-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > > Aimee wrote: > > Faustine wrote: > > Jeez, don't be so polite, it makes me nervous. This is Cypherpunks: > > vent a little, it'll do you good. ;) > > > > ~Faustine.
>I _WAS_ "venting." >In some cultures, venting is done in "good taste." It just resembles >English, but it's quite another language in terms of subtext, (and more so >if it's female). Different rules of engagement. Don't mistake it for >weakness. Far from it. To my mind, "venting" and "being poisonously polite to achieve an end" are diametrically opposed. And believe me, I know from poisonously polite: I just happen to think that anyone who spends the vast majority of their waking life slithering around with their true personality barricaded behind an impeneterable mask of civility (as I do) needs to find a place where, every once in awhile, they can feel free to tell one and all to just go fuck themselves. Cypherpunks is that magical zone. Repressed hostility is a terrible thing. Someone once drew a distinction between the kind of healthy animal hate which consumes itself in a blaze and vanishes, with the thin, poisonous, pallid kind of hate which, over time, gradually distills itself drop by drop into a philosophy and a way of life. Purge that bile, let yourself go, give hate a chance! Either that, or you might want to consider geting a new M.O... >Normal ROE: maintain absolute decorum and diplomacy right up to >the ambush. Precisely. Hence the operative word "nervous". Something to think about. >Here, I will summon up an insult for you, brace yourself: ..."Faustine, I >bet you drink beer directly from the can." Well, I have been known to drink a split of champagne straight from the bottle, so I guess that's close enough. LOL ~Faustine. *** The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage. - --Thucydides. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPsdk version 1.7.1 (C) 1997-1999 Network Associates, Inc. and its affiliated companies. (Diffie-Helman/DSS-only version) iQA/AwUBPKoroPg5Tuca7bfvEQI/RgCggD1ywYaWSO0jUaluHItuQZJmMUMAoOrF AgDH/TVEQub00lp+B3EEm7l/ =TNDz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
