Re: Calling out Oleg for his offensive behavior.

I just read your post after sending mine...ditto to what you said.
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Martin Harrington
www.lendanear-sound.com

"Charles Tomaras" <tomaras@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Phil Talsky" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Well, I'm just going to jump in briefly to encourage Oleg to continue
>> posting. For those that find his language offensive, how hard is it to
>> skip over his posts and just not read them. I come here for
>> information, commeradre (sp?) and to occasionally share what I have
>> learned in my short career as a mixer. There are lots of others that
>> have also used language some might find offensive (I recently found out
>> that telling someone I was pissed off was considered offensive...really
>> confused me for a while). Not only do I find Oleg's posts informative,
>> I also find them amusing. (Quite often I will get a good chuckle when
>> trying to decode Oleg's English....and I'm sure Oleg would get a big
>> belly laugh if I tried to inflict my really bad Hebrew on him. Maybe a
>> little Yiddish... ;-)
>>
>> Anyway, get a mouse with a scroll wheel, and you can skip over posts
>> you don't want to read with a flick of your finger.
>> (And, no, not your middle finger...I know what you were thinking...)
>> ;-)
>>
>> Phil Talsky
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> Oleg doesn't speak this way on the Sound Devices support forum, he doesn't
> speak this way on the Lectrosonics mailing list. I'm betting he doesn't
> speak this way to his wife, children or other family members and I'm sure
> gonna bet he doesn't speak this way on set with his superiors or to law
> enforcement or the Israeli Army. So why can't we just be treated to normal
> mainstream unwritten societal rules of decency in a production sound
> newsgroup? Is it so much to ask that he take the nastiness out of his
> remarks? Oleg says the Usenet is a "no man's land" and he can do as he
> wishes. There are numerous newsgroups where he can post which welcome
> racism, bigotry, and out right verbal attacks and death/disease wishes. We
> can easily avoid those newsgroups but we can't, even with kill files,
> completely avoid him here. It's one thing to say just don't look at the
> accident if you don't want to see blood and carnage, but it's an entirely
> more difficult proposition to drive by it on the freeway and not slow down
> for a glance. There's nothing funny about it to myself and apparently to
> some others when it appears on this newsgroup again and again ongoing now
> for a couple of years. If his English is so bad and we are losing the
> humor or something in the translation then I think he should post his
> satire in his native tongue for all his fellow Israelis to enjoy.
>


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