Richard said:
Seamus MacRae said:
Perhaps
There's no "perhaps" about it.
Well, if you count a correction as an attack
I count a "correction" as an attack. A correction, no, but a
"correction", yes. I am aware that the distinction is subtle.
That isn't for you to decide. (Or are you now claiming to be Saint
Peter, too?)
It isn't up to you to decide
I wasn't deciding; I was merely observing.
I have no personal animosity towards you whatsoever.
This, of course, is a blatant lie. Your behavior speaks volumes about
your opinions and emotions, and it is a more trustworthy indicator of
those things than your explicit claims about same.
I do dislike the way you "argue"
That is normal. It's a deterrent. You are not supposed to argue with me;
consequently, I have made it such that doing so results in an unpleasant
wading-through-tar sort of frustrating feeling in the arguer, to
discourage them from continuing and from picking a second fight with me
at any later date.
This, of course, is another lie.
If you feel so strongly that this is an appropriate matter for
private email, why have I not received any emails from you?
You first. I'm not going to respond privately to rebut a public
accusation/insult made against me, for the obvious reason that the
rebuttal has to be part of the public record to be effective. If you
want me to rebut in private, you have to insult me in private. (Of
course, then I also get the option of just ignoring you instead.)
Oh, and good luck getting an ISP to inconvenience a customer for
/not/ breaking any rules.
Did you forget the bit where I quoted chapter and verse from your
provider's AUP and pointed out the parts you might be seen as violating?
No, I am not. I am publicly rebutting them.
You can stop any time you like.
I have stopped. This is not a discussion; it is a public rebuttal of
public statements that you made. Its audience is not you; its audience
is everyone else, the people that you might otherwise successfully
mislead about me.
Er, actually rebuttals *are* part of discussion.
These ones are not. My position on the topic of my own mental
functioning is not amenable to negotiation or compromise. Nor,
apparently, is yours. Therefore discussing is futile. Rebuttal, on the
other hand, is not.
I haven't seen much evidence from your side
The evidence is in the self-evident fact of my intelligence. You may
have noticed my erudition and correct spelling and grammar, which
already puts me in the top percentile of usenet users as near as I can
tell. I have also used forms of logic and demonstrated knowledge that
would not generally be available to the man you wish to publicly portray
me as, but which clearly ARE available to the man I actually am.
You keep making statements
about me in public that are in error.
I've only made two statements about you in public that I consider to
be particularly important. [insults deleted]
You have lied about me repeatedly, including by calling me a liar. I
don't care that you have limited your repertoire of vicious lies to only
a handful. Even just one would have been one too many.
Then why post it where I can read it?
Unfortunately, there does not seem to be a "post message for everyone
else in specified newsgroups but hide it from the author of the post I'm
quoting" function in Thunderbird.
Then you're sure picking a funny group to post them in.
I have no choice as to what groups to post them in; to be read by the
same people that you're trying to mislead about me, they must be posted
as replies to your attack posts, in the same sets of newsgroups.
If you want to discuss programming, go right ahead, but leave my
name out of it and don't insinuate anything about me indirectly,
either.
Okay, let's do that.
Okay.
[calls me a liar]
Failed. You just insinuated something about me.
No, you're the liar, remember?
Liar.
It isn't. [insult deleted]
Liar.
(You have, by introducing expletives.) I have done only two
things in this subthread: (a) [implied insult deleted], and (b)
[insult deleted]
Yes, that's right, you've done only two things: insult me and
insult me some more.
No, I've done only two *important* things, and one of those was to
[insult me]. The other was to [insult me].
But insulting me is NOT important.
I don't believe I've insulted you at all
You just did. Twice. AGAIN.
Oh. So this whole thread is just a JOKE to you? Well, having my
professional skills publicly tarnished by baseless accusations does not
amuse me, and this whole flamewar probably has utterly failed to amuse
anyone else. So if you intended this as a joke, it looks like you've
failed at that, too.
Yes, but then I'm not in the habit of insulting people, so that's
all right then.
Okay, so to you, spewing off-topic insults into three newsgroups is
perfectly acceptable behavior so long as you only do it occasionally and
do not make a habit of it?
People say that about smoking, too. Then whine when they get diagnosed
with cancer.
I'm talking about your obsession with publicly "correcting" me, publicly
calling me names, and more generally trying to publicly humiliate me for
the heinous crime of failing to agree with all of your opinions.
No, you're the liar, remember?
Everything you write about yourself comes across to me as being
negative.
That's because you're wacko, so everything you read seems to you to mean
the opposite of what it actually means.
So? What has that to do with anything?
It disproves one of your lies. That's what.
