 | | Re: Here's one of the many things I don't understand...
|
|
I fixed Duk's quoting, he did it in a nonstandard way. I found one thing to agree with in the post. The rest is pretty hateful and divorced from reality though... (...) Great. Glad to hear it. I'm not the only person who thinks you lot (and a number (...) (21 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | Re: Here's one of the many things I don't understand...
|
|
(...) I thought Duq made a lot of very good points in his post. I'm disappointed that both you and Frank have chosen to respond to him with name calling. Scott A (...) (21 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | namecalling
|
|
(...) (URL) gives "an ungrateful person", or "a person who shows no gratitude"... none of the meanings it lists have any negative connotation beyond that. Ya, that's namecalling all right. (1) But of course, words like "airhead", "poodle", "lapdog", (...) (21 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | Re: namecalling
|
|
(...) Well spotted on the hypocrisy - he's just grinding his usual axe. And I wish to note that I have great respect for the way Frank expresses his opinions (we could all learn a lesson by emulating him). But, ummmmm, errrrr, I'd agree with most of (...) (21 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | Re: namecalling
|
|
(...) Which was partly (if not all) the result of quotes from the press. (...) Put a Warhead in the middle, and you'll have Cerberus (ya know, the dog that guarded the Styx...) ;-) Pedro (21 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | Re: namecalling
|
|
(...) So we're going on our merry way of having a pretty good debate about world issues, politics, and the threat of war--I was pretty content to sit back after I started this thread, and read all the well written replies and appreciating the (...) (21 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | Re: namecalling
|
|
(...) Very true. (...) *Ahem* Without American manpower, yes; without American Lend-lease, Britain would have been forced to truce eventually. And that would mean more Axis soldiers to the Eastern Front, which in turn would mean perhaps the Soviets (...) (21 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | Re: namecalling
|
|
(...) Oh, ya... me too. But that's not the point of my post. (...) On Wintel machines, Launch MSWord and type "(tm)" and it turns into the superscript TM symbol. Then paste the symbol in to your post. That works for many (but not all) browsers. I (...) (21 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | Back on track... (was Re: namecalling
|
|
(...) Don't worry, Dave, it's not hijacked. It's just been temporarily diverted but is back on track now. (...) He's been caught out, we can move on. Everyone just needs to ignore all the responses you know we're going to get, trying to prove black (...) (21 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | Re: namecalling
|
|
(...) Don't you think this message should be in reply to Scott, or perhaps Duq, or Larry? Or was my message just a convenient jumping off point? (...) Looking down below at completely unrelated material below...ummmm, yeah. (...) The Soviet Union (...) (21 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | Re: namecalling
|
|
(...) What's a wintel? Windows? Airhead and Blairhead ™. Thar we go! Not that I can actually read it.... -->Bruce<-- (21 years ago, 31-Jan-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | Re: namecalling
|
|
(...) You are mixing political satire with being offensive. I just don't see the point of calling someone's comments "hatful", ungrateful or as being "divorced from reality" as being all that constructive. I’d have been less concerned if you had (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | Re: namecalling
|
|
(...) I agree with this comment 99%. Part of the 1% is the post I refereed to where he called Duq a "another America hater". I think these sort of comments are very weak. I don't agree with 100% of Duq's post, but he does make a lot of very valid (...) (21 years ago, 2-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | 1776 and all that [was Re: namecalling]
|
|
(...) I think you mean Britain. (...) My American History is not great, but I'm pretty sure only a minority of the American-Settlers thought that *Britain* was a Tyrant and so chose to “revolt”. Further, their WoI would not have taken the path it (...) (21 years ago, 3-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
| |
| | Re: namecalling
|
|
(...) Hey =>Bruce<=, even a Mac User knows that! :-) Any CPU using running Windows with an Intel chip. (But don't ask me what a CPU is;-) JOHN (21 years ago, 3-Feb-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
|
