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"Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message 
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> "Steve O" <nospamhere@thanks.com> wrote in message 
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>> "Smiler" <Smiler@Joe.King.com> wrote in message 
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>>> <hhyapster@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>>>> On Jul 17, 6:32 am, "Steve O" <nospamh...@thanks.com> wrote:
>>>>> "rbwinn" <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote in message
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>>>>> news:2c47d272-fec4-4636-bd37-2183f3f50f82@r66g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
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>>>>> > On Jul 15, 1:53 am, hhyaps...@gmail.com wrote:
>>>>> >> On Jul 15, 4:30 pm, The Natural Philosopher <a...@b.c> wrote:
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>>>>> >> Probably very true of rbwinn.
>>>>> >> When he told us that he is a welder, I actually wrote some real 
>>>>> >> advise
>>>>> >> for him to work hard and look forward towards a retirement, instead 
>>>>> >> of
>>>>> >> wasting time in the church on Sundays. Sundays pay thrice as much.
>>>>> >> However, my email could not get through>> ]
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>>>>> > Welding is fairly easy compared to picking oranges.  I should be 
>>>>> > able
>>>>> > to keep welding until I am about 97 years old.
>>>>> > Robert B. Winn
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>>>>> Don't.
>>>>> People get drier and crispier as they get older.
>>>>> You are likely to catch fire if you keep welding until that age.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Steve O
>>>>> a.a. #2240 (Apatheist Chapter)
>>>>> B.A.A.W.A.
>>>>> Convicted by Earthquack
>>>>> Exempt from purgatory by papal indulgence
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>>>> I believe all of us here should encourage him to see a real doctor who
>>>> is capable to repair his brain. The doctors in V.A. Hospital either do
>>>> not do a good job or they are as fed up with him as we are.
>>>> Instead of describing his condition, I believe he might be talking
>>>> nonsense to the doctor.
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>>> Exactly as he does to us. No change there, then.
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>> It's more than likely that Robbie exists on the fringes of the mental 
>> health service, not quite crazy enough to be sectioned and sane enough to 
>> live  in society.
>> There are plenty of people like him.
>> I quite often have to deal with the mentally ill, and it constantly 
>> surprises me how ill they have to be before the hospitals will take them 
>> in.
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> ... usually only after they have sliced and diced some passer-by ....
> :-(
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Not really, Alex.
More often than not, they're trying to harm themselves.
But like you say, sometimes they damage someone else, or at least try to.
Fortunately, that's rare, but it's usually the ones we get to hear about on 
the news which are the most alarming.

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Steve O
a.a. #2240 (Apatheist Chapter)
B.A.A.W.A.
Convicted by Earthquack
Exempt from purgatory by papal indulgence