Don't argue, Fester is an idiot.


gtr wrote:
> On 2006-12-17 14:01:04 -0800, mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net said:
> 
>> Insightful comments like "I don't like it, therefore it will fail"
> 
> "You and bureaucrats are all wrong about everything" isn't insightful 
> either, nor is either characterization of the other's argument within 
> hailing distance of reality.
> 
> I don't like it, it's true, I saw them fail in my community.  I assume 
> they will fail elsewhere due, because I live in a broad and diverse 
> community, not because I don't like them.  Hel, I'd generally assume my 
> tastes are at the end of any bellcurve.
> 
> I read news articles two years ago that indicated they had expanded too 
> rapidly and sold their doughnut like a $100 tennis shoe. Admittedly some 
> CAN sell a $100 tennis shoe. Maybe the glamor doughnut's time hasn't 
> arrived yet. Maybe they have.
> 
> Where are you that it's a boom market?
> 
> In the end do you think that doughnuts have the universal appeal that 
> coffee and hamburgers have?  I'd be surprised.  Maybe a general pastry 
> shop, particularly one that sold either good coffee or good lunches.  
> But a take-it-or-leave-it sugar ball?  Sheesh.  I do hope at a personal 
> level that it will fail, I admit.
> 
>> ...are on a par with the above-mentioned Japanese bureaucrats who, 
>> esteemed
>> though they may be, were remarkably inaccurate in their assessments of
>> what would do well in Japan.
> 
> I may know nothing, and you may know nothing, but of course we're both 
> brilliiant compared to thousands of esteemed Japanese bureaucrats, right?