In article >,
Dan Abel > wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:15:37 +0000 (UTC), Charlotte L. Blackmer wrote:
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>> > Anyway, I find the threat of "I should killfile you" hi-lar-i-ous. Not
>> > only does it completely demonstrate that he got stuck some time during
>> > the second month or so of his usenet career and hasn't acquired a clue
>> > since, it really comes across like the Inquisitors from the Monty Python
>> > sketch. Threatening Barb with the killfile is exactly like "Bring out
>> > the comfy chair!"
>> >
>> > Meta note: Threatening people with your killfile just makes you (general
>> > you, not just Peter) look like a complete tool. Either do or do not, and
>> > don't make grand announcements. Nobody cares but you.
>
>People are going to get tired of me saying this (or are already tired of
>it), but I view my killfile like I view my tv remote control. If I
>don't want to watch a show, I turn it off. If I don't want to listen to
>a commercial, I mute it. It's nothing personal. It does nothing to
>anybody else. It's strictly for my convenience.

Well, I think it bears repeating. Some people have really weird ideas
about killfiles, like "use implies hate" or "use implies cowardice". No,
really, for me it's time management - I only have time to spend on
signal/the program rather than noise/the commercials - and what you said
above.

One frequent and long-term poster has been in mine through all her various
SPAM KILLAH! morphs for years because she originally didn't have much to
say, but insisted on saying so early and often. I missed much of her
morphing from a garden-variety attention-seeking loudmouth dimbulb into a
attention-seeking loudmouth dimbulb heavily flavored with extra-sour
hate-filled bigot sauce, which was generally good for my blood pressure as
well as my time management .

>ObPetPeeve: People who leave the tv on when they aren't watching it. I
>generally shut it off, if in my house. I was in the hospital for a
>week, a couple of weeks ago. It was a triple room, and the guy next to
>me left his tv on all the time.

Ugh. Sorry to hear about this. It's bad enough being poked and prodded
all day and all night without the boob tube blasting away. The only
visiting I've done recently has been in oncology wards, so no
problems with that because they have private rooms.

ObFood: Unfortunately my teacher is going back in this week for chemo
(lupus), so I've already promised her a roast shicken (Hi Barb!) so she
can ignore the hospital slop. Contemplating sides for this; she's from
the South, so I'm thinking a mess of greens cooked in chicken broth, and
some lightly-gingered carrots (I have a lot of carrots!).

Might bake something for the ward staff. They are awesome. I don't know
if the patient can eat it because they keep giving her some med or other
that causes her blood sugar to go completely nuts.

Charlotte

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