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meatcleaver -> RE: MsScarlett and the xenophobic English........ (10/30/2007 6:13:40 AM)
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ORIGINAL: TheMsScarlet
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ORIGINAL: NorthernGent
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ORIGINAL: TheMsScarlet
I don't believe I mentioned your pulling my post to pieces, merely that you quoted it out of context.
http://www.collarchat.com/m_1366542/mpage_2/tm.htm
Post 36: I've had another look, and there's nothing on this thread that is out of context.
Let's not go down the road of semantics, is there anything in the OP that you'd like to respond to?
You do have a dictionary, don't you? Go and look up the word CONTEXT. You'll find that by taking a paragraph from a post and citing it on its own, without the surrounding text, you have removed it from context. Just as the Elgin Marbles are no longer in their original context, neither was my post.
I don't believe I attacked you in any way. I stated a fact. I stated that you quoted me out of context. Which is a fact. So what particular part of that statement are you having a problem with? Or is it your usual wilful misunderstanding of a situation?
This is your whole post and I still think you don't like the English but stay in Britain on some flimsy pretext of your father holding on to life. My father is still holding onto life but I never stayed in England because there are trains, boats, planes, buses and cars and even donkeys to take me back if necessary. I've lived in five different countries for a couple of years and quite a few more for peiods of six months to a year. I certainly wouldn't waste my life hanging around in a country I hated and I certainly wouldn't be offering my services to people I hated.
Ok, for the sake of your not being beaten and Teddy and you continuing your obviously close and warm relationship I shall confess all.
I learned to speak English in England as my first language. My mother was an Ashkenazi Jew via Glasgow, my father a part Maltese army brat from Dover, via Liverpool. I lived my formative years in England, spending almost all of my school holidays in Switzerland speaking French. I endured the British education system until the age of 14 when I began travelling all over, living in various other countries, going native and discovering that England is not the only flavour - nor indeed the best of them.
Technically I suppose I'm British, that is what it says in at least one of my passports, but I hate to be thought of as one. I look at my fellow Brits and feel ashamed of their bigotry, xenophobia, agression and overall behaviour. When I travel abroad I blend in, I learn the local ways and languages, eat the local food, and avoid the Brits wherever possible. The thought that they will go abroad to complain about the food, the weather, the Germans, the locals, the beer - it disgusts me. En masse, at their lowest level, they're a bunch of petty, whining idiots with whom I would rather not associate. At their best they're just about tolerable.
Unfortunately this is where my mothers ashes are scattered, where my elderly father still lives, and where my partners family are settled. That makes it a bit difficult to emigrate. But once my father has gone, my partner and I are both of a mind to move on. The question is, where - so many wonderful countries, so little time!
As for the Elgin marbles, the Acropolis is seriously overated as are the marbles themselves but I guess Elgin should be thanked for saving them by those that think them great art. I would send them back tomorrow as long as the Greeks said thankyou, after all it was the Greeks that seriously damaged the Acropolis after it survived for so long in a fairly reasonable condition.
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