I was looking forward to an adult discussion and wanted to open it up since a specific term that not everyone may understand came up. I thought these ideas would help us understand a complicated issue better than a google search might. What I do now understand is what "inflicting" a post means.
I obviously offended you, and for that I apologise. The smiley was intended to show that I was not having a serious go at you. You, however, have chosen to be
deliberately rude to me.
The first thing I do before answering a direct question like that is to take the question as it stands and paste it into Google. If the search results quickly answer the question then there isn't really much point in asking it - anybody who wants to know the answer can easily find it.
If the search results
don't give a clear explanation but I know the answer to the question, then I will spend time answering it.
If the answer isn't easy to find and I'm interested in the subject, then I will spend 5 minutes, 30 minutes, 2 hours, whatever, searching for the answer and will spend whatever time it takes to explain it in the thread.
There are threads on CycleChat that I have spent 5, 10, 15+ hours working on. This is rapidly becoming one of them ...
If you already knew the answer, then you could have written "For those of you who don't know, an insulin spike is ..."
If you didn't already know the answer, then you could have written "I didn't know what an insulin spike is so I looked it up on Google. I have discovered that an insulin spike is ..."
'What do you mean by "insulin spike"?' gets someone else to do the work for you, which is what I object to.
Anyway, that's me done with this thread.
