Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lew Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: OT: National stereotypes. Was Re: Naming conventions. Was: Re: Did the sort do anything? Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 14:47:54 -0400 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <9303hcFq0nU1@mid.individual.net> <6787e80d-9ea8-45ab-b09a-0c5a670beaaa@p13g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <4dd3a529$0$12156$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> <4dda2828$0$2527$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk> <4dda8ddc$0$12157$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net f+8u5GFeiAl5MY5eUlD85uWiXSIBLI/4hNeq/Ftc3Z78g9o1au4yqSSB3RSHrMIaXV6B+hAEcvK/yf2VXseKwFzYQDYBc2VFvX+98V2lDaTv8h3OxDaPol5+0wz9PX28 NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 18:47:38 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="ok4nobgWBznJOk/x457FjESmXWWx6ZRFUCf+o335kHSz8N+AP7c0bwgdHTW/sMaJwi5la/0BajYmVv089Pn5ETU6095og2C7jouKxtaC8+lmtINoCNWpS6ah+kB2MhvP"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110424 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: <4dda8ddc$0$12157$fa0fcedb@news.zen.co.uk> Cancel-Lock: sha1:kvucBR1O/S1j9rFIXPh0wUv20sI= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4481 On 05/23/2011 12:39 PM, RedGrittyBrick wrote: > On 23/05/2011 16:27, Steve Sobol wrote: >> In article<4dda2828$0$2527$da0feed9@news.zen.co.uk>, RedGrittyBrick >> says... >> >>>>> You wag! >>>> >>>> I am, in fact, not British, nor do I recognize >>>> any monarch as having authority over me, save the butterfly. >>>> >>> >>> Bless. Next you'll be suggesting it is possible to be "from the US" and >>> not recognise the authority of the pope. >> >> No. I'll suggest that. I'm Jewish-American. I have friends and family >> members that are Mormon and Baptist. None of us view the Pope as an >> authority figure, at least not one we answer to. :) >> > > To recap: > > RK: Lew is from UK. > Lew: I am not from UK, nor am I a zylophone. Xylophone. > RGB: That's silly! Here's an equally silly example. See? > SS: Did you seriously mean that silly thing? It is an essential part of American culture that we do not recognize a monarchy. It speaks to how much I am not from the U.K. Your analogy is utterly flawed, as well as misspelled. "I am not from the U.K., nor do I evince any characteristic that is quintessentially British, such as recognizing a monarch as having authority over me. On the contrary, I am so not from the U.K., that by way of demonstrating that fact let me point out that I do not even recognize any monarch, let alone Queen Elizabeth II, as having dominion over me. That's how utterly and trenchantly wrong you are." -- Lew Honi soit qui mal y pense. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Friz.jpg