From: Dave Frightens Me on
On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:02:21 +0100, "JohnT"
<johnhillriseDONOTSPAM(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>
>"Miguel Cruz" <spam(a)admin.u.nu> wrote in message
>news:spam-7FBF4A.23485230072006(a)localhost...
>> Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Too many people here are more concerned with attacking me than they
>>> are with finding out the truth. They are like schoolboys on a
>>> playground, ready to rumble but without a clue. Look it up _first_,
>>> then speak only if I've clearly made a mistake (which is rare). You
>>> see, I _do_ look things up.
>>
>> You make plenty of mistakes, and your version of "looking things up"
>> often amounts to having a recollection of reading something once upon a
>> time.
>>
>> However, you spend so much time surgically editing the messages you are
>> replying to in order to create the impression that people are saying
>> different things from what they actually were, that you are frequently
>> able to declare victory to your own satisfaction. To onlookers it
>> appears ridiculous, but I think there's a certain lack of self-awareness
>> at work here.
>
>
>Or perhaps it is due to Aspergers Syndrome.

The last description someone posted of that sounded very, very like
Mixi. Is it another trait to not want to seek treatment?
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From: Dave Frightens Me on
On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:48:52 +0800, Miguel Cruz <spam(a)admin.u.nu>
wrote:

>Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Too many people here are more concerned with attacking me than they
>> are with finding out the truth. They are like schoolboys on a
>> playground, ready to rumble but without a clue. Look it up _first_,
>> then speak only if I've clearly made a mistake (which is rare). You
>> see, I _do_ look things up.
>
>You make plenty of mistakes, and your version of "looking things up"
>often amounts to having a recollection of reading something once upon a
>time.
>
>However, you spend so much time surgically editing the messages you are
>replying to in order to create the impression that people are saying
>different things from what they actually were, that you are frequently
>able to declare victory to your own satisfaction. To onlookers it
>appears ridiculous, but I think there's a certain lack of self-awareness
>at work here.

I think that constitutes a personal attack, so he won't reply to you.
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From: JohnT on

"Dave Frightens Me" <deepfreudmoors(a)eITmISaACTUALLYiREAL!l.nu> wrote in
message news:rnqpc21d9j3gahe5mor0tar70p7b4542ns(a)4ax.com...
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:55:25 +0200, Mxsmanic <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Dave Frightens Me writes:
>>
>>> Mainly? It seems to me you consider air con the sole means of dealing
>>> with heat.
>>
>>Ultimately, it is.
>
> What about putting your feet in a bucket of cold water, and switching
> a fan on?

What about him putting his head in a bucket of cold water?

JohnT


From: mrtravel on
Mxsmanic wrote:
> Dave Frightens Me writes:
>
>
>>Indeed, if they had been properly educated about how to deal with the
>>heat, they needn't have died from it.
>
>
> An education would not have helped without the actual tools, such as
> air conditioning.

Nonsense. There are plenty of ways to not die if it gets as hot as it
was in Paris.
From: mrtravel on
Mxsmanic wrote:

> mrtravel writes:
>
>
>>What follows is an example of the same test I did it high school.
>>I wasn't referring to the common toilet/sink draining rhetoric
>
>
> Yes, you were. Then you googled, hoping to find that you were right
> and I was wrong. Then you discovered that you were wrong, but you
> tried to extract anything you could from the page you mention that
> would allow you to save face somehow.

I googled what? I found a statement that matched the high school lab
experiment that I suspect millions of Americans are familiar with.