Wikipedia?

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"Dr. HotSalt" wrote:

On Nov 23, 5:40*am, Doctroid wrote:
In article [email protected],

Black Belt Champions

http://www.youtube.com/user/usabbchamp

(The guy at the end breaking the bat? Is my sensei. The guys preceding,
I don't know them.)

My stoopit video player thingie won't frame by frame.

Fist, or forearm?

Forearm.

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- Doctroid

On Mon, 29 Nov 2010 09:01:00 -0500, Doctroid
wrote:

In article
,
"Dr. HotSalt" wrote:

On Nov 23, 5:40*am, Doctroid wrote:
In article [email protected],

Black Belt Champions

http://www.youtube.com/user/usabbchamp

(The guy at the end breaking the bat? Is my sensei. The guys preceding,
I don't know them.)

My stoopit video player thingie won't frame by frame.

Fist, or forearm?

Forearm.

Ulna.

--
Frank Erskine

"Racist Bill ****head" wrote in message
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tony sayer wrote:

If you think [Wikipedia is] wrong why not edit it Bill?..

It would be like replacing a few tiles on the roof of one house in
Hiroshima, just after the A bomb.

Bill

The constraint (as people like Bill and Plowman would see it) facing the
authors of encyclopedias, scientific journals, etc. is the obligation to try
and ensure that what they write is factually correct.
By contrast, self-appointed sages like Bill posting on cosy usenet groups
have it easy - they can pretty much get away with saying anything that
"sounds like common sense" to gain others' respect, safe in the knowledge
that the people reading don't know or care enough to ask too many questions.
Neither their audience nor their careers (or lack thereof) will ever truly
test the validity of their own ideas.
It's an environment so sheltered, that Bill can even get away with
portraying Wikipedia as an unintellectual wasteland of rubbish and himself
as 'the only one in step'.

Speaking of so-called "common sense", I think nothing is more depressing
than it and the people who eulogise it.
Common sense is the artificial inflation of the value of meagre knowledge.
It's the intellectual equivalent of 'having a good personality'. It's the
consolation prize for those too stupid to achieve anything beyond
remembering to breathe for long enough to breed. It's the same level of
earthy wisdom that deems modern art "crap", pure research "a waste of time",
and Strictly Come Dancing "entertainment". It's the undentable armour of the
stupid, and you'll never catch them without it. If you take it away from
them, they’ve got nothing. They're left naked in the laughing face of their
own inferiority, with little choice but to confront the meandering
pointlessness of their lives. Which is a lot to confront all in one go.

They cling to it out of fear. Pity them.

To illustrate the above points, I now expect a smug Bill or "Dave Plowman"
to post an insult followed by some bull****. Alternatively, a generic gnome
saying "you've got a chip on your shoulder" or similar will suffice.

jamie.
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"j r powell" wrote in message
...
"Racist Bill ****head" wrote in message
...

tony sayer wrote:

If you think [Wikipedia is] wrong why not edit it Bill?..

It would be like replacing a few tiles on the roof of one house in
Hiroshima, just after the A bomb.

Bill

The constraint (as people like Bill and Plowman would see it) facing the
authors of encyclopedias, scientific journals, etc. is the obligation to
try and ensure that what they write is factually correct.
By contrast, self-appointed sages like Bill posting on cosy usenet groups
have it easy - they can pretty much get away with saying anything that
"sounds like common sense" to gain others' respect, safe in the knowledge
that the people reading don't know or care enough to ask too many
questions. Neither their audience nor their careers (or lack thereof) will
ever truly test the validity of their own ideas.
It's an environment so sheltered, that Bill can even get away with
portraying Wikipedia as an unintellectual wasteland of rubbish and himself
as 'the only one in step'.

Speaking of so-called "common sense", I think nothing is more depressing
than it and the people who eulogise it.
Common sense is the artificial inflation of the value of meagre knowledge.
It's the intellectual equivalent of 'having a good personality'. It's the
consolation prize for those too stupid to achieve anything beyond
remembering to breathe for long enough to breed. It's the same level of
earthy wisdom that deems modern art "crap", pure research "a waste of
time", and Strictly Come Dancing "entertainment". It's the undentable
armour of the stupid, and you'll never catch them without it. If you take
it away from them, they've got nothing. They're left naked in the laughing
face of their own inferiority, with little choice but to confront the
meandering pointlessness of their lives. Which is a lot to confront all in
one go.

They cling to it out of fear. Pity them.

To illustrate the above points, I now expect a smug Bill or "Dave Plowman"
to post an insult followed by some bull****. Alternatively, a generic
gnome saying "you've got a chip on your shoulder" or similar will suffice.

jamie.
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Will you please stop changing your email address.
It stops your personal entry in my killfile from working.

--

Brian Gregory. (In the UK)

To email me remove the letter vee.

On Monday, November 29th, 2010 at 23:04:25h +0000,
Jamie Robert Powell shamelessly ripped off another author's lines:

Speaking of so-called "common sense", I think nothing is more depressing
than it and the people who eulogise it ...

Plagiarism rears its ugly head again. Text cut n pasted from

http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.COM/2010/09/14/i-proclaim-myself-as-higher-knowledge-than-thee/

J G Miller wrote:
On Monday, November 29th, 2010 at 23:04:25h +0000,
Jamie Robert Powell shamelessly ripped off another author's lines:
Speaking of so-called "common sense", I think nothing is more depressing
than it and the people who eulogise it ...

Plagiarism rears its ugly head again. Text cut n pasted from

http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.COM/2010/09/14/i-proclaim-myself-as-higher-knowledge-than-thee/

I reckon he does it a lot. He often posts paragraphs that don't sound
like him. Sad little tosser!

Bill

Bill Wright wrote:
J G Miller wrote:
On Monday, November 29th, 2010 at 23:04:25h +0000,
Jamie Robert Powell shamelessly ripped off another author's lines:
Speaking of so-called "common sense", I think nothing is more depressing
than it and the people who eulogise it ...

Plagiarism rears its ugly head again. Text cut n pasted from

http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.COM/2010/09/14/i-proclaim-myself-as-higher-knowledge-than-thee/


I reckon he does it a lot. He often posts paragraphs that don't sound
like him. Sad little tosser!

Bill

The pariah's latest crippling humiliation got me thinking.
Jamie the runt and I both post messages that somehow generate a lot of
interest.
There's a difference though. My messages generate a lot of interest
because I am knowledgeable, experienced, witty, and amusing. I
demonstrate my humanity and my humility, my humour and my honesty, in
every post. What's more I have an impressive writing style which will,
I'm certain, soon be recognised and will win me the Booker Prize.
The runt's messages, on the other hand, are the sorry, purile, agonised
outpourings of an immature mind that craves attention and will stop at
nothing to get it. Even if the patient reader makes allowances for its
inner torment he remains unrewarded, for its posts contain nothing of
interest or value.

Jamie, you and I are extremes. People respond to my posts because I am
the apogee, to yours because you are the perigree. I am the zenith to
your nadir; the warm uplands to your valley of despond. It's good that
we have so much in common.

People respond to my posts to bask in the intellectual hothouse they
generate. They respond to yours to recommend suicide.

When will the runt finally realise that we don't want it hanging around
here like a leper. This is a group of fine, righteous, affable and
sensible people, all well-adjusted and socially normal. Its presence is
a downer, like a smelly old tramp tapping on the window at Christmas
begging for food. I know we should try to be kind to the disadvantaged
and disabled, but there are limits.
Why doesn't it ring Samaritans and irritate them?

I am able to make many friends. I mention that because I realise that
the runt might have a bit of a problem with this itself due to it being
a thoroughly obnoxious, disrespectful, rude and insulting little turd,
so it might not be fully aware that decent, normal and respectable
people do that.

The laughter of my friends reading this over my shoulder is now uproarious.
Pity those poor souls with crippling personality defects (cough) who
have none.

Bill

On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 05:08:14 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

There's a difference though. My messages generate a lot of interest
because I am knowledgeable, experienced, witty, and amusing. I
demonstrate my humanity and my humility, my humour and my honesty, in
every post. What's more I have an impressive writing style which will,
I'm certain, soon be recognised and will win me the Booker Prize.

People respond to my posts to bask in the intellectual hothouse they
generate.

This sounds more like something that I would say. Help! Help! I'm
being plagarised!!

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The message with the above heading that starts with the words The
pariah's latest crippling humiliation got me thinking
was from Jamie, pretending to be me.

Bill

Ian Jelf wrote:
In message , Bill Wright
writes
What's more I have an impressive writing style which will, I'm
certain, soon be recognised and will win me the Booker Prize.
The runt's messages, on the other hand, are the sorry, purile,
agonised outpourings of an immature mind that craves attention and
will stop at nothing to get it.

You're not going to like this but.......that means he's the one more
likely to win the Booker Prize! ;-))

The message was from Jamie, pretending to be me.

I've just read through it. Weird isn't it? Truly weird.The style is a
bit too flamboyant for me though, and the spelling isn't too hot. It
reads like an essay from a 6th former who is over-proud of his literary
skills. The facts are generally spot on however:

The runt's messages, on the other hand, are the sorry, purile,
agonised outpourings of an immature mind that craves attention and will
stop at nothing to get it.

When you read through it and realise that Jamie wrote it, it does make
you wonder about the state of his mind. I mean, fancy saying such things
about yourself, albeit when masquerading as someone else.

Very strange. Very odd.

Bill