> > > And you just did it *again*.
> > >
> > > Basta.
> > >
Curtis wrote wrote:
> > Discussing things with you is like interacting with
> > a tar baby made of unpleasantness. You really can't
> > help yourself can you? I don't think you have a
> > cordial way to disagree. At least I haven't seen
> > any evidence of it.
> >
John wrote:
> That's what you get, Curtis, when you venture into the
> -Nitpicker Zone-. Missing the view for the nits.
>
> The -Nitpicker Zone- is where a nit is worth so much
> more than a thousand words - especially if it can be
> implemented in a self-serving but pointless poisonous
> perpetually prolonged personal pissing match for anyone
> who mistakenly chooses to continue to participate in
> it as a hapless nitpickee.
>
> A bigger down side is that it accomplishes
> little-to-nothing to advance any cause other than the
> personal ego of the obsessive professional nitpicker
> extraordinaire.
>
> In fact it offends and alienates even previously neutral
> observers as no one who dares even comment is safe from
> being found with real or imagined nits to have picked
> by the professional nitpicker...in the -Nitpicker Zone-.
> And any critic, present or past, can be sure to be
> persistently and perpetually picked at for nits at any
> time.
>
Now you're doing it *again*. Amazing! You two just
don't seem to get it.