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From: Tim Streater on 1 Feb 2010 09:14 On 01/02/2010 14:07, Rowland McDonnell wrote: > Tim Streater<timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote: > >> Rowland McDonnell wrote: >>> Tim Streater<timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Rowland McDonnell wrote: >>>>> Woody<usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: >>> [snip] >>> >>>>>> I don't >>>>>> recall ever hearing anyone talk about an opera. >>>>> >>>>> I try to blot out talk of both. I've heard both types of chat at work. >>>>> Can't stand footy *OR* opera. >>>> >>>> What a snob you are. And a bigger twerp than I thought. >>> >>> What, because I don't like opera or football and don't like to hear >>> people talking about opera or football? >> >> No one's forcing you to listen. > > And yet you insult me for preferring not to. No I'm not. I'm saying that you don't have to listen. Most people just retune and forget about it. You take it as a personal affront that it's on at all. > That's what I'm complaining about - your intolerable lack of tolerance > for tastes other than your own. Now that's extremely pot and kettle. > I'm complaining about your boorishness > and your intolerance and your lack of appreciation of the fact that your > outlook is of a lower order of sophistication than is mine. > > You are the crab bucket - see `Unseen Academicals', by Pterry. I shall, once it's out on CD. > Now *that* is intolerable snobbishness on my part - what do you think? Not really. You've made an allusion and given a reference - so anyone can look it up. > Do you think I've managed to write in as annoyingly rude and snooty > fashion as you managed? Have I managed to plunge as deep into the pool > of social invective as did you? > > But I'm right about you being the crab bucket. > >>> What a twit you are. >>> >>> The former is simply an ugly waste of money; >> >> You have no taste, clearly. > > Yes, indeed, my music collection would indeed prove to anyone that I > have no taste at all. > > He wrote, with some Telemann soothing his fevered brow at the moment[1]. > > <shrug> Opera and ballet are forms of entertainment for people with no > taste and no ability to appreciate art - or so I think. Both are just > overpriced nonsense for rich idiots who know no better, so I think. Now you're being a snob again. -- Tim "That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted" Bill of Rights 1689 |