maybe. i don't know, i just don't get really irate or offended when people attempt to insult me. it's not really an insult if i don't find it to be insulting, is it?

Correct.

i get insulted when people comment about what id do for a living when they are completely ignorant about anthing to do with what they are commenting about and belittling a job that requires a high level of skill

i still play in bars too glice, and i let the in house mixers mix our stuff, and if they don't understand how to do something or ways which could be done better i help them so they can learn.

Fair enough. It sounds to me like you're one of the good ones. Like I say, my experience is more often having mute idiots who rarely know how to mic up anything more complicated than a few amps and a drumkit. There's also a problem that a lot of them, in my experience, don't seem to understand what I mean when I say more x in my monitor please. I know there's a lot more to the job than I see, and a lot of technical things I don't really understand, but having to spend 5 minutes of a 10 minute soundcheck figuring out how to get a DI'd laptop into the stage left monitor (and often failing to do so) strikes me as ineptitude, and it's happened more than several times.