Good manners and boring folk to death
Grant Crosthwaite
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Title:
Good manners and boring folk to death
Creator:
Grant Crosthwaite
Date:
3/18/1999
Text:
Dear Americans,
What a self absorbed bunch you have demonstrated yourselves to be. You
bore the non-Americans on the list rigid and when we dare to mention how
tedious we find your introspection we get told to get off the list. I
have written to some of you individually asking for you to observe
netiquette and use tags in the subject line. This would allow those of us
who fail to find the minutia of the US Political structures for O&P
fascinating, to eradicate the relevant (or should that be irrelevant)
messages. What responses have I had? Almost without exception those who
responded assured me that your consolidation was of vital importance to
everyone in the world not just those in the USA. This is not so!!
Ask yourselves this: if this is so important why is no-one contributing
to the discussion from outside the USA? It is because nobody else cares.
This is not because those outside are myopic and are heading for disaster
because they are not getting involved. It is because it does not matter
to us and we prefer that you settle your own provincial problems by
yourselves without involving the rest of us.
Ask yourselves also whether you would welcome involvement/comment from
those of us outside the USA. I think not. Just as I would be surprised if
anyone practising in the States had anything useful to contribute to a
similar discussion on reorganising Prosthetic/Orthotic care in the UK. If
then you would not welcome any contribution from the rest of us why
then is it so imperative that we should have to listen ad nauseum to the
debate?
I am glad the listmom has finally intervened (cheers Paul) and hope that
we can expect a little courtesy in the future.
Thank you for listening,
Grant Crosthwaite
What a self absorbed bunch you have demonstrated yourselves to be. You
bore the non-Americans on the list rigid and when we dare to mention how
tedious we find your introspection we get told to get off the list. I
have written to some of you individually asking for you to observe
netiquette and use tags in the subject line. This would allow those of us
who fail to find the minutia of the US Political structures for O&P
fascinating, to eradicate the relevant (or should that be irrelevant)
messages. What responses have I had? Almost without exception those who
responded assured me that your consolidation was of vital importance to
everyone in the world not just those in the USA. This is not so!!
Ask yourselves this: if this is so important why is no-one contributing
to the discussion from outside the USA? It is because nobody else cares.
This is not because those outside are myopic and are heading for disaster
because they are not getting involved. It is because it does not matter
to us and we prefer that you settle your own provincial problems by
yourselves without involving the rest of us.
Ask yourselves also whether you would welcome involvement/comment from
those of us outside the USA. I think not. Just as I would be surprised if
anyone practising in the States had anything useful to contribute to a
similar discussion on reorganising Prosthetic/Orthotic care in the UK. If
then you would not welcome any contribution from the rest of us why
then is it so imperative that we should have to listen ad nauseum to the
debate?
I am glad the listmom has finally intervened (cheers Paul) and hope that
we can expect a little courtesy in the future.
Thank you for listening,
Grant Crosthwaite
Citation
Grant Crosthwaite, “Good manners and boring folk to death,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 15, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/211321.
