I had the same sorta problem with a guy a while ago, he was the tenant of a friends house, when friend was in town he stays there too.
So this guy knows I do
escrap but wants me to tell him how I do it... (Yeah right!) exactly how I do it....
I counter with "what sort of computer? (Abbacus or Cray?) and
"You really expect me to tell you exactly where all the little Gold bars are?????"
At this point he is 100% sure there's a Ounce Gold bar in every computer waiting to be just picked out.... He just has to know where of is...
So I tell him "there's no Gold bars in computers. You have to look elsewhere to find the Little Gold Bars. I have a few, I put them in a small glass jar, will sell them one day......"
(Yes I do actually have some Little Gold Bars, they come from electrical contacts, rotary dial telephones are a good start)
Now he's going on about computer motherboards " How do you do them, or don't you know how???"
"Oh yeah, its easy, you chip off all the bits and put them in a pestel and mortar and grind them down".
(now this is what somebody else told me once, they were just 'taking the piss', but from that, I did know that they 'know how' to too. So I had a good laugh out of it anyway, not what they expected though....)
Doing the motions of grinding something in mortar & pestel (s****** s****** snort snort)
"Until its all ground up and a fine dust, then you keep doing it until its so fine, and your arm hurts and your wrists hurt and its all a fine fine dust.
And then you put it in a crucible (teknickle words help here) and heat it up till its red hot and, well you know how Golds heavy right? So the Gold sinks to the bottom and you let it cool down when your finished you break off the Gold part...."
This gets him thinking, I can see the steam. But its 'sounds' like it will work... in theory, because Gold actually is heavier than... bull****.
This gets him all antsee, he counters with
"Ha huh, I know how to do it, I seen it on YouTube, all they do is put it in a special acid and all the Gold comes out and that's how they do it"
"Yeah right, like bull****, some idiot on youtube does some scientifically stuff in his driveway with a beaker and a splash of acid and a blowtorch with a CPU and he gets Gold from it? I say its bull****". Did YOU see the Gold?
(I know the video he saw from what he told me, so I describe it back to him in truth, only he does not know that I know of that video.. But I'm right anyway)
"Oh well" he says "There's internet forums where you just ask and they tell you everything you need to know about getting the Gold".
"Yeah right" I say "Betyah if you do that, some Harry's going to come back and tell you to piss orf since you have no idea".
(Harry's a generic name I give to people and people in situations. from Harry Muff.
Ie a Cop is 'Dirty Harry'. A bad Cops a Dirty dirty Harry. . A female singer is Harry Debbie. I get my cars exhaust fixed at Harrys exhaust systems, by Harry Muffler. A country farmer is Harry Hickstick. A kid who is born into money and is never going to have to work in his life, is Harry Letterman.
. Its just a coincidence that Harry is actually going to do this on GRF...)
Now this has got him all bitter and twisted, well actually he started off like that, a 'Harry Haighter'.
Now he's stewing and spewing in his seat.
"But I know somebody who knows somebody who actually does get Gold from computers so he knows and you don't"
(I suddenly relise he has been talking to somebody who I have actually met while doing my scrapmetaling, somebody I don't actually like because he's competition at my scrap source and he does not give anything in return for this scrap to the owner. And I do.
And he dumps off scrapped CRT's there too.)
"Yeah right, betyah he's full of s&17,and betyah he wouldn't know where the Gold bars are at all, if so, why has he not told you?".
(Oh, the GOLD BARS again!)
"But all he has to do is ask"
(Ah, no, I'm not going to tell this ' Harry metal thief' about anything to do with escrap, let alone Gold bars. So that he can tell Harry hater what exactly to do, to get mighty rich of 2 computer boards stacked with (oh no!) Gold bars.)
So it goes on like this a bit. He will never change until he's looking face up at a plank of pine.
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Sometimes, and I have found, a lot of times. It just pays not to tell certain people certain things, all it does is give them the impression that they can do it, when they cannot, and when they fail, who's getting the blame?..
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