🚀 go-pugleaf

bsw@netcom.com (Bruce Sterling Woodcock) writes:

> Geoff, babe.  Three things:

Yes, sweetums?


> If you want to argue with steiner, there is a fine steiner simulator that
> was posted to one of the sources newsgroups.  Use it, and spare USENET
> from your endless bickering.

Had I known that you were the moderator for all of USENET, I certainly
would've solicited your input before posting.  Perhaps you should make
your lofty station in life more widely known, so that others don't repeat
this grevous faux pas.


> If you insist on continuing to post such trash, please keep it *out* of
> netcom.general.  It's not welcome.

That's too goddam bad.  Are you the Cock <heh> Of the Walk for netcom.general
as well?  My, you're certainly a man of many facets, aren't you?  Fuck off.

Oh, and I can't help noticing your silence when Steiner took the unprovoked
potshot at me that triggered my response.  What was the reason for that,
pray tell?  I must say, I detect a bit of inconsistency on your part for
one who professes not to enjoy net.hostility.

I've noticed that it seems to be human nature to assume that the obvious
victor in any dispute is actually the aggressor.  I wonder why that is...


> Your pathetic attempts to damage the other person's credibility by
> accusing them (correctly or not) of being a transsexual, in whatever
> stage, are particularly contemptuous.  

First of all, my response had nothing to do with damaging Steiner's
credibility; he does an admirable job of that on his own.  And secondly,
there was no "accusing" involved.  Steiner has posted, in some detail,
about his impending sex-change operation in rec.org.mensa.  It's public
knowledge, and has been for some time.  So save your knee-jerking for
a more appropriate occasion.


> To suggest they are any less a person to be treated with dignity only
> serves to undermine your perhaps otherwise tenable position.  It would
> be like you were trying to win an argument by telling everyone else, 
> "Psst... hey... he's a nigger.  Don't listen to him."  

Yeah, and you'd probably try to critique a movie that you'd walked in on
halfway through, too.  If you'd bothered to step back and observe the
proverbial forest rather than the trees, you'd recall that Steiner made
an unprovoked attack on me.  You might've heard that old saying about
how people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones?  It seems
that li'l Mikie just received an object lesson in that.

I've known about Steiner's, ah, _situation_ for several weeks now, but
I'd decided to take the high road and refrain from commenting on it.
For one thing, a flamefest that we were both involved in was long over,
and for another, I wouldn't ordinarily consider a person's sexual matters
worthy of comment.  But his snide and entirely unprovoked attack changed
the situation dramatically.  It was time for the gloves to come off.


> I hope you learn the error of your ways... were I of a physically violent
> inclination, I'd suggest the quickest way for you to learn that is to have
> a little "snip snip" demonstrated on yourself.

You mealy-mouthed little wankstain.  When I want your opinion, I'll give
it to you.  Now run along and try to work on what appear to be delusions
of grandeur.  You're nobody's spokesman except your own.



Geoff

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Geoff Miller                    + + + + + + + +                Mountain View 
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