Pixie <Pixie@AnnWheatley.com.invalid>wrote:
>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.
>
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>
>>>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
>
That was last week..
Last Saturday in the month.
Regular as clockwork we are.
Half a litre of "lourdes water" and a motel pack of
tissues does a family of four.
Us, being in a managed apartment, get together with the
couple next door so as to use the whole of the
ration<g>
Jes doing our bit to slow global warming, yer know!
>>Now... can we get back to embroidery <G>
>>
>It's why we are here. /grin
>
Yes, distractions 8->
Attached is my rework of Jack n Jill.
Are the circles circular on your screen now?
cheers
--
hopper
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