Re: American and British (English)

John Varela <OLDlamps@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:34:46 -0400, J. J. Lodder wrote
(in article <1ilj6wp.3vgk2i83oiejN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

John Varela <OLDlamps@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 23:49:52 -0400, Hatunen wrote
(in article <oldv949mmc5mihhfvtrd0g637ef8g2k2cq@xxxxxxx>):

On Mon, 4 Aug 2008 10:52:27 +0200, nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (J. J.
Lodder) wrote:

Hatunen <hatunen@xxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 3 Aug 2008 18:00:42 +0200, nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (J. J.
Lodder) wrote:
Americans too have danced with joy
at the sight of mass murder of people
whose lives they considered to be worthless.

That's silly. Name some Americans who have "danced with joy" "at
the sight of mass murder of people whose lives they considered
worthless", at least since, say, 1930. I don't think we want to
go into the period before that, lest we sweep a lot of other
major nations into the same dustbin.

I did already.

No you didn't.

I'm really beginning to wonder about Lodder. He's doing a lot of
trolling lately in this and other news groups that I frequent in the
comp.mac.* hierarchy.

Sore toes?

Not at all. I consider the source. But, as Harvey says, it gets
tiresome---well as being off topic, especially for the comp.sys.mac.*
groups.

You are off-topic there anyway.
The charter of uk.comp.sys.mac
says that cross-posting is to be discouraged.

Moreover, you seem to be a stranger there.
Most of the volume in uk.comp.sys.mac
soon drifts off-topic.
Nobody objects, it is the way things are.
(just like alt.usage.english almost)

Moreover: your presentation of the case is false.
-YOU- started it in uk.comp.sys.mac with idiotic adverse comments
about Europeans in general.
Message-ID: <0001HW.C4C1278D0018E291B01AD9AF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
My posting you object to so much was a reaction to that,
not the other way round.
When you play the game, you must expect the ball.
If you can't take it, don't play the game.

Back to the point.
The subject of the inherently unsafe UK system of home supply
(despite their ridiculous clunky plugs with fuses in them)
with ring mains has come up there several times.
Of course my comments on it were that it is backwards,
and should be abolished gradually.
OK, technical discussion on merits results.

So yes, I said that the Americans are backwards
because they still have overhead home power distribution in many places.
(You for example in Wachington DC suburbia, of all places)
It's excessively ugly and unreliable too.
By comparison: most European owners of home computers
(except in rural areas) don't have an idea what UPS stands for.
(that's something for servers that must be up all the time)

Your reaction is typically American: (yes, you may complain again)
instead of discussing the merits (as would happen in uk.comp.sys.mac)
you start complaining about my anti-Americanism.
(and in another forum too)

Discussion with Brits can be more to the point:
they don't have this deep-seated need too be seen as the best,
and to be liked by everybody.

And they don't complain all the time
about everybody being so anti-Brit,
or about Brit-bashing being so common.

Jan

--
"Wie kaatst moet de bal verwachten." (old Frisian saying)
(suggestions for English equivalent?)
.

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