"What topics do TMP "experts" know the least about?" Topic

There is a whole rash of them of course, but I would suggest that manufacturing methods, particularly of plastics, ranks pretty high.
Most topics on manufacturing plastics contain a dangerously high BS level.

Having been involved in manufacturing (automotive, fences and gates) for most of my productive adult life, the ignorance of many hobbyists about how their toys are made, how much they "should" cost, and what "should make a lot of money" is almost laughable.

Cursing? Plastics? Metals? Scale? Painting eyes?

Just kidding. Sort of.

Law? General business practices? Grammer and speling? Sex (real, not imagined?)

Just kidding. Sort of.

Allen

I am not trolling.
I just want a poll on this topic.

"Intellectual property" (sic)

OK.

Postal regulations.

Allen

History, goth chics, pie, and mature behavior?

I need to learn how to do dating.

Oh, heck.

Anything concerning which accurate and comprehensive information can be obtained, simply by looking it up in the correct source, but about which people prefer to rely on the old standbys "Somebody told me…" or "I read somewhere that…"

For example, British 2pdr ammunition. Or Caunter paint colours.

Allen

Movies that would pack 'em in.

What Tolkien *really* had in mind.

Bricoles?

(ok, someone had to say it)

Why the aliens ARE really here for….

Personal hygeine.

Health and fitness.

How to win friends and influence people.

Dating. Definitely dating.

Logic.

Golf

Hockey?

The difference between elbows and arses.

Zippy said it all….

sarcasim

Brain surgery and rocket science

irony
the "real world"
sarcasm
their own self importance
reality
politics
how not to be passive aggressive
the laws of nature

"how not to be passive aggressive"

Er…umm.

The actual statutory protection (or not) of free speech and what the First Amendment really says.

"The difference between elbows and arses."

Or their common points. As one USMC Vet I know puts it "If you look at your buddies and all you see are asses and elbows, you *might* want to step away from the live explosives."

curling and other North Dakota winter recreation
Middle Kingdom Egyptian demotic
New Mexico pre-Mexican War (and what really happened with the governor)
what name Achilles took when he lived among the women (ok, I cribbed that one)
commas and em-dashes

OK, dating (been forty plus years from me, does the girl still pay?)

Decopage.

Decopage (def: n) where a paper modelling gamer gets a roller when his wife's not looking (worked for me--ten years and she's still wondering what happened to it)

Wait … I thought TMPers were omniscient?

I feel like all my heroes just died. :(

That copyright laws might be different in different countries?

I am grossly ignorant about all sorts of things, but as Clint once said, a man has to know his own limitations.

I just make this stuff up most of the time, it is only a hobby after all.

girls

Field surgery, piano tuning, quantity surveying, geodesic design, violin construction, Java programming …

Just a few of the things I am truly awful at.

The real world?

Tropical fish

Are we talking about known unknowns are unknown unknowns here?

I agree. "Girls."

Its those unknown unknowns that get me every time since most of the time they deal with "Girls".

When I started this topic, what I really meant was "topics that TMP regulars regularly opine about, but about which they know nothing." But, that's OK. I should be the last to complain about deviation from what the Master intneded.

So, with that in mind, let me add "customer relations" to the list.
Within the last 20 minutes, I have read "Deal with it!" and "If you are not their core customer base, why should they cater to you?" That seems to be the attitude of too many "companies" that advertise or are promoted on TMP.
Naming no names…

Oh, yes. "There" versus "their". That whole Grammer and Speling thing, like Allen so kindly mentioned earlier.

Typing without typos.
We don't know beans about that, either.

Has anyone mentioned "photos on websites"?

The other point of view!

Staying on Topic

Obviously , the War of Jenkin's Ear.

Wee Sparky: "I need to learn how to do dating."

Sparky, typical it is done though measuring the carbon 14 decay rate in organic material. Non-organis is a little more difficult.

Translating the Voynich Manuscript?

Discussing an issue without getting unpleasant about it.

Pat

Girls.

Oh, and reading a thread before replying to it.

Aerobic respiration? anaerobic respiration? Photosynthesis?

Biomagnification? glycolysis? food chains, food webs?

monosaccharides / disaccharides / polysaccharides/
risk assessment / risk management / phytoremediation.

ooooo, how about stoichiometery / molar concentration/ single displacement reactions, double displacement reactions/ synthesis reactions / decomposition reactions / Avogadro's number / Bernoulli's Principle / Pascal's Principle / How Murphy's Laws supercedes Newton's Laws all things being considered / sewage water treatment steps/ Flava Flave's new TV sitcom

OK, OK, what about the hobby stuff?

How about a PhD disseration on why ruleset X is "unrealistic" versus ruleset Y and why are there arguments that get way too intense over something that in ten years will not make a difference.

Another topic: Are miniature gamers really little boys who have not stopped playing with toy soldiers?

ooo, here's one: Personal hygiene and the X gamer where X is any type of game you want it to be.

Yet another one: Explain why have rulesets that have been hailed as "unrealistic", badly written / edited by a number of folk have actually gained in popularity.

The Holy Grail of rulesets: the one to unite all minigamers that they can coexist in peace and harmony (except on the table that is).

Yes, I did not mention names because I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

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