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To: js1138
... but most threads like this start out bashing MS.

This is perhaps the most bizarre and unsuported statement I have seen on FR this month. And I've seen a lot of 'em.

As a matter of fact, these threads nearly always start out discussing a new or improved feature of a Mac with hardly a reference to the other side of the street, and then some distressed and anxious PC user barges into the discussion with the tired canard that Mac users are "snooty" or "condescending", or are somehow "bashing" Microsoft.

Nonsense. The truth is that Mac users are WAAAY past caring about what goes on in the MS world.

That's what REALLY scratches the PC users irritability bone; there is nothing worse than being ignored.

54 posted on 04/25/2005 6:13:25 PM PDT by John Valentine
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To: John Valentine
...anxious PC user barges into the discussion with the tired canard that Mac users are "snooty" or "condescending", or are somehow "bashing" Microsoft.

Don't forget the classic "I'd buy a Mac, but I'm not Gay" comment.

55 posted on 04/25/2005 6:20:42 PM PDT by Swordmaker (tagline now open, please ring bell.)
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To: John Valentine; js1138
As a matter of fact, these threads nearly always start out discussing a new or improved feature of a Mac with hardly a reference to the other side of the street...

Did you actually read this thread? Perhaps you'd care to revise your in light of the first real comment here, post #5. For crying out loud, the first post out of the gate was a MacMoonie slamming on someone else.

56 posted on 04/25/2005 6:49:30 PM PDT by general_re ("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
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To: John Valentine

Interesting, considering the article that started the thread ignored XP64 and bashed Windows for not having anything new.


57 posted on 04/25/2005 7:00:09 PM PDT by js1138 (e unum pluribus)
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To: John Valentine
The truth is that Mac users are WAAAY past caring about what goes on in the MS world

Absolutely. And it doesn't bother me to be in the 4%.

95 posted on 04/26/2005 6:34:19 AM PDT by cowboyway (My heroes have always been cowboys.)
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To: John Valentine

I agree with you completely, except for the following: "Nonsense. The truth is that Mac users are WAAAY past caring about what goes on in the MS world."

I care plenty about what happens in the MS world. I want the MS people to leave me the hell alone!

Every little old lady, or middle age porn surfer wants me to give them "a little help," because they heard I'm at least semi computer-literate. I'm just a freakin' pedestrian user for G-d sake! If their computers are that hard to figure out, something is very very wrong.


120 posted on 04/26/2005 8:18:39 AM PDT by papertyger
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To: John Valentine; HAL9000
Nonsense. The truth is that Mac users are WAAAY past caring about what goes on in the MS world.

You better have a talk with HAL. The guy can't help frothing at the mouth over every PC-related thread.
161 posted on 04/26/2005 4:53:41 PM PDT by Bush2000
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