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Jim

Fri Apr 28 2006, 04:58AM

Dunce.
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What's that got to do with emails?

Desmogod

Fri Apr 28 2006, 06:14AM

Registered Member #139 Joined: Sat Feb 11 2006, 11:01AM
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Jim wrote ...

What's that got to do with emails?

Who cares, it's funny.

I went into a McD's here and asked for half a dozen nuggets. The girl replied "Sorry, we only sell them in boxes of 6, 9 or 12"

Self Defenestrate

Fri Apr 28 2006, 06:27AM

Registered Member #87 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 01:36PM
Location: San Jose
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When I won my big puk SCR, someone emailed me asking why I needed such a big SCR, and wanted to know what I was using it for. Email came a few minutes after the bidding ended. So far, thats all the email I've gotten from random people, and hopefully stays that way.

Jim

Fri Apr 28 2006, 10:56AM

Dunce.
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I get chinese emails like "My company loves wind tesla coil machine, we offer special prices production run. our machine is able winding with counter for tesla coil."

"special price"

evolve000

Sun Apr 30 2006, 05:50AM

Registered Member #155 Joined: Sun Feb 12 2006, 05:38PM
Location: Baton Rouge, La
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I've recieved all kinds of crazy and disturbing email from my website, most of it originating over seas. (to be fair, I get intelligent email from "normal" people also) I don't keep a copy of most of the stuff, but recently I did have someone (local) send me a bunch of emails. He was convinced that Tesla coils powered UFOs, I knew the secret to it, and that I should help him build one.

The last email he sent me was:

atmospheric pressure is 14.7 psi = 2,116 pounds per square foot !

we only need to create a pressure differential of 1% to generate 21 pound of lift per square foot

it can be done many ways - takes power, energy , speed

How do you handle something (and someone) like this???

Jim

Sun Apr 30 2006, 03:00PM

Dunce.
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That's simple, you use a negative area generator to cause a pressure differential.

Bjørn

Sun Apr 30 2006, 04:26PM

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How do you handle something (and someone) like this???

Ignore them completely. If you show any interest (positive or negative) it confirms their ideas and makes matters worse. From their viewpoint their logic is not broken and nothing you say will improve matters.

Changing the subject to something completely different sometimes help but it can backfire.

Steve Conner

Sun Apr 30 2006, 06:18PM

Registered Member #30 Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
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Yes. You can't argue with these "True Believers". They think they are right, and you can't see it because you've been brainwashed by the sinister shadow government like everyone else. All you can do is ignore them and let them get on with it. Or join them, muahahaha!

Alex

Sun Apr 30 2006, 07:48PM

Geometrically Frustrated
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Steve Conner wrote ...

Yes. You can't argue with these "True Believers". They think they are right, and you can't see it because you've been brainwashed by the sinister shadow government like everyone else. All you can do is ignore them and let them get on with it. Or join them, muahahaha!

When I meet people like that, sometimes I try feeding them some pure BS, then when they start talking about it/explaining it, I inform them that I pulled the idea out of my ass, and that they are a fscking idiot. The sad part is that most of them don't know when to stop, and will try to convince me that it really is true.

Avalanche

Sun Apr 30 2006, 09:24PM

Registered Member #103 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 08:16PM
Location: Derby, UK
Posts: 845

Steve Conner wrote ...

He seemed to think that the CIA (or other unspecified men in black I guess) were remote viewing him, and that I could build him a pair of Tesla coils with a suitable frequency to jam the brainwaves.

He explained all of this in a call from a public call box to my parents' house (where I was living at the time) and later came round to visit a few times. I pretended not to be in and had ghastly visions of this guy trying to kidnap me as his coil building slave :-o

Steve, you could have made a fortune

But yeah, I kind of feel sorry for the guy, to be that screwed up at least

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