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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 15 Oct 1998.
Re: oops

Re: oops


Colin Douthwaite wrote:

> joris bellenger <svz...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> >Colin Douthwaite wrote:
>
> >[snip]
>
> >> I really don't think that 13 year olds can fully understand FAQs,
> >> documents and literature which were written for mature adults.
>
> >Colin, maybe you should meet kids more often.You'd be surprised how much they
> >understand.
>
> Joris, My Dear Young Thing...you are trying to teach your
> grandfather to suck eggs. How many kids have you got Joris?

I wrote: "Colin, maybe you should meet kids more often"and not: "Colin, maybe you
should make kids more often".Anyway... I don't think this is relevant but I've got
one kid,named Ot, and I'm -very- proud of him. Aaaah damn... *Pride* again...
one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
I'm loooost! AAaaaargghhhhh!

> >> That is not an insult but more likely to be fact and it does not itself
> >> make those young people stupid. It is more likely to be their own
> >> behaviour and attitudes that makes them appear stupid.
>
> > Colin, maybe you should meet kids more often.You'd be able to
> > understand their behaviour and attitudes and they (most of them)
> > won't appear stupid to you anymore.
>
> See above.

Ditto

>
>
> > >    -Sarah (13 and proud)
> >
> >> Pride is the most deadly of the Seven Deadly Sins.
> >> After Hubris comes Nemesis.
> >> "Pride always cometh before a fall".
>
> > blah blah religious propaganda.
>
> Bullshit Joris, you can do better than that.

But can you?

> Those things listed often turn out to be correct in real life.

My gawd... he's completely brainwashed!

> >> I am quite surprised that you are indeed 13 years old because some
> >> of your pictures, I think would suggest a much younger child, say 7
> >> or 8, but of course physical age and actual maturity are not
> >> necessarily related...it very much depends on each individual.
>
> > Good! a 13 year old can read and fully understand a FAQ then,or
> > any other "literature written for mature adults" (I'm not sure I
> > understand those myself... but I'm not mature that's for sure.
> > Most of my drawings will tell you that).
>
> Well now, I think those remarks by you may explain why you have made
> such an unintelligent posting on this occasion.

We all can see how intelligent your remarks are.

[snip pics]

> As an artist you are superb...

Thanks...   :)

> that's what you should concentrate on
> rather than the commentary you have written in this particular
> posting of yours...which was largely...Bullpoop:

> +----------------------------+
> |                            |
> |                            |
> |                            |
> |   NO BULLPOOP  PLEASE !!!  |
> |                            |
> |          __     __         |
> |          \ \   / /         |
> |           \ \ / /          |
> |            >   <           |
> |           / / \ \          |
> |          / /   \ \         |
> |         /_/     \_\        |
> !                            |
> |                            |
> |                 (___)      |
> |                 (o o)      |
> |         /--------\ /       |
> |       * o|      ||O        |
> |          ||,----||         |
> |       ooo^^     ^^         |
> |                            |
> |                     -cfbd- |
> +----------------------------+
>

Bullshit? Bullpoop?... these are smashing arguments colin  :D(and he tells me to
do better)

> Bottom line, Joris:

(this one is too easy to answer at... so I'll pass)

> Usenet newsgroups are for adults not children, whether you agree
> with that fact or not.
>

This isn't the issue here.

> Toodles,



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