Re: Role of ignition condenser in a distributor?

From: Don Bruder (dakidd_at_sonic.net)
Date: 09/24/04 

Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 17:49:09 GMT

In article <0sc8l0dopocvkubu3u9meglbgesc6scp4k@4ax.com>,
 ~^Johnny^~ <nospam@gyrogearloose.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 16:39:19 GMT, Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> wrote:
>
> >Unless, of
> >course, you're at Radio Shack, where you'll get a look that's not just
> >puzzled, but positively bovine in its utter lack of anything resembling
> >the spark (Errr... no pun intended) of intelligence.
>
>
> Be nice!

Be nice, my ass.
Too damned many people in this world are "being nice" in an effort to
avoid offending the tender sensibilities of some worthless waste of
humanity, when what's needed is a good solid smack upside the head with
a dose of reality.

> A lot of RS stores have gone to Hell in a hand basket, but I resent
> the stereotype, nonetheless.

Resent it all you like. Your resentment means *EXACTLY NOTHING* to me,
as my view is dead-on accurate: If you walk into pretty much any Radio
Shack today, you cannot find anyone with even the amount of electronic
know-how needed to point you at the capacitor rack, let alone give you
any useful information to decide why "This one is the one you want,
rather than that one." You'll find a shitload of salesdroids that'll try
and sell you a cell-phone when what you want is a 33K resistor, but
beyond that, you're walking into an intellectual wasteland.

Most of them wouldn't know a capacitor from a resistor from a pimple on
their ass. Of course, this assumes that the store you walk into even
*HAS* a capacitor rack. It's getting to the point where Radio Shack
should seriously consider renaming itself to "Cell phone and satellite
TV shack" to reflect their true business.

Radio Shack:
You've got questions, we've got blank stares.

Despite being something of a cliche, it's dead-on accurate in the huge
majority of RS stores.

And no, I don't care whose feelings I hurt by saying so. Get over it. If
you don't want to be seen as "the imbecile behind the counter", you've
got two options: Learn something, or get the hell out. But don't expect
any touchy-feely "spare your poor sensitive feelings" bull*** from me.
I call 'em as I see 'em, and if you don't like what I'm seeing, you need
to change what it is I see. At Radio Shack, I see morons. Don't like
that? Then change it - Get yourself at least rudimentary education in
the field you're supposedly working in, so that when I come in with a
question, you've got an actual answer, instead of a blank stare or a
line of bull*** that's so obvious even a blind man couldn't miss seeing
it.

Izzat clear enough for you to understand, "Johnny"? 

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