United's Good Friday night massacre

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:45:27 GMT, sechumlib
wrote:

On 2006-04-26 02:17:21 -0400, "colin." said:

(2) What's the point of reading and writing on an air travel newsgroup
if that is your point of view. Or do you just like stating you never
fly anywhere. Seems rather pointless.

I posted on the rec.travel.usa-canada newsgroup. Not my fault if it
gets on others.


Sure it is. It is your responsibility to not croospost, but if you
choose to be a doofus anyway, don't throw up your hands and say "it's
not my fault!"

On 2006-04-26 18:14:32 -0400, Bob Ward said:

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 12:45:27 GMT, sechumlib
wrote:

On 2006-04-26 02:17:21 -0400, "colin." said:

(2) What's the point of reading and writing on an air travel newsgroup
if that is your point of view. Or do you just like stating you never
fly anywhere. Seems rather pointless.

I posted on the rec.travel.usa-canada newsgroup. Not my fault if it
gets on others.


Sure it is. It is your responsibility to not croospost, but if you
choose to be a doofus anyway, don't throw up your hands and say "it's
not my fault!"

OK, I'll say something else. Seems to me that it makes eminent sense to
post on an air travel newsgroup that I'm not traveling by air. That's
relevant in that it may make others think twice about it.

Not that I've noticed any tendency for those others to think my way.

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 22:42:49 GMT, sechumlib
wrote:


OK, I'll say something else. Seems to me that it makes eminent sense to
post on an air travel newsgroup that I'm not traveling by air. That's
relevant in that it may make others think twice about it.

Not that I've noticed any tendency for those others to think my way.

At least that final comment shows, slightly surprisingly,
that there are some intelligent people reading this group.

Using your logic, if you don't indulge in philately then you
should be a subscriber to rec.collecting.stamps; and as a
committed christian you should be subscribing to
alt.atheism. Yeah, right.

If you subscribe to no other groups (actually, we both know
of one:-), may I suggest alt.twit or alt.silliness?

Cheers, Alan, Australia

On 2006-04-27 04:40:36 -0400, Alan S said:

If you subscribe to no other groups (actually, we both know
of one:-), may I suggest alt.twit or alt.silliness?

The group you are referring to is obviously the diabetes-related one. I
don't subscribe any more. I have NEVER seen a bunch of "people" more
offensive, less informed and more rude. If you think I'm that way (and
you obviously do), just read a few of the other cockamamie postings in
that group and you might be better educated about the weirdos there.

I originally subscribed in the hope that I might learn something.
Forget it! After nearly 68 years of Type I, still being in excellent
health, I could give THEM a lot more information than I ever got from
them; but they wouldn't accept it without flaming me, so why bother?

I've participated in a few flaming contests myself, in the two
remaining NG's that I pay any attention to. Never, however, in either
of them have I found the degree of mean-spiritedness shown by those
diabetics.

Is there something about the disease that causes such uncivilized
behavior, I wonder? If so, why do I think I've mostly escaped it after
all this time?

I know precisely what you'll say now: that I'm no better, and maybe
worse. I disagree. You're entitled to your opinion, but I can use it to
type you and I do.

I further suggest that the mythical NG's you suggested to me are at
least as relevant to you as they are to me.

On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:14:56 GMT, sechumlib
wrote:

On 2006-04-27 04:40:36 -0400, Alan S said:

If you subscribe to no other groups (actually, we both know
of one:-), may I suggest alt.twit or alt.silliness?

The group you are referring to is obviously the diabetes-related one. I
don't subscribe any more. I have NEVER seen a bunch of "people" more
offensive, less informed and more rude. If you think I'm that way (and
you obviously do), just read a few of the other cockamamie postings in
that group and you might be better educated about the weirdos there.

I originally subscribed in the hope that I might learn something.
Forget it! After nearly 68 years of Type I, still being in excellent
health, I could give THEM a lot more information than I ever got from
them; but they wouldn't accept it without flaming me, so why bother?

Your choice, and your judgemet. No argument with the first,
and we'll never agree on the second.

I've participated in a few flaming contests myself, in the two
remaining NG's that I pay any attention to. Never, however, in either
of them have I found the degree of mean-spiritedness shown by those
diabetics.

Is there something about the disease that causes such uncivilized
behavior, I wonder? If so, why do I think I've mostly escaped it after
all this time?

You think so, do you? Are you sure you have? :-))

I know precisely what you'll say now: that I'm no better, and maybe
worse. I disagree. You're entitled to your opinion, but I can use it to
type you and I do.

I further suggest that the mythical NG's

Do a little checking. Not mythical. Just useless:-)

you suggested to me are at
least as relevant to you as they are to me.

Cheers, Alan, Australia