Quotably Quoted #32

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The polly's will not die instantly in 15 days. They will slowly lose weight as they scrounge for food, but eat not enough to sustain life. After 90 days of slowly wasting away, they will get so weak, that they can no longer scrounge for food and then they slowly die. We have warned them, but they would not listen. So they will have to accept the consequenses for their stupidity.

bbb (bbb@bbb.com), December 12, 1999.

Doomer hopes and dreams for the death of those who would dare question - much less disagree (even though correct)...

Vindicated Regards,
Andy Ray



-- Andy Ray (andyman633@hotmail.com), June 20, 2000

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And everyone on this board NOW had those same "hopes and dreams"; is that right Andy you pathetic twerp? Go back to the pub, have a game of darts, and drink your stout like a good boy.

-- (nemesis@awol.com), June 20, 2000.

Look at the bright side, nemesis -- "Quotably Quoted" (the series) only has about 467 episodes to go!

-- I'm Here, I'm There (I'm Everywhere@so.beware), June 20, 2000.

So here we have an anonymous moron posting a moronic message on December 12. From this, Andy Ray extrapolates that this was the hope and dream of all doomers? Andy, this type of thing is exactly why you're getting tiresome.

-- Jim Cooke (JJCooke@yahoo.com), June 20, 2000.

Uh, Jim, Why not give Andy a fair shake and lets see all of the 100+ posts before we conclude that doomers had no ill wishes for "pollies". I was at TB2000 and saw LOTS of ill will. Called a "government shill" for posting power industry and other industry y2k facts more than once. Cussed out for posting good news, and calling nonsense nonsense. Accused of causing others "not to prepare".

Andy's picking the "low" end of the doomer mentality, and certainly it isn't indicative of all or maybe even most of the posters at TB2000, but the posts he is posting DID COME FROM TB2000. Keep that in mind :)

-- FactFinder (FactFinder@bzn.com), June 20, 2000.


>> the posts he is posting DID COME FROM TB2000 <<

Granted. I first came to TB2000 in about April/May 1999. I can freely testify that I saw a fair number of posts resembling this one, maybe numbering in the low hundreds, out of many tens of thousands.

However, if this post were in any way typical or representative of the bulk of the posts at TB2000, I wouldn't have stayed there past the first 20 minutes, because it would have been nothing more than a moron-fest. Instead I stayed for the next eight months.

This is exactly typical of the sort of stuff I passed over with the interior comment, "idiot". But then, it doesn't exactly contribute to the conversation to stop and point at every idiot and say it aloud. It is simpler and more to the point to pass on in silence, lest you encourage them to new heights.

It might be more illustrative of TB2000, if Andy Ray quoted the context of this, by showing who responded to bbb and what they said. Believe me, this forum couldbe made to look awfully moronic with a bit of selective quoting, too.

-- Brian McLaughlin (brianm@ims.com), June 20, 2000.



Paul Milne was considered a 'god' by many of the regulars here. He was full of vitriol for anyone who disagreed with him.

-- midgy (Mogrin@aol.aol), June 20, 2000.

>> He was full of vitriol for anyone who disagreed with him. <<

I disagreed with him, although more openly on csy2k (on Usenet) than here on TB2000, where he was more often than not only being quoted by an admirer. The vitriol never bothered me. They were nothing but words, words, words.

And I have never been at a loss for how to turn a jackass's words against their speaker. The sharper the words the more they cut when turned back on their originator.

-- Brian McLaughlin (brianm@ims.com), June 21, 2000.


FF:

Sure, there were a lot of people on the doomer side that had their share of vitriol to pass around and I didn't have to put up with it so I understand where you're coming from.

OTOH, was this BBB character anyone of any importance? Was he a regular contributor that I missed in my review of many of the old TB2K messages? If not, why single him out as an example of anything? Rather like saying the one man talking to the telephone pole is indicative of the entire neighborhood.

-- Jim Cooke (JJCooke@yahoo.com), June 21, 2000.


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