__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Tuesday 25 July 2006 09:50 \__
> begin oe_protect.scr
> B Gruff <bbgruff@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> On Monday 24 July 2006 17:08 Sinister Midget wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Ha ha ha! You haven't lost your touch, Flattie. You're loonier than
>>> ever, but your wackiness is still as funny as the day they released you
>>> from the ward.
>>
>> He's great, isn't he?:-)
>> I just *had* to archive that one!
>>
>> The OP (Flattie, of course, but "being somebody else") had been trying a
>> specific distro (the same one as flattie) for "a couple of weeks".
>>
>> I translated that as two weeks, certainly in the sense of more than one,
>> less than three. If flattie thinks that a couple is six.... well.......
>> Certainly if I say that I want a couple of hundred quid for something, I'd
>> expect something close to £200, emphatically not less than £150, not more
>> than £250....
>>
>> .... but that has caused our fishy friend all sorts of angst!
>> It took me ages to twig what his Liar-liar diatribe was about - I think
>> that I was supposed to get wound up, contradict him, stress that the OP
>> really had said "two", etc so that he could show me how wrong I was.....
>> and I was supposed to follow up his cross-postings as well.... and..... oh
>> dear oh dear....... now he accuses *me* of hiding behind semantics.....
>> and he reckons that *I* am smoke-screening.......
>> I reckon flattie is mad - in both the American and U.K. first-choice sense
>> of the word - quite angry and very very crazy!
>>
>
> I'm sure you're right. The problem with trolls is that they exist for
> every reply, though. The more you reply to him, the more he'll post
> things, no matter how outrageous, just to get a response. billwg,
> linux-sax, dfs, kman, Erik f, Tim S, and so on. It would be better to
> ignore them.
...Better never to read what they say (potentially blocking
them out of view using filters/scoring rules/killfiles). No
read = no temptation to reply, even is something begs for a
correction or a rebuttal. Mark is exceptionally good when it
comes to leaving trolls alone in the sandbox.
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