Re: UKNM: RE: Going Freelance

[Steve Johnston]

Neil,


I'd just like to add that not all us 'freelancers' got ourselves in a flap

when we read your contributions to this thread. I thought they were

articulate and really quite clever. Made me laugh out loud.


Keep up the good work,


Steve.

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----- Original Message -----

From: John Braithwaite <

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To: <

uknmchinwag [dot] com

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Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 3:28 PM

Subject: UKNM: RE: Going Freelance



> What I love about 'retractions' like this is that you can't even apologise

> for your initial behaviour.

> Instead you blatantly judge our behaviour (in your defence!):

> "self-important" ... "self-aggrandisment".... "self-obsession"....

> Did any of us claim or say these? No, I didn't think so.

>

> You feign humility and continue chipping away, but the truth of the matter

> is that all we were responding to was the heap of unsusbstantiated bile

that

> you spewed in the first place from the (Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V):

> "self-important" ... "self-aggrandisment".... "self-obsession"....

> attitudes that were so obvious from your intial posting.

>

> We wouldn't have needed to comment if you hadn't been so .... well....

take

> a look at your original message and decide what you would call it.

>

> Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 11:13:27 +0100

>

From: "Neil Aberdeen" <neiltui [dot] co [dot] uk>

> Subject: UKNM: RE: Going Freelance

>

> Jo, John, Lois

> Having scootered back from Grouchos I sit here fully wankered-up in my

Issey

> Myake posing-pouch wondering why you self-important arses think you have

the

>

> right to spout on without having your self-aggrandisement pricked from

time

> to time. Then I realise that you are the spearhead of the new

> super-productive worker slaves that will take New Britain to new heights

> through pompous lecturing and self-obsession. Set your goals, nothing can

> stop you. The rest of us, wracked with jealousy and in awe of your

> achievements, beg that we might be shown the path to higher pomposity. Let

> the liberarian right assert themselves. Down with 'politics and

unnecessary

> spending impulses'

> Don't take it personally, if I had any friends some of them would be

> freelancers.

> Neil



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