Re: sturdy old apple

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"Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast DOT net> wrote in
9bOdnXeRJpyUz5jcRVn-jg@comcast.com on 7/26/04 11:49 AM:

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> "B.B." <DoNotSpamthegoat4@airmail.net.com.org.gov.tw.ch.ru> wrote
> in message
> DoNotSpamthegoat4-719299.13102826072004@library.airnews.net">news:DoNotSpamthegoat4-719299.13102826072004@library.airnews.net.
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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"???

As a teacher, and just as a human, I find the site offensive.


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