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Subject: Re: OT: ping David Horne or other iPod users Posted on: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 00:56:41 +0100

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:44:55 +0000, this_address_is_for_spam@yahoo.co.uk (David
Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate) wrote:

>Martin wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:31:26 +0000, this_address_is_for_spam@yahoo.co.uk
>> (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and
>> deansgate) wrote:
>>
>> >Martin wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:18:35 +0000, this_address_is_for_spam@yahoo.co.uk
>> >> (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and
>> >> deansgate) wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >Martin wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 23:10:06 +0000, this_address_is_for_spam@yahoo.co.uk
>> >> >> (David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the royal duchy of city south and
>> >> >> deansgate) wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> >Deeply Filled Mortician
>> >> >> >wrote:
>> >[]
>> >> >> >> GO THE CHANCELLOR TROLL-A-MATIC 5000!!!
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >Says the one making bigoted comments about Italians.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> So tell us about your experiences of working with Italian companies.
>> >> >
>> >> >So tell me about your experience of working with Italian musicians.
>> >>
>> >> I'm waiting to hear your experiences I have told you mine.
>> >
>> >They were fine- mostly good, and a few annoying. Pretty much my
>> >experience everywhere I work. Nothing to make silly generalisations
>> >about, which I note you didn't make, but DFM is the one suggesting that
>> >people criticising the Italian bigotry don't have any experience working
>> >with them. I'm sick of generalisations, and of his in particular. I
>> >pointed out the irony in DFM making them a while back.
>>
>> I can understand DFM. I had the most appalling experiences of Italian industry
>> until the last decade.
>
>He's there now though. Italy's one of the richest countries in the world
>with a high GDP. I think that any kind of bad experiences have to be
>seen in relation to that.

Not much of the wealth rubs off on engineers and technicians. A bit like UK in
that respect.

>
>> If I based my comments on the first two companies I
>> worked with I would say exactly the same as DFM. I used to think it was North
>> South thing, but it really isn't.
>
>I think people are nearly always on shaky ground when they generalise.

I agree with you.
--

Martin