Re Turbo C moron spam

[Kenny McCormack]

likewise (just in case everyone has Kenny killed)

You bastards!

--

No, I haven't, that's why I'm asking questions. If you won't help me,
why don't you just go find your lost manhood elsewhere.

CLC in a nutshell.

 

[spinoza1111]

Anyone recommend some filter rules to killfile these morons?

IT looks like they are all using google groups, and the posting IPs are in
India. I don't think my newsreader is fancy enough to geo locate IPs tho...
hmm

Let me try to parse this:
Let me get this straight:
Naive questions from Bangladesh
Are the focus of your hate?

But the Heathfield yegg,
And Seebach the autistic twit
Are both a respected reg,
While the Bangladeshis are shit?

Their questions make you think!
That makes your head to buzz!
Their questions drive you to drink
Because you know not your busynuzz!

These questions are called "moron spam"
In a newsgroup where in accents, vile
You assault people, them you slam
And from your shithouse you then smile

There's nothing wrong with deconstruction
Finding fault with the general case
But if all you're capable of, is destruction
You have no standing and no face.

Adorno saw it swell and put it well
You can kick people in the teeth
Like Nazis you think you're swell
But you're going to come to grief.

You look like fools and far far worse
You cannot answer these simple questions
And you cannot reply in decent verse
You are thugs, who assault the best ones.

You throw shit at the Chosen One
Like Hypatia, stripped to dance for you
But the game is done she's won she's won
Because to herself she was true.

 

[spinoza1111]

I've reported a couple of them for spam but I'm not holding my breath

Give me a break. Some of you need to be reported to your local police.

 

[1jam]

Agreed.


August

Disagree.

 

[Ben Bacarisse]

Perhaps you could both take this to a theology group.

<fx>Jaw drops...</fx> I refer you the highway code.

 

[Andreas]

Well, true... but if there are two subjects guaranteed to lead to a
no-holds-barred flame war, they're religion and politics. In
comparison, handbrakes are relatively peccadillitudinous. (And I did
at least try to drag the handbrake thing back to malloc, the subject
of this thread.)

Being a non-native speaker of the english language though been around
english folks for a while now, I have to respectfully ask:
'What in fucks name does "peccadillitudinous" mean?'

 

[Nick Keighley]

Being a non-native speaker of the english language though been around
english folks for a while now, I have to respectfully ask:
'What <expletive> does "peccadillitudinous" mean?'

it's a made up word but its root is

Peccadillo \Pec`ca*dil"lo\, n.; pl. Peccadillos. [Sp.
pecadillo, dim. of pecado a sin, fr. L. peccatum. See
Peccant.]
A slight trespass or offense; a petty crime; a trifling
fault. --Sir W. Scott.
[1913 Webster]

so conversations about hand brakes have the property of being only
minor crimes. He's adjectified a noun.

Have you noticed in Naples that cars never stop at pedestrian
crossings? (well once they did but there was a policeman with a
machine gun there then). Whilst in Genoa they are much more resonable.


--

"Almost every species in the universe has an irrational fear of the
dark. But they're wrong- cos it's not irrational. It's Vashta
Nerada."
The Doctor

 

[Phil Carmody]

Being a non-native speaker of the english language though been around
english folks for a while now, I have to respectfully ask:
'What in fucks name does "peccadillitudinous" mean?'

A peccadillo is small sin (from Spanish peccado, with Latin roots)
-itude is a way of creating nouns from adjectives. So, for example,
X-itude is often 'being in state X', or 'having property X'.
-inous is a way of creating adjectives from nouns. Similarly, Y-inous
may mean 'being Y-like'.

English is loosely-enough typed that you don't notice the implicit
conversions that take place. So what we end up with is:
(adjective)adjective2noun(somenoun);
And the conversions from adjective to noun and noun to adjective
do not simply cancel each other out - the final cast decides the type
of the expression.

So it's basically a synonym for ``small-sinny''.

Phil

 

[Chris H]

Congratulations, you just blocked me. And countless other users.
Rui Maciel

And your point is? ))

I know a lot of people who block Gmail and hotmail

 

[Chris H]

On 2010-05-18 10:29, Richard Heathfield wrote:
[...]

or
bite the bullet and get a real email address. [...]
gmail.com is a very strong indicator that the contents of the article
are not worth reading,

Nonsense. What's not *real* about Gmail? Its popularity is very
real.

That is what I think of as the "manure fallacy": "Eat manure. Ten
billion flies can't be wrong."

I am going to have to agree with Richard for the second time this
Millennium

 

[spinoza1111]

Being a non-native speaker of the english language though been around
english folks for a while now, I have to respectfully ask:
'What in fucks name does "peccadillitudinous" mean?'

It don't mean shit since it's not a real word, but "peccadillo" means
"small sin", so obviously Heathfield was coining a neologism. Pretty
classy, given the source.

With an Armadillo
One should not commit a Peccadillo
There is no place to stick it
It could be a "sticky wicket"
If not lost forever, inside the Armadillo

Heathfield concerns himself with that which is peccadillitudinous
For the details, he's the very man, because he is so very studious
But if you're a high-level and terribly posh corporate executive
Be advised: he tends rather to get lost inside the forest
primevalATive
With a feeling that can only be described in German, as Waldeinsamkeit
He stares like a Dryad at the tree with the fixed beady eyes of the
circling Kite.

 

[spinoza1111]

A peccadillo is small sin (from Spanish peccado, with Latin roots)
-itude is a way of creating nouns from adjectives. So, for example,
X-itude is often 'being in state X', or 'having property X'.
-inous is a way of creating adjectives from nouns. Similarly, Y-inous
may mean 'being Y-like'.

English is loosely-enough typed that you don't notice the implicit
conversions that take place. So what we end up with is:
  (adjective)adjective2noun(somenoun);
And the conversions from adjective to noun and noun to adjective
do not simply cancel each other out - the final cast decides the type
of the expression.

So it's basically a synonym for ``small-sinny''.

Wow, everybody's got online OED. Pretty soon, the only way to know the
truly intelligent person will be by his errors. The pedants will copy
and paste from online sources, never getting anything wrong, but never
comprehending anything. The wise will be mocked by the pedants for
their "errors".

Wait a minute: this form of Idiocracy is already upon us.

Newbies, if the regs here reject you, that means you're smart.

 

[Curtis Dyer]

If you want him to read your stuff, you either have to persuade
him to change his mind (which will be hard if he's not reading
your stuff) or bite the bullet and get a real email address.

I was curious what you meant by "real," but I see you clarified
downthread. While I feel this is a valid point, I think it's a
good idea to try to filter out Google Groups messages without
using the From header whenever possible.

There are other options, such as the Organization header, which GG
sets to <http://groups.google.com>. Also, the Message-ID header
always seems to end with "googlegroups.com". This is the approach
I had to take for my news reader. Elsethread, Phil Carmody also
pointed out that filtering on "X-Complaints-To" is very effective.

[...] gmail.com is a very strong indicator that the
contents of the article are not worth reading, *despite* a
considerable number of false positives (such as Bjarne
Stroustrup!).

Bjarne Stroustrup--I seem to recall him being an expert of some
kind.