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Joshua Goldberg
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Yeah I used to write essays in school with a fountain pen and my handwriting was sooo bad even I
cannot figure out what I wrote when I went back to proof it. My teachers used to give me near
perfect marks only cause I'd flash my Mensa membership card. They just assumed (fools) that I knew
about what I was writing. Even today teachers ask me why I never take lecture notes and all I can
say is, there is no point since I cannot decipher my own handwriting later on.
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"Steve McDonald" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Yes, that would be a very early form of English the Neanderthals spoke. Since people who ride
> are much more literate than those who don't, we on bicycle groups are spoiled by the flawless
> text usually posted here. But, on most Internet exchanges, the grammar and spelling are often
> barely comprehensible. I have a friend who is a longtime English professor and his messages
> are so garbled that I can only approximate his meanings.
>
> Steve McDonald
cannot figure out what I wrote when I went back to proof it. My teachers used to give me near
perfect marks only cause I'd flash my Mensa membership card. They just assumed (fools) that I knew
about what I was writing. Even today teachers ask me why I never take lecture notes and all I can
say is, there is no point since I cannot decipher my own handwriting later on.
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"Steve McDonald" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Yes, that would be a very early form of English the Neanderthals spoke. Since people who ride
> are much more literate than those who don't, we on bicycle groups are spoiled by the flawless
> text usually posted here. But, on most Internet exchanges, the grammar and spelling are often
> barely comprehensible. I have a friend who is a longtime English professor and his messages
> are so garbled that I can only approximate his meanings.
>
> Steve McDonald
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Claudio Pagan
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Go to http://www.bentrideronline.com/
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] says...
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>
>> Go to BROL under the HPV message board and you will see that Bryan removed a thread called "U2".
>> It seems like ti was due to some personal attacks going back and forth between a couple of
>> posters.
>
>Where can I find these boards? Web address?
>
>Derek
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] says...
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>
>> Go to BROL under the HPV message board and you will see that Bryan removed a thread called "U2".
>> It seems like ti was due to some personal attacks going back and forth between a couple of
>> posters.
>
>Where can I find these boards? Web address?
>
>Derek
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Joao De Souza
Guest
migofast wrote:
> It appears that BROL censors posts negitive to his sponsors.
Nope.
When I wrote about all my negative experiences with my Bachetta Strada, Bacchetta was already a BROL
sponsor, and their banner was right on top of the forum pages. My post was allowed in, as were the
follow-ups, some of which were also negative.
> It appears that BROL censors posts negitive to his sponsors.
Nope.
When I wrote about all my negative experiences with my Bachetta Strada, Bacchetta was already a BROL
sponsor, and their banner was right on top of the forum pages. My post was allowed in, as were the
follow-ups, some of which were also negative.
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Derek Swift
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> It appears that BROL censors posts negitive to his sponsors.
I find it funny. BROL is a FREE provider of recumbent material that rivals magazines, yet we
complain if something with the FREE message boards does not go our way.
Derek
I find it funny. BROL is a FREE provider of recumbent material that rivals magazines, yet we
complain if something with the FREE message boards does not go our way.
Derek
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Michael & Debbi
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>> "migofast" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
> > It appears that BROL censors posts negative to his sponsors.
>"Blake McCully" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>ARRGH!!! Nothing gets my dander up more than illiterate people, unless it is illiterate people who
>flaunt their illiteracy in public. The first sentence below makes absolutely no sense. What the
>h**l did you mean to say?
OT- Literacy means being able to read as well as write. The sentence is fine and makes sense. The
word, "censors," is a verb here, not referring to the people who censor, but the act of censoring:
"It appears BROL censors (verb) posts (that are) negative to his sponsors."
It is common, and in fact is now considered preferable, to drop out usages like "that are" from
sentences. As for the other editorial remarks, they’re right on. However, there is something about
writing emails and posts to newsgroups that seems to encourage these kinds of errors. Maybe it’s our
reliance these days on spell checkers, which of course can’t find such mistakes. As a writer and
student of language and rhetoric, I wonder about this, and what effect it may eventually have on our
languages as a whole.
Michael
>> news:[email protected]...
> > It appears that BROL censors posts negative to his sponsors.
>"Blake McCully" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
>ARRGH!!! Nothing gets my dander up more than illiterate people, unless it is illiterate people who
>flaunt their illiteracy in public. The first sentence below makes absolutely no sense. What the
>h**l did you mean to say?
OT- Literacy means being able to read as well as write. The sentence is fine and makes sense. The
word, "censors," is a verb here, not referring to the people who censor, but the act of censoring:
"It appears BROL censors (verb) posts (that are) negative to his sponsors."
It is common, and in fact is now considered preferable, to drop out usages like "that are" from
sentences. As for the other editorial remarks, they’re right on. However, there is something about
writing emails and posts to newsgroups that seems to encourage these kinds of errors. Maybe it’s our
reliance these days on spell checkers, which of course can’t find such mistakes. As a writer and
student of language and rhetoric, I wonder about this, and what effect it may eventually have on our
languages as a whole.
Michael
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Joshua Goldberg
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Yeah...can be a tough crowd here sometimes, especially when it never stops snowing and cabin fever
has taken over. The Neanderthal one was mine, been trying to cutback on using the term Moron ever
since our Prime Minister's office said President G.W.Bush was a Moron.
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<[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> I don't believe my eyes. An individual posts to this NG using improper grammar and is in turn
> labeled a foreigner, a moron and a neanderthal.
has taken over. The Neanderthal one was mine, been trying to cutback on using the term Moron ever
since our Prime Minister's office said President G.W.Bush was a Moron.
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<[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> I don't believe my eyes. An individual posts to this NG using improper grammar and is in turn
> labeled a foreigner, a moron and a neanderthal.
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Skip
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"migofast" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Censorship is censorship. The post should have stayed on the site. Locking out further posts would
> have been ok but the thread should have stayed.
> The point is we need forums like this just to keep sites like BROL honest. Ad dollars will corrupt
> it like everything else in the comercial world.
> As to the flames, I do believe Alan lost 9k on a bike from lightning? I would be ticked also if
> that happened to me. It seems that the other poster Ramjet took issue with Alan. Alan has every
> right to post what he did because it was an honest reaction to a very bad experience. I do believe
> Ramjet started the flames over Alan's negitive posts about lightning.
BROL isn't usenet. It's a private web site established using the owners' money. As such that doesn't
give you, Alan, Ramjet or anyone else *every right* to post whatever you want to that site. Any of
you are free to take your own money, put up your on site, and control the content of it.
news:[email protected]...
> Censorship is censorship. The post should have stayed on the site. Locking out further posts would
> have been ok but the thread should have stayed.
> The point is we need forums like this just to keep sites like BROL honest. Ad dollars will corrupt
> it like everything else in the comercial world.
> As to the flames, I do believe Alan lost 9k on a bike from lightning? I would be ticked also if
> that happened to me. It seems that the other poster Ramjet took issue with Alan. Alan has every
> right to post what he did because it was an honest reaction to a very bad experience. I do believe
> Ramjet started the flames over Alan's negitive posts about lightning.
BROL isn't usenet. It's a private web site established using the owners' money. As such that doesn't
give you, Alan, Ramjet or anyone else *every right* to post whatever you want to that site. Any of
you are free to take your own money, put up your on site, and control the content of it.
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Jerry Rhodes
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"Joshua Goldberg" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>all I can say is, there is no point since I cannot decipher my own
handwriting
Josh, you should be in Med School instead of wasting your talent trying to come up with a good,
cheap trike.
Jerry
news:<[email protected]>...
>all I can say is, there is no point since I cannot decipher my own
handwriting
Josh, you should be in Med School instead of wasting your talent trying to come up with a good,
cheap trike.
Jerry
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Joshua Goldberg
Guest
Too Late...I already have Cheap trike number one and was told today Cheap trike #2 prototype will be
ready to start test riding by next weekend. I did write here back in October that I planned to test
ride the 2 trikes during the Winter to ensure they can handle it....I just did not expect Winter to
last forever.
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"Jerry Rhodes" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "Joshua Goldberg" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> >all I can say is, there is no point since I cannot decipher my own
> handwriting
>
> Josh, you should be in Med School instead of wasting your talent trying to come up with a good,
> cheap trike.
>
> Jerry
ready to start test riding by next weekend. I did write here back in October that I planned to test
ride the 2 trikes during the Winter to ensure they can handle it....I just did not expect Winter to
last forever.
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"Jerry Rhodes" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "Joshua Goldberg" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> >all I can say is, there is no point since I cannot decipher my own
> handwriting
>
> Josh, you should be in Med School instead of wasting your talent trying to come up with a good,
> cheap trike.
>
> Jerry
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Dave Larrington
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It's Bryan and Jose's board. If anyone doesn't like their policies, they are completely at liberty
to start their own discussion forum, though I imagine that for the average carping anonymoid that
would be *way* too much like hard work.
P.S. What Ken said. I completely missed this thread on BROL due to having had the Lurgi for a couple
of days :-(
P. P.S. Surely Neanderthals would have spoken some variety of German?
Dave Larrington - http://legslarry.crosswinds.net/
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to start their own discussion forum, though I imagine that for the average carping anonymoid that
would be *way* too much like hard work.
P.S. What Ken said. I completely missed this thread on BROL due to having had the Lurgi for a couple
of days :-(
P. P.S. Surely Neanderthals would have spoken some variety of German?
Dave Larrington - http://legslarry.crosswinds.net/
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Robert Siegel
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Indeed, as do the present occupants of England ... since so much of the English language is derived
from Germanic speech. Not to mention the numerous words and phrases Norse, Roman and Norman
occupiers inserted into [the] English [so to speak].
"Dave Larrington" wrote
>>> Surely, Neanderthals would have spoken some variety of German?
from Germanic speech. Not to mention the numerous words and phrases Norse, Roman and Norman
occupiers inserted into [the] English [so to speak].
"Dave Larrington" wrote
>>> Surely, Neanderthals would have spoken some variety of German?
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Timothy B. Stor
Guest
Most likely the Neanderthals didn't speak any variety of modern languages, since those languages
showed up in Europe around the same time as agriculture.
"Robert Siegel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Indeed, as do the present occupants of England ... since so much of the English language is
> derived from Germanic speech. Not to mention the numerous
words
> and phrases Norse, Roman and Norman occupiers inserted into [the] English [so to speak].
>
> "Dave Larrington" wrote
> >>> Surely, Neanderthals would have spoken some variety of German?
>
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showed up in Europe around the same time as agriculture.
"Robert Siegel" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news
%[email protected]...> Indeed, as do the present occupants of England ... since so much of the English language is
> derived from Germanic speech. Not to mention the numerous
words
> and phrases Norse, Roman and Norman occupiers inserted into [the] English [so to speak].
>
> "Dave Larrington" wrote
> >>> Surely, Neanderthals would have spoken some variety of German?
>
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Dave Larrington
Guest
Tch, details. The name derives from their being found in the Neander valley near Dusseldorf, hence
you'd imagine them to speak German, though a little digging reveals that they had relatives in
modern Belgium, Gibraltar, France, Croatia, Israel, Italy and the Crimea. Oh, and Iraq. The
significance of this latter is left as an Exercise for the Reader.
Since Gibraltar had not, at the time, become a British Crown Colony, it must be presumed that this
was at the time Spain, and therefore, as is still the case today, that these are the remains of
German Neanderthals, were there on holiday
Dave Larrington - http://legslarry.crosswinds.net/
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you'd imagine them to speak German, though a little digging reveals that they had relatives in
modern Belgium, Gibraltar, France, Croatia, Israel, Italy and the Crimea. Oh, and Iraq. The
significance of this latter is left as an Exercise for the Reader.
Since Gibraltar had not, at the time, become a British Crown Colony, it must be presumed that this
was at the time Spain, and therefore, as is still the case today, that these are the remains of
German Neanderthals, were there on holiday
Dave Larrington - http://legslarry.crosswinds.net/
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Editor - British Human Power Club Newsletter
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Bentrider
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Nice to know that I'm so... popular...
That thread was deleted because of personal threats made between two posters. It had nothing to do
with the bashing of my sponsors. Search my archives. I let plenty of that stuff slide. Most of my
sponsors read my boards and are plenty capable of defending themselves.
AA and Ramjet (the two posters who got banned) have been reinstated and both thanked me for the way
I handled it.
The only person banned from 'BROL is glend1234. At the time of his "banning" there was a VERY nasty
thread going on about guns. These same threads have cropped up here on a.r.b.r. as well. Again,
people were starting to threaten each other so I deleted the thread and posted a message telling
everyone to stay away from the topic for at least a little while. Glenn then started four gun
threads in one day. He thought it was funny. I didn't and still don't. I warned him twice before I
banned him.
I frequent a lot of message boards and feel confident in saying that mine is very liberal when
compared to some others.
Bryan J. Ball www.bentrideronline.com
That thread was deleted because of personal threats made between two posters. It had nothing to do
with the bashing of my sponsors. Search my archives. I let plenty of that stuff slide. Most of my
sponsors read my boards and are plenty capable of defending themselves.
AA and Ramjet (the two posters who got banned) have been reinstated and both thanked me for the way
I handled it.
The only person banned from 'BROL is glend1234. At the time of his "banning" there was a VERY nasty
thread going on about guns. These same threads have cropped up here on a.r.b.r. as well. Again,
people were starting to threaten each other so I deleted the thread and posted a message telling
everyone to stay away from the topic for at least a little while. Glenn then started four gun
threads in one day. He thought it was funny. I didn't and still don't. I warned him twice before I
banned him.
I frequent a lot of message boards and feel confident in saying that mine is very liberal when
compared to some others.
Bryan J. Ball www.bentrideronline.com
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I don't believe my eyes. An individual posts to this NG using improper grammar and is in turn
labeled a foreigner, a moron and a neanderthal.
labeled a foreigner, a moron and a neanderthal.
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Joshua Goldberg
Guest
The impression I got was more of readers here being curious what prompted the banning, than the
banning itself. Only one poster (I think) questioned the banning action and even then they were not
sure of what lead up to the ban being imposed. As for messages showing up on A.R.B.R. about guns,
the only ones I remember dealt with one guy talking about wasting a dog and the rest dealt with the
Mini-Guns used on Choppers. At one point it began to look like everyone in this NG was in the
Military or were retired from the Military or were in Jump School.
My take on this is, talking about guns is fine, talking about blowing away someone you are in
communication with on a Public access board is NOT fine and removing/banning anyone going that way
is perfectly justified.
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"'BentRider" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Nice to know that I'm so... popular...
>
> That thread was deleted because of personal threats made between two posters. It had nothing to do
> with the bashing of my sponsors. Search my archives. I let plenty of that stuff slide. Most of my
> sponsors read my boards and are plenty capable of defending themselves.
>
> AA and Ramjet (the two posters who got banned) have been reinstated and both thanked me for the
> way I handled it.
>
> The only person banned from 'BROL is glend1234. At the time of his "banning" there was a VERY
> nasty thread going on about guns. These same threads have cropped up here on a.r.b.r. as well.
> Again, people were starting to threaten each other so I deleted the thread and posted a message
> telling everyone to stay away from the topic for at least a little while. Glenn then started four
> gun threads in one day. He thought it was funny. I didn't and still don't. I warned him twice
> before I banned him.
>
> I frequent a lot of message boards and feel confident in saying that mine is very liberal when
> compared to some others.
>
> Bryan J. Ball www.bentrideronline.com
banning itself. Only one poster (I think) questioned the banning action and even then they were not
sure of what lead up to the ban being imposed. As for messages showing up on A.R.B.R. about guns,
the only ones I remember dealt with one guy talking about wasting a dog and the rest dealt with the
Mini-Guns used on Choppers. At one point it began to look like everyone in this NG was in the
Military or were retired from the Military or were in Jump School.
My take on this is, talking about guns is fine, talking about blowing away someone you are in
communication with on a Public access board is NOT fine and removing/banning anyone going that way
is perfectly justified.
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"'BentRider" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Nice to know that I'm so... popular...
>
> That thread was deleted because of personal threats made between two posters. It had nothing to do
> with the bashing of my sponsors. Search my archives. I let plenty of that stuff slide. Most of my
> sponsors read my boards and are plenty capable of defending themselves.
>
> AA and Ramjet (the two posters who got banned) have been reinstated and both thanked me for the
> way I handled it.
>
> The only person banned from 'BROL is glend1234. At the time of his "banning" there was a VERY
> nasty thread going on about guns. These same threads have cropped up here on a.r.b.r. as well.
> Again, people were starting to threaten each other so I deleted the thread and posted a message
> telling everyone to stay away from the topic for at least a little while. Glenn then started four
> gun threads in one day. He thought it was funny. I didn't and still don't. I warned him twice
> before I banned him.
>
> I frequent a lot of message boards and feel confident in saying that mine is very liberal when
> compared to some others.
>
> Bryan J. Ball www.bentrideronline.com
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Robert Siegel
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Bryan --
Congratulations on having and using plain old common sense. That never goes out of style.
Gator Bob Siegel
"'BentRider" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Nice to know that I'm so... popular...
>
> That thread was deleted because of personal threats made between two posters.
Congratulations on having and using plain old common sense. That never goes out of style.
Gator Bob Siegel
"'BentRider" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Nice to know that I'm so... popular...
>
> That thread was deleted because of personal threats made between two posters.
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