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Date:      Tue, 23 Oct 2001 23:27:43 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Paul Robinson <paul@akita.co.uk>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, "Gary W. Swearingen" <swear@blarg.net>
Subject:   Re: On holy wars and a plea for peace
Message-ID:  <XFMail.011023232743.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011024092028.D14989@jake.akitanet.co.uk>

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On 24-Oct-01 Paul Robinson wrote:
> Perhaps it would be a good idea for people to remember a few things - I once
> knew a landlord of a pub who had three areas of conversation he would ban
> drunk people from having discussions on - religion, politics and sport. He
> did this, because he knew that if you started a discussion on any of them,
> especially whilst drunk, you were going to end up in a huge row at the least
> and most probably in a fight. It's a good rule of thumb. When you first meet
> somebody, initiating a conversation in any of those three areas is a bad way
> to start your relationship. In addition, you're going to be causing anxiety
> and to some extent apathy towards your sentiments if you discuss those
> topics outside of the right context. Just because the list charter says you
> can discuss those topics, doesn't necessarily mean that it's a good idea to
> do so.

I grew up in the South in the USA, and we had a slightly different version of
that statement: "Never discuss religion, politics, or woodstoves cause
everyone's got one and everyone's is the best."

(There were some serious home made woodstoves where I grew up...)

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