[Nottingham] Considering the last talk...

[Benjamin Crowe]

On 1 May 2011 10:08, Duncan <notlug at pendinas.org.uk> wrote:

> On 01/05/11 01:34, stripes wrote:
>
>> When I came to live in the UK twenty odd years ago it was a relatively
>> free county but since then it has slipped into George Orwell's
>> nightmare vision of 1984. I find it sad that the only person on the
>> list that seems to be able to see this is Sergiusz Pawlowicz,
>>
>
> Being off topic on a _Linux Users Group_ mailing list doesn't make you a
> visionary.
> It just makes you off topic.
>
> Discussions about (non-Linux) literature, police states and Japanese
> whaling should
> be directed to a more appropriate forum.
>
> Have fun,
> Duncan
>
> I don't personally agree with you I feel that their comment on Orwell was
not a comment on the topic being discussed but more a personal opinion.
After I had finished reading the post I didn't feel that it was out of place
and that the Orwell reference was more to ground the statement.

Ben

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