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If your attention span is shorter even than your dick, this is theversion for you
On Aug 24, 9:40*am, Tom Sherman wrote:
On 8/23/2010 3:54 PM, André Jute wrote: [...] TLDR -- Tom Sherman Here's the irreducible soundbite version: • Most fatal crashes (74%) involved a head injury. • Nearly all bicyclists who died (97%) were not wearing a helmet. • Helmet use was only 3% in fatal crashes, but 13% in non-fatal crashes Source: http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/download...ike-report.pdf This concatenation of facts suggests very strongly that not wearing a helmet may be particularly dangerous. HTH. Andre Jute Thank God I'm not handicapped by a short attention span and an inadequate education |
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Andre Jute needs to wise up
"Andre Jute" wrote in message ... [...] Thank God I'm not handicapped by a short attention span and an inadequate education. I have spent my life reading the most long-winded books ever created by man. But I am fed up with it. It belongs to the 19th and 20th centuries, not the 21st century. My brother had to personally deal with Johnny Carson (The Tonight Show) and the first thing he was told was that Carson had a very short attention span. We are now living in a world where everyone has a short attention span. It does not have much to do with education. It has to do with getting to the point. I know Tom Sherman rather well having done battle with him on Usenet for many years. He is smart as a whip and if he tells you that what you write is too long, I would listen to him. Our world of reading on and on is gone forever. I attribute it all to the new technology. Let's face it, who reads books anymore? Regards, Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota aka Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota |
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Andre Jute needs to wise up
Sorry, Ed. You're mistaking me for someone who gives a **** for the
opinion of Sherman, or you, for that matter. Show me first that you're not useless eaters, then we can negotiate. Until then. -- AJ On Aug 25, 3:45*am, "Edward Dolan" wrote: "Andre Jute" wrote in message ... [...] Thank God I'm not handicapped by a short attention span and an inadequate education. I have spent my life reading the most long-winded books ever created by man. But I am fed up with it. It belongs to the 19th and 20th centuries, not the 21st century. My brother had to personally deal with Johnny Carson (The Tonight Show) and the first thing he was told was that Carson had a very short attention span. We are now living in a world where everyone has a short attention span. It does not have much to do with education. It has to do with getting to the point. I know Tom Sherman rather well having done battle with him on Usenet for many years. He is smart as a whip and if he tells you that what you write is too long, I would listen to him. Our world of reading on and on is gone forever. I attribute it all to the new technology. Let's face it, who reads books anymore? Regards, Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota aka Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota |
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If your attention span is shorter even than your dick, this isthe version for you
On Aug 24, 8:22*pm, Andre Jute wrote:
On Aug 24, 9:40*am, Tom Sherman wrote: On 8/23/2010 3:54 PM, André Jute wrote: [...] TLDR -- Tom Sherman Here's the irreducible soundbite version: • Most fatal crashes (74%) involved a head injury. • Nearly all bicyclists who died (97%) were not wearing a helmet. • Helmet use was only 3% in fatal crashes, but 13% in non-fatal crashes Source:http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/download...ike-report.pdf This concatenation of facts suggests very strongly that not wearing a helmet may be particularly dangerous. HTH. Andre Jute Thank God I'm not handicapped by a short attention span and an inadequate education Education and attention span don't have a bit to do with it. I has to do with content and style. Only an ignoramus would assume that because the post is long someone must have the desire to read the entire piece. You need to be educated to know that people will read what they are interested in if it appeals to their aesthetic sense. Unfortunately many of the authors who send their endless cathartic diatribes haven't realized that (1) most readers don't give a **** and (2) the authors themselves are obviously illiterate if they need to write an encyclopedia to articulate a meaningless idea. |
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Andre Jute needs to wise up
On Aug 25, 12:45*pm, "Edward Dolan" wrote:
I have spent my life reading the most long-winded books ever created by man. But I am fed up with it. It belongs to the 19th and 20th centuries, not the 21st century. How long did it take you to realise this? My brother had to personally deal with Johnny Carson (The Tonight Show) and the first thing he was told was that Carson had a very short attention span. We are now living in a world where everyone has a short attention span. It does not have much to do with education. It has to do with getting to the point. Though more patience would perhaps improve ones chances of being better educated. A lack of patience does seem to be a common trait. Everyone appears to want instant pudding. You can observe the condition everywhere in modern society. Home, roads, shopping centres, work place, etc. Attention span is directly linked to interest level and patience. Johnny boy, obviously was impatient and didn't really give a hoot. I've never been bothered to read pulp fiction, preferring to wait until the motion picture arrives, proving that it doesn't really interest me, only just enough to sit through the movie. However I'm quite happy to spend all day and into the night casting dry flies to unsuspecting trout. This gets my full attention. For some of us, patience is still a virtue. Cheers, James. |
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Andre Jute needs to wise up
On Aug 25, 4:50*am, James wrote:
I'm quite happy to spend all day and into the night casting dry flies to unsuspecting trout. *This gets my full attention. *For some of us, patience is still a virtue. Ha! You've risen in my estimation. I can spend days on the river; I live over it. Most of the time I don't even put a fly on the hook. Just the flash of sunlight on the metal should be enough to attract the attention of a trout or a salmon. Of course, there is always some American tourist who'll tell you the hook is bare, and one lady in unsuitable shorts caught a locust and brought it to me and offered to show me how to bait the hook... Mr Trevor sold sports gear in the village until, an old, old man, he died. One day I was in there when an American, standing over a bag of at least half a dozen brandnew Shakespear rods, had just about every reel of line on the counter, each one not good enough for him. I was just waiting for it. And right on cue the American asked, 'Don't you have any pre-stretched line?' Mr Trevor looked him straight in the eye and said, 'Sir, if you don't have time to stretch your own line, you don't have time to fish.' Andre Jute QED, but the fish don't agree |
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Andre Jute needs to wise up
"Andre Jute" wrote in message ... ALL TOP POSTERS ARE IDIOTS! Sorry, Ed. You're mistaking me for someone who gives a **** for the opinion of Sherman, or you, for that matter. Show me first that you're not useless eaters, then we can negotiate. Until then. -- AJ You are posting long-winded messages (about helmets of all subjects) which no one in their right mind would ever read except for a fellow asshole like Frank K. The two of you certainly deserve one another. Mr. Sherman and I are both showing the entire newsgroup what a fool you are. I assure you that neither of us gives a damn about you or your opinions. That is a given. But we hate long-winded messages which go nowhere. How presumptuous of you to think anyone wants to read long-winded ****. The subject of helmets has been done to death. Were you born yesterday? You and Frank K. are a couple of morons to even be discussing it. Did the mists of Ireland make you this stupid? Andre Jute (re the remark about a useless eater) is no doubt a hard working slob, but of course not a smart working slob. May he labor by the sweat of his brow unit he drops dead of exhaustion like the dumb animal he is. The world will never know that he even existed. That is ever the lot of those who work by the sweat of their brow. Your next post about those god damn ****ing helmets will reap the whirlwind from me. I can't believe there are still those who think this is a subject worth writing about. What a sodden backwoodsman you must be! Time for you to get out of ****ing Ireland and back to the real world. Regards, Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota aka Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota |
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Andre Jute needs to wise up
wrote in message ... On Aug 24, 8:22 pm, Andre Jute wrote: [...] Thank God I'm not handicapped by a short attention span and an inadequate education Education and attention span don't have a bit to do with it. I has to do with content and style. Only an ignoramus would assume that because the post is long someone must have the desire to read the entire piece. You need to be educated to know that people will read what they are interested in if it appeals to their aesthetic sense. Unfortunately many of the authors who send their endless cathartic diatribes haven't realized that (1) most readers don't give a **** and (2) the authors themselves are obviously illiterate if they need to write an encyclopedia to articulate a meaningless idea. Wow! Where have you been all of my life. You said it better than I ever could. It is indeed easy to extract all kinds of meaningless **** from the Web, but if you don't say it concisely in your own words it is all for naught. If a post is long I will not bother with it and neither will anyone else that has any brains. I think a few short paragraphs is the max that anyone will put up with.Those who write long diatribes are among the most stupid people who have ever lived. It's as if they have no sense at all. Regards, Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota aka Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota |
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André Jute needs to wise up
On 8/24/2010 11:15 PM, Edward Dolan wrote:
[...] Andre Jute (re the remark about a useless eater) is no doubt a hard working slob, but of course not a smart working slob. May he labor by the sweat of his brow unit he drops dead of exhaustion like the dumb animal he is. The world will never know that he even existed. That is ever the lot of those who work by the sweat of their brow.[...] It is alleged that Mr. Jute is a "remittance man" and he apparently is also a author, both as "André Jute" (non-fiction) and "Andrew McCoy" (fiction). -- Tom Sherman - 42.435731,-83.985007 I am a vehicular cyclist. |
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Andre Jute needs to wise up
"James" wrote in message ... On Aug 25, 12:45 pm, "Edward Dolan" wrote: I have spent my life reading the most long-winded books ever created by man. But I am fed up with it. It belongs to the 19th and 20th centuries, not the 21st century. How long did it take you to realise this? I pretty much stopped reading by age 50. Once the computer came along, I stopped altogether. My brother had to personally deal with Johnny Carson (The Tonight Show) and the first thing he was told was that Carson had a very short attention span. We are now living in a world where everyone has a short attention span. It does not have much to do with education. It has to do with getting to the point. Though more patience would perhaps improve ones chances of being better educated. A lack of patience does seem to be a common trait. Everyone appears to want instant pudding. You can observe the condition everywhere in modern society. Home, roads, shopping centres, work place, etc. The world is changing rapidly right before our eyes. I attribute most of the change to the electronic media, especially computers. Attention span is directly linked to interest level and patience. Johnny boy, obviously was impatient and didn't really give a hoot. I've never been bothered to read pulp fiction, preferring to wait until the motion picture arrives, proving that it doesn't really interest me, only just enough to sit through the movie. However I'm quite happy to spend all day and into the night casting dry flies to unsuspecting trout. This gets my full attention. For some of us, patience is still a virtue. Yes, interest determines what we will spend time on. I was once interested in reading every book in our local public library. Alas, those days are gone forever. Regards, Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota aka Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota |
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