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From: Pd on 30 Jun 2010 09:42 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Don't believe a word about 'iron man' racing. He just got into a drunken > brawl. He's an antipodean after all... We don't need to be drunk to brawl. -- Pd
From: Pd on 30 Jun 2010 09:45 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > > > > Pah! I'm a sixer. > > > > I think a real six-scorer would be more insouciant about it. > > Why are you choosing to insult me in this way? None of the other ways I've tried have worked. -- Pd
From: Jim on 30 Jun 2010 09:53 On 2010-06-30, Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >> D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: >> >> > > Pah! I'm a sixer. >> > >> > I think a real six-scorer would be more insouciant about it. >> >> Why are you choosing to insult me in this way? > > None of the other ways I've tried have worked. > [applause!] Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you." Terry Pratchett
From: Rowland McDonnell on 30 Jun 2010 12:38 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > >> Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> > > > > > wrote: > > > >> > > > >>> Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > >>> Uhuh. So you're just being contrary for the sake of > > > >>> getting a rise out of me, yes? > > > >> > > > >> What are you talking about? > > > > > > > > Since it's perfectly obvious what I'm on about, this question of yours > > > > is another ill-meant wind-up in the same vein. I'm pretty damned > > > > annoyed with you. > > > > > > If it was obvious, I wouldn't have asked. > > > > I don't believe you. I think you ask me things like that to wind me up. > > Suit yourself, I have no way to prove it. > > > > >>>>> Assume no spare space for any more books in the house, nor any > > > > > > > > off-siteq > > > >>>>> storage available without paying for it. > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> (the above is roughly my situation) > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>>> I lost loads in a fire once. That is probably why I don't care > > > >>>>>> much about books these days. > > > >>>>> > > > >>>>> <puzzled> Does not compute. > > > >>>> > > > >>>> Once I lost them all, I never attached any meaning to them once i > > > >>>> started regaining them. I don't know, I expected them to go again. > > > >>> > > > >>> So your books were lost in a fire, and that meant you ended up > > > >>> considering books worthless? > > > >>> > > > >>> </DEEPLY/ puzzled> > > > >>> > > > >>> Still does not compute. > > > >> > > > >> Why would it have to compute? That is how it affected me, it is an > > > >> emotion, not a decision. > > > > > > > > <sigh> Humour. Have you heard of it? What the above phrase was > > > > meant > > > > as was an application of humour to a situation. > > > > > > I have, I live by it. However, as you don't often use it, and berated me > > > a few weeks ago for not using a smiley to show that I was using humour, > > > > Actually, I think you'll find it was more me berating you for sneering > > at me for not getting the joke - which happened simply because you > > failed to flag something as humour which was not obviously humour. > > Not obvious to you as humour. Other people saw it as humour, so it was > obvious to them. Yes, that's right. It was obvious to them because they know the people concerned - basically, it's an in-joke when presented as it was. Those who are/were not `in' cannot readily get the joke. So it's a social excluder without the smiley - another reason for including a smiley. > > That's the usual reason, not the warped explanation you give. > > > > > I didn't notice, sorry. > > > > Oi vey! > > > > Look, `does not compute' is obviously humorous in the above context, > > because it cannot be made to make sense when applied as a concept to the > > business in hand. > > No. It is not even slightly obvious. Oh - well, not to you, but it *IS* obvious to lots of people. I know because I've worked in that way with people who have no trouble spotting when I'm joking. That's why I used that mode of expression here: because experience teaches me that it's an effective means of communication. For some reason, it doesn't work on you. I don't know why. It has worked with huge numbers of others in the past. Yes, when I speak in real life, my words are often jokey even when I'm addressing serious subjects. Why not? > > Isn't it? > > > > I mean, yeah, if I had thought there was any significant risk of my lack > > of total seriousness being noticed, I would have put a smiley in. > > which was my point the previous time I mentioned. <sigh> So we basically agree, right? So... [snip] > > The way I work things out, if I can find out something useful about your > > response to the burning of the books, then I would gain a significantly > > useful addition to my understanding of people in general in a fashion > > which would me of great practical benefit to me in my daily life. > > > > And *that* is why I want to know - understanding you personally in this > > respect isn't really the point, it's just a means to an end. > > I can see that. Although I don't know how normal this is. Huh? Totally abnormal, I expect. So what? I'm not a psychiatrist, you know, you don't have to worry that you're going to be drugged for the crime of `lack of normality'. [snip] > > I've never met a way of displaying the content of a book that's as > > convenient to use as ink on paper. > > > > I take it you find no such trouble? > > Not only no such trouble, apart from certain minor cases such as an > appendix in a technical book of a couple of pages as a quick lookup I > find them mostly preferable. !!!!! Well, my reading speed drops massively when faced with electronic reading. I'm hugely faster on paper - not that I `have trouble' with e-reading, it's just that paper's oh so much better and faster. > But then I don't read end to end, and electronic helps with searching. Uhuh. I often read back and forth - paper helps with that; e-books make it nearly impossible to flip back and forth without disrupting the flow. > > > If they all disappeared tomorrow my first thought would be that I had a > > > lot more free space > > > > So why keep them? > > the sheer effort of doing anything about it. It takes no effort to leave > them there, where as it would take considerable effort to move them. > I still do buy books, I have quite a few I haven't read. Now that's weird... Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking
From: Rowland McDonnell on 30 Jun 2010 12:38
Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > > Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > >> D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > >> > >> > > Pah! I'm a sixer. > >> > > >> > I think a real six-scorer would be more insouciant about it. > >> > >> Why are you choosing to insult me in this way? > > > > None of the other ways I've tried have worked. > > > > [applause!] I laughed too. Rowland. -- Remove the animal for email address: rowland.mcdonnell(a)dog.physics.org Sorry - the spam got to me http://www.mag-uk.org http://www.bmf.co.uk UK biker? Join MAG and the BMF and stop the Eurocrats banning biking |