Re: If I can't succeed at Linux, then looking out the windows makes me a looser?

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:41:10 +0100, David Wright
<david_c_wright@xxxxxxxxxxx> Gave us:

>Roy L. Fuchs wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:42:34 -0000, Harold Stevens
>> <wookie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Gave us:
>>
>>>Keeping trying, asking questions, and don't let online pests get to you.
>>
>>
>> That isn't what he did. He got mouthy. What was he doing in the
>> "Linux users = pompous assholes" thread? Contributing? Defending us?
>>
>> What is the root post on this thread? He keeps editing the titles.
>> His attitude was showing.
>
>He was reacting to you being pompous and overbearing at his spelling
>mistakes. We all make mistakes and with usenet you can't run back and edit
>your grammar and spelling mistakes.
>

No. It was lazy, gang boy mentality zero punctuation bull***.
Nothing more. His subsequent post was all corrected. Imagine that.
I must have had some IMPACT.

>I've posted a number of long messages where I've written the message and
>re-read it before posting and it isn't until I've re-read the message again
>after posting that I've spotted that I've missed out a couple of words

Mis-spellings and typos are totally different. Perhaps I was a bit
harsh, but he is used to drill Sgts. C'est la vie.

> - I
>am mildly dyslexic and I also sometimes miss words because I think much
>faster than I can type and I think that I have written the words, where in
>fact my fingers have skipped a couple of words to catch up...


You are probably just like me. A two or four fingered typist. I do
the same thing, however, I use a spell checker. If you do type with
all eight fingers, then your typing would need further training to
speed it up, and retain accuracy. Still those instances are very
different from what he was doing.

>Also, this guy was a new poster on the group, so to have his first posts
>picked upon for bad grammar (and the guy was tired, posting after a long
>days work, which usually produces more mistakes), he went on the defensive.

Nope.
He posted back in August in a "Linux users = Pompous assholes" thread.

>You didn't provide any positive feedback with a suggestion that he watch
>his grammar, you just went totally OTT and OT pouring scorn on his
>writting.

With my first stab, that putting him in the barrel. You know...
that place that 80% or more or the group have placed me.

My subsequent reply to HIM spelled it out even further, and also had
a suggestion on his Linux learning curve problem.

So I called him a retard. The word retard means to take a step
backward in thinking, learning, or technological advancement. I was
spot on. He called me a "pansy". That merely shows that he cannot
handle hard critique, like the type doled out by a drill sgt. The
fact that he straightened up his act on his subsequent reply gives him
a lot of credit toward accepting instruction. Many idiots in these
groups get worse when chastised.
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