People just don't seem to understand.  The hardest part about being better than everyone else is that people tend to think you're pretentious.

:)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Bruce [mailto:klf@atomiser.demon.co.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 12:20 PM
> To: KLF mailing list
> Subject: Re: Even further OT (was RE: RE: Becoming OT Re: [KLF] VCD)
>
>
>
> To refer to somebody else as arrogant whilst quoting dictionary
> definitions is an interesting twist. It's a little like calling
> something "pretentious, darling"...
>
> Firstly he didn't edit anything so quite what your rant is
> about I'm not
> sure.
>
> Secondly editing out bits of messages that were not intended
> for public
> eyes is not censorship. If you wanted to send a copy of an e-mail to
> somebody and take out (say) your credit card details, or something
> private, then you would be editing it. Not censoring it. If the guy
> removed his friend's e-mail address from the message (I can't remember
> if he did or not?) then again, that's editing, not censorship.
>
> *If* the original message had been edited in order to just post the
> relevant parts without anything irrelevant, then that is editing. It
> depends on why he removed the text (if he had bothered at all).
>
> In case you hadn't guessed I'm a TV editor who has taken objection to
> your implications that
> a) TV jobs require creativity but no skill or experience or talent
> and
> b) that anything edited because it isn't appropriate to the finished
> piece is censorship.
>
> When a TV piece is edited and you take out the presenter saying "oh
> fuck, I've messed up that line", is that censorship? No.
>
> GET A GRIP!
>
> Stuart.
>
> On Wed 27 Mar, Chris Bennett wrote:
> >
> > well..in this case..removing content to "protect"
> > someone else, no matter who it hurts...
> > Main Entry: censor
> > Function: transitive verb
> > Inflected Form(s): censored; censoring
> > /'sen(t)-s&-ri[ng], 'sen(t)s-ri[ng]/
> > Date: 1882
> > : to examine in order to suppress or delete anything
> > considered objectionable
> > (which is what he was doing..to "protect" me from
> > being offended by his arrogant friend..)
> >
> > yes..I do know what they mean..unfortunately too many
> > people incorrectly use the word edit to mean cutting
> > out things that people don't want to hear, which is
> > more the definition for censorship..
>
>
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