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From: Woody on 19 Apr 2010 05:49 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > On 2010-04-19, Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > > > >> > I saw your `almost' and dismissed it as nonsense. > >> > >> That would be your mistake then. > > > > All you need to do is to look at this morning's list of posts and sample > > some of the insults and verbal violence. Rowland's off again. Let's > > spare him and, most of all spare us. > > Right-o. Agreed -- Woody
From: T i m on 19 Apr 2010 05:56 On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:28:29 +0200, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: >T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > >> Out of interest do you 'believe in' (although I'm not sure that's the >> right phrase) the human biorhythm cycle thing? > >I think that it would be extraordinary if humans didn't exhibit that >kind of behaviour, but what it relates to I have no idea. Ok. >Certainly, I >have no regular cycle of which I am aware. Doesn't mean that it doesn't >exist, though. Indeed. I think on the of odd times when I've felt 'low' (not that often luckily) and remembered / bothered to look at the biorhythm thing it seemed to fit (all cycles on the low side). > However it seems to me that simplistic versions (phases >of the moon and suchlike) can't, on their own, explain much. No, true, but then I think that some people might be more sensitive to such things (gravitational changes) and others more focused on other things in general (so may not consciously acknowledge such 'feelings'). We all seem to accept the S.A.D. thing, how sunlight (or lack of) can have a big impact on some people but not with other potential influences. FWIW I'm not 'into' any of it, however if you look at the regular / stereotypical(?) / characteristics / star sign thing (not the tall dark stranger stuff) I fit best the profile of a 'Virgo'. Cheers, T i m
From: T i m on 19 Apr 2010 06:46 On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:49:30 +0100, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote: >T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > >> On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:33:02 +0200, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter >> Ceresole) wrote: >> >> >Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: >> > >> >> > I saw your `almost' and dismissed it as nonsense. >> >> >> >> That would be your mistake then. >> > >> >All you need to do is to look at this morning's list of posts and sample >> >some of the insults and verbal violence. Rowland's off again. Let's >> >spare him and, most of all spare us. >> >> Out of interest do you 'believe in' (although I'm not sure that's the >> right phrase) the human biorhythm cycle thing? > >Clearly we all operate on cycles, all living things do. What they relate >to and what effect they have I don't know. Well that was part of my 'thinking out loud'. >They don't seem immediately to relate to Rowlands posting, that is just >a straight progression in hostility from none to full then going away >for a bit. In cycles you mean? ;-) Cheers, T i m
From: Woody on 19 Apr 2010 06:53 T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:49:30 +0100, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) > wrote: > > >T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:33:02 +0200, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter > >> Ceresole) wrote: > >> > >> >Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> > > >> >> > I saw your `almost' and dismissed it as nonsense. > >> >> > >> >> That would be your mistake then. > >> > > >> >All you need to do is to look at this morning's list of posts and sample > >> >some of the insults and verbal violence. Rowland's off again. Let's > >> >spare him and, most of all spare us. > >> > >> Out of interest do you 'believe in' (although I'm not sure that's the > >> right phrase) the human biorhythm cycle thing? > > > >Clearly we all operate on cycles, all living things do. What they relate > >to and what effect they have I don't know. > > Well that was part of my 'thinking out loud'. > > >They don't seem immediately to relate to Rowlands posting, that is just > >a straight progression in hostility from none to full then going away > >for a bit. > > In cycles you mean? ;-) Well, it is a cycle but not apparently time based -- Woody
From: Woody on 20 Apr 2010 03:05
Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > > it's still madness > > > > to try Usenet (or mail) on line. > > > > > > That's nonsense. On-line newsreaders and on-line email date back to the > > > dial-up days and lots of people liked working that way. > > > > It may be nonsense to you, but I thought that online, dialup News or > > mail, especially if you were paying for the connection time, was > > ludicrous- particularly once decent offline programmes became available. > > Peter, the point you've missed is that regardless of the fact that both > you and I much prefer to do news and email off-line, there are many > people who liked working with on-line news and on-line email back in the > dial-up days. > > I can recall - back in the dial-up days - plenty of Septics who > *SNEERED* at those of us who used off-line newsreaders, don't ask me > why., but they claimed that *their* way was better! > > Do you see? > > You see, Peter, this isn't about your personal preference or my personal > preference. It's about general behaviour - and, generally, back in the > dial-up days, there were plenty of people doing news and email on-line. > > And because of that fact - regarless of the fact that you and I prefer > to do these things off-line - your claim is false that it's madness to > try Usenet or email on-line in the dial-up days. It was not madness. It was a pain browsing the web if there were big pages, it was a pain downloading big files, but usenet and mail were all very easy to do on download. In the time I lived in the states, I allways did online usenet, and mail was normally an online thing - I really don't see why there was an issue -- Woody www.alienrat.com |