On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:48:45 +0200, Lionel Chapuis
wrote:

Anthony PDC a écrit :
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 23:40:12 -0400, George M. Middius
wrote:



Anthony PDC said:

[snip irrational, dogmatic upchuck of superficial stereotyping and
infantile posturing]



[snip feodal garbage]


And finally: Shut the **** up, you sniveling twit.




Ooops - I hit a sensitive spot with you didn't I?

At any rate, it's great you kicked off the debate - though not in a
way that's much removed from um...well, puerile and hysterical.

I'm speculating here, but you sound like someone whose perception is
determined by the superfice of the *package* - rather than the
*content* Myself, well I don't know much about jewellery or fancy
restaurants...umm. I'm not an aesthete as you guessed, and in that
sense I suppose I proved my point apropos elitism and similar
indulgences.

Tatty bye.

Regards,

Anthony

Asus P4P800/XP

Thank you for opening the window, we need fresh air.

I would like to know the average statistic cost of one hour of music
(divide the cost of high-end audio equipment by the time the owners
really spend to listen MUSIC).

Concerning fancy restaurants you can have a lot of pleasure, here in
France, for about USD 150.00 including the wine (50-60% of the cost).
Let say you have 1 to 3 such good meals per year and you are an happy man.

Concerning the way your interlocutor answer, please be informed that Mr
George "Ayatollah" Middius himself proclamed "Resistance Commander" of
his own holy war has all the rights here, including insults, threats,
fatwa...

Lionel

Thank you Lionel In fact, I have already dined in a real French
Restaurant (in Normandy) and very delightful it was too!

As for Mr Middius, yes I must admit I was somewhat taken aback and yet
intrigued by his rather disproportionate response to my trollish post,
so I looked at some of his earlier, umm, contributions. Sure enough,
my initial suspicions were confirmed on seeing his long history of
posting prodigious quantities of (largely defensive) comments, fueled
by an almost maniacal degree of hatred and spite. The cheese certainly
seems to have fallen off his cracker years ago.

Moreover, far from trying to lecture anyone on the proprieties of
Usenet, Mr Middius might care to look in the mirror and ask himself
why he and his apologists have turned rec.audio.opinion into a
disgraceful flame-fest, peppered with the kind of bileful vituperation
one would normally associate only with someone suffering from profound
emotional problems. And on a scale which reaches far wider than mere
audio; the absence of subtlety, irony, or even smart sarcasm and wit
in his language is telling. I'm afraid he's also just a rude oaf.

What it boils down to is an incapacity to debate or otherwise
communicate rationally, as a grown-up, mature, and fully-formed
individual. I'd venture to guess Mr Middius gets off on the anonymity
Usenet affords him as a form of catharsis, by way of compensating for
his possible failure to participate fully, normally, in the adult
world. (Someone privately emailed me following Middius' reply to my
original post and alleged that Middius dons a "Star Trek Admiral's"
uniform when posting here. Well, people may very well say that; I
couldn't possibly comment).

Maybe he has Social Anxiety Disorder, who knows? - it's a particularly
debilitating mental illness which turns some (a tiny minority) of
painfully shy people into monstrous bullies manque, given the
opportunity to vent their alter ego in a medium like Usenet. In the
real World of course, most people would just give him a good slapping
if he spoke to them thus, and of course he would learn from that, like
most children do. Ever see that film the "Green Mile" which features a
sadistic, wretchedly inadequate prison warder who sneaks around
getting his "own back" on prisoners within his (externally-sourced)
power. Do you see the parallels here?

Whatever, Mr Middius appears to have problems of much more serious
dimension than the circumscribed and (let's be honest) ultimately
trivial world of high-end audio. How a person like George Middius can
invest so much of his *life* lurking around here in this virtual World
of a *single* Newsgroup, sniping away like a demented ferret, is also
astonishing, and also somewhat telling. As William Shatner once
implored of the crazier Trekkies; "Get A Life!"

Finally, it's surely a pity Admiral Middius' problems haven't been
fixed - both for his sake and for others with whom he interacts. So,
at the end of the day, one should try to exercise restraint with
regard to George Middius. Resist his perennial attempts to enjoin you
in his sad and spiteful little Universe lest you allow yourself to be
sucked in, for it's surely a sad, ugly and exceedingly lonely place to
inhabit!

Regards,

Anthony

Asus P4P800/XP