Re: sturdy old apple

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast DOT net>]

"B.B." <DoNotSpamthegoat4@airmail.net.com.org.gov.tw.ch.ru> wrote
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: In article <ebCdnegqRJ_Vr5jcRVn-rw@comcast.com>,
:  "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast DOT net> wrote:
:
: >"Alan Baker" <alangbaker@telus.net> wrote in message
: >alangbaker-E569CD.09180326072004@news.telus.net">news:alangbaker-E569CD.09180326072004@news.telus.net...
: >: In article <zaCdna9sbdhJm5jcRVn-jA@comcast.com>,
: >:  "Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast DOT net> wrote:
: >:
: >: > "Cameron Kaiser" <ckaiser@floodgap.com> wrote in message
: >: > news:4104f99e$0$1572$45beb828@newscene.com...
: >: > : "B.B."
<DoNotSpamthegoat4@airmail.net.com.org.gov.tw.ch.ru>
: >: > writes:
: >: > :
: >: > : >   http://www.fullduplex.org/tardblog/
: >: > : >   Scroll down to #21.
: >: > :
: >: > : Now that's a tough computer.
: >: >
: >: > The IIs are tough, you gotta admit. My PCs and Macs
: >: > could never withstand what I put my IIs through, and
: >: > yes, they are much simpler to operate, too. However,
: >: > I didn't appreciate their use of the slang term,
: >: > "Tard".  :o(  There are much more respectable terms
: >: > for what their disorder is.
: >:
: >: I found the site a little objectionable, I'll admit,
: >: but I suspect this is a "until you walk a mile in her
: >: shoes" kind of situation...
: >
: >Having dealt with them many times, not on a professional
: >level of course, and having to deal with my own chemical
: >imbalance issues, I am more understanding? I think not.
: >There is no excuse to degrade a certain type no matter
: >how much they disturb you, especially one who has been
: >trained to deal with them on a professional level. With
: >her I suspect that she is a complainer at heart and if
: >not for her students, she'd have something or someone
: >else to degrade when she has had enough of it. No, don't
: >tell me that she has an excuse because she works with
: >them, she doesn't!
:
:    How is she degrading them?

didn't you read the article??? What if you had
a mentally infirmed relative, would you like them
being called "tards"???

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
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