TOT: be kind to your children

[Bill Wright]

So it is. And most folk apply a sense of low value.

Bill

[Clem Dye]

Thanks for reminding me of my impending descent into dotage Bill.

Having now got more years on the clock than I clearly have left, and having gone through what you've described with deceased parents it does make you wonder just what it's all about.

Perhaps going senile in old age is the ideal escape.

Clem

[Bill Wright]

Sudden unexpected painless death would be OK.

Bill

[meow2222]

On Monday, September 17, 2012 5:34:52 PM UTC+1, Bill Wright wrote: big snip

Reader's digest pays for that sort of writing

NT

[Andy Champ]

"I want to die in bed, at the age of 95. Shot by a jealous husband"

Anyone know who first said it?

Andy

[Zimmy]

Been through that with the mother-in-law, fortunately she had just moved house six months before or it might have taken several more months than it did!

Worse than that is moving in to a house where the family of the deceased has not bothered to clear it out properly. OK, there were some useful tools (all 'Made in England') in the garage, but there were enough planks and wood in the loft to last through several nuclear winters. If anyone wants it I still have an 'Acme' clothes wringer I found unused and still in its original box.

Z

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

Did you need to quote the whole message of 220 odd lines to add ten of your own?

[X]

He added more useful information than you did. Dial Up pedants are a thing of the past.

[Bill Wright]

Anyway the 220 lines he quoted were written by me, and as such were well worth repeating.

Bill

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

Not when you have to scroll down the whole thing to see his fine contribution. Anyway, how do you know I'm not on some slow connection? I easily could be, out at the back of beyond, accessing this through the last dying rays of a fecked cell mast.

[geoff]

Learn to snip you goblok

[geoff]

In message , snipped-for-privacy@X.X writes

And you added f*ck all and have never posted ANYTHING useful AFAICS

[Zimmy]

I didn't *need* to do anything, Thunderbird automatically quoted it. To be honest, I didn't even think of snipping it. I recommend getting a mouse with a fast scroll wheel. With that, scrolling doesn't bother me at all, but neither does top or bottom quoting for that matter.

If you can't be bothered scrolling, then don't, just close the window and move on to the next 'short' message.

Z

[Zimmy]

The 90's just called, they want their modem/lo-res screen/crappy mouse back. Learn to scroll.

Z

[Ian Jackson]

It's surprising how many people don't. Presumably they don't get fed up when others do the same.

Oh dear. "If you don't like the way I do it, then don't bother to read it".

[JTM]

Scrolling is *so* last century. Get a smart /iThing and learn to snip

[Zimmy]

But I can scroll even faster with an iThing! Just a few flicks of the finger. :-)

Z

[Huge]

Oh, so that's all right then.

[Man at B&Q]

Fuckwits who don't know how to trim a reply.

MBQ

[Andy Champ]

Yes, but when you do you miss the bit where someone has added a comment in the middle.

Besides, it's kind to Brian.

Andy