I think I've been around this forum long enough--and I joined in the first day or two--to honestly say that had anyone other than Jamie posted something such as what it appears he posted, they would have been equally skewered.
Seems to me I got roasted on a spit involving crankshaft journals by one MartyB, and as it turned out, he was correct. I started an entirely new thread with a public apology to him for being inflammatory and arguing about how GM's factory cranks were cut. I guess it could have been a backhanded insult since he'd outdone me on GM knowledge.
I dunno... maybe those of us that bash this kid are either jealous of, or irritated by, the coddling and spoiling that have influenced him to think he's some sort of master mechanic. Besides, he's not clever enough to pull off the kind of post I gather he'd made in a humorous manner, nor would he have tried. His deletion of the original post is evidence enough of that... had he been joking, he'd have been posting, "Whoa, fellas--I was f__king around. No real brake tech would do such a thing!" rather than deleting the post and hiding under his rusty trash while Mom stands guard with a tire iron.
No offense meant, but this guy's not a rocket surgeon. He thinks "sarcasm" is how he messes his socks without using his feet, "subtle" is what his forebears did on the land he now inhabits, and "tact" is what he did when he posted a message saying he'll overpay for any rusty POS Chrysler to the bulletin board at the fish market.