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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Awfully quiet in here...
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 08:32:02 -0800
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On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 18:44:46 -0600, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 11/11/2024 9:53 AM, Paul S Person wrote:
>> On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 08:30:17 +1300, Titus G <noone@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>=20
>>> On 10/11/24 23:44, Gary R. Schmidt wrote:
>>>> On 10/11/2024 15:45, Titus G wrote:
>>>>> On 10/11/24 08:42, William Hyde wrote:
>>>>>> D wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, 8 Nov 2024, William Hyde wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Why SF? I was there 8 years ago and found it dirty with many =
drug
>>>>>>>>> users on the street.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Parts of it, yes.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I arrived in SF from a small city with no obvious drug users or
>>>>>>>> vagrants.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> This was because the local police grabbed those people, gave =
them a
>>>>>>>> beating, and dumped them in the next county.=A0 Somebody else's =
problem.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sounds like heaven! Police acting, doing something, and solving =
the
>>>>>>> problem! =3D)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So you are in fact in favour of government regulation, provided it=
 is
>>>>>> illegal and hurts people you dislike.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now that D is here, the entertainment level is surpassing the =
Jibini
>>>>> level.
>>>>
>>>> Nah, D's not as entertaining as Terry, he's really just a one-trick =
pony.
>>>>
>>>> Terry could come out with new lines and bounce around like a
>>>> grass-hopper in a BugCatcher - and probably would have baited D into=
 an
>>>> apoplexy, consistency was not one of his strong points.=A0 :-)
>>>>
>>>>  =A0=A0=A0=A0Cheers,
>>>>  =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 Gary=A0=A0=A0 B-)
>>>
>>> Yes, exactly. I wish he was still here to make mincemeat of D.
>>> The current entertainment for me comes from the replies to D, not D's
>>> extreme views and his prejudices but these replies are all restrained
>>> and polite rather than full-on Jibini bloodthirsty.
>>=20
>> Of course, this discussion ignores the possibility that D /is/ Jabini.
>
>D is not curt and nasty.

Which would be a good point except, of course, that both online
personas could be an act and neither of them real.
=20
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"