I wonder how many people actually use Killfile even though they say they do.
I'll bet very few --I think people are too afraid they would miss something.

This ng is like a high-rise walkup in Brooklyn,where virtually every ethnic
group is represented. As you pass each door there is a different smell. You
either like the smell or you don't -- but to the people cooking behind each
door, theirs smells great.

It would be nice if you could become a giant and get a whiff of the whole
building at once so you could classify it, but you can't. So you cannot say
"that building smells great", or "that building stinks". Like passing by
those doors you can click on a topic header here, and just by seeing the
number of posts, drifts, and the posters, you can get a whiff of that whole
building -- if you tap into each thread drift you will get good smells and
bad.

You could killfile the ones you deem as usually bad smelling; like holding
your nose, closing your eyes, and plugging your ears as you pass certain
doors; but by doing so you might also miss out on the music. That intolerant
asshole, that whining pussy, that know-it-all, might be the best horn player
you've ever heard.

Creative people always have their eyes, noses, ears, and palates open to new
things. They can tolerate a lot of stinky chitterlings cooking in the pot if
the cooker takes a break and plays Schubert, or Marley really well.

Great food is an art. There is no place for killfiles in art, because
perfection is a sum-total of myriad imperfections.

You can dislike, argue, rant, call somebody a fool in one of their cooking
posts but next time you pass their door you may hear great music. Creative
people change levels; you can now appreciate that poster on a different
level. So you called them names about cooking ten posts ago--that doesn't
mean you cannot like what they say about the music and tell them so. So
the killfile is actually killing possibilities.

Thus, this ng does not stick entirely to cooking because art has no specific
boundaries -- a writer's block can sometimes be overcome by changing media,
like painting a landscape. Should writers ngs never discuss landscapes
because it is not Writing?

You need to be open to continuums in this world, as in the real world
(whatever that means to you), to enrich your life, and your art -- and It's
OK to be ****ed-off just as much as it's OK to be smarmy.

(Obfood: see "stinky chitterlings" [aka chittlin's] above.)
--
Lefty

Life is for learning
The worst I ever had was wonderful