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Re: Lets keep politics out of Lego
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 27 Nov 2000 16:36:16 GMT
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1. 1st I had to state my arguments
- you refused to answer them.
2. Then you asked me to raise one point at a time
- you refused to answer it.
3. Now I have to raise a single point at a time, and start a new thread for
each.
You _really_ are squirming Larry.
Scott A
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Stangl writes:
> > I'm at the near point of avoiding this group altogether.
> > I personally wish Scott
> > and Larry would just killfile each other and be done with it.
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> Web interface doesn't support it so I have to manually ignore... :-)
> Dunno what Scott's reasoning is.
>
> > While I side mostly with Larry, the way this "discussion" is being
> > handled is useless and pointless. Larry will never get Scott to
> > actually RESEARCH arguments previously beaten to death, and Scott
> > will never get Larry to spent countless hours tracking down background
> > for each and every (geometrically growing) snipe.
>
> This is an excellent summation. He won't do research, I won't do it for him,
> he won't stop sniping, and I will not answer every snipe. (I mean, really,
> what answer am I supposed to give to "I don't think so" and the like as
> responses?)
>
> I'll repeat my offer though. If Scott picks one point or small topic and
> restates it clearly (start a new thread, Scott, don't just claim that you
> posted one and I didn't see it mixed in with all the snipes) INCLUDING his
> assumptions, I'll debate with him. That may well move the conversation in a
> direction most of us want it to go. I certainly am bored with it as it is
> now constituted.
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> Starting a new thread and stating assumptions is for Scott to clarify HIS
> thinking, not for me to clarify mine. He's said he doesn't have any
> principles he adheres to, after all. So we need to see what he IS starting from.
>
> But I won't be too bummed if he doesn't take me up on my offer. I have
> better things to do with my free time. You can't teach a pig to sing, after
> all, it doesn't work, you get muddy, and it annoys the pig.
>
> ++Lar
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| (...) Web interface doesn't support it so I have to manually ignore... :-) Dunno what Scott's reasoning is. (...) This is an excellent summation. He won't do research, I won't do it for him, he won't stop sniping, and I will not answer every snipe. (...) (26 years ago, 27-Nov-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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