[tech] NIS

[Nick Bannon]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 09:24:58PM +0800, Grahame Bowland wrote:
[...]
> Why does everyone around the UCC have to get so fscking narky all 
> the time. I'm guilty of it too, but we're a club that does stuff. 

Narkiness is largely in the eye of the beholder.

Interpreting an innocent or ambiguous statement in a narky fashion,
then reactingly narkily to it, has caused more than a few arguments and
flamewars to explode out of apparently nowhere this year (and indeed
for time immemorial).

> It's supposed to be fun. Just because someone wants to play with a 
> flavour of the month technology doesn't make them lame.
> 
> - Grahame - not having a good day (again [1])

Absolutely - in fact between playing with the technology flavours of
this month and those of months gone by - those two are quite literally
the only reasons for any of us to be here at all.

> [1] And I didn't even get my cheese-cake fix for the day.

Ah - that sounds fixable... Go fix it. ::-)

Nick.

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