Someone threw a rock (and hit me) on Hwy 9 today (Warning - blood)

Did they explain top posting to you?

 

Aw, shucks... C'mon everybody: G-R-O-U-P H-U-G!!!

-whr-

P.S. Please stop top-posting in this group or you'll receive a very
humiliating public spanking.

 

And based upon your not be able to get the hint about top-posting, it is
clearly a very *wee* bit at that...

Idiot.

-whr-

 

Brian, allow me to try and explain it to you, dispassionately and
_sans_ insult. It isn't my intention to come across as a control
freak or a net.nazi. I'm as sincere and earnest as the day is long.
(Admittedly, it isn't my nature. But humor me, just this once.)

The problem with top-posting is related to the fact that responding
inline is inarguably the convention, the standard, the coin of the
Usenet realm. Like it or not, responding inline -- with a passage of
quoted text followed by a passage of new text -- is How It's Done(tm).
I mean, there it is.

Because of this, when new text (i.e., yours) appears at the top of a
body of quoted text, the natural assumption -- or at least, the rea-
sonable suspicion -- is that there's probably more new text farther
down, written in response to other passages of quoted text. And so
reasonably enough, readers scroll down to read it. When this turns
out to have been a waste of time, a veritable literary wild-goose
chase, people get annoyed -- understandably enough, I daresay.

Do you remember the change in the phone system circa 1987? Prior to
then, if your call couldn't be completed, there was a subtle series
of clicks in the background which alerted you to that, and you could
then hang up and redial with next to no time having been wasted. You
didn't have to wait around to hear the recording.

Well, in 1987 or thereabouts, TPC (The Phone Company) changed things.
Ever since then, if Your Call Could Not Be Completed As Dialed, you
heard the usual ringtones, leading you to believe that everything was,
in fact, hunky-dory. Ha! You'd been suckered.

What eventually happened, when your call was "answered," was that you
were treated to one of the most annoying sounds in the history of
civilization: that rising, three-tone "dah-dah-DAAAH!" signal telling
you that you were well and truly sodomised. Only then did you get the
aforementioned recording. If only you'd been informed sooner that some-
thing was awry, even implicitly, you wouldn't have stayed on the line so
goddamned long.

Do you see what I'm getting at here? Nobody likes his time to be
wasted -- on the phone, while reading Usenet, or any other way. True,
it isn't a life-or-death matter. Then again, matters of courtesy
seldom are. But they're no less important for that. They are, in
fact, the lubrication of this big machine we're all a part of that's
known as as Society(tm) -- virtual or otherwise.

So please: take a few moments to edit your followups with your readers
in mind. I really don't think that's an unreasonable thing to ask of
anyone.



Geoff

 

One of the most well-reasoned arguments I've ever heard.

Or, how do you expect to be taken seriously if you top-post.

 

I've been called everything on usenet but a puritan. I
really must try harder.

If you had anything worth saying, you would edit and
respond properly.

If you had a brain, you would understand why top posting
is discouraged.

But as a top posting 'tard, you have shown that you have
no brain.

 

You will have to excuse whr. He wants Shark Lady and Peggity in the
mountain newsgroup to **** him but they don't want to.

 

Then Brian Wax responded to whr by top-posting with:

Okay, that was funny.


V., though chalk me up as another for whom top-posting annoys.

 

While there *may* be a hint of truth in that remark, I fail to see the
connection between that purported fact and my reference to this idiot's lack
of brainpower.

-whr-

P.S. And you left out the Cannibal Drag Queen...

 

I used to be at a bit of a loss to explain how it is that chickenshit
dumbfucks manage to stumble through life while being entirely deaf dumb
and blind to their actual surroundings. Then I learned how people of a
certain culture that shall remain nameless are conditioned to ignore
the parts of their sensorium that conflict with the official party line
of their societey's leaders, now long deceased. Through a cruel quirk
of evolution and the nature of the environment, their culture somehow
acquired enough members to provide a self-validating positive feedback
cycle that somehow never led to their decline and death.

Needless to say, after such a long period available for the elaboration
of bizarre and racist rituals and institutions, it is no suprise at all
that we still hear of 'top posting' spoken of as if it were an evil
only slightly less repugnant than blasphemy.

If your occupation is conditional upong presenting abject stupidity as
if it were revealed wisdom from upon high, then please say so. Failing
to disclose such an important bias is a serious breach of ethics and
may impact your ability to acquire a dick-stiffening funding allocation
sometime in the indefinite future.


Regards,

Steve

 

It doesn't matter all that much what you say you intend to 'come
across' as. You are a terrorist and war criminal. If you somehow
believe that your writing is formed in such a way as to usually lead
reasonable men to certain _a priori_ conclusions concerning your
deportment, that is really no one's fault but your own.

It is only an accident of history that leaves us with a non-functional
government and executive that would otherwise mitigate your threat as
it appears, rather than one that provides direct material support for
your brand of domestic terrorism and human rights abuse.

There is no amount of cover traffic that will disguise these facts,
although you are quite welcome to continue punctuating your
psychological mass warfare with trivial interludes such as the one
represented by this thread and the posts made by your team of
order-following cocksuckers.

Fortunately for you, there is no other standard coin of the realm at
this time. Perhaps, though, one day we might be gifted with
metaphorical digital rubles to replace your inflated 'dollars'. Come
to think of it, and if you still follow this wind-up toy train of
thought, an electronic 'peso' -- such as what is advocated by the likes
of John-boy and his native body politic -- might be just the thing we
need.

Many people aren't happy unless they have something trivial and safe to
get upset about. Without that relief, their inner frustration at the
taboos they may not break might threaten to become unmanagable. It is
good of you to help people by way of providing an outlet for their
unarticulated unease and discontent.

Some of us think that the most reasonable thing in the world would be
to get rid of terrorists and opportunistic parasite warlords. Sadly,
we are not a majority. Perhaps one day more individuals will come to
their senses and insist that mass murderers -- as well as the rest of
your ilk -- serve no useful purpose in a civilised society.



Regards,

Steve

 

My gosh, this post I'm responding to is a good argument for top
posting...after you've read it once, you don't ever want to look at it
again!

--
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Spidergraham
Chaplain, ARSCC



"Comparing Scientology to a motorcycle gang is a gross, unpardonable
insult to bikers everywhere. Even at our worst, we are never as bad as
Scientology."
-ex-member, Thunderclouds motorcycle "club"

 

You BETTER take me cirrusly! Or lese...

--
--
Spidergraham
Chaplain, ARSCC



"Comparing Scientology to a motorcycle gang is a gross, unpardonable
insult to bikers everywhere. Even at our worst, we are never as bad as
Scientology."
-ex-member, Thunderclouds motorcycle "club"

 

You're clouding the issue.

 

Clouding the issue, Barbz? ;-}

 

It's that vast knowledge I've cumulated in my life.

--
--
Spidergraham "supercell me!"
Chaplain, ARSCC



"Comparing Scientology to a motorcycle gang is a gross, unpardonable
insult to bikers everywhere. Even at our worst, we are never as bad as
Scientology."
-ex-member, Thunderclouds motorcycle "club"

 

I followed this thread with some interest. If the location of the call
had been reported correctly, there is a good chance that we (Boulder
Creek Fire) would have responded on it. But, since the location
originally came out as Hwy 9 at Hwy 35, we weren't invited out to play,
but we were listening.

Motorcycle people take note... If you are calling in a crash, try to
give the closest mile marker to where your are. It REALLY helps in
deciding which ambulance and FD to send your direction. Saratoga almost
go sent on this particular one. That would have delayed things a bit.

Other parts of this thread are just hopeless. The motorcycle people
will never see the side of the locals up here and the locals will
seldom see the side of the riders. For the most part, both groups only
see their own narrow wants. The riders just don't understand that the
locals who live over a mile away from the highway don't really want to
hear the "monster" Ducati with the amplified pipes. They don't
appreciate being passed on a blind curve by three guys on crotch
rockets.

The locals for the most part don't understand that not all the riders
are assholes. Many are courteous and don't ride like fools. All get
grouped with the jerks. It's human nature.

My guys get to pick up the pieces when the idiots wreck their bikes.
I've been responding on these calls for almost 19 years. In that time,
of all the fatal wrecks I've responded to, only 2 have been 4 wheeled
vehicles (one car impaled on the guard rail at 236 and 9 and no longer
there, and one van last Thanksgiving). I worked both incidents where
the rider dumped his bike and slid under a car coming the opposite way.
I consider these roads to be Darwinian.

Whomever threw the rock should go to jail, for a long time. Should have
a large sociopathic cell mate who needs a new butt boy. On that I think
most of us could agree.

D. Scruggs - Who does not speak for anyone but himself unless his wife
speaks for him.

 

He said that he'd been hit with a rock, not that he'd been set on fire.

(Yeah, I know. It's just that at some level, I'm still not quite used
to this new(ish) thing of ambulances and fire trucks traveling together
all the time, regardless of the actual nature of the emergency. It
strikes me as similar to the entire Pacific Fleet putting to sea every
time so much as a tugboat is called for.)


[The Locals(tm)]

I was up on Empire Grade one crisp autumn afternoon several years
ago, not long after I moved to Boulder Creek. I was rounding a
bend at a good clip in my Supra, probably doing sixty or so, when
I was passed by a trio of spork bikes. They were so close that I
could've reached out and touched them as they went past. The noise
was deafening at such close range (I had my window open). It made
me laugh.



Geoff

 

That only encourages Brian. He LIKES public spankings!

--
PC Paul
89 PC800
77 R100RS

Trip pics at: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/paul1cart/my_photos

"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to
society" - Theodore Roosevelt

 

We called it in right... I gave them my -exact- location. I told them
not to rush, nobody had crashed, there was nothing on the road...
But I would like an EMT or two to look at my arm as it was bleeding
pretty good. But, no big rush... I'd wait.

Once James got there, he filled us in on the dispatch cluster-****
that followed after our call. So I can honestly say for once this
wasn't something I screwed up. For a change.

Luckly the readership in ba.moto is mostly intelligent folk these days,

with the mouth-breathers having moved onto the php based web
forums. They're intelligent enough to give a good approximation of
their exact location providing they have not taken a good wack to the
head.

It's a shame that the bad riders take out more than just themselves now
and then. Case and point when my neighbor Gary got home yesterday
and told me someone had checked out up at the overlook at the top of
Hwy 9. Gary's a Park Ranger in Big Basin.

But look at the facts, 41 year old male from San Jose who probably
didn't know 9 that well. Anybody who rides it regularly knows you just
idle by the overlook. Cars turn in and out of the overlook with no
warning at all. You need ample time to react when someone pulls a
bonehead move, and there is no wiggle room on that straight stretch for
mistakes. There are several spots on 9/35/84/etc where the smart rider
rolls off and relaxes because the risk outweighs the reward.

-Mike- - Who used to live in the house right above yours.