On Vituperation, Invective, Opprobrium and General Snarkyness

On 17/11/2017 4:31 AM, snipped-for-privacy@aol.com wrote:

bit on me.

as a first language (Gaelic & German), nor were they b orn in the US. Growing up Mid-West, East, South and Mi d-Atlantic, and working in various professions and 'jo bs' from Janitor to Machinist, and in the US and Middl e East, I have seen a bit of the world and experienced a few sorts of people and cultures. Dinner guests in my childhood through teen years included the likes of Dorothy Parker, Helen & Scott Nearing, Hannah Arendt, Felix Morrow, Oscar and Edith Tarcov, Richmond Lattimo re, J. Glenn Gray, Peter Drucker and more. Those are t he highlights, but I could drop a bunch more names if needed. I get my words from my father, and my humor fr om my mother. My politics are quite far left of center , but no where near as far as my parents - who were bo th gun-owning believers in personal responsibility, an d felt the world owed them nothing, quite the opposite . I had an aunt in the Irish Post Office, my father wa s seconded to the OSS during WWII spending most of the war on both sides of the line in Europe. I am married , two step-kids (but I got them very young), four gran d-kids, two cats, two dogs. I also consider myself an elitist of the first water - I dislike spending time a nd effort around ignorance - which I believe can be fi xed and is a deliberate choice, never an accident past the age of consent. I also deeply believe the Islamic mandate: Never refuse food, water or shelter together with the Social Contract (best summed up by Karl Marx ), although I subscribe to no religion in the belief t hat religion per-se is largely responsible for much, v ery nearly all, that is evil in this world - along wit h any -ism that requires absolute adherence. I am a fe w months from (technically) retirement age, although I very much enjoy what I am doing and intend to stay at it as long as that enjoyment remains. Due to my wife' s and my efforts over the last many years, retirement will be comfortable.

o light off on someone. But, anything worth doing is w orth doing well - and I try. Some seem to learn and ge t over it. Some seem to escalate the exchanges beyond banter. I feel like the opposite of the Taxi Driver in the Rutabaga Stories - I can be a much nicer person ' at home' if I vent my spleen in venues such as this on e. But, for the record, it ain't nohow personal - nor is any one in the focus worth any actual time, effort or real emotion. I reserve that for friends, family an d some very few actual enemies, all now dead (not from my efforts, sadly). Usenet requires the hide of a rhi noceros, a dry sense of humor, and considerable tolera nce if it is to be enjoyed. Considerable, not complete .

So--- the complete legend in your own mind then ??

Me too!!!!!

Sounds to me like Peter needs to sign himself into an alcohol detox treatment hospital.

This is the kind of blabber one normally hears from someone sitting on a barstool.

Obviously you know this because of all the time you have spent sitting on a barstool?

How's your SX-99 working?

That works both ways buddy... When you're intoxicated, anything anybody else says sounds like blather. Of course, when you're ignorant, everything sounds like blather.

LOL!!!

This is one of the best posts I've read today. (The first in this thread being another good one.)

Heh, thankies

If you need lessons in vituperation see Phil. He is the head vituperator here and captain of the vituperating team.

He is merely strident and vulgar. No class.

Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

It's only to be expected. Australians are about 100 years behind everyone else.