On Sat, 08 May 2010 18:59:47 +1000, hopper
>Pixie <Pixie@AnnWheatley.com.invalid>wrote:
>>On Sat, 08 May 2010 15:57:08 +1000, hopper
>>
>>>Pixie <Pixie@AnnWheatley.com.invalid>wrote:
>>>>On Fri, 07 May 2010 21:51:09 -0500, sassy <sassysan@charter.net>
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Fri, 07 May 2010 19:21:23 -0700, Herb <Herb@the.herb.garden> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>sassy wrote:
>>>>>>> This is for the ladies in the Building blocks playgroup.
[...]
>>Usenet is not a Yahoo handholding group session... no.
>>You've given worse misdemeanours a second chance... mehehe.
>>
>Everyone.. _everyone_ gets as many chances as they wish
>to try.. in Usenet.
>The proof is.. in trying.
>
True.
>>>NOBODY has flamed anyone here for months!
>>>
>>True... you put up a fine example of just what flaming really is...
>>Not one to mix your metaphors is you... /grin
>>
>I am out of practice.. granted <bseg>
>
False. /laff
>>>.. and to claim such is just plain pig ignorant.
>>>
>>The benchmark for flaming seems to be a grey area, agreed!
>>
>There are wall-flowers in ABCP that would wilt if the padre took a piss on their lawn!
>ISPs offer "News" as part of their package.
>In some Countries and locales of a certain Country
>(not named due to the delicate nature of the
>Nationalistic ego) those same ISPS would best be able
>to educate folks by providing a 18+ type warning - MPO.
>-------->Mature Persons Only<-------------
>
True.
>>A stint in AFN or the Sandpit may help the Newbs in their quest for
>>what a real flame looks like??!!
>>
>Sadly for AFN, partly true. Still the posts there are
>more clueless agro than "flames", as such.
>The Sandpit is Dead.. dee eee eh dee dead.
>Flamed to a cinter <weg>
>
True.
>>How the group moves forward with this, I do not know.
>>
>It is only a few, a very few I will add.
>
Art imitating Life.
>>A distinct lack of information is offered when making requests, yet
>>"I didn't know" is always the excuse.
>>We get that. The "I didn't know" bit.
>>
>I "get" the pollyAnna "oH Fuck, what have I done?".
>
Eh... easy with the Pollyanna jokes. She would have hung a crystal off
it and made a game out of it... Not whined about it....
/laff
>What I don't "get" is
>1. why it is the response always assumes nobody but the
>person addressed is reading.
>
Not sure about that meself...
They still think it's email??
>2. the assumption that person (addressed) will swallow
>the BS and accept themselves as being stupid.
>I just don't get where the poster gets that idea when
>it is THEY who posted content so freaking stupid in the
>first place!
>
They can't change what they won't acknowledge.
When one thinks one is right, and won't deviate from that thinking
even when presented with the facts....it's a tough gig trying to
convince them otherwise.
There will always be ppl who step in and champion a sook.
>>If one doesn't "know", one should ask in a manner that will elicit a
>>positive response.
>>
>Folks from Countries where English is a second or third
>language I have no problem with. Those can post
>'stupid' till the cows come home and they will always
>be helped out, despite what some may read into my
>responses to some of those utterances :->
>
Glad you added that caveat.../laff
>But.. BUT , these arrogant (Engrish enabled) space
>cadets who truly believe their person is the most
>precious thing on the Planet and thus cannot be seen to
>be even slightly flawed..??.. those/they just do not
>know how to ask in a manner that would elicit a kindly
>response.
>
Two chances. One to blow it, one to show they get it.
And then you move on!
>/rant 0ff
>
Yessums, Saturday nights are not fer ranting.../grin
It's bath night in the far north... /laff
>Now... can we get back to embroidery <G>
>
It's why we are here. /grin
>cheerio
Pixie :-))
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