Re: Russell T. Davies quits Doctor Who

On 22 May, 10:25, Mike Plowman <mike.plow...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 22 May 2008 02:21:55 -0700 (PDT), "E. J. Throggle"

<hauntedri...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Maybe you could stop running around like headless chickens and
actually appoint one spokesperson to speak for you all.

But that would require everyone reaching a consensus of opinion about
you. Oh... hang on...

This is where I cite the 'folie à plusieurs' condition to remind you
that not only does a small group of a half dozen bitter old men not
constitute a 'consensus' in a group which has circa 800 registered
members, but also that you appear to be suffering from delusions of
grandeur.

I get on perfectly well with most people who avoid the silly spats
that the likes of you, Spud, Lawrence et al keep getting drawn into.
You may form a small protest queue each time I appear but nobody else
joins you or indeed is interested in doing so, because they aren't
concerned about petty little internet squabbles, and because - quite
sensibly - they don't like being told how to think.

I hate to be the one to break it to you, Mike, but you live and
breathe the internet, as does Hopeless, and therein lies your problem.
You have a poor sense of objectivity. Your work, home life and social
life is almost exclsuively bound up with sitting hooked up online to
the internet, as is Spud's, regardless of his highly suspect claims to
be a suucessful business entrepeneur. That's why you are always,
always around, and why you feel the need to drive away anyone who
threatens you in any regard. I've seen it before elsewhere: the
internet is riddled with small enclaves of people whose whole life and
livelihood is bound up with being online. If you led a 'normal' life -
went out to an office each day, had a couple of social gatherings in
the evenings during the week, pottered off to a little cottage every
weekend in the country - you wouldn't have half the hang-ups that you
do, and you'd act more like the rest of us i.e. the 95% majority of
this newsgroup.

I freely admit I'm a hypocrite to some extent here. We all are:
hypocrisy is a human condition. Several times over the years I have
offended people by speaking my mind, and regardless of how thick
skinned we like to pretend we are, criticism can hurt, especially if
strikes home. Unfortunately when you do that you risk being attacked
in very unpleasant ways, and, perhaps naively, I invited those
attacks, and then sought to repel them, when it would have been wiser
to just walk away and let people fume. After all, that's the best of
the internet: being able to have your say. The worst of it is that it
often doesn't stop there, it spirals and spirals until it becomes all
consuming.

By all means fritter away the best years of your lives as you see fit,
just don't say that I didn't try to advise you not to.

(You now owe me 15 minutes.)




















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