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At 10:39 AM 5/5/99 -0400, Sean M. Cary wrote: >I guess us stoopid "Colonials" just miss the irony of some Brits (Never like >Benny Hill that much either...btw). I tend to take someone with an e-mail >like "divebimbo" at face value most of the time. Especially after they >argue about isolating doubles using suicide caribiners in a cave, while >diving solo. Maybe there should be a Rule Number One to accepting e-mail? > >Silly me...stoopid colonial. Sean, I've just checked my /diving/dickheads directory and there he is. Stuart Morrison. Promoting diving with closed manifolds and all kinds of idiot-child stupidity. You are absolutely right. Stuart is incapable of irony. I should not have given him credit for the intelligence. rgds billyw ps. us colonials in Oz are much more colonial than you colonials. > >Sean > >-----Original Message----- >From: bdi@wh*.ne* <bdi@wh*.ne*> >To: Stuart Morrison <divebimbo@li*.fr*.co*.uk*>; Sean M. Cary ><SMCARY@MI*.CO*>; TechDiver <TechDiver@aquanaut.com> >Date: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 10:56 PM >Subject: Re: Magazine Extracts > > >>At 10:31 PM 4/5/99 +0100, Stuart Morrison wrote: >>>> Then why did you post it? Your silence either condemns it or condones >>>> it...leaving it to us to guess and based on your past posts about >>>personal >>>> preference and acceptance of strokism...it leads me to believe you >>>condone >>>> it. >>>> >> >>Sean, >>You might have missed the irony of Stuart's remark - the >>written equivalent of a sort of helpless shrug. A shaking >>of the head in disbelief that this sort of idiocy >>continues. >> >>However, I take your point, and believe the magazine that >>publishes news or information about this stupidity, WITHOUT >>COMMENT, is guilty of condoning it. Or even promoting it. >> >>The responsible way for specialist press to deal with >>irresonsible idiocy is: >> >>DIVERS DIE. YOU LOSE! >> >>"Two British divers are trying to reach the pinnacle of >>mindless stupidity when they attempt to dive deeper than >>142 metres on air. The two divers involved, Mark Andrews >>and John Bennet, are a couple of clueless, long-stroke >>wankers. >> >>"There is enough evidence of the known toxicity of gasses >>under pressure to ensure that anyone who helps these two >>dickheads in their attempt is complicit in the crime of >>aiding a suicide and could (and should) face manslaughter >>charges. >> >>"If they die on their attempt, we only care because it >>will add weight to the already considerable pressure >>diving, and especially technical diving, is under from >>legislators and insurance companies. >> >>"On the other hand, Mark and John's deaths will raise the >>collective IQ of British divers by several points. >> >>etc." >> >>rgds billyw >> > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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