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Cat Forum / Health and Behavior / July 2005Something odd (OT)
Something I find very odd on Usenet is that large porportion of people who claim to have taken such interesting courses in school, etc, are so damn boring here. And moan about not having a job or a minimum wage job is all they claim they can get. If they were as highly educated as they claim to be then they'd have a better job and could post more about life than their monotonous boring drivel. > Something I find very odd on Usenet is that large porportion of people who > claim to have taken such interesting courses in school, etc, are so damn [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > better job and could post more about life than their monotonous boring > drivel. AMEN SISTER! > Something I find very odd on Usenet is that large porportion of people who > claim to have taken such interesting courses in school, etc, are so damn [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > better job and could post more about life than their monotonous boring > drivel. Purrs for all of our unemployed rpca friends. > > Something I find very odd on Usenet is that large porportion of people who > > claim to have taken such interesting courses in school, etc, are so damn [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Purrs for all of our unemployed rpca friends. lol now how did I know with 100% certainty you'd know exactly who I meant! > > > Something I find very odd on Usenet is that large porportion of people > who [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > lol now how did I know with 100% certainty you'd know exactly who I meant! "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life, you will have been all of these." ~George Washington Carver Hugs, CatNipped > > > > Something I find very odd on Usenet is that large porportion of people > > who [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > the weak and the strong. Because someday in life, you will have been all of > these." ~George Washington Carver That is a lovely quote, CN, and one I have never seen before. Thanks for sharing. > > > > > Something I find very odd on Usenet is that large porportion of > people [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > That is a lovely quote, CN, and one I have never seen before. Thanks > for sharing. You're welcome. I have no problem tolerating trolls and flame wars - heck, I even enjoy them when they are smart and witty. But, [not that is matters a gnat's fart to anyone else] what I dislike is mean-spiritedness. Hugs, CatNipped > > > > > > Something I find very odd on Usenet is that large porportion of > > people [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] > when they are smart and witty. But, [not that is matters a gnat's fart to > anyone else] what I dislike is mean-spiritedness. Excellent point. Another good one is that when one encounters mean-spiritedness in sufficient concentration, one must fight not to learn to respond in kind just as a matter of self defense. For example, Jill feels quite comfortable declaring to all my mental health problems and penchant for posting nonsense that nobody can understand. Since my posts are always well-written and clear in meaning, the latter must arise out of nothing more than her own mean-spirited wish to discredit me. As for being crazy, well, maybe. But one would think the good Usenet denizens can figure that one out for themselves. :) > > > > > > > Something I find very odd on Usenet is that large porportion of > > > people [quoted text clipped - 42 lines] > mean-spiritedness in sufficient concentration, one must fight not > to learn to respond in kind just as a matter of self defense. Yes, and that is often difficult to do. Not to mention any names (*cough*Lyn*cough*) but some people can drive you to want to reach through your computer and ensanguine their nasty faces. > For example, Jill feels quite comfortable declaring to all > my mental health problems and penchant for posting [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > good Usenet denizens can figure that one out for themselves. > :) Crazy? Hey, I resemble that remark!!! ;> Seriously, I don't like mean-spiritedness *whatever* the source. I should have posted this as a separate post so as not to implicate just one person/side. As for the "war" currently being waged... There are better ways to handle this than has been demonstrated. I *don't* believe in net-copping or trying to squelch someone's free speech. I think I've made it very clear, in several posts, that if a person wants to net-cop they should go after the child-pornographers and spammers. For the merely aggravating, use your kill-file or self-restraint and ignore. Hugs, CatNipped > > > > > > > > Something I find very odd on Usenet is that large porportion > of [quoted text clipped - 77 lines] > child-pornographers and spammers. For the merely aggravating, use your > kill-file or self-restraint and ignore. Yes, you have made yourself very clear there. I appreciate your sense of fairness. It goes a lot farther than the ham-handed tactics of the censors. >Excellent point. Another good one is that when one encounters >mean-spiritedness in sufficient concentration, one must fight not [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >good Usenet denizens can figure that one out for themselves. >:) However, you do post using a service that, like Altopia, has the sole purpose of anonymizing the identity its posters, something that is often used to the advantage of newsgroup trolls and perfomance artistes, so you're credibility is suspect right off the bat. Of course, you may argue that you use this service to protect yourself from the various murderers, stalkers, and other malicious types that abound in newsgroups especially those with long histories like the rec.pet.* newsgroups which seem to attract the bottom feeders of Usenet who know they can get a cheap and easy rise out of pet owners who tend to be a touchy bunch. Kind of like shooting fish in a barrel for the more accomplished disruptors. Cheap thrills for the mentally lazy. HAND, hope your cat don't die. > >Excellent point. Another good one is that when one encounters > >mean-spiritedness in sufficient concentration, one must fight not [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > often used to the advantage of newsgroup trolls and perfomance > artistes, so you're credibility is suspect right off the bat. No I don't. It is a regular ISP. news.x-private.org--and I also post using Teranews. They are not anonymizing at all. > Of course, you may argue that you use this service to protect yourself > from the various murderers, stalkers, and other malicious types that [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > HAND, hope your cat don't die. Why, thank you. I have two cats, and I hope they do not die either. And, in return, let me just say that I hope your cat "don't die." HAND, FOAD. :) I like that, CN. George was a smart man. Rhonda > "How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, > compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > CatNipped Quote: " If they were as highly educated as they claim to be then they'd have a > better job " I would like to take the opportunity to say bullsh*t. With a lagging economy, and in areas where unemployment is over 10 percent, education means little when the only places hiring are offering minimum wage, or able to slash their wages to take advantage of the desparation felt by the unemployed. For example, an assistant manager in this area makes LESS than an entry level worker in the place I grew up. But if you don't accept that, it's no job at all. --Enfilade, about to be making more money from her university scholarship for master's degree #2 than I made while working full time. > Quote: " If they were as highly educated as they claim to be then > they'd have a [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > --Enfilade, about to be making more money from her university > scholarship for master's degree #2 than I made while working full time. Where are you? > Quote: " If they were as highly educated as they claim to be then > they'd have a [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > --Enfilade, about to be making more money from her university > scholarship for master's degree #2 than I made while working full time. This post was not meant as a slur for everyone who is unemployed or in low paying jobs, it was meant directly for the handful of posters who comment as if their word is final on everything, and often in a rude sarcastic way. Yet brag about the degrees, courses etc they have, then bitch about having a sucky low paying job. If they put half their energy into looking for something better they may find it. I agree some areas are hit by a decline in good paying jobs, but some of these people live in areas of open job markets that are looking for well educated and experienced people. > This post was not meant as a slur for everyone who is unemployed or in low > paying jobs, it was meant directly for the handful of posters who comment as [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > in good paying jobs, but some of these people live in areas of open job > markets that are looking for well educated and experienced people. Three words: Work ethic, ambition, and initiative. Education *or* brains don't mean diddly squat, and brains won't get you anywhere without at least one of the above three. Sherry > > This post was not meant as a slur for everyone who is unemployed or in low > > paying jobs, it was meant directly for the handful of posters who comment as [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > Education *or* brains don't mean diddly squat, and brains won't get you > anywhere without at least one of the above three. Quite true. Long before I worked my way into and out of college, I worked my *ss off. All I ever wanted was my independence and to be a good person, able to look at my own face in the mirror without feeling ashamed of my behavior. I figured out early on that it is best to work hard for what you want. That way, you never have to suck up to anyone--and everything you have is YOURS. And you get to be who you are, you never have to fake anything. It rocks. I get off on hard work and challenges. :) Explanation accepted. I don't care for people who act like the final authority on Creation, no matter HOW educated they may or may not be. I currently live in the Atlantic provinces of Canada. Many people here are leaving for Alberta or Ontario in search of better job prospects or else working seasonally, collecting welfare in the winter because all the fishing and tourism jobs stop existing in September and don't start again until May. I am not leaving, because my fiance is in medical school here. We are lucky--when he is a doctor, we will hopefully not have financial problems. In the meantime, I am ex-military, suffering from neurological damage, and using the knowledge I gained in my crappy jobs to examine what I learned about myself, my abilities, and what makes me happy. This knowledge is why I have quit attempting to make it in a corporate environment and changed my energies towards pursuing an academic/literary career. While going to school I will also be teaching a course to earn some income, which is a job I enjoy, and--while it is only ten hours a week--pays quite well per hour. Lauren: do you really think I would be allowed to collect social assistance and also collect a full scholarship from Dalhousie? There are plenty of people suffering from the poor economy who are NOT on welfare. In fact, there are a lot of people who work their a.ses off for the miserable $6.50 CDN an hour (approx $5.40 US) that is minimum wage here. --Fil > Explanation accepted. > [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > --Fil I'm from the Atlantic provinces as well, and I understand completely, the economy is either seasonal or low waged, yet you pay one of the highest taxes, I never did understand that. What pisses me off is how people in the mainland provinces think the Atlantic provinces are just looking for handouts, which is not true, in my opinion they are simply looking for what is rightfully theirs. > Explanation accepted. > [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > --Fil Congrats on your sholarship! Keep your head up! Barry > I would like to take the opportunity to say bullsh*t. With a lagging > economy, and in areas where unemployment is over 10 percent, education [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > --Enfilade, about to be making more money from her university > scholarship for master's degree #2 than I made while working full time. Oh yes, blame the lagging economy...then get on public assistance so we have to support you.... Lauren working and have 25 master's degrees :) > > I would like to take the opportunity to say bullsh*t. With a lagging > > economy, and in areas where unemployment is over 10 percent, education [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Lauren > working and have 25 master's degrees :) I've got 26. And four PhDs. :) Nyah nyah! >>>I would like to take the opportunity to say bullsh*t. With a lagging >>>economy, and in areas where unemployment is over 10 percent, education [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > I've got 26. And four PhDs. :) Nyah nyah! My hubby has none and makes more than I do! ;) Pam, with one measley master's degree and a teaching job > >>>I would like to take the opportunity to say bullsh*t. With a lagging > >>>economy, and in areas where unemployment is over 10 percent, education [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > Pam, > with one measley master's degree and a teaching job He must have a trade. Where have you been? Hope you're feeling okay. >>>>>I would like to take the opportunity to say bullsh*t. With a lagging >>>>>economy, and in areas where unemployment is over 10 percent, education [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > He must have a trade. Where have you been? Hope you're > feeling okay. He does. It is called the computer. Amazing what people will pay for computer literate people!!! I have been here and I am feeling good...just tired a lot. :) > >>>>>I would like to take the opportunity to say bullsh*t. With a lagging > >>>>>economy, and in areas where unemployment is over 10 percent, education [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > I have been here and I am feeling good...just tired a lot. :) Hmm. Are they still adjusting your synthroid dose? >>>>>>>I would like to take the opportunity to say bullsh*t. With a lagging >>>>>>>economy, and in areas where unemployment is over 10 percent, [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] > > Hmm. Are they still adjusting your synthroid dose? I've only been on the Synthroid for about 4 weeks. I cant even get my blood tested for another 2 weeks to see if it's the right dose. So, yes, we are still in the process. Who knows how long it could take!!! > >>>>>>>I would like to take the opportunity to say bullsh*t. With a lagging > >>>>>>>economy, and in areas where unemployment is over 10 percent, [quoted text clipped - 49 lines] > blood tested for another 2 weeks to see if it's the right dose. So, yes, > we are still in the process. Who knows how long it could take!!! Poor kitkat, this has to be rough. The endocrine system is so delicate and complicated. Are you taking your C and eating your fruits and vegetables and beans and garlic and drinking your green tea? (I make sweet tea of it, with Splenda! Very nice, iced. And it controls cell growth, along with doing a whole bunch of other good things.) Re: fresh garlic dishes: one ripe tomato two-three cloves fresh garlic ten fresh mushrooms olive oil with a bit of butter for flavor parmesan cheese angel hair pasta (good hard durum semolina) Smash then dice the garlic (releasing the allicin!) and put it in the olive oil and butter on low heat. (You don't really want it cooked--you just want the flavor to infuse into the oil/butter) Dice up the tomatoes and mushrooms and toss them into the pan, turn up to medium for maybe 2 minutes. Boil the pasta al dente, drain, toss it all together, add salt and pepper and parm to taste! Great stuff! > I've got 26. And four PhDs. :) Nyah nyah! LMAO! You got me beat :) > > I've got 26. And four PhDs. :) Nyah nyah! > > LMAO! You got me beat :) The bad news is, just as you might suspect I would have to be in order to finish that much school, I am 223 years old! ;) >>Something I find very odd on Usenet is that large porportion of people who >>claim to have taken such interesting courses in school, etc, are so damn [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] >>better job and could post more about life than their monotonous boring >>drivel. That may have been true, back in the 1950's, when jobs were plentiful (although even then, women had problems finding the kind of work they'd trained for, if it was anything but secretarial or teaching). In today's world, you simply don't know what you're talking about! BTW, define "monotonous boring drivel" - most of the regular posters here are one hell of a lot more interesting than anything you've posted so far! > Purrs for all of our unemployed rpca friends. > >>Something I find very odd on Usenet is that large porportion of people who > >>claim to have taken such interesting courses in school, etc, are so damn [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > > Purrs for all of our unemployed rpca friends. What's all this negative talk about jobs! They told me there was no jobs in my city! I have no less than 8 months of work on my books. So much for the jobless town. Bwaaa! A jobless soul is a lazy Soul My grandmother taught me that! > >>Something I find very odd on Usenet is that large porportion of people who > >>claim to have taken such interesting courses in school, etc, are so damn [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > here are one hell of a lot more interesting than anything > you've posted so far! I'll assume this was directed at me, although I'm not sure why you included Mary's remark and only responded to mine. And yes dear, I do know what I'm talking about, had you engaged brain before engaging mouth you would have read my next post which explained further that I was not referrig to all people (and note I was not singling out women, that was your choice). I've worked in many positions where I was responsible for hiring people, into well paying jobs, and my experience is that sure they want the money but not the work that comes with it. Then they bitch and moan about not being able to find a job. What they want is a paid vacation 365 days a year. I call that laziness and lack of will to get off their butts and do some work to earn their salary. Added to that is that some people here post about their courses they've taken, degreees, etc. they must be scholars with all that education but yet aren't working, I blame it on lacking a desire to commit to a regular job. It's everywhere not just here, and my post was directed speciffically to those people. I challenge you to prove me wrong. Montonous boring drivel... exactly as it reads, these same people who should be able to discuss topics of great diversity have the same standard answers for everything. Find me a few interesting posts and I'll agree with you. Until then, I'll stick with my own theory. Oh I might add it appears that anyone who goes outside themselves to post anything interesting is shunned by the inner circle. I have posted interesting things but sorry I'm not part of the clique so you wouldn't have read them most likely. > > Purrs for all of our unemployed rpca friends. > >>Something I find very odd on Usenet is that large porportion of people who > >>claim to have taken such interesting courses in school, etc, are so damn [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > here are one hell of a lot more interesting than anything > you've posted so far! Besides that, why on earth would anybody spend their time reading anything they consider monotonous or drivelous? Sherry > > >>Something I find very odd on Usenet is that large porportion of people who > > >>claim to have taken such interesting courses in school, etc, are so damn [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > > Sherry Okay, quiz: what part of the above did I write? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- From: "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" <evgmsop@earthlink.net> >most of the regular posters >here are one hell of a lot more interesting than anything >you've posted so far! RPCA Cocktail 200 mg Prozac 50 mg Valium 5 oz cheap Vodka 5 oz tomato juice Mix Stir Chug Post to rpca > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > =EKz3 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Chug! but don't swallow > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > Chug > Post to rpca I only wish it were true. The entire "nicey-nice" thing is a front for seething rage. Look at how fast Victor used the "c" word on me when I was actually in the right, as Dan admitted the next day. Look at how Laurie of the asinine "sparkly" livelovelaugh sig reacts to the first thing she takes as threatening? And then there is Jill, who begins yelling "troll" at someone she has been reading for over a year as a regular poster. And Henry, who, although usually a funny, level-headed guy, and very smart, begins using the phrase "denial of service attack" as though this could even be done without a bot. Pfft. Fully most of you (rpca people) are hypocrites--and that goes for those of you who knew damned well that Dan was in the wrong and know it now but will not speak up. And those of you who know the netcopping is wrong and still will not speak out. What goes around comes around, my little ostriches. The beautiful part is, I don't have to do a thing. :) > Something I find very odd on Usenet is that large porportion of people who > claim to have taken such interesting courses in school, etc, are so damn [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > better job and could post more about life than their monotonous boring > drivel. My tire was thumping. I thought it was flat When I looked at the tire... I noticed your cat. Sorry! just awful! |
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