genuine_froggie
01-21-2005, 03:59 AM
The Older Gentleman <chateauSPAMKILL.murray@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> <danny_deever2000@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Bear wrote:
>> > Oh, and *plonk* BTW, twat.
>> Can someone explain killfiling to me.
>>
>> You can't stop someone posting. You can just choose to no longer be
>> given the oppotunity to read their posts.
> In MacSoup it does slightly more than that. But, yeah.
>> So unless they *really* want you to read their posts it won't effect
>> them. In fact they wouldn't even know if they weren't told.
>>
>> So a) why tell someone you're kill filing them. b) why should they GAF
>> when you tell them that?
> I've said before that I've never really understood the point of calling
> "Plonk!", but enough people seem to like doing it to make me accept that
> there may be some merit in it. Somewhere.
It comes from an exagerrated opinion of one's importance, and of one's
intelligence. Which is why Ace and Blaney are two of the worst
'offenders'. Much like the ten-year-old who is convinced that when he
tells a friend, 'I'm not speaking to you anymore!', the latter will be
so crushed that he will become a tearful, gibbering wreck. The above-
mentioned gentlemen don't seem to realise that no one gives a flying ****
whether they read posts made here, for the simple reason that they're not,
contrary to their wildest, borderline pro-pubescent fantasies, greater than
the sum of UKRM.
--
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> <danny_deever2000@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> Bear wrote:
>> > Oh, and *plonk* BTW, twat.
>> Can someone explain killfiling to me.
>>
>> You can't stop someone posting. You can just choose to no longer be
>> given the oppotunity to read their posts.
> In MacSoup it does slightly more than that. But, yeah.
>> So unless they *really* want you to read their posts it won't effect
>> them. In fact they wouldn't even know if they weren't told.
>>
>> So a) why tell someone you're kill filing them. b) why should they GAF
>> when you tell them that?
> I've said before that I've never really understood the point of calling
> "Plonk!", but enough people seem to like doing it to make me accept that
> there may be some merit in it. Somewhere.
It comes from an exagerrated opinion of one's importance, and of one's
intelligence. Which is why Ace and Blaney are two of the worst
'offenders'. Much like the ten-year-old who is convinced that when he
tells a friend, 'I'm not speaking to you anymore!', the latter will be
so crushed that he will become a tearful, gibbering wreck. The above-
mentioned gentlemen don't seem to realise that no one gives a flying ****
whether they read posts made here, for the simple reason that they're not,
contrary to their wildest, borderline pro-pubescent fantasies, greater than
the sum of UKRM.
--
genuine_froggie@zeouane.org
UKRM's Man in France
BMW K100-LT
http://tinyurl.com/6y3gk