"Bob Noel" wrote in message
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cripes, you are particularly grumpy.

And why shouldn't I be?

All of the responses to my question about what exactly Jim is trying to say
have been met with derision and insults. Not a single person took a moment
to try to actually comprehend my question or to try to address it. Instead,
they took the opportunity to completely ignore my question, pretend that
they in fact understood what Jim was trying to say, and act like I'm an
idiot just for asking a question.

You included. You even went out of your way to point out that you really
don't care. Your replies were obviously simply intended to harass, rather
than to educate. You said as much yourself.

And then you are surprised that I might be grumpy about it? Boy, you ARE
thick.

Frankly, I doubt that even Jim himself knows what he means. What I *do*
know is that he has no mode of communication that involves respect or
empathy. He attempts to cover up his own ignorance with bravado and
abusiveness, preferring to call people names to having any real discourse.
Jim can't put a post longer than a few sentences together without including
at least one curse word or insult, and most of the time his posts average
about one of those per sentence.

Honestly, I don't know what got into me, expecting him to actually take the
opportunity to clarify what it is he was writing. He's much better at
recognizing when he's made a mistake and then insulting someone else to try
to cover it up, than he is at actually communicating with other people.

Basically, my simple question brought out all of the usual Usenet behavior,
the people around here who cannot be bothered to *discuss*, preferring
instead to inflate their own egos at the expense of others and without
contributing a single iota of knowledge or information to the world at
large. Yours and Jim's replies in particular fit that all-too-common
pattern.

I've had a particularly crappy couple of months, since the beginning of
November, and so perhaps I'm a little edgier than usual. But the fact is,
there's plenty to be annoyed at here even for a person who's otherwise on an
even keel. So yeah, am I grumpy about it? You bet.

Pete