Boy, ain't that the truth! I have an acquaintance who claims to have been turning for many years. He has an older "mentor," however, with whom he spends most(all) of his turning time. He has managed to absorb virtually every prejudice, misconception, idiosyncracy and bad habit of his mentor.
The one that gets me the most, though, is his almost pathological hatred of turning anything other than kiln-dried lumber. This, of course, he picked up from his teacher, who has all sorts of pat excuses for his refusal to and indeed denigration of anybody who does turn green wood.
In all the years I've been reading this newsgroup and in the couple years I've been turning, I've never run into anybody like these two.
Does anybody else know of people who call themselves woodturners and loathe green wood?