Subject: Re: [FFML] Re: [FFML] Provincialism
From: "A. Verzwyvelt" <averz@u.washington.edu>
Date: 9/6/1996, 2:39 AM
To: fanfic@fanfic.com



On Fri, 6 Sep 1996 FINCH@boomerang.aero.rmit.edu.au wrote:


I assumed an adult would have figured out this stuff that I at my young
age have already realized.

You've missed a vital point though. Maybe in a few years you'll get
it!! ;-)  . Read my comments below before going ballistic on this!!

I think there's a kind of line between "making fun of" and just
plain out "insulting."  It's easy to "make fun of" Americans if you're
not one...if anything, I've learned from making fun of countless people
throughout my life that if you're the one getting ridiculed, things
just don't seem so "funny."  So many people from countries besides the
US bash the US, and so when someone makes fun of it, I could say at
least I feel kind of sensitive about it.  Of course, you'll probably
respond to that last sentence with a smart-assed comment like "ooh,
poor baby!" since that is what so much of your reply to this Provinc-
ialism letter contains.  Oh, or maybe "lump it" or "you can't make me
admit nothin'!" <-- those are the way most net.arguments _everywhere_
end, anyways, so don't worry about disappointing me ...

As another Aussie, I'll answer, so none of the above retorts apply. We
Australians are a funny group. We are easily the worlds best at
teasing and poking fun at people including ourselves.

Modest too....

If you ever
take any of it seriously you become an automatic target for future
"harassment".

Watch out everyone, they're gunna get ya!

We view the poor victims-types
who cry in anger and
denial as total idiots who are there for our amusement.

No!  They're mine. ALL MINE. MUhahahahaahahahaahahaahahahaah!!!!!!


    Feel free to keep on denying all the claims you've read and to
burst into tears, etc. It'll only encourage us anyway!! ;-)

Na naNa na NaaaaaNa  (wiggles fingers in front of nose, and raspberries)

Martin

PS - you'll find our most popular targets are ourselves anyway!!

Most likely do to proximity.





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