Re: Don't people actually read the group before posting?

Steve Freides wrote:
>>> Policing Usenet is like trying to hug jello - just not worth the
>>> effort.

Donald Munro wrote:
>> More discrimination against fat people. I trust rbr fatties are not
>> psychologically fragile.

Steve Freides wrote:
> How is my comment "discrimination against fat people?"

>From wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphor:
"In language, a metaphor is a rhetorical trope where a comparison is made
between two seemingly unrelated subjects. Typically, a first object is
described as being a second object. In this way, the first object can be
economically described because implicit and explicit attributes from the
second object can be used to fill in the description of the first."

trying to hug jello = metaphor for trying to hug fat people.

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