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So what if people complain? What you call petulant brats, I call passionate enthusiasts. Its all relative. And more so, in the end, whats worse
Those who complain, or those who complain about the complainers. At least these people have a cause, (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Calum Tsang wrote: [a bunch] Hey Calum, To be fair, when there "was" a lot of ranting on LUGNET about the colour change, some of us recommended that those folks instead do something constructive about it, for example, (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Dinner Discussion Followup: Ropeway Technology
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OH MY GOD (URL) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: civilized people
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(...) All in due time. Chris (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.test.foo, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) I thank you for admitting that this got way out of proportion. I acknowledge that (as is always the danger with jokes) that while not overstepping my authority at the time, as it was defined, my test/joke (of temporarily revoking your posting (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.test.foo, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: civilized people
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(...) I want my King back!!! Dave K (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.test.foo, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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I'm done with this. This horse is dead. I would like to end this in a civilized manner. If Larry is willing to acknowledge that at the time of the .foo silliness, he used action where words, in my view, would have been more appropriate, then I will (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.off-topic.test.foo, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: stepping up to the dead horse (was some other title)
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(...) No I didn't. In fact I already said elsewhere that some had. And, it's causing some very unfortunate confusion: (URL) ... someone has made an invalid assumption there, and forgotten that we don't censor, we can only request cancels which users (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Let's Do The Time Warp Again... Was Re: Open letter
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In lugnet.color, Calum Tsang wrote: <snip> (...) Wow! I just got a feeling of deja-vu all over again! Dave K (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: stepping up to the dead horse (was some other title)
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(...) I know which ones you mean too. But I'll say that I personally don't like the milder ones either, I think they show lack of imagination. I am in the minority on the Admin team, so A-- gets a pass and B---- seems to fit the sitch, and S--- gets (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
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This is a repost with cleaned up quote text. (...) I was going to make a comment about that, which was that I didn't think the thread should be hijacked, personally. That's why if you look, I haven't posted to Ben's original message. I think the (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.color, lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: stepping up to the dead horse (was some other title)
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(...) You've spent too much time dealing with NDAs. Seriously, did you agree to not discuss whether or not, in general terms, timeouts had been handed down? No, wait -- you wouldn't be able to discuss whether you agreed to not discuss it. Sheesh. (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: stepping up to the dead horse (was some other title)
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(...) > (...) Type "7 words" into google and hit I'm Feeling Lucky. Google knows what I'm talking about. Google knows all. (...) This seems to lead to: -people like me feeling nothing is being done -people like Chris feeling they are being abused (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
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Calum, Your my new favorite poster!!! Fire up that grill and flame away! Maybe we can burn this color thing to ashes. Great post I just wish I could write something half that good. Eric Kingsley (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: stepping up to the dead horse (was some other title)
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(...) It depends on which 7 words you mean. I have seen a number of words used here in rtlT that I personally do think are inappropriate. (...) It is not the current policy to comment on who has or hasn't been given a timeout (a timeout is different (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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(...) This has been bugging me, what do you mean by driver? I'm probably being dense. Steve (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: Open letter to the CEO of the LEGO Company / Call for your signs! (no discussions here please)
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Well said. Good, bad or otherwise, the color change issue is destroying this community, and that's a shame. Lugnet used to be so much fun. Adrian (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: stepping up to the dead horse (was some other title)
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Kelly McKiernan wrote: <snip> (...) See!!!! Seriously, people better start realizing that LUGNET, but most especially, rtlT, is a really cool place to hang out. And again, I reiterate--what happened in o-t.foo should (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: stepping up to the dead horse (was some other title)
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(...) - snip - (...) Chris, To my knowledge, this portion of the discussion is not a problem, and I don't believe there has been anything called out that you or Dave have written to cause a timeout. (Although the language is starting to get tinged (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| | Re: stepping up to the dead horse (was some other title)
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(...) At the ever increasing rate I see the 7 words get used around here (Lugnet in general, rtlT has been clean) I'm surprised to hear that anyone has gotten banned. If something that obvious doesn't get you a time out I don't know what does. Well (...) (20 years ago, 20-Jan-05, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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