| 
				  
 
			
			In article   k.net, "BillSohl"  writes:
 
 "N2EY"  wrote in message
 ...
 In article , "Carl R. Stevenson"
 writes:
 
 "Hans K0HB"  wrote in message
 .  com...
 "Carl R. Stevenson"  wrote:
 
 I think I've taken the high ground
 
 Carl, with all due respect, using abrasive and derisive terms like
 "jumping through hoops" is not "the high ground".  It is your same old
 baiting and condescending rhetoric, seemingly calculated to be
 inflamatory and divisive.
 
 "jumping through hoops" is "abrasive and drisive" ???
 
 Yes, it is. The image is not complimentary. Would you like the written
 tests
 described that way?
 
 So are phrases like
 
 "waste valuable time learning Morse"
 
 I consider my time a very valuable resource as do many others.
 
 Everyone's time is valuable, not just RF engineers'
 
 Wy is a comment which describes time wwasted by people who
 don't wish to expend it learning morse considered uncomplimentary?
 
 It says that learning the mode is a waste of time.
 
 What is wrong with saying:
 
 "I don't want to *spend* the time necessary to learn...."
 
 "dinosaur/buggywhip technology"
 
 Me thinks as the end approaches...the PCTA side is grasping
 at straws.  I suggest not playing in the political arena of change if
 such phraseology offends.
 
 Are you saying I should simply shut up and go away? That's not like you at all,
 Bill.
 
 Carl claimed he had "taken the high ground". And for the most part of that
 post, he did. But he did let a few derogatory phrases slip in.
 
 Hans, K0HB also took note of them, and Hans is definitely not a 'PCTA grasping
 at straws'.
 
 Would you like your favorite modes described that way?
 
 Sure wouldn't bother me.  But then I've learned to disregard
 most rheteroic anyway.  12 years as an elected official teaches
 one to accept the heat or get out-of-the-kitchen.
 
 I thought the point of this thread was to avoid the 'heat'.
 
 73 de Jim, N2EY
 
 
 |