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Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxmafia.com]
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:38:49AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> > Ben's already been through the Phil Hughes crapfest, so he probably > already figured out that there's probably no further damage in the > present case other than noise.
Yeah, that kind of thing tends to give you a bit of armor, or at least a sense of amusement (or possibly boredom, after a while) when some slavering net.freakjob starts threatening and attacking you. I've also recently learned - and I'm not sure that the lesson has quite sunk in, so at some point, the Universe will teach it to me harder - to set a clock on the idiots. They can continue their blithering as long as I find it amusing; after that point, they get told "your nickel has run out. Behave, or get shut off - NOW."
-- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *
Steve Brown [steve.stevebrown at gmail.com]
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 04:34:42PM -0500, Ben Okopnik wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:38:49AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: > > > > Ben's already been through the Phil Hughes crapfest, so he probably > > already figured out that there's probably no further damage in the > > present case other than noise. > > Yeah, that kind of thing tends to give you a bit of armor, or at least a > sense of amusement (or possibly boredom, after a while) when some > slavering net.freakjob starts threatening and attacking you. I've also > recently learned - and I'm not sure that the lesson has quite sunk in, > so at some point, the Universe will teach it to me harder - to set a > clock on the idiots. They can continue their blithering as long as I > find it amusing; after that point, they get told "your nickel has run > out. Behave, or get shut off - NOW."
I am tending to find that as I get older my tolerance for people wasting my time, or causing me grief and upset, is diminishing rapidly.
I think that by the time I retire I will be completely cankerous.
-- Steve
Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:54:22PM +0100, Steve Brown wrote:
> > I am tending to find that as I get older my tolerance for people > wasting my time, or causing me grief and upset, is diminishing > rapidly. > > I think that by the time I retire I will be completely cankerous.
Yikes! I hope you manage to get a tan in the midst of all that
("canTANkerous"); the other version is too painful and ugly to
contemplate. 
-- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *
Thomas Adam [thomas.adam22 at gmail.com]
2009/9/11 Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net>:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:54:22PM +0100, Steve Brown wrote:
>>
>> I am tending to find that as I get older my tolerance for people
>> wasting my time, or causing me grief and upset, is diminishing
>> rapidly.
>>
>> I think that by the time I retire I will be completely cankerous.
>
> Yikes! I hope you manage to get a tan in the midst of all that
> ("canTANkerous"); the other version is too painful and ugly to
> contemplate.
Oh, I don't know -- the ability to bend oneself in an odd way has some
appeal, surely?
-- Thomas Adam
Steve Brown [steve.stevebrown at gmail.com]
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:12:16PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> 2009/9/11 Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net>:
> > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:54:22PM +0100, Steve Brown wrote:
> >>
> >> I am tending to find that as I get older my tolerance for people
> >> wasting my time, or causing me grief and upset, is diminishing
> >> rapidly.
> >>
> >> I think that by the time I retire I will be completely cankerous.
> >
> > Yikes! I hope you manage to get a tan in the midst of all that
> > ("canTANkerous"); the other version is too painful and ugly to
> > contemplate.
>
> Oh, I don't know -- the ability to bend oneself in an odd way has some
> appeal, surely?
I'd be happy if I could just touch my toes again. Mind you, I'd also be happy if I could see them whilst standing again. I have to lean so far forward now that I'd fall over if I didn't hold on to something ;-)
-- Steve
Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:12:16PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> 2009/9/11 Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net>:
> > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:54:22PM +0100, Steve Brown wrote:
> >>
> >> I am tending to find that as I get older my tolerance for people
> >> wasting my time, or causing me grief and upset, is diminishing
> >> rapidly.
> >>
> >> I think that by the time I retire I will be completely cankerous.
> >
> > Yikes! I hope you manage to get a tan in the midst of all that
> > ("canTANkerous"); the other version is too painful and ugly to
> > contemplate.
>
> Oh, I don't know -- the ability to bend oneself in an odd way has some
> appeal, surely?
r!dict cankerous
2 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Cankerous \Can"ker*ous\, a.
Affecting like a canker. "Canrerous shackles." --Thomson.
[1913 Webster]
Misdeem it not a cankerous change. --Wordsworth.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
cankerous
adj 1: having an ulcer or canker [syn: {cankerous}, {ulcerated},
{ulcerous}]
-- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *
Thomas Adam [thomas.adam22 at gmail.com]
2009/9/11 Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net>:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:12:16PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
>> 2009/9/11 Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net>:
>> > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:54:22PM +0100, Steve Brown wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I am tending to find that as I get older my tolerance for people
>> >> wasting my time, or causing me grief and upset, is diminishing
>> >> rapidly.
>> >>
>> >> I think that by the time I retire I will be completely cankerous.
>> >
>> > Yikes! I hope you manage to get a tan in the midst of all that
>> > ("canTANkerous"); the other version is too painful and ugly to
>> > contemplate.
>>
>> Oh, I don't know -- the ability to bend oneself in an odd way has some
>> appeal, surely?
>
> ```
> r!dict cankerous
>
> 2 definitions found
>
> From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
>
> Cankerous \Can"ker*ous\, a.
> Affecting like a canker. "Canrerous shackles." --Thomson.
> [1913 Webster]
>
> Misdeem it not a cankerous change. --Wordsworth.
> [1913 Webster]
>
> From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
>
> cankerous
> adj 1: having an ulcer or canker [syn: {cankerous}, {ulcerated},
> {ulcerous}]
> '''
>
>
Uh-huh, but I was being even more crafty:
can-keros
-- Thomas Adam
Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:37:53PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> 2009/9/11 Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net>:
> >
> > ```
> > From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
> >
> > cankerous
> > adj 1: having an ulcer or canker [syn: {cankerous}, {ulcerated},
> > {ulcerous}]
> > '''
> >
> >
>
> Uh-huh, but I was being even more crafty:
>
> can-keros
>
>
Thomas, you have too much time on your hands. Or too many brains in your
head, I don't know which. Don't you know that any pun is 2/3rds
"P.U."?
-- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *
Thomas Adam [thomas.adam22 at gmail.com]
2009/9/12 Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net>:
> Thomas, you have too much time on your hands. Or too many brains in your > head, I don't know which.
Ha -- I thought most Americans would get this instantly, didn't they
teach you at school to filter out English words with "u" in them?
-- Thomas Adam
Ben Okopnik [ben at linuxgazette.net]
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 06:32:11PM +0100, Thomas Adam wrote:
> 2009/9/12 Ben Okopnik <ben@linuxgazette.net>: > > Thomas, you have too much time on your hands. Or too many brains in your > > head, I don't know which.
Nope; I missed the early indoctrination. You have to remember: I'm a
dam' furriner, and didn't start learning English until my teen years.
That's what makes me so dangerous: I don't even filter the fnords.
-- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET *
Steve Brown [steve.stevebrown at gmail.com]
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 05:00:40PM -0500, Ben Okopnik wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 09:54:22PM +0100, Steve Brown wrote:
> >
> > I am tending to find that as I get older my tolerance for people
> > wasting my time, or causing me grief and upset, is diminishing
> > rapidly.
> >
> > I think that by the time I retire I will be completely cankerous.
>
> Yikes! I hope you manage to get a tan in the midst of all that
> ("canTANkerous"); the other version is too painful and ugly to
> contemplate.
Oh bugger - here comes senility already - unfashionably early.