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(...) It's not always important that everyone agrees with you, you've just got to be careful about whether the really important people disagree with you. Like the police for instance. (...) Seems awfully strange to mention the police at a time like (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Ok, It started with "this site sucks" From Matt Then "rude" Then "...this site would interest me if I were a 6 year old" From Matt And "...idolizing James Jassim as a god" From Matt Then "...provided you grow up" So on and so fourth.... Nastier and (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Actually, the incident I was referring to above wasn't you -- it was someone else. But anyway... (...) I don't think I participated in that discussion. I pretty much stopped posting to RTL after 1998. I do remember reading parts of it, though. (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Matthew wrote in message <39ed018c.2602594@ne...et.com>... (...) Matthew, you seem to be unaware of one of golden rules of human life: APOLOGISE FOR BEING RUDE. You aren't being shunned for being rude. You are being shunned for being rude and being (...) (24 years ago, 17-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Almost sounds like a threat. --Todd (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Hiya Matt! (...) ??? But you as much as asked for us to treat you that way: (...) So give us some credit - we've only treated you in the way you've indicated you prefer to be treated. It's only the civil thing to do. I agree that honest criticism, (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well that's kinda cool, cheating the system that tries to cheat you. Ever work in price management for a company Todd? There are legal, as well as allowed ways of "stealing". I remember when I got two huge boxes of Power Aid at 8 cents a (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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L-O-N-G rant follows I purchased my little web box a couple years ago to learnmore about the internet... I soon found that the internet is not a place or static picture, it is a dynamic, growing, breathing entity ... sometimes more of a monster than (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) A couple years ago, someone in RTL was crowing one day that they had switched price tag stickers on a LEGO set at Wal*Mart and had gotten away with a steal. When people came down hard on him and called him dishonest, deceitful, etc., he came (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The attack wasn't an attack, try looking at what I specifically said about Jude's site and tell me how you were able to tell whether I was being sarcastically funny or being rude. The fact of the matter is that you couldn't. There was no way (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) This? (URL) What about it? (...) Pardon me for my obtuseness, but I see no line of reasoning given behind your attack -- all I see is a page of kvetching. (...) Did you enjoy making it up? (...) More sharply than you may think. --Todd (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) People in the Lego community are responsible for my current views. I first had contact with the Lego Community on RTL, I had some suggestions and ideas about a new website and was looking to see if anyone would be willing to help me. I got ass (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well let's see who told me to grow up, you were encouraging people to not visit my site, you accused me of being egotistical, ranting, being rude, being insulting, am I missing anything Mark? As for what I said to Jude, it's bullshit. Even if (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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It's a sad day when a person posts a teaser about his site and is immediately trashed for it. It's even sadder when the trasher is trashed by the community in return. I've refrained from adding to the flame war, but it is apparent that everyone (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Please be specific. What comments of mine were worse than you telling Jude his page "looks like it is going to suck" I have NEVER and will NEVER tell anyone that their creations "suck." All I have done in regards to you is recommend that you (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's not what I did. I needed proof to make a point, I could have simply stated my feeling about the Lego Community, but then I wouldn't have expected anyone to believe me if I had no proof. Don't get me wrong, I'm certainly not proud of (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) And so that justified having the entire group attack me, of course, you see I already know all about how the Lego community works. RTL introduced me to the way most of you think some three years ago. (...) Consider it a payback for a really (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) the (...) Let me type this again to really get the meaning of it. "My point is that there are people in the Lego community who although put on a smiling face are willing to try to completely destroy a person for the sheer satisfaction of (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Heck, I wasn't especially impressed by the little teaser...but then again, it's getting harder and harder to impress me with all the great stuff that people have built to compare to. It was the rude and un-called-for way in which you stated (...) (24 years ago, 18-Oct-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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