"Kurgan Gringioni" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...
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is in the offseason.
July is the wrong time - wading through interesting TdF commentary is enough without having to filter out the newbie spam. In the off-season, activity is low. A newbie question may actually be welcome. Unfortunately, the newbie hordes only show up in July, like a suffocating swarm of brown locusts on RBR's verdant, green, dung-fertilized fields.
Isn't that just precious? Henry thinks he's one of the cognoscenti when he's just a dilettante.
Don't pay him no nevermind, folks. If you have a question, just ask it. There are enough good folks here that will answer any sincere question any time.
"[censored] Durbin" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
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"Kurgan Gringioni" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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is in the offseason.
July is the wrong time - wading through interesting TdF commentary is
enough
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without having to filter out the newbie spam. In the off-season, activity is low. A newbie question may actually be welcome. Unfortunately, the newbie hordes only show up in July, like a
suffocating
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swarm of brown locusts on RBR's verdant, green, dung-fertilized fields.
Isn't that just precious? Henry thinks he's one of the cognoscenti when he's just a dilettante.
Don't pay him no nevermind, folks. If you have a question, just ask it. There are enough good folks here that will answer any sincere question any time.
You're right [censored].
RBR is oh so very forgiving of the newbie question.
"Jay Pique" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
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Jesus - and you're not over it yet? More power to you I guess. Have you seen a significant decline in newby postings since you took on this most pressing issue?
No.
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Perhaps there are more productive outlets for your angH^H^H^H enthusiasm.
Of course, but not all of them are as much fun as flaming newbs.
Don't pay him no nevermind, folks. If you have a question, just ask it. There are enough good folks here that will answer any sincere question any time.
Just a hint though. If your new, lurk for a while or go google up a bunch of past stuff. That way you'll at least have an idea of what your getting yourself into before you get in over your head and start taking some of the people around here seriously. Bill C
Unfortunately, the newbie hordes only show up in July, like a suffocating swarm of brown locusts on RBR's verdant, green, dung-fertilized fields.
lol, i didn't know you could be so romantic. i currently have 2461 unread messages on my computer. this might explain why i'm so [censored] about the same old trolls lately (or it makes a convenient excuse)
i currently have 2461 unread messages on my computer. this might explain why i'm so [censored] about the same old trolls lately (or it makes a convenient excuse)
i should add that i personally don't mind newbie posts (perpetual newbie me), but it's my interpretation that kurgan was actually trying to be helpful, in his own way.
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Ger said:
I am a newbie to this NG and the TdF and have picked up alot of useful information and interesting tidbits. It would be great if those that are looking for answers could post them and those with answers would reply without sarcasm and disdain.
There are insecure people everywhere that feel the need to appear intelligent by being offensive and condescending. The gravitate to the internet because they won't get their asses kicked when they insult others.
I suppose it makes you feel much superior to make your condescending comments without being offensive, and you gravitate to the internet because you only get ignored in real life, and that may be worse than getting your ass kicked.
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As someone (attributed to Larry Wall) once said:
The social dynamics of the net are a direct consequence of the fact that nobody has yet developed a Remote Strangulation Protocol.
You don't have any idea of the ebb and flow of this group. At hundreds posts/day, we don't need newbie posts cluttering up the works in July or during the Cobbled Classics Week.
Newbs should ask their newb questions in the winter when things are slow.
God forbid the newsgroup actually try and garner interest in the sport, when it would really matter
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Speaking of training wheels - metaphorically yours aren't off yet and you've already fallen over.
Man, what is the real problem? It has got to be more than "newbs" posting "dumbass" questions....
Why would you bother reading the "newbie posts" if you despise them so much? Why do you even respond to them?
Jiyang "Kurgan Gringioni" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
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"Luc & Marin" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
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I was following the TdF when Meryx was winning. Were you?
Not Merckx, but Hinault. I'm not gray enough for Merckx.
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Hang on to your precious newsgroup. It sounds like it is the only thing going on in
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life.
Take your training wheels off and go for a ride.
Dumbass -
why would you try to come into a group as a newbie and try to establish etiquitte?
You don't have any idea of the ebb and flow of this group. At hundreds posts/day, we don't need newbie posts cluttering up the works in July or during the Cobbled Classics Week.
Newbs should ask their newb questions in the winter when things are slow.
Speaking of training wheels - metaphorically yours aren't off yet and
I agree with you Mike. "Mike S." <mikeshaw2@coxDOTnet> wrote in message news:PgWVa.46711$zy.10443@fed1read06...
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"Bill Davidson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:ygVVa.32387$Ne.26179@fed1read03...
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Is there any sport or activity that the experienced players don't snub their noses at the one's attempting to learn? You walk into any golf
course
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clubhouse, ski chalet, tennis facility, or gymnasium and it is
inevitable
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you will run into somebody who thinks that just because they are
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appropriately and have spent too much time and money on their sport,
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are somehow superior beings. There is nothing more satisfying then
seeing
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these guys or gals get their asses kicked.
Yeah, they're in every sport. However, it's been my experience that the people who really are the best don't behave this way. It's the guys that are good but not among the best that are usually the biggest
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They are insecure about being losers so they dump on other people to
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themselves feel superior. It's sad and pathetic.
--Bill Davidson
I can sum it up a little more succinctly. The truly fast guys are some of the nicest people you'll meet. Its the ones that THINK they're fast that are the [censored]. Works for rich people too...
I'm not nearly fast enough to be an ass, even if I wasn't a Masters
"Gregory Kinney" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
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You don't have any idea of the ebb and flow of this group. At hundreds posts/day, we don't need newbie posts cluttering up the works in July or during the Cobbled Classics Week.
Newbs should ask their newb questions in the winter when things are slow.
God forbid the newsgroup actually try and garner interest in the sport, when it would really matter
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Speaking of training wheels - metaphorically yours aren't off yet and
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already fallen over.
Man, what is the real problem? It has got to be more than "newbs" posting "dumbass" questions....
It's with hundreds of posts/day in July, most of them spam.
I don't mind reading spam if there's only 10 or 15.
Just download the headers, not the entire post itself, so it won't waste the precious hard drive space you're so worry about.
Why is it Spam when people have genuine questions about cycling? Where else are us newbs gonna post if not here? Why does the all knowing Kurgan needs to ask questions on this newsgroup? doesn't asking questions make you a newb as well?
"Kurgan Gringioni" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
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"Jiyang Chen" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...
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Why would you bother reading the "newbie posts" if you despise them so
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Why do you even respond to them?
Dumbass -
this group gets overrun in July. hundreds of posts/day. Mostly spam.
