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...) -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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