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Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!f63g2000hsf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <28aae24d-f65e-4362-9270-da011934ad57@f63g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.rec.cycling Subject: Quick Question Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:27:49 -0700 (PDT) Lines: 21 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.105.206.99 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1222532870 10316 127.0.0.1 (27 Sep 2008 16:27:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:27:50 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: f63g2000hsf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=88.105.206.99; posting-account=7_6kYAkAAABD6HrjM0VxehwvZOKMxm4g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008091620 Firefox/3.0.2,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Bytes: 2106 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.rec.cycling:669346

If someone was to go onto a newsgroup or forum, and show that one or more of the opinions held by the majority of the regulars were wrong, how do you think the regulars would be more likely to react?

1. The Scientific Reaction: "You're right, you know. We've been wrong all this time.  Thank you for showing us that we were wrong, and we will of course change our viewpoints accordingly.  That, after all, is how science works, and if everyone had too much of an ego to ever admit to being wrong, everyone would still think that the Sun went round the Earth."

2. The Lying, Agenda-Driven, Arrogant Troll Reaction: "Fuck off, you troll."

It's a difficult one, but I reckon the answer is probably 2. What do you think? (Let me guess: "Fuck off, you troll", along with its many variants, such as "Don't feed the troll" (it's all that "_" the useless twat ever says), "Plonk" and all the other old favourites.)

Bye! (Lovely day isn't it? Just right for a nice drive, inconsiderate bastard that I am....)