🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <e09b1e$dlg@u1.netgate.net>,
 geoffm@u1.netgate.net (Geoff Miller) wrote:

> Dan Abel  <dabel@sonic.net> writes:
> 
> > Yeah, but does your nitwit threaten to firebomb your house?  I have 
> > never before been threatened with physical violence on a newsgroup.  
> 
> If I were to say, "Dan, you deserve a million dollars," would you
> expect a large deposit to your bank account, or maybe someone showing
> up at your door unannounced with an attache case full of crisp, banded
> bank notes?  Of course not; you'd recognize the sentiment as nothing
> more than a figure of speech.


So is, "fuck you, asshole".  I don't like being told that either.


> So then why do you feel threatened when someone says that you deserve
> to be firebombed?  Saying that somebody "deserves" something isn't the
> same thing as offering to do the honors oneself.

I don't feel threatened.  I *was* threatened.  It wasn't a serious 
threat, but where did it come from?


> > It's a strange experience.
> 
> I miss the old days of the Net, when I used to get the occasional death
> threat.  Nowadays I seldom even get hate mail anymore.  <sniff>

In school, I always got the box "gets along well with others" checked.  
At work, under that category, I always did well.  I find this strange 
because, well, it's strange.  It's not my personality, and not my 
self-image.

Perhaps it's time for me to stop playing with Tim.

-- 
Dan Abel
dabel@sonic.net
Petaluma, California, USA