18th May 2004, 3:17 PM
I THOUGHT I did. And really, you DO sound very argumentative. You weren't trying to argue it with other people, but with one specific person, me, who didnt' really want to get into an argument over it. Sorry, but it really did seem like an argument when I said "that's just my personal preference" and you say "but that's not a problem at all!". I didn't say it was a problem for everyone, or even an actual problem really, just something I PERSONALLY find annoying. Why elaborate on it? Why not leave it at that? I must ask you this. In the real world, do you find that people get upset at you often for continuing a conversation long after they said "just drop it"? I'm sure it's happened to you at least ONCE.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)