Posted by Richard Bos on August 18, 2008, 6:12 am
snipe@spambin.fsnet.co.uk (Sn!pe) wrote:
>
> > >And if this doesn't sum up why my heart sinks every time I see a
> > >cross-post to uk.rec.sheds, nothing will.
> >
> > It's a shame because they probably have some perfectly normal people
> > post on there.
>
> I wouldn't count on that.
I'd be ashamed to count myself among the "perfectly normal". Whenever I
meet someone like that, he always manages (an achievement in its own
right) to be both stultifyingly boring _and_ a borderline psychopath.
Richard
Posted by . on August 18, 2008, 9:15 am
On Aug 18, 3:12�am, r...@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl (Richard Bos) wrote=
:
> I'd be ashamed to count myself among the "perfectly normal". Whenever I
> meet someone like that, he always manages (an achievement in its own
> right) to be both stultifyingly boring _and_ a borderline psychopath.
It's amazing that this bullshit thread spun off from somebody
misunderstanding that a certain diesel-powered car's mileage was
quoted in miles per imperial gallon, not miles per US gallon...
Posted by Richard Bos on August 18, 2008, 10:14 am
> On Aug 18, 3:12�am, r...@hoekstra-uitgeverij.nl (Richard Bos) wrote=
>
> > I'd be ashamed to count myself among the "perfectly normal". Whenever I
> > meet someone like that, he always manages (an achievement in its own
> > right) to be both stultifyingly boring _and_ a borderline psychopath.
>
> It's amazing that this bullshit thread spun off from somebody
> misunderstanding that a certain diesel-powered car's mileage was
> quoted in miles per imperial gallon, not miles per US gallon...
See what I mean?
Richard
Posted by bobharvey on August 18, 2008, 11:06 am
> It's amazing that this bullshit thread spun off from somebody
> misunderstanding that a certain diesel-powered car's mileage was
> quoted in miles per imperial gallon, not miles per US gallon...
It would be considered unremarkable in the shedde. This is one of the
perils of cross-posting, a sort of culture shock. But that is not
always a bad thing, as I was saying to Professor Challenger.....
Posted by . on August 18, 2008, 5:06 pm
> It would be considered unremarkable in the shedde. �This is one of the
> perils of cross-posting, a sort of culture shock. �But that is not
> always a bad thing, as I was saying to Professor Challenger.....
Challenger was a bully who got his jollies from beating up on old
men...
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> > >And if this doesn't sum up why my heart sinks every time I see a
> > >cross-post to uk.rec.sheds, nothing will.
> >
> > It's a shame because they probably have some perfectly normal people
> > post on there.
>
> I wouldn't count on that.