Nuxx:72baffe4-62b0-4eef-b267-9943c67a8c38@y18g2000pre.googlegroups.com

Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!y18g2000pre.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <72baffe4-62b0-4eef-b267-9943c67a8c38@y18g2000pre.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Re: Enough! Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 06:37:32 -0700 (PDT) References:   <665fad81-da57-42d7-8472-13c9a5bfa1ad@q27g2000prf.googlegroups.com>  <664rouF2iicdqU1@mid.individual.net>  <4d249782-389a-475b-918e-129b658c2977@l64g2000hse.googlegroups.com> Lines: 25 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.105.204.241 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1208093852 10263 127.0.0.1 (13 Apr 2008 13:37:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:37:32 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: y18g2000pre.googlegroups.com; posting-host=88.105.204.241; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080311 Firefox/2.0.0.13,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2875 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:646985

On Apr 10, 2:34 pm, dkahn400  wrote: > On Apr 10, 7:31 am, Ian Smith  wrote: > > > I think it is obvious that the opinions which get most aggressively > > defended (and, indeed, attacked) are those for which there is no solid > > evidence. By implication, therefore, those that the proponent has > > doubts about. > > In a fist fight it is usually fairly obvious who has won. The loser is > the one lying on the ground in a bloody heap, unwilling or unable to > get up for more. The loser of a newsgroup argument, however, is often > too stupid to realise that, metaphorically speaking, he is taking a > pounding. There is after all no blood, and he cannot actually hear the > derisive laughter. Occasionally the poor fool starts posting messages > about how well he is doing in the exchange. > > The question of who is winning and who is losing a particular argument > has to be left to those who are following it. Only a fool would > publicly praise the quality of his own posts, and only a fool would > declare himself to be winning. The unfortunate Nuxx Bar is such a > fool.

Yawn. Neither you, nor any of the other trolls, are able to defend cameras in any way, shape or form when challenged. You know the game's up. Why not stop this silly pretending? Who is it helping?