With the benefits of speed and a certain technological headiness, the computer encouraged intemperate language and stroppy behavior of a kind that the conventions of face-to-face contact would almost certainly have held in check.
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As one diplomat put it : " The US should say : ` OK, you have recognized Kuwait, cooperated in a shifty sort of way with the UN and we can use you when Iran gets stroppy.
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:: Anyway, the main point of all this is that in my view Chooserr was " not " negative, defiant, uncooperative, or stroppy, and should not have been threatened with a block.
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Declared Midlander of the Year in 1992, and made OBE in the year he retired from the programme, he announced in 1993 that it had become " a bit boring watching dogs chase stroppy sheep round a field ."
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Speaking of Water's portrayal of Holly's character, a Channel 4 spokesperson stated : " She will be quite a stroppy eleven-year-old who knows her own mind like her mum's character.
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There may be some minor details of timing here but I won't go into those, just observe that at the time I removed the links he'd been told about the problem and was being pretty stroppy about it.
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I think it would have been quite inappropriate to describe me as " negative ", " defiant ", " stroppy ", and " uncooperative ", and to have threatened me with a block while I was thinking about it.
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Unfounded and personal attacks a-go-go on Gwen on this page, plus this bit of nastiness and this one plus the strange " delete this article or add my choice of self-aggrandisement to it " stroppy demands.
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I was trying to efficiently provide balance by breaking the rules to match the rule-breaking of the article as it existed, and he got stroppy with my rule breaking without bothering to fix the huge mass of rules already broken.
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And now I see you most unjustly ( in my view ) threatening someone with a block and reporting him as " defiant ", " negative ", " stroppy " and " uncooperative " without " any " justification whatsoever.
