Getting this NG back on-topic

Your point? I use the language called for. Allison demands more "appropriate" responses.

Anybody want my recipe for custard bread pudding?

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This won't help us much. Ravinghorde seems to troll denialist web- sites for opinions that fit his political prejudices, then comes here to post a gloating report on his latest nugget of misinformation.

Recently he and Johm Larkin have interpreted the - correct - fact that extreme cold kills more people in the US and the UK than does extreme heat to mean that global warming will save lives, which doesn't happen to be true.

The reality is that extreme temperatures - either high or low - hasten the death of the elderly and infirm. A very crude model has the excess deaths rising as the square of the deviation of the temperature away from 20C.

Since the average temperature in the UK is 13.1C, global warming in the UK will save lives.

As you move closer to the equator (where more people live) the average temperature rises, and global warming can be expected to cost lives over the earth as a whole.

So - in fact - he and John Larkin have been peddling BS, though they don't seem to know enough to be aware of the fallacy underlying the argument they espoused.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Jim's opinions about Democrats do seem to qualify as bigoted.

bigot - A person obstinately and unreasonably wedded to a particular religious creed, opinion, or practice; a person blindly attached to an opinion

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A fine example of rational debate.

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You share your irrational prejudices with a number of other right-wing nitwits, and togheter you do form a mutual admiration society.

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Jim proved remarkably insentive to the rotten politics of the Dubbya regime, and finds rotten politics in every act of the current administration, which is the attitude you'd expect in a bigot.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

John

Such a title: "BS the BS'er" ;-)

Name calling?

Tim

-- Deep Friar: a very philosophical monk. Website:

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BS posts an OT global warming response to a thread asking people not to be OT.

A sad lonely old man seeking attention. BS the BS can't stand the idea of being ignored.

Once again I have to admit Jim is right. Ignoring BS is the correct response.

PLONK

expires in 3 months.

Just make the PLONK permanent. BS' Alzheimer's is unsalvageable. ...Jim Thompson

May as well ignore JT while you're at it.

John

Top posting?

John

And John Larkin as well? All John does is feed Slowman. ...Jim Thompson

Top posting for one-line responses.

Tim

-- Deep Friar: a very philosophical monk. Website:

Yes, but sadly I'm such a schlub nowadays that I'd probably not get around to trying it.

Here's a repost from 2003:

John

I would instead ask that those posting non-electronics related material make an effort to include "OT" in their subject lines so that those of us disinclined to read such postings can filter more effectively.

I've tried that and it just got me flamed. Those that are doing the OT posting seem to believe that everyone else needs to read their crap. The only real option is to start filtering those that create and repsond OT messages(and we all already know who they are).

I remember Jim talking about his filtering and how he filtered all the goggle noobs... how hipocritical. I guess Jim figured that if he couldn't beat them he might as well join them?

BTW, for those morons that think this post is OT get a life. The original post is specifically aimed at getting this group back into electronic topics and so is definitely on topic.

My suggestion is that all non topic posts should be started in sci.electronics.basic where it would be less intrusive... but of course that is not going to happen either. People who seem to think that every needs to know about their christmas menu or what the latest obama blunder is probably don't really give a s*it about what people actually care about.

Bingo! It's always about them.

Tim

Actually, it was a response to Ravinghorde's somewhat self-deluded post

Ravinghorde doesn't enjoy being reminded that he can't construct a coherent argument.

It's going to be a releif not to have to deal with Ravinghordes' habit of trying to wriggle out from under when I nail down his sleazy evasions.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen