In message , Wolf K
writes:
On 2018-09-13 04:30, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
[...]
What we need to remember is *these people are not thick*: they're
just not _interested_
[...]


... and people who have different interests than you aren't thick, either.

Well rejoined, but I never said that. Actually, I had in mind someone
when I was composing my post: he's a sheep-farmer, who lives in a very
isolated (for the UK) spot in rural Northumberland; when we visit him,
we always had to tell him - again! - how to use his TV boxes. Technology
altogether just isn't his thing. But he's by no means thick; he runs his
sheep-farming business, is a war veteran, has a shotgun licence, can
drive, and has more knowledge of many aspects of his rougher life than
I'd ever have. But no way he'd ever get on with a computer. (I once
heard him mutter "city boy" about me - without any malice - when I
displayed my ignorance of or incompetence at something that was so
natural to him.) I consider him a good friend; I think we respect each
other.

[Sadly, he had a stroke about a year ago (lay on the floor for many
hours until fortunately the people at the farm up the hill realised his
curtains weren't open or shut when they'd have expected them to be, or
something like that). He can now hardly speak, and can get agitated when
he tries and someone doesn't understand what he's trying to say; he
spent most of the year in various hospitals/care facilities. I think it
says a lot for his intelligence that the authorities have seen fit to
let him return to his isolated home (put Rivergreen Mill into Google
Maps - that identifies the farm, he's in the old mill next to it).]

I was considering mentioning him in my original post, but I thought it
was already too long.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

You can be tough without being rude - Nick Clegg, 2014 July