From: bill.sloman@ieee.org   
      
   On 27/12/2025 4:56 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:   
   > Gentlemen (IOW not you, Bill),   
      
   Cursitor Doom is an anonymous troll. His idea of what might constitute a   
   gentleman is probably just as silly as the rest of his ideas.   
      
   Australians don't get all that excited about the social distinctions   
   that distinguish English ladies and gentlemen from the lower orders.   
   I worked in England for 22 years, and wasn't all that impressed by the   
   kind of people who thought that they belonged to that particular class.   
      
   They weren't great at getting things done, and wasted a lot of time   
   trying to create the right impression, rather than any kind of useful   
   result.   
      
   Nothing about Cursitor Doom suggests that he has any right to call   
   himself a gentleman - he's just a pretentious twit.   
      
   There are Dutch equivalents, and I got to know a few of them. The   
   remnants of the Dutch regent class that have survived are rather more   
   business-like than their English equivalents   
      
   --   
   Bill Sloman, Sydney   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)