Co-pilot gets sick, stewardess helps land airplane

On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:05:01 +0200, Mxsmanic wrote:

Wingnut writes:

From the looks of things, Hatunen and Mxsmanic have been against one
another for years.

As hard as it may be to believe, some people are neither for nor against
each other.

True, but not relevant to this discussion. Your disagreement had been
obvious, indeed blindingly so.

Is this a subtle attempt to rewrite history and claim that he's always
been your ally, as a means of deflecting uncomfortable questions
regarding why he switched sides? After all if he didn't switch sides
questions about why he did will look silly rather than calling your
character into question, so such a pretense would seem to serve a useful
purpose for you.

For whatever reason Mxsmanic is really, really incensed by what I
wrote, so much so that he's very persistent, nigh-relentless, in trying
to frame me as some kind of moron or incompetent.

I don't even remember what you wrote

Even though I've been reposting it several times a week lately partly
just to nettle you?

No problem. Used to be you were facing a certain death sentence, but,
these days, there are treatment options that can dramatically slow the
progression of Alzheimer's.

Anyway, here it is again:

"Consider who would have been landing the plane if something had caused
the pilot to also conk out, though. Then her prior flight experience
would have become quite relevant indeed."

All the while just making
himself look like a know-nothing self-styled know-it-all in front of a
brand new audience of rec.arts.tv regulars ...

Even if that were true, I'm not sure why I should care what anyone on
rec.arts.tv thinks about aviation.

Neither am I. Hasn't apparently stopped you flooding that newsgroup with
a lot of posts on the topic, though.

... plus the older fact that Mxsmanic is my enemy ...

OMG! Why can't we all just get along?(R)

I don't know. Why can't we? Why is it that after I posted

"Consider who would have been landing the plane if something had caused
the pilot to also conk out, though. Then her prior flight experience
would have become quite relevant indeed."

(there it is again!)

you started making repeated nasty and sly suggestions about me in public?
Insulting my intelligence repeatedly by talking down to me, suggesting
that there was something wrong with my thinking, and things like that?

It seems you cannot stand to read an opinion that differs from your own
without responding with at least a sneering and looking-down-the-nose
tone to whomever just posted it. And *that* makes it hard for anyone to
get along with you, specifically.

The bigger problem is that, while you are entitled to your own opinion,
you aren't entitled to your own facts, and your repeated implicit claim
that learning curves could veer wildly about rather than being monotonic
increasing is simply laughable from a scientific perspective.

... one concludes that Mxsmanic and Hatunen have become allied; the
only remaining question is why.

The Trilateral Illuminati Freemasons Commission insisted--it was an
essential step in their quest for world domination and mind-control.

Based on various references and other data, I compute a greater than 97%
chance that this response is a lie intended to conceal a more mundane and
sordid explanation of some sort, with a probable secondary purpose of
trying to make me look silly.

But it was not *I* that brought world domination and Freemasons into the
discussion...so who *really* is the silly one?

We are but pawns in the Grand Plan. I know the location of the keystone,
and I have tickets for the Rose Line.

Yeah, yeah, and meanwhile I'm the chairman of the shadow government of
the United States of America and with a word I could have your hometown
nuked to bedrock. :-)

The danger represented here is obvious: if one person could suddenly
switch to Mxsmanic's side, presumably others could.

And civilization--as we know it--would crumble into dust.

Perhaps nothing quote so melodramatic, but if the same happened on a
larger scale, involving many "Mxsmanics" that felt entitled not only to
their own opinions but to their own facts, we could see a repeat of what
happened the *last* time such a thing happened.

That was when the Catholic Church, in particular, gained power over much
of Europe and actively promoted ignorance and superstitious beliefs over
knowledge and science. We know the result as the Dark Ages. Witch hunts,
inquisitions, crusades. Cholera, smallpox, bubonic plague. I really don't
think we want a repeat of all that. Do you?

Are you interested in discussing aviation, by chance?

No, not really. Certainly not with you.