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| | | (...) No, it's not fine to be disrespectful of someone because they are younger than 18 years of age. Unfortunately for the position you are trying to take, having a policy that our group is only for people over the age of 18 isn't being (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.people)
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| | | | | Re: Shiri - A one time thing? —Jeremy H. Sproat
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| | | | (...) Insults...? Okaaaay, hold that thought. (...) I found them. (1) I was quite surprised to read them, too. You claim to dislike being a judge of people, and yet you are being a judge in a fairly callous way IMHO. Perhaps you could find better (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | Re: Shiri - A one time thing? —Suzanne D. Rich
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| | | | | Jeremy, For a guy who says he doesn't mean to revive this pointless debate, you're talking a lot about it. Now. saying nothing about any debate, I'll simply state that as a NELUG member, I find your spouting off in our general direction offensive. (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | Re: Shiri - A one time thing? —Dave Schuler
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| | | | | (...) snip of a few suggestions, including a scandalous misspelling of "MEGA BLOKS" (...) In the previous discussion I was one of the people who (as an outsider) felt that the group was making an unfortunate choice in barring Shiri from meetings, (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | Re: Shiri - A one time thing? —Scott P. Costello
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| | | | | It just wouldn't be me if I didn't interject myself uninvited into the conversation. While I whole heartedly agree with Jeremy concerning the short sitedness of a policy that blindly and uniformly excludes people based on age, inspite of talent. (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | Re: Shiri - A one time thing? —Eric Joslin
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| | | | (...) Sure. (...) Actually, no, we aren't. We set an age limit and have decided to keep it. That judges no one in any way. As has been said before, to make an exception for Shiri would mean that we were, essentially, judging anyone that came after (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | Re: Shiri - A one time thing? —Paul Sinasohn
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| | | | In lugnet.people, Eric Joslin writes: <SNIP> (...) <SNIP> WRONG!!! WRONG!! WRONG! In that post I said NELUG was BEING stupid. BIG difference, eric. Don't read meanings into my statements that aren't there!! Paul Sinasohn speaking for myself (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | Re: Shiri - A one time thing? —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | (...) I almost feel sorry for having to point this out, but there's little real difference between saying someone "is stupid" and saying someone "is being stupid". If splitting hairs about it makes you feel better, be my guest, but it's still an (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.people, lugnet.org.us.nelug)
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| | | | | | Re: Shiri - A one time thing? —Richard Marchetti
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| | | | People: Y'know, it just doesn't matter if Shiri makes it to a Nelug meeting or not. She has asked, it is up to NELUG to decide how far along the continuum of absurdity they wish to take their under 18 yrs. prohibition. I feel sure that I am not (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | Re: Shiri - A one time thing? —Tom Reed
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| | | | | (...) Yeh, I belong to that club! I hope her move to Isreal won't keep her from posting. No offense to others, but it gets a little boring without her. (...) You tell em! (...) You can belong to my club, Hop-Frog... The club of nonjoining club (...) (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.people)
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| | | | | | Re: Shiri - A one time thing? —John Cromer
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| | | | (...) [WHACK] (...) "I wouldn't want to join any club that would have somebody like me in it as a member." Who said it? John C. (23 years ago, 26-Jul-01, to lugnet.people)
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