From: dprust@carroll1.cc.edu (Dan Prust)
Newsgroups: alt.irc
Subject: Re: Patriot Games
Date: 12 Aug 92 07:25:51 GMT
Article-I.D.: carroll1.3280
Organization: Carroll College-Waukesha, WI


gl8f@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) writes:

>In article <14kmmcINNegg@network.ucsd.edu> adean@weber.ucsd.edu (Anthony V. Dean) writes:

>>The issue is not whether they are being provoked or not. The issue is not 
>>who's bashing which country. The issue is people resorting to ethnic 
>>slandering for their alleged arguments.

And I agree.  But why don't we just drop it?

>Well, the Finn didn't engage in ethnic slandering -- he merely said
>that many people from the US on IRC are immature jerks, like you. That
>strikes me as a fairly straight-forward truth, not slander of any
>form. As for why he'd make this statement, it has to do with him being
>provoked.

This little flame on the US has gone on long enough.

If we could just get down... and THINK people, THINK.  I admit, there
are people who are jerks from the US.  And there are people who are jerks
from Europe.  And there are people who are jerks from Australia (I know
of two.  Can you name them in the next 30 seconds?  I'm sure you can.  Heres
a clue.  Not Morkeleb (just so he doesn't think I mean him)).

And people, I am not afraid to admit to you that I can be a very big jerk
at times.  I'm not afraid to tell you that because it is the truth. 

Some of you people (you know who you are) keep coming on like you are so
superiour than the people around you.  But in fact, like it or not, we
all are of the same intelligence in actuallity, and all posess the wonderous
instrument "The Human Mind."  Anyone can learn how to program IRC.  Anyone
can learn how to play the guitar.  Anyone can learn math.  Anyone can be
your friend.  To say it again, but in a bit more depth, I want you all
to remember this.  WE ALL HAVE THE SAME POTENTIAL.  AND THAT POTENTIAL IS
INFINITE.

No, go on IRC.  Be nice.  Learn from each other.  And have a damn nice day.

>It's quite simple.

Ya know, it really is when you think about it.

All you people from the planet we call Earth, please read this now.  Your
flames on America are flames apon yourselves, since America is made up of
a complement of each country.  The only true native Americans are indians,
and I do not think that your flames include them.  France... you hate us,
but there are many French people.  England, you probably don't like us
because of that revolutionary war.  But we have many English people here.
Africa, your complement seems to be liked greatly, spawned from a surge
of American agendas.  Finland, my communications class has a girl who went
there.  She spoke highly of it.  Perhaps I should visit WiZ?

It is obvious, really.  America is a mix of all of you.  As the highly
respected A. Conan Doyle put it in his Sherlock Holmes book _The Hound of the
Baskervilles_:

"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."

Our closeness is one of those things.

*** Action: Allen sends the net glasses of wine, and in one wave of brotherhood,
	    he promply announces, "Cheers to all those abroad, for their like
            are next door."

Also, to those who feel their horizons narrowing from over IRCing, I have
discovered a new IRC activity.  Or maybe perhaps invented it.  If you will
notice, there are many channels like:

#espanol
#Vienna
#Frances

And so forth.  These channels can be of great use to those who wish to
practice their respective languages.  #espanol has prompted me to relearn
spanish, in respect to those on that channel.  Also, I hope to learn other
languages, such as French and German, and USE these languages on the net.
It seems like a very productive thing to do, and really, learning another
language can provide a better lingual object base, and enhance one's
vocabulary considerably. 

Of course... so can reading books.  Or writing.  A lot of you now have a
profound amount of experience with communications via the written word through
IRC.  Perhaps, with all this practice, many of you can become great and
successfull (usually go hand in hand these days) writers.  Or Narrators?
IRC is far from antiproductive, although it should be the seasoning for real
life, and not the reciprocal.  

And to those who sent those announcements of engagement, congratulations.
I wish you the best.

And to those who found this post really long and boring, sorry.

And to those Europeans who now have me adding a "u" to my "o" in many words
like "colour", "behaviour" and such... gee, thanks a lot.  My professors are
gonna really tolerate that *grin*.

America is enriched by many cultures.  And I am excited to be American.
Not ashamed.
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