[CH] I agree............
xtremely.fast (xtremely.fast@prodigy.net)
Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:05:10 -0800
I agree with Jeff Thompson 100%. For one reason, we have the same name. He
is a bit more articulate than myself, [or a bit of a bull shit artist] and
tended to ramble on and on to say what I can say in just a handful of
words....................Why can't we all just get along............
Hey, y'all all have a good day now and a great Christmas as well
Eddie Thompson
retired and layin' on his ass
on the Texas gulf coast..................
Subject: [CH] Re: OT'ness
>
> On Tuesday, December 17, 2002, at 06:26 PM, Inagaddadavida wrote:
>
> > It is a great place really. I've been on the list for, oh, 7 years? I
> > can't even remember actually. Everything goes to shit, er, sheeeeeet,
> > occassionally when topics come up that are, typically, OT, and people
> > have heated o-pines about the TOT (topic off topic...cute, eh?), *and*
> > someone goes and gets personal...shazzam...little flame war on the
> > chileheads list, irony notwithstanding. I'm a Mac user myself.
> > Switched from PCs. Have my biases, yup, but generally, they ain't
> > worth going to war over (oooh, there's a political dig in case someone
> > is *really* bored....email privately, plz).
>
> I was simply amazed at the vehement intolerance expressed for one
> sub-culture (the mac users in the group) by some of the members of this
> particular sub-culture (the chile-heads). Look people... we're ALL
> chile heads no matter what race, religion or computer platform. Don't
> we get slammed enough in public for our chile obsession? You would
> think that'd make everyone a little more tolerant of others choices in
> life. BUT, It's not like this behavior is limited to the chile-heads,
> though. I've seen this type of inter-sub-culture bashing between their
> various sub-sub-cultures.
>
> As for the flames wars, I've seen better and worse. At least no one
> mentioned sleeping with someone else's mother or anything. You should
> have SEEN the crap I took for mentioning heatless peppers once a long,
> long time ago. THAT little turd-flinging-festival convinced me to write
> off the entire list server as a bunch of flakes until I was convinced
> to come back by a couple of friends. It's just like any other list
> server... don't feed the trolls and ignore the small minded comments
> and you'll be ok.
>
> To get this BACK on topic... anyone ever notice that the Apple logo
> looks sorta like a Habanero with a bite out of it... NOT a heatless
> Habanero though! God forbid!
>