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From: zoara on 28 Jun 2010 12:01 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: >> Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: >>> Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> You see, you're alleging I've not been insulted >>> >>> I'm not alleging anything. I'm stating it as a fact. >> >> Slightly philosophical question; if someone says something that they >> don't believe is insulting, and someone else is insulted by it, has > > an >> insult taken place? In other words, is the determination of insult >> down >> to the giver or the receiver? > > Didn't we do that one before? Possibly. A lot got gobbled up by my killfiles. > I think the answer is it depends on if someone is insulting or someone > is insulted. Ah yes, I guess that works. You can be insulting or insulted, but it's not down to you whether someone else is insulting or insulted. Is that it? >> Apropos of this; question 7 of http://j.mp/c2OPzi - I scored 18, > > which >> is a touch lower than I expected. Turns out I'm normal, who knew? > > 15, so a bit of a girl. I guess that is why I just had a tattoo with > birds on it! You could perhaps redeem yourself if they were birds with fire for wings, in a nest of motorcycle chains. Or something. -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm
From: Jim on 28 Jun 2010 12:06 On 2010-06-28, zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: >>> >>> Apropos of this; question 7 of http://j.mp/c2OPzi - I scored 18, >> > which >>> is a touch lower than I expected. Turns out I'm normal, who knew? >> >> Interesting - I scored 23. >> >> [tries not to worry]. > > The author of the test - in the book this is ripped from - explains that > it isn't to be taken too seriously. But then, these type of tests never > should be... Ah, but they _would_ say that, wouldn't they? Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you." Terry Pratchett
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 28 Jun 2010 12:07 On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:02:23 +0100, Sara <saramerriman(a)blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: >In article ><2087522283299416345.115922me18-privacy.net(a)news.individual.net>, > zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > >> Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: >> > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: >> > >> >> You see, you're alleging I've not been insulted >> > >> > I'm not alleging anything. I'm stating it as a fact. >> >> Slightly philosophical question; if someone says something that they >> don't believe is insulting, and someone else is insulted by it, has an >> insult taken place? In other words, is the determination of insult down >> to the giver or the receiver? >> >> Apropos of this; question 7 of http://j.mp/c2OPzi - I scored 18, which >> is a touch lower than I expected. Turns out I'm normal, who knew? >> >> -z- > >Eek. I got 14, normal range but worrying. Probably to do with being an >unsociable git more than anything else though! *Sociable* git, I think. I got 12, which was considerably less aspie than I was expecting. Cheers - Jaimie -- "People don't buy Microsoft for quality, they buy it for compatibility with what Bob in accounting bought last year. Trace it back - they buy Microsoft because the IBM Selectric didn't suck much" - P Seebach, afc
From: Peter Ceresole on 28 Jun 2010 12:35 zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > >> I only got 8. I am better than you, or not as good? > > > > I got 6. Meet behind the bike sheds? > > Wow. You couple of empaths, you. Well, Daniele's a teacher, I was a TV producer. Both spent a lifetime persuading people that they wanted to do what we wanted them to do. It's just practice. -- Peter
From: James Jolley on 28 Jun 2010 12:41
On 2010-06-28 17:35:52 +0100, peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) said: > zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > >>>> I only got 8. I am better than you, or not as good? >>> >>> I got 6. Meet behind the bike sheds? >> >> Wow. You couple of empaths, you. > > Well, Daniele's a teacher, I was a TV producer. Both spent a lifetime > persuading people that they wanted to do what we wanted them to do. It's > just practice. God then I should have had a higher score then being a vocal arranger and all. |