On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:33:21 -0600, Omelet wrote:

> In article >,
> blake murphy > wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:32:56 -0600, Omelet wrote:
>>
>>> In article
>>> >,
>>> Dan Abel > wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure what that word means. What many of us have realized is
>>>> that Sheldon thinks that this group is just a big joke. This is his
>>>> sense of humor. Some people enjoy it, others don't. Someone who he
>>>> used to bombard with Emails (and he has stated quite clearly that he has
>>>> only Emailed a handful of people on this group, and then only a couple
>>>> of times) explained it once. He posts the most outrageous things, and
>>>> then waits to see what reaction he gets. Sometimes people believe him.
>>>> Sometimes they get really irate. Either way he is happy. He's probably
>>>> chuckling away to his cats right now about how he's got you going again.
>>>
>>> So you are saying he likes to yank chains? <g> Who'd a thunk it?
>>>
>>> Personally, I like Sheldon and find him entertaining to read. I think
>>> that overall, like Swertz, he's really a good person at heart but uses
>>> usenet as much for entertainment as anything else. And both of them
>>> really are good cooks...
>>
>> no. a 'good person at heart' does not go out of his way to insult people
>> just to get a rise out of them. whether the insults are what he 'really
>> feels' or not is immaterial. i suspect the insults are completely sincere.
>>
>> what he is at heart is a fourth-grader with social adjustment issues, and a
>> not-very-bright fourth-grader at that.
>>
>> your pal,
>> blake
>
> <shrugs> ok. It's just that I've personally met some people who behaved
> like that only on usenet for the entertainment value, and were actually
> really nice people in "real life". It seems to be a usenet thing. I
> personally try to be myself here for the most part. ;-)

and i dispute that people are assholes on usenet are 'nice people' in real
life. it seems they are suppressing their assholishness in real life
because there might be consequences there. on usenet they can be what they
want to be, and choose to be assholes.

'nice' people (or civilized people, if you prefer) are nice all they way
through - they don't put in on or take it off like a suit of clothes
dependding on hat they can get away with.

your pal,
blake