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Edward Dolan
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"JimmyMac" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Edward Dolan wrote:
[...]
>> But you should have stayed in Europe for at least 3 months. You spent a
>> lot
>> of money to just get there. When I was last in Europe I stayed in
>> campgrounds and hostels and it did not cost me much at all. It is not a
>> question of affordability, but it is a question of wasting the resources
>> of
>> this earth for short pleasure trips which don't amount to a hill of
>> beans.
>> It is impossible to see anything of Europe in only a few weeks.
>
> What is you major malfunction. Are you incapable of comprehending the
> validity of another's point of view? Believe it or not this is not a
> sign of inherent weakness. Get over yourself Ed. You don't have all
> the answers, so you can refrain from pretending that you do. No one is
> buying it. Repeated now for the third time, since the logic escaped
> your poor powers of perception the first two times ... is any more jet
> fuel wasted if I go for a short stay versus a long one? You failed to
> reply to the rhetorical because the answer is obvious. Instead you
> restate you assumption as though repeating an absurd postulate would
> lend some persuasive relevancy to an unsubstantiated assertion. I
> repeat ... regardless of the length of stay, the exact same mass is
> transported the exact same distance, burning the exact same amount of
> jet fuel. No more of earth's resources are wasted on a short trip than
> on a long one. Are we clear on that now? Are we clear on that point
> now???
The above is not correct at all. If fools weren't flying all over the world
on senseless pressure trips, there would be less flying altogether, which
would be a very good thing since jet fuel is not only expensive but fouls
the atmosphere as well. Less airplane flying, less fuel consumption and less
pollution.
God, sometimes I am just so brilliant I amaze myself. Jim is quite right to
be envious of me.
> Are you deaf or just thick headed??? As previously stated, and with
> specific reasons given, it is just not practical for me to stay in
> Europe for 3 months. Furthermore, it is unnecessary for me to make
> extended stays having been to Europe almost every year of my past 30.
> I have been in most European countries and many of them several times
> over. I'd venture to say that I have visited more European countries
> that you have in your single 3 month miserly stay in the squalor of
> campgrounds and hostels, so you can stop your harping already.
No one should fly halfway around the world for only a couple of weeks. This
is extremely wasteful of resources as well as being totally dunderheaded.
For heaven's sakes, if I am going to Venice, I am going to spend a
considerable amount of time there, not just a few days.
[...]
>> So what did you do about your dogs? The entire newsgroup wants to know
>> and
>> is hanging on your every word.
>
> Your the only one wh seems to care ... the only one to made
> insinutations. The dogs were boarded at a private home whose pople
> have been carefully screened by our local anti-cruelty society. Are
> you happy now?
Well, yes. I am death on folks who are not kind to animals, whether pets or
wildlife. You are to be commended on your care for your dogs. Jim goes way
up in my estimation of him on this score!
[...]
>> Nay, if you had thought through the waste that your journey entailed, you
>> would have decided to stay home. No one should ever go anywhere if it is
>> not
>> for a sufficient length of time. Thus spake Zarathustra.
>
> More opinion stated as fact. The legth of stay was sufficient and
> having considered your preposterous, nonsnesical supposition, I made
> the right decision. Maybe if you read this through for a fourth time
> it would sink into that thick skull of yours...
"Nay, if you had thought through the waste that your journey entailed, you
would have decided to stay home. No one should ever go anywhere if it is not
for a sufficient length of time. Thus spake Zarathustra." - Ed Dolan
[...]
> Are you deaf or just thick headed??? As previously stated, and with
> specific reasons given, it is just not practical for me to stay in
> Europe for 3 months. Furthermore, it is unnecessary for me to make
> extended stays having been to Europe almost every year of my past 30.
> I have been in most European countries and many of them several times
> over. I'd venture to say that I have visited more European countries
> that you have in your single 3 month miserly stay in the squalor of
> campgrounds and hostels, so you can stop your harping already.
Even so, you are wasting the resources of the earth by your flitting about
so. To embark on a long journey, whether by jet airplane or more pedestrian
means, should be for a sufficient length of time to justify the expense and
trouble. I am very much against all this flitting about the globe for no
reason other than pleasure. A journey abroad ought be about an adventure of
the spirit. It should only be undertaken rarely and with great expectations.
I am a traveler; you are merely a tourist.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
news:[email protected]...
>
> Edward Dolan wrote:
[...]
>> But you should have stayed in Europe for at least 3 months. You spent a
>> lot
>> of money to just get there. When I was last in Europe I stayed in
>> campgrounds and hostels and it did not cost me much at all. It is not a
>> question of affordability, but it is a question of wasting the resources
>> of
>> this earth for short pleasure trips which don't amount to a hill of
>> beans.
>> It is impossible to see anything of Europe in only a few weeks.
>
> What is you major malfunction. Are you incapable of comprehending the
> validity of another's point of view? Believe it or not this is not a
> sign of inherent weakness. Get over yourself Ed. You don't have all
> the answers, so you can refrain from pretending that you do. No one is
> buying it. Repeated now for the third time, since the logic escaped
> your poor powers of perception the first two times ... is any more jet
> fuel wasted if I go for a short stay versus a long one? You failed to
> reply to the rhetorical because the answer is obvious. Instead you
> restate you assumption as though repeating an absurd postulate would
> lend some persuasive relevancy to an unsubstantiated assertion. I
> repeat ... regardless of the length of stay, the exact same mass is
> transported the exact same distance, burning the exact same amount of
> jet fuel. No more of earth's resources are wasted on a short trip than
> on a long one. Are we clear on that now? Are we clear on that point
> now???
The above is not correct at all. If fools weren't flying all over the world
on senseless pressure trips, there would be less flying altogether, which
would be a very good thing since jet fuel is not only expensive but fouls
the atmosphere as well. Less airplane flying, less fuel consumption and less
pollution.
God, sometimes I am just so brilliant I amaze myself. Jim is quite right to
be envious of me.
> Are you deaf or just thick headed??? As previously stated, and with
> specific reasons given, it is just not practical for me to stay in
> Europe for 3 months. Furthermore, it is unnecessary for me to make
> extended stays having been to Europe almost every year of my past 30.
> I have been in most European countries and many of them several times
> over. I'd venture to say that I have visited more European countries
> that you have in your single 3 month miserly stay in the squalor of
> campgrounds and hostels, so you can stop your harping already.
No one should fly halfway around the world for only a couple of weeks. This
is extremely wasteful of resources as well as being totally dunderheaded.
For heaven's sakes, if I am going to Venice, I am going to spend a
considerable amount of time there, not just a few days.
[...]
>> So what did you do about your dogs? The entire newsgroup wants to know
>> and
>> is hanging on your every word.
>
> Your the only one wh seems to care ... the only one to made
> insinutations. The dogs were boarded at a private home whose pople
> have been carefully screened by our local anti-cruelty society. Are
> you happy now?
Well, yes. I am death on folks who are not kind to animals, whether pets or
wildlife. You are to be commended on your care for your dogs. Jim goes way
up in my estimation of him on this score!
[...]
>> Nay, if you had thought through the waste that your journey entailed, you
>> would have decided to stay home. No one should ever go anywhere if it is
>> not
>> for a sufficient length of time. Thus spake Zarathustra.
>
> More opinion stated as fact. The legth of stay was sufficient and
> having considered your preposterous, nonsnesical supposition, I made
> the right decision. Maybe if you read this through for a fourth time
> it would sink into that thick skull of yours...
"Nay, if you had thought through the waste that your journey entailed, you
would have decided to stay home. No one should ever go anywhere if it is not
for a sufficient length of time. Thus spake Zarathustra." - Ed Dolan
[...]
> Are you deaf or just thick headed??? As previously stated, and with
> specific reasons given, it is just not practical for me to stay in
> Europe for 3 months. Furthermore, it is unnecessary for me to make
> extended stays having been to Europe almost every year of my past 30.
> I have been in most European countries and many of them several times
> over. I'd venture to say that I have visited more European countries
> that you have in your single 3 month miserly stay in the squalor of
> campgrounds and hostels, so you can stop your harping already.
Even so, you are wasting the resources of the earth by your flitting about
so. To embark on a long journey, whether by jet airplane or more pedestrian
means, should be for a sufficient length of time to justify the expense and
trouble. I am very much against all this flitting about the globe for no
reason other than pleasure. A journey abroad ought be about an adventure of
the spirit. It should only be undertaken rarely and with great expectations.
I am a traveler; you are merely a tourist.
Regards,
Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota
