Old BSAs in Sumatra

Pete Loud said...

It's not about being control freaks, it's the way that *everyone* posts
to ukrmc and its sister group, ukrm, because it works very well and
that's the way we like it here. The 'conversation' flows, there's no
flicking your eyes up and down a screen and having to scroll up and down
to read what's gone before, all relevant info is there in its natural
order and all you have to do is keep scrolling down if the post hasn't
been snipped properly.

Just because the majority of other usenet posters can't format a post
correctly, doesn't mean to say they are right; that is the problem here.

If you bothered to google you'd find that Steve and Nigel are two of
this and other newsgroup's most prolific posters, and have been for many
years. While they may both get a bit pedantic about the manner in which
people post, they are ultimately right. You're lucky you got a gentle
email really, alot would just swear at you on the newsgroup. Sort it or
bugger off, your choice.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Pete Loud

*Snort*

You can't attribute properly, you top post and you refuse to snip sigs.
Add your inability to read and understand a FAQ and you really look
pretty fucking stupid. And I'm the one that lacks experience. Yeah,
right.

Fuckwit.


--
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the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

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<popcorn, anyone?>

Fwiw, I visited your site and was reasonably taken with the quality of
your pics. Some of them aren't bad at all.

That's all nothing compared to the cardinal sin of ignoring posting
convention, though. Go with the flow, old man.
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I understand there are some groups which are prone to top-posting as a
habit. None of the ones I frequent are.

If I wished to post somewhere that top-posting was the norm, I'd do that as
a courtesy to the group concerned and its regular posters. I don't see nay
good reason why others shouldn't do the same in bottom-posting groups,
meself.

I blame Outlurk Depressing, meself.

 

Pete Loud wrote

Over the last since there has been communication between computers I too
have been posting the odd bit here and there and in my experience top or
bottom posting depends on the flavour prefered by the locals who inhabit
it.

Really? Well now I have started allow me to continue in the same vein.
I do not accept your excuse of old age as an excuse for ignorance,
incompetence or inability. On the contrary I dispute it strongly. It
is up to the old to set the proper examples and your pathetic little
whine about being too old to understand the need for knowing about and
trying to adhere to locally held social conventions is utter fucking
bollox. You should know better old man.

You could be right.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, steve auvache

I've just noticed that. Daft **** doesn't even know the difference
between a froup posting and an email.

There's no hope for him.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of
the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote

There's a difference? Nobody told me.

Which is typical. It's like the bloody clocks innit, they put them back
this week and nobody told me about it did they. It hasn't helped that I
have been doing stuff and been working "off clock" for a few days but I
surfaced at what I thought was half past 9 and decided I fancied a bit
of Cod as a change to the bacon butties for me breakfast and mooched off
round the chippie only to find it was shut. For about three days the
world was just /Wrong/ and I hadn't got a clue why until I noticed that
the clock on the wall was suddenly right. Bastards.

Too true, a lost cause I fear.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, steve auvache

There is. It's on a need-to-know basis. I guess you didn't need to know.

Forward, you senile old fool.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of
the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

WS* GHPOTHUF#24 APOSTLE#14 DLC#1 COFF#20 BOTAFOT#150 HYPO#0(KoTL) IbW#41
SBS#39 OMF#6 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

That is not my experience. Of course the groups I post to and
read are mainly in the soc. and sci. hierarchies. People on those
tend to get annoyed by top-posters.

They were far more polite than regulars on sci.military.naval or
other groups I read would have been.



Ken Young

 

Is it easier

to read a message

posted like this?


posted like like this

to read a message

Or is it easier?

 

Hmm, yes, but have you considered this: "If a person is born a fool, the
folly will get worse, not better, by a long life's practice." G. B. Shaw,
Advice to 6th Formers, originally broadcast June 1937.

Ron Robinson

 

R.N. Robinson wrote

Nope, never seen the quote before. I love you quoter types I really do,
not an original thought in your heads and you think you are all the
cleverer for it.

Quote me another and this time be really slick and make it an opposing
view.

 

Sorry, but just because I come up with something you haven't heard of, it
doesn't mean that I haven't an original thought in my head. Judging people
on the basis of one quotation - even though it was GBS - isn't really a good
idea and says as much about the judger as it does about the judgee. For all
you know I might have arrived at the opinion in question on my own a long
time before I came across the quotation I used, but, finding Shaw expressed
it much more succinctly than I could, used his version.
I must decline your challenge to prove that I am a slick quoter type, a)
because I'm not, and b) the opposing view doesn't really hold water and I
don't do quotes that I don't believe in.
There's a c) as well, but best not to go into that....

Ron Robinson

 

*yawn*

Isn't there a group for tedious crap somewhere else?

 

If you like being rooted in a chair grinning and dribbling like a Window
Licker all afternoon then trad TB is just the ticket.