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Originally posted by Oblivion437:
It does reflect very badly on you that you use the "I have too much of a life" cop-out to run away while your strawmen get burned. I find it funny that you say good for you, as a couple Australians say G'day to mean "kiss my ass" or mate to mean "asshole." It takes me an average of 10 minutes to construct a reply, and that's if I do serious fact-checking... Are you saying you never have 10 minutes to spare?
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Originally posted by Oblivion437:
I didn't call Australians two-faced. I merely mentioned how Australians I know use typically sunny-dispositioned mannerisms as insults. It would be like me saying have a nice day while flipping you off, except more subtle.
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Originally posted by Oblivion437:
Did I say anything about Australia's culture, or mannerisms themselves? No, I didn't...
Read my post again.
I said that someone who was from Australia, who I'd personally talked to, had used those mannerisms in insult, and spite.
Are you calling me a liar?
Or are you trying to use your theory to pick a fight with reality?
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Before you get all high and mighty, know what the hell you're talking about, or you end up looking utterly pompous...
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Now I'm not an expert on the finese of the English launguage by any means but I think I have a good grip on maths. It has gone from "a couple Australians" in the first post to "Australians I know" in the second to "I said that someone who was
from Australia, who I'd personally talked to"
Just for clarification are we talking one, two, or more Australians? [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img]