Tim: > > Aimee wrote: > > Faustine wrote: > > > > > > Jeez, don't be so polite, it makes me nervous. This is Cypherpunks: > > vent a > > little, it'll do you good. ;) > > > > > > ~Faustine.
I _WAS_ "venting." In some cultures, venting is done in "good taste." It just resembles English, but it's quite another language in terms of subtext, (and more so if it's female). Different rules of engagement. Don't mistake it for weakness. Normal ROE: maintain absolute decorum and diplomacy right up to the ambush. Here, I will summon up an insult for you, brace yourself: ..."Faustine, I bet you drink beer directly from the can." The Dim Mak. Notice I did not directly reply to Tim. This is because some cultural influences in my family have raised me with the myth that men can be killed by such things as pouting, glaring, never speaking to them again, denying their existence, indirect insults, and a state of "not being received." Sounds silly, but it was true, to us. Yankees were frowned upon in the family homestead -- I think up to the early 1950s. ~~Aimee
