Alan Holmes wrote:

"Carol Hague" wrote in message
...

I'd just like to remind you that people have been keeping fish in tanks
for
over 70 years, without all the modern stuff.

I was keeping fish about 20 years ago and most of this "modern stuff"
was already available then.

Yes but not 50 years before that!

Do you have difficulty in understanding the differencee between 20 and 70?

Not at all.

But you were talking about "modern stuff" as if it had only arrived last
week, rather than developing over decades. I was trying to point out
that new developments have been happening for some time and just because
it wasn't available 70 years ago doesn't mean there's no use for it now.




Are you by any chance a seller of uneccessary fish stuff?

No I'm not.

I'm someone who reads up on what I'm doing before I take the lives of
unsuspecting fish into my keeping.

I had the experience of others to give me advice, and they would not have
known about the rubbish wich is on sale today.

I had the experience of others too - it just happened to be in written
form rather than verbal.

Is it really unthinkable to you that people might actually have learned
new things in the last 70 years?

If so, what are you doing using one of those new-fangled computing
machines ? We didn't have them seventy years ago, so obviously they're
unnecessary rubbish.

I'm trying very hard to be civil here and my apologies if I haven't
always succeeded, but I find your superior attitude exceedingly
provoking.

--
Carol
"The glassblower's cat is bompstable"
- Dorothy L. Sayers, _Clouds of Witness_