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From: Pd on 12 Jun 2010 03:03 Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: > You and Daniele do make me sneer, you clearly each consider yourselves to > be God's gift when it comes to being "nice" yet you spend so much time > being pompous and stupid that you don't have time to look in that deep > dark truthful mirror. Have I deeply offended you at some point, Steve? -- Pd
From: Steve Firth on 12 Jun 2010 08:06 Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: > > > You and Daniele do make me sneer, you clearly each consider yourselves to > > be God's gift when it comes to being "nice" yet you spend so much time > > being pompous and stupid that you don't have time to look in that deep > > dark truthful mirror. > > Have I deeply offended you at some point, Steve? No, I don't find you offensive I find the attitudes you express here offensive. There's a difference between the two. I don't like the turn that the clique here has taken. Perhaps one day, when you get a view of the world that isn't framed by your own teeth, you'll realise what I mean.
From: Pd on 12 Jun 2010 12:30 Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: > Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > > > Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > You and Daniele do make me sneer, you clearly each consider yourselves to > > > be God's gift when it comes to being "nice" yet you spend so much time > > > being pompous and stupid that you don't have time to look in that deep > > > dark truthful mirror. > > > > Have I deeply offended you at some point, Steve? > > No, I don't find you offensive I find the attitudes you express here > offensive. There's a difference between the two. I don't like the turn > that the clique here has taken. Well, if you can provide any helpful pointers when you see these offensive attitudes crop up I'd appreciate it, especially if you can manage more than simply "Well if you don't know I'm not going to tell you" which is singularly unhelpful. Perhaps you could bring it up at the next meeting of your clique. > Perhaps one day, when you get a view of the world that isn't framed by > your own teeth, you'll realise what I mean. It's unlikely. I've managed to get this far being blithely unaware of my own pomposity. The stupidity speaks for itself, and I've never had any problems owning up to that. I'm going to have to rely on your unique perceptive powers to alert me when I'm being attitudinally offensive, as I really don't have any clue quite what it is you're on about. I know we've had differences of opinion about some things, but I've mostly put those down to your cynicism vs my naive optimism. -- Pd
From: Rowland McDonnell on 12 Jun 2010 15:19 D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote: > Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > > > Steve Firth <%steve%@malloc.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > Yes well, there's a great deal that is better than that or than the book > > > reviewed. The book itself presents nothing new and appears to offer no > > > unique insights. > > > > > > It was done better a long time ago by Giancarlo Livraghi in his book > > > "The Power of Stupidity". > > > > That would be the one published in May, 2009. Obviously a long time > > before 2007. > > > > > http://gandalf.it/stupid/chapters.htm > > > > I wonder if there's a book called "The Power of Rancor". > > Do leave him in peace. Pd, why not just killfile the Firth creature? I did so years ago. Life's better if you avoid sneering snidely at people. Rowland. (coal black when he peers in the mirror, thinking of talking to his friend the pot) -- 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: Steve Firth on 12 Jun 2010 16:06
Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > I know we've had differences of > opinion about some things, but I've mostly put those down to your > cynicism vs my naive optimism. Like whatever, I stopped listening to about a year ago. |