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Originally Posted by G8HQP Dave
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This is not said to a genuine newbie seeking knowledge but to someone who thinks that his years of experience somehow compensates for his lack of actually learning anything from that experience. Such folk can be hard to teach because their misconceptions are ingrained.
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I have met examples of that,
not on this forum I hasten to add, but in real life person-person dialogue: your analysis of such is appropriate in many cases. However - and it gives me no pleasure to report this - there have also been examples when I have been faced with sheer arrogance and
-minded stubbornness. At which point, I simply walk away.
'Horse and Water' springs to mind.
Al.