Subj : Re: Disgusting?? Really??? (Was: It's bad enough that Usenet is mostly
To   : marrgol
From : Carlos E.R.
Date : Thu Dec 06 2018 15:16:30

On 06/12/2018 14.54, marrgol wrote:
> On 2018-12-06 at 13:35, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> I do not see the humour or joke of my own computer insulting me.
>
> I do.  I like it it has a chance to hit back at me sometimes
> because I probably insult it much worse and much much more often. ;-)

Of course I insult my computer! :-)
But it doesn't reply in kind, it mostly ignores me ;-)

>
> I've also been having 'fortune -o' in my .profile for years…
> But, I'm not a native English speaker either so I might be
> confusing 'insulting' with 'offending' here. :-)  And it's
> my choice, not my admins'.

Oh, I have no problems with fortune, I use it. It is clear that it is a
random text and where it prints. I have problems when I expect a success
or error message and get an insult instead, so I disabled it as soon as
I learned how.

>
>> Humour is not that international or universal.
> True.
>
>


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Cheers, Carlos.

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