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Annie Woughman
Apr 2, 2012, 7:33:13 PM4/2/12
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With increasing frequency I have been urged to "share with my friends" on
Facebook or Twitter what I am reading, whether it is a news story or a blog.
Who gives a rats a**? I don't care who is reading whatever or wherever, and
I am sure no one is waiting with baited breath to find out what I am
reading. Are people so full of themselves that they think anyone cares
about this kind of crap? It wouldn't annoy me quite so much if it didn't
involve pop-ups that require my clicking on them to close them before I can
finish reading said article. It is getting so I just click out of the
article instead of playing their idiotic games.
Facebook or Twitter what I am reading, whether it is a news story or a blog.
Who gives a rats a**? I don't care who is reading whatever or wherever, and
I am sure no one is waiting with baited breath to find out what I am
reading. Are people so full of themselves that they think anyone cares
about this kind of crap? It wouldn't annoy me quite so much if it didn't
involve pop-ups that require my clicking on them to close them before I can
finish reading said article. It is getting so I just click out of the
article instead of playing their idiotic games.
Julian Macassey
Apr 2, 2012, 8:25:52 PM4/2/12
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On Mon, 2 Apr 2012 16:33:13 -0700, Annie Woughman
<anniew...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> With increasing frequency I have been urged to "share with my friends" on
> Facebook or Twitter what I am reading, whether it is a news story or a blog.
Farcebook and Twotter are for the self obsessed and the
<anniew...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> With increasing frequency I have been urged to "share with my friends" on
> Facebook or Twitter what I am reading, whether it is a news story or a blog.
self absorbed.
Let then gaze at their own navels. I really don't care
what some moron had for breakfast.
--
It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through
disobedience and through rebellion. - Oscar Wilde
Geoff Miller
Apr 22, 2012, 1:12:43 AM4/22/12
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"Annie Woughman" <anniew...@hotmail.com> writes:
[sharing trivial personal stuff on Facebook]
> I don't care who is reading whatever or wherever, and I am sure no one is
> waiting with baited breath to find out what I am reading.
Bate, v.: to reduce the force or intensity of : restrain <with bated
breath> (dictionary.com)
> Are people so full of themselves that they think anyone cares
> about this kind of crap?
I didn't think that narcissism could manifest any more strikingly than
it did with the "personal homepage" craze of the '90s, but Facebook
belies that. Records, as the saying goes, are meant to be broken.
I'm a very private person by nature. But even taking that into
account, I'm amazed at the trivia that denizens of Facebook believe
others will find interesting. Using Facebook as a forum for posting
one's thoughts, opinions, analyses, and ideas is well and good. But
broadcasting to the world that you just discovered this awesome new
recipe for grilled salmon? Not so much.
Geoff
--
"Feminism is not the radical notion that women are human. It's the
religious fiction that women are innocent." -- Jim Goad
Uncle Steve
Apr 22, 2012, 6:21:27 AM4/22/12
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On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 10:12:43PM -0700, Geoff Miller wrote:
>
>
>
> "Annie Woughman" <anniew...@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> [sharing trivial personal stuff on Facebook]
>
> > I don't care who is reading whatever or wherever, and I am sure no one is
> > waiting with baited breath to find out what I am reading.
>
> *Bated* breath.
>
> Bate, v.: to reduce the force or intensity of : restrain <with bated
> breath> (dictionary.com)
>
>
> > Are people so full of themselves that they think anyone cares
> > about this kind of crap?
>
> Sadly, they are.
>
> I didn't think that narcissism could manifest any more strikingly than
> it did with the "personal homepage" craze of the '90s, but Facebook
> belies that. Records, as the saying goes, are meant to be broken.
>
> I'm a very private person by nature. But even taking that into
> account, I'm amazed at the trivia that denizens of Facebook believe
> others will find interesting. Using Facebook as a forum for posting
> one's thoughts, opinions, analyses, and ideas is well and good. But
> broadcasting to the world that you just discovered this awesome new
> recipe for grilled salmon? Not so much.
Mr. Miller. How good of you to grace alt.peeves with your presence.
>
>
>
> "Annie Woughman" <anniew...@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> [sharing trivial personal stuff on Facebook]
>
> > I don't care who is reading whatever or wherever, and I am sure no one is
> > waiting with baited breath to find out what I am reading.
>
> *Bated* breath.
>
> Bate, v.: to reduce the force or intensity of : restrain <with bated
> breath> (dictionary.com)
>
>
> > Are people so full of themselves that they think anyone cares
> > about this kind of crap?
>
> Sadly, they are.
>
> I didn't think that narcissism could manifest any more strikingly than
> it did with the "personal homepage" craze of the '90s, but Facebook
> belies that. Records, as the saying goes, are meant to be broken.
>
> I'm a very private person by nature. But even taking that into
> account, I'm amazed at the trivia that denizens of Facebook believe
> others will find interesting. Using Facebook as a forum for posting
> one's thoughts, opinions, analyses, and ideas is well and good. But
> broadcasting to the world that you just discovered this awesome new
> recipe for grilled salmon? Not so much.
I still remember the glory days of this group, when the likes of you
reigned over the illiterate trolls who would dare to post from time to
time. It was a great time, and a great newsgroup.
So sad that Usenet has come to this.
Regards,
Uncle Steve
--
"Giving money and power to the government is like giving whiskey and
car keys to teenaged boys" - P. J. O'Rourke
Julian Macassey
Apr 22, 2012, 11:04:18 AM4/22/12
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On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 06:21:27 -0400, Uncle Steve <stev...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Mr. Miller. How good of you to grace alt.peeves with your presence.
> I still remember the glory days of this group, when the likes of you
> reigned over the illiterate trolls who would dare to post from time to
> time. It was a great time, and a great newsgroup.
Then eternal September arrived.
>
> Mr. Miller. How good of you to grace alt.peeves with your presence.
> I still remember the glory days of this group, when the likes of you
> reigned over the illiterate trolls who would dare to post from time to
> time. It was a great time, and a great newsgroup.
>
> So sad that Usenet has come to this.
It has, but on the plus side, the tards that invaded
> So sad that Usenet has come to this.
usenet have all moved on to farcebook, leaving usenet to people
who are not so self absorbed and illiterate.
--
I have some great friends who are NASCAR team owners. - Willard
Mitt Romney
Adam Thornton
Apr 22, 2012, 1:00:19 PM4/22/12
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In article <slrnjp87fi...@adeed.tele.com>,
days of alt.tasteless.
And then I think to myself something like, "Jesus Donkeypunching Christ,
that was twenty fucking years ago! I'm *ancient*," or maybe "oh fuck,
I'm getting maudlin; how much Scotch have I actually already *had*?"
I usually settle for humming a few bars of Auld Lang Syne and waving a
shotgun threateningly at the whippersnappers on my lawn.
Adam
Julian Macassey <jul...@tele.com> wrote:
>On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 06:21:27 -0400, Uncle Steve <stev...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Mr. Miller. How good of you to grace alt.peeves with your presence.
>> I still remember the glory days of this group, when the likes of you
>> reigned over the illiterate trolls who would dare to post from time to
>> time. It was a great time, and a great newsgroup.
>
> Then eternal September arrived.
>>
>> So sad that Usenet has come to this.
>
> It has, but on the plus side, the tards that invaded
>usenet have all moved on to farcebook, leaving usenet to people
>who are not so self absorbed and illiterate.
Cascades like this make me sniffle nostalgically about the great old
>On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 06:21:27 -0400, Uncle Steve <stev...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Mr. Miller. How good of you to grace alt.peeves with your presence.
>> I still remember the glory days of this group, when the likes of you
>> reigned over the illiterate trolls who would dare to post from time to
>> time. It was a great time, and a great newsgroup.
>
> Then eternal September arrived.
>>
>> So sad that Usenet has come to this.
>
> It has, but on the plus side, the tards that invaded
>usenet have all moved on to farcebook, leaving usenet to people
>who are not so self absorbed and illiterate.
days of alt.tasteless.
And then I think to myself something like, "Jesus Donkeypunching Christ,
that was twenty fucking years ago! I'm *ancient*," or maybe "oh fuck,
I'm getting maudlin; how much Scotch have I actually already *had*?"
I usually settle for humming a few bars of Auld Lang Syne and waving a
shotgun threateningly at the whippersnappers on my lawn.
Adam
Uncle Steve
Apr 23, 2012, 2:32:06 PM4/23/12
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On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 03:04:18PM +0000, Julian Macassey wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 06:21:27 -0400, Uncle Steve <stev...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Mr. Miller. How good of you to grace alt.peeves with your presence.
> > I still remember the glory days of this group, when the likes of you
> > reigned over the illiterate trolls who would dare to post from time to
> > time. It was a great time, and a great newsgroup.
>
> Then eternal September arrived.
The Eternal September occured in 1993; alt.peeves was great until about
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 06:21:27 -0400, Uncle Steve <stev...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Mr. Miller. How good of you to grace alt.peeves with your presence.
> > I still remember the glory days of this group, when the likes of you
> > reigned over the illiterate trolls who would dare to post from time to
> > time. It was a great time, and a great newsgroup.
>
> Then eternal September arrived.
2001.
> > So sad that Usenet has come to this.
>
> It has, but on the plus side, the tards that invaded
> who are not so self absorbed and illiterate.
Plus Usenet is under attack by all manner of right- and left-tards who
are terrified of a political class that is both literate and
collaborative as well as far more competent than said tards.
Annie Woughman
May 3, 2012, 3:35:22 AM5/3/12
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"Geoff Miller" <geo...@netgate.net> wrote in message
news:8247p7p0ava6a2fpi...@4ax.com...
>
>
>
> "Annie Woughman" <anniew...@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> [sharing trivial personal stuff on Facebook]
>
>> I don't care who is reading whatever or wherever, and I am sure no one is
>> waiting with baited breath to find out what I am reading.
>
> *Bated* breath.
>
> Bate, v.: to reduce the force or intensity of : restrain <with bated
> breath> (dictionary.com)
Heh, heh, I'm glad my kids weren't watching--I am always on their case to
>
>
> "Annie Woughman" <anniew...@hotmail.com> writes:
>
> [sharing trivial personal stuff on Facebook]
>
>> I don't care who is reading whatever or wherever, and I am sure no one is
>> waiting with baited breath to find out what I am reading.
>
> *Bated* breath.
>
> Bate, v.: to reduce the force or intensity of : restrain <with bated
> breath> (dictionary.com)
use the correct form of homonyms; teaching them the little hints to remember
which "there, they're or their, your or you're, bear or bare, etc. are
correct." They would find great humor in mom using the wrong bate/bait. You
do have to admit that bate is less common than the usual homonyms, but yep,
you caught me.
Adam Thornton
May 3, 2012, 8:32:44 PM5/3/12
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In article <1zqor.20572$M37....@newsfe01.iad>,
>> *Bated* breath.
>you caught me.
Geoff certainly knows a lot about 'bating.
Adam
Annie Woughman <anniew...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>"Geoff Miller" <geo...@netgate.net> wrote in message
>news:8247p7p0ava6a2fpi...@4ax.com...
>> "Annie Woughman" <anniew...@hotmail.com> writes:
>> [sharing trivial personal stuff on Facebook]
>>> baited breath
>"Geoff Miller" <geo...@netgate.net> wrote in message
>news:8247p7p0ava6a2fpi...@4ax.com...
>> "Annie Woughman" <anniew...@hotmail.com> writes:
>> [sharing trivial personal stuff on Facebook]
>> *Bated* breath.
>you caught me.
Geoff certainly knows a lot about 'bating.
Adam
Seth
May 4, 2012, 5:40:34 PM5/4/12
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>On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 06:21:27 -0400, Uncle Steve <stev...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Mr. Miller. How good of you to grace alt.peeves with your presence.
>> I still remember the glory days of this group, when the likes of you
>> reigned over the illiterate trolls who would dare to post from time to
>> time. It was a great time, and a great newsgroup.
>
> Then eternal September arrived.
It was already here; who do you think provided the illiterates?
>>
>> Mr. Miller. How good of you to grace alt.peeves with your presence.
>> I still remember the glory days of this group, when the likes of you
>> reigned over the illiterate trolls who would dare to post from time to
>> time. It was a great time, and a great newsgroup.
>
> Then eternal September arrived.
Seth
Geoff Miller
May 11, 2012, 11:21:52 PM5/11/12
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You can rest assured that I have matters well in hand.
Geoff
--
"Black men can be such great orators, yet they refuse
to perform oral sex." -- Jim Goad
Geoff
--
"Black men can be such great orators, yet they refuse
to perform oral sex." -- Jim Goad
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