Standing in the dark, rainy shadows of a city alleyway, I spied the
Replicant Sentinel covertly transmitting a message to renegade friends
in alt.fan.blade-runner. Tracking...
>Evil Sponge wrote:
>> "Sentinel" <lukas.mariman@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> news:5vratsF1m49doU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Sentinel wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What are you - RACIST?!
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, as I was directly addressing a fellow Brit, speaking English
>>>>> and who has more in common with me than the majority of those here,
>>>>> I find that retort offensive.
>>>>
>>>> I was just kidding around! Obviously calling anyone "racist" in the
>>>> context of this thread makes no sense whatsoever. Blame me.
>>>
>>> It seemed funny when I wrote it, but I guess not so much in
>>> retrospect.
>>
>> Stick to your guns, man! It was funny...
>>
>> At least, I thought it was... maybe that's not a very good indicator
>> : )
>
>Thanks, Sponge!
>
>This does bring home the flaws in communication - in the case of Usenet,
how
>easily a post can be taken as aggressive/offensive when it wasn't meant
that
>way. Smileys can make all the difference.
However, familiarity does mean I knew exactly where you were at. I
simply chose to take offense, because of being generally pissed off
almost 100% of the time these days to start with. Sometimes I wake up
100% pissed off, and my day gets considerably worse before I've even
got out of bed. (And sadly, I am not actually joking...)
>So when WWIII is upon us, it may have been because someone forgot to use
a
>smiley in the right place...
errr... :-)
Netrunner
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"It's not easy having a good time! Even smiling makes my face ache!"
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