304: I'll Show You Who's Boss

Hmmmm.

It's another motorcycle message board retard...oops!, I mean member...who didn't get the respect he feels he's due, and is now out for blood on those who have tarnished his image.

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Yes, people, it's time, once again, to point my finger at the numb skulls writing silly shit on motorcycle message boards and have a good chuckle before I head into jerk.

A couple days ago, a guy wrote about something that lots of people have written about on message boards:

The time-honoured Mysterious Technical Problem that Defies Explanation and Must Surely be Caused by Evil Spirits, Majic, or some other Unexplainable Force, but I Still Expect the Correct Answer from One of You.

What this is, basically, is when a forum member comes on, writes about some weird problem he's having with his bike, lists the symptoms of what it's doing wrong, and then basically goes on and on about how he basically sounds like he believes the problem is something that nobody else in the whole wide world has ever experienced, and one that nobody can certainly ever figure out.

However, he still basically sits there tapping his foot, waiting for another member to come on and explain in exact detail what the trouble is (and it had better be something that takes a mere 2.5 seconds to fix and for less than zero money laid out).

Sounds like I'm greatly exaggerating in order to sound funny, huh?

Honestly, after reading stuff like this for a solid decade, now, I'm really not.

See, I don't know everything about motorcycles, but most forum members come and go as their interest in motorcycles comes and goes.

That means there's always going to be fresh newbies (or guys that have the brain of a newbie) posting silly shit that ultimately results in one big laugh.

Because, you see, the problem always ends-up being something so simple and basic, instead of pages of silly writing to get to the bottom of it, it really deserves just a sentence of two.

It boils down to making a big deal about how your bike handles like shit because your tires have 3 psi of air in them.

Get my drift?

At least I think it is highly entertaining as the author of this very intelligent post (yeah, right) goes to great length to explain himself all along the way before he comes back to finally tell us that the reason his bike ran like shit was because he had a rodent's nest inside the airbox because he only rides the bike once a month and he never bothers to clean his air filter because he's too busy picking his ass and being a retard, all which takes up most of his day. :)

Off to jerk,

-John