Re: Flame War

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <2r6e1j$ijr@mary.iia.org>, Davius Rex <dave@iia.org> wrote:
>tombo@mail.on-line.co.uk (Richard King) writes:
>>First, let me say that I accept that I overreacted to Joseph Lee's
>>posting criticising me of failing to put a proper description in front of
>>Wiggle - but perhaps it was a lack of communication. I'm British, and
>>such a tone as he used is, to us, highly agressive. I responded in the
>>fashion that such language would draw in Britain.

>	Using your nationality is no excuse. Look at our friend Thye
>Chean from Singapore. _HE_ doesn't run around threatening to cane us all
>when we violate a net rule.

   Ummm. There's a difference between what you two are talking
about....  Richard is talking about a language/cultural attack on him,
and you're talking about net rules.... A better common example would
be several comments about your mother; most Americans tend to go
ballistic (or shoot insults back, like a certain somebody) on such a
thing. In random areas of this country (aka South-Central LA),
insulting somebody's mother is asking for a new career dodging
bullets..... :)

>>Oh, and I _am_ an aging hippy and I'm damned proud of it!

   Is that much to be proud of? Well, lemme just say that the music
from the 60s/70s sucks bigtime, drugs really cook your system, and
telling people to 'peace out' and all that other crap really hasn't
done a darn bit of good.... (Crime rates, drug usage, murder, etc,
poverty, illegitimate births, have gone up since the 60s; almost the
opposite (or is it the planned result of some
sociopaths^H^H^H^Hlogists?)

   Just my bit of flaming.... Piss off both people, and then
everything's fine... :)


Nathan Mates



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