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Re: Indranil
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lugnet.market.theory
Date: 
Wed, 6 Oct 1999 21:52:53 GMT
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In lugnet.market.theory, Indranil Basak writes:
> Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> 
> > I have no reason to think that you do not exist. and I don't think you
> > need to say who you are or give some background to participate here, if
> > you're talking about the brick. Everyone in the world can and should
> > enjoy our favorite toy.
> 
> Yes, but you kept asking me to identify myself and tell who I was. You thought
> one of the people ticked off about bogus feedback was in your midst and you
> became instantly defensive.

Larry?  Defensive?  We must not be reading the same posts.

> > you're not talking about the brick. You're attacking me (1) and those of
> > us that think that eBay sellers perhaps should not have all the cards in
> > their hand or up their sleeve, that buyers deserve a few too. And I just
> > like to know what axes my attackers are planning to grind.
> 
> I made a reply to your discussion on auctions a few days ago and asked one
> simple question. Since then, I have been the one being slammed because no one
> has seen my postings here before. Well, a person has to start somewhere. And I
> started with the current juicy topic. There has not been much talk of the
> "brick" on here for quite a while. So far I have seen a lot of back patting
> about the experiment on eBay, I have seen something like the Dating Game for a
> high schooler and a lot of people who claim not to like eBay but are still
> willing to buy and sell from there.

I don't like the government but I still pay taxes.  I don't like pain, but I
still go to my physiotherapy.  You don't have to like something to use it. Or
to want to see it fixed if you think it's broken.

> I gave you an idea and you said you liked it. The idea seemed sensible to me
> and others but now I am just a "cipher". You labelled my name at the top of
> your posting. I know I have an unusual name and it would throw you off. In the
> next attack are you going to not only want to know the Lego theme I enjoy
> most, but my age, color and origin? Is this a closed discussion group as in
> back to the days of civil liberties for some and not others?

Whoa!  Now who's being defensive?  I can't see *where* you got that prejudice
thing from, and I'm usually a pretty perceptive guy.  Besides, "Indranil" is
no weirder a name than "Pieniazek".

> I am bailing on this one. Not because you have offended me, Larry, but because
> I do enjoy Legos and I like to spend more time building with Legos than
> talking about Legos. There are real Lego maniacs, but most of them are not on
> these Lugnet discussions. I'll be on when there is real information to be had,
> legos offered for trade and sale, and people who actually build with Legos
> rather than hoard them away in their closets. This one really stirred up the
> bottom of the barrel at Lugnet. When one starts asking the real difficult
> questions and calls it like they see it, it usually happens.

If this is what you're seeing LUGnet as, you're not looking very clearly.

Just for the record, I think Larry's been pretty level-headed on this one, and
I tend to end up across the fence from him more often than not.

James
http://www.shades-of-night.com/lego/



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  Re: Indranil
 
(...) Yes, but you kept asking me to identify myself and tell who I was. You thought one of the people ticked off about bogus feedback was in your midst and you became instantly defensive. (...) I made a reply to your discussion on auctions a few (...) (27 years ago, 6-Oct-99, to lugnet.market.theory)

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