one's female "conquests" online. It's an acute case of SPS (small penis syndrome).


I won't even get into the other individuals, in terms of those who issue death threats, and call others names that are commonly used in American elementary or middle schools. (I mean really ... when was the last time anyone on this board was publicly called a "pussy" by another grown man, who is in reality a grandfather). Or the blatantly hypocritical "moderation" demonstrated in other forums, where TOUs are not enforced against the individuals who break them the most, and said posts that break the TOUs are allowed to remain. Yet innocent members who do not break the TOUs are banned.

Thanks for a very accurate observation of this individual. There are quite a few members of this board who also observed similar traits in this person over the years and he is one of the reasons that folks simply disappear from here.

The extensive BS presented by this individual becomes tiresome to the extreme.

I agree, but I have a selfish reason.
I love cars and the entire hobby and I bitterly resent those who try to "wreck" it for so their own egos can see their name on a monitor.

Our hobby depends upon new people being brought in and when newbies see and follow advice that is incorrect they tend to get discouraged and when discouraged - they leave, and usually permanently. The BEST thing you can give a young person is a good mentor, and that holds true for ANY subject, any hobby, anything.

They would see that someone has 10,000 posts and assume that they actually know what they are talking about, especially since they give "free parts, advice, manuals" girl scout cookies, whatever.
And if they follow the advice from Mr. 10,000 Poster they usually will end up with a bad car, bad repair and even less money. End result... wont see them again. And that hurts the hobby.

If they see a rebuild cost $55,000 most young people will get discouraged and think the hobby is too expensive and leave, because Mercedes are "expensive cars to keep and fix." They too will leave, permanently.
And when the person who actually knows what he is talking about and has turned wrenches is banned because of a moderators miniature ego... what effect does that have...

And..... who want's to be on a forum where childish name calling, like "pussy," is used instead of a civil discussion or even a civil disagreement? The last time I heard that word used in anger was around 1972 as a senior in HS. It's not 1972 and we are not in HS anymore.

Imagine a newbie reading and following some of cascades or mclares "advice" solely because they are prolific posters. We'd end up with cars that will never be fixed and people who will never return. I mean who the heck cuts the belt that drives the H2O pump ANYWHERE let alone on an uphill run ????

It's like the guy who puts AMG badges on his car, or tells people it's an AMG. The only people who are impressed are uneducated cocktail waitresses. No one else.

So my reasons are selfish, I love this hobby and the people in it. And there are more people, young people who should be nurtured, but with that nurturing comes the responsibility to give good correct advice and if one doesn't have good correct advice (like me on transmissions for example) I refer them to those who do, Jonathan for example, or steer them away from those who don't, like Adsit.

Why do we have NO problem calling out those companies who provide bad parts/repair/customer service, like URO or Adsit, but when we call out those who give bad advice some people get their skirt ruffled ?
Many people on BW have little money it seems, we've all been there, so good solid accurate advice is even more important to people like them.

SEMA has programs because they know where the future lies. Why can't every member of every forum do the same?
sema.org/student-program
I wish to nurture them, by good accurate advice, not by bragging that I give free parts and manuals on one hand and calling people "a pussy" on the other. All while not even being able to tell them what country and tunnel I allegedly was in. It would have been ever so easy to cover that lie by just Googling the info, so what do we end up with..... lazy liar, nothing more.
Kind Regards,

Ron

Would you guys stop forcing the Botnst at gunpoint to read every post in this thread!!

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1984 300D, 138K

Here's a couple of good threads for the Botnst to chew on....

"PLEASE HELP !!! I'm confused about an important matter! - What happend to Gerryvz?"
PLEASE HELP !!! I'm confused about an important matter! - What happend to Gerryvz? - Auto-Trend Repairs and Service Information Forums

"The Karma Bus is Yet Again Headed for Cascade's Garage"
The Karma Bus is [yet again] headed for Cascade's garage - Auto-Trend Repairs and Service Information Forums

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Current stable:
- 2004 Mazda RALLYWANKEL
- 2007 Saturn sky redline
- 2004 Explorer...under surgery.

Past: 135i, GTI, 300E, 300SD, 300SD, Stealth

and, I find myself once again agreeing with you. other than the head redo thread and the initial amusement of the repo thread, I have to ask, WTF is this?

jihad...jihad.

If you have to ask....