From: curtis@cs.berkeley.edu (Curtis Yarvin)
Newsgroups: alt.peeves
Subject: Re: Halfwits.
Date: 10 Nov 1992 23:46:46 GMT
Organization: CS Dept. Snakepit - Do Not Feed.
NNTP-Posting-Host: mamba.cs.berkeley.edu

In article <BxIrww.44J@cs.dal.ca> smith@ug.cs.dal.ca (Sean Smith) writes:
>
>>Well, I'm sure it is; it was either your English or your manners,
>>and since I have some of the latter I gave you the benefit of
>>the doubt.
>
>	*snigger*.  I'll take your word for it, Curtis.  I've seen precious
>little of them so far on this newsgroup.

We seem to have had a little bugger-up in our semantics here.

You are talking about offending people.  This is true; I
offend people all the time.  In fact it is my stock in trade.
A gentleman, as they say, never offends anyone unintentionally.

I am talking about wasting peoples' time and money.  To me this
falls under the heading of basic manners.  In the United States
of America, which is of course the only place on earth where
decent civilization still reigns untarnished, we learn basic
manners by the age of three - uniformly.  

And even we're slipping.  Since we banned cattle prods in the
schools it just hasn't been the same.

>As for my manners, well, obnoxious yanks who think that the Ewe
>Ess of Eh is the only real country in North America and that
>all people north of 49 are "snow apes" tend to upset me a
>little.

Why do you think we say it?

So we can get a rise out of you, of course.  Because we're
Americans, and we can safely afford to get a rise out of anyone.
Especially the Canadians, whose idea of armored cavalry is
probably cricket players riding polar bears.

>>You appear to have come upon this group at something of a low
>>point, and thus concluded that it is yet another of the myriad
>>alt. or soc. "chat groups" - maybe something like soc.college,
>>with a vaguely curmudgeonly twist.
>
>	Actually, no.  I've been "lurking" around here for a
>while, and finally decided to post.  Theory #1 shot down.

So much for the benefit of the doubt.

Now that the facts have been pretty clearly established,
let's review them:

(1).  You read this group, "off and on," for the past five years.

(2).  During this time you miraculously fail to acquire a clue.

(3).  A couple days ago, something finally manages to get your goat,
and you begin to post.

(4).  In twenty-four hours you churn out a record amount of
useless drool.


And then - of all the gall - you come out with this:

>	I'm sorry to have barged in on your upper crust snob club with the 
>subtlety of a Mack truck but then again, I'm not an elitist like you are.

Damn straight I'm an elitist!  I read this here group because it
contains a most uncommon quantity of good shit.  Top-notch shit.
Elite shit.  And that means I get pissed off when some bluenosed
ice-lemur wanders in and starts spitting out the usual kind of
bullshit.

Look, I don't care who you are.  I don't care what you are.  I
don't care if you're some greasy-assed Turkish hobo with a crust
of dried jism on the inside of his green polyester slacks who's
just wandered off the smackyards of Halifax ghetto with nothing
but a knife and a huge steam-powered dildo, used the first to
get some poor fratboy's password and are using the second on him
while you post.  I don't care if you're a rapist fratboy who
likes to dip under his pals' togas when they're really smashed.
I don't care if you're Charlie Manson's bastard daughter with
a knife taped to her belly and a thing for male rigor mortis.
Shit, you could be a lawyer for all I know.

I don't give a fuck.  All I care is what you post, and at the
moment you're not measuring up.  Burn a little hotter or get
out of the stove.

c