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by Joss451 5236 days ago
I've noticed the pseudo-smart are quite annoyed by questions. RTFM, they reply. That's pseudo-smart for "I don't know".
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Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish for himself and he'll have fish for the rest of his life.

There is a time and a place for asking questions, and if you regularly need to ask questions to which you can easily find an accurate/complete answer to without help you'll probably learn more from "learning to fish".

RTFM usually means: I answered that question substantially, and at length, several times already. If you had bothered to do the tiniest bit of research, you would have found those or similar answers on your own.

Now, please, go away and only come back when you've at least done the homework.