Greetings,
Hello, my name is curious... this wonderful mailinglist was
introduced to me by Vinnie Surmone... so if there any referal bonuses
please aply them accordingly.
Early observations... there seems to be alot of knee jerking on
here.. If someone says something you disagre
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Simon Britnell wrote:
> Some people *want* that - on both sides. I don't understand it, but
> some people seem to like that white picket fence stuff.
Yeah. I've noticed that too. I guess I don't see the point in getting
annoyed over that. If they *want* their relationships
curious wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Hello, my name is curious... this wonderful mailinglist was
> introduced to me by Vinnie Surmone... so if there any referal bonuses
> please aply them accordingly.
>
> Early observations... there seems to be alot of knee jerking on
> here.. If som
Okay, first, I didn't mean to start a flame-fest. Can we bring it back
down to a reasonable level?
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Simon Britnell wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 15:02:50 -0400 (EDT)
> srl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I kinda find it offensive for anyone to more-or-less openly seek someon
((Curious send some interesting stuff I took out)
Steve Kudlak promises:
To proofread before sending, and not use personal slang as much. Like guess
stations (as in I guess it's open the lights are on) for gas stations and repair
shops.
ANd to be a little less sloppy:).
Have Fun,
Sends Steve
Yeah "responsible adults" is kind of an irritating phrase. It is often followed by a
whole set of
truisms that kind of irk. I am a messy house keeper and I don't mind it. If it means
living alone I
will. If I had the wherewithal and needed it to have a clean house, I'd probably hire
someone at
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, srl wrote:
> Okay, first, I didn't mean to start a flame-fest. Can we bring it back
> down to a reasonable level?
I don't think anyone here is flaming. Why don't you think it's a
reasonable level and what would be?
> and it's fine if they want that, but i feel like too oft
curious wrote:
> An idea for either enhancement on this mailinglist or a possible
> future list would be to have the use of the list licensed.. ie. to use the
> list you must agree to atempt to fully understand where the other person
> is comming from... and not to lable anyone in the lis
Well, not so much a flame war as a brief exchange of fire :)
My comments labelled RANT had far too much emotion in them and for that
I apologise. I started trying to explain my position and ended up
angry. After writing it I still felt the information content needed to
be there, but couldn't se
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Neil ''Fred'' Picciotto wrote:
> now, the one part which i found mildly offensive was his claim that geeks
> can't be supportive in a relationship. i was offended not because he was
> saying this about "girl geeks", but because he was also saying it about all
> geeks. and i
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Simon Britnell wrote:
> be there, but couldn't see a way to cut the emotion, so I just labelled
> it "hazardous content" and left it.
For what it's worth, I thought it was a fair way of handling the
situation. My definition of flaming includes the attack being redirected
at
Simon Britnell wrote:
> As for the rest of your comments, you made my day. Good to meet another
> survivor. Here are a couple of things that helped me:
> 2) Talk to ambulance people about failed suicides. The percentage of
> suicide attempts that make a mistake and end up maiming themselves
>
On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Kelly Lynn Martin wrote:
> Every cultural group should be free to make its own choices amongst
> morally neutral practices (the classic example of this being whether
> one cremates or buries one's dead); but no cultural group has any
> right to maintain a morally reprehensibl
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Steve Kudlak wrote:
> Clean houses always reminded me of funeral parlours, it's dead, nothing
> or nothing human really lives there.
LOL -- my apartment definitely looks "lived in."
> I don't see how this all relates to linux, other than the atmosphere
> places like slashd
J B wrote:
> But does it seem overblown when somebody is freaked out about something and
> articulates it clearly and why, and wonders: "Well do we want this kind of
> atmosphere for this thing?" Is that a valid question, yeah it is. Should we
> talk about without shouting...Well at least I th
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Simon Britnell wrote:
> > 2) Talk to ambulance people about failed suicides. The percentage of
> > suicide attempts that make a mistake and end up maiming themselves
> > instead is suprising. I don't fear death. Disability is another
> > matter.
>
I think one of the reasons housework came up is that women are still
expected, by and large, to do the most of it.
--
Not in my house
My SO and I share housework equallyor I do it while she is off running
with the kids.
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Simon Britnell wrote:
> My comments labelled RANT had far too much emotion in them and for that
> I apologise.
Why? :) It's OK, I don't think you were out of line.
> > ... Roblimo's artical ... 'bad' reasoning
>
> I don't think Robs article is bad reasoning per'se. I thin
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, J B wrote:
> Not in my house
heh. in my house the female *always* does the housework
okay, so I live alone.. (well, with a female cat, but she *never*
helps :) )
> My SO and I share housework equallyor I do it while she is off running
> with the kids.
>
> And my
>
> I think one of the reasons housework came up is that women are still
> expected, by and large, to do the most of it.
>
My housemate is male are we are both in similar fields (I do web dev, he
does techdesk), but I've always been a bit more successful than him.
Despite the fact that we do
I was always taught that a woman's place was wherever she wanted to beof
course my mother was one of the first feministshe had the picture of the
woman peeing in the urinal on her bathroom wall in the mid 70's
-
The point is t
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, J B wrote:
> I was always taught that a woman's place was wherever she wanted to beof
> course my mother was one of the first feministshe had the picture of the
> woman peeing in the urinal on her bathroom wall in the mid 70's
exactly
Vinnie (who can pee in a
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 14:48:41 -0700 (PDT), Deirdre Saoirse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>But for a while I really did understand. I took anti-depressants,
>which helped enormously. It was like a cloud lifted.
For me, it's more like it keeps the storms away. Still lots of
clouds, but they're not nea
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Simon Britnell wrote:
> > and it's fine if they want that, but i feel like too often
> > white-picket-fence is the normative ideal, and anyone who doesn't want
> it
> > (particularly females) takes a lot of shit.
>
> imho, the person who gives you the most sh*t is yourself.
Vinnie Surmonde wrote:
>
> > And my exwife never did ANY housework...if we wanted clean clothesI did
> > them. If we wanted clean dishes, I washed 'em.
>
> The point is that that is the exception -- becoming less so, but the
> 'rule' (in this case, more common situation) is that housework
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