BS: The Basic Rubbish of Stupidity

Subject: BS: The Basic Rubbish of Stupidity
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Aug 05 - 06:08 PM

* Things like never examining one's beliefs.
* Like always/usually believing the most outrageous reports without lookng to the motives of the persons making the reports.
* Like believing the most ignorant, least logical, totally over the top charges about someone you don't like.
* Like, conversely, automatically, disbelieving anything that doesn't fit into your own set of (unexamined) beliefs.

Any more?

Subject: RE: BS: The Basic Rubbish of Stupidity
From: gnu
Date: 12 Aug 05 - 06:34 PM

Have you got the time?

Subject: RE: BS: The Basic Rubbish of Stupidity
From: michaelr
Date: 12 Aug 05 - 07:21 PM

Like, totally. For sure.

Subject: RE: BS: The Basic Rubbish of Stupidity
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 12 Aug 05 - 07:42 PM

Ebbie, the basic rubbish of stupidity to me runs like this:

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Dear BBC Community member,

Thank you for contributing to a BBC community site. Unfortunately we've had to remove your
Posting below because it contravenes the House Rules.

This decision has been made because it contains content that other readers may find offensive.

If you would like to re-write your contribution to remove the problem, then
we'd be very happy for you to post it again.

If you have read the House Rules carefully and are still unsure why your message was removed, please reply to this email.


Best wishes,

The BBC Moderation Team

URL of content (now removed):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio2/F2142825?Thread=773704&post=8681885

Subject:
Misinformation . . .

Posting:
*PLONK*

This e-mail, and any attachment, is confidential. If you have received
it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose
the information in any way, and notify us immediately. The contents of
this message may contain personal views which are not the views of the
BBC, unless specifically stated.
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for the one word plonk which was the only word in that post and it's usage is quite well known oon usenet.

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or maybe. in answer to this (and please forgive my typos)

Complaint from: Jon Freeman (U1484955)
Moderation Reference: P4024365
Complaint about Post 8650241

I request an answer to you for my own post. You have let planty of links stand from this same site (www.mudcat.org) that also would be broken and I had even gone as far as to warn you in my post that link would not work for a while.

Plaease explain how you delete the link explaining yet manage to ignore 20 or more in the F&A section that would have been guarnteed to fail.

The answer from the BBC generates:

Dear BBC Reader,

Further to your complaint about some of the content on a BBC community site
(reference number P4024365), we have decided that it does not contravene the House Rules and are going to leave it on site.

If you have read the House Rules carefully and are still unsure why your complaint was not upheld, please reply to this email.

Best wishes,

The BBC Moderation Team

This e-mail, and any attachment, is confidential. If you have received
it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose
the information in any way, and notify me immediately. The contents of
this message may contain personal views which are not the views of the
BBC, unless specifically stated.


If anyone can explain to me how that addresses what I'd tried to ask (and I complained about my own post)...


Possibly some down to me but in all honesty if example 2 is anything to go by, I would worry even about thier ability to read the news.

Subject: RE: BS: The Basic Rubbish of Stupidity
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Aug 05 - 07:47 PM

LOL in shock. You've got it, Jon! I especially like "do not use or disclose the information in any way," Yeah, right. They're exposing their stupidity while trying to keep it secret at the same time. Sometimes they must wonder.

Subject: RE: BS: The Basic Rubbish of Stupidity
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 12 Aug 05 - 07:51 PM

Nah Ebbie, we are supposed to be so scared as to be threatened by that...

Subject: RE: BS: The Basic Rubbish of Stupidity
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Aug 05 - 09:13 PM

Yeah, Ebbie!

Like: examining everything else in the World except...oneself!

Like: thinking a whole lot more money and stuff will make you happy or desirable.

Like: saying "He's worth 19 million dollars." ...when actually he just has 19 million dollars!

Like: figuring it's vitally important whether Brad Pitt chooses to be with Jennifer Aniston or Angelina Jolie.

Like: spending 20% of your day watching TV.

Like: spending way too much time on the Interne---.. ...OOPS!

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Subject: RE: BS: The Basic Rubbish of Stupidity
From: Ebbie
Date: 12 Aug 05 - 09:35 PM

hahaha We all have our quirks and foibles. (Not a bad name for a band.)

Subject: RE: BS: The Basic Rubbish of Stupidity
From: freda underhill
Date: 12 Aug 05 - 09:47 PM

.. Things like


* labelling people if they say something that doesn't fit your world view (eg, "left"or "right", "liberal" or "conservative")

* assuming people to have a pre packaged view within a particular set of dogma that covers a response to every issue

* declaring others are "wrong" and you are "right"; and spending an obsessive amount of time proving your "rightness",

.. thats enough for now