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by None 08 Mar '22

08 Mar '22

British social attitudes has been the notion that who you were was determined by what you had been born being, in terms of everything--race, class, or national-- and that this, in turn, affected the way you talked." The article goes on to describe the dominance of "BBC English" in British performing arts. -(Y)

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08 Mar '22

> >(dryly) Well, I'd hardly expect *anyone* to be called a troll by > >people who *agreed* with them. ObB7: Although I nearly always do agree with My Client, I don't think that "troll" is an unfair description of his flight deck- argument demeanor. -(Y)

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08 Mar '22

viewed her. Of course, one could always argue the _writer_ did this because the audience was supposed to think of her as a person and the nameless imperial thugs as nameless imperial thugs. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.

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08 Mar '22

>>If you *really* want so desperately to be noticed, you could always be a troll like Wendy, but I don't reccommend it. Or is that actually what you're doing, in calling us "exceptionally rude"?<< LOL! No, I don't want to be *desperately* noticed - Oh brother...I just wanted to talk about a show I enjoyed with other people who also enjoyed it, why is that so hard to understand? If you wish to think of me as a troll, that's your prerogative :-) >>Look, I spend 2-4 hours a day reading my email, with the various mailing lists I'm on. I am *never* going to respond to every post. To expect me to is being completely unfair and ruddy unreasonable.<< That statement would be completely justified, *if* that is what I was expecting, I never expected all my posts to be answered and certainly not by everyone, not here nor anywhere else, what I did expect was someone (it is usually the moderator or list owner)to officially welcome me and acknowledge my presence on the list as being accepted. Up until then, everytime I posted, I felt I was being intrusive and more so, each time a post was ignored. I am sorry if I have deeply offended anyone, I truly never expected to, I thought I was justified in what I said, therefore I didn't really think it would bother anyone - I was wrong - and for that I am sorry. Cheryl. _____________________________________________________________________________ http://invites.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Invites - Organise your Mardi Gras party online!

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08 Mar '22

>>Whether *I* respond to a post or not has got nothing to do with whoever posted it, but with the content of the post; whether it's said something that I want to respond to.<< I have already had this pointed out to me and I have now considered it. I have also explained how this has never happened elsewhere, which is why I got it wrong here. I didn't want to bring stats into this, simply because I loathe stats - they can be manipulated or quoted(as in this case)to highlight just one point of many, however; as the stats have been mentioned a few times now, I feel I have to in my own defense, state, that I belong to a list that generates on average 3,000 posts a month, I have belonged to it pretty much since its inception and I can guarantee you that no newcomer has ever been left unnoticed, either through a plethora of other posts or simply because their posts weren't interesting enough to warrant a response - they were at least welcomed and I myself have made a point of answering their initial posts just to help them settle in. I'm really beginning to wish that this was one of those posts that got lost in the multitudes - I'm beginning to dread, opening up my mailbox and seeing 'Was it something I said :-)' in the posts. I hope this doesn't come across as harsh - not my intention - I'm just a tad weary of saying the same thing.

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by None 08 Mar '22

08 Mar '22

>>Prior to that posting, you had posted four times to the list. During the time from your first post until your complaint (2001-02-02 to 2001-02-18) there were over nine hundred other postings made. Consider the possibility that your posts were simply lost in the multitude.<<

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08 Mar '22

>>First, I have enjoyed your posts. Second, welcome. Third, it's that crowd mentality thing. Trust me, if everyone on the list replied to each posting, we'd all stop subscribing because we wouldn't have the time to go through, read, and delete.<< Thank you for the first and the second :-) Re: the third, I agree completely, as I stated to Minnie - I wasn't expecting a reply to all my posts. I guess I overreacted, not knowing any of you, I hope you see how easy this could be done under the circumstances. I would like to say here and now to one and all, that I sincerely apologise for my harsh statement regarding rudeness, as it is now apparent, that this, is not so. Cheryl. _____________________________________________________________________________ http://invites.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Invites - Organise your Mardi Gras party online!

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08 Mar '22

>><<I like Blake's 7>><< >>So do I! Ain't that an amazing coincidence? :)<< LOL! >>Welcome to the list! I'm usually a lurker, though.<< Thank you for the welcome :-) >>At least I have a much better idea of what a MS is, why I shouldn't write one, and how to recognize one.<< Me too! I hadn't even heard of a Mary Sue until I joined this list :-)

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08 Mar '22

>>Take the walking into a room analogy (I think a pub would be more appropriate, though that might just be my take on it). Here's a group of people all sitting round a table, they all 'know' each other, and they're all deep in discussion on subjects that they not only know a lot about but care about a lot. Then someone new turns up, a complete stranger, drink in hand, and she finds herself a seat on the corner. Well, that has happened to me quite a few times, and I wasn't surprised to find myself more or less out of the conversation. It's the way things happen. It's not unfriendly,it's not a deliberate snub (though, yes, it can feel like one), it's just that groups of like-minded people, even virtual ones, have a habit of forming cliques that can be hard to penetrate.<< I appreciate this more than you realise, and yes, I do know that tightly knit groups can be hard to penetrate, ironically, in a RL situation, you would not even find me attempting to penetrate the group - I seem to be more outgoing on the net (don't ask me why). As I explained in my post to Minnie, it is so much harder to ascertain intent through a faceless medium - In the pub situation, I would be able to detect a snub through expressions and body language, I don't have that to work with on the list - I can only go by response(or lack of) :-) >>Can you see how you might be getting drowned out in the babble!<< Yes, I appreciate that my posts could indeed be lost in the crowd, I'm still going through posts myself - I guess I was referring to posts that were being dealt with on a particular subject, However; I take note of your explanation regarding answering the posts of those you know first - again (as with Sally)this is understandable. >>You're also up against some of the most informed, quite possibly opinionated and in my case at least arrogant members of the Lyst who are too busy bludgeoning the opposition with the intellectual weight of their carefully honed arguments to stop to say hello to a new face:) (Actually, any bludgeoning might exist only in my imagination, but it certainly has been a very challenging - and enjoyably so - month for my brain.)<< This is one of the things which struck me straight away about this list, the level of intelligence in the conversations - don't get me wrong, I can babble along with the best of them, when it comes to how gorgeous, I think Avon is :-) but that level of chatter can't be kept up forever, I don't agree with all the philosophies on this list but I have enjoyed reading them. >>Normally when new arrivals appear they do get a few welcome messages, but then we're not normally so distracted. So may I at least say, Welcome to the Lyst, Cheryl.<< Thank you for the welcome :-)

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by None 08 Mar '22

08 Mar '22

>>but I for one was so busy explaining why I Still Thought I Was Right that I mostly only answered people who disagreed with me).<< Considering the flood of posts regarding this topic, I fully understand this. >><gurgle> trying to recall - I think my first post was on the subject of red leather ... and the second was a shy-and-shrinking eight paragraph This Is How I See My Darling marathon (you were probably all thinking "where the hell did *this* come from???"). I do not seem to have changed very much ... I'm sorry I missed these - I love reading anything re: Avon :-) I have to ask though, as I've never been quite sure, does the term 'My Darling' refer strictly to Avon or does it apply to Blake as well? >>So tell us, Cheryl - how do you feel about Jarriere? <smiles> Jarriere? Hmmm, A tad too fawning for my tastes, however; I was drawn to the character, nonetheless, but don't ask me what the pull was - I simply don't know - I do know that it wasn't sexual though :-)

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