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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: I miss Gerry Quinn
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 07:46:04 -0700
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On 10/11/2024 1:02 AM, JAB wrote:
> On 09/10/2024 18:02, Xocyll wrote:
>> JAB <noway@nochance.com> looked up from reading the entrails of the porn
>> spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:
>>
>>> On 08/10/2024 22:22, Zaghadka wrote:
>>>> On Tue, 08 Oct 2024 13:45:32 -0400, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action, 
>>>> Mike
>>>> S. wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, 8 Oct 2024 18:30:26 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> There's some names from the past!
>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, the only name mentioned in this thread I don't remember at all
>>>>> is Gerry Quinn.
>>>>
>>>> Probably PTSD.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I can't say I remember them but I've always wondered with the really
>>> obnoxious knob jockeys - how many of them act like that in real life?
>>
>> Likely all of them, at least at first.
>>
>> Unlike usenet, real life assholeness carries with it the risk of getting
>> punched in the face repeatedly.
>>
>> That tend to put a bit of a damper on the activity that online rebukes
>> never can.
>>
> 
> I'm more thinking of those that act like it when they think they can get 
> away with it so a prime example is being an arsehole to people who work 
> in shops knowing they can't 'fight' back.
> 
The real assholes in that situation are the managers and owners who 
won't let the staff call security on people being abusive and exercise 
their right to refuse service.

-- 
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky 
dirty old man.