From: utzoo!decvax!ittvax!sii!mem
Newsgroups: net.singles
Title: This and that
Article-I.D.: sii.214
Posted: Fri Nov  5 18:57:16 1982
Received: Sat Nov  6 06:26:34 1982

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Ah ha!  The opportunity to address several topics at once has
thrust itself at my screen.  Big deal, you say?

Foul language used by anyone is almost always unwelcome to me.  I
can accept it, yes, from friends, but I don't like it.  I guess
I always equate it with lack of intelligence, even though I
know that isn't the case.

I ALWAYS insist on cooking in my own house, and elsewhere as much
as possible.  The reason isn't so much that I'm a good cook, but
that I like to have absolute control over what I DO know, and
(the main thing) I'm fussy about the manner in which food is
prepared, sanitation-wise.  I like food prepared by people with
clean hands and folks who don't lick the spoon.  Now, admittedly,
I'm a big slob and almost never have all my dishes clean at the
same time, but I never use anything that hasn't been washed.
Oh well.

net.friendly-people?  I guess that lets me out...  I agree with
Marta... you don't have to be a theoretical physicist to talk
about singularity...

Back to Ellen.  As soon as I read that article, before I submitted
my round of insensitive remarks, I tried to find out if "Ellen
Mckay" was some famous figure and that whole thing was a quote.
It seemed like too much of a joke to be real.  But assuming that
it is (real), I have to say that it isn't insensitive to criticize
that form of self-expression, which it wasn't at all.  Very
few things bother me more than attempts at public ridicule, or
exposition of things which should be private.  

I'd like to express this opinion:  I enjoy this form of separation.
I'm not a very friendly person, I don't have a lot of reason to be.
But I like personal discussions.  This kind of association seems
to solve that paradox.

Mark Mallett