On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:14:18 GMT, 'Hog wrote: > I only see unread posts not the read items so to go back up involves > marking CT as unread, changing the view and going back. Slightly long > winded. I could agree with you if Darsy's post wasn't in my reply, but > it was, just a couple of lines up. > Partly this is a function of using the netbook and a small screen to I > keep the threads truncated.
So basically you're too lazy to post properly or look for a better newsreader.
Champ <n...@champ.org.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 08:39:20 -0000, "'Hog" > <sm911S...@hotmailCHIPS.co.uk> wrote:
> >> You should have responded to the correct post then i.e. Darsy, not CT.
> >As I said to the Pipster it was perfectly clear and no need for pedantry and > >something to do with the way OE threads maybe!
> It really wasn't 'perfectly clear'. Those who can be bothered have > leant to make allowances for your inability to work the software.
> Chris posted: > "Bollocks! There can't have been more than half an hour between any > two posts from you today."
> And you responded with : > "My gardener is off for a while. I'll pay you £10/hour to clean the > autumn mess up around here"
> You should have either posted a respone to Darsy, or use "him" instead > of "you" in your sentence.
> And while I'm quite prepared to believe that OE is shit, I can't > imagine how it can organise threads such that a reponse to one post > can read like a response to another.
All of this effort...
And yet you let "no need for pedantry" float past!!!
Switters wrote: > On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:14:18 GMT, 'Hog wrote:
>> I only see unread posts not the read items so to go back up involves >> marking CT as unread, changing the view and going back. Slightly long >> winded. I could agree with you if Darsy's post wasn't in my reply, >> but it was, just a couple of lines up. >> Partly this is a function of using the netbook and a small screen to >> I keep the threads truncated.
> So basically you're too lazy to post properly or look for a better > newsreader.
It is a fine reader with Quotefix and sorry but I just don't see anything wrong with my post. If it had jarred in the first place I would have bothered to backtrack. It's not as if I fail to be (invariably) careful to trim posts and get attributions and sigs right FFS.
<sm911S...@CHIPShotmail.co.uk> wrote: >> So basically you're too lazy to post properly or look for a better >> newsreader. >It is a fine reader with Quotefix and sorry but I just don't see >anything wrong with my post.
So you were genuinely offering CT a job to do your garden. Fair enough. -- Champ We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. ZX10R | Hayabusa | GPz750turbo neal at champ dot org dot uk
> On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:21:18 -0000 in uk.rec.motorcycles, 'Hog says:
>>CT wrote: >>> darsy wrote:
>>>> been gardening for most of today - not very interesting, but it needs >>>> done.
>>> Bollocks! There can't have been more than half an hour between any >>> two posts from you today.
>>My gardener is off for a while. I'll pay you £10/hour to clean the >>autumn mess up around here
> Flipping heck, my dole monkey garden person expects twice that.
My professional non dole monkey gardener *gets* more than twice that and I'd pay more if I had to. I fucking hate gardening and garden clearing/keeping cleared.
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