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Re: Windows thread in UKLM

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Roger Hayter <roger@hayter.org> wrote:
> Roger Hayter <roger@hayter.org> wrote:
> 
>> Bernie <bernie.usenet@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 21:21:25 +0100
>>> roger@hayter.org (Roger Hayter) wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Roland Perry <roland@perry.co.uk> wrote:  
>>>>>> In message <gpqghqFrh89U1@mid.individual.net>, at 07:43:55 on
>>>>>> Wed, 24 Jul 2019, Spike <Aero.Spike@mail.invalid> remarked:  
>>>>>>> On 23/07/2019 19:03, Roland Perry wrote:  
>>>>>>>> In message <gposj1FguqfU1@mid.individual.net>, at 16:57:06 on
>>>>>>>> Tue, 23 Jul 2019, Spike <Aero.Spike@mail.invalid> remarked:
>>>>>>>>> On 23/07/2019 10:30, Roland Perry wrote:  
>>>>>>>>>> Spike <Aero.Spike@mail.invalid> remarked:  
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Ye gods, why has this been allowed to go on for so long?
>>>>>>>>>>>> There hasn't been any legal content that I could see for
>>>>>>>>>>>> ages.  
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> Appealing to the gods hasn't worked - I see there's 24 new
>>>>>>>>>>> messages in this thread this morning.  
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> There's only been 31 the whole of Monday (and none "this
>>>>>>>>>> morning" - Tuesday).  
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> It all depends on whether one views '...this morning....' as
>>>>>>>>> referring to 'the (publication of the new) messages' or '(This
>>>>>>>>> morning) I see...'.  
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Who would be interested in what you see after an indeterminate
>>>>>>>> period of inactivity?  
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> You, it would seem.  
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm only interested in refuting your fake news.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm loving watching Roland (fucking **Roland!!!**) absolutely drag
>>>>> Burt here.   
>>>> 
>>>> I fully understand your child-like, breathless gleefulness at this
>>>> turn of events, but I must say that if I were to remark;  "I faced 25
>>>> new posts in this thread this morning.", *I* wouldn't necessarily be
>>>> implying that all these posts had been posted this morning.   Just for
>>>> some perspective, and because I am troubled by any exception to the
>>>> rule:  "Roland is always wrong".
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Burt didn't say "I faced 25 new posts in this thread this morning.",
>>> though, did he? You're quoting "" what you could defend, if he had said
>>> it, which he didn't.
>> 
>> Pedant
> 
> I thought what he said could have been read either way.  But I am not
> going to go back and check, just in case I'm wrong.  
> 

Talk about shit the bed. 

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Re: Windows thread in UKLM Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2019-07-24 17:53 +0000
  Re: Windows thread in UKLM roger@hayter.org (Roger Hayter) - 2019-07-24 21:21 +0100
    Re: Windows thread in UKLM Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2019-07-24 21:39 +0000
    Re: Windows thread in UKLM Stephen Cole <usenet@stephenthomascole.com> - 2019-07-24 21:39 +0000

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