Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Gary R. Schmidt" Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Awfully quiet in here... Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 21:44:04 +1100 Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 644AAj6N5szFbbZYZOw7lg5ofJDR/vEi6YYK8rWgyHxdJQrRw= X-Orig-Path: paranoia.mcleod-schmidt.id.au!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:g4OMc2nddke6QIaFO62gLIwU258= sha256:D40dbD8RbSEUKb6iu5pxcNWbszErzuBroIKfBP7MAJg= User-Agent: Betterbird (Windows) Content-Language: en-AU In-Reply-To: X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett Bytes: 2304 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.  Somebody else's problem. >>> >>> Sounds like heaven! Police acting, doing something, and solving the >>> problem! =) >> >> 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. :-) Cheers, Gary B-)