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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  \ \ \ 2021 / / /
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 16:32:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201225163249.75cfe89e@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
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On Fri, 25 Dec 2020 15:07:59 +0000, caveman رجل الكهف wrote:

> hi.  i just want to help a bit by sharing a
> thought that i think is useful to the civilisation
> of life forms in general:
> 
>     - new year celebrations are wasteful in
>       several ways (e.g.  waste on needless
>       purchases [aka gifts], useless fireworks,
>       useless trees with socks on them, etc).
> 
>     - the vacation is nice to allow potential good
>       use of it.  but even this is usually abused
>       by most people as they end up just wasting
>       it alongside their money for purely doing
>       silly things such as purposeless tourism.

Dear Ebenezer,

Some of us would welcome the opportunity to waste time with their
families over Christmas and the New Year, instead of having to spend it
isolating at home following a positive COVID-19 test.

Don't underestimate the therapeutic value of doing nothing with the people
that are important to you.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and call whatever you hit
the target.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-12-25 16:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-24 20:11 [gentoo-user] \ \ \ 2021 / / / thelma
2020-12-25 11:00 ` Michael
2020-12-31 16:26   ` bobwxc
2020-12-31 23:14     ` Dan Egli
2020-12-25 15:07 ` caveman رجل الكهف
2020-12-25 16:32   ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2020-12-26 19:10     ` caveman رجل الكهف 穴居人

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