From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Oct 24 7:25:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail12.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 041F037B409 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2001 07:25:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 36068 invoked from network); 24 Oct 2001 14:25:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 24 Oct 2001 14:25:18 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011024092028.D14989@jake.akitanet.co.uk> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 23:27:43 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Paul Robinson Subject: Re: On holy wars and a plea for peace Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Dag-Erling Smorgrav , "Gary W. Swearingen" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- 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