The "ideal" Dick Cheney hunting accident

Happens I've got this bridge in San Francisco for sale, a man of your proclaimed astuteness could make a killing...

So why would you or anyone else want to "buy me a pint" if there's nothing here to debate and what was all that previous nonsense about "I would buy the first round and argue with you all night?" In each post you just keep contradicting a previous one. Debating with you would be like having an arse kicking contest with a one-legged man - too easy and no fun at all.

That was just insulting and wrong! I don't always

Extremely badly. It's also a curious phenomenon in the USA that as soon as a complete tosser achieves the office of president he's accorded god-like status by half the population just because he's now in that 'sacred' office. He's still a complete tosser of course but a tosser with a fancy job title. We don't think Tony Blair is god-like just because he's Prime Minister. In fact he's the worst and most dangerous Prime Minister we've ever had in much the same way as the shrub is the worst and most dangerous president you've ever had. Both of them are steadily eroding previously sacrosant civil liberties, enhancing the powers of the police, denying free speech, locking up people without charge or due cause and killing thousands of innocent foreign civilians. In either country you can now be arrested for wearing the wrong T-shirt or putting up the wrong poster and shot in the head for sitting minding your own business on a train or plane. Your movements are tracked on CCTV and cameras in police cars and your emails and phone calls can be intercepted without the approval of a court. What used to be free societies are rapidly becoming similar to state controlled cold war Russia.

Then sadly you're an idiot.

How about we talk about blowing the heads off you and your friends? ...same

Not remotely the same thing. In fact it's just more personal abuse. A) It was them blowing each other's heads off not me or anyone else blowing either of their heads off and B) neither myself nor any of my friends are important enough to make a scrap of difference to the safety of the world. However if you want to postulate a quail hunting accident where myself and a friend blow each other's heads off then be my guest and knock yourself out. I would neither be affected or insulted by something so stupid after 7 years of reading drivel on usenet and certainly wouldn't bother to reply.

You on the other hand are so easy to wind up it almost spoils it. Just insert another battery into the little Duracell bunny, suggest that the US of A isn't actually the most perfect place in the world and watch it stomp around in anger and frustration for hours on end.

-- Dave Baker

-snip- > You just fairly immediately resort to insults and personal abuse.

-snip-

Oh, I see...your personal abuse doesn't count. ---hypocrite!

People like you ,on both sides of the pond, are the best spokesmen for the conservatives. Your type of drivel has forced the moderate liberals to see that the fringe left does NOT offer any solutions or vision...just brainless bile and ranting, and they are flocking to the right in droves. Keep up the good work! Your calling in life seems to be as a "Bad Example", do parents use you to frighten children?

Please fill in more personal abuse here, I need a good chuckle : (Swinney promised me you'd go off)

How much? Will you take a check?

Tom, mail me offlist, this matter is commercially sensitive!

Chances are, now that the king of wire has evinced interest, I'll be swamped with calls from the oriental divisions of US manufacturing!

Rest assured though you have still got first refusal, however check out that your local S & L has secure wire transfer to the Grand Caymans...

Just to make sure you don't underpay him make the check out to 3 or 4 grand more than he asks and he can send you the extra back in cash.....

Tom sez:

"> Please fill in more personal abuse here, I need a good chuckle : (Swinney

Tom, he didn't go off on you - not much! He went off on me a couple of years ago when I made an honest mistake on a RCM post and commented that torque was everywhere the same in a transmission link. Of course, that is obviously, patently, glaringly wrong. We ranted back and forth a few times while I argued in favor of my published typo - soon, I reread the line and realized it was incorrect in my mag article. I send an erratum to the publisher. The erratum was published in a subsequent edition to hopefully wash the egg from my face.

Eggs -- now that is something Dave is familiar with, or at least he is very familiar with that part of the chicken from whence eggs come. He became somewhat irate when I suggested he respond to the mistletoe on my shirt tail and went off on me. Actually, as I said before, it was a bit flattering that he'd go to all the trouble; but he wrote a doozy of an article, replete with all the East End jargon, including frequent use of "Governor". In it, I was the dupe of some scene involving a gravedigger as I recall. All in all, I rather enjoyed it. It was so well written that anyone but the most learned reader would not recognize the satire.

Bob Swinney

I'm as yet, disappointed but I'm hopeful.

If you have seen how the irrational, backwards, religiously dogmatic, fanatics who behead people for the most miniscule reasons in Iraq operate, then you already know how the ones over hear operate too. So, if you have seen how they operate in Iraq you already have a good idea what they are like in the US. Hope that eliminates your need to see the same sort of folks who inhabit this country. No need to waste your time and money. They're just like the crazy Muslims except they're Christian.

Hawke

Yabut wasn't that you I saw at the beheadings last Friday night with your date? Did you take her to dinner before or after the entertainment? Did you get the discount tickets I sent you?

Not something I remember particularly but I've just had a look back on Google. It seems the only ranting was from you. All I did, as did several others, was post corrections to your mistakes - no "going off", no abuse, no name calling, just correct physics. Unfortunately the more mistakes you made the more embarrassed you got and then you started taking things personally despite there being others putting you straight as well as myself. Clearly it was a big thing to you if you remember it so well. I'd forgotten it all long ago. I wasn't the one making a tit of myself in public though so I guess that's understandable.

What would I call "going off" is rank abuse and threats of sending one's friends round to your house because one disagrees with an opinion as per Tom's posts to me. Sadly that pretty much typifies what the rest of the world currently dislikes about America. Not so much the world's policeman as it likes to think of itself but the world's thug and bully who's knee jerk reaction, just like Tom's, to anything it doesn't like is violence.

-- Dave Baker

If a state is going to have the death penalty, surely it is more sensible to recoup costs by selling tickets and also invite the media to get the message across, rather than pay for a couple of decades of board, lodging and lawyers fees before doing the deed?

Mark Rand RTFM

Sadly that pretty much typifies what the rest of the

The fact is that you want the United States President and Vice President dead with their heads blown off. You are a terrorist! Maybe it should be up to these people to decide how to handle your threat before you take action with your cell.

In article , Tom Gardner writes

Oh please give them a call, please.

They could use a laugh.

"Sarge, I've got some American guy on the phone says someone's been telling jokes on Usenet. He says he wants us to arrest him as a terrorist."

And, and...and get that "Nigel" guy too...I can tell he's thinking baaad thoughts!

Dave's is an angry car mechanic that needs this group to spout off about his life's frustrations...

shut up and do your oil changes..

Can you IMAGINE the level of frustration working on British crap? Why do the Brits drink warm beer? Lucas makes refrigerators...

Jeeeze, Tom! Give'um a break already. They did invent the steam engine.

What were they TRYING to make?