"Nobby"  wrote in message 
news:b1kb445ul02c3o00e3irvocu7ellpmrfe8@4ax.com...
> On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:06:52 +0100, Frank Erskine 
> 
> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 23:54:02 +0100, "Duncan"
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>"Cork Soaker" <Thunderbird@Ubuntu.invalid> wrote in message
>>>news:q05gg5-i2v.ln1@quarkbomb.dyndns.org...
>>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7413244.stm
>>>>
>>>> "Who would have thought that Sunderland would be Britain's most 
>>>> connected
>>>> city?"
>>>>
>>>> Indeed.
>>>
>>>With as many as *FOUR* regular newsgroup correspondents
>>>(1 more than uk.local.geordie)
>>>
>>I think there's a goodly number of people who *read* this NG...
>
> You have posted  to a newsgroup set up by
> the government to plug the gaps created by the abysmal
> failure of their Psychiatric Care in the Community Policy.
> The uk.local hierarchy was devised to provide an outlet for
> individuals who would otherwise spending their days sitting
> at home wearing an aluminium foil hat waiting for a full moon
> to rise. It was hoped that this would reduce the incidence
> of nutters out there howling at the moon and frightening the
> shit out of their neighbours. Another of HMGs aims and
> objectives was to provide a distraction to take their minds
> of the problem of who they were going to knife to death next.
> Unfortunately, this group has been taken over by the
> articulate lower middle classes who have succeeding in
> driving HMGs target audience away.Independant research has
> shown that it was the amount and quality of the inane drivel,
> called small talk which the middle classes are adept at, which
> had the effect of doing their heads in. They left to
> protect what was left of their sanity. Saddly this has happened
> to the whole of uk.local. hierarchy.
>
> This newsgroup is a very good example of another HMG failure.
>

Piss off