Artfarty wrote: ↑Sat Sep 21, 2019 2:52 pm My sister is the smart one. She went on to get her PHD.

If true, then clearly she is. Likely with very different reasoning and comprehension skills than you have thus far displayed.

I know that I have met only a very small cross section of the members here, and Know sufficiently little of any that I should judge anyone. However, some contributors here demonstrate a very different outlook on life to yours, and are far more willing to provide some valuable input.
Keyboard warriors and barstool braggarts are a fact of life, and as such are somewhat lacking in credibility.

So far, your one redeeming character flaw is that you recognise your own inadequacies. Unfortunately, it pales against the other character flaw whereby you assume everyone else is equally deficient.

But that’s your prerogative, and likely why your social circle is of a certain ‘type’.

As you were.

SternAAlbifrons wrote: ↑Sun Sep 22, 2019 2:00 am Has this caused permanent damage to Boings reputation to the degree that it will affect sales in the long term?

Personally i suspect it will lead to a drop in sales for this model in the short run, but the cynic in me says it will soon be forgotten. ??

I’m with the latter thought.
It’s a damned good workhorse, and pretty robust. That said, I miss the 757, and as with many of my colleagues still find it somewhat shortsighted to have ended it, only to extend the design of the former.
Most customers will be guided by economics. There will be some customers who will remember, but what would you do when in possession of a ticket to fly from A-B with such and such airline, who use airbus, only to find that they’ve had to lease in a spare aircraft which happens to be a Boeing? Would you be sufficiently aware of the differences to quickly identify the model?

The learned press frequently get the wrong photos out when dealing with an article about a specific aircraft type.