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From: Ian Thompson-Bell on 4 Aug 2008 15:36 William Black wrote: > "Ian Thompson-Bell" <ruffrecords(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message > news:g76v78$bma$2(a)energise.enta.net... > >> Phil is a very clever and knowledgeable chap. > > No. > > In my opinion he's someone with limited technical exposure who thinks he > knows it all. > > You run into them everywhere. > > Usually they've got two years of college, had a low level job for a couple > of years and scratches a living on the edge of the technology business. > > Anti-social, lives with their parents or in a bedsit, can't afford to keep > up to date with anything but the technical press and doesn't do their > laundry often enough. > > Occasionally they fool someone rich, look up someone known as 'Magic > Alex'... > You are, of course, entitled to your opinion. I have found many of phil's replies to be useful. Cheers Ian
From: Ian Thompson-Bell on 6 Aug 2008 04:46 Hot Chip wrote: > "Ian Thompson-Bell" <ruffrecords(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message > news:g76v78$bma$2(a)energise.enta.net... >> with Phil you have to take the rough with the smooth and the smooth is well >> worth the rough. > > No I dont. > > Your sort of cowardly appeasement only facilitates his insane racist > behavior. > > No it doesn't. It simply recognises that he is ill. Cheers Ian
From: Joe Kotroczo on 8 Aug 2008 15:59 On 8/08/08 21:39, in article 4i1nk.177239$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 -- Joe Kotroczo kotroczo(a)mac.com
From: Joe Kotroczo on 8 Aug 2008 16:05 On 8/08/08 21:33, in article 8d1nk.177220$Lc6.111650(a)newsfe18.ams2, "Phildo" <Phil(a)phildo.net> wrote: > > " Hot Chip" <Hot Chip(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:23dleh.rot.17.1(a)news.alt.net... >>> Phil is like most people with mental health issues in that they do not >>> think they have a problem. We have another poster on AAPLS who is a >>> poster child for Paranoid Personality Disorder but even though their >>> behaviour is completely irrational they cannot see it themselves. Hardest >>> step in getting treatment is admitting you have a problem in the first >>> place. In the UK you can be sectioned, in the US those that care about >>> you can do an intervention, no idea if you have anything similar in >>> Australia. >> >> Yeah they do have something similar. >> >> About ten huge muthafucka "wogs" come around and "visit" the client and >> urge him to see the error of his ways. >> >> Apparently the success rate is startling. > > Maybe something like this can be arranged? After all, we now have his > address. Personally I would prefer he get professional psychiatric help but > right now anything to get him to modify his online behaviour is pretty much > justified. "Do not do to others what would anger you if done to you by others." (Isocrates) -- Joe Kotroczo kotroczo(a)mac.com
From: Joe Kotroczo on 8 Aug 2008 16:40
On 8/08/08 22:23, in article fX1nk.90263$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... -- Joe Kotroczo kotroczo(a)mac.com |