You are agressive towards people, you use agressive words,
I guarantee you'd not be able to put forward a convincing example of aggression towards you.
you call people in various ways without any provocation from their part.
When I said "It is not compulsory to learn and to know, because it is not compulsory to DIY. But if you want to DIY then you must learn, and come to know, and you really don't seem to have the right attitude" you said I was being disrespectful.
When you said you did want to learn, I said OK, but given that 4 months ago you got into a mess because you didn't know how what you'd decided to fiddle with worked (which is an unarguable fact), I asked what you had done since then to learn, because it seemed to me given that you still don't know how to wire a switch you hadn't actually learnt anything.
And you promptly objected to being asked that and basically said that people here should only tell you what
you think they should, not what
they think they should.
When I made it clear that my position was that fiddling with electrical work on the basis of following instructions to put this wire in that hole, without knowing why, is unacceptable, and the only basis in which you should do it is with a full and genuine understanding of how it all works you accused me of being abusive.
And none of this was provocation on your part?
You THINK you know everything, even what I am thinking and you put words in my mouth that I never said or even hinted at them.
You clearly and very strongly hinted that you do not think you should have to learn how to do things, and that the only thing this site is for is to tell you what to do without you having to understand it.
You are just wrong and you don't admit you have an attitude problem.
What I have is an attitude you don't like because it clashes with what you think you should be allowed to prescribe here.
I just asked a question for God's sake and you call me ignorant,
"Ignorant" means lacking in knowledge or education. So since you are quite clearly lacking in knowledge of electrical circuits and components, and are lacking an education in same, it's an apposite word.
But just as you don't see why your ignorance of electrics should be a bar to you working on them it looks like you don't see why your ignorance of what the word means should be a bar to you complaining about my use of it.
that I haven't learned a single thing in don't know how many months, that I refuse to learn, that a I fully deserve a lecture. That is ridiculous.
I would like to fit a light switch I bought and which has L on top and L1 and L2 at the bottom. There are 2 cables getting in: a twin and earth from probably the mains (brown and blue) + another twin and earth going to the light probably (again brown and blue)
How do I connect the cables in the light switch to make them work.
How can you disagree that that shows ignorance of how a simple switch works?
I tried a couple of combinations but I either tripped the MCB or didn't work at all (no light in the hallway).
How can you disagree that at some point connecting Live and Neutral to the switch shows ignorance of what it does?
So come on then - it's 4 months down the line, and you are still asking how to connect up a simple switch,
so just what have you learned since then?
I'm not criticising you for not learning, I'm criticising you for thinking that you have no need to learn, and that anybody who dares to suggest otherwise has an attitude problem and is being disrespectful and abusive towards you.
This is the last post I am making, you don't deserve to spend my time to argue with someone who knows everything and treats others with disrespect. I just pity you. You might be great at electrics but you need to learn a lot about people.
I know a lot about people - you are not the first one here who gets bent out of shape when they get told things which conflict with their preconceived ideas about what they should be told.
I am an IT guy that wanted to LEARN lots of stuff.
I repeat - you want to DIY electrics, so what have you learned since the last time you tried it in ignorance and had problems?
I THINK a lot more than you
Now who's making assumptions?
and last time I had my IQ evaluated it was 169 - who are you to give me a lecture on what I didn't learn and how erroneous views I have.
Well, if you erroneously think that an IQ score is relevant, I'll answer "someone with a higher score than that".
And by the way, In January I am starting an electrical course to become part-P qualified.
And I genuinely wish you success.
Do yourself a favour - when you've finished, think back to now, and think what your as-it-will-be informed opinion is of people doing electrical work when they don't even know how a switch works.
