Which reads, in full:
dear tim,
your writing is terrible. please stop writing. do not reply.
best wishes,
M
I rather hope that it\’s not this Michael Barbazette:
Michael Barbazette
Primary/Secondary Education Professional
Greater Chicago Area
Primary/Secondary EducationPast
SES Tutor at The Princeton Review
Tutor at UNO Charter School NetworkEducation
DePaul University
For if it were he must have been emailing at 3, 4 am. When all good little education professionals should either be in bed or in charge of their capitals.
Yup, I’d guess so.
At least that LinkedIn profile looks very like this Facebook profile. And that Michael is an anti-G20 activist, Marxist and supporter of the Alexander / Mendoza 2012 Socialist Party Presidential campaign.
Who is the sort of person you’d expect to be think that sending you that sort of email was the proper thing to be doing at 4am.
I wonder if his other campaigns are equally well thought out (and successful?) Quite like the Dear Tim and best wishes bit though, shows some manners at least. Epically clueless mind, but polite.
At least he got ‘your’ right.
For an education professional he sure doesn’t like those capital letters, does he?
Or maybe he’s just too cool to cap.
I’m impressed.
You are getting up people’s noses world-wide.
Cool!
Problem is, though, however much someone might disagree with you, you’re clearly a good writer.
Got that book out on the Kindle yet?
Well, I suppose it’s commitment to the cause: he dislikes your writing style so much he doesn’t even want a reply email. Although I can’t help thinking of this…
http://xkcd.com/386/
Note the implicit syllogism in Borborygmus’s illiterate missive: a) your writing is terrible (matter of opinion) b) implicitly, Bandersnatch’s opinion matters therefore c) you should stop doing it.
To which the appropriate response is: get tae fuck, laddie.
Please note that, according to another of our colonial cousins, by nym ‘otontisch’, we should be ignoring Tim because he is, [coughs],
“an ethnic Chinese“.
They must make them somewhere – bell curves don’t have that long a lower tail …
Slurpy Weevil: was that on Tim’s Forbes piece about Apple? Hilarious. Tim is finally unmasked as a PRC agent provocateur. I thought from all the photos I’ve seen he had a touch of the Chinee about him: now it is confirmed. The Yellow Worstall Peril strikes again!
It is a pathetic comment on modern education that a distinguished educator – and educator of other people about education – things the appropriate response to political views he does not like is to try to bully someone into silence.
Tosser.
“that a distinguished educator”
Distinguished? The appalling trot is only three years out of uni – and with a Sociology degree at that. And pants Facebook security but, hey …