| From: | Sealey, M. |
| Date: | 20 Oct 99 at 15:14:11 |
| Subject: | RE: Digitiser (CH4 Teletext, Page 481, 1/5) |
From: "Sealey, M." <mws2@leicester.ac.uk>
> From: Andy Wanless <yd@flump.tele2.co.uk>
>
> On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, Sealey, M. wrote:
> >
> > Don't rant to Digitiser, that's Andrew's job (his mag afterall)
> > and they'll only call us even bigger idiots :)
>
> I'm sure he's got better things to do than waste his time
> complaining to them about that. Childish, not at all funny
> crap on Teletext is hardly worth bothering about.
It's not childish, what you read on Digitiser is called
SARCASM. If you think it's childish, you should get your
humour centre checked, and visit http://www.bubblegun.com
for more of the same :)
> Mr Korn, did you complain to ntk a couple of weeks ago when
> they said... [snip]
> every Friday. Usually updated sometime after 6-ish, and
> guaranteed to make you laugh.)
And make your eyes sweat in a bath of black-on-white monospaced
and emboldened (just to push it deeper into your retina) unfunny
tripe! Ouch!
> If teletext was a newsgroup
news://alt.digitiser
> or a mailing list,
http://www.bubblegun.com - enter your name in the ListBot box :)
> people would quite rightly dismiss them as
> unamusing trolls. So what's different in this case?
That most of the time, they're funny about it, in a sort of
surrealistic abstract moc-moc-a-moc kind of way. Just this
time, it's actually bordering on the offensive. And it's
something they could have opted NOT to publish, as it's
freelance work (not one of their own team).
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