You might be a naysayer if ...

[okiemax]

I want to try to lighten up things a bit here on the Cable Forum by posting a "You might be a naysayer humor list." I hope no one will find it offensive or distasteful. I trust it will be followed in the near future with a list about yeasayers. Here goes .....

YOU MIGHT A NAYSAYER IF .....

1. You can't hear a difference in cables no matter how close you hold them to your ears.

2. You have found all cables not only sound the same, but also taste and smell the same.

3. Your Wife asks you to answer the door, and you demand proof that she heard the bell.

4. Your favorite interconnect is a coat hanger.

5. You have an almost irresistible urge to blindfold audiophiles.

6. What you remember most about your course in statistics is the instructor's name.

7. All those cables named after snakes give you the willies.

8. You have found reading test reports from old Stereo Reviews to be a placebo for Viagra.

9. You can't figure out why readers don't flock to audio magazines that claim most audio stuff sounds alike.

!0. You believe listeners who hear differences in cables are imagining things, and you are proud of your lack of imagination.

11. You have found these silly people unappreciative of your efforts to get them to give up their foolish ways and be like you.

12. You were always defending the least attractive girl in your school by saying to your buddies " put a bag over your head and you will never know the difference."

Please feel free to add to the list.

[DMK]

I want to try to lighten up things a bit here on the Cable Forum by posting a "You might be a naysayer humor list." I hope no one will find it offensive or distasteful. I trust it will be followed in the near future with a list about yeasayers. Here goes .....

YOU MIGHT A NAYSAYER IF .....

1. You can't hear a difference in cables no matter how close you hold them to your ears.

2. You have found all cables not only sound the same, but also taste and smell the same.

3. Your Wife asks you to answer the door, and you demand proof that she heard the bell.

4. Your favorite interconnect is a coat hanger.

5. You have an almost irresistible urge to blindfold audiophiles.

6. What you remember most about your course in statistics is the instructor's name.

7. All those cables named after snakes give you the willies.

8. You have found reading test reports from old Stereo Reviews to be a placebo for Viagra.

9. You can't figure out why readers don't flock to audio magazines that claim most audio stuff sounds alike.

!0. You believe listeners who hear differences in cables are imagining things, and you are proud of your lack of imagination.

11. You have found these silly people unappreciative of your efforts to get them to give up their foolish ways and be like you.

12. You were always defending the least attractive girl in your school by saying to your buddies " put a bag over your head and you will never know the difference."

Please feel free to add to the list.

13. You continue to buy generic Cheerios even though you can tell the difference between it and real Cheerios because the ingredients are the same and you therefore assume your senses are fooling you.

14. You demand a DBT for the Cheerios but can't figure out how to keep the tester from spilling them all over the floor. The tester is, after all, blindfolded.

15. You refuse to buy a stereo other than a portable CD player or boombox because interconnects and speaker wire aren't reviewed by Consumer Reports.

16. You catch yourself bobbing your head in time with the test tones you're listening to.

To be fair, someone should make a yeasayer list. :)

[pctower]

1. The ability to enjoy life.

2. The lack of an obsession to quantify every last detail of the human experience.

3. The lack of a compulsive need to feel intellectually superior to anyone who disagrees with you.

4. The ability to get through each day without attempting to control the life of everyone else on this planet.

5. The courtesy not to butt into conversations where you are not wanted, to talk about things only you want to talk about.

[pctower]

To be fair, someone should make a yeasayer list. :)

I just did. Somehow, I'm guessing though it may not necessarily be seen as "fair".

[FLZapped]

I just did. Somehow, I'm guessing though it may not necessarily be seen as "fair".

You're right, it's udder bull....

-Bruce :rolleyes:

[FLZapped]

I want to try to lighten up things a bit here on the Cable Forum by posting a "You might be a naysayer humor list." I hope no one will find it offensive or distasteful. I trust it will be followed in the near future with a list about yeasayers. Here goes .....

YOU MIGHT A NAYSAYER IF .....

2. You have found all cables not only sound the same, but also taste and smell the same.


Sorry, teflon is quite different from polyethelyne and PVC and more chewy.... :p

-Bruce

[pctower]

You're right, it's udder bull....

-Bruce :rolleyes:

17. Someone who would never appear on anyone's list of people they'd like to sit down with over a beer.

[Rockwell]

Passive-aggressive much?

[pctower]

Passive-aggressive much?

There's nothing passive about my aggression, at least as far as I'm aware.

[Rockwell]

There's nothing passive about my aggression, at least as far as I'm aware.

Insults (thinly)veiled as humor might qualify, but you are right. Usually you are aggressively aggressive ;)

[FLZapped]

17. Someone who would never appear on anyone's list of people they'd like to sit down with over a beer.

Fine by me, I find beer bitter, like some people's sense of humor.

-Bruce

[pctower]

Fine by me, I find beer bitter, like some people's sense of humor.

-Bruce

Bitter? You've got to be kidding. You guys crack me up.

Now if you want to see BITTER, just check out what I've been saying over at PropHead.

[Lowdef]

Good post Okiemax, we need to have a nice laugh every now and then. Speaking of humor, I'm a big fan of the 3 Stooges and before everyone gets a big chuckle out of that let me explain why. The Stooges were the masters of poke in fun at common sense, no one did it better. But in reality they were great mentors, what they were really saying was just don't do what we do ( having no common sense) and you'll be able to get by just fine ( Reversed Psychology 101). It seems there a few members of this board that could learn a lot from them and it's never to late to start watching. I know I still do!

Knowlege is worthless without Common Sense
Rich :)

[DMK]

Sorry, teflon is quite different from polyethelyne and PVC and more chewy.... :p

-Bruce

Brings new meaning to "...the Nordost cable is so good, it eats the Kimber for breakfast!"

[okiemax]

Good post Okiemax, we need to have a nice laugh every now and then. Speaking of humor, I'm a big fan of the 3 Stooges and before everyone gets a big chuckle out of that let me explain why. The Stooges were the masters of poke in fun at common sense, no one did it better. But in reality they were great mentors, what they were really saying was just don't do what we do ( having no common sense) and you'll be able to get by just fine ( Reversed Psychology 101). It seems there a few members of this board that could learn a lot from them and it's never to late to start watching. I know I still do!

Knowlege is worthless without Common Sense
Rich :)

I always liked watching the 3 Stooges. They were original and unique. The Cambridge Dictionary defines stooge as an actor in an amusing show whose job is to allow the main actor to make him or her look foolish. However, each of the 3 Stooges sort of played both roles. I can't think of any other comedy act that used that formula.