Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!not-for-mail From: Neil Franklin Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body Subject: Thin Skin (was Re: Cross-posting) Date: 26 Jan 2000 17:47:51 +0100 Organization: My own Private Self Lines: 49 Message-ID: <6uya9cpyo8.fsf_-_@chonsp.franklin.ch> References: <388ce61f.5479218@cnews.newsguy.com> <388A02E3.7A5E6907@algonet.se> <388a7c03@nntp-out.newsnerds.com> <388B46BA.224BA12@algonet.se> <388CC66A.47D1D43B@algonet.se> <388DFC97.2D4A4012@algonet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: chonsp.franklin.ch X-Trace: chonsp.franklin.ch 948905271 572 10.0.3.2 (26 Jan 2000 16:47:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@chonsp.franklin.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Jan 2000 16:47:51 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 20.4 Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.out-of-body:31226 PZ Myers writes: > In article <388DFC97.2D4A4012@algonet.se>, dervak@algonet.se wrote: > > > PZ Myers wrote: > > > > > My point was that if all this group was before was a bunch of > > > insipid navel-gazers, then it may have been happy and peaceful but the > > > signal was pegged at 0. > > > > Canīt you type a single sentence without name-calling? > > Again, I am simply astounded at how thin-skinned the people in this > newsgroup are. That surprises you? A little bit of thinking about implicit assumptions you make would have prevented that from astounding you. You are a denizen of a flame group (a.p) and possibly others of same ilk. As such you are used to an level of flamage that is _way_ above the average Usenetters experience. The result is that you and the others there are battle hardend veterans. The results in you not feeling insults anywhere near as normal people do, it also makes it necessary for you to dish out stronger blows to have the desired effect. So then you come to these normally peacefull lands and keep on behaving the way you have got used to. And the people here see it as totally insulting and barbarous. And react accordingly. Just what is to be expected. What you call thin shik is simply what is the norm in other places. But I suppose that such suble thought is lost as one of the side effects of being hard. Perhaps a bit of reflection on how much you and other a.p flamers have deviated from normal socially accepted behaviour would do you good. You may actually recover. OTOH perhaps you are permanently lost. -- Neil Franklin, neil@franklin.ch.remove http://neil.franklin.ch/ Nerd, Geek, Unix Wizzard and Guru, Hacker, Sysadmin, Roleplayer, Mystic Computer: toy that speeds work, so you have more time to play with it