Re: sturdy old apple

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

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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>
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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
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: > : >: > news:4104f99e$0$1572$45beb828@newscene.com...
: > : >: > : "B.B."
: > <DoNotSpamthegoat4@airmail.net.com.org.gov.tw.ch.ru>
: > : >: > writes:
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: > : >: > : >   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.

I can sympathize somewhat with that teacher's plight,
but if they bug her that much, she should apply for
work with so-called normal kids and see where that
gets her.  :o()

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