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Old 04-19-2011, 12:12 AM
 
Location: SW France
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Good morning posters and we have yet another dry settled day.

Actually, it has been a dry few weeks and that does not bode so well for later if it continues. Mind you this is England, so it probably won't!

That's got me thinking about how you get all these so called experts on TV predicting this, that and the other. So, today's peeve is

So called experts.
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Old 04-19-2011, 04:00 AM
 
Location: I never said I was perfect so no refunds here sorry!
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Yeah life experiences over time do teach us how to sift through the BS but on occasion we do catch ourselves forgetting
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Old 04-19-2011, 06:18 AM
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Some of those so called experts need a dash of common sense!
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Old 04-19-2011, 06:27 AM
 
Location: The Wild Wild West
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There seems to be a lot of so called 'experts' on many CD threads...
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Old 04-19-2011, 06:36 AM
 
Location: playing in the colorful Colorado dirt
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I seem to be surrounded by them. Most notable being my BIL Chris. Sunday, he was trying to give me farming tips. Just what I need from a biker that can't keep a silk plant alive!
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Old 04-19-2011, 06:52 AM
 
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I'm the expert here. LOL!
For instance: Last night I told my husband that I think I have arthritis in my big toe.
He said I should take Glucosamine.
I said, "Haven't you heard the latest? They say Glucosamine isn't proven to work."
His eyebrow went up.
I said (jokingly, of course,) "I'm the expert when it comes to vitamins and herbs in this house. Don't try to tell me which ones to take!"
He laughed because he knew I was joking and that I have no training in it whatsoever.
Yup. "Experts" are a peeve!
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Old 04-19-2011, 07:23 AM
 
Location: Neither here nor there
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"Expert" is in the eye of the beholder. It's for each one of us to decide who is and isn't an expert. I take what people say at face value and if it works out, fine, and if it doesn't, he didn't know what he was talking about. So, I guess that makes ME "the expert" in my life.
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Old 04-19-2011, 07:44 AM
 
Location: SW France
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I'm loving these comments!

The definition I heard about an expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing.
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Old 04-19-2011, 07:47 AM
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I once read something that said if someone in a newspaper article or interview is described as a "self-styled expert" that means they're a phony.
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Old 04-19-2011, 08:21 AM
 
Location: Hermoso y tranquilo Panamá
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Some of those so called experts need a dash of common sense!
You sure got that right! Guess they were behind the door yaking about stuff when they were passing out the CS gene.
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