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Dominates the weekend, drives brilliantly rCarCaand gets booed!
WhatrCOs with people?
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Sir Tim
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On 27/10/2025 10:27 pm, Sir Tim wrote:

Dominates the weekend, drives brilliantly rCarCaand gets booed!
WhatrCOs with people?

Yeah. People! The world's turning to shit and I blame social media for accelerating it.
--
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification
in the DSM"
David Melville.
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~misfit~ <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> wrote:

On 27/10/2025 10:27 pm, Sir Tim wrote:

Dominates the weekend, drives brilliantly rCarCaand gets booed!
WhatrCOs with people?

Yeah. People! The world's turning to shit and I blame social media for accelerating it.

I'm not sure "accelerating it" is quite right. It's definitely made it
more visible and given a platform for like-minded idiots (once isolated
in their own bedrooms) to think they are "right" because they are the
most noisy.

I remember even in the early '90s - before the Internet had the web and
the public easy access - there were plenty of trolls. I think what's
changed is that they were easier to ignore.

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On 10/27/25 04:59, Mark wrote:

~misfit~ <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> wrote:

On 27/10/2025 10:27 pm, Sir Tim wrote:

Dominates the weekend, drives brilliantly rCarCaand gets booed!
WhatrCOs with people?

Yeah. People! The world's turning to shit and I blame social media for
accelerating it.

I'm not sure "accelerating it" is quite right. It's definitely made it
more visible and given a platform for like-minded idiots (once isolated
in their own bedrooms) to think they are "right" because they are the
most noisy.

I remember even in the early '90s - before the Internet had the web and
the public easy access - there were plenty of trolls. I think what's
changed is that they were easier to ignore.

I did not know,
and I do not approve of "booing" at Norris.
But, I will give my opinions.

But I am irritated at McLaren and their claimed neutrality.
McLaren always messes up with two good drivers.
They choose to let Senna drive like a threatening bully and
thus lost Prost, leading to their long term decline.
Then they got Coulthard back to finally return them to
being winners, and they foolishly two races in a row ordered
him to give the win to Hakkanin, That destroyed his confidence.
And now they have shown considerable favoritism to Norris
and despite their orders of "do not crash into your team mate"
let Norris get away with smacking Piastri and getting past.

Norris would be a fine WDC.
As would Piastri.
As would, if future team fortunes so change, would Leclear and
Russell.>

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In article <10dnlhc$p446$1@dont-email.me>, ~misfit~ <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> wrote:

On 27/10/2025 10:27 pm, Sir Tim wrote:

Dominates the weekend, drives brilliantly rCarCaand gets booed!
WhatrCOs with people?

Yeah. People! The world's turning to shit and I blame social media for

accelerating it.

The tendency for people to be loudmouthed arseholes isn't new and hasn't
been introduced by social media, but social media has certainly made it
easier for loudmouthed arseholes to make themselves heard than ever
before.

I mean, before social media really took over, there was comment threads
beneath blogs and news articles where arseholes would congregate to grind
their axes. Message boards and forums, too - chock full of arseholes. And before that back in the 90s, as we'll all remember with fondness..., was Usenet, full of loudmouthed arseholes trolling the hell out of each other
and everybody else.

Thing is, all of those things were relatively siloed away from The Real
World in a way that Facebook and Twitter no longer are, so every arsehole
with an opinion has a direct line to a huge audience, which triggers the arsehole opinions out of many who read it, and so on, ad infinitum.

Best thing I ever did was abandon Facebook a good few years ago and then Twitter a couple of years back - almost immediately felt better in myself
for not having rancid piss continually poured into my eyes from these
dreadful apps. That's the only answer, cut the cancer out from your life -
the more of us who do it, the better.

Something my History teacher said in class in the early 90s has always
stuck with me; "If you want to know what the *really* crazy people are thinking, buy your local newspaper and read the letters page...". That
used to be the only outlet that loudmouthed arseholes had to sound off on
their hobbyhorses, but involved some effort (writing on paper and posting
a letter) so only the genuinely committed and/or unhinged arseholes would invest the energy, but when I got onto Usenet properly about 5 or 6 years
later I thought to myself "Hmmm, looks like this is the new Local Paper
Letters Page, then, but with a lower barrier of entry", and then thought
the same about messageboards about 5 or 6 years after that, and then the
same about Facebook about 5 or 6 years after that... And so on. It's all a
dead loss, that's the conclusion I've come to. A race to the bottom that everybody's going to lose.
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In article <10dnmq7$pcmk$1@dont-email.me>, Mark <mpconmy@gmail.com> wrote:

~misfit~ <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> wrote:

On 27/10/2025 10:27 pm, Sir Tim wrote:

Dominates the weekend, drives brilliantly rCarCaand gets booed!
WhatrCOs with people?

Yeah. People! The world's turning to shit and I blame social media for accelerating it.

I'm not sure "accelerating it" is quite right. It's definitely made it
more visible and given a platform for like-minded idiots (once isolated
in their own bedrooms) to think they are "right" because they are the
most noisy.

I remember even in the early '90s - before the Internet had the web and
the public easy access - there were plenty of trolls. I think what's
changed is that they were easier to ignore.

Yup, exactly this - when a newsgroup or web messageboard got over-run with trolls then you could generally just avoid the threads where it was
kicking off, or simply unsubscribe/stop going to the forum and . Social
media has gone way past critical mass in terms of arseholes now, they're
too difficult to avoid even with the blocking tools on whatever platform
you're on, there's too many loudmouths, everybody is screaming at
everybody else, all the time. Only answer is to walk away from it.
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In article <EDtNQ.177267$D_Tb.1522@fx47.iad>, a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com> wrote:

Norris would be a fine WDC.
As would Piastri.
As would, if future team fortunes so change, would Leclear and
Russell.>

I will be happy if either Norris or Piastri wins this year, but if
Verstappen manages to claw it back and snatch his 5th title I'll be
genuinely happy about that, too - I am not a Max fan, he's been too much
of a shithouse over the last few years for me to like him, but he has had
a great season against the odds and a 5th WDC this year will be something
worth applauding.

For the future, I would be very happy to see NOR, PIA, RUS, LEC, SAI, ALB,
HAD, or BEA take WDCs, but I really am hoping that next year's Ferrari
pans out good and HAM can get his 8th in the bag and ride off into the
sunset as the Eternal Greatest Of The Greats and set right the traversty
that Masi put on him in Abu Dhabi 2021.
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On 2/11/2025 11:32 pm, scole wrote:

In article <EDtNQ.177267$D_Tb.1522@fx47.iad>, a425couple <a425couple@hotmail.com> wrote:

Norris would be a fine WDC.
As would Piastri.
As would, if future team fortunes so change, would Leclear and
Russell.>

I will be happy if either Norris or Piastri wins this year, but if
Verstappen manages to claw it back and snatch his 5th title I'll be
genuinely happy about that, too - I am not a Max fan, he's been too much
of a shithouse over the last few years for me to like him, but he has had
a great season against the odds and a 5th WDC this year will be something worth applauding.

For the future, I would be very happy to see NOR, PIA, RUS, LEC, SAI, ALB, HAD, or BEA take WDCs, but I really am hoping that next year's Ferrari
pans out good and HAM can get his 8th in the bag and ride off into the
sunset as the Eternal Greatest Of The Greats and set right the traversty
that Masi put on him in Abu Dhabi 2021.

Amen to that brother! The FIA doesn't even deny that Masi did wrong and robbed Hamilton of the
title anymore.
--
Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification
in the DSM"
David Melville.
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vintageapplemac@gmail.com (scole) writes:

Something my History teacher said in class in the early 90s has always
stuck with me; "If you want to know what the *really* crazy people are thinking, buy your local newspaper and read the letters page...". That
used to be the only outlet that loudmouthed arseholes had to sound off on their hobbyhorses, but involved some effort (writing on paper and posting
a letter) so only the genuinely committed and/or unhinged arseholes would invest the energy, but when I got onto Usenet properly about 5 or 6 years later I thought to myself "Hmmm, looks like this is the new Local Paper Letters Page, then, but with a lower barrier of entry", and then thought
the same about messageboards about 5 or 6 years after that, and then the
same about Facebook about 5 or 6 years after that... And so on. It's all a dead loss, that's the conclusion I've come to. A race to the bottom that everybody's going to lose.

Welcome back to usenet, where a decent proportion of the really crazy
people have left for those other venues. (Far far far from all, though,
alas.)

Phil
--
We are no longer hunters and nomads. No longer awed and frightened, as we have gained some understanding of the world in which we live. As such, we can cast aside childish remnants from the dawn of our civilization.
-- NotSanguine on SoylentNews, after Eugen Weber in /The Western Tradition/
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In article <87a50zqdvb.fsf@asdf.ee>, Phil Carmody <pc+usenet@asdf.org> wrote:

vintageapplemac@gmail.com (scole) writes:

Something my History teacher said in class in the early 90s has always stuck with me; "If you want to know what the *really* crazy people are thinking, buy your local newspaper and read the letters page...". That
used to be the only outlet that loudmouthed arseholes had to sound off on their hobbyhorses, but involved some effort (writing on paper and posting
a letter) so only the genuinely committed and/or unhinged arseholes would invest the energy, but when I got onto Usenet properly about 5 or 6 years later I thought to myself "Hmmm, looks like this is the new Local Paper Letters Page, then, but with a lower barrier of entry", and then thought the same about messageboards about 5 or 6 years after that, and then the same about Facebook about 5 or 6 years after that... And so on. It's all a dead loss, that's the conclusion I've come to. A race to the bottom that everybody's going to lose.

Welcome back to usenet, where a decent proportion of the really crazy
people have left for those other venues. (Far far far from all, though, alas.)

Yup, there's still crazies about on this here quiet, late-stage Usenet,
but they are much easier to ignore now than they were a quarter century
ago - killfiles are effective in a way they weren't so much when Usenet
was packed to the gills with nutters (and people replying to the nutters, meaning you'd see much of the swill you had tried to killfile out...).
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