The "R" word

No, indeed not! But prediction means, by its very nature, the future,
and history, for reasons ditto, the past. Thus trying to guess,
estimate, whatever, the reasons for actions done in the past is
speculation, not prediction.

 

/Underlining/? But it looks so /crap/.

 

How about something like:
" Italics are a recognised literary technique to denote emphasis. On a
text-based medium such as Usenet, we do not have italics. We therefore
use <start whiny voice> underlining </end whiny voice>"

?

 

So your newsreader isn't displaying the words I've bracketted with slashes
as italic? You need a better newsreader - something like Outlook Express.

 

Course, being print, it doesn't sound like anything, unless you're reading
it aloud. So much for Webster's...

 

Don't you read it aloud? With your finger following the words?

 

I move my lips, true, but I don't actually vocalise, for fear someone will
notice and laugh at me. I've also stopped the finger thing, because I kept
getting Tippex under my nails.

 

A market niche here I think.
A newsreader that offers text-to-speech *and* has a bouncing ball over
the words.

If it could act on <whiny>, <homer simpson> etc as well I'm sure the
take-up would be massive.[1]

[1] Well, I'd buy one.[2]
[2] Probably just go for the trial, actually. Till I got bored.

 

That was certainley my impression of when you were posting angry mispelt
stuff whilst on holiday in Spain. Why did you post stuff during your
holiday?

 

Well then, DON'T respond. You can do that for a while, surely? Think of it
as a bit of discipline. It's really quite easy. You strike me as someone
who has quite an ordered, analytical and objective approach to real life.
If you really cannot resist the overpowering need to join in ukrm threads,
and that would denote a weakness of character which would surprise me,
change your posting name for a couple of weeks. When you 'came back' after
your study leave last year, you did fine until the i-bike thing got so
utterly and childishly out-of-hand. Your observations on living in Paris,
riding in France and the parallels & disparities between 2 cultures are
interesting. Someone up there pointed out that, when you had a sensible
question about your bike, it was answered promptly and politely. Surely
that tells you something. Why does every thread degrade into a did/didn't,
was/wasn't, must/mustn't, is/isn't spat?

People used to write combative or insulting letters to George Bernard Shaw.
This was supposed to get him to respond, so they'd have an autograph from
the great man. He therefore had printed postcards made up which simply said
"Dear Sir/Madam, You are probably quite right," with a fascimile signature.
He had observed the courtesies, without providing them with something to
sell. Don't let the 'petty cunts' annoy you.

No. Patient Des/intolerant Des, and intolerant Des is bigger, stronger and
much more of an arse than patient Des.

 

Toby Augh-Nottoby bored us all completely to death with wittery prose
along the lines of:

_No_ _one_ _forces_ _you_ _to_ _respond,_ _you_ _know_

 

I was thinking more about your little disagreement with tallbloke.

Sounds like a cracking holiday.

 

I was thinking more about your little disagreement with tallbloke:

"Yes, unlike me, you thick ****."
"Yeah, yeah. Twat. What a fucking waste of space. "
"You fucking ****."

Sounds like a cracking holiday.

 

Ah no. Des had stopped responding to my posts by the time he went to
Spain. It was while he was in Chi^H^H^H Texas that he launched a rattle
about my limericks.

Fortunately, he failed to X-No Archive them

LOL!

 

This "non angry" post came from spain I believe :

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=g...&lr=&safe=off&selm=

 

Bugger me. Nothing on the telly all night and now repeats on the
newsgroups too.

 

And this is a perfect example of why you are disliked. Posting
correction: fine. No problem. Posting correction with snide dig at 2
others: makes you look like a petulant child.

By all means ignore everything I say - it won't bother me in the least.
Especially as you are getting very close to the "one more person drops
Des in the bozo bin" level..[1]

Phil.

[1] I know, I know. You don't care what others say about you and you
won't leave just cos everyone ignores and dislikes you. All I can say
is that (to me) that is the surest sign of a sociopath..

 

LOL!

I'm so glad he had a nice relaxing holiday.

 

<snip much typey typey>

So what you're saying is that you're a likeable, witty chap who should be
well liked in this group but because some of the more active posters don't
like you, they have turned just about everyone against you?

And there's not one person out there in UKRM land who doesn't like you
purely because of the way you come across in your posts?

In short, it's not you, it's everyone else?

 

Fits in well with the thunder outside, inefficent grumblings.