[phlux]

>...Or really: who actually uses this thing? ...

The image I have always had of the userbase of EE is a middle aged vet wearing a vest with a lot of pins and smells of cigarettes who sits in his trailer on The Internet Forums answering computer questions such as "Which is better - a 3 1/2 inch floppy or 5 1/4 inch floppy" and is known to the other folks in the park as "The Computer Guy"

His goto answer for anything being "Well, you're gunna hafta go ahead and reinstall windows, because your monitor driver is out of date which is why you cant change the resolution back to 640x480"

I also imagine them to be the type of person who is still hanging onto that 386 with the bad math co-processor because its still worth something.

[jaysonelliot]

My father, and his father before him, were military veterans in their middle age.

I lived in a trailer park in Iowa when I was a kid.

Not sure why you think those are negative things.

[phlux]

My brother is a Lt. General in the airforce, my father was in the airforce as well.

I find it so funny that you, and others on this site take such offense to an image I had in my head.

[phlux]

Imagine John Goodman from Lebowski....

Frankly, that was the image I had in my head - I wasn't trying to offend or be negative. Maybe you're sensitive?

[hogu]

isn't being negative exactly what you were trying to do? unless you were trying to conjure up positive images of experts exchange.

[defroost]

No offense, but your imagination is pretty elitist.

[phlux]

Jesus christ relax.