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"Do you miss a cold when it's gone? Or the germs that caused it?"?
Firstly, if the line sound's vaguely familiar, it's from The Madwoman of Chaillot. The "cold" is a stand-in for Y!A. There are things that I will miss and things that I will not. I will miss the people I have encountered, mostly in the Zoology forum, the ones who really care about knowledge. People like Bulldog Redux (formerly Bulldog Drummond), the entomologist; Birdgirl and Peek, from the bird and reptile forums, Magpie, my favorite British bird; and Nurnord, the mammalogist.
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The ones I will not miss at all are the blue-faced cowards, mostly in Global warming, who post nonsense from fringe groups and block anyone who disagrees with them. Those, IMHO, are the germs
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How about you all? What will you miss and what will you be happy to be rid of?
1 Answer
- ?Lv 72 weeks ago
I'll miss my daily laugher over my own ironic answers. I've always tried to withhold judgment on innocent ignorance because I myself lack knowledge in so many areas. But I feel no compassion toward the deliberate ignorance that is so prevalent in this forum.
