Chris,

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>>More than likely a teenager who's in need of social skills.
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>This is a bit rough isnt it?

Nope.. Not at all. As a matter of fact I was being kind. Most teenagers I know, while absolutely full of potential, are still emotional infants.

Or do you actually think that the world is a friendly place and owes you the respect you only get by earning? I mean absolutely no offense but them's the facts. You get a chance to show your stuff just like everyone else. Just don't waste your time trying to prove something you don't need to and cannot prove to begin with.

If you allow yourself to feel somehow slighted as a result of your age then you are allowing an irrational emotional thought to rule your life. I tease Mike Helland all the time about his youth and he's finally figured it out and has started teasing me about my age. He has finally come to realize that my teasing is a sign of respect and if you allow yourself to 'feel' slighted you only prove your emotional youth.

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>Firstly we now know your 'wildly accurate' guess was completly wrong, and secondly, this isnt exactly the kind of place a teenager would come to give people a bashing on some forums.

It was wrong indeed! I began to have my doubts when Tamar suggested that it was a member who was pulling our leg and while I thought to myself that John would be the ideal candidate to do this I never voiced that opinion - so it counts for nothing. <g>

As far as 'bashing teenagers' goes - nahh I'll keep doing it as it's such good sport. And easy too. Like shooting fish ina barrel. <g>

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>Being a teenager myself (albeit for only a few more months), I dare say I know a bit of what my 'peers' are thinking, they certainly arnt interested in stirring a bunch of FoxPro programmers, give them a Linux v Windows forum, or an XBox v PS2 v Nintendo forum. Then they will go argue/flame to their hearts content. They simply wouldnt be interested in the sorts of responses gathered here.

Your peers are thinking about sex. < BG >

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>To make the assumption that anyone who is doing things in an immature way is a teenager is in my opinion a wildly inaccurate guess. And a prejudice I find quite off-putting, a few years ago I could not walk into a store without the security guards trailing an isle back, as I have aged a little this stops, but as a law-abiding teenager it really starts to get on your nerves,
>It is not like teenagers are the sole source of crime in the world, how about giving us a break?

Oh pooh pooh.. Get over it. If soemthing this trivial rattles your cage Chris maybe it needs rattling. <s> Maybe there's a reason for the behavior of those security guards. Maybe it's the teenagers who do most of the thefts? Here in the States it's the teenagers who cause a disproportionate amount of automobile accidents and who drink a disproportionate amount of alcohol, based upon their age demographic. So, what's someone to do, hide their head in the sand at the facts? I think not. <s>

You're taking this far too seriously. If you're 19 you need to realize that I've been programming as long as you have been alive. <g> That just makes me an old fart, envious at your youth and you a young fart, full of yourself and the potential God has given you. Don't waste it!