If Hitler Approached You...

Peter, could you quote the author(s) in the replies, please? Thanks!

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Warm Worm
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I'm saying people are far too willing to make stuff up rather than just read what's in front of them. Hitler threads are always a great place to watch it in action. I bet you couldn't get a useful discussion going about the shape of his mustache.

There's this problem people have that if any statement they perceive as being within Hitler's orbit isn't surrounded by a bulwark of emphatic Hitler bashing then that statement must be an attack on all that is good and true and right and just and pure and the speaker must be persecuted for their supposed evils. Have fun looking for my inner neo-Nazi, my closeted anti-semite... You don't need me for that game, it's all in your head.

Make up statements for me to utter, then hate me for them. But while you're doing it, remember that YOU are the one who thought of those ideas, not me. Wonder why your mind is so ready to create those ideas.

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gruhn

No clue just what specific feature you want me to add. Don't thank me yet, I don't expect to change my posting style.

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gruhn

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I'm talking about citing the authors of the threads' posts-- their sub- quotes within the bodies of your responses-- ie., Don, Michael, Me, Edgar, Ken... I understand that they're in a threaded context, but it is far more convenient to have them within the post rather than having to go up the thread to search for who said what. Besides, AFAIK, all apps I've used so far do it automatically.

Well it's your call, but it seems a win-win proposition.

Where've you been again, BTW? It's been about 10 days since. I missed you. Do you prefer stale threads? ;)

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Warm Worm

Ok I think I see what you're saying now, and agree that it can happen, that a negative aura surrounding a subject can override attempts at its objective discussion. But my OP was less concerned with the shape of his mustache, but rather, if recalled, what you would do if you were a "barber and he came up to you one day for a shave and a hair-cut".

I think I was concerned with when or where would some of us draw the line (if anywhere) as to where we don't do business for someone.

What if you were a medical researcher or nuclear-scientist in the original-post scenerio?

I spoke recently with someone who happens to like some elements of Nazi fashion, and that's fine. I hear their boots were quite nice. Metaphorically-speaking, am I to presume you have a concern for how you'll be seen, that you're "unable or unwilling to put them on"?

Here're the boots again:

"So are you saying that you'd work for Hitler then, designing his death camps (to place in your portfolio), because it's about the architecture, not the client?"

What size are you?

I think George Orwell and Charlie Chaplin both had a similar 'stache.

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Warm Worm

I've seen too many stupid fights start over "I didn't say that, why did you say I said that?" I chose to stop trying long ago.

When my options are "do something important, interesting and/or useful" and "read some wanker blather for the _nth_ time what he insists he saw in a video like I didn't read him the first n times..." usenet loses.

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gruhn

No.

But don't read into that everything you want me to be saying.

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gruhn

Hell no.

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Warm Worm

Of course. In any case, if you're going to blow some time here, let me know if there's anything I can do to make it more worthwhile.

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Warm Worm

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