From: bill.sloman@ieee.org   
      
   On 26/12/2025 7:23 am, john larkin wrote:   
   > On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 16:01:11 +0000, Cursitor Doom    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 04:00:03 -0800, john larkin    
   >> wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Thu, 25 Dec 2025 16:00:06 +1100, Bill Sloman    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 25/12/2025 5:44 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:   
   >>>>> Gentlemen,   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> It's 'that' time of year again and we've had some heated debates on   
   >>>>> this group over the last 12 months, both from those who want to   
   >>>>> explore different views and those who would rather shut them down at   
   >>>>> any price. As a Christian conservative and a libertarian, I fall into   
   >>>>> the former category of course, and bear no ill will to anyone here. So   
   >>>>> a very happy Christmas to *all* our contributors here, of whatever   
   >>>>> religious persuasion they may be, or none at all for that matter! And   
   >>>>> have a happy and prosperous New Year.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Your pal,   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Cursitor Doom may think that he is a Christian conservative and a   
   >>>> liberation (which happen to inconsistent ideologies) but the depressing   
   >>>> reality is that he is a gullible sucker for the kind of propaganda that   
   >>>> autocratic psychopaths (like Trump and Putin) dish out.   
   >>>   
   >>> Thank you for the lovely Christmas spirit.   
   >>   
   >> It was Bill and his fellow countryman Phil Alison who are responsible   
   >> for me adopting the "Gentlemen" prefix to all my original posts here,   
   >> in the hope that they'd both observe the implied wish that trolls were   
   >> not welcome to respond.   
      
   Decidedly comic, coming from a perfect example of an anonymous troll,   
   denouncing two people who posted under their real names   
      
   > > Sadly, it hasn't worked. In any event, I'd   
   >> have thought Bill would have his time taken up elsewhere at this   
   >> season of the year playing the pantomime villain at some local theatre   
   >> in Sydney. A role for which he is, of course, perfectly suited.   
      
   > He trashes everyone, even when it makes no sense. He must be very   
   > unhappy.   
      
   I don't even trash John Larkin all the time - only when he posts stuff   
   that is even more off the wall  than usual. He's a sensitive little   
   flower, and gets very upset when he doesn't get the flattery he craves,   
   and seems to think that everybody else who posts here has the same   
   craving for unjustified admiration. It blinds him to those rare   
   occasions when I do express the occasional bit of moderate approbation.   
      
   Then again, he doesn't understand much, so he may not notice it when it   
   happens.   
      
   --   
   Bill Sloman, Sydney   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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