Mean People Overseas

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 08:08:58 -0700, dgs wrote:

Cathy L wrote:

http://www.anncoulter.com


Now tell me the world wouldn't be a better place !

Done. The world wouldn't be a better place as long as idiots like you
and mAnn Coulter populate it. So do the world a favor. Die.

Is that the best you can hope for?
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On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:11:32 +0100, Padraig Breathnach
wrote:

Dave Frightens Me wrote:

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:06:55 +0100, The Reid
wrote:

you seem a polite and intelligent person Jay, I don't understand
how you fall for this ****.

Intelligent? Perhaps you forgot about 1 down 3 to go, France supplying
missiles to Iraq pre-war, and all the other anti-France stuff that's
in the archives.

A person can be polite and intelligent, and can also be unreasonable
and wrong.

So can an idiot.
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Dave Frightens Me wrote:

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 08:08:58 -0700, dgs wrote:


Cathy L wrote:


http://www.anncoulter.com


Now tell me the world wouldn't be a better place !

Done. The world wouldn't be a better place as long as idiots like you
and mAnn Coulter populate it. So do the world a favor. Die.


Is that the best you can hope for?

Attainable goals, DFM, attainable goals. One step at a time and all
that silly tripe.

No, I can hope for much better, but in this case, I was thinking of the
only known cure for chronic stupidity.
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dgs

Dave Frightens Me wrote:

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:11:32 +0100, Padraig Breathnach
wrote:

Dave Frightens Me wrote:

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:06:55 +0100, The Reid
wrote:

you seem a polite and intelligent person Jay, I don't understand
how you fall for this ****.

Intelligent? Perhaps you forgot about 1 down 3 to go, France supplying
missiles to Iraq pre-war, and all the other anti-France stuff that's
in the archives.

A person can be polite and intelligent, and can also be unreasonable
and wrong.

So can an idiot.

Someone can also be polite while saying rather nasty things. I'm not
impressed by politeness in such a situation. Intelligence is often
over-rated.

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David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net
usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk
http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:45:03 +0100,
(David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and
prestwich tesco 24h offy) wrote:

Dave Frightens Me wrote:

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:11:32 +0100, Padraig Breathnach
wrote:

Dave Frightens Me wrote:

On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:06:55 +0100, The Reid
wrote:

you seem a polite and intelligent person Jay, I don't understand
how you fall for this ****.

Intelligent? Perhaps you forgot about 1 down 3 to go, France supplying
missiles to Iraq pre-war, and all the other anti-France stuff that's
in the archives.

A person can be polite and intelligent, and can also be unreasonable
and wrong.

So can an idiot.

Someone can also be polite while saying rather nasty things. I'm not
impressed by politeness in such a situation.

In Italy politeness is often used to put distance between you are the
other person. It's harder to do this with English.
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Dave Frightens Me wrote:

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:45:03 +0100,
(David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and
prestwich tesco 24h offy) wrote:
[]
Someone can also be polite while saying rather nasty things. I'm not
impressed by politeness in such a situation.

In Italy politeness is often used to put distance between you are the
other person. It's harder to do this with English.

People certainly manage it in English too!

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David Horne- http://www.davidhorne.net
usenet (at) davidhorne (dot) co (dot) uk
http://homepage.mac.com/davidhornecomposer http://soundjunction.org

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:15:49 +0100,
(David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and
prestwich tesco 24h offy) wrote:

Dave Frightens Me wrote:

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:45:03 +0100,
(David Horne, _the_ chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and
prestwich tesco 24h offy) wrote:
[]
Someone can also be polite while saying rather nasty things. I'm not
impressed by politeness in such a situation.

In Italy politeness is often used to put distance between you are the
other person. It's harder to do this with English.

People certainly manage it in English too!

There's nothing as effective as the '3rd person' thing in Italian (you
plural in French) to put a distance between you are someone else. It's
quite effective. In English you can get the point across, but it's a
bit more involved.

One a different note, I had and Italian guy once ask me how to suggest
a dodgy deal, but in formal English. I had no idea it was possible to
be both formal and dodgy at the same time!
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Following up to Dave Frightens Me

There's nothing as effective as the '3rd person' thing in Italian (you
plural in French) to put a distance between you are someone else. It's
quite effective. In English you can get the point across, but it's a
bit more involved.

one wouldn't wish to do that.
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Mike Reid
Shetland, Yell and Unst
"http://www.fellwalk.co.uk/skyepics.htm#shetland"

wrote:

I have the unfortunate opportunity to meet a lot of mean people in
luxury hotels

I've stayed in hostels, which are cheap
& the people are nice.