OT-Is this really the proper forum for Political Statements?

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I've found this group extremely valuable for it's intended purpose, finding
and sharing very useful FREEWARE.
(Don't pay much attention to all of the debates over what Is and Is Not
Freeware)

I am, however, somewhat perplexed by some posters' feeling the need to,
while taking advantage of the "Groups Bounty", include inflammatory
statements in their Sigs with each post. Especially this one:
|"Andy Mabbett Reply to [my first name] [at] pigsonthewing.org.uk
| USA imprisons children without trial, at Guantanamo Bay:"

Should read:
|Andy Mabbett Reply to [my first name] [at] pigsonthewing.org.uk
|USA imprisons <Murderous Soulless> children without trial, at Guantanamo
Bay:

Guess they should all be transferred to the UK, into the custody of Andy
Mabbett!! Would sure solve the overcrowding at Guantanamo, and his hands
would be so full that he couldn't bother this Group any more!

Just a thought.
 
Sigs ARE the only proper place for political statements in this
newsgroup (and any other not devoted to political issues).

Your post making a political comment on one such is indeed off-topic.
Thanks for noting it in your heading.
 
Richard said:
Richard Steven Hack
"Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger" -
and YOU have not killed me!
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LOL

I was introduced to your sig file's saying years ago by a friend.
At that point I asked him, "So, let me get this straight....if you get
your legs and arms chopped off and survive... you're stronger? What
about if your liver fails and you have to get a transplant? What about
a heart attack that you survive? How about surviving a terrible burn?
Contracting an STD? Hepatitis? LEPROSY?"

I guess the truth of the matter is "That which does not kill me
*may* make me stronger in some ways (mentally for instance), but *may*
also make me weaker in others (physically for instance.)"

Whoever came up with that saying was engaging in purely wishful thinking.
 
John Corliss said:
Richard said:
"Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger" -
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[snip]

I was introduced to your sig file's saying years ago by a friend.
At that point I asked him, "So, let me get this straight....if you get
your legs and arms chopped off and survive... you're stronger? What
about if your liver fails and you have to get a transplant? What about
a heart attack that you survive? How about surviving a terrible burn?
Contracting an STD? Hepatitis? LEPROSY?"
Click to expand...

Or try: Syphilis.

The original saying came from Nietszche, who went insane as a result of
undiagnosed syphilis.


.. . .

The extra irony with Nietszche. He despised women collectively, and wrote
contemptuously of them. The best guess is that he'd only had sex a single
time. Once in his youth, with a prostitute. It would have been she who
delivered him the disease that eventually destroyed him.
 
omega said:
John said:
Richard said:
"Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger" -
Click to expand...
[snip]

I was introduced to your sig file's saying years ago by a friend.
At that point I asked him, "So, let me get this straight....if you get
your legs and arms chopped off and survive... you're stronger? What
about if your liver fails and you have to get a transplant? What about
a heart attack that you survive? How about surviving a terrible burn?
Contracting an STD? Hepatitis? LEPROSY?"
Click to expand...

Or try: Syphilis.
The original saying came from Nietszche, who went insane as a result of
undiagnosed syphilis.

The extra irony with Nietszche. He despised women collectively, and wrote
contemptuously of them. The best guess is that he'd only had sex a single
time. Once in his youth, with a prostitute. It would have been she who
delivered him the disease that eventually destroyed him.
Click to expand...

Egad....how very unpleasant! Thanks for the clarification though.
 
I was introduced to your sig file's saying years ago by a friend. At
that point I asked him, "So, let me get this straight....if you get
your legs and arms chopped off and survive... you're stronger?
Click to expand...

Another point sails way over Corliss' head...
 
I guess the truth of the matter is "That which does not kill me
*may* make me stronger in some ways (mentally for instance), but *may*
also make me weaker in others (physically for instance.)"

Whoever came up with that saying was engaging in purely wishful thinking.
Click to expand...

Or tendentiously misinterpreted, or not.

'What is the sound of one hand clapping'
Why do you think that is a question?

could mean:
Learn from your mistakes
Food for thought
or not.

You can stare into the abyss, and hope the bugger blinks first.
Or build a multispectrum hires digitally enchanced
optoelectronic sensor suite.
Then go to bed and fast forward the tape in the morning.
 
LOL

I was introduced to your sig file's saying years ago by a friend.
At that point I asked him, "So, let me get this straight....if you get
your legs and arms chopped off and survive... you're stronger? What
about if your liver fails and you have to get a transplant? What about
a heart attack that you survive? How about surviving a terrible burn?
Contracting an STD? Hepatitis? LEPROSY?"

I guess the truth of the matter is "That which does not kill me
*may* make me stronger in some ways (mentally for instance), but *may*
also make me weaker in others (physically for instance.)"

Whoever came up with that saying was engaging in purely wishful thinking.
Click to expand...

I thought you kill-filed me a year ago! Don't disappoint me now!
 
Richard said:
I thought you kill-filed me a year ago! Don't disappoint me now!
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So you want to remain hostile then. That makes a lot of sense. Seems
kind of arrogant to me.
 
My apologies for responding to him in this reply Richard, but I have
Mabbett killfiled.

Another misquote, Andy. It was Richard that included it in his message.

That's it Mabbett, throw out another vague, pretentious and arrogant
remark without backing it up. Along with red herrings, you seem
incapable of any other kind of remark. If you'd just take my advice
and clear out that blockage with a large draino cocktail.....
Sad, isn't it?
Hope nobody ever shows him a book on Zen.
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To Richard,
Must be comforting to mistakenly believe you're superior in any
sense of the word. And you're right, you do belong in my killfile. I
had forgotten just how rude an a**hole you can be.

No, but I have *killfiled* you again. Back ya go.....
PLONK<
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Seems like you could do me the courtesy of returning the favor.

<to self>God, when am I going to stop trying to talk to trolls like
they're people.</to self>
 
That's it Mabbett
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Please stop it, John. All it does is guarantee another followup from
him. My post here will probably generate a followup from him as well,
so this is the last time I'm going to ask you to stop it, at least for
a while.
 
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Complaining to their ISPs is my full-time career
But there's a twoll called Mavis there who makes me shake with fear!

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As I patrol in ACF all day and all night long
In search of links to adware or a magazine CD
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She's hiding underneath my bed and even in my dreams
The Mavis twoll cweeps up and makes me wake up with a scweam
A post may be in German from a Chinese ISP
But I know it's the Mavis twoll 'cause no one can fool me!

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Some people say I ought to just grow up and get a life
Instead of policing ACF creating storms and strife
But what those folk don't understand is that if I'm not there
The twolls will win the day and plunge the gwoup into despair!

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omega said:
The extra irony with Nietszche. He despised women collectively, and wrote
contemptuously of them. The best guess is that he'd only had sex a single
time. Once in his youth, with a prostitute. It would have been she who
delivered him the disease that eventually destroyed him.
Click to expand...

Well...

I don't have any personal knowlege of the alternative routes of
infection, but I understand there is at least one other and it does
not involve women.
 
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