On Jan 19, 1:22 am, "TG" > wrote:
> wrote:...
>
> > Next question?
>
> > My, My, what a nice, congenial, informative reply.
> > Are you always so helpful or must you work at it?
> > I wonder if this would not have occurred to him without you mentioning it.
> > Jim H

>Jim, you are unbelievable.
> You don't know Dicky nor anyone in this group. You yourself ask novice
> questions and ask for polls that are totally unnecessary and utterly
> pointless and then when someone takes the trouble to give you a
> reasoned reply you respond with sarcasm. There's a flux of very
> confused people at the moment in the groups more intent on having their
> voice heard than taking the advice they ask for. Dickey is the groups
> 007 licence to grump. I for one believe he has very good motivation and
> intention. Unlike you with your misguided, confused, hypocritical
> advice and sarcasm.

Jim-
Your first line to Jim H is a little unbelievable too. Since you don't
know everyone in this group either, how can you say a question is
pointless?

Maybe the people frustrated with novice questions should remember back
to when they first started sourdough and remember what problems you had
for a fresh perspective.
For instance, it may not matter about humidity in Arizona, but up here
in the northwest we get LOTS of rain and lots of humidity. I wanted to
know how that might affect sourdough. I can adjust for the cool
temperatures with a 25w lightbulb. -- I even have pictures of a
contraption for a proofing box thanks to Dicky despite his sometimes
caustic responses -- so that I don't have to schedule the oven or
microwave around what my wife is cooking, but humidity is more
difficult and I thought I might get answers on humidity from this list.
Jim H was just responding to a nasty attitude with appropriate
sarcasm.

If I wanted my voice heard rather than wanting to learn something I
would either state my "learned" opinion about the topics with sourdough
or be in very poor taste and write in all caps, which would really turn
people off.

On my part of the novice questions, if I had found the answers in a
book or a FAQ or on past topics in this list I wouldn't be asking them
here. I ask the questions because I want to learn something.

It is also confusing when I start sourdough with recipes from Mike A's
website, and then am treated like a football player on the bottom of
the pile when there is a fumble. I tried Mike A's recipes and liked
them. I used his 100% Whole Wheat Sourdough bread recipe I used as an
example for some questions. Then - using his recipe - I get jumped on
by a lot of people on this list as using too many rises, not long
enough rises, and not knowing what I am doing, when all I was doing was
following his recipe. I still like Mike A's recipes, but am a little
bewildered by the responses.

For that matter, Jim decides to be nice to Dicky and then is misguided,
hypocritical, and without advice in his response to Jim H.
Russ