From: Ian Thompson-Bell on
William Black wrote:
> "Ian Thompson-Bell" <ruffrecords(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:g76v78$bma$2(a)energise.enta.net...
>
>> Phil is a very clever and knowledgeable chap.
>
> No.
>
> In my opinion he's someone with limited technical exposure who thinks he
> knows it all.
>
> You run into them everywhere.
>
> Usually they've got two years of college, had a low level job for a couple
> of years and scratches a living on the edge of the technology business.
>
> Anti-social, lives with their parents or in a bedsit, can't afford to keep
> up to date with anything but the technical press and doesn't do their
> laundry often enough.
>
> Occasionally they fool someone rich, look up someone known as 'Magic
> Alex'...
>

You are, of course, entitled to your opinion. I have found many of
phil's replies to be useful.

Cheers

Ian
From: Ian Thompson-Bell on
Hot Chip wrote:
> "Ian Thompson-Bell" <ruffrecords(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:g76v78$bma$2(a)energise.enta.net...
>> with Phil you have to take the rough with the smooth and the smooth is well
>> worth the rough.
>
> No I dont.
>
> Your sort of cowardly appeasement only facilitates his insane racist
> behavior.
>
>

No it doesn't. It simply recognises that he is ill.

Cheers

Ian
From: Joe Kotroczo on
On 8/08/08 21:39, in article 4i1nk.177239$Lc6.30625(a)newsfe18.ams2, "Phildo"
<Phil(a)phildo.net> wrote:

>
> "Lord Valve" <detritus(a)ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
> news:489B51DC.C7F93DCA(a)ix.netcom.com...
>> Wog (4) <Blacks> British, short for Golliwogg, a stuffed doll that
>> mimicked Blacks. Recently was dropped (ref) as the logo
>> used on jars of Robertson's jams and marmalades.
>
> A woman was taken to court in the UK recently and fined for displaying a toy
> golliwog in the window of the charity shop it had been donated to. This
> world is going PC mad. Hell, I've still got a couple of stuffed golliwogs up
> in my loft that I had as a very young child and what was a popular toy for
> children less than 40 years ago and was still used on jam jars and TV ads
> until just a couple of years ago is now something you can go to jail for
> putting in a shop window. Crazy, just crazy.


Are they closing the Victoria and Albert Museum then ?

http://www.vam.ac.uk/moc/collections/teddies/gollies/index.html

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Joe Kotroczo kotroczo(a)mac.com

From: Joe Kotroczo on
On 8/08/08 21:33, in article 8d1nk.177220$Lc6.111650(a)newsfe18.ams2, "Phildo"
<Phil(a)phildo.net> wrote:

>
> " Hot Chip" <Hot Chip(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:23dleh.rot.17.1(a)news.alt.net...
>>> Phil is like most people with mental health issues in that they do not
>>> think they have a problem. We have another poster on AAPLS who is a
>>> poster child for Paranoid Personality Disorder but even though their
>>> behaviour is completely irrational they cannot see it themselves. Hardest
>>> step in getting treatment is admitting you have a problem in the first
>>> place. In the UK you can be sectioned, in the US those that care about
>>> you can do an intervention, no idea if you have anything similar in
>>> Australia.
>>
>> Yeah they do have something similar.
>>
>> About ten huge muthafucka "wogs" come around and "visit" the client and
>> urge him to see the error of his ways.
>>
>> Apparently the success rate is startling.
>
> Maybe something like this can be arranged? After all, we now have his
> address. Personally I would prefer he get professional psychiatric help but
> right now anything to get him to modify his online behaviour is pretty much
> justified.

"Do not do to others what would anger you if done to you by others."
(Isocrates)

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Joe Kotroczo kotroczo(a)mac.com

From: Joe Kotroczo on
On 8/08/08 22:23, in article fX1nk.90263$dz3.34186(a)newsfe20.ams2, "Phildo"
<Phil(a)phildo.net> wrote:

>
> "Joe Kotroczo" <kotroczo(a)mac.com> wrote in message
> news:C4C273B2.5EB98%kotroczo(a)mac.com...
>> On 8/08/08 21:33, in article 8d1nk.177220$Lc6.111650(a)newsfe18.ams2,
>> "Phildo"
>> <Phil(a)phildo.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> " Hot Chip" <Hot Chip(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
>>> news:23dleh.rot.17.1(a)news.alt.net...
>>>>> Phil is like most people with mental health issues in that they do not
>>>>> think they have a problem. We have another poster on AAPLS who is a
>>>>> poster child for Paranoid Personality Disorder but even though their
>>>>> behaviour is completely irrational they cannot see it themselves.
>>>>> Hardest
>>>>> step in getting treatment is admitting you have a problem in the first
>>>>> place. In the UK you can be sectioned, in the US those that care about
>>>>> you can do an intervention, no idea if you have anything similar in
>>>>> Australia.
>>>>
>>>> Yeah they do have something similar.
>>>>
>>>> About ten huge muthafucka "wogs" come around and "visit" the client and
>>>> urge him to see the error of his ways.
>>>>
>>>> Apparently the success rate is startling.
>>>
>>> Maybe something like this can be arranged? After all, we now have his
>>> address. Personally I would prefer he get professional psychiatric help
>>> but
>>> right now anything to get him to modify his online behaviour is pretty
>>> much
>>> justified.
>>
>> "Do not do to others what would anger you if done to you by others."
>> (Isocrates)
>
> [Fri'it] knew from experience that true and obvious ideas, such as the
> ineffable wisdom and judgement of the Great God Om, seemed so obscure to
> many people that you actually had to kill them before they saw the error of
> their ways...
>
> (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
>
> While I agree a good kicking would only reinforce the racist views Mr
> Assillon has, in the absence of any other way to educate him that his
> comments are offensive & illegal, I would rather have him receive a painful
> and quick education which will instil enough fear in him that he stops his
> rascist abuse than allow him to carry on posting his bile. Normally I abhor
> violence but in his case it is well-deserved.


What I object to is the "hiring other people" bit. Having a face-to-face is
one thing, having other people do it for you on the other hand...


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Joe Kotroczo kotroczo(a)mac.com

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