Incorrect statement amnesty
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OK - I didn't realise that you're someone who needs to read things slowly. This should help:Eddie M said:
Please go forth and procreate.
The North American people represent a distinct race. This means that you are wrong.
You're at liberty to make up your own definitions of words, but it doesn't make you right.
By "English", I mean with the words defined in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Tip: keep a dictionary by the side of your computer - you can look up any words that you struggle with. "Meaningless" would be a good one to start with.
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Bamber gaspipe
It`s nice to see a Brit standing up for us Americans.... 
ban-all-sheds said:
If we're getting picky about language, I would like to question the grammar of the statement above, and to ask you what exactly you had in mind when you wrote it!
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ban-all-sheds said:
Quite happy to be corrected, but I thought that n'est pas meant "is it not" it's certainly what my French girlfriend used to say to me.
But then again, my French does date back over 20 years.
Yes French should have been capitalised. but not captialized.
What you fail to recognise, Bamber, is that the reactions you've had here are not people ganging up on you, or attacking you personally.Bamber gaspipe said:I see the Gutless Brits are ganging up on a lonely American...Typical Cowards....Shut up or we will BOMB your ASS to Timbuctoo...
Other Americans post here, and don't attract the same criticism as you.
You have been getting it in the neck because you have stood up and taken it on yourself to represent, or promote, your country's policies.
So what you have been receiving is not "Gutless Brits ganging up on a lonely American" it is responses based on how your country is viewed in most of the rest of the world.
If you would care to emerge from your parochial shell, you would find out that the USA is not widely well loved, well regarded or respected.
Oh - and it's "Timbuktu", BTW; "Timbuctoo" is the name of a series of children's books...
Bamber gaspipe said:It`s nice to see a Brit standing up for us Americans....
Unless you are decended from the native indians (what other sort of indian is there?) then you are not what Softus was referring to as a distinct race. You are more likely to be a decendant of European emigrees, and unfortunately 200 years is not enogh time to develope a stable society so you and others are supporting a system which allows politicians to conduct their questionable antics. I could continue, but it's not worth it.
That was before then.pickles said:
This is after now.
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Softus said:
I have followed your advice, looked up meaningless, it is quote "having no meaning"
North Americans are not a race, that is total rubbish, they are a nation encompassing many races creeds and cultures.
There's nothing wrong with using colloquialisms.hermes said:ban-all-sheds said:
If we're getting picky about language, I would like to question the grammar of the statement above, and to ask you what exactly you had in mind when you wrote it!
Surely you know what a cock-up is, or what is meant when someone advises you not to cock up?
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Bamber gaspipe
You Brits are the most ungrateful race I know...Do you know that Thatcher came kissing Reagan`s arse during the Falklands War...**** ant tiny Island & she was sweatin` cos you lot couldn`t cut it...How do you like them apples...
ban-all-sheds said:There's nothing wrong with using colloquialisms.hermes said:ban-all-sheds said:
If we're getting picky about language, I would like to question the grammar of the statement above, and to ask you what exactly you had in mind when you wrote it!
Surely you know what a cock-up is, or what is meant when someone advises you not to cock up?
Sorry, I thought you may have been using the phrase in a physiological sense.
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Bamber gaspipe said:
We got satellite intelligence from the yanks, but f'all else. Couldn't cut it? I don't remember the falklands being Argentine property recently.
Somalia anyone?
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BOB.DOLE
Bamber gaspipe said:
Folks, US and Brits, this topic started with SOFTUS saying:-
"""In fact, post any nonsense you like and I promise that I won't pick you on any of it. You can post blatant adverts with pictures of yer van, or a montage of my head on the body of a donkey, you could even say that Raquel Welch was a plain Jane, and I'll sit on my hands and take it like a man."""
Well that has only lasted until this eveing when SOFTUS is again disecting what you have posted and back to his usual modus operandi ,
Tony
"""In fact, post any nonsense you like and I promise that I won't pick you on any of it. You can post blatant adverts with pictures of yer van, or a montage of my head on the body of a donkey, you could even say that Raquel Welch was a plain Jane, and I'll sit on my hands and take it like a man."""
Well that has only lasted until this eveing when SOFTUS is again disecting what you have posted and back to his usual modus operandi ,
Tony
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