Re: Dragged and Dropped -- Can Google Groups do that?

$Zero goes:

On Jul 10, 12:32 pm, Alan Hope <not.alan.h...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
$Zero goes:
On Jul 10, 8:31?am, boots <n...@xxxxx> wrote:
Alan Hope <not.alan.h...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks to language I can be taught how to make a
souffle, for example, without going through the disasters of trial and
error. And so it is with reading, too. You allow yourself to be swayed
by the judgements of people whose taste and insights you trust.
Lemming.
kinda explains why he cannot possibly fathom the idea of using Google
Groups for a blog platform instead of Blogger.

No, that's more to do with it being a stupid fucking cockamamie idea
as you are proving day after day.

translation: Alan reads megablog every single day

Dimwit. Nobody reads it day after day. Or even day. That's the proof
your experiment is off the rails.

duh.

I'm now going to summarily delete these Tourette's tics of yours,
which have no meaning, contribute nothing, get in the way of the flow
of information (provided by me) and annoy me.

i mean, whoa.

I mean, grovelgrovel for some readers.

as if i ever, in a million years, ever need to grovel for readers.

Yet you did. There and here.

can you imagine what it must be like to be so anal and limited in your
thinking?

Can you imagine begging abjectly for someone anyone please please
please to leave a comment?

nope.

That's what you did, and are now doing.

Yes, I'm sure you can.

Dragged and Dropped -- Can Google Groups do that? (orig)
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/feb566275ad2293b

Drivel. Who wants to read crap like that?

did you read it?

I looked at it.

that was a very focussed megablog.

Then you're in worse trouble than I thought. It was a crock of raving
loonie ***.

still, he's an amusing and intelligent guy despite of it all.

Who is?

you is.

Who are you addressing?

sometimes you have to count your blessings.

New Ray, Please? (was: Re: New topics please?)
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/d9e92b1c1fe6b329

but you do have to wonder about some people, huh?

what drives someone like Alan to be so neurotically narrow in some of
his thinkings while demonstrating such expansive abilities elsewhere?

The fact that you can even pose the question shows what an idiot you
are.

[deletion]

You probably think having a mind that can't concentrate on one
thing for thirty seconds (hence the need to archive all your own
comments) is a good thing.

i can exclusively concentrate on any single thing anytime i want.

Then what have you got against narrow thinking?

what makes me differ from you is my ability to concentrate on several
things at once.

And *** them all up simultaneously.

(while retaining most of the context).

and my posts are automatically archived. duh.

As are all blog posts. BFD. Difference is, yours are archived for you
alone.

what makes me different from you is that i've recognized how that can
better help me concentrate on what i want to concentrate on.

What makes me different from you is, I've figured I can give something
to other people through my blogging, rather than just being utterly
self-obsessed.

so yes, it's a good thing. duh.

I knew you would say that. You're not a very clever person for a
genius.

ego?
probably.

My ego is perfectly developed.

no, it isn't.

if it was, you would not lose your temper over being wrong.

I'm not wrong.

foolish pride.

And when someone gives their opinion -- as requested -- on your stupid
"mega-not-blog" what's your response?

"Bull***". And I quote.

Neither too big nor too small.

your ego is both.

I think we've discovered another word you don't understand.

See, I
get to test my abilities in the fire of everyday working life.

wow. big challenge.

Stick to what you know.

the numbskull status quo marketplace is sooo demanding.

Stick to what you know.

If I *** up there are people lining up to say so.

and i can just imagine how long that line is.

Can you? On what basis?

hence why you snapped right back into titling your blogs when i mocked
you about it for two seconds.

You take the credit for something I did?

You come to realise what
you can and cannot do, which is the very hallmark of wisdom.

"Alan, can we readers title your posts if you're too lazy to do so?"

Was that your mockery? Gosh. I'm afraid I don't recall it. Still I
suppose it's plain to all that such withering sarcasm must have been
too much for me to bear.

snap!

blog titles instantly return. instantly, mind you.

Other people, you may be acquainted with one, set up vanity groups

how totally unobservant of you, yet again.

some journalist.

is megablog a vanity group? yikes. how stupid.

You're the only person that's catered for.

you're losing your touch, Alan.

where they post messages to themselves telling themselves how creative
they are, and what genius thinkers.

unlike yourself concerning moi in your vanity blog (where you delete
all dissent and mockery), you're certainly welcome to tweak me and my
newest project in megablog, Alan.

You pushed your luck. Sorry, I'm not running a democracy.

or are you already doing so? is Chris you?

anyway, unlike yourself, i can take criticism about myself and/or my
project without blocking people, etc.

Yet nobody posts. Surely a conspiracy of mammoth proportions.

it's an ego thinger.

Yes. The thing is made up of nothing but your ego, so other people
stay away.

If that's all you ever see you end up believing it,

sure, i'm never exposed to criticism. yikes.

you've seen my response to very harsh criticisms over the years and
you think i'm living in a Sour Grapes 2.0 bubble where i have to
delete comments that make me look foolish?

Did I delete comments that made me look foolish? I don't think so.
Still, we'll never know, will we? Because they're deleted.

"the archive will confirm"

except for the parts that were deleted by crybabies like yourself.

Your deleted comment was drivel. People can take my word for it. I
anticipate no doubters.

and that's the very defining characteristic of stupidity.

i couldn't agree more. hoist by your own.

elitism is addictive.

How would you know?

i've watched in action in mw for over a decade.

as well as almost everywhere else.

So watching it is addictive.

You're only ever in an elite if everyone else
leaves the room.

if and when everyone else leaves a room, i don't weep.

But when they stay away you whine and cry like this whole thread has
been. How can you possibly hold up your head? "Oh why does nobody give
me a friendly comment? What have I done to deserve this? Wasn't I your
friend? Please help me out pleasepleaseplease!"

If that's not weeping I dunno what is.

i'm not compelled to be a member of some sort of self-congratulatory
elite.

You're also not authorised.

it's sillyfest supreme.

my ego is far too secure for such delusional crutches.

That's your trouble. Your ego is too secure to be affected by reality.

and let's not forget brainwash.
and maybe it's just a matter of personality.
some people are inventive and some people aren't.

We know who isn't.

yes we do.

you're very clever, and amusing, and intelligent, and widely read, but
you're certainly not inventive.

Whereas you ... oh yes, you invented a Google Group and called it
Amnesiablog.

though it's not something you should trouble yourself over.

inventiveness is not anything that you're very interested in for
yourself, obviously.

otherwise, you wouldn't have snapped right back into titling your
blogs.

snap!

The post is still there for anyone to read. And they can muse to
themselves on the likelihood of anyone being swayed into anything by
Zero's opinion.

and never the twain shall really understand eachother, apparently.
it takes all kinds.

if you were running this megablog thinger, what would you change?
http://groups.google.com/group/megablog/msg/31129e90ac0edfff

Scrap the whole thing then get a new writer.

i'm far too inventive and visionary to be detered by clueless anal-
monkees like yourself.

To face the truth, you mean.

when i posted a comment to his Sour Grapes 2.0 blog making fun of
Alan's post suggesting that he was gonna stop titling his posts, he
immediately chucked the idea.
immediately, mind you.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

reduced to latin lames that don't apply.

I forgot you don't know what simple terms mean. You're that sort of
Rain Man genius.

"the archive will confirm"

keep the titles, ditch the content!
http://groups.google.com/group/megablog/msg/2b0a9a6a6f5a8703

he had no convinction nor confidence about his idea whatsoever.
he wanted to be more like a twitter and he had started to experiment
with the idea for like three posts, because it felt more natural to
him to blog that way, but _i_ talked him out of it with my two seconds
of mockery.

As if. You expect anyone to believe this ***?

"the archive will confirm"

but just for kicks, and i do mean kicks, let's hear your version of
it.

The post (not the blog, as Zero queerly terms it) is here:
http://grapes2dot0.blogspot.com/2007/05/post-titles.html

This was your one and only comment:

"titles are half the fun!

but now that you mention it...

titles are pretentious and indulgent!

titles, titles, titles!

and more titles!"

Posted at 20.58 on the 18th.

The next post announcing a decision to retain post titles was here:
http://grapes2dot0.blogspot.com/2007/05/title-race.html

Posted on the 19th.

After you, and before the definitive decision not to change, were
posts by Jeff, Paula, Joe the Troll. All clearly in favour of titles.

I'll allow the reader to decide if 1) your asinine nonsense affected
my decision; 2) it was affected by other non-wacko posters who have
sensible opinions; or 3) none of these.

me, of all people.
i got him to conform with the norm.
i think some people are very sensitive about being thought nuts or "un-
normal".

You didn't even express a comprehensible opinion one way or the other.
As is your wont.

Right. Because it's always been my aim to fit in with the wallpaper
and not cause a stir.

as long as you're perceived as completely and utterly normal, sure.

Are we comparing me to you? Because of course in that case most
inmates of the world's mental asylums would appear pretty normal.

you don't take any creative chances whatsoever.

it's safer for your ego that way -- and your credibility.

the two things you guard most.

So who should my model be?

while others like myself don't much care about that -- until the
Lemmings start trying to drag me over the cliff with them, of course.
then i mind quite a bit.

I wish you could see yourself.

it is precisely because i can clearly see myself (and reality) that i
choose not to go over the cliff with the pushy clueless lemmings.

Tough for the rest of us.

What a gap between perception and reality.

due to the malicious jealous crybaby sort, i often wish that there WAS
a larger gap between my perceptions and reality.

being a creative genius isn't the picnic you think it is.

You're a few sandwiches short of a picnic, actually.


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AH
http://grapes2dot0.blogspot.com



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