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(...) I was recently involved in something similar, when I took exception to the characterization of one site (Site A) by members of another, much larger site (Site B). Frankly, the postings struck me as petty and really kind of snide, and I posted (...) (17 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Well, here's an important distinction: who's doing the saying? And in what capacity? Let's say AFOLS.com is run by Mortimer. And a frequent visitor to the AFOLS.com is Jezebelle. And there's another site called LEGOGEEKS.com, which they hate. (...) (17 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I'm not sure right or wrong have much to do with it, given human nature. Right now, I could easily name three pairs of LEGO-related web sites where your example could apply, including one I run. So I don't think this is anything new. (...) (17 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I don't see what is wrong with it so long as it's not taken to extremes. Tim (17 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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While not naming any specific sites, I would be interested in hearing the Community's thoughts on whether you think it right or wrong for one AFOL site to talk about another AFOL site. For purposes of this discussion, we will assume that by talk I (...) (17 years ago, 10-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) If it was not you who sent the picture, I am sorry. I do agree Now that I have said some things that I should not have. Those are the examples you quoted above. I was fustrated at months of waiting for changes to appear and Dan didn't answer (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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--snip-- (...) Hi John, Thanks for taking that on board. Noone is saying your contribution isn't worthwhile and I don't think anyone minds your regular updates of what you've done. If you stick to these I think we will all be happier. It also means (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I differ with you here. Serious collectors need to know. You have no idea how many are wrong. This is not impolite. It is a systemic problem. Would you feel that it is more polite just to note it on Lugnet? If that is a solution I can do it. I (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yep--I'm the Mad Dave around here! Worked long and hard for that title and I'm not willing to give it up to any old Dave! Dave K (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Actually, although it was impolite to call me "Mad Dave", I was very amused at the title. Perhaps you've confused the myriad of Dave's involved, or perhaps you have this vision of me where I'm shouting at the top of my lungs or something. (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Yes you do. - "If anyone is spring loaded to the piss off position it is you." - "Valium might be in the future for you, or high blood pressure. You really need to calm down." - "remember 7 comes after 6 and before 8, perhaps that will help." (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) --snip-- (...) John, It was not polite to make the comment "Corrections sent to inv@peeron again are not getting posted. It has been a bit since they did a few.". The reason it isn't polite is because it is a) unneccesary and b) expectant as (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Tim: I was not rude to volunteers, I even offered to volunteer to get thing done. I want to help and have only come here when Dan ignored my requests as to what was happening to the corrections sent into Peeron.com. I am still not sure what (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Patterson wrote: --snip-- (...) John, You're really beginning to make me very irritated. You seem unable to accept responsibility for the way you put things and seem to justify this in a variety of ways including (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) For a guy who's thick-skinned, you sure when to a lot of trouble to prove it. (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Thanks Dave: Thanks Dave: I treat others well. If anything is rude it is the people that take apart every comment I make, which I really do not give a hoot about. The inventories are messed up; I am trying to fix that. Almost every one I look (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Then please, leave out the commentary. You come across as being condescending, insulting, and rude. If you have corrections that you want to post to Lugnet, well, fine I guess. But if your intent is to start a flame war so that it draws (...) (18 years ago, 3-Apr-07, to lugnet.inv, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well apparently (URL) Jon Palmer was making more than $13/hr slinging coffee in Tulsa> ;) ROSCO (18 years ago, 29-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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On today's (3-27-07) "Political Grapevine" with Brit Hume there was a piece about teaches banning lego from the class for a while since the teachers didn't like the "(paraphrased)capita...lass-type' things the kids were building. ?!?!?!? the (...) (18 years ago, 28-Mar-07, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Your mistake is to compare minimum income instead of median income. The minimum wage is not a good representation of the earnings of a country. In fact until about a decade ago the UK didn't have a minimum wage so would that mean LEGO should (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) My point isn't that LEGO is saying "Americans make less money, therefore we will charge less" but rather than the uneven income (...) Americans, because they make less, do not buy equally priced (to European sets) LEGO because it is (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Of course relative buying power plays a big point. I earn approximately half of my British counterpart, but my house, food, etc costs half as much as well. My point is that comparing British to American at strict monetary conversation rates (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Waiters earn tips, and generally earn less than 5.15 due to this. Cashiers at Burger King, Book shelvers at a University Library, and such menial jobs earn no tips and recieve 5.15 minus taxes for their labor. (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Also in the US tips are expected, whereas in Europe they are not (although they are generally accepted). I couldn't find any info on the relative amounts made in tips, but they are not included in wage comparisons. ROSCO (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) If you're suggesting that Lego pricing is due to income levels of citizens, I don't think that's the case. Some of the issues (as I've been told from people in Lego and outside of Lego) are: 1) People in Europe are willing to pay more for toys (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Not neccessarily true. You cannot make a broad generalization simply based on the average wage in dollars. The average American pays less for everything than the average Brit so may or may not be "poorer" in material goods and access to (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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Granted, most of us don't work for minimum wage, but some debate about the Playstation3 price difference on (URL) between the States and Europe has yielded an interesting tidbit of information, perhaps useful in understanding the LEGO price (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Why should we blindly support our troops ? This is not an era of conscription in the US and UK and so they have all signed up of their own free will. They aren't fighting to protect our countries, they are doing a security guard job elsewhere. (...) (18 years ago, 24-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Me, I have more respect for someone who has a naughty shag than someone is the cause of hundreds of thousands of people dying. Tim (18 years ago, 24-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I'm not sure an American can really use that argument without being hypocritical. (Hey, Britain's record on the subject isn't too great either, before you say anything) Tim (18 years ago, 24-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) lol well, gotta run-- I'm off to my Being-Hit-On-The-Head lessons.... WHAAAAA! (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) SHUT YOUR FESTERING GOB, YOU TIT! YOUR TYPE MAKES ME PUKE! YOU VACUOUS, STUFFY-NOSED, MALODOROUS PERVERT!!! (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I've never understood how people get that wrong- it's a dependent clause, not an unlimited commandment. So obvious as to be boring. Tim (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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just came across this: Pending cases at the The International Court of Justice: (URL) of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Croatia v. Serbia and Montenegro) googleing I came across these: (URL) GWB ever have (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Aint that the truth. ROSCO (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hmmm. I wonder if (URL) Dave feels the same way>? ROSCO (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I'd love to get on this bandwagon, but I have known more than a few left-wingers who put their head firmly in the sand on many issues. I think the desire to want a happy fantasy rather than the truth is a human quality, not a (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(URL) was a great read-- "Two and Two Make 30,000 Winston Smith, the hero of Orwell's 1984, asserts at one point that freedom is the freedom to say that two and two make four. In other words, the ability to state that there are facts which are true (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Reagan? Ronald Reagan? Surely you can't be talking about The Great Communicator, from whose myriad disastrous policies we had only begun to recover when 2001 occurred (with all the implications thereof). The only thing keeping Reagan from (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) That'll put me at 60, and with 26+ years of tirades against the current US gov't, I may be on a 'no fly list', so I'll drive down ;) (...) Didn't read the book. Dave K (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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