> >>Rather than reply to Dave's detailed points, he attempts to ridicule > >>him. > > > > > > I saw it as an _acknowledgement_ that Dave had > > excellent points by admitting he had no substantive > > comeback. > > > A great talker maybe but when he has no substantive comeback he attempts > a personal attack. Not nice.
He spoke at UNSW on Wednesday and was introduced as the guy who posted "have you ever kissed a girl" etc. He thought it was kinda funny to be introduced like that and took 2 minutes to reminiss about the whole shebang. He noted that it was in 1996 when he was even younger. >From his point of view, Dave was going off half cocked making a bunch of assertions that were completely incorrect and he was about to reply to it item by item and got annoyed so just quoted the whole thing back and added that line. He claimed that Dave has said since that he (Dave) deserved a response like that, and that he (Bryan) also regretted the whole thing. Bryan finished by noting that both he and Dave are much older and wiser now and, incidentally, both have kissed girls. My impression was that while he still finds it amusing in hindsight, its the sort of amusing of "What kind of a dill was I being then?" Who among us isn't amused by something silly we've done previously. Moral of the story, if you go off half-cocked, don't do it where it will be recorded next to your name for the rest of you natural life. IRC anyone? ;) -- Kind regards, Hal Ashburner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
