On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:59:36 -0000, "Peter Hucker"
wrote:

On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:20:21 -0000, John Fields wrote:

On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 18:09:59 -0000, "Peter Hucker"
wrote:

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:49:26 -0000, John Fields wrote:

On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:19:03 -0000, "Peter Hucker"
wrote:

Pointless. To insult someone they must know you are doing so.

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Nope.

When you've been insulted, you've been insulted whether you know it or
not.

Sometimes it's even sweeter if don't understand the insult because that
shows off your stupidity.

The point of insulting someone is to annoy them.

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So say you, but there are many more reasons than that to insult someone.
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Like what?

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Like to put them in their place, for one.
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If they don't understand the insult, you've achieved nothing.

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Sure I have.

What I've achieved is discovering that your insight and intellectual
resources are insufficient to understand the insult and then to
retaliate.
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What use is that?

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It's a weapon I can use against you in the future.
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You might aswell wait until someone is out of earshot then call him names.

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You keep responding, so you're well within earshot, and you obviously
feel you have an emotional investment in the thread, otherwise you'd
just drop it.

So why do you keep responding?
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To prevent you getting the last wod and gloating about it.

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So it's OK for you to have the last word, but not for me?
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"Polly want a cracker?"

Trite, predictable, and ordinary.

Sorry, I've not enrolled in the troll school like yourself.

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Bull****.

You're just not that good at it and you hate it when you get caught
because you can't flame worth a **** either.

Go ahead and take the last word, Bozo, I'm sure all of USENET is
waiting, suspensefully, to hear what you've got to say...

JF