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The Barents-and-Kara-Seeas story was at least published as a scientific paper in a peer-reviewed journal. You may not appreciate the difference, but it's nevertheless significant.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

We already know that you are an ignorant twit. There's no need to keep reminding us of the fact.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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I sure wouldn't.

You say we? Are you speaking for others or the voices in your head?

Btw, I noticed it took you long enough to dig yourself out of that 6" of snow that fell over there? Guess that socialist's snow removal isn't much better than the rest of the services they provide.

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Talking about half baked, coming from one that is half cocked most of the time..

"Here comes Billy with his pecker in his hand" "He's a one ball man" "And he's off to the rodeo"

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-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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I'm obviously not speaking for you. As another ignorant twit you are probably unaware of mrstar's inadequacies.

Who do you think you are referring to? The Netherlands got between 5 and 15cm of snow (2" and 6" for the non-scientifically trained), varying from region to region on Friday 3rd February - a week ago.

It screwed up the railway system, mainly by dumping chunks of ice into the (heated) points, and it got cold enough overnight that there wasn't any point in spreading salt on the motorways, because it was cold enough to freeze brine.

My indoor hockey tournament on the Saturday evening went off without a hitch - with teams driving over from Apeldoorn, Wageningen and Venlo. My team ended up second ...

The gritting of the roads is managed by the local town council, and that worked. The railway system was a mess - there was a failed privatisation some years ago, and the subsequent fiddling around with quasi-independent entities running various bits of the railway system hasn't yet gelled into something that looks likely to last.

If there was problem, it's a bit of stretch to blame it on socialism. Thatcher created a similar mess with the UK railway system at around about the same time, and the injection of a capitalist cost-saving ethic famously led to under-maintenance and couple of fatal railway crashes. The Dutch were never quite that silly.

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How will I know? : )

That kind of lame insult doesn't help your case at all but suggests your position is fairly weak. You might as well accuse me of having a big nose. I've made no claims to the contrary.

Jim really is getting senile. It was a way of saying that I get things done faster if they makes me money or prevents me from losing money. I'm too old for any employer in the Netherlands to even think of giving me work - ageism seems to have been built into the Dutch character - so my competence doesn't come into the picture.

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position is fairly weak. You might as well accuse me of having a big nose. = =A0I've made no claims to the contrary.

Since you haven't quoted whichever insult it was that you found lame, you've just demonstrated that - if you've bothered to read the rest of this thread at all - you don't understand net etiquette, and haven't the wit to work out why everybody else quotes the bits of the previous post they were responding to.

This - and other evidence - make it fairly clear that whatever brain you've got doesn't work very well. The size of your nose wouldn't be expected to have any visible influence on your behaviour here (though if it were really large - on the same sort of scale that your brain is defective - you wouldn't be able to see - or maybe even reach - your keyboard).

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

Do I have to pick just one of your lame insults?! Leaving my nose out of i= t for a moment - imagine yourself roaming about the streets with no clothes= on and an ignorant twit cries out, "Bill Sloman is naked!" The fact that t= he statement came from an ignorant twit does not make it any less true nor = does it mean that Bill is fully clothed. That is why your insults are as i= rrelevant as my nose. =20 I suspect that unless I was completely enveloped in my nose, which is extre= mely unlikely, I would be able to reach the keyboard. Failing that, I could= just pound the keyboard with my nose. I WOULD be able to reach it.=20 I noticed and I'm impressed. I think you deserve extra credit for trying so= hard with your last attempt at insulting Mr Starbomb.

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The focus of your life has always been how smart you are. Pity it hasn't worked for you. I've seen the syndrome many times, and it's really stupid.

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Actually, the focus of my life - in so far as I've thought about it, which only happens in job interviews - is being useful. Being smart is something I was born with - it's handy, but not a virtue.

What you have seen is people reacting to you trying to appear smart - a trick for which you don't seem to be all that well equipped.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen

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so hard with your last attempt at insulting Mr Starbomb.

As usual, mrstar misses the point.

-- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen