Subj : Re: Unprofessional petty spitefulness
To   : rec.sport.rowing
From : carl
Date : Thu Oct 15 2020 09:52 pm

On 15/10/2020 20:49, Jonny wrote:
> A few people here have met us both and will know the truth

Jonny, I couldn't care less about you, you paranoid illogicality or your 
insults.

Your descent into anal obscenity when words failed you is hardly going 
to help.  Do you not see what a fool your diving into the gutter, 
desperate to drag me in for a fight, proves you to be?  You remind me of 
the episode in the late Douglas Adams' Hitch-hiker's Guide to the 
Galaxy, in which Marvin, the paranoid android, confronts the battle machine:
http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/tomsnyder/hg-2-07.html

Please read to the end of that excerpt.  If unfamiliar with the 
Hitch-hiker's Guide it'll do you good, I'm sure.  But if you recall that 
episode then do stop acting like the enraged battle machine.  Take that 
last bit, where it dawns on the battle machine that Marvin is completely 
unarmed for a fight:
"The machine heaved about with fury.
"Well, doesn't that just take the biscuit!" it roared, "Nothing, eh? 
Just don't think, do they?"
"And me," said Marvin in a soft low voice, "with this terrible pain in 
all the diodes down my left side."
"Makes you spit, doesn't it?"
"Yes," agreed Marvin with feeling.
"Hell that makes me angry," bellowed the machine, "think I'll smash that 
wall down!"
The electron ram stabbed out another searing blaze of light and took out 
the wall next to the machine.
"How do you think I feel?" said Marvin bitterly.
"Just ran off and left you, did they?" the machine thundered.
"Yes," said Marvin.
"I think I'll shoot down their bloody ceiling as well!" raged the tank.
It took out the ceiling of the bridge.
"That's very impressive," murmured Marvin.
"You ain't seeing nothing yet," promised the machine, "I can take out 
this floor too, no trouble!"
It took out the floor, too.
"Hell's bells!" the machine roared as it plummeted fifteen storeys and 
smashed itself to bits on the ground below.
"What a depressingly stupid machine," said Marvin and trudged away.

Only in a fool's world do people pretend that someone not challenging 
libellous allegations makes those allegations true.  That's pure 
playground talk.

Jonny, good manners cost nothing but it seems you have quite a problem 
with the world.

Rec.sport.rowing has been a civilised, self-regulating forum and for >20 
years had not seen your brand of degrading public abuse.  If you'd just 
wind in your neck you'd be doing everyone, including yourself, a 
considerable favour.

Carl

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