>> I didn't realise that not knowing the name of an obscure item of 
>> clothing qualifies somebody as an idiot.
> 
>   I don't think he was insinuating that. I believe he was not really
> talking about *this* thread in particular, but about your posting
> history in general, and that it was more a rhetorical question.

I asked a perfectly simple question, and I get this... It seems a little 
uncalled for to me.

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Warp wrote:

>> BTW, is there anything you do know besides advanced mathematics and Haskell?
> 
>   I really wouldn't want to offend him, but I just have the impression that
> he makes these posts just for the attention he gets.

In this particular case, I was merely curios about the two items in 
question. I wasn't actually expecting to get quite this many replies...

> I may have encounter something
> which I knew I could very easily find with google or whatever, but
> nevertheless I felt an uncontrollable urge to ask about it at some chat
> or forum, just to get people to answer.

Well, as I alluded to, it's not like you can put a picture of a 
headscarf into Google and do a search to find out what it's called. 
[Altough that was actually be pretty damn neat.]

I just figured a human being somewhere would probably know the answer to 
this one easily, and wouldn't mind answering my question. I'm almost 
sorry I asked now...

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>> What on earth do you call the item Faye's wearing?
>>
> Shirt? Jeans? Belt? Glasses? Headscarf ;-)

Yeah, I thought at least *one* person would come up with this answer. :-P

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Invisible wrote:
>>> What on earth do you call the item Faye's wearing?
>>>
>> Shirt? Jeans? Belt? Glasses? Headscarf ;-)
> 
> Yeah, I thought at least *one* person would come up with this answer. :-P
> 
What did you expect from me? :-D

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>> Yeah, I thought at least *one* person would come up with this answer. :-P
>>
> What did you expect from me? :-D

Maybe Warp is right... I kinda knew somebody would say this, and yet I 
didn't rephrease the question. Hmm. ;-)

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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I asked a perfectly simple question, and I get this... It seems a little 
> uncalled for to me.

  As I said, there's absolutely nothing wrong with *this* thread in
particular. It's just that your entire posting history may reveal a
certain trend.

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On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:24:48 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>>> I didn't realise that not knowing the name of an obscure item of 
>>> clothing qualifies somebody as an idiot.
>> 
>>   I don't think he was insinuating that. I believe he was not really
>> talking about *this* thread in particular, but about your posting
>> history in general, and that it was more a rhetorical question.
>
>I asked a perfectly simple question, and I get this... It seems a little 
>uncalled for to me.

You're being treated as if you were Invisible :)
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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Warp wrote:

> >> BTW, is there anything you do know besides advanced mathematics and Haskell?
> > 
> >   I really wouldn't want to offend him, but I just have the impression that
> > he makes these posts just for the attention he gets.

> In this particular case, I was merely curios about the two items in 
> question. I wasn't actually expecting to get quite this many replies...

  I wasn't talking about this thread in particular, but more in general.

> > I may have encounter something
> > which I knew I could very easily find with google or whatever, but
> > nevertheless I felt an uncontrollable urge to ask about it at some chat
> > or forum, just to get people to answer.

> Well, as I alluded to, it's not like you can put a picture of a 
> headscarf into Google and do a search to find out what it's called. 
> [Altough that was actually be pretty damn neat.]

  I would say to that: Learn to use google.

  If you are, for example, looking for the name of something which people
wear on their head, try googling for something like "headgear". The first
hit was: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headgear
  Browsing the list of headgear in that page, the most promising one seems
to be "hair covers", which includes "kerchief", which is probably what you
were looking for.

  I know it's "easier" to just ask in a forum, and at the same time you
get to "communicate" with people, and asking a few times is just ok.
It's just that if you ask too many (usually simple) questions too often
you'll start giving a negative impression of yourself.

  You may argue that it was a completely valid and simple question,
but arguing that is missing the point. I'm not commenting on this question
in particular.

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On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:25:21 +0100, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

>
>In this particular case, I was merely curios about the two items in 
>question. I wasn't actually expecting to get quite this many replies...
>

[Snip]

>I just figured a human being somewhere would probably know the answer to 
>this one easily, and wouldn't mind answering my question. I'm almost 
>sorry I asked now...

I would not expect many men under 30 to know what a choker was and the
headscarf could have a proper name. So I think that this is a suitable
place to ask. Although as Warp is pointing out, you do have a history
of asking things that can easily be googled. But I've not seen a
"GIYF" thrown at you for a while. So I think Mike's comment was a bit
harsh. 
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Stephen wrote:

> I would not expect many men under 30 to know what a choker was and the
> headscarf could have a proper name. So I think that this is a suitable
> place to ask. Although as Warp is pointing out, you do have a history
> of asking things that can easily be googled. But I've not seen a
> "GIYF" thrown at you for a while. So I think Mike's comment was a bit
> harsh. 

Wasn't meaning to be harsh ... it's just that ... well ... hmmm.

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