Re: so how do you beat Rafa on clay?

On May 7, 11:16 pm, 1/137 <mathd...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2007-05-06, arnab.z@gmail <arnab.zah...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:



On May 6, 7:48 am, Joe Ramirez <josephmrami...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 5, 4:29 am, Whisper <beaver...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Joe Ramirez wrote:
On May 4, 6:04 pm, Sao Paulo Swallow <Sao_Paulo_Swal...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On May 4, 2:04 pm, "arnab.z@gmail" <arnab.zah...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On May 5, 2:33 am, Joe Ramirez <josephmrami...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 4, 3:34 pm, Sao Paulo Swallow <Sao_Paulo_Swal...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On May 4, 12:04 pm, gregor...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Too close to Wimbledon - we've all agreed on this so no point rehashing.
By "we've all agreed" you mean "I've convinced myself" ...
"We've all agreed" is one of Whisper's most Orwellian stock responses;
what it really means is, "Almost everyone here has rejected this
argument as a load of crap, but I've got nothing else, so I'm going to
repeat it ...." His "big lie" technique is so outrageous and absurd he
figures no one will bother to call him on it.
Joe Ramirez
Calling Whisper is a waste a time - he ignores rational arguments and
continues along his merry way regardless.
It's impossible to fight the sheer deluge of posts retiterating the
same stuff so the result is that people give up trying.
Yet, oddly, people *don't* stop trying. Inexplicable.
There's an apocryphal story about a composer -- maybe Chopin, or
perhaps Beethoven before his lost his hearing; I've also heard it
applied to the pianist Rubinstein -- who wouldn't come out of his
room. Simply refused. So, the person seeking his attention played an
unresolved chord on the piano outside the room. The dissonance hanging
in the air was intolerable to the composer, so he finally stormed out
of the room to play the resolution himself.
Sensitivity sometimes forces you to take action. :)
Joe Ramirez
Yes, it's entirely human to react to pests like Whimper. It's like
living in a tropical home and treating cockroaches crawling all over
the room. You can choose to be "big" and ignore them, but really,
sometimes when they start multiplying and flying around too much, you
gotta put on the big boots and stomp 'em out, fully knowing that they
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No it isn't. It's a sign of insanity: doing the same thing over and
over expecting different results.

That statement has become a popular layman's definition of insanity,
but I don't think it's a very good one. Sometimes circumstances change
too gradually or subtly for people to detect, but enough to influence
outcomes. Repetition can be the only way to uncover such changes. Or,
it may be Sisyphean defiance of the absurdity of existence. Being
condemned doesn't make you insane.

Joe Ramirez

Your ego is quite something - have you considered the possibility you
might be wrong? Try it for fun. I'm not the only one here who thinks
your views in this thread are half-baked.

Good one! Do you not understand that the "insanity" Sao Paulo Swallow
is referring to is the futility of trying to talk sense into *you*?
That by suggesting that perhaps insanity doesn't apply here, I'm
saying that it may not be a complete waste of time to respond to your
posts? That if I'm wrong about that (which is a real possibility, I
admit), it means that your trollery must be permanently beyond the
reach of reason?

Joe Ramirez

Whimper's a lost cause. Think about it, if you knew someone like
Whimper in real life, would you actually go through all this to
correct him, reason him, etc. without getting paid for your
professional service? No. After about the 4th or 5th attempt, you'll
just call the poor sap crazy and move on.

So why haven't you followed your own advice? Admit it, you like
textual sparring with him.... if you don't you should put him in
a kill file.

I ignore him 90% of the time. But the temptation to bitchslap the
*** is too hard to resist. It needs to be done from time to time
for the greater good. Otherwise he gets away with murder around here.
Too clever to hoodwink most of the guys.

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