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From: Lennart Petersen on 9 Oct 2007 09:42 "Hatunen" <hatunen(a)cox.net> skrev i meddelandet news:r9slg3t6s2elblp43fhbrgir2garc8tthe(a)4ax.com... > On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 00:18:18 +0100, d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk (David > Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote: > >>Pat <Pat(a)starrynight.com> wrote: >> >>[] >>> What you write makes me cringe because you are fulfilling the >>> preconceived >>> ideas of Europeans that Americans who travel abroad as ignorant and >>> arrogant. >> >>That's the point- the notions are preconceived. Some of the stupidest >>stuff I've read in this group over the years has been silly comments >>about Americans with little basis in fact. > > On the other hand, I could say the same about many Europeans' > comments about Americans and America. Be careful in that glass > house. Wasn't David Horne saying exactly that ?
From: Gregory Morrow on 9 Oct 2007 12:41 Iceman wrote: > On Oct 8, 11:11 pm, Hatunen <hatu...(a)cox.net> wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 00:18:18 +0100, d4g...(a)yahoo.co.uk (David > > Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote: > > > > >Pat <P...(a)starrynight.com> wrote: > > > > >[] > > >> What you write makes me cringe because you are fulfilling the preconceived > > >> ideas of Europeans that Americans who travel abroad as ignorant and > > >> arrogant. > > > > >That's the point- the notions are preconceived. Some of the stupidest > > >stuff I've read in this group over the years has been silly comments > > >about Americans with little basis in fact. > > > > On the other hand, I could say the same about many Europeans' > > comments about Americans and America. Be careful in that glass > > house. > > > Much of the American right-wing thinks Europe is socialist, pacifist, > and about to be taken over by Muslims, while European men are > effeminate wine-drinking snobs and European women are size-zero sluts > who refuse to have babies. P. J. O' Rourke wrote some pretty funny stuff along these lines around 20 or so years ago, especially concerning French men (which could also apply equally as well to Quebec men)... -- Best Greg
From: Gregory Morrow on 9 Oct 2007 12:43 Doesn't Frequently Mop wrote: > Make credence recognised that on Tue, 9 Oct 2007 00:18:18 +0100, > d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) has scripted: > > >Pat <Pat(a)starrynight.com> wrote: > > > >[] > >> What you write makes me cringe because you are fulfilling the preconceived > >> ideas of Europeans that Americans who travel abroad as ignorant and > >> arrogant. > > > >That's the point- the notions are preconceived. Some of the stupidest > >stuff I've read in this group over the years has been silly comments > >about Americans with little basis in fact. > > What's so bad about nurturing a harmless prejudice? Frankly, I like kicking around moozlims better... -- Best Greg
From: d4g4h4 on 9 Oct 2007 12:38 Lennart Petersen <lennart.petersen(a)swipnet.se> wrote: > "Hatunen" <hatunen(a)cox.net> skrev i meddelandet > news:r9slg3t6s2elblp43fhbrgir2garc8tthe(a)4ax.com... > > On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 00:18:18 +0100, d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk (David > > Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote: > > > >>Pat <Pat(a)starrynight.com> wrote: > >> > >>[] > >>> What you write makes me cringe because you are fulfilling the > >>> preconceived > >>> ideas of Europeans that Americans who travel abroad as ignorant and > >>> arrogant. > >> > >>That's the point- the notions are preconceived. Some of the stupidest > >>stuff I've read in this group over the years has been silly comments > >>about Americans with little basis in fact. > > > > On the other hand, I could say the same about many Europeans' > > comments about Americans and America. Be careful in that glass > > house. > > Wasn't David Horne saying exactly that ? Yes! :) -- (*) ... of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate http://www.davidhorne.net - real address on website "He can't be as stupid as he looks, but nevertheless he probably is quite a stupid man." Richard Dawkins on Pres. Bush"
From: Hatunen on 9 Oct 2007 13:02
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 09:50:37 +0100, d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote: >Hatunen <hatunen(a)cox.net> wrote: > >> On Tue, 9 Oct 2007 00:18:18 +0100, d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk (David >> Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote: >> >> >Pat <Pat(a)starrynight.com> wrote: >> > >> >[] >> >> What you write makes me cringe because you are fulfilling the preconceived >> >> ideas of Europeans that Americans who travel abroad as ignorant and >> >> arrogant. >> > >> >That's the point- the notions are preconceived. Some of the stupidest >> >stuff I've read in this group over the years has been silly comments >> >about Americans with little basis in fact. >> >> On the other hand, I could say the same about many Europeans' >> comments about Americans and America. Be careful in that glass >> house. > >Dave, I've a feeling you didn't actually read what I wrote, no? Oh. I wasn't really addressing that at *you*, but rather the general *you*. Sorry about that. Badly written. -- ************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen(a)cox.net) ************* * Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow * * My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps * |