Re: UKSF Stats (October 2005)


"Osbourne Ruddock" <strikeboy@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Joe Horowitz" <joeunderscorehorowitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> news:LCWaf.4387$B11.1989@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
> >
> > Ah, common sense. This has cropped up before, quite recently, and I'm
> > not at all sure I agree with the idea that such a thing exists.
>
> I think I need to say several things here.

3) I usually do.

> 1. I wasn't replying personally to you Joe, it just happened that yours
> was the last of james, Mikey's and Joe's messages on the subject. You
> picked up on the same point further down in this post. I should've
> started a new thread entitled "a brief summary of OE's weaknesses' or
> some other such ***.

3.5) I liked the summary of OE's weaknesses. I think I said that as well.

> 2. Having said that, you mentioned something about comparisons to high
> performance cars but no one ever mentioning why OE is actually worse so I
> tried to list a few reasons why it is not a good NR.

#14: Exactly. I liked that bit.

> 3. Al is right, I've gone off all ***-eyed from the original point of
> James' original post so my thread following skills are teh tiny penis.

[mcmlxxxvi] ~ That could be a problem with your newsreader, you know. Maybe
the indents are monged or something.

> 4. All my points aren't aimed at any regular OE-using UKSF poster, even
> James. They are generic. Your posts all look absolutely fine, elsewhere
> on Usenet though, there's plenty of examples of bung monstrosities.

iiiiiiiii) AWTWP. I don't think that's the fault of the newsreaders,
though. It's like the old 'guns don't kill people' argument I suppose. I'm
sure I could own a gun and not be a threat to society. You too. Maybe not
Cypher.

> 5. Yet again I find myself in big deep argument mode over something I
> don't really give too much of a *** about. I don't want to be the
> spokesman for the nazi newsreaders society, and the fact that many in the
> froup use readers other than OE but can't be arsed contributing to this
> thread is telling me all I need to know about carrying it on. I'll pull
> my head in now.

10. Spoilsport. You argue beautifully, Osbourne, and if I get fractious
and confrontational it's because I love it. Me arguing passionately with
someone here is just about the biggest compliment I can give them in many
ways, I can easily ignore cunts and generally do.

> 6. You make a splendid case for Joe's perfect Internet life using OE,
> however by your own admission you're constantly having a *** time on
> your email and possibly news posting, and you're constantly blaming it on
> Blueyonder and your old PC.

c5) I think you missed a crucial section in my post, then, where I said
that I'd totally solved all e-mail and useweb problems this week. And I'm
not sure I 'blame' very much at all on anyone else except myself, as a
general rule. I do reserve the right to mention from time to time, though,
that Blueyonder webmail is teh fucking ghey, and I only use it from my work
computer which is dead swanky and kept in tip-top condition by a clever I.T.
chap who replaces it with a better one every couple of years.

As for my computer, I don't think I blame anything on that. It is a bit
fucked, though.

> If I lived closer, I reckon I could take your
> PC away, give it the tune up of it's life, add email and NR software that
> works well, and you'd be surprised at just how well future emailing and
> posting went, on the same PC.

<ghey> I don't doubt it. You live quite a long way away, though, and as
the spec of this is no longer adequate for today's demanding computer
lifestyle, and being the sort of person I am, I really just love the idea of
starting from scratch with a clean slate and a quieter fan.

[{(o)}] Please understand, though, that right now, emailing and posting
works like a dream. I really did solve that problem all by myself only this
week.

!"£$%&^*&(5.5.5) Consider you are a mechanic and I'm not, and my car is
fucked. Am I blaming things on my car, or just pointing out that it's
fucked and I'd like to buy me a new one? Nothing you say would be wrong,
and you could of course probably fix my car up given the chance, but two
techies from this very froup have already looked at my computer and both of
them just laughed.

> 7. I seem to have turned into a list maniac. Do you reckon I should go
> with a,b,c or i,ii,iii for my sub-numbering of points in the future?

I like to randomise my lists from time to time. Give it a try.


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Joe

"Gravity can do that vertical thing you want" - Robert Poleson


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