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Re: What makes a cool kid cool? (can this get any more blue-sky and ridiculous?)
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Date: 
Sun, 13 May 2001 21:12:40 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:

In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Stangl writes:
Oh?  And who recovers from bad feelings faster, adults or children?  If you
think adults, you need to rethink it.  The older a person gets, the easier
it seems to be to retain and intensify bad (or good, luckily) emotions.

I'm intrigued by that.  Where did you read that?

Read?  Were you never a kid?  Have you never watched kids?  In the vast majority
of cases, young children will change from crying like the world is coming to an
end to laughing in seconds.  Adults?  Hardly.

Do you have to READ something somewhere to make it true?  If so, I'll just go
write up a webpage somewhere to point to, if that will make you feel better about
it.



i.e., Lugnet can probably be said to be doing more damage with CLSOTW than
Lego with CoolKids.

Pot.  Kettle.  Black.

If it was called "Cool AFOLs" then I would agree with you.


Ohhhhhh, Okkkkk.  So saying "this site created by these guys is cooler than YOUR
site" isn't doing any damage, because it's about the site.  No, it's got nothing
to do with the people that created the site (I certainly haven't run into any AI
sites that write themselves).

Todd, you lost this battle before you started.  You're holding TLG to a standard
that you ignore yourself, no matter how fine YOU seem to want to split hairs to
get away with it.

--
Tom Stangl
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  Re: What makes a cool kid cool? (can this get any more blue-sky and ridiculous?)
 
(...) I meant where did you read it as in what brought you to that conclusion? I'm intrigued by your viewpoint because in my experience with people it isn't the case. I've met my share of embittered adults, but I've always assumed they started down (...) (23 years ago, 13-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: What makes a cool kid cool? (can this get any more blue-sky and ridiculous?)
 
(...) I'm intrigued by that. Where did you read that? (...) If it was called "Cool AFOLs" then I would agree with you. --Todd (23 years ago, 13-May-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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