so no one is getting their currys tonight. Bastards the lot of them.
A sceptical anthropologist was cataloguing South American folk remedies with the assistance of a tribal brujo. The brujo indicated that the leaves of a particular fern were a sure cure for any case of constipation. When the anthropologist expressed his doubts, the brujo looked him in the eye and said. "Sir you have traveled a long way to learn our ways, I am obliged to educate you. I assure you with fronds like these, you don't need enemas?"
so no one is getting their currys tonight. Bastards the lot of them. Apart from being a prat top poster, That's probably what the dinosaurs thought about the mammals too. what drugs are you taking? Hey thanks for asking man, no one usually shows any interest. Prescribed Morphine for broken leg, hip, arm (elbow) hand/ fingers, from M/C crash, Ranitidine to ease my stomach after the years of nsaids www.medinfo.co.uk/drugs/nsaids.html and complications from that curry I ate in 1976 Betnesol ear drops... Scheriproct (for the piles)... loads of good pure Ganja, to treat the depression, but not until after 7pm. I don't get fed up till Emmerdale starts! People's brains work in different ways. Some people don't like the form of interspersed quoting/replying that we are used to. I suspect it is perhaps related to the whole dumbing down of computers stuff - the folks who have been at this a long time think differently. We never would have gotten into this stuff early on if we did not think differently, but what is logical to us isn't always logical to someone else. Different isn't wrong. Enforcing your social conventions upon other people is what causes mild discomfort and discrimination at one end and wars and terrorism at the other. Do we want to homogenize the world? We need to grow up and allow different strokes for different folks. I'm reaching way beyond the minor example of top posting here, but isn't it interesting how Americans are so quick to condemn such quaint Muslim customs as stoning while brooking no interference with their own methods of capital punishment? We criticize them for forcing women to wear veils, but think nothing of forcing women to cover their breasts. We supposedly have freedom of religion, but I doubt Americans would allow the Oriental penis worship cults to practice there. It's time to stop making laws about behavior, in or out of newsgroups. If you can't stand the sight of a six foot penis, don't look at it. If you can't bring yourself to read a top posted comment, pass it by. But YOUR cultural imprinting's shouldn't be law. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't be free to post in the interspersed method or have a more conventional religion. Everyone else needs to allow you your freedom too. I don't think that offense of cultural values should be an excuse for any negative reaction at all. If you want to politely explain why you find Jesus or Mohamed more appealing than a penis, or interspersed posting more coherent than top posting, fine, have at it. But the other person shouldn't have to listen to you or change their actions just because you don't like it.
Rubbish, quite frankly. The only reason they do it is through ignorance or just plain laziness. Top posting not only puts conversations in the wrong order making it difficult or even sometimes impossible to follow what's been said. But no top-poster I have EVER seen bothers to cut out the bits that aren't relevant. So you end up with 5000 lines of irrelevant junk for a one line reply. The reply itself being often utterly opaque because there's no way to find out which bit of that 5000 line post he was responding TO. Every newsgroup has posting convensions. MOST of them discourage if not openly hate top posting and the people who do it. It's considered POLITE to adapt your behaviour to given circumstances, surroundings and other people present. Most people change their behaviour many times in a day depending on their surroundings. The same is true for usenet. If you post in a child friendly group, you don't tend to swear (unless you're an idiot troll out to cause trouble), while if you're posting to somewhere like alt.punk, it's pretty much encouraged. If you post to some technical groups you'd tend to stay on topic, but posting in other more community oriented groups, any subject is fair game. The same is true for top posting. Rules, not laws. Common courtesy dictates what should be deemed acceptable. A law has to be obeyed or you risk sanctions. What can anyone do to punish you for posting in the wrong way on usenet (apart from killfile you)? You really think you'd get away with running through a school playground carrying a six foot penis? A sex shop or night club, that would be considered acceptable and humourous. See what I mean about adapting behaviour? Why do you find it so difficult to quote properly and NOT top post? It's hardly a chore to move the cursor down a few lines before beginning to type is it? Not gonna make your fingers drop off from the strain. Hint. The chevron ">" is used to annotate quoted lines. As above. That shows the reader who said what to whom. You lacked chevrons in your post which makes it look like you wrote the whole thing yourself. (and are thus calling yourself a top posting idiot and arguing with yourself) -- | |What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack| | |in the ground beneath a giant boulder, which you| | |can't move, with no hope of rescue. | | Andrew Halliwell BSc |Consider how lucky you are that life has been | | in |good to you so far... | | Computer Science | -The BOOK, Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy.|
